#ask:eddie

[ruvviks]

i don't really know your ocs yet BUT i do love hearing random facts about people's characters so! please tell us some funy facts about them :3c

THANK YOUUU i have. i have so many guys LMAO i will yell about the cyberpunk clown brigade >:^) here's all of them for you. a quick introduction

and some more facts about them under the cut!!

vincent's dad is from the south and while vincent's accent has been mostly transformed into whatever night city's accent is his roots will sometimes be very much audible. vitali can perfectly mimic his southern accent which is even funnier

a lot of them have had a crush on mikhail at some point. mikhail has had a crush on several of his friends as well at some point. he's still single now

thibault and eddie have a cooking channel together :^) they both love to cook and their videos are super helpful and like. actually cheap and easy meals. and TASTY meals. and they're funny as fuck together

cato loves pink. so much. who cares about having to stay out of sight as a merc she's dressed up in at least one [1] hot pink piece of clothing at all times you cannot change this about her

lauren used to go to college with vitali she was one year below him and she Knows about his. uh. reputation. in college. he fucked around and found out a Lot let's keep it at that for now which is really funny considering lauren works for him now

cato and thibault are insane when they're together they cannot be stopped. they're besties they're worsties they're wanted dead or alive in six countries they would set each other's car on fire they would blow up the whole city for each other they're married they're divorced they're enemies of the state. don't get me started on what happens when you throw vincent in there. don't let those three do gigs together

people used to call vitali "v" when he was younger as well. this becomes interesting when vincent comes around and everyone calls him "v" instead. it's fine they've learned to live with it

vincent and vitali are t4t also and that's very important to my brain. night city's sexiest and most powerful couple fr

[ruvviks]

failure, ghost and monster for vincent, cato and eddie 👀👀

oc asks!

FAILURE: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

to cato herself, her greatest failure is not realizing one of her squadmates was betraying kang tao. she still believes she should've seen it somehow because then kang tao wouldn't have had to hunt her and the rest of the squad down at all; to her it feels like she let down the rest of her squad, her friends, and they're all most likely dead now because of it

she hasn't been able to let go of any of it yet and mostly doesn't talk to people about any of it either, not wanting to bother them with it. she does eventually end up asking vitali for more help, which he of course is more than willing to do

GHOST: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

cato is still haunted by her old squadmates from kang tao and it will probably take another while before she will be able to let them go. she still often finds herself thinking of a funny remark to say in response to something that one of them would've liked, or ends up buying lunch for herself and one of her squadmates completely on autopilot when in the store. it's been years at this point but because she's never allowed herself to fully work through any of it, they're still a pretty big part of her life even when she doesn't fully realize this herself

MONSTER: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

cato is not monstrous in any way. her alignment with kang tao could be seen as monstrous by some but all she ever wanted to do was to be able to provide security to people who needed it; nothing more, nothing less

FAILURE: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

eddie doesn't really have any big failures in his life. some people could say that his failed marriage is one, but to eddie it's not necessarily all that failed since they're still on speaking terms with their ex and they have shared custody of their daughter

GHOST: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

eddie isn't much of an overthinker but his way into the mercenary life is still something that haunts him a little bit. i still haven't gotten the detes of the situation down entirely but he had never killed anyone before that and then suddenly found himself with a dead body at his feet and while he acted entirely out of self defense and it was unavoidable, he can't get it out of his head

MONSTER: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

eddie is also not monstrous at all they're a sweetheart <3

FAILURE: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

to vincent, his greatest failure is allowing t-bug and jackie to die. he still blames himself for their deaths and feels like it could've all been so easily prevented and he will never stop beating himself up for it

he also sees him losing contact with his siblings as a failure because he misses them a lot :( he wouldn't know how to get back in touch with them and thus hasn't done that yet, but there's something i got planned for the timeline that will get him back with his family soon enough >:^)

GHOST: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

vincent is still haunted by the memories of t-bug and jackie, but he's also haunted by johnny in a way. he still has the man's voice in his head, and it's definitely not johnny anymore but it feels like it's him to vincent. his friends would definitely be aware of that but it's very difficult to talk to him about it because he doesn't want to hear about the possibility of it not being johnny; he's scared of the voice going away and the silence in his head can be so overwhelming at times

MONSTER: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

vincent often thinks of himself as a monster because of several of his friends being dead and he blames himself for it, but really he is a little guy. look at him. that's not a monster that's a sweet little angel boy with crippling anxiety. he needs a nap

[ruvviks]

for the ask game. :)

🤥 + 📖

thank you so much!!! i'll answer these for cato and eddie because i wanna talk about them >:D

