#witch!corvo

[russianyoshkinaneko]

Corvo chose Ghost-NoKill run lmao

[robynator]

obsessed with how daud canonically chooses to forgive billie when she gives him the choice between killing her and showing her mercy after she betrays him

obsessed with how just a few months later, daud does the same, placing his life in the hands of a man whose life he completely ruined, asking to be spared and, against all odds, walking away from that encounter alive

obsessed with the alternatives you're given to those options as well

how, if you choose to kill billie in low chaos she helps you guide the blade. how she looks up at you and smiles as you stab her. how you hold her hand as she dies and don't let go even after she's gone

how, in high chaos, you just don't get that choice. her death is brutal, just like all the other deaths at your hand. like she said, what's one more body? but she's not just one more body. she's your second in command, your confidant, the closest thing you have to a daughter. you don't kill her with the same detachment you do for everyone else. you don't simply pull her onto your blade, you grab her by the throat as you stab her. it's brutal and it's personal, and that makes it so much worse

how, if you end brigmore witches with high chaos, corvo will kill you because you are not true to your word. you say that you feel remorse over jessamine's murder and yet your actions speak otherwise. you are not sincere in your words and while corvo may not know that, the game does. and it's telling you that that's the only way it could end. that if daud goes down that path he will not ever better his ways, nor will he be given the chance to. the only way daud can live is if he is actually committed to change

but despite all those options, in canon, daud gives billie the chance to leave and make a new life for herself. and corvo does the same for daud. and that is a parallel i think a lot about

[nevermindigotthis]

I think there should be a Dishonored TV show.

Imagine this: The Series follows several POV characters: Corvo (duh, probably in a low chaos run with some deaths), Emily (duh, little girl and the horrible no good very bad day, we see how she deals with the conspiracy and it can give some background on the villains), Daud (big regrets, has his whole Delilah story which, for TV reasons, happens at the same time as Corvo's revenge plot so the series can cut between them), and lastly Billie (lovestory with Delilah, betrayal of Daud, mercy in the end)

There can be amazing parallels between Corvo's low chaos revenge and Daud's quest for redemption, with a tense confrontation in Episode 8/9. Delilah as this secret foil that Corvo doesn't even know about, for dramatic purposes Daud has to defeat her in the last episode, so there can be a moment where the audience doesn't quite know if the Emily Corvo just rescued is still Emily. (For dramatic purposes this also needs to be the high chaos ending where Emily almost falls to her death, even though we're in mostly low chaos)

The Series (rough draft):

Episode 1: Corvo returns from his trip. Jess is murdered, Emily abducted. Title Screen. 6 months later. Corvo is being tortured in Coldridge. Daud is depressed and guiltridden. Billie is unimpressed. Episode ends with Corvo breaking out of Coldridge.

Episode 2: Corvo meets the Loyalists. Daud meets the Outsider who gives him the name "Delilah". Also he turns down contracts. Billie expresses her disapproval (again) and leaves the hideout to cool off. Emily is being held captive by the Pendletons who are being creepy and she tries to find a way out. Corvo gains the Mark of the Outsider and the Heart.

Episode 3: Corvo goes after Campbell, rescuing Martin along the way. Daud starts investigating (slaughterhouse). Billie is angry and leaves the hideout, meeting up with a lover who is afterwards revealed to be Delilah (her first appearance). Emily almost gets away from her captors, but is caught at the last second.

Episode 4: Corvo goes to the Golden Cat to rescue Emily. Daud investigates the Timshs. Billie scemes with Delilah to overthrow Daud. Episode ends with Corvo reuniting with Emily.

Episode 5: The Whaler hideout is overrun by Overseers. Billie reveals her betrayal, fights Daud and escapes. Corvo has a nice bonding moment with Emily. Corvo kidnaps Sokolov. Emily talks with the loyalists and gets the vibes that something is not right here.

Episode 6: The Boyle's party. Corvo identifies the right Boyle Lady and deals with her. Billie returns to Delilah who comforts her about having failed to kill Daud. Daud recovers from her betrayal. Emily has nightmares about Corvo dying.

Episode 7: Corvo goes to dispatch Burrows. Emily listens in on the Loyalists and their plans. Daud goes looking for a boat, and then for Lizzy Stride. Delilah reveals the beginning of her painting to Billie. Corvo returns to the Hounds Pit Pub and Emily tries to warn him, but is held back and locked in her room. Corvo is poisoned, Episode ends on him passing out.

Episode 8: Samuel drops Corvo in the Flooded District. Daud returns and finds Corvo. Emily is angry and ready to throw hands with the "loyalists", gets threatened. Bille and Delilah prepare for the ritual, Delilah tells Billie that afterwards she can go and kill Daud for real this time. Corvo wakes up and confronts Daud. They duel, Daud loses, asks for his life, Corvo doesn't say anything, but doesn't kill him. Corvo returns to the Pub.

