Why does billie have both her arms during the opening?

[Asbepis]

Did i miss something, its been a while since i played DH2 and i remember nothing about her getting her arm back. I thought the entire point of her character design with the void eye and arm was to replace her lost body parts?

[snake_angel_18]

Its complicated because of events in Dishonored 2. In Dishonored 2 she is missing her eye and arm until events in the Crack in the Slab mission. If Emily/Corvo knock Stilton out and stop him from attending the seance, it changes the timeline and Billie has her eye/arm back for the rest of the game.

In the first mission of Death of the Outsider, she has her Arm/Eye because of the changed timeline. However, the first part of the second mission the Outsider changes her state back to what is was before the changed timeline and gives her the Void arm and Prosthetic eye.

[Asbepis]

Originally posted by snake_angel_18:

Its complicated because of events in Dishonored 2. In Dishonored 2 she is missing her eye and arm until events in the Crack in the Slab mission. If Emily/Corvo knock Stilton out and stop him from attending the seance, it changes the timeline and Billie has her eye/arm back for the rest of the game.

In the first mission of Death of the Outsider, she has her Arm/Eye because of the changed timeline. However, the first part of the second mission the Outsider changes her state back to what is was before the changed timeline and gives her the Void arm and Prosthetic eye.

i completely forgot about that part of the mission. good memory my dude

[Zekiran]

I've played through D2 six times, and that specific mission like... 8 or 9, it's a brilliant mission with so many variables to it. The scenery changes and outside the mansion once you get back into the Dust district are all amazing. Well worth going back and seeing for yourself :)

[Stone Cold Jane Austen]

In summary, when Delilah's coven brought her back they severely damaged the connection between the void and reality in the region around the mansion. Billie was caught in this and ended up sort of being in two timelines at once. Hence her dreams about losing her arm and eye, because even though Corvo/Emily "fixed" most of the damage, it's still partially broken and leaking in the time of Death of the Outsider.

You can find a note (I forget where) about how Stilton's mansion staff keep quitting because there are still echoes of the tear in the void, causing disturbing hallucinations/visions to those nearby.

[Zekiran]

^^ That note's in the Conservatory, Ashworth wrote it. Also, you can see in some of the letters and notes in Stilton's manor (both sold and renovated versions) that there is still a rift of some kind in it.

[alenjenny]

Originally posted by snake_angel_18:

Its complicated because of events in Dishonored 2. In Dishonored 2 she is missing her eye and arm until events in the Crack in the Slab mission. If Emily/Corvo knock Stilton out and stop him from attending the seance, it changes the timeline and Billie has her eye/arm back for the rest of the game.

In the first mission of Death of the Outsider, she has her Arm/Eye because of the changed timeline. However, the first part of the second mission the Outsider changes her state back to what is was before the changed timeline and gives her the Void arm and Prosthetic eye.

Thank you for the explanation. I kept asking that myself

[alenjenny]

Originally posted by Stone Cold Jane Austen:

In summary, when Delilah's coven brought her back they severely damaged the connection between the void and reality in the region around the mansion. Billie was caught in this and ended up sort of being in two timelines at once. Hence her dreams about losing her arm and eye, because even though Corvo/Emily "fixed" most of the damage, it's still partially broken and leaking in the time of Death of the Outsider.

You can find a note (I forget where) about how Stilton's mansion staff keep quitting because there are still echoes of the tear in the void, causing disturbing hallucinations/visions to those nearby.

And thank you too for further elaboration!

[Shufflecat]

Because experiencing Billie getting her eye and arm back depends on you solving the "crack in the Slab" mission one specific way out of several possible ways, it's possible (and may even be common) to never see her get her eye and arm back at all in D2. That happened to me, so I was super confused when not only did DotO start that way, but it also never explained it.

I never found out what was up with that until I stumbled across it by accident while checking a walkthrough during my second D2 playthrough.

I can't help wondering how many other players had this experience. It's cool, but also it seems like weird and maybe bad design to have something like that gated behind an optional choice, with no indication that there was even anything there if you took a different choice (or, like me, didn't even realize that solution was an option).

[Grim]

Thank you for the explanation, it was very puzzling to me because I did not touch Stilton in D2, so I never saw the change in Billie.
Yes, they could have set this with a flashback or something, as D2 players didn't have the same experience and outcome.