Shabecca

"There are some things computers can’t do. Like- like love, Rebecca ... like love."

- Shaun

Shabecca is the het ship between Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane from the Assassin's Creed fandom.

Canon
After Shaun began to post Abstergo Industry secrets to Wikileaks; Rebecca anonymously contacted him - telling him to stop - knowing the Templars would try to kill him should he continue. Shaun ignored the warning and was later kidnapped by Abstergo. Rebecca decided to rescue Shaun, hacking the van’s computer system to falsely show an empty gas tank which allowed Shaun to escape once the van pulled over. After his escape, Rebecca recruited him into the Assassin Brotherhood at the age of 15.

The two's relationship was strained at the start, with both mocking and taking jabs at each other. Shaun believed Rebecca was crazy and wasn't keen on the idea of a secret war going on, nor the fact that he had inserted himself into this war and would no longer have a "normal" life.

Assassin's Creed 2 — Revelations By the time Desmond was rescued from Abstergo 7 years later, most of their insults were reduced to teasing and the two had become good friends over the years. While the team resided in the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni, Shaun and Rebecca were known to frequent each other's rooms when they had free time and even went out to a bar together.

After Lucy's death in the Temple of Juno, Shaun stayed behind in Italy to arrange her funeral while Rebecca took Desmond and William to the United States. Shaun later flew to the States and reunited with the remainder of the Assassin cell.

Assassin's Creed 3 The two continued to work together while in America, although they hardly spoke while both processed Lucy's death.

After Desmond's death, the two went "dark" and cut off all communication between themselves and the other Assassins. They remained this way for 6 months before they resurfaced in Peru to help repair the Hephaestus email network. Here they formed a plan with fellow Assassin Gavin Banks to infiltrate Abstergo to find out what happened to Desmond's body, which had been recovered by the Templars. They were dropped off in California and made their way across the country looking for an "in" into one of the facilities.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Focusing on recovering Desmond's body from Abstergo, the two are able to go undercover at Abstergo's Entertainment facility in Montreal. Although they still make friendly jabs at each other, the deaths of Lucy and Desmond weighed heavily on the two and their interactions with each other became more sincere. They remained at the facility for one year and left after John, a sage, died to avoid suspicion. The two went dark again and resurfaced in 2014 in Norway where they reunited with Gavin and the Altaïr II crew.

Assassin's Creed: Unity While aboard the ship doing routine inspection and maintenance on the ship's computer systems, Rebecca discovered several bugs that led to a short investigation to find a spy for an organization called The Initiates. William Miles gave oversight of the organization to Rebecca and Shaun, who penned a message asking for the Initiates' assistance in Assassin matters. The Assassins then infiltrated an Abstergo facility in Paris. The facility blew up but, with help from Shaun and Bishop, an unnamed initiate was able to sift through the memories of Arno Dorian in order to locate a Piece of Eden.

Due to a lack of manpower, the task of recovering the Piece of Eden was given to another Assassin cell in the Middle East while Shaun and Rebecca were properly trained to become field Assassins in addition to their work behind the scenes. The two were next seen in London, looking for yet another Piece of Eden.

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate In 2015 Shaun and Rebecca broke into Templar Isabelle Ardent's office looking for data on the Shroud of Eden. The two were temporarily apprehended but managed to escape after Rebecca activated a bomb she planted in the office. At an unknown location, Rebecca tends to Shaun's wounds while they wait for more data on the Shroud and backup Assassin Galina Voronina.

After locating the Shroud underneath Buckingham Palace, the Assassins ambush the Templars in the vault. During the fight, Shaun gets knocked down and Violet aims her gun at him. Rebecca jumps in front of him and ends up taking a bullet to her abdomen. Shaun pulls the two of them to cover behind a pillar and cradles Rebecca in his lap, taking himself out of the fight and putting pressure on the wound to keep Rebecca alive. Gavin's team later extracted Shaun and Rebecca from the vault.

While Rebecca recovered from her injury, Shaun retrieved blueprints and a processor from an Abstergo facility he infiltrated in Spain. He gave these to Rebecca who built a new animus after she fully recovered.

Dialogue
"Sorry about this. My name is Shaun and, uh, back there is Rebecca; my partner ... in crime."

- Shaun speaking to Noob

"[Rebecca's] never once thought about giving up, and I'm proud to say that she's my very best friend in the world."

- Shaun, via Rebecca's database

"Forget the bloody Shroud, stay with me, Becs! Please!"

- Shaun

Fanon
While not a big ship, fans have quietly shipped Shabecca both on its own and as a sister ship to Deslucy since their introductions in Assassin's Creed 2. Fan works often explore the relationship while the two cope with Desmond and Lucy's deaths. With the upcoming release of Valhalla, fans are once again speculating their involvement after Rebecca was confirmed to appear in the game.

On AO3, it is the second most written ship for Shaun and the most written ship for Rebecca.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Shaun/Rebecca tag on Fanfiction.net
 * Shaun/Rebecca tag on Fanfiction.net

Trivia

 * According to Shaun, Rebecca is a terrible driver. According to Rebecca, Shaun makes terrible coffee.
 * Shaun sometimes calls Rebecca "Becs".
 * Rebecca and Shaun wrote each other’s databases in Syndicate.
 * Otso Berg once stated that the two are inseparable. So far this is true, with one exception.