10 OBVIOUS Video Game Plot Holes (That Actually Aren't)
4. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - How Could Juno Control Desmond?
As a human with Precursor DNA, Desmond should be immune to Precursor mind control, and this should remain true even though he was holding the Apple of Eden, an ancient artefact used to facilitate said mind control.
Hence, Juno, a Precursor, should not have been able to compel him to stab Lucy.
However, Juno was not using mind control, and Desmond was not being compelled.
Go back to the first Assassin’s Creed and we see Al Mualim use the Apple of Eden to physically restrain Altaïr. Significantly, he is able to do this even though Altaïr, like Desmond, benefits from Precursor DNA. In Desmond’s case it was Juno, a far more powerful being than Al Mualim, who was using the Apple, which accounts for the greater power she exercises over him.
The fact that Desmond is aware that control has been taken from him, and resists, is proof that his mind was unaffected, and that it was his body that was under Juno's influence.
To be fair, Ezio’s adventures had pushed much of Altaïr’s story out of mind, but with Revelations returning to Masyaf, Ubisoft was offering a subtle answer to this persistent question.