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COIN FLIP [a Phantom Liberty AU ft. Johnny Silverhand]

What if the coin flipped? What if a revived Johnny Silverhand found himself running out of options to get V back from cyberspace? What if the old Relic lodged in his head landed Songbird's gig in his lap instead of V's? What if she promised him redemption?

-> ch.02 // WHALE FALL

Rating: Mature/18+ -> canon-typical violence, themes, etc

Pairing: SilverV, OC Fem V/Johnny

Disclaimers:

- This is an AU rewrite of Phantom Liberty. It is riddled with spoilers from the base content as well as the DLC.

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not to start any fires, but I sorta kinda view V and Johnny as cyberpunk's own version of Yennefer and Geralt. you see, sure, there are romance options in these games. but there's also a correct one, with every road leading down to it

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I feel like there's something very intimate about the idea of V not getting any operation, not going forward with Mikoshi, but letting Johnny slowly override him and kill him.

After weeks of fighting, when he stops, Johnny's the one begging him to do something. To get up, to go kill a cyberpsycho or something, just get up, V, please.

He doesn't understand. V wanted to live, become a legend, but he wasn't fighting for it. For the chance at a few more months, so why won't he fight for it? C'mon, call Johnny a parasite again, just do something.

And he doesn't. It's the same old tasks, scavenge enough eddies to keep a place to live and food. Have Vik check up on him every so often. He doesn't fight.

That pained, loopy way V looks at him feels like a stab in the chest. He doesn't want to die, no, but he knows it'll happen eventually so what's the point of going anywhere for anything when Johnny will take over for him. He wants him to. What's the point of his body if it's not used?

V just wants him close when it's finally done. He might've been there in Mikoshi, waving him off, but that place is cold. The ice baths hurt and he wants to be warm when everything goes away.

He wants to be warm. And he wants Johnny to be there every second. It'll hurt. God, it'll fuckin hurt. But he can't stand the idea of someone doin it for him. He's not putting a bullet in his head, just static fading into the background till he's gone.

Johnny will take his place, and V can only hope that he'll do good by him.

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i totally didn’t wanna hear this before going to bed and get hit with the Desperate need to clip and convert it so anyways have this (Prince is incoming in just a sec <3)

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A manatee rescue that I follow responded to a call about a female manatee with two calves because one of her babies had been injured by a boat strike. The entire family was temporarily relocated from the wild into a wildlife rehab facility for the injured male calf to undergo treatment. While there, vets noted the female calf was significantly larger than the little injured male. They did genetic testing and determined that big sister calf actually wasn’t related to the other two manatees at all! She was in fact an orphan calf that the adult manatee had found and taken in to care for right alongside her own little one.

Wild to think this manatee calf was literally adopted and nobody would have ever known if it weren’t for random coincidence and human curiosity. Every animal that you cross paths with in life has a fascinating personal story that you’ll only ever catch a glimpse of (if you’re lucky).

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drawing this while i've been delirious with the worst cold of my life has been...an experience

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If Johnny Silverhand not romanceable then why Rollercoaster date

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Learned a new thing Thinking of making a few more and turning it into a throw blanket for a chair or something 🤷🏻 my instagram

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Stay hydrated.

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I know it’s 2020 but Merlin AU where Uther notices a bunch of problems that could only be solved by magic ~spontaneously~ getting solved around Arthur, and concludes that this must be a side effect of Arthur only existing due to magical intervention. An intense bigotry-versus-parental-love internal conflict commences, followed by some that’s-pretty-hypocritcal-of-you-isn’t-it-dad screaming external conflict, generally upending everything. Merlin is standing in the corner the entire time holding a serving jug of mead and sweating.

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I had completely forgotten about this plot point.

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One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

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River Harkness brought up in the cold, grows into a man in the darkness of a cellar with only a candle for warmth, where pain is a lesson and a gift and scars replace mothers kisses on injuries. River Harkness sent to be a double agent, to keep an eye on the man who could ruin everything, to become that mans son so that he loves him too much to suspect the truth of why Isobel keeps River throughout the year. River Harkness is sent as a little boy and knows this may be a man he one day has to shoot, to murder but he's a little boy and his Grandmother presses a kiss to his knee when he hurts it and his Grandfather teaches him by the fire. River Cartwright becomes comfortable and familiar and someone he likes being and someone who doesn't want to kill the people he loves. Someone who unquestionably loves both of his families.

Then on a walk one day Jonathan Cartwright asks his grandson to shoot him if he ever gets too old, too sick and where River Cartwright struggles and wrestles with it River Harkness can make both of his fathers proud when that day comes.

River Harkness who has been brought up on preventative measures, on the ideology of stopping things before they get bad and putting rabid dogs down before they can do harm. River Cartwright who was brought up on garden picnics and fireside wisdom and compassion but both are sons of their fathers and both are unquestionably loyal.

River Harkness points the gun and River Cartwright pulls the trigger.

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The three types of blond spies:

Agent Twilight - very competent, very lucky

River Cartwright - competent, very unlucky

Alex Rider - competent, insanely lucky

This is old art which im not the most proud of, but i might as well post it.

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river cartwright's entire existence makes my head hurt sometimes, because he’s a posh english nepo baby, he’s also an american and probably french?? (unclear), he’s great at his job, he’ll make the dumbest mistake at the very same job, he’ll kick your ass, he’s gonna get his ass kicked, he's sad, he’s pathetic, he’s a brat, he wants to be special, he grew up wanting to follow his grandfather's footsteps in mi5, he was conceived to be part of mercenary-for-hire murder cult

and somehow slough house is NOT a fantasy series

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He's a highly trained MI5 spy. He's also a fucking idiot. He's bisexual. He has mother issues. He has father issues. He digs around in trash. He has no sense of self preservation. He ran around on a broken leg for half a season and then got blown up by a grenade. He speaks French. He's a journalist. He has fumbled bomb threats on two separate occassions. He has more head injuries then you can count. He's a freak for pain. He's been in a situationship with his rival for 10 years. He throws up when he sees blood. His mom was in a cult. His dad was the leader of said cult. He is permanently having the worst day of his life. He has the saddest, wettest eyes known to man.

I didn't say his name, but he popped into your head, didn't he?

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“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).