#Sacrifice in Cyberpunk

[captaingimpy]

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Review — welcome to the soul of Night city

Forgive me, I am on a cyberpunk kick right now, both the genre and the property itself. I’ve been watching a lot of movies in and around that, I hope you guys enjoy this and don’t mind my temporary madness. I’m currently playing my way through cyberpunk 2077 and whenever I finish it, I’m probably gonna talk about that at some point too.  Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is more than…

[cyb0rgv4mp1re]

There may be no happy endings in night city, but there’s happy endings in my word app, even if they don’t make sense!!!

[mail-me-a-snail]

v, v, v, and...v!?!? wanted to draw vance with some other v's for a while now so !

first pic is @swearingcactus 's little v, my beloved little alien enjoyer !!!

second is (left to right from vance) @dearly--bel0ved 's vicky, valerie, and veronica!!! the four v's are at it again :3

[the-binding-of-gekko]

my personal aesthetic is like Y2K so i'm trying to shop my photos to give that vibe (its why Sims 3 is my fav sims game cause it just REEKS of the year 2000, as does Sims 2)

but the editing is like damn. too much bloom. too much blur. too much green and blue. but everyone was so obsessed with putting HDR in everything those days (games, movies, whatever else i reckon they would have put it in BOOKS too if they figured out how to do that) so I think the uglier and less you can see, the more authentic it is.

[strnza]

eliza  cares  more  about  music  /  art  /  creation  than  she  does  about  anything  /  anyone  else.  sorry  bout  it  <3

[theelf-art]

Pro tip guys. Gazing upon the Sefirot and ascending to Keter to understand the fundamental nature of your reality will result in the loss of you arm and leg and also technically birth control implant. Anyways shoutout to my medtech Dr. Cinn who just went from Dr. House to Edward Elric in one session.

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

while i do think Kerry can be emotionally distant and closed off at times, especially when he feels slighted or hurt, i don’t see the new ending as evidence of that. He tries to listen to V and keeps getting interrupted, but he’s also in the middle of a tour (notoriously crazy busy at his fame level) and had also been (albeit accidentally) ghosted by V for two entire fucking years. And yet, he laughs with excitement hearing V is back, asks if he needs any monetary support, says he’ll see him right after the tour in four months. Is he busy? Yes. V would have known this getting into a relationship with Kerry. Musical artists have crazy tour times and then slower times off-tour. V himself was booked and busy himself with his job. Kerry literally seems like the ONLY one of the love interests in that ending where a chance at reigniting the relationship is even possible! I actually really like that ending because it shows him as he is: a vain, successful rockerboy who is a touch vapid and short attention spanned but honestly really caring and giving to those who he holds dear. While, you know— being a grown adult invested in his career with responsibilities and obligations he has beyond what was, though life changing, a few week romantic fling that, again, ghosted him for two entire calendar years.

[izercharo]

screw it. All 6 cades be upon ye!

also they are all chronologically ordered from top left being the first to bottom right being the last i guess this kinda counts as lore for Cade?

[another-corpo-rat]

Possibility

i love when an in-game gig gives me an idea that lets Vic be awful and fuck with a friends oc in tandem.

Wisteria belongs to the dear @wistereia 💕 i can't wait to write more of these two being lil shits together and to each other

Summary: Wisteria has a choice to make and there's a few factors not making it easy, Victoria's input certainly isn't helping Premise based on Gig: Talent Academy

It’s an effort to smile, like pulling lead with a fraying thread but – Wisteria manages it, manages something that appears genuine enough even if it certainly doesn’t feel it. An odd way to lie, one that she hasn’t quite mastered just yet. She expects Victoria will so graciously offer to help her sharpen that particular skill now that she’s noted it to be lacking.

But it works, and the little boy with cyberware too dense for his body and still not enough for the weight his parents are pressing on his shoulders smiles so brightly it makes her chest ache. Pearly whites on full display as his lips split with such a genuine joy, his eyes – still organic, but for how long? – almost wet with tears twinkle under the white overhead lights. Delighted and trusting.

Naïve, a venomous voice hisses, and she can’t distinguish if it’s her mother’s or Victoria’s for how they overlap. A harmony of both.

