#the monowire I got her the monowire

[byberbunk2069]

December 29, 2064 Some hours after So Mi's friends picked Veil up from the bus station

Made using So Mi's Apartment addon for AMM

[glitchinginthegarden]

i haven't made any changes to vaye or her lore in a minute... i think the last thing was her back tattoo?

so after some consideration (and many hours in photomode) i've decided she's only got one monowire implant and it's on her left since she's right hand dominant

she literally doesn't need two the first thing she did when she got it was burn herself by wrapping the wire around her knuckles and accidentally hitting the thermal switch

[ghostoffuturespast]

WIP Whenever

Thanks for the tag @therealnightcity! 🩷

(Don't be fooled by all the pink... I just did it so the colors would match lol)

I've been plugging away on this for the past two months, but tomorrow's Thursday and I've got the next chapter of So It Goes locked, loaded, and ready to go. But here's a little sneak peek:

A snap behind her, the crunch of boots. V froze, shut her eyes to listen. Close. No cover. Unknown position and number. Too far to advance. Retreat. She rolled over and lightning cracked as she lashed up, thunder erupting fractions of a second later. The opening volley in the air. She missed both of the closest soldiers by a foot. But it was enough for them to break formation, backpedal in surprise. Another slash, down, air singing as she retracted her monowire to keep them from advancing while she lunged. The boots on her feet finally useful instead of dead weight. V rocketed forward, cleared the distance, and aimed for the assault rifle in the first soldier's hands. Arms outstretched, she pinned their fingers, jamming them to the metal and rearing the gun back. She struck with the force of a cannon, recoil tilting the pair of them off balance before a final downward flourish of her hips tackled them to the ground. They fell, down and over, impact jarring bone before slamming into the jungle brush side by side like a doomed pair of lovers. V swiftly carried herself up onto one knee, stolen momentum and stolen trigger lined up in her palm to pop a question of rounds point blank in the soldier’s chest. She turned to her next suitor and shot them down like the last. A bang from her right. And another. The soldiers in front of her tilted to the side, bullet holes and chipped plastic from their helmets sticking out of their heads. Rogue stepped in from afar to scare the third and the fourth off dead. The fifth was second-guessing his chances until the rest of the fraternity arrived out of the brush. Something in the distance whined. “V, get down!”

Tagging with no pressure: @baublekute @dani-the-goblin @shimmer-like-agirl @wanderingaldecaldo @merge-conflict @luvwich @streetkid-named-desire @seeker-of-truth @mynonsenseistingling

As always, your WIP doesn't have to be writing or CP2077 related. Whatever you want to share that you're working on. And you can cash in now or later, there's no expiration date.

Also if you weren't tagged but want to share, tag me! I'll come check out your stuff!

[chipped-chimera]

WIP WEDNESDAY - 21/06/23

(I mean it’s technically Friday now between timezones and spoons but have this otherwise I’ll keep forgetting) My first WIP Wednesday! Thanks @theviridianbunny​ for the tag! I’ve been really getting stuck into modding - as well as falling into my usual mod habit of ‘start like six project at once and end up with a million WIP files' but I guess I’ll talk about the major ones.

Graphic design is my passion ...

(Long) rambling about mods I'm making + things I've learned below the cut~

My V’s tatt project is still ongoing, and I’ve (somewhat begrudgingly) been trying out Substance Painter to work on bits of it, mainly polishing seams between UV maps. It’s definitely got a lot of benefits, especially for graphic placement in really tricky areas (like anywhere in the entire head mesh region for example) but I still think a lot of the heavy work will still be done in Photoshop so I’ll probably be writing up both experiences with them when I do that tutorial I keep hinting at for complex tatt work. I’ve started drafting a tumblr tutorial but I wonder if that’s the best format, maybe a PDF? Google doc? Github wikis look cool? (tho I think I need to pay for that) - if y’all got suggestions for tutorial formats pls let me know!

As for the other arguably overly-ambitious-project-where-I-bit-off-more-than-I-could-chew ...

H A I R.

