Corvo's mindset through DH1

Tagged as Corvo Attano

Creator : Whaler

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dishonored 1 corvo... i characterize him as having his shit together just enough to be the efficient and clean hand of purgatory during missions. focussed and collected. having an objective - saving his daughter - keeps out the pain of loss and the suffering around and inside him. It keeps him sane. back in the attic, he flops into his bed, limbs aching and mentally devastatingly exhausted. his entire self driven only by the high stakes his situation provides, his experiences along the way taint his dreams. sleep is restless, but a welcoming embrace.

i definitely think that the loyalists send corvo on missions within such short time frames deliberately, specifically to keep him mentally exhausted. to keep him from thinking about their own motives any deeper, to keep him in his own little (vast) circle of circumstances.

he returns to dunwall tower as a foe, a man who went through hell and, to those who wronged him, became the embodiment of it, a horseman of gristol's doom. he has a hard time not to break into pieces all over again when he visits jessamine's grave. the objective snaps him out of it. his sense for justice redirects all the loss and trauma and pain to his target. he knows what to do.

maybe breaking him out of prison came with this bargain, a condition hidden in plain sight. they threw him into the river like something to be disposed of, like the bodies at the bottom of it, tied to bricks. and maybe a tiny part of him agrees with that notion