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Imperial Family HCs

• Corvo and Emily at the Hound's Pit

• Corvo at Emily’s birth

• Emily and Corvo's power dynamic

Daud HCs

• Daud’s roof

• Young Daud and early Brigmore Witches

• Barefoot!

Billie HCs

• Lizzy teaching Billie to navigate

Whalers HCs

• Displays of affection with Daud & the Whalers

• Retribution against bad payers

• Queer Whalers

Void and Marks HCs

• Logistics of severed Marked hands

Hypatia and Grim Alex HCs

• Vegetarian Hypatia

Curnow HCs

• Callista and Geoff

• Geoff’s character as a watchman

• Geoff and Granny Rags

• Geoff on boats

• Geoff and Thorpe

• Queer Curnows

Several Characters HCs

• Kid Geoff, Corvo and Daud

• Drawings of Jess

• Needing glasses

• Flexibility

General Worldbuilding HCs

• Queer people

• Fugue feast HCs

• Knowledge of other nations

Kaldwin-Attano AUs

• CorvoJess SECRET MARRIAGE AU

Daud & co AUs

• Pirate AU

• Daud and Geoff being friends AU

• The Whalers hunt Daud AU

• Daud lives post-DOTO AU... 2!

• Daud finds his mother AU... 2!

• Daud chased by Grim Alex AU

Protagonists AUs

• Time Travel AU 2

• DH2 team-up AU

  • DH2 team-up sub-AU: Daud found his mum

  • DH2 team-up sub-AU: Corvo cut Daud's hand

• Disembodied hand AU

• A Whaler picks up Daud’s hand AU

General AUs

• Murder on the Orient Express AU

Crack AUs

• Seal AU

General Meta

• Rudshore's flooding & mission timelines

• More show not tell in DH2

• Decay, social collapse, and immediacy in DH2 vs DH1

• The Kaldwin name

• Family and marriage norms in the Empire

• Seeing the Rat Plague has worstened

• Morality of non-lethal options

• Dunwall as a morally dark setting

• Royal marriage rules and Parliament

• Transportation infrastructure

• Diversity of characters

• Parental figures in Dishonored

• Comparing Karnaca and Dunwall

• Played attentively, Dishonored is clearly a political game

• Alt-right gamers totally missing the point of Dishonored

• Root languages in the DH universe

• Geography beyond the Isles and Pandyssia

• Timekeeping, Fugue Feast and the DH Calendar

• DOTO and the Chaos System

• The DH1prologue and setting the scene

Biology

• Sharks!

• Could the rat plague spread in Serkonos?

• Weird whale biology

Corvo Meta

• Corvo’s state of health in DH1

• Corvo's actual motivation to bring Daud to justice

Daud Meta

• Being “made,” responsibility, and Billie’s betrayal

• Daud giving up killing post-DH1

• Daud’s arrogance and illusion of neutrality

• Daud’s denial and egocentrism

• A different dream in his heart

• Daud’s Overseer disguise

• Daud at Brigmore

• Daud setting up the flooded district for Corvo to confront him

• Daud & the witches' previous interactions

• What Daud will leave behind

• Daud's redemption arc

• Daud isn't bloodthirsty

• The tragedy of high chaos Daud

• Daud's appeal as a minor character

• Jess’s assassination went awfully

• Daud being proud of Billie captaining the Wale

• Daud's motivations and characterisation in DOTO

• The pragmatism of Daud’s violence

• The thematic significance of Daud's death

• Daud Dishonored, Footstep Analyzer

• Daud's resentment towards Hiram

• Daud is a terrifying adversary

• Daud's mythos and recognizability

• Daud as an antagonist and protagonist

Daud & Corvo Meta

• Corvo and Daud’s body types

• Comparing Daud and Corvo’s characters

• Daud's active occultism vs Corvo's incidental heresy

• The Hound Pits' proximity to Rudshore

• Daud removing Corvo's hand in drafts

Daud & the Outsider

• The Outsider enjoying Daud’s “bloody road”

• The Outsider antagonizing Daud & the Theory of DOTO

• Parallels between Daud and the Outsider

Corvo & Emily Meta

• Emily vs Corvo’s effectiveness as DH2 protagonists

The Outsider

• The Outsider’s motivations

• The Outsider harming Billie in DOTO

• The Outsider's detachment from human violence

• The Outsider as an Observer

Billie

• Billie's role in DH2

• Billie's relationship with Sokolov

• Billie finding closure in DOTO

Billie & Emily Meta

• Hand-holding parallels with Billie and Emily

Multiple Protagonists Meta

• Individualism, rejecting violence, & how systems make us

• Anti-Serkonan racism in Dunwall

• Better connecting DH2 to the DH1 DLCs

• Mindsets & ideas of judgement in Corvo & Daud's confrontation

• Characterization through voice acting

• Billie’s empathy and Daud’s pessimism in the Ritual Hold

• The importance of names

• Father-Daughter relationships

• Addictive properties of Void powers

• Powers shared between the Marked

• Teenage trauma and the DOTO main characters

• Daud & the Outsider forcing situations on Billie in DOTO

Jess/The Heart Meta

• Jess’s relatively progressive ideology

Geoff Meta

• Geoff Curnow is a good man

• Geoff and his love for Callista

• Geoff's potential in DH1 as a future ally

Loyalist Meta

• Treavor isn’t a reliable source

• The Loyalists’ final meeting

• The Loyalists’ power dynamics and HC hysteria

• Martin’s remorse and an alternate LC confrontation

• Treavor’s cowardice and an alternate LC confrontation

• Martin’s appeal as a character

Pendletwins Meta

• The Pendletons’ monetary motivations

Burrows Meta

• Hiram’s strange betrayal timing

• Was Hiram going to eliminate his co-conspirators?

• The mundaneness of most DH1 antagonists

Delilah & the Witches Meta

• Misogyny and the witches

• Delilah not calling herself Jess's sister in the DLCs

Jindosh Meta

• Young Jindosh and an alternative nonlethal

• Jindosh’s redeemability and ND coding

• Jindosh's relationship with Sokolov

Delilah Meta

• Delilah's leadership in DH2

Hypatia/Grim Alex Meta

• Grim Alex's status post-non lethal

Morgan & Custis Pendleton Meta

• How did Slackjaw abduct the twins?

Other Characters Meta

• Mindy & Paolo

• Rothwild’s nonlethal and plausible deniability

• Minor enemies with complex motivations

• Non-marked people carrying artifacts

• Ramsey's motivations and aristocratic mindset

• Art and the DH2 Coup Crew

• The courtesans not knowing Emily's identity

• Morality of DH Antagonistic Groups

• Lucia Pastor's child

• Stilton and Theodanis's relationship

• Radanis and Luca's relationship