Emily/The Outsider
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| Pairing: | Emily Kaldwin/The Outsider |
| Alternative name(s): | Emsider |
| Gender category: | F/M |
| Fandom: | Dishonored |
| Canonical?: | No |
| Prevalence: | Uncommon |
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Emily Kaldwin/The Outsider is a ship in Dishonored fandom.
There is some discourse regarding this ship. Anti-Emsider fan claims include that one or both the characters are queer-coded and thus shouldn't be placed in a F/M ship, and/or that their ages make the ship pedophilic, and/or that the Outsider is abusive toward her in canon.
i'm going to say this really slowly, emsider. is. queer. erasure. Emsider shippers are homophobic and pretend not to be. emsider is toxic, ugly, borderline pedophilia, child abuse, child grooming. He. knew. her. as. a. child. THAT is wrong. It is wrong to take two queer characters and pair them in a stereotyped toxic het relationship.[1]
it's an undesputable fact that emsider is child grooming. she was ten years old when he gave her nightmares... that's NOT okay, traumatizing a child like that???[2]
Sample responses to these claims:
Emsider is not queer erasure, what the fuck does that even mean!? Emily is not confirmed to be anything, (though I’m sure she’s pansexual) and NEITHER is the Outsider. And also, if you’re a bisexual woman in a relationship with a man it’s not erasing you, you are still bisexual, vice versa. Your relationship status does not determine your sexuality.[3]
He’s four thousand years old and omniscient, petal. He knew them all as kids. And if speaking to someone underage constitutes grooming, I guess we better start funneling government funding into the prison system, because there’s a hell of a lot of teachers who’ve been wildin for years. Media containing immortal or ancient characters has existed since just about ever. I wonder if you rail so hard against Twilight or Dracula or a shitload of ancient mythology? I’m guessing not.[1]
she went through shit, she saw her mother die in front of her and then was kidnapped and kept hostage for six months in the golden cat, i think that’s really where the “nightmares” stem. But the fact that she once saw the Outsider and she told him to go away and it never happened again, wow so traumatic.[4]
Sample fanworks
- Toxic, GMV by Michelle
- Waste, fic by Hirvitank
- Waves, fic by OneWhoTurns
- a letter from addermire, art by Iron-Moon
Archives & Fannish Links
- "Emily Kaldwin/The Outsider (Dishonored)" tag on Archive Of Our Own
- Fics with "Emily K., the Outsider" pairing on FanFiction.Net
- #emsider on tumblr
- emsider on deviantART
References
- ^ a b Anonymous message to Charlie, February 2018
- ^ Anonymous message to Charlie, 2018
- ^ post by saintkaldwin, Jan 25 2018
- ^ reply by saintkaldwin, 2018