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Tear Jerker / Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

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  • The Outsider's backstory. He was just another orphaned kid on the streets, who was eventually taken in by the cultists and converted against his will.
  • The end of the game if you spare the Outsider. His form is released from the altar he was sacrificed on, and the blackness retreats from his eyes. For the first time, you hear his voice, undistorted by the Void, and he sounds so tired, too tired to even be thankful. His eyes have seen generations of good and bad, and Robin Lord Taylor's performance conveys so many emotions in just a few words.
    • If you play the game's title straight and kill the Outsider, Billie at the end, concludes that despite having been swept up in the Outsider's and the Void's machinations, she's still but a murderer.
  • During the Stolen Archive Mission, Billie has the option to help a woman find a man who hadn't returned from a nearby building. The man, Lonnie, is the woman's lover and had gone to retrieve something from said building. When you try to reach the place where Lonnie had gone to, you find a group of Overseers about to bust in and arrest him. You can knock or kill them, only to find that you were too late; Lonnie had died before you could save him and the reason he was breaking and entering? He wanted to get a ring, a ring a friend left for him to propose to the woman who gave you that mission. One, you can find out later turned out to be pregnant, which was why she stayed behind. All Billie (and by proxy, the player) could say is utter a small, heartbreaking: "No."
  • In this game, we find out that after Delilah had been removed, all her coven-mates lost all their powers from the Void. Many were captured and tortured, horrifically by the Abbey, with few escaping to find themselves scraping for work and coin, eking a living down the streets. Although they were quite bloodthirsty and cruel in Dishonored 2, most of them turned to Delilah because she offered them power and a place to belong. One former witch even lamented to Billie that "the world has no place for women like us".
  • Daud's death. He passed away, alone, with only Billie's best whiskey for company. For a legendary assassin, his end came quietly and with a whisper, a rare gift for his kind. This is made even more heartbreaking when you find his spirit in the Void, wishing for his mother and lamenting that he could not find her there.

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