Void Avatar Jess AU

Tagged as Corvo Attano, Emily Kaldwin, Jessamine Kaldwin

Creator: Potes

Description:

what happens is like 2 weeks after corvo & em get this WEIRD INTENSE pain on their marks (the fall of the outsider) they're BOTH pulled into the void which is weird and has never happened b4. they're like ?? oh is the outsider gonna explain wtf has been going on w the marks?? maybe??.

and they get to this sorta void island and who do they see, in her amazing dress which i am not biased about. Jess! but with black eyes and corvo and em are like THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK?????? em's like didn't you???? go into nonexistence in karnaca?

but acTUALLy what happened is jess rolled up in the void and she was like ??? what is happening. sider's like look i gots a proposition; do u wanna be the void avatar because you're 1 the only person who can 2 you have experience sort of and 3 you'd probbo do it well-ish. and she, showed that the alternative is the void FUCKING UP, is like yh ok i'll do it. yes. which is fun 4 both characters bc sider gave her the choice he never had and jess got to CHOOSE power rather than be forced into it too

then through timey wimey void bullshit jess takes over as soon as sider's gone

the mark pain™️

flash forward 2 talking 2 corvo and em. and they realise that YES this is jess and not some trick of the outsider holy shit???? holy shit?? a lot of crying

Which is this

so yeah family REUNION! so yeah they all (; and stuff and it's super cute and they're finally together again

but of course they can't spend all this time together bc jess has a void to run and so corvo and em wake up. and em is like ???????? holy shit???? did that actually happen?? and grabs a dressing gown and basically runs to corvo's room like HEY! and she finds him crying and sitting on his bedside except it's happy crying!!!! because holy shit jess!!!! actual physical jess he could touch and hug and not her disembodied voice with a vague idea of who he and she were. they both sit there like omg omg omg

What happens next ish is this

sO basically a few days after, corvo finds himself in the void alone and bam jess is there and HOLY SHIT jess is there yk. he's not used to the black eyes but it's still jess, his jess, and jess is like you owe me a dance

fic excerpt 1:

“You still owe me a dance, remember?” Jessamine smiled.

Corvo chuckled slightly, “I do.” He'd promised they'd dance the night he returned from his mission across the Isles. Hopefully even dance to celebrate the good news that the Isles had chosen to help, and that the horrors of the Rat Plague were over.

That felt like a lifetime ago. Maybe longer.

written by Potes

and so they talk while they dance, corvo still can't get over the fact that this is jess and he's holding jess. he tries to ask her what she can remember, mainly to see if she's more there than the heart, and she's like "yeah sorta, I can remember more/ more clearly when you and em are here tho". and corvo sorta breaks down at one point and he starts apologising , because he couldn't save her and also because he never thought he'd do this again. she's like you couldn't have saved me soz

fic excerpt 2:

[...]Corvo’s voice cracked a little.

Jessamine put a hand on his cheek and wiped his tears away with her thumb. Corvo tilted his head into her hand and shut his eyes, focusing on the cold touch of her hand. “I’m sorry. I should’ve been… better. Faster.”

“You couldn’t have stopped Daud,” Jessamine said knowingly.

“I failed you.”

written by Potes

and she comforts him and more crying, and then she sorta cheers him up by running a hand through his hair and being like /: and he's like ?? what. and she's like "...I liked your hair longer" and he just laughs bc that is something he's missed and OF COURSE after 15 years and her death and everything that happened her concern is that she liked his hair longer

he's also like we met the outsider the other day lmao???? because sider wormed his way into a ball and walked up to corvo and em and they were like O_O. and they sorta drag him off to a drawing room and are like ??? wtf what happened yes we have talked to jessamine

so they KNOW KNOW that jess is the proper void avatar and not just sider's trick after seeing him. corvo nearly throws him out a window at one point it's funky fun

emily and jess have a similar meeting to jess & corvo's and it's mostly jess telling emily how proud she is of her for being such a great empress and there's a decent amount of "father told me you'd be proud of me all the time but i never believed him lol"

right so yeah corvo and em become void avatars when they die except they're stuck as how they were when jess became void avatar.

The player meets jess and she is like "My name is Jessamine. I was empress once long ago, and I still am in a sense," smth marked by jessamine

jess is often called the empress of the void fun fact