#corvo talks

[mbcorvo-author]

Me at the start of the year: Since I keep giving up on going back to write anything (that is not fanfiction) I could at least shorten my "to read" list and the "still not finished" list. Me, now in September: [has even more books to read and to complete than at the start of the year] Me: well, uh- Looks like I failed

[nightlilly0110]

No spoilers please. I know this probably won’t happen but it would be funny if something like it did.

[mbcorvo-author]

I started writing in English as practice, also because I'd have to translate in English what I wrote to share it on here.

Then in a moment of writer's block I started using fanfic to practice both writing and English...

...that now after idk 2-3 years feels weird when I try to write in my native language 😅

I am constantly amazed by people who write stories in anything other than their native language.

[zilodak]

Literally the same guy.

[dangerousdan-dan]

No matter if you play High Chaos or Low Chaos, the one thing that never changes about Corvo Attano is his unwavering love and adoration for Emily.

The player chooses how (if he'll be her sword or her shield, if he'll save her with blood or with mercy) but the fact remains that Emily is his sole motivation and that this rat man is going to protect his daughter with everything he's got to the end.

[deathlonging]

having the player never hear corvo speak or see his reflection was one of the best decisions dh1 made. when your character loses his life's focal point, proceeds to get tortured for six months, and literally undergoes rebirth and apotheosis his existence turns liminal. corvo is real bc the violence (the knife: daud) is, bc the future (emily) is, bc dunwall is. he becomes jessamine's inverse--a body trapped for the empire, with the only power of choice he wields being the ability to inflict the horrors of the system on the people he's replacing in it

[geminison]

didn’t your mother teach you not to play with fire, Corvo?

Daud had successfully dealt with a bunch of street kids turned assassins for years, he can manage one more. By inflicting some nap time on him probably

[presiding]

literally saw corvo and daud and was like 'is anyone gonna make them have an increasingly bloody and painful fight in the rain?' and then didnt wait for an answer. yea new chapter of swan song up

[don1t1red]

I hate how imperialism is so indoctrinated in DH1 that there is no option to destroy the Empire and have your happy ever after.

"Oh but Emily could do that and be a great leader of post-imperialistic society!" Yeah but we already have DH2 and we see that Emily isn't really interested in ruling her people at all. She acts only if it's becoming personal.

Besides neither DH2 nor DotO never tries to address her changes in the Empire or give us some real examples. In DotO she just "tries to renovate" the Empire instead of trying to understand why she has to do that and if it's even a good foreign policy to maintain.

"Oh but you can destroy the empire in DH1! You just have to go high chaos and let Emily die!" Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. No one is addressing high chaos as a "good option".

Not to mention the fact that DH1 tries to push you to decide between a chance for colonies to finally get free and death of a royal child. The game simply does not believe in fact that you may hate Dunwall for everything it did to other nations or to your protagonist; it does not believe that you will [at least try to] perceive Corvo as a character with a great inferiority complex because of his nationality, and his story as an example of self-reflection. And therefore it gives you this choice instead of an opportunity to leave the decaying city behind and flee somewhere with only one good person who was ever close to you - Emily.

You *have* to play "a bad route" to do what you think would be the best option and the game's narrative will do its best to make you aware of "how bad" you are.

What am I trying to achieve here? I'm trying to give you [my reader] a different perspective to play this game or to make any fanworks or just a thing to think about. And maybe to give you a chance to listen to the Outsider’s monologue after the game with slightly more understanding of a problem the next time you play.

"It's just as well. The Empire was dying already. Completely rotten. All that was needed was the right man to send it over the edge."

[no-light-left-on]

I wonder if Jessamine's passing influenced the way death and mourning is viewed in the Empire

the world is strongly inspired by Victorian and Edwardian society, and one of the most defining aspects of the era, at least for modern people, is the way mourning was perceived at the time.

which, in turn, was influenced by the untimely death of queen Victoria's husband. the period of mourning, the way it is to be expressed, how people should behave and dress - all of this was strongly influenced by the widowhood of queen Victoria.

there are some paralells to it in the Kaldwin Empire, too. the untimely death of empress Jessamine, the high regard in which she is held long after her death, the ceremonies that accompany the anniversary of her passing. the way Emily has to perform, year after year, give a speech and celebrate her dead mother. the way Corvo's "celibacy" is often highlighted, his love for Jessamine and him remaining loyal to her even many years later and never taking another lover- so much of the mourning for the late Empress is celebrated and ceremonialized. I wonder what kind of effect it had on the world as a whole

[icedjuiceboxes]

We can discuss the possibilities how Corvo told Emily he was her father but this is how the public found out

Bonus:

A follow up, of sorts, to this comic

Emily's teen design can be seen in full here (I just wanted something to bridge between her Dh1 and Dh2 designs)

[mbcorvo-author]

I was thinking to make a langblr sideblog since lately I'm in a mood to learn languages again... maybe posting stuff could keep me motivated? Idk.

I started thinking to relearn some stuff bc after 11? 12? years of not using it I need to refresh my French bc at work I struggled to speak (i still understand it spoken and written but I can't remember a dang word when i try to speak/write), and I wanted to prepare some phrases & such in German bc for the love of what's unholy it never stuck in my head.

Then I remembered that I went to university for studying Japanese (then I switched to cinema and then dropped bc lack of money) and that I loved to flex a bit with my Latin (but that's rusty af too)... and from there I'm falling into a rabbit hole and idk where to start at this point lmao

[graedari]

Another WIP Wednesday. I really liked this one but I might rework it a bit for a different idea I had (RIP all the effort I put into getting Corvo's coat right. It will never be forgotten)

[smokeys-house]

Can u believe I've only found one functional replica of the whaler sword (aka daud and lurk's sword) from dishonored after all this time. Everyone is so obsessed with trying to achieve the folding sword corvo has

[tomb-bloom-noctem]

Not to typecast Pedro Pascal too much but like....

(Image credit to Polygon.com)

(Image credit to The Last of Us Wiki.com)

...

.....Listen if he wants to keep playing Sad Dad Redemption roles then by all means, someone please begin an adaptation of Dishonored and get Pedro Pascal in as Corvo immediately.

[void-damned]

[Clears throat, taps mic]

This world needs more Corvo/Thomas.

That's it. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.