The way Jessamine is mostly remembered in a vague, depersonalized way, less of a person and more of a symbol, a tiny fragment of her soul still lingering in the world with Corvo being the only person to listen and to hear her thoughts as he was the only person who truly knew her in life, and the way Corvo is a mere shadow of himself during the events of the game even to the people who claim to be his friends, because the masked personification of death to their enemies with no opinion or ambition of his own is all they care about. Corvo might have survived and avoided execution, but both Jessamine and him are ghosts, their past selves remained at the gazebo and now they haunt the ones who wronged them and even the people who claim to act on their behalf, as something else entirely.
