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Independent && Selective roleplay for The Outsider.

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Well, I suppose it's time to bring this guy back; isn't it?

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THE MOON  is what The Outsider misses the most. He missed the natural pale light that illuminated the city in a way that made it seem less volatile. He missed the stars and how they were objects best described as infinite. Now he can’t find a term that describes the feeling once you watch a star burnout over the course of several hundred years. Perhaps vague disappointment? Though it felt worse.. and more distant. 

                                                    A slowburn washout ; a sedated anticlimax. 

As years pass like minutes and stars continue to collapse, The Outsider has slowly lost memory of how the moon blankets the earth with it’s reflective light. He’s long forgotten eclipses and how the moon got a bit closer and days got colder during it’s extended visits. He can surely peer at the sky through a window in the void, but it isn’t equivalent to being on the Isles’ shore, experiencing it with decaying human eyes. The void provided nothing other than a space of dead sea ; tattered memories frozen in time and distraught ghosts of the past damned to wander in limbo. There were no stars, no suns, no moons here. 

                                                                                                                Just space.

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jessamine:

        it’s cold. his face naught but a blur in a darkening vision – corvo, the last hope Emily has to survive in the dark world. As much of her flesh as she was his, she hopes he will save her. take my body —- take my soul , just bring her back safe.  Goosebumps prickle against pallid flesh – there is no sky, no stars in this encompassing cold and it frightens her more than she’d be able to admit. 

‘ former empress – i’m… gone ?  EMILY , CORVO are they okay? ’ panic nestles in the pit of her stomach, fear, anger, grief coiling in the depths like a cobra, fangs bared and ready to strike at any hand that dare poke it. ‘ he’s more than cut out for his job –!  ‘

“You’ve fallen, have you not?” Ghostly sarcasm laced between a sigh and response as the leviathan’s left palm raised to present the void to his new guest; his leer extended as pitch eyes slit. “I believe the main objective of the royal protector is to prevent harm from finding it’s way to the crown. Correct me if I misinterpreted the sword through your abdomen as a fatal wound.”

The Outsider dissipated into dead air. Only a whisper and black smoke left traces of his presence. “Your death will bring about quite the stir through the inner workings of Dunwall’s political system and you, dear Jessamine, have acquired a front row seat.”

[just--space]

Plutos eclipse with Solar System and stars in the background

js

[warilyvoid-blog]

I am older than the rocks this empire is built upon.

                                             Independent, Selective Roleplay for The Outsider.

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8 PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER. repost. do not reblog please !

TAGGED BY: @tinkerled TAGGING: Anyone interested in doing this themselves.

ONE ( NAME / ALIAS ). Jack. TWO ( BIRTHDAY ). November 12th. THREE ( ZODIAC SIGN ). Scorpio FOUR ( HEIGHT ). 5′8 FIVE ( TIME ). 1:23AM SIX ( SLEEP ). Sporadic. Anywhere from 4-12 hours depending on the night. SEVEN ( FAVOURITE BOOKS ). Apocalypse Now Now, John Dies at the End, Misery, This is a Book, Complete works of Poe. I read... almost constantly if not gaming or writing.  EIGHT ( FAVOURITE ARTISTS ). IAMX / Sneaker Pimps ( both fronted by Chris Corner ), Stateless, Watsky, Low Roar, Caravan Palace, Joe Hisaishi, Portugal. The Man, alt-J. TEN ( COLLEGE ). Not currently attending, but my major is business marketing. ELEVEN ( DREAM JOB ). I’d love to write for a show or video game series ( working for Hideo Kojima would be a DREAM ) but realistically I want to go into marketing, hopefully for a company in gaming production. TWELVE ( THE MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL ). I’d consider The Outsider a wary individual and he is the void god, after all. I wanted the URL ‘chthonic’, but it’s more than likely been damned to URL purgatory or the previous account holder was terminated. I still get irritated about that on a daily basis.

[chaosophia218]

Antique Anatomical Illustration of the Human Heart, 1505.

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@bloodtopology

The leviathan's expression iced over as limbs intertwined at torso level. Only the gaze of a watchful individual could take note of the minor grimace infecting cold features; his fixed attention at the start of wavering away from a person once of extended interest. She'd grown.. typical. Following in the blood-drenched footprints of her father; revenge driven with the excuse of ‘whatever the cost’. It was something he would have been disappointed in long ago, now just a simple affirmation of another correct estimate. He sometimes longed to be proven wrong, but that was a game he'd lost hope in playing at least two thousand years ago.

-- until a piece from the match, dust covered and long retired, was grabbed by blood stained appendages. A life spared; a pivotal one at that. Alexandria Hypatia. The name would be written in the history books as one of the greatest minds of her time with the possible ( not quite as charming ) cliff note of crazed killer. Perhaps the headlines wouldn’t be quite as dramatic as her numbered fated possibilities, but that was a cause for digression. 

He’d whisper to her amid rest on the Dreadful Whale, sight unseen and without introduction. The representative god’s presence was for entirely selfish needs; a curious itch at the furthest place in his mind that required attention. “How does it feel? Being the one in control again. Surely you can rest easy now that she’s gone.”

