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The unmaking of Corvo Attano.
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- Part 1 of three seasons in karnaca
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02 Mar 2023
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Corvo’s ruined hand aches. His throat feels raw. Burrows is shaking, his skin blotched red and pale with - frustration? rage?
Jessamine stands behind him. Her hair is down, and her feet are bare. She has been weeping. Corvo tries to reach out for her, is stopped by the manacles.
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Corvo’s (deteriorating) thoughts and feelings as he stays in Coldridge.
Beautifully written, great transitions, and absolutely heartbreaking. -
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"He is surrounded by the Marked, once again. As always. He has always been so close. (He considers sketching another self-portrait and setting it in the center of the room, to complete the image, but that would be melodramatic.)" Sokolov still doesn't have the Outsider's attention - but the being quietly and viciously begins letting him know he's watching.
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02 Mar 2023
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Sokolov can see hazy chimneys and hazier smoke through the warped glass of the greenhouse walls. Corvo’s head is bowed, and his gloves are off and his right hand cradles his left. His fingers have traced over the mark all the time he has been speaking. He’d mentioned a dream of broken streets and targets far below and falling and it had flared gold, once, and Sokolov had needed to catch himself not to lean forward; but apart from that the magic is still. Corvo is very still. Sokolov is attentively still, not taking notes, and the only movement in the room is the centimeter-by-centimeter movement of the mad Pandyssian flowers and the vibration of the air with the Lord Protector’s words and with the soft, mechanical whirring of the audiograph.
And now the sun is sinking over the rooftops and the light in the room is otherworldly as the Void of which Corvo has been speaking, and his voice peters out, and then there is no motion in the room at all.
The tape clicks. Stutters to a stop. It is the sixth time this has happened. Sokolov does not move to replace it.
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Sokolov wants to be one of the Outsider’s Marked. The Outsider isn’t interested.
Incredible descriptions, a fantastic perspective, excellent characterization, and an impeccable sense of humor. -
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The Collector wants cells and is willing to try something experimental to keep his best source of them hale and hearty.
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02 Mar 2023
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…[Y]ou encounter many worse things while you’re out killing your way through the hordes of things that want to kill you in return, while you’re slogging through tick-infested bogland or picking your way through shoals of putrid fish, rotting on the docks with no one to see to them. The muscles that had tensed at the Collector’s words start to let the tension go.
Then you are in pain.
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The Beheaded twists his ankle. The Collector says he'll make it better. He does, and he doesn't.
An excellent window into the quasi-hostile tension between Beheaded and the Collector. 10/10 Beheaded internal monologue + characterization.