“Right kiddo, you run along so I can get that meeting set up okay?” Her muscles ache with the smile now and they falter minutely at his responding ‘okay!’ Still, she keeps it up until the door mutes the distinct light patter of the boy’s steps. The breath she releases when it drops is exhausted, unrelieved.

“Well,” Victoria croons over their line, “that was certainly a…very you approach.”

“What, were you expecting me to zero the kid?” She had meant it to be an extreme, an unthinkable thing – but her throat dries at the thought. What was unthinkable to her was likely little more than a day that ends with a y for the other.  

“No, but it perhaps would have been kinder.”

“I doubt that.” Wisteria says softly as she jacks into the terminal, both letting the silence settle and stew. And maybe this is another lesson, or another one of Victoria’s bullshit tactics, the silence sits heavy for her, settles onto her shoulders little by little as each second ticks by and the download bar crawls forward.

It’ll be fine.

They’ll actually get to be kids, get to run around and laugh and play sports because it’s fun, not because it’ll line someone else’s pockets. Not their parents and not some corp. It’s better for him, him and every other kid here—

“He’ll be fine.”

“Are you trying to convince me or yourself?” Something’s off in Victoria’s voice, a softness that borders on caring and she can’t tell if it’s supposed to be mocking or not. It sharpens the ache in her chest, has her press her lips together and nails clawing into the expensive wood of the desk.

“Just…let me get this over with.”

“Very well. Contact me when you’re done.” The call ends, the download bar finishes.

And the door to the office slides open, a two-bit corpo of a woman walking in with the still-beaming little boy at her heel. She can’t draw the smile again.

[meltingangelsmods]

💀 Casca's Brand of Sacrifice 💀

- Berserk -

💀 Tattoo Mod for Both Vs 💀

Hey chooms! Catching up with my Tumblr posts. Here's a tattoo mod I did; a request from a while back when I did Guts' brand of sacrifice during Halloween Month.

This is Casca's version, and I did two versions for Both Vs:

- Red Ink.

(Close to Canon's bloody scar)

- Black Ink.

Nexus Link (Casca): Casca's Brand for Both Vs

Nexus Link (Guts): Guts' Brand for Both Vs

[paisleycowboys]

I will be disappointed if phantom liberty gives us an actual happy ending. Dire consequences or nothing!!

[jaymber]

Helloooo, y'all!

Redownloaded the app, since I finished the dlc.

Thoughts on Phantom Liberty?

Con: fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou. CDProject, could you stop whitewashing my V for 5 seconds ?!

Pro: My ending is so much better than the DLC's. I'm so petty about it I'm in a writing mood again 😌

[luvwich]

- black steel [silverv ficlets] —

. day 6: sacrifice .

The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must master it." Genesis 4:6 She can feel him watching her now. Waiting for her to choose between his war and her life.

on ao3 ->

[vole-mon-amour]

After everything that has happened to Johnny, his body autonomy is such a huge and interesting topic for me. It should be WAY more present in the game.

In Phantom Liberty, they barely touched the surface of his military trauma and other traumatic events throughout his life, let alone Johnny losing his human arm and getting a prosthetic that sent him over the edge with cyberpsychosis and a messed up, traumatized psyche (as if it wasn't bad enough before that).

Cyberpunk 2077 is already such a great game, but it could have been an absolute masterpiece if they let us get through to Johnny and his trauma. V tells him he's a softie and Johnny replies with a "fuck you"—because how many people have been kind to him before that, really? How many people tried to genuinely understand him, especially since he pushed them away over and over again?

The game should have allowed the player to push through his "fuck you" that is actually a defensive mechanism, his awkwardness at being seen and exposed to those human feelings. The game should have allowed the player to help Johnny, to "Don't bullshit me, Johnny, I'm here for you whether you like it or not. Don't want me? Let's go talk to Kerry. Rogue is also an option, y'know?" (And judging by the way Johnny acts during a date with Rogue, and by him telling Rogue about V's death, Johnny still trusts Rogue enough and is, to a point, ready to be vulnerable and truthful with her.)

I mean, I'm sure Johnny and Kerry had many heart-to-heart conversations, but Johnny still built up a wall and pushed people away, even Kerry (his best friend, mind you).

