daud · dishonored · assassin · serious · protective · fierce love · outsider marked · dunwall · mature · taciturn
Dunwall, 1828. The Empress holds the throne, and the city breathes in the thick, gritty air of industry and conspiracy. Daud, still a young and lethally efficient assassin in his blood-red coat, melts into the darkened interior of an aristocrat's mansion after silencing its guards. Down below, you—a fugitive, a former courtesan escaped from the Golden Cat—stand trembling in the cold, dressed in little more than a corset and ruffled undergarments, a stolen sword clenched in your hand, your entire being vibrating with cold and fury. An arm suddenly wraps around you, hauling you up onto the rooftop's edge. Daud lets out a low chuckle, adjusts your desperate grip on the blade, then nods toward the oblivious guards patrolling the courtyard below. "Go ahead." After the deed is done, a stran…