Hiaen

Corvo HCs

• Corvo’s cooking

Imperial Family HCs

• Dancing

Daud HCs

• Daud at the Academy

• Daud’s roof

• Daud forgetting his childhood

• Daud mentioning brand new aspects of his life at random moment

• Young Daud and early Brigmore Witches

• Daud’s Whaler mask

• Daud’s belt

• Daud’s cooking

• Confined spaces

• Sleeping schedule

• Daud's teenage years

• Daud and poison

Billie HCs

• Falling asleep with the Eye of the Dead God

Whalers HCs

• Sea shanties

• Displays of affection with Daud & the Whalers

• Retribution against traitors

• Retribution against bad payers

• Rulfio missing on important info

• Magic being valued

Outsider and Marks HCs

• Marked people and Whales

• Logistics of severed Marked hands

Hypatia and Grim Alex HCs

• Grim Alex's Void connection

Hound Pits Crew HCs

• Piero’s best customers are marked

Other Characters HCs

• Martin's plans coming short

• Miss White HCs

Several characters HCs

• Corvo and Daud being childhood friends

• Parallels between Daud and Emily

• Emily’s time with the Whalers

• Corvo's thoughts on Daud post-DH1

• Kid Geoff, Corvo and Daud

• Serkonan dialects

Worldbuilding HCs

• Concurrent heist at Lady Boyle’s

• The Blade Verbena

• Fugue feast HCs

Kaldwin-Attano AUs

• Everything hurts AU

Daud & co AUs

• Outsider!Daud AU

• Daud goes to Addermire AU

Protag AUs

• HC Corvo & Spymaster Daud AU

• Daud stays at the Academy AU

• Body-surfing Corvo AU

• Demon!Daud AU

• Daud & Corvo childhood friends AU

• Fake prophet AU

• Knifecrow guardians AU

• Informer Daud AU

• Compulsive Poisoner Corvo AU

• Time Travel AU 2

• Disembodied hand AU

• DH2 team-up AU... 2!

• Jess gets kidnapped AU

Hypatia and Grim Alex AUs

• Attack dog Alex AU

General AUs

• Supernatural creatures AU

• School AU

• Alternative mission: Flooded district battle

Crack AUs

• Mindy and the Marked AU

• Wrong place wrong time AU

• AU where there are kids at Whaler HQ

• Daud kidnapping AU

• Picky eater AU

General Meta

• Transportation infrastructure

• Rudshore's flooding & mission timelines

• Dishonored's folkloric qualities

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

• Do the Eyeless do blood typing?

• The Eyeless’s Void suppressor and holding Daud

• The Kaldwin name

• Family and marriage norms in the Empire

• Colonialism in Pandyssia & Slavery

• Morality of non-lethal options

• Clockwork soldier technology

• Dunwall as a morally dark setting

• Conceptions of higher powers and the afterlife

• Music history in the Isles

• Diversity of characters

• Parental figures in Dishonored

• Played attentively, Dishonored is clearly a political game

• Alt-right gamers totally missing the point of Dishonored

• City Watch ranks and colors

• Root languages in the DH universe

• Geography beyond the Isles and Pandyssia

• Timekeeping, Fugue Feast and the DH Calendar

• The vibes of high chaos in-game

Abbey Meta

• Overseer blade design & the Knife

• Heresy as an aristocratic hobby

Biology Meta

• Could the rat plague spread in Serkonos?

Corvo Meta

• Public perception of Corvo & the Felon

• Masked Felon encounters are terrifying

• Corvo's lack of intel on Daud

• Corvo the impressionist

• Corvo symbolically taking Daud's place

• Corvo’s state of health in DH1

• Corvo still believed to be Jessamine's killer post DH1

• Corvo's actual motivation to bring Daud to justice

Daud Meta

• Daud's redemption arc

• 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’s snark

• How Daud shares living space

• The pragmatism of Daud’s violence

• Daud Dishonored, Footstep Analyzer

• Daud & the witches' previous interactions

• The tragedy of high chaos Daud

• Daud's appeal as a minor character

• Jess’s assassination went awfully

• Daud's motivations and characterisation in DOTO

• Daud's resentment towards Hiram

• Daud's mythos and recognizability

Daud & Corvo Meta

• Comparing Daud and Corvo’s characters

• Medium chaos Corvo & young Daud similarities

• The Hound Pits' proximity to Rudshore

• Daud removing Corvo's hand in drafts

Corvo & Emily Meta

• Emily vs Corvo’s effectiveness as DH2 protagonists

• Corvo & Emily's (lack of) class consciousness in DH2

The Outsider

• The Outsider’s motivations

• The Outsider as an Observer

Billie Meta

• Billie and Samuel as “chaos commentators”

Billie & Emily Meta

• Billie’s and Emily’s characterization and systemic change

Multiple Protagonists Meta

• Powers shared between the Marked

• Individualism, rejecting violence, & how systems make us

• Voiced protagonists not reacting strongly to info bombs

• Jess on a pedestal, Delilah, & blame

• Implied connections with Daud, Sokolov, & the Outsider

• Better connecting DH2 to the DH1 DLCs

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

• If the Outsiders’ Marked were TV shows for him

• Death of identity, the Heart, and Emily carrying her parents

• Addictive properties of Void powers

• Teenage trauma and the DOTO main characters

Jess/The Heart Meta

• The horror of the Heart

• The Heart’s emotional state

• The Heart’s unreliability about Whalers

• The Heart’s nature and role in DH2 vs DH1

Sokolov Meta

• Sokolov’s regret

Loyalist Meta

• The Loyalists are shady, and also useless

Burrows Meta

• Was Hiram going to eliminate his co-conspirators?

Delilah & the Witches Meta

• Reactions to Delilah’s arrival in DH2

• The Witches’ whalebone blades

• Delilah’s reaction to Breanna’s elimination

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

Hypatia/Grim Alex Meta

• Alex's intelligence and pre-planning

• Grim Alex’s creation

• Hypatia's apartment

Jindosh Meta

• Jindosh’s redeemability and ND coding

• Jindosh's relationship with Sokolov

Pendleton Twins Meta

• How did Slackjaw abduct the twins?

Other Characters Meta

• Rothwild’s nonlethal and plausible deniability

• Minor enemies with complex motivations

• Non-marked people carrying artifacts

• Stilton, Lucia, and Hypatia working against the Duke's influence

• Stilton and Theodanis's relationship

• Grim Alex's status post-non lethal

• Morality of DH Antagonistic Groups

• Radanis and Luca's relationship