kaseven7

[kaseven7]

My little tribute to 'The Changing of the Guard', a Vampyr fanfic by Sweetbloodynocturne on AO3.

#my art #fanarts for fanfics I love #vampyr #vampyr game #vampyr 2018 #jonathan reid #geoffrey mccullum #mcreid

[kaseven7]

Please please play Vampyr - it’s a rare gem with a great dark lore and I desperately need more fanfics in that universe! <3

I need the dark academia, and academia community in general to stop sleeping on the game “Vampyr”. Like PLEASE—

That shit is as dark academia as it can get. A very engaging detective story that plays out during industrial London, where you get to take on the role of a doctor named Jonathan Reid. He comes back from the Great War, but gets bitten and returns to life as a vampire, after which it is a tug of war between his morals and his endless hunger. A wide arrange of characters in this game will provide both drama and food, if you choose to go down that path and embrace someone, but truly, no character in Vampyr is a saint.

That’s where the true gothic element comes in. The design of the game is also very gothic of course, since it is London during the Edwardian era, but the way you can barely fully root for someone because of the skeletons you find in their closet the deeper you dig, is my favourite part of the writing.

I also love how the topics of secret societies, occult and supernatural creatures mix in with real issues and movements that existed at the time, like the suffragettes, the workers rights unions, and then the racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and so on.

If you love dark academia and visual storytelling you HAVE GOT to get in on this. From my personal experience, it’s a very engaging game that ticks pretty much every box in the aesthetic genre.

[kaseven7]

Here is a preview of my second piece for @10yearsofdishonoredzine! I'm very excited to be a part of this zine, alongside many wonderful artists and writers dedicated to Dishonored!

Pre-orders are open now until August 26th and all profits will go to Refugees International! https://10yearsofdishonored.bigcartel.com/

#my art #10yearsofdishonoredzine #dishonored #dishonored 2 #emily kaldwin #alexandria hypatia

[kaseven7]

Beds in Dishonored, part 1

#dishonored lore #dishonored #death of the outsider #billie lurk #daud #anton sokolov #dreadful wale #dr. galvani

[kaseven7]

...but wait, there is more!

Okay......yeah... But those ARE high standards to start with.

#I love all of them #and (in the Outsider's voice) I bear no favourites #but Garrett is now my (renewed) obsession #raziel #wrathion

[kaseven7]

Preview of one of the two fanarts I made for @10yearsofdishonoredzine to celebrate the Dishonored franchise’s 10th anniversary in 2022!

Fanzine will be available both in a physical and PDF version and all profits will go to a charity, Refugees International.

Pre-orders are now open: https://10yearsofdishonored.bigcartel.com/

#10yearsofdishonoredzine #dishonored #granny rags #the Outsider #vera moray #my art

[kaseven7]

It made me smile when Daud went his usual way, scared the shit out of this Overseer and then realized he was dealing with just a young initiate, too terrified now to speak coherently and give any information, so he tried to pacify the situation with:

"We are going to get along just fine. We will become great friends and we will talk and sing long into the night, and the day you met the Knife of Dunwall will be the greatest day in your entire life."

SPOILER: They didn't sing (sadly), but that baby Overseer survived and made a cameo in "The Veiled Terror" novel.

my piece for @dishonoredgiftexchange - a gift for @yoshiusfiru!! illustration from the return of daud - i love how brutal he is so i drew the part from the beginning when he attacks an overseer 🥰 i love daud

#dishonored #great art OP! #now I wish Timsh had a safe like Shan Yun #and Daud had to sing to open it #also he looks great with long hair

[kaseven7]

That was my first impression too, but after thinking more of it, actually the Outsider saved Billie from slipping into madness and had a good personal reason to do so.

Billie’s body modifications are nothing like a fancy tatoo easy to hide under a glove. She was attacked and marred by the Outsider and it feels even more bad considering the fact, that she was crippled before in D2, „healed” by our actions in Stilton Manor and then crippled again in DOTO - her flesh and blood replaced with prosthesis from hell against her will.

Except there was something terrible wrong with Billie’s arm and eye before that: her body flickering, a part of this world and yet apart, what is and what could be (like the walking Void hollow). Billie was slowly losing her mind with constant nightmares, her every morning taking awhile to know what's real, her fingers going stiff for hours after waking up, her eye going blind without warning. It was worse and worse every day and a matter of time before she would lose control over her „healed” arm and eye, or even become mad like Stilton did. The Outsider saved her from that fate, severing her tether to previous timeline and linking her directly to the Void instead. It was forced, because he knew Billie wouldn’t trust him or accept his offer.

The problem is: as the players, we’ve experienced very little of what Billie felt with her body before that cutscene. Without reading her journals, she seems quite fine. There is no playable nightmare like Daud’s one in BW, no unexpected blindness or our hand going stiff, leaving us vulnerable and terrified for a moment, because we can’t fully trust this body (like in Soma). Loosing control over playable character doesn’t sound fun in the immersive sim game, but moments like that could be added to already scripted actions, for example entering/leaving a carriage or while talking with Daud (he could even express a deep concern there is something wrong with Billie).

Back to the Outsider, voluntarily saving random people from suffering doesn’t fit his personality either (even Corvo had to rot in Coldrigde for months), but after reading Dishonored tie-in novels his motives are more clear. He put a lot of effort into setting up the stage for his fall, moving the Twin-bladed Knife from the depths of the mine in the farthest north part of the Empire to the top of the mountain in the farthest south. And when everything was ready, the final piece, Daud, was swept from the board and he had to replace him with Billie to continue with the plan.