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Before I forget, I have the Dunwall Archives book that’s filled with all the lore from the first game, plus some that didn’t make the cut. If you’re interested in any of it, either pertaining to a character or location, let me know and I’ll upload whatever you’re interested in!

[doomfully]

        ❝ It is important to keep up appearances.         But at the end of the day,         what Oswald wants,         Oswald gets.❞

                                          Independent Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin)                                                         from Gotham/DC Comics.

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ᴀᴛᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴅᴜɴᴡᴀʟʟ ᴄɪᴛɪᴢᴇɴs:

          Due to the expected influx of blogs after the release of DISHONORED II, please reblog this post if you are a canon character / OC / probably have a general DISHONORED verse. This will be compiled in a masterlist I will create for the sake of everyone who would like to interact more with DH roleplay blogs. Thank you and spread the word !! 

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empresslain replied to your post:

omg i am so sorry *tries to stick his nose back on but seems to be melting?? puts carrot in void were nose once was

“.... Where did you find that?”

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Gently grabs his nose. Whispers: "i got ur nose."

His nose actually tears off, leaving a hole of black smog where it should be. His unwaveringly humorless expression is unbroken with the lift of a brow. “How do I look without it?”

Honestly, his jokes needed some work.

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what are your thoughts on the idea that the outsider might be a trickster god archetype?

I find that The Outsider has several trickster god qualities without being a trickster god. 

He is meddlesome for his own entertainment, intervening with individuals that have pivotal roles in their surroundings by giving them an element that would very much alter the course of their path ( arguably for the better or worse ). He openly questions and mocks the societal standards of normalcy with information not made known by anyone other than himself. This, absolutely, all falls under the catchall title of a ‘trickster’. 

However, most trickster gods you will find both in mythology and fiction have self-destructive tendencies, selfish means of materialistic gain, have a direct means of disruption, or are labeled a trickster for defying rules that pertain to them. The Outsider is anything but self-destructive and while you can absolutely argue that his actions are selfish, his only gain is a form of entertainment. His meddling is indirect ( his gift is given with the individual understanding it’s a choice whether or not they use it ). In finality, The Outsider has no rules pertaining to him. When you are in The Void you are in his domain. There is no consequence that will fall on him for his actions ( unless he ends up marking someone that will find a way to replace him cough a succeeding Delilah ). 

Trickster qualities? Absolutely; but he is not a trickster god.

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what do you think makes ur portrayal of the outsider unique????

I find every portrayed character here unique simply because they have different writers. I am no similar to any other blog for The Outsider, just like no two Emily Kaldwin or Corvo Attano muses are similar. We are all given a basis ; a character with a certain amount of details and histories, their role in a story. Once we begin the writing process in their perspective, the character is molded and adapted to the interpretation of the writer. That’s quite honestly the whole point and my favorite thing about roleplay. 

But to answer your question a bit more directly; while I write The Outsider, I write him with human emotion and inhuman perception. A bored, meddling, disinterested entity. One that has lived far too long and has an equal longing and fear of his eventual catastrophic death. One that equally wants platonic companionship and understands they will never receive it. One that’s lonely and always in a fearful place, but has grown an attachment to the feeling of isolation because that’s all he’s known. One that has long lost interest in the human race but at this point it’s all he has, so he fixates on when his pessimistic assumptions are proven wrong. 

AKA he’s a whale baby that feels isolated and is wickedly pessimistic because the human race is a predictable disaster. I’m sure I’m at least mildly similar in that respect with other portrayals, but I’ve made this one my own. :^)

[ghost-phage]

“I so enjoy watching history warp as words pass from the lips of one to the ears of another.”

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is there anything outside of canon that you incorporated in your portrayal of the outsider that ended up becoming a constant source of inspiration?

Absolutely. 

I have been roleplaying upward of nine years now and what I have noticed is that I have sets of my muses in two different extremities; calmer ‘outsiders’ that have a certain detachment from others and belligerent narcissists that are often poison to themselves and others. I somewhat have ‘catchall’ ways to get into each mindset with a certain small list of books, movies, and music. Every now and then whichever source of media I use at the time will bleed into the muse I’m currently writing. Long-term muses get composition notebooks filled with things that remind me of them, quotes, musings, etc. The Outsider just got his recently.

But particular to The Outsider, I will admit that a lot of my own personal interests have made their way into his portrayal. I’ve a severe interest in humanity and how we’re fine tuned to lead ourselves into chaos and destruction, either on a personal or societal level. The difference between The Outsider and myself when it comes to these views is that he’s bored of the repetition behind the chaos and I am not, but it is a frequent topic while I write him. I also like to imagine what he was like in his human years and how that would affect his judgement on who he places his curiosities in. Rat Boy is a HUGE interest point for me that I consistently think about. I also build off of a lot on what Harvey Smith talks about when asked about The Outsider ( which I will actually be writing a lot about in the future ). 

In his notebook so far is a lot of information on cults, the Salem Witch Trials, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, callbacks to certain books and prose, excerpts from past and current muses that share similar views or characteristics, things I can imagine The Outsider thinking about and general disastrous things humanity has done.