History Heartwarming / Dishonored

** Sparing [[spoiler: Daud]] is made even more powerful if you don't even alert him and just [[spoiler: pickpocket him]]. Look at what he knows: All his men are absolutely loyal to him. So only one person could have done it: Corvo, who has a very good reason to hold a grudge. So, this one guy, who you expect to murder you on sight, gets in ''without him or anyone else seeing him'', to point where he could stab you. Yet, what he does? Just [[spoiler: pickpockets you]] and leaves... once again, without anyone seeing him. ''Guy who you expect to kill you moment he sees you, just got in, got into position to kill you and decided not to do it''.

* It was said that your actions influence others depending on your chaos rating. This is particularly true in [[spoiler: "The Loyalists"]] mission during a low-chaos run and Callista Curnow. [[spoiler: Havelock, despite there being no reason to, lets her live and instead puts her under a form of house arrest.]] There's no need for any of that, but he does it anyway.

** Most likely for the same reason she can maintain a safe house with no one noticing: she's effectively invisible to the higher-ups. Her duties are mundane and menial enough that the Loyalists wouldn't notice her missing. Wallace was Pendleton's manservant, which means he would be missed and draw attention to the fact that Cecilia had also vanished.

** [[WordofGod According to Word of God, Corvo is actually Emily's Biological father.]]

** [[WordofGod According to Word of God, Corvo is actually Emily's Biological father which explains why she has his abilities in the upcoming sequel as well.]]

* After taking care of Delilah, Daud receives a notification. [[spoiler:Target Rescued: Emily]].

* One of the first things you get to do is play hide-and-seek with Lady Emily should you choose, and this is ''right'' after she runs up and gives Corvo a gleeful Glomping like papa was back from work. This one moment helps sell how much of a ParentalSubstitute Corvo has been to the girl since her early childhood.

** After rescuing her and bringing her back to the Hound Pits, Corvo will step off the boat, and offer Emily his hand to help her get back on land. Purely symbolic, but also purely ''adorable''.

* Anton and Piero huddled under the tables after [[spoiler: the betrayal of the Loyalists]]. The two of them are talking like old buddies and lamenting all the time they wasted being rivals.
** [[spoiler: It becomes a Crowning Moment of Awesome too when their combined knowledge is enough to cure the plague.]]
* [[spoiler: The sparing of Daud. After all of your horrific means of neutralizing others and/or killing, you can roleplay Corvo choosing to reclaim some of his humanity and cast aside revenge by sparing the life of his Empress's killer. Daud himself is moved by the action, and ''even the Outsider is briefly at a loss for words''.]]
** Possibly more heartwarming even if you've been doing a PacifistRun. Though you've avoided killing anyone (directly) throughout the entire game, it's implied a possible motivation for sparing his targets is because Corvo wants to inflict CruelMercy via FateWorseThanDeath. [[spoiler: Daud]] is the first and only target he can let live and have it be unambiguously considered benevolence.
** [[spoiler:Daud's entire speech to Corvo is this if Corvo has done a perfect PacifistRun to this point, with Daud reflecting on all the things he himself has done -- murdering for coin, with no care for who he was paid to kill -- and the path that ''Corvo'' chose. That Corvo, too, was asked to kill -- and always found another way, even after all he suffered at the hands of the people he was sent to murder. The ''absolute'' Crowner comes if Corvo sheathes his blade and steps back, silently granting Daud his life. Daud sounds almost awed, to the point that it's nearly a TearJerker.]]

*** And it becomes even more heartwarming when he tethers away when you spare him. it's then that you realise that he could have escaped at any time, but chose to stay and either die or be forgiven.
* While some people might find Piero revolting for being a PeepingTom, he's sincerely remorseful when confronted and admits to being desperately lonely. It makes it all the sweeter to discover that the Bifauxnen waitress at the pub wants to know if he's married.

