#EMILY KALDWIN » THE EMPRESS.

[sirguyofdykesborn]

dish. onored

#alexi and emily be like does anyone want to participate in a vicious cycle of bodyguard and empress romance where one is destined to die #and not wait for an answer #delilah copperspoon #emily kaldwin #alexi mayhew #dishonored #dishonored 2 #art tag #alexandria hypatia

[ross-hollander]

#dishonored 2 #dishonored #kirin jindosh #by decree of emily kaldwin empress of the isles you need more mustard

[no-light-left-on]

I adore each and every post-doto fic where the now-human Outsider just waltzes into the Tower and simply moves in

just imagine working at the Tower, your employer likes to sneak out at night to run about with her definitely-not-father, you somehow survived the witch coup and when things finally start looking up, the lord protector and his protégé (who is certainly not related to him by blood) suddenly welcome in a boy of indiscernible age who somehow manages to look more pathetic than a wet kitten, but the lord protector and the empress instantly take a liking to him, come up with half-cohesive stories about his origins that you choose not to pay attention to, just like you don’t pay attention to the two of them covering their left hands at all times. and then a couple days, maybe weeks pass, and the lord protector seems to smile more, and the bed of the guest of honor is always made even though he Insists that he sleeps  in it and you have to move on with your life and pretend that the lord protector isn’t fucking his daughter’s new friend

#dishonored #dh #doto #corvosider #I am just. having many thoughts #the maids and the guards have Seen things while working for the Kaldwins and they just gotta move on with their lives #the old empress had an affair with her bodyguard? okay #the new empress is the product of said affair? fair enough #both her and her definitely-not-dad have magic powers? thats just one more secret to keep among the many #the empress welcomes in a sad goth twink like they are old friends and he just so happens to look like the whale satan? none of your busines #the lord protector is fucking him now? somehow you dont find it in yourself to care #bonus points if the outsider refuses to call emily anything other than 'emily'

[broken-grace112]

Throwback to this time I broke the final scene with Havelock by killing him which broke Emily so I couldn't interact with her - it gave a very badass image of her standing over Havelock though (especially on the high chaos)!

#dishonored #emily kaldwin #admiral havelock #game screencaps #revenge of the empress? #high chaos #spouting off the differences between high and low chaos is my love language

[pedroam-bang]

Dishonored 2 (2016)

#2016 #gaming #Dishonored 2 #Dishonored #Empress Emily Kaldwin #Emily Kaldwin #Empress Of The Isles #Corvo Attano #Clockwork Soldiers #Karnaca #Serkonos

[hazyaltcare]

A purple moodboard for a Corvo Attano (Dishonored) kin about missing the Empress, their daughter, and the Outsider, as well as missing how much easier it was to solve problems with the point of a sword or the wrong end of a pistol.

(I am not sure how much purple you want for the moodboard, so I made two versions.)

Mod Vintage (🧠)

#moodboard #fictionkin #corvo attano kin #dishonored kin #tw weapons #tw sharps #tw gun #tw guns #tw swords #tw sword #tw eye strain #eye strain #the empress kin #jessamine kaldwin kin #emily kaldwin kin #the outsider kin #outsider kin #kin #fictionkin moodboard #mod vintage #🧠 #Stole Ad's banner :) #green #purple

[folkdevilism]

Want to know a secret? Your mother wanted a boy.

#dishonored #emily kaldwin #delilah copperspoon #jessamine kaldwin #dishonored 2 #death to the empress

[meaganfoster]

is it normal 2 be on the verge of violent sobbing upon the completion of something that has consumed the ENTIRETY of ones waking hours for a week straight. asking 4 a friend

#playing in a LOOP on my head rn what will history tell us. that the daughter of a murdered empress ascended the throne #up a mountain of corpses; carried by the assassin named corvo? #NO. theyll say that little emily kaldwin the first came to power in an age of terror and corruption; and that she did her best in a world #that was not kind to empresses or young girls. INSANE. i mean typing it out its really not but emily couldve DIED. like that was an ending #that existed......... #high chaos my beloathed #<- she says. having played the ENTIRETY of the game in high chaos the first time and 3/5 missions in high chaos the second time #what can i say i love blood i hate consequences #although. cannot believe i spared daud for THIS............hell #dishonored #<- oh yeah the name of the game. @ mutuals please check it out its literally sopping wet. #cannot wait 2 replay <333333

[torntruth]

this  quote  of  emily’s  is  my   FAVORITE.   we  don’t  get  to  see  her  humor  often,   but  between  this  and  the  letter  from  her  significant  other,   we  can  determine  that  emily  actually  has  a  wild  sense  of  humor:     “ I can't say I have a solid plan yet, but you know how well I improvise in desperate situations. Remember the time I kept a straight face during the Watch Officer's report, all the while sitting at my desk without pants? If I survived that, I'll get through all this. “    

and  here’s  the  quote  from  wyman:    “ I didn't want to wake you this morning, but you'll forgive me since we must have said goodbye a hundred times yesterday night. And the only chance I get to see you with your hair all whichever way is while you're asleep. As soon as the sun rises, you'll put on your Empress face. It makes me happy that I know your real face, the one that laughs at our silly rhymes. “

#— ch / emily kaldwin ‚ the daughter of the void. #i don't have much to say except i love her to DEATH #and that she canonically does have a humor #and that there IS a big difference between just emily and empress emily. #i love small details so much

[draklorn]

the eye is upon you.

