Out of ideas

write fanfic that three people in the world will read, because those three people are going to be fucking pleased that it exists

And so are you. You’re going to love writing for your beloveds and a community of ‘only’ four is still a community. Write that stuff damn it, and thrive!

I think dishonored rats deserve the reputation of "weird animals existing on the border between the supernatural and the mundane" as much as whales do. Rats are so small they do not care for this distinction between the void and the real world, they crawl in and out of their passages and there's no place they cannot reach. I love that rats are one of the animal types Corvo can possess to reach the most inaccessible areas. It fits so well. You gain their ability to dig holes through reality like it's a block of cheese.