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

cato is an excellent liar but she pretends that she's not >:] comes in very handy because people think they know she sucks at lying but in reality she's AMAZING at it so it works even better now and nobody will suspect a thing <3

only her closest friends know about this which makes them a bit more wary sometimes but cato is still good enough for them to believe her, but she also just. rarely lies to her friends actually. if she Does then it's usually about something silly. she likes lying to strangers though it's one of her favorite pastimes

📖 OPEN BOOK - do they like reading? what's their favorite genre?

cato mostly reads comic books! she doesn't like reading all that much so she enjoys having pictures to look at :D she also likes short stories and mainly likes horror when it comes to a genre

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

eddie isn't Great at lying but he also doesn't Suck at it. he's mainly just very good at smaller lies but as soon as it's more Serious he's suddenly struggling a lot more which is understandable honestly SGJDHGDFJ it's why he doesn't do a lot of undercover jobs for vitali <3

he mainly gets very nervous when he has to lie so people can very easily catch on to it by looking at his body language. he also sometimes starts stumbling over his own words and it all tends to get worse the longer he has to lie

📖 OPEN BOOK - do they like reading? what's their favorite genre?

eddie will read pretty much anything tbh as long as he can get lost in the story. he reads a lot between jobs or when waiting on something or someone and really needs the story to help pass the time <3 as soon as his brain zooms out he'll drop a book and pick up a new one

oc asks!

[ruvviks]

may i request some fun fact about each of the mercenary ocs <3 and also can i hold cato and laurens hands <3

OOGH THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK AND HELL YEA TO BOTH OF THOSE >:)) i'll put it under a read more because. well. there's so many of them LMFAO but enjoy <3

so these mercenaries are all part of vitali's inner merc circle, he has a LOT of mercs that stop by his office for gigs and whatnot but these are the Regulars so to say :) including vincent and mikhail of course but you guys know them by now LOL, all of them together make The Clown Brigade but i couldn't fit all their names on my banner </3

cato is a melee merc, mostly doing courier gigs and cargo transport gigs for vitali. she is clever, energetic and forgiving. she's a very fun person to be around and her friends mean the world to her, and she would do pretty much anything for them

cato used to work at the same independent security organization as mikhail and they were in the same squad together, until they got a job offer from kang tao; cato and the rest of their squad accepted, but mikhail declined, and he ended up working for arasaka instead. one of cato's squad members stayed in touch with him and leaked a lot of kang tao secrets to him; when kang tao found out, they killed him, and the rest of the squad had to be dealt with as well. ever since, cato has been on the run from kang tao, with a newfound hatred for pretty much every megacorporation out there

she found out about vitali through their shared hatred for arasaka and began working for him. naturally, it was quite the shock to her to find mikhail there as well. she was angry with him, rightfully so, but eventually forgave him for what he did, no longer wanting to dwell on the past, knowing how short life can be and wanting to enjoy it as much as possible

nowadays, cato is around the office a lot. since she mostly does courier work, she has a pretty steady routine since she moves down the same routes every week; whenever she has nothing to do, she can be found hanging around the office, talking to anyone who wants to listen

eddie is a heavy merc, mostly doing cargo transport gigs and class 3 gigs for vitali. he is charming, insightful and rational. he's very kind and a real family man, always putting his daughter and ex-husband first and his job second

eddie used to be a bouncer at a club. it was a pretty regular job and not much exciting stuff happened, until he at some point decided to intervene when some shady business was starting to turn sour. he got caught up in the drama somehow, resulting into him getting sucked into the mercenary world; he managed to wrestle his way out of it, but came out a changed man, and he continuously got sucked back in whenever certain people would turn up, resulting into him occasionally doing a gig or two

at the same time he fell in love, with one of the other bouncers at the club. they ended up getting married and even adopted a daughter together- after which eddie quit his job and stopped taking the occasional gigs, so he could become a stay-at-home father. unfortunately, their relationship didn't last, and they ended up getting divorced; still, eddie has a good relationship with his ex-husband (and ex-husband's new girlfriend), and they have shared custody of their daughter

eddie picked up the merc life again after his divorce, and found a stable job at vitali's office. because of his history with security and his intimidating looks, he does a lot of class 3 gigs for him; heavy gigs, often directly concerning megacorporations, stuff only mercs who know what they're doing can handle. he mostly does these with mikhail and shiro, but occasionally another merc or outsider will jump in to help

huxley is a heavy merc, mostly doing class 2 assassination gigs and escort gigs for vitali. she is disciplined, loyal and witty. nobody is entirely sure how she ended up in vitali's inner circle, but on god is she there and she is not leaving

i haven't written all that much yet for huxley, but what i do know is that she didn't always live in night city. she only recently made her way here, and has mostly just been insanely confused about how fucked up the place is. she would've already been knee deep into the mercenary life; this place is just a new chapter for her, and she's managed to find a nice job at vitali's office