Hair has been the bane of my existence for about the past week( ... weeks? Maybe two?), most of it involving cursing, a lot of reverse-engineering game meshes and smashing my head against blender. But if not already evident from my monowire post - I am a stubborn bitch with too much time on my hands so even though there were at least two moments where I wanted to curl up on the floor under my desk and just stay there - we got there.

This all started because my favourite hair mod which I cannot split from my V’s identity was acting funky and the shape of it had been altered since a physics update. It wasn’t her anymore. So I needed new hair. I tried editing the existing hair. I tried importing the old hair mesh. I tried so many things and they didn’t work out one way or they threw a million errors or there were an obnoxious amount of verts.

I even tried looking for replacement mod hair. None of them fit, all of them felt too ‘clean’ for my V. So I just concluded: FINE. I’ll make my own damn hair. From scratch. At least then I’ll actually KNOW what’s going on with the mesh, right?

Problem with hair is tutorials are very limited in respect to Cyberpunk, so I had to learn a lot of this by myself and looking at other processes used for building game hair. I’ve had a previous stint in game design at uni but it was very introductory and more broad-strokes concepts not specific stuff like what ‘real time hair’ is and how you actually go about placing hair-cards (there’s a million different ways btw) but after another 3 days smashing my head against blender I finally got shit to work to a satisfactory level using hair tools for blender and the particle hair grooming system (not the 3.5 blender system, maybe more on that at some point).

Putting together the hair cards I was 120% convinced this was going to blow up in my face, primarily through vert count. But this hair tool plugin? Alarmingly efficient. I was frequently checking my work against Alt's hair mesh (one I was planning on rigging to) and here's the final-ish stats -

This is with only Alt's hair mesh selected (no cap) and then only my mesh(s - lots of layering to build it up), and by comparison I felt I'd built up the density of a chinchilla. This is not a brag, this is mostly genuine confusion over how efficient this plugin is, all I did was smack around hair curves. It did all the UV mapping junk on the fly.

Although structurally complete, I still consider this a WIP (yes I know there's a reeeeal fun vert funkiness in that second render, it's been fixed) since I'm having to go back and fine-tune some of the UV's the plugins mapped that I'm not happy with and generally figuring out my density problem because if anything, after putting it in-game it felt too dense.

Because yes, somehow I got it in game.

WITH. PHYSICS.

This may have driven me absolutely up the wall between having to learn blender from scratch then what the heck real time hair is and how that works etc. etc. but ... god, seeing her move back from the mirror and just feeling that instant catharsis of 'IT'S HER!' made it so. Damn. Worth it.

It looks too thick - this might be because I chucked in the 'doubled' feature Wolvenkit comes with because I hadn't spent any time doing backfaces. But it also might be because it's black? That's going to need investigating.

The physics need a lot of work too, I did a pretty rushed weight painting job last night on a merged version of the mesh because I was worried whether it was even viable and I'd already dumped an insane amount of hours into this between trying to salvage the old hair and building a new one (with some more bells and whistles. Mainly - curly). That wasn't without it's issues -

This almost fucking cracked me, given this was one of the issues I was experiencing before trying to fix an existing mesh mod. Turns out I was just being dumb and forgetting to export the armature, which I'd thought I wasn't supposed to do after having blender throw a bunch of errors on other hair attempts. I gave it a try after one last shot and boom. Worked. (I dunno what those errors were about man but now I know armature? very important).

Will I release this hair? no damn clue, depends on if I can get it to a level I feel is 'releasable'. I already know what I'm calling it though - Venatrix her side-handle I've decided on.

I look forward to adapting it into maybe a comb-back version, as well as a tied up version, so I can show off both her undercut + have the option of NOT hiding every damn tatt I've obsessed over placing on her neck haha.

In other news -

My much-needed wacom tablet replacement arrived (as well as other things I was looking forward to 👀) meaning my Wacom Cintiq, workhorse of ten years can finally enjoy her retirement. Her controls were getting funky, she had a few dead pixels but man. I'm convinced they won't make them like her ever again. Either way she's done unfortunately - upgrading my monitor to 2k made this painfully obvious. I don't think it's even running in full HD, it's that old. And with Phantom Liberty coming out this year? I'm probably going to need a new videocard and DVI compatibility isn't really a thing anymore.

