#cyberpunk 2077 is allowing me to explore just how completely fucked up Zoe can be without her fallout family

[ronqueesha]

A youtube reaction channel I like watched "The Fly" this month, and it got me thinking about blorbo thoughts.

It occurred to me, that if Sarit had been a little more careful with her experiments, she might not have gone on the run from the United Colonies authorities. She would not have tried to lay low in a small independent mining operation on Vectera, and she would not have stumbled across the artifacts and the galaxy-spanning adventure that opened her eyes to so many new things.

A Sarit who did not accidentally fall into the greatest adventure in the galaxy would have ended up a lot like Jeff Goldblum's character in The Fly. Not so much with the gross body horror stuff, but with his ego and narcissism. His self-centeredness and intellect overcoming his basic humanity.

Well... maybe a little gross body horror stuff. Sarit without a found family to give her love and support, as well as her deep bond and eventual marriage with Andreja, would have allowed her obsessive madness to continue unchecked. More parts of her organic body would have been cut out and disposed of, replaced by perfect and efficient machines that would ensure she never had to suffer with a broken body again.

Rather than how Cyberpunk generally keeps it mechanical augmentations in a basic human form, I could see Sarit not caring about retaining the original shape of the human body she dislikes so much. She would be obsessed with efficiency and the full capabilities of technology melded with her mind. I could see her looking more and more like a Warhammer tech priest the longer she was allowed to let this go on.

(art by Nictanova)

All that being said, however. Sarit isn't nearly as practiced as a Warhammer tech priest or a Cyberpunk ripperdoc when it comes to replacing body parts with machines. She's just a mad scientist with a spooky lair with robot assistants. It's very likely that a Sarit who never when on this life-changing journey with her Constellation family would have simply died on her own operating table after one operation too many.