Talk:Emily Kaldwin/@comment-5639367-20121025200028

How about we draw on the nature of mankind, quick to judge, quick to assume, quick to gossip? Whether or not Corvo is Emily's father is not inheritently the issue, but rather that because the people see Corvo so close to Jessamine, they naturally assume that they are sleeping together. People have always been such terrible gossips, this game is no exception.

Now, for all we know, they could be related, but that again is irrelevant. What matters more is that the course of the game is designed as Corvo protecting Emily and avenging the Empress' death, avenging his own dishonor. Now the lengths that he is willing to go to do these things proves that he is a devout protector, and Emily's shifting mood throughout the game depending on the chaos level you evoke shows that the bond between the two of them is a powerful thing not to be reckoned with. It just shows that regardless of how they are related, he is the closest and only person that she has to a father and they need each other.