* One of the parts of a low chaos ending shows [[spoiler: Samuel and Corvo hanging out at the hounds pit pub, even having returned to nobility, and the differences in their caste, Corvo still didn't shut out the only man who stayed with him when everyone else had cast him aside.]]
** In the same ending [[spoiler: if you saved Curnow then you get a scene of him and Callista reuniting.]]
* The scene in Low Chaos playthrough, where you find in a warehouse an Overseer sick with the plague begging his friends to [[MercyKill kill him]] before he loses him mind and becomes a weeper. After they decline at first, and one offers his share of elixir instead, they finally go through with it, killing the sick man as he's reciting the Seven Strictures. The whole scene is a very touching example of the selflessness that surfaces in the Low Chaos timeline, as people still have hope that things ''can'' get better. [[spoiler: It's all the more touching when you realize that in High Chaos, the Overseer will claim that he's healthy, and his friends accuse him of trying to infect them all before they kill him.]]

** Sparing [[spoiler: Daud]] is made even more powerful if you don't even alert him and just [[spoiler: pickpocket him]]. Look what he knows: All his men are absolutely loyal to him. So only one person could do it. Corvo, who have very good reason to hold a grudge. So, this one guy, who you expect to murder you on sight, got in ''without him or anyone else seeing him'', to point where he could stab you. Yet, what he does? Just [[spoiler: pickpockets you]] and leaves... once again, without anyone seeing him. ''Guy who you expect to kill you moment he sees you, just got in, got into position to kill you and decided not to do it''.

* From Knife Of Dunwall, "Billie. [[spoiler: I forgive you.]]" The Outsider's reaction, [[spoiler:where he reveals that Billie managed to get out of Dunwall and make a life for herself]] makes it even better.

** ''Brigmore Witches'' reveals that Daud and [[spoiler: Billie]] are still keeping in contact via letters.

* It's widely speculated that, Wallace, the JerkAss butler, told [[spoiler:Cecelia "not to come outside, due to her not receiving any bonus" in an attempt to save her life ]] knowing full well what was about to happen. Nice if true, though it raises the question of why he didn't make himself scarce as well.

* After taking care of Delilah, Daud receives a notification: [[spoiler:Target Rescued: Emily]].

* It's widely speculated that, Wallace, the JerkAss butler, told [[spoiler:Cecelia "not to come outside, due to her not receiving any bonus" in an attempt to save her life ]] knowing full well what was about to happen.

* In a Low-Chaos run of ''The Brigmore Witches'', if [[spoiler:Corvo spared Daud in the main game]], the last scene is Daud reverently laying his sword at the Empress's grave before leaving the city.

* It's widely speculated that, Wallace, the JerkAss butler, told [[spoiler:Cecelia "not to come outside, due to her not receiving any bonus" in an attempt to save her life ]] knowing full well what was about to happen.

** Even better for the PacifistRun Low Chaos route is the absence of a feeling that the various targets Corvo spares are "{{Karma Houdini}}s" (unlike, say the ones in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'')...well except maybe [[spoiler:Daud, it would've been nice to at least punish him somehow (like depowering or crippling him) instead of just "sending a message", but at least he's remorseful and may become someone more pivotal to the future of the setting in the coming DLC]].
*** But that's the entire point. There is ''no reason'' for [[spoiler:letting Daud live beyond the simple fact that Corvo is consciously choosing to let go of the desire for vengeance. If Daud was punished in some way, it could be explained as another case of CruelMercy and/or another form of revenge. At the time he has Daud at his mercy, Corvo doesn't have the ability to punish Daud beyond killing him, so his only choices are to either kill Daud or let him go. That's what makes walking away such a powerful choice that leaves even the Outsider speechless. There is only one way to make Daud pay for what he's done and Corvo chooses not to take it]].
*** Sparing [[spoiler: Daud]] is made even more powerful if you don't even alert him and just [[spoiler: pickpocket him]]. Look what he knows: All his men are absolutely loyal to him. So only one person could do it. Corvo, who have very good reason to hold a grudge. So, this one guy, who you expect to murder you on sight, got in ''without him or anyone else seeing him'', to point where he could stab you. Yet, what he does? Just [[spoiler: pickpockets you]] and leaves... once again, without anyone seeing him. ''Guy who you expect to kill you moment he sees you, just got in, got into position to kill you and decided not to do it''.

