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stealingpotatoes · 3 months

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'the official timeline says corvo and jess got together when she was 18' no silly, that's when jess and her victorian manners THOUGHT they got together <3

(commission info // kofi support!)

#dishonored #corvojess #jessamine kaldwin #corvo attano #my doods

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melis-writes · 3 months

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DISHONORED: DEATH OF THE OUTSIDER (2017) | Dev. Arkane Studios.

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geminison · 7 months

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It’s a ghost story, Daud

#I promised something spooky so #spooky time!!!!!#art tag #daud #jessamine kaldwin #dishonored #it’s kinda pretty

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thefourofdiamondsart · 1 year

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strange how there’s always a little more innocence left to lose

#something very different from what I normally do #dishonored #dh1 #the outsider #handlettering #digital art #digital illustration #fanart #jessamine kaldwin #the heart dishonored #procreate art #thefourofdiamondsart

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valeriapryanikova · 6 months

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goretober 21 : knife

#next week is ace week so i guess here have daud in celebration cuz he's ace 👍👍👍#goretober #dishonored #daud #the knife of dunwall #jessamine kaldwin #fanart #blood cw

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garrandia · 1 year

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*throws it*

#Dishonored #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #daud #dishonored daud #the outsider #dishonored outsider #sketchy sketches #dishonored fanart

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folkdevilism · 2 months

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I still think about how much detail they put into child!Jessamine's design even though she only appears in a static flashback image for less than a minute.

They could have easily recycled her existing default hairstyle + outfit from the main game for her child self, but they actually gave her flashback incarnation an entirely unique look.

#dishonored #dishonored 2 #jessamine kaldwin #still thinking about this game's art direction and character designs almost ten years later #a huge character design pet peeve of mine is when a show or game introduces the child version of an existing character #and the child version has the exact same hairstyle as the adult version #i know part of it is keeping the character recognizable for the audience but it's so bland and it just irritates me for some reason #illustration by Sergey Kolesov

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lexsnotdead · 4 months

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gift for @stealingpotatoes :)

haven't done as much as i hoped i would bc uni stomped on me, but still, i was very happy to participate in @dishonoredgiftexchange this year!

and happy holidays 💕

#dishonored #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #dishonored gift exchange

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williamverse · 1 month

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Finished this spread😋💥💥

#artists on tumblr #art #fanart #illustration #dishonored #dishonored 2 #dishonored fanart #sketch #sketching #dishonored art #dishonored corvo #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #the outsider #daud #the knife of dunwall #emily kaldwin #samuel beechworth

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revivisection · 25 days

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by god the outsider i will make that man kneel. i will situate him in someone's lap.

#my art #dishonored #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #corvojess #body horror #or something. lightly

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tossawary · 7 months

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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

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stealingpotatoes · 3 months

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me initially following your blog during your dishonored era vs my friend following you for your star wars art (she sent me one of your posts and i was like "stealingpotatoes? you know stealingpotatoes?")

LMAO omg that's so funny,,, and :D you remembered me! BUT ALSO the dishonored era is never truly over, here’re some sketchbook dishonoreds!