assassin

An assassin is someone who kills people in secret. This tag is for posts featuring characters that look like their job is killing people in secret. Do not use this tag just because a post has a character who is an assassin in the canon. If someone is being assassinated in a post, tag with assassination.

How to Identify an Assassin

• They hide their identity with a hood, mask or disguise and conceal their fingerprints with gloves
• Their weapons range from daggers, small blades or a handguns that are easy to conceal or ranged weaponry such as bow and arrow or sniper rifle
• They use a silencer with their firearms and poison with their blades
• They watch over their target or checking their surroundings before attacking
• They have some blood on them

Examples

an assassin high up

an imminent assassination

an implied assassination

a maid assassin

an archer assassin

Non-examples

Yor Briar: An assassin in the canon but doesn't look like one in this post

Koga Konoha: An assassin in the canon but doesn't look like one in this post

Someone readying their weapon and looking cool isn't necessarily an assassin

Someone who looks like they brutally murder people all the time isn't an assassin if they don't look like they murder people in secret

See also

• Assassin from Fate/Stay Night
• Assassin from Ragnarok Online
• Assassin's Creed, a video game series
• Assassination, an act of killing someone in secret