"And it does not blink."

#❚ ask #torntruth #thanks for reading! #*checking the muses* aw sweet a cait- MISS EMPRESS EMILY KALDWIN #all those dishonored ladies thank you for your service #all your muses look like a lot of fun!

[dreadfutures]

Emily Kaldwin | @wickedsnack-art

Empress Emily Kaldwin from Dishonored, in an art noveau inspired style! I was so excited for the opportunity to do an art trade with @wickedsnack, happily painting the hands of their Baldur's Gate OT3 in exchange for one of their LOVELY style.

Seeing this piece come together was everything I could have wanted. The way the mark of the Outsider cuts into the almost stained-glass background is just CHEF KISS.

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Seriously, I love getting stickers from their patreon.

#dishonored #emily kaldwin #dishonored 2 #dishonored fanart #art for blue #wickedsnack-art #artists on tumblr

[tossawary]

I may never get over the parallels between Emily Kaldwin and the Outsider in the Dishonored series, specifically the parallels created/revealed by Daud's games (The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches) and Billie Lurk's game (Death of the Outsider). (Spoilers for the entire series if you haven't played the main games and companion games.)

The Outsider claims at one point that he doesn't play favorites. I think he's a fucking liar. Because in The Knife of Dunwall, he sets the story off by giving Daud a name, Delilah. He did not have to do that, just as he didn't have to give his Mark to any of the people he gave it to. He is constantly putting his hand on the scales.

Moving simultaneously to the events of Dishonored, Delilah was going to possess Emily and NO ONE saw her coming. She had everything ready in secret. She was going to win.

(Side note: I think Delilah originally developed this plan because she wanted to possess Jessamine, but her half-sister's death at Daud's hands caused Delilah to scrap whatever painting she'd originally been working on. And no one would have foreseen THAT coming either. Nightmare scenario AU for Corvo Attano.)

Corvo, Emily, and the conspirators of Dishonored didn't even know that Delilah Copperspoon existed. A guilt-stricken Daud sliding in at the last moment is the ONLY reason that Delilah didn't succeed in taking over Dunwall in Dishonored instead of Dishonored 2. And Daud only caught the impending murder of a second Empress because the Outsider gave Delilah's name to him directly.

The Outsider's favor came down on the side of Corvo and Daud, rather than Delilah, even before Delilah started doing weird shit to the Void and he took offense. Or rather: the Outsider came down on Emily's side, even before potentially Marking her. And... why?

In Death of the Outsider, it is revealed to Billie Lurk that the Outsider used to be an ordinary person. He is not infallible. He is not objective. He knows a lot, but he's probably not actually fully omniscient. An ancient cult took an ordinary young man, slit his throat, and turned him into a god against his will. And the theming surrounding eyes is not in the least bit subtle.

The vibe that I personally got while playing Death of the Outsider (interpreting only from the canon of the games, rather than any additional material) is that the Eyeless cult greedily looked upon the incredible but unpredictable power of the Void, then they made a human sacrifice and gave it a face, so that they could look upon the new avatar of its power without going insane. (At least, without going insane nearly so quickly.) They turned a person into a focus, a lens, in the hope that they could use him like a corpse puppet for their own ambitions and become powerful through him.

But the Outsider has never cooperated. Personally, I don't think that he has much power of his own, honestly, at least by what he's shown doing in the games. I think that he can only really act as a focusing lens, a pathway, through which other people can touch and use the Void. All he can really do is offer people the Mark, the ability to use him, and then watch them go. (The Heart, he manipulated Piero Joplin to make, I think. I don't know where he got the Time Piece, but I assume it was made in a similar way, taking advantage of the Crack In The Slab that Delilah made. When he "took" Billie's eye and arm in Death of the Outsider, it was only because he opened a connection to the Void in Billie Lurk that was already there.)

I think he can probably use this to make people go insane, obliterating their minds by opening the lens to the Void too far, but... I think there's a vulnerability to him making connections, temporary or permanent ones. It can be dangerous for him. In Dishonored 2, when Delilah is doing whatever she's doing with the Void, the Outsider says, "Delilah is a part of me now. And I don't like it." Delilah appears to use her own Mark to reach out to Corvo or Emily's Mark, so that she can talk to them in the Void, and she's probably doing it by reaching through the Outsider somehow.

