#47 my beloved

[elamimax]

"dressing up and barking and howling like a puppy, 47? Risky, but clever. Let's see how this pans out."

[lobotomy-jpeg]

I once again am extremely predictable in my choice of dynamics.

[Id: Sketch of Diana and 47, dancing during the Farewell mission. Diana is looking up at 47, whose face is obscured, with a small smile. /End id.]

[kanga-moroo]

THEY SAID THE TITLE THEY SAID THE TITLE

[mj-slenderman]

Just started the most recent malevolent welcome back Yorick 🥰

[h20]

calm down, handsome jack pregnancy pillow

[crackshipoftheweek]

Crack Ship of the Week back again with another post! (After nearly an entire month) Lately I've been working a lot of 10+ hour shifts at my current job, along with helping out at my family's restaurant, updating my résumé, and searching for other jobs to advance my culinary career, so I've been really busy, sorry for not posting in quite a while. On the plus side, I've managed to network with some industry professionals higher up the ladder, and I was recently contracted by a personal chef agency!

Without further ado, let's bring out

This Week's Crackship:

Party Poison (Danger Days) × Johnny Silverhand (Cyberpunk)

Ship Name(s):

Poison Hand, Dim Mak (see notes below for explanation), Rockerboys, Ronin (see notes below for explanation)

Why It's Crack:

No interactions (separate canons)

Why It's Cracked:

Canons share many similarities. Both are cyberpunk series set in an alternate universe California in the near future (now partially set in the near past, as well), following a war or series of wars that negatively impacted the United States' geopolitical power, costing it territory that would be filled in by an independent city-state (Battery City in Danger Days, and Night City in Cyberpunk) and the resultant power vacuum being filled in by megacorporations (Better Living Industries in Danger Days and Arasaka in Cyberpunk. Like Arasaka, Better Living also seems to be a multinational corporation with at least some notable amount of presence in Japan, hence Better Living having had a .jp domain during the Danger Days album's promotional period, as well as using both English and Japanese writing in much of its content). Crossover potential abounds

Both fill very similar niches in their respective stories (renegade rockers who rebel against corporate overreach with the power of punk rock, and occasionally this gun they found. They both became the exemplar of their respective series' spin on the "rebel with a cause" archetype [Killjoys in Danger Days, and Rockerboys in Cyberpunk])

Both lived and operated in similar timeframes, not taking into account Johnny's engram whom stars in Cyberpunk 2077. Party was active in the 2010s up until his death in 2019, and Johnny was active throughout the 2000s up until his death in 2023)

Both may also be war veterans (Johnny is a confirmed war veteran who deserted the US Military in protest of the government's corruption and purposeful destabilization of Central and South America. Party Poison may have been one of the many Killjoys to take part in the Analog Wars, though this isn't confirmed iirc)

Both died a similar death, to somewhat similar people, for similar reasons. Both raided the main HQ of their respective antagonistic megacorps in order to rescue an abducted loved one (surrogate little sister "The Girl" in Party's case, and former lover Alt Cunningham in Johnny's case), during which they were brutally gunned down by their corporate foes' bald and sociopathic enforcer (Korse and Adam Smasher, respectively)

Both dye their hair. Party Poison's hair is dyed red (natural color unknown afaik), and Johnny Silverhand dyes his hair black, with it being naturally blond.

Notes

"Dim Mak", also known as "Poison Hand" or "Touch of Death" is a purported system of acupressure-based martial arts said to have originated in ancient China and been culturally imported to Japan. Count Juan Raphael Dante, an eccentric martial arts practitioner who taught karate in the 60s and 70s, also claimed to be able to teach Dim Mak to prospective students, infamously advertising this alleged service in the back page ad spaces in Marvel comic books of the time. This likely was seen at times by Gerard Way, an avid comic fan, as he titled one of the songs in the wider Danger Days multimedia project as Black Dragon Fighting Society, which shares an identical name with the martial arts organization founded by Count Dante. "Dim Mak" is also the name of a record label founded by Steve Aoki, who made a remix of the famous My Chemical Romance song "Welcome to the Black Parade". This fact is also relevant to the ship as Dim Mak distributes punk rock music, with punk rock being the primary genre performed by both Party Poison and Johnny Silverhand.