** "Daud, the Knife Of Dunwall, the man who murdered an empress....[[spoiler: the man who spared his betrayer's life.]]

** Even better for the PacifistRun Low Chaos route is the absence of a feeling that the various targets Corvo spares are "{{Karma Houdini}}s" (unlike, say the ones in BioShock2)...well except maybe [[spoiler:Daud, it would've been nice to at least punish him somehow (like depowering or crippling him) instead of just "sending a message", but at least he's remorseful and may become someone more pivotal to the future of the setting in the coming DLC]].

** Even better for the PacifistRun Low Chaos route is the absence of a feeling that the various targets Corvo spares are "KarmaHoudinis" (unlike, say the ones in BioShock2)...well except maybe [[spoiler:Daud, it would've been nice to at least punish him somehow (like depowering or crippling him) instead of just "sending a message", but at least he's remorseful and may become someone more pivotal to the future of the setting in the coming DLC]].

* From Knife Of Dunwall, "Billie [[spoiler: I forgive you...]]" The Outsider's reaction, [[spoiler:where he reveals that Billie managed to get out of Dunwall and make a life for herself]] makes it even better.

* For the non-lethal elimination of Timsh, you need to [[spoiler: utilize a plot cooked up by a former noble that Timsh wrongfully disgraced.]] Part of that plan is to make Timsh’s house smell like a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Weeper]] den. Remarkably, although rotting bodies and plagued rats are in plentiful supply, [[spoiler: the disgraced noble goes to great lengths to create the right stench without using plagued materials, out of concern for the guards and servants living in the Timsh estate.]] From what we see of Dunwall society, the Aristocrats are often criminally indifferent to the lower class, [[spoiler: and a noble who has nothing to lose should be even more reckless than normal. Yet not only did he delay his plan and put himself at risk, he also relinquishes an [[TheCorruption Outsider]] [[CompellingVoice Rune]] as payment to ensure that innocent bystanders won’t be hurt.]]
** It's dubly impressive if you remember that Outsider Runes compel most people who own them to become obsessively possessive. Willingly giving one away is ''not'' as easy as it sounds.

* It's widely speculated that, Wallace, the JerkAss butler, told [[spoiler:Lydia "not to come outside, due to her not receiving any bonus's" in an attempt to save her life ]] knowing full well what was about to happen.

** It's dubly impressive if you remember that Outsider Runes compel most people who own them to become obsessively possessive. Willingly giving one away is ''not'' as easy as it sounds.

* For the non-lethal elimination of Timsh, you need to [[spoiler: utilize a plot cooked up by a former noble that Timsh wrongfully disgraced.]] Part of that plan is to make Timsh’s house smell like a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Weeper]] den. Remarkably, although rotting bodies and plagued rats are in plentiful supply, [[spoiler: the disgraced noble goes to great lengths to create the right stench without using plagued materials, out of concern for the guards and servants living in the Timsh estate.]] From what we see of Dunwall society, the Aristocrats are often criminally indifferent to the lower class, [[spoiler: and a noble who has nothing to lose should be even more reckless than normal. Yet not only did he delay his plan and put himself at risk, he also relinquishes an [[TheCorruption Outsider]] [[CompellingVoice Rune]] as payment to ensure that innocent bystanders won’t be hurt.]]

** "Daud, the Knife Of Dunwall, the man who murdered an empress....[[spoiler: the man who spared his betrayer's life.]]

*** And it becomes even more heartwarming when he tethers away when you spare him. it's then that you realise that he could of escaped at any time, but chose to stay and either die or be forgiven.

* From Knife Of Dunwall, "Billie [[spoiler: I forgive you...]]" The Outsider's reaction, [[spoiler:where he reveals that Billie managed to get out of Dunwall and make a life for herself]] makes it even better.

* From Knife Of Dunwall, "Billie [[spoiler: I forgive you...]]"