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Dreamers, they never learn

Beyond the point, of no return

Then it's too late, the damage is done

This goes beyond me, beyond you

- Daydreaming // Radiohead

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what a ghostly scene...

Cyberpunk 2077 / Wuthering Heights / my tears ricochet / Never Fade Away

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i love "A is oblivious, B is madly in love" trope when it's funny

v: omg johnny recently has been so nice to me. now we're definitely besties

johnny: *bashing his head on the wall, screaming, crying, throwing up, whining to kerry and rogue how he's done every trick in the book, but v wouldn't get the hint*

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DISSOCIATION

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take my whole life too

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rogue: johnny's idea of a romantic date is blowing up arasaka's hq

so, Don't Fear The Reaper? the ending that is only available if you have a specific type of relationship with Johnny? the one that you achieve only after V and Johnny bare their souls to each other willingly? say no more cdpr👍

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“Know what? You’re startin’ to remind me of me, fifty years back. Minus the charisma… and impressive cock.”

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Another reason to cry about the Temperance ending: Johnny feels like V is still out there somewhere.

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My absolute favorite official Cyberpunk 2077 art from CDPR is this piece by Łukasz Poller

Not just for the old school Edward Hopper style and Syd Mead vibes that's used, but just because there's something very simple and easy about it. I feel like the plot moves so fast that it never seems like V can catch a break within the story. But in this piece, they're just chilling, shooting the shit, like it's a lazy day in. The air looks still, the conversation seems lazy. V's not even dressed.

I can't even explain it. Guess there's just something comforting about the world as you know it crumbling around you and still being able to find a moment to breathe during it.

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he lives in my head rent free (literally)

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silverv is so Ship of All Time. no one’s ever been in love like us. wish that things were different but it never could have happened any other way. no one’s ever known another person like us. can’t live with you but how will i go on without you. don’t make me say it but we both know it’s true.

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johnny silverhand. johnny silverhand and his relationship with v. johnny silverhand and the fact that v is the catalyst for his growth as a character. v makes johnny better.

i haven't talked about johnny or silverv at length yet and this isn't going to be that post but their relationship is something i turn over in my hands like a rubix cube with regular frequency. it's so multifaceted.

thinking about the fact that johnny wakes up in a world that moved on without him. he realises his efforts amounted to nothing. that line, that only the diehards know johnny silverhand's name- he faded into obscurity. he's a direct foil to v's character and their thirst for fame. for the want to be known and recognised. johnny is its consequences.

thinking of johnny realising the other shoe has dropped. he cares about v. cares about them beyond a means to an end. that he's too little, too late, again, but he's trying, trying to be better, to get help. to keep v from dying because he thinks of himself as a cancer.

thinking of others reacting to the fact v trusts johnny. the way the narrative enforces the sense that, at that point in time, no character knows johnny like v does. even rogue. rogue accuses johnny of manipulating v, says he must've had his claws in deep and doesn't believe anyone could ever think johnny worthy enough of a second chance because deep down, she doesn't think so either. nobody will accept that johnny might have changed.

except v. v, who pushes johnny to be better, more understanding and empathetic, through actions johnny wouldn't have committed himself. johnny watches what it's like to be a good person through the eyes of someone he, arguably, grows to love, and attempts to mimic it.

johnny lives in memory of v, in the temperance ending. he wears their face. he doesn't want to forget them. he reads literature about the preservation of the soul and immortality and he hopes that somehow when he talks to himself v can hear him. that in the back of his mind v is there, a role reversal he never grows comfortable with. he doesn't know how v stood it.

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“Still feel a sharp somethin’ near your heart.”

“Doubt that’s ever goin’ away.”

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silverv makes for such a tragic love story im surprised it didn't blow up with the gays. like can you imagine, can you imagine coming back from the dead after 50 years to find yourself stuck in the body of somebody who is dying because of you. you're trying to help them figure out how to get rid of you before it's too late and along that path you get to know each other so intimately from sharing memories and a body. and it's not really your fault but you are an intruder here, you are a parasite actively killing them but they're nice to you and care about you anyway. and you care about them. but you know that inevitably you will either take over their body or be removed. you can't both be alive at the same time for long. can you imagine realizing that you're falling in love with them

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Johnny

Absolute heartbreak.

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part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside