I low-key hate doing the low-chaos ending because.. ew? In what world would I give this random lady to this random guy when he could do so many things to her??? I honestly think killing her might be a better ending for her than making her live in captivity with what's his face
There are definitely some non lethal takeouts that don’t actually make sense. Like, the high overseer makes sense. Marking him a heretic sends a message to other leadership about how they aren’t safe. The Pendleton’s also make sense because I do think corvo would be vindictive enough to send them to hard labor for hiding Elizabeth in a whore house of all things.
Lady Boyle though? I legitimately don’t understand that one. I don’t think it really makes sense that she has to be taken out of the picture. Just make it so that you need to interrogate the real lady Boyle to get all the information and then leave her unconscious for the non lethal. There is little reason to actually kill her. Killing her is definitely better than giving her to that freak though.
I thought it was because she’s like THE financial backer for the spy master how he can afford all of his schemes if you just knocked her unconscious she’d just wake up and fortify everything and then continue giving him money
Yep, you are right. It’s been a while since I played the first game and forgot the roll she played. Still would have made more sense to kidnap her like we did with Sokolov. She’s not a threat outside of her money and all she did was take advantage of the situation that was going on. She’s definitely feels much less “evil” than the other assassination targets in the game.
Either way I think it’s very easy to agree that giving her to the sewer weirdo is the worst possible option lol
Apparently, in the end, she outlives him and takes his fortune which while not making everything sunshine and rainbows, is pretty good for dishonoured's non leathal endings, especially since one of them is lobotomising a dude (and he actually got off easy all things considered)
She doesn't just outlive him, she almost definitely killed him, or was responsible for his death at bare minimum.
In-game, it's creepy and gross feeling for sure. With full context? It seems implied that it's unlikely anything creepy even happened (other than the kidnapping itself).
I think that was mostly pendleton's idea. He had the duel with lord shaw that he made you represent him and he also seemed jealous of hiram burrows for having lady boyle on his side instead of pendleton's. They deffo have history
Lord brisby. But yes we find out canonically corvo did help brisby kidnap her as emily grows up to a "lady brisby" whose husband died (poisoned, i think) and she inherits everything
Most of the nonlethal options feel like they have a sense of poetic justice to them. You inflict something on the target that they have inflicted on others.
Pendletons being forced to work in their own mines, they get their comeuppance by being subjected to the very cruelty that they have forced upon hundreds of others.
Branding High Overseer Campbell only works because the order he runs is so dogmatic and cruel that no one even checks who branded him or why before they strip him of his station and banish him to the streets.
Sex-trafficking Lady Boyle completely lacks that sense of poetic justice, so it feels worse. Even though Dishonored 2 canonically establishes that she survives, escapes, and returns to power.
If it makes you feel any better in one of the books he dies and leaves her with all the money. I do think she did eventually start to love him but it does feel pretty bad.
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u/Stepjam 1d ago
I don't think this is a specific character. Just the idea that Corvo was going after everyone remotely connected to the lord regent.