Talk:Lonely Rat Boy/@comment-24029008-20140810130557/@comment-27202257-20140810175629

I feel like everyone the Outsider marks has this going on, in one way or another. Daud is the son of a woman taken as a slave who was himself kidnapped at an early age. Delilah had ambitions far and above her station, but was kept down by her social status. Granny Rags had similar desires to do more with her life, but had to contend with her husband's ideas on what she, as a woman, should and should not be doing. And of course there's Corvo, who becomes a casualty of political conniving and is himself an outcast, a foreigner in a very racist society.

That's probably why the Outsider's interested in Jessamine and Emily too, since they are people in power who don't abuse it, which almost seems like an anomaly.