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Recently my nerdy bicurious friend introduced me to the Dishonored series; he's a ring collector, and his girlfriend got him the Imperial signet ring as a Christmas present. I complimented it, and that got him gushing about the series. It was always one of those series that I heard good things about but never felt the need to play, but after having such a good friend speak so highly of it, I decided I had to try it. (Our mildly flirtatious friendship has nothing to do with it, I swear lol)

Anyway, after all the games were discounted on the PS Store, I decided to get all of them. And let me tell you, from the first game I was blown away. As a first-person game I had no idea what the player character (Corvo Attano) looked like. In the sequel, he's a side character so you can actually see him. By that point in the series he is a full-on silver fox; this especially comes across in the concept art.

So...yeah, I'm not sure if my friend knows exactly what he's done by introducing me to the series...😈

So this post was inspired by a recent discussion with my friend regarding what we thought the world of Dishonored was like when the Outsider was created. My friend pointed out that the Outsider's clothing doesn't quite match the Victorian aesthetic of the other characters, and is somewhat closer to 18th century pre-revolutionary France. Considering the world of the games takes place in a world of heightened retrofuturism, this got me thinking about the French architect Etienne-Louis Boulée and his larger than life designs for tombs and other monuments. Both the Classically-inspired architecture and their creation before the cataclysm of the French Revolution really makes me think of the chaos that the Outsider brought on (let's be real, he's basically the anti-hero version of Jesus). This is entirely headcanon, but it's really cool to imagine.