#ignore these first few posts i'm trying to get an oc files tag going

[ssilverhand]

OC files: maleVolent

alias: V date of birth: unknown date of death: tbd affiliations: unknown the lore: no one knows where maleVolent originated... legend has it a rogue AI from beyond the blackwall slipped through a back door left open by the VDB and reanimated a zeroed cyberpsycho. if you get close enough – and live to tell the tale – you can see the scars left by maxtac bullets. possessed by the devil, also known as the engram of johnny silverhand, maleVolent roams night city in a klepped maxtac uniform, opening gates to the blackwall and shoving its victims through to meet a violent end of piercing, glitching screams and mutilated bodies. scavs, wraiths, maelstrom; the worst of the worst fear maleVolent's presence. children run from the ghostly herrera outlaw that can be seen pushing inhuman speeds on the streets at night, pursued by netwatch 'runners or arasaka hitmen whose bodies are later found charred to a crisp. the truth: maleVolent used to be human. an ex-arasaka counterintelligence specialist, the famed merc known only as V wandered night city in search of a cure for their terminal condition. V was dying, their brain being overwritten by the engram of johnny silverhand thanks to an experimental version of the relic biochip stolen from arasaka themselves. V was contracted to rescue the president of the NUSA from dogtown after the crash of space force one in the independent combat zone. it was later revealed this was a coordinated attack, plotted in secret between colonel kurt hansen and the president's personal netrunner, song so mi, in an effort to save so mi's own life. in pursuit of the netrunner, V encountered an abandoned bunker underneath pacifica where militech's project cynosure, their response to the relic, had been supposedly laid to rest. only, so mi's condition was deteriorating too; she'd reached past the blackwall too many times, and the hostile AIs she awakened were out for blood. little is known about what happened in the bunker; only that V went in, and something else came out. the question now stands: is V still in there? is johnny? or is the body they shared now puppeted by something far darker, something sinister that wants its brethren freed... and what is netwatch going to do about it?