Ghost!Jess AU

Tagged as Corvo Attano, Jessamine Kaldwin, Emily Kaldwin, Delilah Copperspoon

Creator: Potes

Description:

ok so tangenting off that tangent of Blue’s AU, au where corvo 1. doesn’t ever lose the heart and 2. where jess ghost appears all the time during that

i’m rlly just thinking of the Angst Material of Emily mourning her mother while she’s right there, but only corvo can see her and PAIN. and there’s only so much corvo can convey messages without it being sus

also angst of jess is there but corvo can’t even hold her hand . and em can’t even see or hug her at all ): ): ): ): the pain of emily mourning jess while corvo is there, and ghost jess can see her only child is in pain but can do nothing to comfort her

However also if Emily is stuck on an empress decision jess’ ghost can be like “corvo tell her to do x” (however there’s gonna be a point where em is like i’m making my own decisions n crap). But Jess actually getting to watch em grow up and corvo getting to semi-experience that with Jess and still talk to her

it’s ALSO the fucked-up parallels of Jess now having to be an outsider to the family/ not being able to be a parent, like the way corvo had to be before but to the NEXT MOTHERHECKING LEVEL

but the whole tethering??? again it's f-ed up parallels of jess now being attached to corvo like she's his protector. but there are plenty of fun images of jess now walking around people and telling secrets rather than just sitting there like [he's a bitch]

actually just whole au where jess’ ghost is there throughout dh1. she’s there during the daud confrontation which is very sexy of her bc of course daud can actually see her. i just think the idea of daud being faced w the empress he murdered next to her skull-faced bodyguard is a very cool image

WAIT WAIT REPLACING POSSESSION jess possesses ppl instead of corvo so she can do stuff!!!! dh becomes one of those shitty 2 player games where player 2 has like half an ability and you have to question the whole point of being player 2 but yeah

ok ok so corvo is very confused about the whole ghost jess thing because their spirits are tethered (LIKE THEY WEREN'T BEFORE??!!! CORVOJESS SOULMATES) in the void in the same place you get the heart and then boom he wakes up w the mark and ghost jess is staring at him. emotional times n stuff. imagining cecelia and lydia hearing corvo mumbling to himself in his room and they're like oh ok that's cool whatever i can't hear that

anyways he is then more confused when nobody makes any mention of ghost jess next to him. quickly realises what's up and manages not to look too crazy by asking "can anyone else see her" or smthn. he's very ??????? when granna ragga can see jess, tbh so is jess.

corvo sort of expects emily to be able to see jess -- he's not sure why, he just... does -- but then of course she can't see jess and it's like ;-; (esp when "i thought you were dead -- head chopped off -- like mother"). AH em asking corvo who he's talking to one day and he's like "uh- no-one... i'm talking to myself" "oh... that's silly" and ghost jess is just there like |:

Does the heart supposedly disappear between the two games? it does not in this au.

so when she rolls up, she's gonna see ghost jess standing next to corvo (at jess' own death anniversary) and be like BITCH. everyone else in the room is so confused as to who delilah and corvo are talking to

Does Emily know here or is she like 8| with the rest of them. she doesn't bc only marked can see ghost jess and corvo doesn't know how to explain all that shit

actually this au, there's no heart at all, jess' soul is just tethered to corvo (and then emily). em finds out her mum was w her dad this whole time. she rests after dh2. but corvo and em both get to say bye bc it's after delilah is gone

for emily, this like. explains some moments. like emily as a teen saying "i wish mum could see this..." and corvo looks to his side....

how does getting delilahs soul work?? there's a Vessel in the conservatory that breanna's been working on to transport delilah's soul because she needs it for the final ritual. jindosh also helped make it

what if jsess ghost stuff cant hurt ppl physically, but she can deal w delilah magic stuff - like ghosthounds, blood briars. what if jess is so pissed at the end she breaks through the void and is able 2 physically bitch slap delilah (and only delilah)

she also always appears in the void with the protag so the outsider chats to both

jessamine's soul is briefly trapped with corvo while he's in stone and em's not marked so jess doesn't know what's happened in the 2-odd weeks in between and she doesn't really know that corvo was turned to stone at first. might assume he died. bc she's no longer tethered to him and thinks that's the only way that works

Does jess try and talk with delilah when she pulled emily into the void. it's a lot of defending herself and "i didn't know that would happen" and getting upset. delilah yells something back about jess thinking everyone was like her

- thanks to her now-gone arcane bond, billie can see jess’ ghost but only in glimpses that make her think she’s going a little crazy (a normal arcane bonded person wouldn’t be able to see her properly either, but more than billie)

- Blue came up w Jess being able to f with magic stuff like ghosthounds -- what if Jess could free Corvo from stone and so then the final fight is w the whole family?!! baddest bitches in Dunwall!! the power of love wins!

- i think whatever makes jess disappear after dh2 is bc of the delilah fight, but maybe it also makes her corporeal enough that corvo and em can hug her very briefly

- the general hilarity of the delilah-vessel being all “corvo is a fittie he has thick thighs and muscled shoulders” and jess is like “i KNOW he does, they’re very nice -- but you can’t say that about my man, bitch shut up!!!” while em is there like |: this sure is happening

- samuel once tells corvo a story of how after losing someone, he could swear he kept seeing the person. corvo knows sam can’t see jess, but samuel seems to have some understanding of what corvo keeps looking at -- never says anything about it directly though

- crying emoji, corvo saying smthn to em like “if your mother was here, she would tell you--” and then reciting exactly what ghost jess says (emily is a little ?? but doesn’t say as much)

- unlike the actual heart, she slowly grows more conscious of who she was as the game goes on (tho starts out just as incoherent)

Archives:

corvo having to have delilahs sould AND jess's ghost with him arguing:

jess: yo. yo corvo. corvo. see that guard over there??? that one right there *prods a guard w her ghost finger*

corvo: jes s i love u but im kinda busy rn trying to-

jess: hes a bitch.

delilah:*stabs corvo*

jess: NOT MY THICK THIGHED AND MUSCLED HUSBAND U WITCH!!!

jess: damn this is trippy, one moment i was vibing w ur dad at my own memorial, the next my evil childhood friends who claims to be my sister appears now suddenly im in karnaca??

emily: mum????????????? is that you?????

havelock: and then we'll-- [clears throat] corvo, do i have your attention?

corvo, looking back to havelock: uh- yes, you do

havelock: good. now we're going to [...]

corvo: [tries to look at him]

ghost!jess, standing next to havelock: he only has about ten percent of an idea of what he's saying; it's all bullshit. you probably shouldn't listen to him. we need to find emily