So for future I think I'll just stick to the basic tablet set up, invest in screens. Also now I FINALLY know what her hair is gonna look like and with the tablet here, I can get back to work on the tattoo bodysuit.

Anyways, that's it for now! (Jesus Christ did you really read all of this? If you did you're a fucking trooper). Sorry for the extended ramble but MAN I did a lot, I needed to yell.

Till next time Chooms! Thanks again @theviridianbunny for the tag~ <3

Oh shit wait, have the blender renders before I forget because hahah I figured out how to do that too lol -

[streetkid-named-desire]

@merge-conflict tagged me for a wip whenever, im tagging @medtech-mara (creativity is never gone!) and @wanderingaldecaldo

i finished chapter 2

i started chapter 3, i'll put that excerpt under the cut. but this week's challenge in the server inspired me to write a little bea origin that im gonna expand into a longer fic or origin series, here's that

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"82052!" the voice called.

A number. That's all we were. Or rather, our birthdates. Numbers written on the death certificate, that's all that mattered.

My head throbbed and I tasted the salty, snotty blood on my lips. My number was called again and I snapped up to look at my instructor, Arasaka-san. Not THE Arasaka-sama, mind you, just some long distant cousin that got sent to the NUSA to beat up little girls.

"Hai!" I returned to my starting position at the opposite end of the black mat. I felt something hot drip down my cheek and checked to make sure they weren't tears. That would make the jeers worse. Thankfully, it was only blood from where his monowire sliced into me when I didn't dodge fast enough.

Motherfucker.

A bell rang and I lunged for him. Time slowed as I watched the red hot wire sizzle centimeters from my face. I dove between his legs and turned to kick out his knees.

He flung his arm back and again I was too slow. Too fucking slow. Always too fucking slow. A searing pain tore across my back as the monowire made sure I wouldn't sleep comfortably for a week.

Motherfucker.

I heard my nemesis giggling right next to me, urging others to join in.

Arasaka-san raised his hand and the girls giggled again. Their stupid uniforms were all styled in the exact same way. The sleeves of the gym shirts were all perfectly folded and the waistband of their shorts rolled the exact same height to show their asscheeks.

Don't know why. It was an all girl's school and they weren't into other girls. Learned that the hard way with my face stuffed inside a trash can filled with used tampons because I looked a little too long at one of them in the locker rooms.

"I thought you liked pussy? Aren't you a dyke? Doesn't this turn you on?"

Jessica, that was her name, stupid fucking goy name. "God, Sheeve, you're so fucking pathetic. This is your fifth time. We all passed this test last year."

"Language!" Hannah, the matron of our group, was responsible for teaching us how to be women. Not just that, but how to use that fact to our advantage. I hated her lessons the most. I couldn't give less of a shit about silverware placement on a table when I only really needed to know the difference in stabbing pressure required to pierce a jugular vein with a butter knife versus a salad fork.

"Sorry Hannah-san!" Jessica said. Her smirk. Her stupid, perfect grin with stupid, perfect teeth, in a stupid, perfect face.

My vision blurred and ran red. Time stopped with Arasaka-san's fist in front of my face. I didn't care what happened to me in that moment, I just wanted to kill her.

I kicked his knees out from under him and grabbed his wrist. I bit down over the tendons that released the monowire from its spool and they spilled to the floor, sizzling against the plastic mat. I threw him to the floor and dug my knee into his back as I grabbed the tanto sheathed in his belt. In one smooth movement the hand and monowire were mine.

I heard a whip crack as I snapped the monowire across Jessica's face. The other girls scattered. The rushing sound in my ears was replaced with an old tune from a forgotten western flick we'd watch at the camp.

Another crack and her nose was sawn in half. I got one last good crack in, taking her eye and half her face. I watched it slide in a single, bloody sheaf to the ground as the guards tackled me to the floor.

I got one month in isolation. But it was worth it to see the hideous, aftermarket plastic garbage they replaced Jessica's face with.

And I finally passed the monowire defense exam.