she never meant to stick around as long as she did; sure, the pay was good, but she knew nobody there while everyone else did seem to know each other, and felt like an outsider a bit. however, after witnessing some of the batshit insane things the rest of the gang does at the office, she decided to just join in on some conversations, and quickly learned it was very easy to make new friends there. she decided to stick around just a little longer, "just to see what would happen"; and she's still there as we speak

huxley mostly focuses on class 2 assassination gigs, having a very neutral attitude towards killing and not being afraid to use the necessary force to get a job done

lauren is a ranged merc, mostly doing netrunning gigs and infiltration gigs for vitali. she is efficient, reliable and straightforward. while some would say she's a little quiet, once you really get to know her she'll show her true colors as an incredibly fun woman to be around

lauren knows vitali from their college years; she was a year below him, but knew about his existence because 1) he was a troublemaker and 2) he was known for, um, having worked his way through most of the non-straight guys from his year and the years above him. they never spoke, but lauren sometimes wishes they would have

all she wanted was a quiet office job somewhere- not at a megacorporation, though- but shit hit the fan like it does in night city and she tumbled head-first into the wonderful world of netrunning. she mostly did gigs for wakako, and this is how she ended up meeting t-bug. t-bug was a friend of vitali's at the time, and soon introduced lauren to him; needless to say, lauren was shocked to see vitali again, and when she was offered a gig she obviously couldn't say no

nowadays, lauren does mostly netrunning work for vitali, which is basically a thing in most his gigs so she works on anything from class 1 all the way to class 3, wherever she's needed. she gets assigned to a lot of the same jobs as cato, and the two of them end up falling in love at some point; though it takes some time for them to actually start talking to each other, because for the longest time they both believed the other didn't like them because they were convinced they did not share any interests whatsoever

shiro is a stealth merc, mostly doing class 3 gigs and infiltration gigs for vitali. he is clear-headed, honest and intuitive. probably one of the oldest people at the office, but still young at heart, and he hangs out with the rest of them a lot even though they're much younger

shiro used to work for arasaka as well, at their security division. he was mostly a background kind of guy, not too interested in talking to others and he spent most of his time carefully observing; this is why he would know a lot of information, and he would also already know of mikhail's existence for example, having seen him around when mikhail still worked there as well

much like vitali, shiro ended up getting screwed over by the megacorporation and he got fired, leaving him with pretty much nothing, around the same time vitali was fired as well. this is why he easily found him, and was one of the first mercs to start working for him; back then, vitali also still did a lot of gigs himself, so he would work with shiro and mikhail to get shit done and that's how he ended up very quickly making a name for himself because they were essentially unstoppable

shiro takes it a bit easier nowadays, taking a gig every once in a while and filling the rest of his time with doing paperwork or helping out the security division at vitali's office. he also likes to sit around and talk to people, now that he's finally found people he enjoys being around

thibault is a stealth merc, mostly doing infiltration gigs and class 2 assassination gigs for vitali. he is helpful, practical and quick-witted. he's a little silly and would be considered the office jester by many, but has proven time after time he's as deadly as the rest of them

thibault used to be a doll at clouds and met mikhail when mikhail had just quit his job at the independent security organization he used to work for. mikhail helped thibault get out of the place and move into a nice little apartment, and thibault latched onto him very quickly. they grew pretty close in the span of only a few months, but then mikhail started working for arasaka and thibault felt a bit betrayed by him, having an immense hatred for megacorporations himself

when mikhail then also reunited with vitali, he suddenly wasn't there for thibault anymore, almost entirely disappearing out of his life; thibault felt horrible about this and ended up having to fend for himself again, which he did successfully, but he still felt bad about how things had gone

he ended up falling into the mercenary life after he was caught stealing some food in the grocery store and got fined for it, despite literally not having any money at all. he still wanted to take down clouds as well, and was kind of looking for other mercs who would be willing to help him with it; though most of them only worked with him on gigs out of necessity, because their fixer told them to do it, and thibault did not trust any of them. he ended up burning through a lot of fixers until he found vitali, and he stuck around because of the good pay, but was also very surprised to see mikhail there

thibault wanted to be pissed at him, but couldn't stay mad for too long now that he was, in mikhail's words, licking the same boot (vitali's boot) mikhail had been licking for years now and thibault figured that was a fair judgement

nowadays, thibault uses his skills to infiltrate and assassinate, a quick and powerful force not to be reckoned with. he even gets what he wanted to do; together with vincent, judy and mikhail he takes down clouds, and helps rebuild it from the ground up to be a safe space for everyone who used to work there