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We all mutually agree the Canon ending of cyberpunk is V and Johnny both living because they get Johnny a body and V survives the chip being removed.

But do we all agree that everyone is freaked the fuck out by the fact Johnny and V copy each other without even realising it.

They'll both sit at the same time, they'll both prop their ankle on their knee at the same time, they'll both light a cig at the same time, laugh the same, smirk the same, drink the same, breathe the same.

And they don't even notice it.

But everyone else? Especially Kerry and Rogue? Freaked the fuck out, assuming it's a joke until Panem mentions it and they both reply, at the same time, 'no idea what your on about' and not even notice what they did.

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poked at the grave

'til it bared its bones

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This was supernatural. Unreal. Not human. A monster. For the first time in his life the detective was….scared.

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"Part of a bigger picture"

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The dots. I've connected them

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get yourself cleaned up

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i wouldve done tons of cocaine with you and kept you alive forever

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🦋 every single choice will affect your fate, and the fate of those around you 🦋

(redraw of these)

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Been playing so much cyberpunk over the last week or so that I had a vivid dream of an au where Jackie had the chip in his head as he died and somehow gets partially transferred onto it (I know game logic why is it doesn't work like that but shushhhhhh it's dream logic)

Anywho the dream was doing some fixer gig (I've finished all of them after a few nights marathoning through so I think the fixer ringtone haunts me now), for Padre that involved some guy harassing Mama Welles over some errands Jackie was supposed to do before he died and with this sort of V's greif for Jackie building into a rage over this guy.

I remember at a certain point when V caught up to this guy after chasing him through streets and markers etc and has him pinned to the ground when they have a relic glitch and see Jackie stood at a market stall staring at them both but more at Johnny fucking Silverhand in the (not) flesh .

Vs pretty shook up by it but assumes it's just a hallucination from the shard ripping thier brain apart till Johnny pipes up with a:

'who's the choom stalking you V he wants an autograph or something?'

V turns back to see stood behind them way too close is a still bloodied Jackie looking down at them

(cue that spot theme from into the spiderverse here iykyk)

'You see him too?!'

And the rest of the dream was sporadic moments of Jackie and Johnny arguing over how best to save V with Jackie initially wanting to fight Johnny in v's mind to stop the Engram from proceeding to override Vs brain .

That and oh commenting on little moments like his funeral and misty and his bike etc.

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There is nothing in Cyberpunk 2077 that suggests that Johnny Silverhand is 100% a liar or changing details in a way that would make the outlandish theories I see make sense.

1. CDPR adapted a TTRPG for their video game's narrative. Changes they made were made first and foremost for that purpose. While there are nods to canon that they don't use or changed, those are mostly easter eggs and not a grand conspiracy. Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot of intentional bread crumbing that people refuse to engage with but then turn around and Pepe Silvia for the sake of being edgy mostly.

2. On top of that, TTRPGs are made to be constantly adaptable for their table, which would at times include changing "canon."

I say this because if you refuse to engage with that, you can tap out. You're not gonna enjoy this and I don't want to argue with you. I'm just

✨️chit chatting✨️.

Anyway,

Johnny Silverhand becomes a polarizing figure to so many of y'all because you suffer from No Nuance disease. It's not an accident that Johnny is full of contradictions. It's not an accident that the story is full of people who both love Johnny and deeply resent him. That's the story!

To an extent, Alt, Rogue, & Kerry feel betrayed by Johnny because he was always going to do this.

"This" being cash in on a deathwish. If you yourself don't have a deathwish, then loving someone who does is immensely frustrating. Alt wasn't fucking around on the Net to the point of Arasaka noticing casually. Alt mirrors Johnny and would've done something revolutionary had NetWatch & Arasaka not figured her out & Arasaka weaponized her. Rogue doesn't (potentially) go down with you in the end for nostalgia's sake and doesn't go out in 2023 because Johnny's just her buddy. Rogue and Johnny share core beliefs. Rogue just didn't think dying would do any good and has no interest in being tortured by Arasaka or any other corpo or government agency (and I think it's reasonable to assume that after Johnny's death she did experience some of that, she didn't "sell out" for funsies after watching Johnny slip from her hands & Smasher stomp Johnny). Kerry is so fucking terrified of dying that he's living as a parody of himself and whatever the papers tell him to be if you never engage with him.

I see people argue back and forth about Johnny not really caring about stopping Arasaka and just wanting revenge for Alt, Johnny not really caring about Alt and just wanting to blow up Arasaka tower.

Hey, man, it can be both.

Johnny is physically and mentally disabled. He has a prosthetic arm, Arasaka brand, from a corporation that fuels the fucking war he found himself in and the dystopian hellscape he's struggling to navigate. Johnny knows first hand what this mass militarization means because he lived in it (and Adam Smasher is the anti-Johnny.) I don't know why it's a leap to think his guilt and grief over Alt might've been the final nail in the "If I'm going to do it, I need to be really sure it matters" coffin. For that grief and guilt on top of everything else to be the thing that makes him go, it has to be now. I have to try. I can't keep doing this.

The game itself confirms for you that JOHNNY WAS RIGHT ABOUT ARASAKA AND THE STATE OF NUSA! ABOUT THE WORLD! His rants are all factual. The writing he saw on the wall is now regular news bulletin. Like great writers of the cyberpunk genre, Johnny isn't a prophet but he is a guy who said, "this is what happens if we don't regulate, slow, or stop actions x, y, z by corporations, government entities, and rich people."

The thing Johnny is full of shit about is himself. The thing Johnny is full of shit about is that he can somehow want to save the world or die trying without risking hurting others or getting hurt himself. He's avoidant, violent, and terrified. The "narcissism," mean quips, and casually dehumanizing language is armor. And if you engage with Johnny, you see the mask slip a lot. He'll even take the mask off a few times (the sunglasses are so crucial to his characterization actually, such a symbol).

Cyberpunk 2077 has two large, sweeping themes that are most prevalent -

🔸️No individual can be big enough or woke enough or make a big enough spectacle to stop government and corporate sanctioned dystopia

🔸️the only thing you have is each other

and ALL OF IT is delivered in a wrapper of grief and loss.

Jackie doesn't die just to hurt your feelings. Jackie dies so that you and Johnny are on the same playing field. Lazarus and Orpheus.

Obsessing over an imagined central theme of "actually it was all Morgan Blackhand because on reddit Mike Pondsmith said" is just... I don't think you like Cyberpunk 2077. I don't think you processed a single thing in it. I'm not yucking your yum if that's fun for you to think about (I have my own means of putting Blackhand in a microwave) but this kind of... militant obsession with an alternate history in a game so full of its own stuff is brainrot.

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A colored doodle of my V

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hello oxenfree community. i have more content for you :3

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Wyll Ravengard Cyberpunk2077 AU

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may i offer you some of the dishonored/cyberpunk’77 stuff that still isn’t leaving me in peace? i’m not sure where this is all going but at least it feels nice to daydream about

(please use the # martyfive dhc77 to see the other post about them if you’re interested thankss)

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Shooters gotta shoot so while everyone loves Lee as much as I do please please please check out Dirk Gently, an amazing mystery, almost- fantasy show with such good plot and characters and strangeness (very dbd vibes) with Lee playing a queer Romeo and Juliet coded prince in the second season

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