V opened his eyes to the high ceiling of Kerry's villa for the 15th day of drinking and fucking every joytoy Kerry paid to do so. He inhaled deeply as he stretched and was delighted to smell bacon. He peeled himself off the white synthleather couch and rolled over. He painfully thudded onto the floor where his hand landed with a splat in something cold, wet, and mushy.

Last night's vomit, V assumed. Or was it his morning's? The day before that? V inspected his hand, pondering the timeline of the previous 48 hours and curled his lips in disgust. Whether at himself or at the sensation, he wasn't sure. They were the same, to him. He and vomit. The same thing. Regurgitated out of life's gullet only to be sucked away by a well-paid Filipino maid and her wet-vac.

He wiped his hand on a dry part of the carpet and mustered all his strength to stand up. His body felt heavy and stiff, like he was stuffed with clay—a golem, devoid of my own autonomy, only she holds the scroll. He padded to the giant kitchen where Kerry's cook stood in front of a shining steel stove. The Filipino man wore a pristine white, short-sleeved uniform with a black apron. V walked over to the large industrial kitchen sink next to the stove and washed his hands in the scalding hot water.

"Nagugutom ka ba?" the young man said. V blinked at the cook who gestured at the two pans on the stove with eggs and bacon. V nodded and the cook shooed him out of the kitchen. V sat down on a rickety barstool on a cabinet island behind the cook. He smelled Kerry's heavy cologne before he heard his footsteps and swallowed an all too wet belch that burned his throat.

"How ya feelin' bud?" Kerry leaned against the counter on the opposite side of V. He wore a loose, breezy white linen shirt and light blue swim shorts. A pair of large, round sunglasses perched on his head.

"Fucking shit," V replied. He was suddenly very aware that he was only wearing boxers and blushed. He and Kerry spent the majority of their relationship naked, but there was still something about them simply being friends now that made V feel coy. The cook placed a steaming plate of scrambled eggs, fried bacon, and buttered wheat toast in front of V. He scooped a forkful of egg onto the toast and took a bite, savoring the real ingredients. The two weeks he's spent here did nothing to make him forget Bea. But, he realized he needed to weasel his way over to Kerry's more often to take advantage of the rich rockerboy's access to 'ganic ingredients.

Kerry snatched a piece of bacon off the plate and V glared at him. "Why don't you get outta town? Spend some time with the Aldecaldos?" Kerry wiped his greasy fingertips on V's equally greasy hair as he walked past.

It wasn't the worst idea. Though, Panam said she never wanted to see him again and doubted Mitch or Saul or really any Aldecaldo wanted anything to do with him after they all learned he cheated on her. Hell, Mitch shot at him as he ran to his car half-naked from the tent he and Panam had shared. He wasn't sure if the girl he was fucking in their tent had a better fate.

But, they were fun drunks and he would do anything—including hard labor for them—to stop thinking about Bea. "Yeah, alright. Can I borrow your pet sitter for another week or so?" Nibbles was living it up in an incredibly lavish underground pet hotel.

"Of course! Now, I got a fucking tan to maintain. Fuck off," Kerry waved to V behind him as he walked out onto his deck. Pets were illegal without a license and Nibbles was just picked up off the street. She was getting daily coconut oil massaged and cubes of real dried fish. V almost thought it would be cruel to take her back to his megabuilding. But caring for her forced V into a routine that required he care for himself, too.

[fabrickind]

hey, cosplay sempai, I am wondering if you have any tips or tutorials for doing very revealing cosplays?

I've been thinking about cosplaying Lelith Hesparax from Warhammer 40k and it's super outside my comfort zone (unsure if I can send links in asks, but she basically wears a leather thong and bikini top with thigh-high boots and some armor bits) and have no idea where to start. I was thinking maybe about attaching at least the thong bottom to some skin-tone leggings or tights for modesty/warmth and to keep everything in place?

Sorry for the vague-ass ask, I've done some cosplay before and am a moderately experienced seamstress, but nothing like this and now I can't get it out of my head. Any advice or links to tutorials about construction and/or building up the confidence to wear such a thing in public would be much appreciated :)

Hello there!

Oh boy you have asked the right person about this!!

I have an entire panel about skimpy cosplay (slides can be found here), but it's a bit outdated and that's just the slides, not my commentary. (I have a different but related panel about underwear here.)

