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• The Strength of Your Hands, and of Your Heart by AriAwe

  Fandoms: Dishonored (Video Games)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  06 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Corvo Attano/The Outsider
  • Corvo Attano
  • The Outsider (Dishonored)
  • Callista Curnow
  • Emily Kaldwin
  • Daud (Dishonored)
  • Low Chaos (Dishonored)
  • Low Chaos Corvo Attano
  • Void Gods
  • The Void
  • Depression
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Flashbacks
  • Panic Attacks
  • Selectively Mute Corvo Attano
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Torture
  • Aftermath of Torture
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Romance
  • Slow Burn
  • Not Canon Compliant - Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
  • Leviathan Outsider
  • Freeform

  Summary

  Corvo escaped Coldridge Prison broken and battered. With new power gifted to him by the Outsider, he has to try to stitch himself back together and save Emily and the Empire. The Outsider finds Corvo fascinating, and finds that for the first time in millennia, he might actually have a reason to care.

   

  Aka two soft bois slowly fall in love and don't realize it for the longest time.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,324

  Chapters:

  1/?

  Kudos:

  6

  Hits:

  43