i need an individual headcanon thing for my babies but uh emily;
read more cus this turned into a long one
fdgjdfkjs Her. so i’ve been writing her for 11 years now, since i was 14. so she’s very special to me. noting i do write her as very high chaos. with some alternate endings to the game. i also don’t use DH2 as a source of inspiration since i don’t care for the second game. honestly it’s my fault for pouring everything i had into her and then her turning out different LMAO so my adult emily is also different from DH2 emily, even design wise.
sooo headcanons below for my dearest, again i don’t take anything from the second game into account, if there’s similarities then great minds think alike ig
emily has frequent contact with the outsider. and is considerably closer to him than what’s shown in the game. he stops her nightmares by transporting her into the void when she sleeps, she’s become very accustomed to the void, and views the outsider as a friend. although she would never say it, she’s still kind of a brat.
she becomes an heir to the void, of sorts. offered by the outsider. he is the void, the end and beginning of all things. his body is simply a vessel. and if he were to die, the void would consume everything. therein comes emily as the new vessel should she suffer the same fate as him.
emily has the plague, but is asymptomatic.
this was briefly mentioned in the game, but i kinda took it and ran with it. emily can talk to rats, they whisper to her, tell her the secrets within the walls. warning her of any decenters. she has a very special rat friend named Scruffy, he’s usually seen on her shoulder and she speaks to him frequently.
whether she is marked by the outsider is on a case by case basis. which verse i feel like writing.
she’s extremely intuitive, this is of course something that was needed due to her circumstances, she’s very good at reading people, sometimes to the point that it seems supernatural, surreal.
she bears a certain resentment towards her mother, not hatred, nothing so concrete. it’s betrayal, anger, knowing that she was powerless to do anything about it. she’s angry at the world and at everyone around her.
if we’re going full on high chaos, i always had this idea that she has corvo track down the guards that were supposed to be on duty when the assassination occurred, and has them killed.
emily has makeshift gravesites for the Loyalists in the Hounds Pits Pub, she had corvo find the bodies to bury, but when he came to gather them, they were already eaten by rats. corvo brought other corpses wrapped in cloth, but emily knew. however she said nothing.
she blames herself for callista’s death