Talk:Delilah Copperspoon/@comment-27202257-20130816061555/@comment-112.198.79.201-20130816141111

It's the typical villain lust for power and GIANT sense of entitlement. During her speech she also says something akin to 'Who gained power not by being born into it but by her own skill and intelligence alone!'. This leads me to believe that, like all the antagonists of Dishonored, Delilah is just another power hungry psycho who thinks she deserves power more than anyone else: It's the same logic Burrows, Campbell, Traevor, Martin and Havelock use. She thinks she desrves the throne and feels very much entitled to it despite being nothing but a power hungry witch: in essence she's nothing more than a child who throws a tantrum when she sees another kid with a better toy than her and demands that she wants it instead.

I was sort of disappointed at first, but I realized that was the point - You go all this way and expect to see this cunning and brilliant witch, but all you get is a child in a woman's body with delusions of being the next queen of the playground. This makes a nice contrast to both Corvo and Daud, especially if you play both in Low Chaos - Both are supernaturally empowered assassins who are in good positions to do the exact same thing the antagonists do, but they choose not to and, ultimately, have benevolent goals regardless of Chaos Level. This is especially poignant in Low Chaos where they refuse to succumb to the temptation of the Outsider's gift and take the hard path to situations just to spare lives. Power and its temptation seems to be Dishonored's main theme.