Episode 9: Emily feels all alone in a cruel world, believing Corvo to be dead. Corvo and Daud both prepare for their final missions in a cool montage. Corvo infiltrates the Fort/Lighthouse and deals with Pendleton and Martin. Daud arrives at Brigmore manor, infiltrates it and finds the entrance to the void. Corvo goes on to search for Emily, her room is empty. Daud talks to the Outsider and confronts Billie and Delilah. Corvo finds Emily and Havelock. Daud fights Billie while Delilah (almost) completes her ritual. Corvo shoots Havelock and catches Emily. Daud injures Billie and goes to stop Delilah, bright flash of light. Emily looks up at Corvo with a strange smile. Delilah has vanished. Daud asks Billie if she's done it. Billie is angry as Delilah is gone, but has a heart to heart with Daud where they leave on relatively okay terms. Daud breathes a sigh of relief. Emily smiles and hugs Corvo, it's clear that she's still herself. Epilogue narration that everything turned out fine. End credit scene of Delilah very angry, but also very alive, in the Void.

Why 9 episodes, you ask? Well because I was trying for 10 but my planning which I came up with just now only wanted 9. 8 or 10 would make more sense from a TV standpoint though. I just think this would be such a cool series...

[bellonathedragonborn]

FINALLY posting my oldish Daud DLC pics.

It’s so jarring fighting Corvo. Since this was a low chaos run I was able to defeat him in the dream.

I wish we could see more of the Gristol countryside instead of Dunwall in both games. Reminds me of Fable 2-3.

On a more serious note. After playing these DLCs finally I can understand now why people didn’t like how Daud was handled in Death of the Outsider.

Like in the canon ending of these DLCs he owns up that IT WAS HIS FAULT he became an assassin. Only for DOTO to have him lapse and blame the Outsider for it all. Like?? Why??

[no-light-left-on]

I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?

what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?

when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face

[kaldwinkarnaca]

Brigmore manor interior

[bronanlynch]

dreamt that they were making a dishonored tv show and I was watching the trailer for it and inexplicably samot from friends at the table was in the trailer so I tweeted "hey how are we all feeling abt samot" without any additional context bc obviously I was assuming that every single person on fatt twitter would have watched the trailer for the dishonored tv show only to realize that I was dreaming and had just tweeted "hey how are we all feeling abt samot" completely unprompted. and then I woke up for real and realized that I had not even actually done that however I stand by the sentiment. good morning how are we all feeling abt samot

[presiding]

hope i'm still allowed to make these but yeah new chapter of the contract up for my fellow high chaos corvo enthusiasts

[auntie-histamine]

HELP MY NEW PHONE AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFIES CATS AS KITTIES

I'M CRYING THIS IS SO CUTE

[aleksikesa]

I was watching the new mind palace clip remedy posted today and one of the shots that focused on Saga’s case board showed these two notes that look like excerpts from Alan’s manuscripts

Excerpt 1: She squinted to read […] the smudged line on the heart. The second part recited from memory […] “I brought you the heart, witch. Show me the terror.”

Excerpt 2: Witch’s ladle. Towering over Saga. Watching her and the witch. Nightingale’s heart, a cold dead lump in her hand.

Idk who (or what) the witch is but apparently this heart is Nightingale’s and it has some writing tattooed on it which is originally smudged/illegible but eventually becomes readable by Saga maybe after a ritual (?)

Much to think about.

[nightlilly0110]

Running list of theories in Dunwall Tower as to who “the mystery twink” is, as created by The Watch:

Someone from Pandyssia (and it turns out Pandyssians are just Like That)

Sister of the Oracular Order with the gift of prophecy that’s disguised as a man and that’s why “he’s” Like That

Sister of the Oracular Order with the gift of prophecy that transitioned into a man and that’s why he’s Like That

Some guy who got in here somehow and no one knows how to get him to leave

A prostitute that’s somehow secured a government position (seriously what does this guy even do other than annoy people and look pretty)

The actual Royal Spymaster (“Lord Corvo is the Spymaster.” “That’s just what they want you to think.”)

A dog taken human form

A curse placed upon Lord Corvo specifically

A curse placed upon Sokolov specifically (most likely by Piero)

A ghost

An actual noble from Tyvia like Lord Corvo said he was (unlikely)

Another of Lord Corvo’s bastard kids (not to insinuate that Empress Emily The Wise, First of Her Name, is in any way a bastard)

Wyman (has anyone seen them in the same room together, honestly)

Collective hallucination caused by the remnants of the plague

The Empress’ boytoy (this is just Wyman again)

Lord Corvo’s boytoy (“It’s not a theory if they’re actually sleeping together.” “Which just means my theory is correct.”)