"Ronin" was chosen a ship name due to their shared status as outlaw warriors, similar to (but generally less shitty towards bystanders than) the ronin of Sengoku and early Edo-period Japan. Party is an outlaw vigilante who fights against BLI, whereas Johnny is a former US soldier who deserted and fled prosecution by moving to Night City. In addition, this name was chosen in reference to Johnny's band, Samurai. Keanu Reeves, who portrays Johnny in Cyberpunk 2077, also starred in the 2013 American remake of The 47 Ronin (unfortunately)

[antisocialshoe]

So we all agree that diana made him that sweater right? That ducky pattern says it all

[twinsunsintatooine]

cannot believe gerard is 47 today happy birthday you glorious glorious king

[forestmossling]

so. i was rereading this absolute masterpiece for the billionth time today. day 47 is literally one of my two most favorite fics of all time (and i’ve read a LOT of them) and i’m pretty sure another two or three rereads of it and i’ll be able to recount the plot in chronological order by the days the author describes.

i probably need a little more mental capacity to write an entire review of its own this work deserves, so for now i’ll just say that if you love daredevil, angst and hurt/comfort, you should DEFINITELY check this work out if you haven’t yet. i don’t even have the necessary numbers in my phone to rate it properly.

but! this is not the reason i have gathered all of you here today. so i’ve been looking through this author’s other works and noticed (again) that they have 9-1-1 fics, which i couldn’t fully appreciate when i first found day 47 and started going through their other fics. but now that i’m in 9-1-1 fandom, i decided that i have to go through them.

and let me tell you, what i found did not disappoint me.

i remember thinking, several times throughout reading this, like, “how could this have happened in real life?” and then i remembered that this did not, in fact, happen in real life. but i have to say that the premise of 9-1-1 falling apart into pieces and histeria because they think buck painfully died in a tragic fire, thinking they all hate him, while buck, very much alive, goes on a self-rediscovering trip, making his way downtown, walking fast… too-doo-doo-too-doo-doo-doo or whatever was absolutely diabolical to me. the author didn’t have to go that hard, but they did, and i respect and appreciate that immensely.

i really loved seeing the 118’s transformation after buck’s presumed death here, the way we got to see all of them processing what happened in their own way. loved the attention paid to athena and their relationship with buck here too, because i feel like its potential often gets overlooked in favor of bobby. the team’s reflection on their pre- and post-lawsuit relationships with buck and eddie’s, just, straight-up suffering were very caringly thought-out and i loved getting immersed in them.

also, congrats to buck for getting to live my childhood and teenage dream of getting to know how everyone you know would react to your death without actually dying. happy for him, but not from the bottom of my heart.

overall, the holy trinity of miscommunication, angst and hurt/comfort strikes once again, and it strikes real good. even though the fic is still not finished, i really think it’s worth checking out. 86936425365689767766/10, am recommending.

also, here are a few bits that made me giggle, if you still aren’t sold (beware spoilers)

[elamimax]

Welcome to Florida, 47,

I may have mislead you on this one. There is no target. However, I've taken the liberty to acquire for you a 6 day all access pass to Disney World. I hope you have a wonderful time :)

[kutiekirby]

TW: BLOOD

𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢 𝚘 𝚞. :)

[mileena--kahnumm]

Hitman Contracts (2004)

[kuroyinu]

In my head he was yelling at me and blaming me for what happened with Getaway. (MTMTE#50)

[3leafstem]

We Have Our Favourites

Day 47 of 100 Days of Deathduo; from rat server

[mercurialmagic]

sometimes a bitch just needs to listen to shinee’s entire 2008 debut album front to back and feel things

[valleys-lily]

Corr is like a bird in a gale. We're moving and all directions feel possible.

I don't know what I am right now, but it's not afraid.

Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed.

We're giants, on his back. We are flying.