The person determined enough to leave everything behind and go straight to hell, knowing it’s probably a one way ticket. The person who tasted power before, understood what good and bad it can bring, and doesn’t crave for that power anymore (wouldn’t choose to tap into the Outsider’s power like Delilah or decide to mess with entire timeline like Zhukov). The person who knows what’s like to be forgiven and given a chance to start a new life without deserving it.

Okay so after rewatching the scene where the Outsider redoes Billie’s arm I can see why people thought that scene was gross. It also doesn’t fit the Outsider’s personality…

#dishonored lore #death of the outsider #I wish DOTO had more time to unwrap its full potential #dishonored #billie lurk #the return of daud #the outsider #daud

[kaseven7]

It's been almost 8 months since my immune system suddenly went berserk, seriously damaged my nervous system and well… forced my life to take quite a turn. Recently after months of rehabs I have finally waved goodbye to painkillers for good and come back to the team I really love to work with.

Maybe not all things are perfectly fine yet, but very close to it and I’m slowly crawling back to my beloved fandoms. I also managed to finish two pieces for @10yearsofdishonoredzine (big thanks for bearing with me!) and spent a lot of time on AO3 (to take my mind off bad thoughts), so expect a lot of fanarts for fanfics soon :)

[kaseven7]

My 3 yo kid found the Outsider Funko Pop on my desk and he stared into the black eyes for a long moment. Then he sang "the babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah" and decided the Outsider needs a kiss and a hug.

It's no longer "a whale boy" but "a wah-wah boy" for us now.

#dishonored #the outsider really needs a hug

[kaseven7]

This makes me wonder if the Academy could have been planned as another level for D1 DLC, but didn't make it to the final version of the game, just like the Clocktower in KoD (Daud spent a winter in the Academy before he got the Mark of the Outsider).

Possible location of The Academy of Natural Philosophy in Dunwall

So. in my recent playthrough of Dishonored 1 i started wondering if the Academy was visible on the skyline, much like the Clocktower is, an unused asset the game devs were going to put as a level in the game but never did. We know this about the Academy - ~ Located in 15 Oxblood Way, the Academy stands proudly with its perpendicular columns and Gothic arches......The entrance hall is a cavernous stone space, topped by a three, four stories high vaulted ceiling. The hall is roughly epileptical, with a massive staircase opposite the entrance, splitting at a gallery before extending to either sides. Two glass-fronted offices flank the grand staircase, while on both sides of the hall, there are straight, narrower stairs, leading up into darken corridors. That's pretty much it in describing the shape of the building. But it sounds very imposing and a noticeable landmark on the Dunwall skyline. We have no idea where Oxblood Way is, its not featured in any game level, but i would assume the Academy would be in a posh area of Dunwall, so I started scanning across the river in each level and saw this which is opposite Clavering Boulevard's destroyed bridge from the first/second mission.

There is a striking white building on top of the hill , where the Clocktower is, it's location in The Estate District which is one of the poshest. The shape is even shown on the map -

This building is like nothing else on the skyline. It isn't a repeat of another building and has unique architecture. Could this be the Academy?

#dishonored lore #nice find op! #the royal conservatory was great #but I want the Academy level so much!

[kaseven7]

Re-reading D1 lore after D2 and DOTO

#dishonored #dishonored lore #death of the outsider #granny rags

[kaseven7]

It's even funnier when you read Daud's journal later and find out he felt the same as you:

"I'll feel the hairs on my neck standing up, only realizing a moment later that Lurk is on a roof or balcony nearby."

okay I do like how in knife of dunwall (so far) Billie is just popping up to give me exposition every once and a while, like she just shows up and gives me a heart attack, very cool and fun of her

#dishonored #the knife of dunwall #Billie was scary #but Envisioned almost killed me

[kaseven7]

This was my piece for @cobbledbitsofbonezine (free to download, check out other contributors!)

I chose Delilah x Breanna theme and came up with an idea of the two of them spending a few intimate evenings in the Royal Conservatory, before Delilah departed for Dunwall with the Duke.

#dishonored #my art #delilah copperspoon #breanna ashworth #dishonored fanart

[kaseven7]

The Soundtracks of The Dishonored series are So good, they instantly draw you in to that world. But what do you do when you've heard them all? search out fanworks and Boy is there a doozy. NorthernParadise won second place in the Arkane20 contest with this and yeah totally deserved it. the music fits perfectly into the world. The lack of comments and thumbs up is criminal so let's change that

#dishonored #my new music for painting

[kaseven7]

My old art with witches from our local folklore, wearing black and red striped cloth called zapaska świętokrzyska. I was one of those strange kids fascinated with them.

According to legends every year witches celebrated Sabbath on the top of Bald Mountain nearby. There was once an old Slavic temple, then a church and a national park, now just a church and a bunch of irresponsible people devastating the nature after borders of the park have been moved.

#my art #witches #sabbath #how I see myself in 30 years #folklore #baba yaga #slavic mythology

[kaseven7]

✨Presenting✨

At last, we are pleased to present to you our Dishonored digital fanzine Cobbled Bits of Bone! This free digital publication and all accompanying digital merchandise are available for download here. Our team of moderators and contributors are incredibly excited to finally bring our zine to light for all Dishonored fans to view. Thank you to all our viewers, and an additional thank you to everyone who has supported our creation process along the way!

And now dear viewers, we invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the works our contributors have brought to you!

-Mod Iva

#dishonored #I'm so excited!!! #Thank you CBoB Team!