Brigmore witch???? Maybe????

Masked Felon???? Maybe????

The Outsider (“Are you fucking stupid?”)

[dedecorus]

Daud - born to have the Outsider’s mark. His mother was a witch. He was abducted at a young age and made his way to Dunwall, where he quickly made a living as a pickpocket. He carved his own path, sought out the Outsider’s shrines, and even went to the Academy for a short time, actively seeking knowledge on the occult. Got the attention of the Outsider at the age of 25, by himself and not through circumstance. But, once he got the mark, what he did with it was mundane. Boring. The Outsider quickly lost interest.

Corvo - his life after winning the Blade Verbena was almost on rails, and he had little agency. Powerful people used him as a pawn for their own benefit, and he entered into an inevitable situation where he had no choice but to serve the crown. The Outsider takes notice after the coup, once he’s escaped from Coldridge as a pawn in other people’s games yet again. But, once he gets the mark, he forges his own path, to the surprise and often delight of the Outsider.

Both Daud and the Outsider react in a similar way to Corvo's choices in low chaos. A kind of awed surprise. How many people must the Outsider have given his mark to? And how many, like Daud, used it for petty, uninspired personal gain? The Outsider's reaction to Corvo's choices indicates he hasn't seen them often.

Daud, when confronted with Corvo, and all he has done (and deliberately chosen not to do), has a complete identity crisis. Daud sees all he's done with his life, and with the mark, for what it really is. "But what have I accomplished? More than you, or much less?"

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

i know random dudebros online are always gonna complain when a male-led video game has a female-led sequel, but for the witcher IV it's like, oh? what an interesting way to admit that you got one of the shitty endings in the witcher 3. you may have been a terrible parent to ciri and let her sacrifice herself or take a crown she never wanted, but i for one was a good father and sent her off to follow her dreams as the next witcher while i enjoy retirement at corvo bianco, routinely going down on my super hot witch wife and running a vineyard together. so sorry for your loss 🙏

[no-light-left-on]

hi I am still not normal about how we never get much of an epilogue for Emily and Corvo in the second game we are told how the rule turned out and that Emily is the beloved empress now but nothing beyond that and I get that the entire game is very much built on that I get that the first game we have close relationship with Emily and become fond of the staff that work with the Loyalists so we feel alone because we do not quite see eye to eye with our allies and all we have left is this little innocent child that sees Corvo as someone who can do no wrong in this world which is strongly contrasted with the second game where Emily (or Corvo) has few trusted allies that they can actually rely on and it feels like a group of almost-friends working to dismantle the conspiracy but at the very end of it all Emily is all alone, even her return to the Tower is so much more grim, her taking down Delilah, the entirety of Dunwall- it all feels so incredibly and thoroughly isolating, she is all Alone now, and maybe that's why it bothers me so much to see the story end so abrupty.

it would've been so, so poetic if both the first and the second game ended with Corvo and Emily embracing

[kaldwinkarnaca]

Dunwall Tower

[trans-corvo]

What your favourite Dishonored character says about you

Corvo Attano: You understand - I mean REALLY understand - the meaning of the term “DILF”. Alternatively, you’re a lesbian who doesn’t get along with your father.

Emily Kaldwin: You have childhood trauma :/

Daud: You enjoy a good tragedy. Alternatively, you think gruff, miserable old men with facial scars are hot. 

Billie Lurk: You’re a communist.

The Outsider: You had a pretty intense emo phase in middle school.

Jessamine Kaldwin: You write a lot of meta.

Samuel Beechworth: You cant pick the mean dialogue options in games because it makes you feel bad :(

Teague Martin: You read a lot of fanfic and probably have a priest kink.

Treavor Pendleton: You like your men trembling and pathetic.

Granny Rags: Gone Girl fan

Geoff Curnow: You fantasize about normalcy

Delilah Copperspoon: While you are aware that it can be harmful, you are nonetheless an enjoyer of the ‘evil bisexual’ trope.

Lizzy Stride: You are a lesbian.

Alexandria Hypatia: That ‘aren’t you tired of being nice? don’t you just want to go apeshit?’ post really resonated with you.

Kirin Jindosh: You have at one point used the phrase “my poor little meow-meow”.

Breanna Ashworth: You would, if given the chance, absolutely have given up everything to join a coven of evil witches.

Paolo: Pedro Pascal fan.

Aramis Stilton: You’re tired of gay men always being depicted as pretty twinks in their twenties.