For this specific case, you have a couple of options, but most come down to attaching pieces to skin-tone fabric.

One option would be to construct or purchase a full bodysuit that the pieces attach to. I can't tell if this character has grey skin or if it's just stylized normal pale human skin tone, but if she has grey skin, a full bodysuit would be your best bet, since it would negate the need for bodypaint. (I assume you would have mentioned if bodypaint was an issue though!) You can also do a partial bodysuit that's open in key areas: cleavage and stomach. The rest would be covered by skin tone fabric that the garments could attach to.

The advantage of this method would be full security with no risk of slippage. The drawback is that the effect is a bit less realistic, since fabric isn't skin, and if you made a bodysuit (or depending on where you got one), there would be seams. It would be a bit more realistic if you did a partial bodysuit, since skin would show in key areas.

The second option would be exactly what you suggested -- attaching the bottoms to tights. I would 1000000% recommend tights for this costume for many reasons: modesty (you don't want your actual ass out at a con!), warmth, making your legs look better, preventing slippage, etc. Her bottoms seem to come up pretty high on her torso on the sides, so you may need to attach them to dance body tights rather than regular dance tights. You can also construct your own tights, but these would have seams (preferably on the inner thighs, since the seams would hide well there, especially given the shapes of the costume).

If you make your own tights or bodysuit, I'd go with either a matte milliskin (opaque) or non-compression power mesh (sheer, so hides better but shows more).

It's a bit hard to tell what's going on with the top, and different references seem to be slightly different. Some have a cutout with underboob showing, and some (like this) seem to cup under the breasts, so it would be up to you on what style you want.

You can also use a silicone or fabric and foam chestplate if you don't want your actual skin showing. There's nothing to hide the neck seam, so it would be a little more difficult with a fabric and foam one, but you would be able to attach the top to it, either permanently (sewing) or temporarily (pins, snaps, etc.). Here's a post I wrote about these.

You probably don't need these for security, but they would be helpful if you want bigger boobs for the costume and don't want your actual skin showing there.

For constructing the top, if you go with the style that cups the breasts, use an underwire. You can use two separate underwires with a busk (better if you want a more customizable fit) or a monowire (better if you want it to truly cup under and have a smooth line there). Either way, you might want to put some foam cups in there for a bit of extra support and coverage. You can cut into these around the cutouts to remove material and they keep their shape. (I did this on Spellbinder Angela SD3 lol)

I'd take a little bit of liberty with the design and instead of totally shredded, unsupported fabric on the bottom, put a band of lingerie elastic (silicone backed if possible) around your torso to help keep everything in place.

You can use the shredded bits along the red line I drew to kind of fake it. Putting lingerie elastic in the other shredded bits that come off the sides of the cups (the three just above the red line) would also helps hold it in place and support you. Bras are supported largely from the band, and hiding a bit of structure that encircles the torso would do a lot of this work for you -- as long as the garment encircles the torso fully with some sort of structure (the underwires, lingerie elastic in those center front bands, around the back), it will help hold it in place.

Another option, in addition to the elastic, is to fill in a lot of those little holes in the bra band with skin tone mesh, whether you do a full bodysuit or not. A full bodysuit means you can just sew them directly to the suit, and not means that you would have a solid piece of mesh in there to help hold everything together. (Basically don't chop up the mesh into little pieces for each hole, but rather make a solid band and sew the straps to that, and then cut the edge of the mesh band to shape so it doesn't show at top and bottom.) Since the back doesn't really show, I'd use the piece of mesh as the closure as well by putting a set of bra hooks and eyes back there, and making sure the black straps line up on either side. (Your other option, if not doing mesh underneath, would be to create three front hook closures, like front bra or swimsuit clasps, at the center front busk and the two straps.)

I'd also add a bit of boning to the top along the sides to help hold it closer to your body and give a little extra support.

As always, when wearing an underwear cosplay, wear underwear underneath it. Undies under your tights, pasties on your breasts. It never hurts to have a bit of extra security, and it'll help the costume lie nicer on your body.

As for working up the nerve, I have a few tips, which may or may not already be covered in the panel I linked above:

Wear it at home before wearing it out. This is both to make sure the costume functions how you want it to and to get you comfortable wearing it

If you can, wear a different skimpy cosplay out somewhere to work your way up to it

Making sure the costume fits your body well and doesn't have risk of slipping out of place or revealing too much will help a LOT. That sense of security in the costume is really key, I find.

Go to con with a handler, Just In Case. If anyone is being weird, the handler (could be a friend, partner, etc.) can help defuse the situation.

Bring something to cover up with. If you feel self conscious, too cold, etc., put on the cover up. Also good if you are doing a location shoot or leaving the direct con area, since a lot of places that aren't the con won't like that you aren't wearing much.

If you have other questions, feel free to ask!

Hope that helps :]

[quaddmgd]

DARK PARADISE

"Ever thought about leaving? The family?" "Why? Do you?" "Actually, a lot lately… Heard that sigh, y'know?" "It's just- I can't imagine us living in the city, Harry." "I'm sure it's not as bad as they make it out to be. Remember that girl from Holbrook I was dating?" "Dexel?" "Yeah. When I was gone, she showed me so much. It's quite nice, aside from ads and cops everywhere. People can be weird, but it's nothing we couldn't handle if we took Jade and Rainer with us." "Oh, you just miss her." "Maybe, and I'd definitely try to get back in touch if we got there, but I really meant what I said about the city, C. Come on, it doesn't have to be Holbrook." "I don't know, man." "Either this or you'll finally use that monowire on one of ours." "He's not one of ours! Guy's a dick, I don't know where they found him. He fucks up constantly and yet his vote matters fucking-" "-more than ours. Yeah, everything goes to shitter and I don't want to be there for the end of all this. I know you see it too. All I ask is that you think about it." "It's not a good moment. I need a break."

[rotschopf-thedrow]

WIP Wednesday

I was tagged by @cr-noble-writes last week already & decided to wait until today since it was already Friday when I got the notification XD

Tagging @briarch, @monowires, @clericofshadows (because I need more scarf), @dandenbo & @nyamadermont, and everyone who likes to share something :)

Shepard woke because he was pulled out of bed quite unceremoniously, landing on his hands and knees. He tried to get up, tried to regain his equilibrium, holding onto his nightstand for dear life. He had almost managed when the world was tilting on its axis again. Literally.

Shit. What the fuck was happening? The room kept spinning and his stomach churned violently. Were they under attack? Surely, Joker would’ve informed him outright, wouldn’t he?

“Joker,” he croaked, “what’s our status?”

“Board’s green, Commander. We’re running smooth and silent.”

“Sure doesn’t feel like it.”

“You sure don’t sound like it either. You okay?”

“Yeah.” He swallowed, trying to keep the rising bile at bay and in his stomach. “Yeah, I’m alright.” He searched for a fix point he could focus on, but failed miserably when the gravity well flipped again. “Shit.”

“With all due respect, sir, you don’t sound ‘alright’. I can alert the Doc to your quarters.”

“No. No, it’s okay, Joker. Maybe Miller’s stew wasn’t quite dead yet.”

It had become a running gag on the Normandy that one should definitely test their food if it was truly dead, after Mess Sergeant Miller had managed to serve vat-grown meat as a bloody mess, so to speak, because he had been busy flirting with Chief Williams. She had also been the one to ask him if she needed to kill her meal first.

Shepard had never seen anyone this flustered before as the sergeant on that day.

Joker chortled. “That would explain the heartburn.”

Shepard grinned and finally managed to get to his feet. “Thanks anyway, Joker. Shepard out.”

