Jindosh’s nonlethal ending is possibly my least favorite out of the entire series and feels the worst only behind that of Lady Boyle’s in terms of morality. I know chances are it was a shoddy last second story decision, considering they were going to cut out his mission altogether if it wasn’t for the trailer, but that doesn’t change the fact it still feels godawful.
It only takes maybe five minutes of listening to his lore to figure out what he most desires is recognition for his ingenuity. He craves genuine interest like the love starved loser that he is, and if he hadn’t gotten it from all the wrong people, I genuinely believe he could have done good.
All it would have taken was Corvo/Emily knocking him out and kidnapping him onto the Dreadful Wale, dealing with his initial bitching, and telling him if he wants to keep the title of Grand Inventor he better help them. He’d snark and bite and squabble at first, especially with Sokolov, but not a week later he’s upgrading C/E’s crossbow without asking and calling the original “shitty engineering he couldn’t stand by.”
If a positive source of recognition came about, Kirin would latch onto it. I believe that fully. In the academy, before everything, what did he make of his own free will? A music box. A heart. He invented fucking photography. Even if he was schooling to become a master in engineering, he was an artist first.
One (I) could argue he’s a reflection of the suffering real world creatives face when technology and engineering these days have a particular focus on military/weapon advancements.
I understand why it couldn’t happen. Corvo/Emily couldn’t really juggle two bodies back to the dreadful wale, but like Kirin himself said it’s such a loss of intelligence and creativity that you can’t help but mourn what he could have done with it if only given the chance to better himself.
This isn’t to say he wasn’t a bit fucked in the head. Performing unethical experiments on unwilling victims is not normal and he should rightfully be punished for that, but I still hate hate HATE his nonlethal so much.
I could get into how that’s the point of the entire series, that the chaos system is not black and white, that there’s not always a good or bad answer, but that’s for another post. It’s something that I love about Dishonored that deserves a lot of recognition I can’t give it on a Kirin centered post.
Anyways of course the worst part is what’s left in the aftermath of what is essentially the electrical version of a lobotomy. I took the time when replaying 2 last night to sit there and listen to him, and what got me the most was this line.
“I’m very much afraid of what’s happened.”
“Hello? I believe I’ve lost something very precious. Please help me find it.”
“You can’t have put me through that machine. But, wait, what does it do?”
“Something glori, gloriou, something big is gone, and I can’t name it.”
“The other students will laugh at me now.”
I feel sick to my stomach listening to them. Corvo literally wrote in his journal “The greatest intellect of our day, reduced to that of a confused child.”
Everyone fucking makes fun of him after too. They write a newspaper exciting in his misfortune. “Servants are gleefully coming forward with stories of the once great inventor now barely able to navigate from room to room.” [The silver spike- genius inventor can barely recall his own name!]
Just going through the wiki to gather references keeps reminding me of more fucked up things about him.
There’s no mention of his father, but when mesmerized he talks about his mother hating him, and his “bastard brother” raising him.
They kept his inventions after kicking him out of the academy, and took them apart, permanently disabling them.
Not even Delilah and her witches gave a shit about him. One had a doll of him they stabbed with needles.
He’s dead by the time of Doto. Whether that is due to neglect, aftereffects of his machine, or something else is unknown.
Just. Christ idek what to write anymore. His life was fucking miserable from beginning to end. I know his mansion caused the studio some grief but they didn’t have to torture and lobotomize him for it.
He had such potential. He was beautiful. I will kill myself over this man.
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