I don't think that the Outsider can control what powers his Marked get from the Void or how deeply they reach into it (thank you, game mechanics of giving different characters different powers), which is possibly what he meant when he said that he didn't play favorites. Once he gives them access to the lens into the Void, I don't think that he can take it away or control it, only give his Marked the cold shoulder and stop talking to them. (His role in Dishonored is definitely to give you cool powers and then step back so that you can do your thing.) The game mechanic of collecting runes to increase powers suggests that it's up to the Marked to improve their powers and practice them. (See... everything with Granny Rags.)

The Outsider in Dishonored 2 struck me as... kind of helpless in some ways, confirmed by Death of the Outsider. When Billie Lurk finally finds his body in the Void, there's no fight. He can't do anything to defend himself. (I don't think he wants to defend himself.)

Somewhere in The Brigmore Witches, the Outsider says something about Delilah looking out through Emily's eyes. Emily is in some ways the avatar of Dunwall. She's the focus point of imperial power, the figure supporting the mythology of royal right and privilege, the legal means through which people can seize social, military, economic, etc. control. The Royal Spymaster tried to use Emily. The conspirators tried to use her too. And Delilah tried to trap her own niece in (I think I'm paraphrasing something else that the Outsider says) an invisible prison, screaming inside her own head while someone else takes control, to take this power for herself.

Delilah tries to do to a little girl what the Eyeless cult tried to do to the Outsider. And I think the Outsider went, "Hm, don't like that."

So, the Outsider gives a would-be Empress's name to the man who just killed the last one and is desperate for a release from guilt, even if that means covering up blood with more blood. He gives Delilah's name to DAUD, an assassin, the fucking Knife of Dunwall.

(Or maybe the Outsider could foresee the chaotic wreck that Delilah was going to make of Dunwall, when it turns out that her schemes don't "fix" everything for her like her fantasies, like she does in Dishonored 2. And the Outsider decided that Delilah's future was just too boring to let happen. That's also possible.)

And sure, Delilah comes back years later in Dishonored 2, more powerful than ever, semi-immortal, pushing back against the Outsider within the Void itself, and no one saw her coming this time either. Possibly not even the Outsider. (When the Outsider makes fun of Corvo for not seeing Delilah coming, for losing another Empress, for not stopping to talk to Daud so that Daud could warn Corvo about her, it can read as a genuine admonishment of sorts. I think the Outsider is honestly frustrated.) But if the Outsider hadn't decided to play favorites in the background of Dishonored, if he hadn't decided to set Daud on her, then Delilah would have won before anyone even knew that she was playing the game.

#tossawary dishonored #spoilers #fic ideas #the outsider #emily kaldwin #delilah copperspoon #daud #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #billie lurk #tw death #tw murder #murder tw #death tw #character death

[presiding]

the captain and the monster empress.

meagan foster & emily kaldwin by @sirguyofdykesborn commissioned for the monster in the hull

#dishonored #dishonored 2 #emily kaldwin #meagan foster #billie lurk #dishonored 2 spoilers #i fucking.love.this. and i fucking love sirguyofdykesborn's art #emily's motif in the shadows. the detail. their expressions. #art that i wanna print and eat #monsteress emily. i love her your honor

[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

#dishonored #dh #li.txt #jessamine kaldwin #i just need to talk about this okay #ive spent my afternoon reading up on how all this stuff worked in victorian england #yes i am writing a fanfiction how did you know------ #i do not want to drag the way they dress into it since emily as a kid was in white (common mourning clothes for children which ????) #and corvo and jess were always wearing black #so Im guessing theyre just a goth family good for them

[jessaminekaldwin]

❝  so ends the interregnum, and now emily kaldwin the first will take her mother's throne, after a season of turmoil. you will stand at her side, corvo, guiding her young mind, and protecting her from those who seek to exploit her, or cause her harm. you watched and listened when other men would have shouted in rage. you held back instead of striking. so it is, with the passing of the plague and emily's ascension, comes a golden age, brought about by your hand. and decades hence, when your hair turns white and you pass from this world, empress emily -emily the wise, at the height of her power- will lay your body down within her mother's great tomb, because you were more to her than royal protector. farewell, corvo.

DISHONORED: 9th of october, 2012.

#dishonored #dishonored 1 #the outsider #daud #granny rags #ed: g. #ed: dh. #god i cannot express how much i love this game #it's the only game capable of pulling me out of my edit-slumber #i've been attached to dh since i was literally 16 #i don't think its influence can be put into words #i hope this franchise can continue soon #ed: 1k n.

[icedjuiceboxes]

Billie Lurk, The young Emily Kaldwin's Royal Protector by Day, Whaler and traitor by night.

An AU where Billie infiltrates the tower to help plan the Empress assassination, by becoming Emily's Royal Protector

More details here

and more doodles coming soon :D

and by more doodles, of course i mean the angst

#dishonored #emily kaldwin #billie lurk #my art #my dh art #haha did you catch that Emily is foreshadowing DH 2 #im so clever #Rate my baby sitter . com: great babysitter but killed my mum. 3 stars. #Billie is simultaneously the best and worst baby sitter ever