Talk:Corvo Attano/@comment-69.246.167.10-20121014025152/@comment-27202257-20121101175323

"hugging the empress in a not-just-bodyguard way"

Whoa wait what? Where was this?

But yes, to reiterate what 8-bit Jack said, there's no reason to assume that because Corvo isn't an automaton around Jessamine and Emily, that means that he and Emily are biologically related. Recall, as has been brought up several times in these comments, that Jessamine chose Corvo to be her Royal Protector when she was twelve. That means they've been companions (and likely good friends) for the better part of two decades at least, and Emily has known Corvo her entire life. And yes, there is much evidence to suggest that Jessamine and Corvo are in love, and Emily views Corvo as a father figure.

None of that requires that biological material changes hands. Is it possible that Corvo is Emily's biological father? Certainly. But people are making a very cabbage-patch assumption that because Jessamine and Corvo are in love, the baby is his. Even if they were sleeping together around the time Emily was conceived, even that's no guarantee if Jessamine also had someone else (possibly a husband) that she was/was supposed to be sleeping with in a more legitimate sense. (Fun fact: one of the preferred forms of birth control in antiquity was legitimate pregnancy.)

I actually quite like the way that Arkane handled this. The evidence to suggest that Emily is Corvo's daughter is exactly as strong as the evidence to suggest he is not. That leaves it up to each player to draw their own conclusions, which I think is a lot more interesting.

P.S. In regard to the "if you won't marry my mother, would you marry me?" comment from Emily--haven't you ever heard a little kid ask their mom or dad to marry them? Since kids that age for the most part don't know what that entails, it's just their way of saying that they love their mom/dad very much. It's way cuter and way less serious that people are suggesting here.