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she ended up in a nunnery, he ended up in police custody
Ezio has had better days. Thanks to his time in Paradisa, he doesn't end up run over by a bus or trapped in a Walmart, but it's never fun to find oneself stranded in Gotham City, circa 2014, alone and without proper assistance.
For one, no matter how well he's picked up English, it's still stilted enough that he sounds like someone used to the language trappings of 15th century vernacular Italian, and it makes asking for assistance rather difficult. Everyone treats him like a lost tourist, which is true in some sense, but not particularly helpful when he keeps getting directed to embassies or help booths. When he asks where he can find Batgirl, he is laughed at and told "wouldn't we all like to meet Batgirl?" When he wises up to these kinds of jokes, he asks where he can find Batman, and is directed to some family-owned tourist trap about Batman. The people there don't help much, either, they just ask him about what kind of heroes they have in Italy, to which Ezio has no reply. He doesn't know any heroes in Italy.
He's also still miserable with technology –– since when did he use it all that much at the castle? –– so when one kind local offers him use of her phone, he not only has no idea how to operate it but also doesn't realize until he's held it for a moment that he needs Stephanie's number, and by then his would-be rescuer is thoroughly confused.
"Don't they have phones in Italy?" she asks.
"No," Ezio says, and then adds: "Well, not in Venice."
Cue confused look.
He is also permitted to use the phone at an information booth, where a man allows him to use the "phone book" to find Stephanie's number. He calls two Browns before he is stopped and questioned about his intention to call EVERY Brown in the phone book to find Stephanie.
"Are you crazy?" the man says, though he looks like he hadn't intended to be so blunt.
"I am very lost," is all Ezio can say, apologetic but also a little frustrated.
"You seriously don't know anything about this girl?" says the guy. "All you know is her name and what she looks like, and you're going this far to find her? From across the world? Dude, that's pretty messed up."
"It is very complicated," Ezio says, and the dude doesn't look convinced.
"Where did you meet her? Online?"
"No," Ezio said, "She is... she is a girlfriend of mine, from when we lived together."
The man looks not only unconvinced, but also uncomfortable. He doesn't say anything for a moment, and then he says "Girlfriend? And you don't even know how to contact her?"
Ezio has no idea how to respond, and then he's even more frustrated. He's just trying to get to the one woman in this city who can help him. How is that so difficult? Is it really so strange for someone to visit from out of town and need to find their friends, who are perhaps not living where they had previously? He is not some stranger!
This is when he punches the man, and things get ugly. This is also when the police show up, and subsequently arrest him when he puts up a fuss and has no identification on him whatsoever. From a jail cell in Gotham City, Ezio is glad to have a place to sleep and food to eat, but suddenly he's realizing just how difficult this is going to be. And what happens if they can never identify him? It isn't like there's any record of him existing anywhere in the past four hundred years. Then what?
Wherever Stephanie is, he sure as hell hopes she will find him. Or that Batgirl can. Or Batman.
Hell, he'd even take Tim Drake right now for whatever leverage it would offer him.
He just needs to get out.
For one, no matter how well he's picked up English, it's still stilted enough that he sounds like someone used to the language trappings of 15th century vernacular Italian, and it makes asking for assistance rather difficult. Everyone treats him like a lost tourist, which is true in some sense, but not particularly helpful when he keeps getting directed to embassies or help booths. When he asks where he can find Batgirl, he is laughed at and told "wouldn't we all like to meet Batgirl?" When he wises up to these kinds of jokes, he asks where he can find Batman, and is directed to some family-owned tourist trap about Batman. The people there don't help much, either, they just ask him about what kind of heroes they have in Italy, to which Ezio has no reply. He doesn't know any heroes in Italy.
He's also still miserable with technology –– since when did he use it all that much at the castle? –– so when one kind local offers him use of her phone, he not only has no idea how to operate it but also doesn't realize until he's held it for a moment that he needs Stephanie's number, and by then his would-be rescuer is thoroughly confused.
"Don't they have phones in Italy?" she asks.
"No," Ezio says, and then adds: "Well, not in Venice."
Cue confused look.
He is also permitted to use the phone at an information booth, where a man allows him to use the "phone book" to find Stephanie's number. He calls two Browns before he is stopped and questioned about his intention to call EVERY Brown in the phone book to find Stephanie.
"Are you crazy?" the man says, though he looks like he hadn't intended to be so blunt.
"I am very lost," is all Ezio can say, apologetic but also a little frustrated.
"You seriously don't know anything about this girl?" says the guy. "All you know is her name and what she looks like, and you're going this far to find her? From across the world? Dude, that's pretty messed up."
"It is very complicated," Ezio says, and the dude doesn't look convinced.
"Where did you meet her? Online?"
"No," Ezio said, "She is... she is a girlfriend of mine, from when we lived together."
The man looks not only unconvinced, but also uncomfortable. He doesn't say anything for a moment, and then he says "Girlfriend? And you don't even know how to contact her?"
Ezio has no idea how to respond, and then he's even more frustrated. He's just trying to get to the one woman in this city who can help him. How is that so difficult? Is it really so strange for someone to visit from out of town and need to find their friends, who are perhaps not living where they had previously? He is not some stranger!
This is when he punches the man, and things get ugly. This is also when the police show up, and subsequently arrest him when he puts up a fuss and has no identification on him whatsoever. From a jail cell in Gotham City, Ezio is glad to have a place to sleep and food to eat, but suddenly he's realizing just how difficult this is going to be. And what happens if they can never identify him? It isn't like there's any record of him existing anywhere in the past four hundred years. Then what?
Wherever Stephanie is, he sure as hell hopes she will find him. Or that Batgirl can. Or Batman.
Hell, he'd even take Tim Drake right now for whatever leverage it would offer him.
He just needs to get out.