History Characters / Dishonored2

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Her "Grim Alex" persona is a violent psychotic that spends her time smashing things up or gruesomely murdering people.]]

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: Duke Luca Abele may be an unrepentant asshole, but does feel some small sense of obligation toward Stilton out of loyalty to his deceased father. Should the Baron be spared from [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insanity]], Luca begrudgingly acquiesces to Stilton's pressures on miner rights and welfare.]]

* SelfMadeMan: Was lowly miner who worked hard to achieve his current status, and disdained by the upper-class for it.

* HourglassPlot: Invoked in the Grand Palace mission's non-lethal elimination. At the start of the missions, Duke Luca Abele sits on Karnaca's throne while Armando serves as the decoy and body double. [[spoiler: If the non-lethal solution is pursued, Armando sits on Karnaca's throne as the Duke while the real Duke Luca Abele gets thrown into the insane asylum as the presumed body double caught taking the role too seriously.]]

* MistakenForServant: In a bad way if the non-lethal solution is pursued. The body double convinces the guards that the double is the real Duke and the Duke is the decoy gone crazy.

* DumbIsGood: [[spoiler: If he is subjected to electrical lobotomy, a later report reveals that it made him a childlike simpleton who can barely remember how to use a doorknob, but his servants who now act as his caretakers report that he has become gentle because of the incident, and the Heart notes that he's actually perversely contented in this state.]]

** His existence is one of the most pivotal in the Dishonored series. [[spoiler:Emily saving him in ''A Crack in the Slab'' and preventing him from witnessing Delilah's ritual, paves the way for Billie Lurk becoming a LiminalBeing due to a temporal paradox, and that eventually leads to her being empowered by the Void to kill the Outsider]].

* MoralMyopia: The Howlers are definitely a threat to the Dust District but the vast majority of them are nothing more than common thieves while their leader only makes use of a single talisman. This despite the fact there's an entire coven of witches and a Duke serving a Witch Empress.

** He's also different to Lady Boyle from the first game, despite being TheDragon to the BigBad. Both use a BodyDouble to hide the real target, but their methods are very different. Lady Boyle and her two body doubles wear different coloured clothing ranging from red, black and white. Luca, on the other hand, only has one body double who looks ''and'' dressed exactly the same as him.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The Lord Regent Hiram Burrows from the first game was completely obsessed with order and tries to justify his tyranny with propaganda about serving the greater good. The Duke Luca Abele is a hedonist who barely tries to pretend that his tyranny has any purpose beyond lining his pockets and enabling the BigBad's schemes.

* ObviousBeta: InUniverse. Most of their dialogue indicates it's "test" dialogue, and Jindosh is constantly figuring out ways to improve them overall. There are also stories of noble-owned Clockwork Soldiers that have obviously not had all the bugs worked out. A lady who bought one had the soldier cut a family of burglars to shreds, but it also took out her gardener and left her lawn covered in dismembered corpses. A message handed out to the Grand Guard also indicates [[NoodleIncident there have been "incidents" that require specific instructions to avoid being repeated]].

* RichesToRags: Self inflicted. She lived in the same district as much of the minor nobility, right near the Grand Palace, but could no longer stomach living comfortably as the miners suffered. She left her life of relative luxury, and moved to the dust district to be near the people she helped. Downplayed if you [[spoiler: alter the timeline and prevent Aramis from going insane. Since then she is simply going from upper class living, to lower middle class living.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: If spoken to, she's critical for how Corvo and Emily have been paying no attention to Serkonos, content to let Luca Abele run the place as a tyrant so long as Dunwall kept getting silver.

* TemptingFate: He jokes with his men that if he doesn't return, he most likely accidentally locked himself in Emily's safe room. Turns out, Emily or Corvo can do just that.

* UnknownRival: Apparently ''really'' hated Emily and Corvo, but they have no idea. And no idea why.

* BenevolentBoss: He views the Howlers as his family and does want the best for them. He would be furious and swears vengeance if you killed anyone of his members in front of him.

* OneToMillionToOne: Paolo's void artifact causes him to dissolve into a swarm of white rats upon suffering a fatal blow, and he reforms back in his bedroom none the worse for wear. [[spoiler:It's the withered hand of Granny Rags, who also possessed this power.]]

* NiceGirl[=/=]NiceGuy: Whatever gender they are, they come off as decent and sweet in their letters to Emily.

* JackTheRipoff: [[spoiler: The Crown Killer/Grim Alex is a prolific serial killer with a penchant for dismembering and eating her victims, and she quickly becomes the subject of [[IfItBleedsItLeads sensationalized news reports]] across the Empire.]]

* DoomedByCanon: Regardless of whether a non-lethal approach was chosen or not, WordOfGod is that Jindosh is dead by the events of Death Of The Outsider.

** Somewhat lessened by WordOfGod confirming [[spoiler: Jindosh is dead by the events of Death of the Outsider]].

* IncompatibleOrientation: The Outsider mentions that had she married the man her parents tried to marry her to, she would have been miserable and eventually would have killed herself. It may not have been the only reason, but it definitely wouldn't have helped.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: If he replaces the real Duke on High Chaos, he will become as corrupt as real Duke.]]

* OpenSecret: If the player [[spoiler: chooses to have him replace the Duke]] on a low chaos playthrough, it is implied that people gradually realise that [[spoiler: he is not the real Duke]] but go along with him anyways because he is a much better option for Serkonos.

* ForWantOfANail:
** His existence is one of the most pivotal in the Dishonored series. [[spoiler:Emily saving him in ''A Crack in the Slab'' and preventing him from witnessing Delilah's ritual, paves the way for Billie Lurk becoming a LiminalBeing due to a temporal paradox, and that eventually leads to her being empowered by the Void to kill the Outsider]].
** More temporally, the loss of his mental well-being is what caused the Batista Mining District to crumble into a horrific ghetto beset by a turf war and known more pejoratively as the Dust District. Simply by konking him out in the past to prevent his directly attending the seance will prevent his mental breaking, allowing him to stay on the job as a BenevolentBoss mining magnate and causing an alternate present-time where the Batistia District is merely working class somewhat-rough neighborhood instead of a decaying ghetto, and the mines are run with miner well-being and sustainability in mind due to his ability to arm-twist the Duke into a modicum of fairness for the miners.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He was originally complicit in Delilah and the Duke's plans for a coup, but more out of self-preservation than actually believing in their cause. (Indeed, the Heart says that was why his mind shattered: he was the only one with doubt.) If the protagonist decides to save him in the past, Stilton joins the resistance movement and helps to depose the Duke.]]

[[folder:Dr. Vasco]]

Emily Kaldwin's lover. An ambiguously gendered noble who left the Dunwall before the coup. They are first mentioned in the novel ''[[Literature/DishonoredTheCorrodedMan The Corroded Man]]''.

* AmbiguousGender: Their gender is left unknown. This is intentional as per WordOfGod; Emily is bisexual and thus Wyman can be either a man or a woman according to the player's preference.