For the music ask meme: a look into my rather eclectic Daud playlist
@uncontrol-freak @overseermartin @starsharks Thank you all for messaging! <3 As you all asked for Daud (what a surprise :D ) I'm replying to all of you in one post, I hope that's okay?
I think I mentioned it before somewhere but Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" - overplayed and Peaky-Blinders-ized as it is - is still my perfect pre-redemption Daud song
Gary Numan's "My Name is Ruin" is another staple on my playlist – the lyrics don't fit 100% but the self-loathing and the general vibes are spot-on
And because you can never go wrong with 80s Nick Cave when it comes to self-mythologizing and angsty antiheroes, there's "Up jumped the devil" ("I was doomed from the start/to play the villain's part")
I think I mentioned it before somewhere – "Blackfriar's Bridge" by The Men They Couldn't Hang Yes, this is a London song but also soo Dunwall. And I associate it very much with the working class view of the city we get in the Daud DLCs
And last but not least there's "Joy" by VNV Nation - It's one of my all-time favorute tracks and for some reason I tend to fall in love with characters that fit the song not the other way around lol
@uncontrol-freak I actually don't have a song for Thomas - just general vibes found in indie/folk/emo stuff from the 00s (I might have listened to a lot of Two Gallants while writing although they don't have a single song that 100% fits Thomas' character or motivations)
@starsharks same goes for the Whalers as a group - I don't have a specific song for them but I'm still on the lookout
Usually I'm a total playlist person (ask me about my aggrotech/electro Anakin Skywalker mix...) but the problem here is that most of my 30 track Dishonored playlist are either songs I originally researched for the revolution in Dunwall fic I'm probably never going to write, songs that just fit the general vibes of the setting, songs that are Corvo-specific (for some reason he's easier) or songs I stole from other people's DH playlists.
So clearly, I need to listen to more folk, indie or goth songs about guilt, murder and redemption – and I'm eternally thankful for recs!
