It is that time of the year again!
My Dishonored Fugue Feast (@dishonoredgiftexchange) gift for Mead (@meadmeinthemiddle) with the combination of their prompts 'Corvo abandoning the throne and raising Emily in Serkonos after Jessamine’s death' and 'Corvo/Daud/Thomas'.
Also I swear there will be art one day—
you always said how you loved dogs (i don't know if i count, but i'm trying my best)
(click on title to go to the fic ;D)
Working or alternative title: every road i have been on (it leads me back to you)
Rating: T+
Word Count: 25,831
Warnings: Canon-typical Violence
Pairings: Corvo Attano/Daud/Thomas, background Theodanis Abele/Aramis Stilton
On the seventh day of celebrating the restoration of the young Empress Emily to her throne, Corvo Attano snaps.
It is not a gradual onset but rather the result of months during which Corvo would bottle up his feelings. All the anger and fury, all the sadness, and all the vengeance for the unjust. The feelings of a father wrongly accused and separated from his child.
For those seven blissful days, he succeeds in holding it together. At least until another noble makes a passing comment, degrades his still too young daughter for being a child when that is all Emily should be at the age of thirteen.
She deserves a sense of normalcy in her life after witnessing the death of her mother, after being kidnapped and held prisoner, after nearly being used as a tool for puppet monarchy.
So it is on the seventh day that Corvo rises from his seat in the middle of Parliament and disappears into the streets of Dunwall.
(This year's special thank you goes to @shower-man for additional proofreading and commentary, @graedari for standing up for democracy, and the Duki Luki group chat for enacting said democracy, aka choosing the title <3)