Author's note : im an asscreed trash and no matter what fandom im in ill always have my character play asscreed. also featuring three other games but whatever. Trying out with present tense for this one idk i just kinda wanna try lel
Nishinoya convinces himself that this is only Asahi's initial reaction to playing this game. The giant'll manage, he'll learn what he has to do, he'll understand. He will.
Who is he kidding. Asahi doesn't even have the guts to hit the square button to punch the templars square on the face.
"Come on! It's called Assassin's Creed II, dammit.", Nishinoya blankly stares at the screen, before glancing back at Asahi to see him fiddling with the joystick. "Assassin.", he repeats the word for emphasis, squinting at Asahi in mock disappointment. The hero only runs around and throws out money (Nishinoya already reminds Asahi that the latter is meant to distract the civilians, but Asahi thinks otherwise) in a particularly poor district of Rome.
"But i don't want to kill him!", the ace retorts, making the hero run around on the rooftops instead of diving down to stab his target on the neck. "I'm sure he's just...", Asahi pauses in search of a word, and Nishinoya's mind supplies him with 'a guy you have to kill otherwise we won't be able to finish the fucking game'. Asahi perks up a bit, "Ah, misunderstood.", he continues, eyeing at a small treasure chest in a small terrace, going way out of the mission area. Nishinoya gives out an exasperated sigh at it.
Nishinoya grabs the joystick from Asahi's hands, and he swears to himself that this is the last time he'll ever let Asahi play Assassin's Creed.
Who the hell even plays flappy bird anymore? Who? That game is a monstrosity on its own, and that level of horror is doubled with the fact that Asahi plays it. And holy shit, he's good at it.
Not just 'good', he's a fucking beast in this dumbass game.
Nishinoya sees Asahi playing it during their volleyball practice break, and he figures it's only a one time thing (because flappy bird seems like a one-time game to everyone, a bit fun at first and then you hit one of those god forsaken pipes and it sends you fuming with anger and disrupts the flow in your brain), something for his hands to play with or something to take off the stress a bit. He asks if it's Asahi's first time playing the game, and Asahi politely replies yes, his eyes practically glued to the glowing screen. Asahi reaches the 10 points mark, and Nishinoya tells him that he's gonna give up sooner or later, and he's lucky if he doesn't throw his phone in frustration (in which, Tanaka definitely did in his second try).
Minutes passed by and, shit, he's still in the game. He hasn't lost yet, and the numbers tells Nishinoya that Asahi has passed the 50 points mark. Holy shit, he thinks, no one is supposed to be this good in their first try.
Asahi keeps going on until the break was over, and Nishinoya honestly doesn't keep an eye on how much Asahi scored (he fully remembers that he couldn't go past 10 in his first try). At least, that's what he tells himself, when he actually peeks over Asahi's shoulder to look at his score.
Coach Ukai has already blew his whistle, meaning the break's over, and Asahi only lost because he has to return back to volleyball practice. Later, Nishinoya tells (the word 'accuses' seems to be far more suitable) Asahi that it's not his first time playing, and if it is, he should play volleyball with the same amount of concentration and dedication in that game. Tanaka chuckles from the other side of the court, and Kageyama scowls in response.
Asahi misses a toss from Sugawara, and the next one. And also the next one.
Nishinoya manages to convince Asahi to play Dragon Age Inquisition by turning the blood / gore option off in the settings, and also telling him that he doesn't actually kill the enemies, he's just redeeming them from... Some fucked up shit. (Probably) (No, it's absolute boogus, but Asahi's buying it, so he counts it as a win)
This breaks the record for the longest time Asahi plays a video game (and to think that video game is Dragon Age Inquisition, just makes Nishinoya feel even more proud of himself). It's a huge progress compared to the time he made Asahi play Assassin's Creed II, and Nishinoya allows himself a self-congratulatory pat on his back. Asahi still backs down from some battles and decides to run away ("I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.", Asahi mumbled as he tried to find a way to evade the Nightmare monster, but they both knew it was a boss battle, and there was no escape; Asahi really didn't sleep, that night), but, hey, there's progress in Asahi's video gaming 'career' and that's what counts.
Asahi absolutely likes the character Cole, and he brings it into each and every one of his missions, chatting up Cole every time his qunari (Nishinoya figures that a qunari is equivalent to an Asahi, so he made Asahi's character into one) comes back to Skyhold to modify his armor or check up the advisors' progress on the war table. He goes through Cole's personal missions quickly (which is a tremendous progress, considering Asahi couldn't even bring himself to punch a templar in Assassin's Creed II). And then he arrives at the decision. The decision.
It's been almost three minutes, and Asahi is still considering both options. Nishinoya groans, "Make up your mind already!", he threw a pillow at Asahi's head. It hit its mark without any particular effect. "I don't want him to suffer, Noya!", the taller boy retorts, hand motioning towards the two options on the screen. "If i make him human, people'll remember him, but he'll also feel personal grief. ", Asahi chewed on his bottom lip (Nishinoya tries not to think that it's cute). "If he forgives him, he'll be back into a spirit and no one'll remember him.", he continues as he fiddled with the analog, moving over the choices back and forth.
"Him being a spirit wasn't a problem.", Nishinoya tells him before eating his popsicles. Asahi moved his analog to go over the option to tell Cole to forgive the templars. He pauses for a moment before moving his choice back into the other option, "True, but i think he always wanted to know what it feels like to be a human again...".
Nishinoya's pretty sure, Solas and Varric are being extremely patient waiting for Asahi's decision, judging him through the screen. If they're real, they'd probably yell at Asahi to just hurry the fuck up, and Nishinoya feel he's going to go bald faster than Asahi can make his choice.
"Just find out which one has more plus and coolness?", Nishinoya suggest whilst opening google chrome in his phone. Asahi looks at Nishinoya's phone for a moment, before looking back at Cole, then looking back at Nishinoya again and nods.
They look up the pros and cons in the Dragon Age Wikia ("Pathetic. You're an idiot if you open the wikia. It takes away the, ah, what's it called... 'Fun', from video games.", he remembers Tsukishima saying when he asks about where to get the best knives in Dragon Age, snickering while he did with his shit-eating grin).
There aren't any actual pros or cons to letting Cole kill the templar or advising him to forgive the templar through Solas, and Nishinoya finds himself waiting for the next fifteen minutes before Asahi finally lets Cole kill try to kill the templar (and failing, Asahi silently thanks Bioware) because he accidentally tapped X while hovering over the second option.
Author's note : yeah ok i played dai and cole is adorable (sweet rabbit child uahsdhasjkdh), though i don't really feel that much of him, i'm pretty sure asahi does. like, 1000000000000% sure.