And after the war? Drugs, alcohol, anything to drown the pain. The way he used sex to manipulate and to cope while he was also disassociating? I mean, he already has an arm he hates, that is still a foreign object, why not use his body, too?

You've heard this from me before and you'll hear this again: Johnny Silverhand deserved better. The Temperance ending remains the best canonical ending for me—he gets that second chance at life, to heal, to live. Even though he has to live in V's body, has to get used to it and that there's no V anymore, that the body fully belongs to him now. There's another question of body autonomy because Johnny's consciousness/the Relic overwrote itself on V's psyche, so technically he stole the body and killed V without meaning to. But then again, it was V's choice to give Johnny the body. It was V's choice to tell Johnny, "Don't fuck this up. Heal. Live for me to the fullest."

And so he tries, with his immense guilt and grief. He genuinely tries, otherwise V's sacrifice was for nothing. Otherwise it was only a waste.

Of course, in my head V is alive. Johnny gets his body back, his rehab, his healing—because's Johnny's actual body is so tired, is so used to every kind of poison, he NEEDS time to heal. It's going to be a process. It's going to take years. But it's important for him to get help.

But that's not canon. Canon is that Johnny is suffering all the fucking time, lying to himself that he's good, and then during events of Phantom Liberty and any kind of heart-to-heart with V it overwhelms him to the point of him holding back tears.

"I was totally ok with that, until now."

Yeah. Sure you were, darling.

Anyway. Body autonomy for Johnny Silverhand 2k25.

[californiannostalgia]

Things I noticed on my Pacific Rim rewatch:

1. Raleigh had his left arm ripped off while he was piloting the left hemisphere, then had his right arm and leg shredded while he was piloting the right hemisphere. Holy fuck he has been through it. His resilience and battle focus is enough to be recognized by Pentecost, whose solo Tokyo battle was three hours long.

2. Implied that Hercules Hansen was one of the OGs, like Cherno Alpha. Wonder what happened to his copilot before he began drifting with his son. Wonder what happened to the Jaeger he piloted before Striker Eureka.

3. Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift, but that just means he knows how to match with anyone, right? Wonder what that final drift was like in Chuck Hansen's head.

4. Tendo Choi is in command of the bridge when neither Pentecost nor Herc Hansen is present. I forgot that he reverts to Cantonese in stress situations, love these details.

5. I enjoy the bilinguals of this film. Also really interesting choice to focus on the western rim of the Pacific Ocean: Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, and a badass Marshal who strikes deals with the black market and literally anyone else who will fund the Jaeger program. We get to have industrial apocalypse, alien thriller, and cyberpunk in one film. (Side question: are the Americas' coastlines devastated?)

6. Mako's expressions are so. Agh. Her face shows what she's feeling with unshielded honesty (she feels so much, like Raleigh) but she carries herself like Pentecost: deliberate, controlled. Very much his student (daughter).

7. Newt and Hermann are obsessed with their scientific theories being right, even if it means the possible doom of humankind. Iconic Academics. Also they must be important enough to have helicopters on call, since they run out of one to get to the bridge in time for the final fight.

8. Final goodbyes between Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori.

9. Mako and Raleigh are two of many orphans who had no intention of surviving the war that took their families. Raleigh's last sacrifice was simultaneously the most selfless and selfish thing to do. Good for him to have survived, Mako would've found it hard to forgive him.

10. "Stop the clock."

[meltingangelsmods]

🌹💀 Halloween 2023 💀🌹

{ Day 19 }

Brand of Sacrifice

{ Neck + Hand Tattoos }

- Berserk -

Hey folks! I've been forgetting to post on here, so I'm catching up. Day 19 of my big Spooky Month project was some Brand of Sacrifice tattoos from Berserk.

I did Guts' brand, and then a bonus 'Griffith' one. Casca's brand has been requested, and will be happening soon!

There is 2 tattoos, both with 2 colour variations.

The tattoos are available for Both Vs, with these bodies:

- VTK body.

- Gymfiend body.

- Hyst bodies.

- KS UV bodies.

Nexus Link: There's no paradise for you to escape to...