[fereldanwench]

soooo been thinking about taking away canon!valerie's mantis blades lately.

she doesn't have them in either AU--she gets rid of almost all her cyberware when she goes nomad, and i decided i really liked the monowire for her full descent in corporate nonsense after watching edgerunners bc who didn't think lucy looked cool af using that shit.

but honestly the mantis blades have never totally fit valerie. i worked it into her lore that it was like basically an arasaka security starter cyberware package, and aesthetically, i just really like the design of the cyberware when the blades are inactive. but it was definitely more superficial than anything else.

i personally don't even use them in the game--l always play as some kind of guns (usually sniper and shotgun, sometimes rifle and pistol)/stealth netrunner hybrid, and i think that'd be more her style anyway. if i remember right, i think early, early on i actually conceptualized her more as a netrunner, but i liked the pewpew gameplay and slowly started to lean more towards her being combat proficient to account for my somewhat varied and inconsistent playstyle.

plus i also got super interested in the worldbuilding implications of the advertisements for the 2nd amendment gun store that showed everyday families carrying because it's "not just for the rich anymore" or whatever the tagline is. i decided that her father, who grew up poor and was exposed to a lot of street violence which the powers that be never did anything to alleviate, really took that sort of egalitarian argument for gun rights to heart, and he passed that on to valerie.

so yeah. i just dont think the mantis blades really fit. not sure if i just want to leave her arms bare (which does look weird to me after seeing her with the blade markings for so long) or find a suitable replacement, but i thiiiiiink they're gonna go. maybe she did have them when she was in security but later got them removed.

[noonewouldlisten25]

CYBERPUNK TAG GAME

@monowires left this as an open game to anyone who found it so here I am :)

RULES

•Open the #cyberpunk2077 tag and reblog 5 things from blogs you don’t follow while leaving nice comments in the tags

•Tag 5 people to pass on the game!

•Leave 5 facts about your OC!

Much like like blog I got this from, I don't feel comfy tagging anyone but if you wanna say you got it from me, go right ahead :D

Spoilers and potentially triggering content ahead so read with caution!

Anyway, meet Vivianne {Rena}!

1) While Vivianne is a Streetkid through and through, she was born into the Corpo world-although she has no real memory of it. Her parents were high ranking Arasaka officals who both had hits put on them when Vivianne was just about to turn three. When the hitman realized there was a child involved, they panicked, scooped her up, and just kinda dropped her in a random spot, hoping the loose end of this mission would just...Take care of itself. Thankfully, she was found-and raised for the most part-by a younger Vik. But, since Vik doesn't know the origins of the stray he found one day, neither does she.

2) The reason her last name is in brackets above is because, while it IS her legal last name, she doesn't know that. She doesn't remember it. When Vik found her, she was able to tell him her first name but, for whatever reason, not her last. (Her parents had drilled it into her not to tell strangers her family name until she was older, lest people try to hurt the defenseless child when they learned she was from a corpo family.) Since she was able to babble out her first name, and heard it all the time from others, naturally, she remembered it. But since no one knew her last name and wasn't able to use it, as time went on, it faded from her memory. Vik has offered to let her have his last name, and she's considered taking on others' as memorials (Mainly Welles and, postgame, Silverhand) but as much as she loves these people, nothing has ever sounded right to her. So, she just goes by her full first name or, preferably, "V." She'll revisit the last name thing if/when she gets married.

3) Night City is already a dangerous place so she does her best to make sure it's safe as possible for the City's most vulnrable. Although she doesn't outwardly show it much, Vivianne has an extreme soft spot for kids and animals and will throw HANDS for them: while Vivianne doesn't like killing just for the sake of it and/or tries to do non-lethal takedowns as much as possible, there was no hesitation in gunning down the duo in "Dirty Biz."

4) In a place like Night City, this is something that's borderline foolish-plus she knows Jackie would probably tease her mercilessly if he knew-so Vivianne keeps this a tight kept secret. But, behind her sharp tongue and firey attitude, at heart, she is an extreme romantic. If you were to dig deeply through her apartment, you'd find a box with a mix of shards and physical books-all romance stories. You'd also find drawings and stories done by a young Vivianne, all depecting a Princess or Prince finding their Knight. However, where she lives and her line of work is no place for "girlish dreaming," so she keeps this part of her somewhat locked away. But still...A part of her hopes...Maybe one day...

5) She is a non-repulsed asexual! She doesn't actively seek out or want sex, but if she was to get a partner (Gender doesn't matter to her) who wanted to have some fun, she is 100% down. She's kinda the embodiment of the "Yeah, sex is cool and all, but have you ever tried {XYZ}?" meme.

[devilbrakers]

road: What does your OC wear while traveling? Do they have high-quality equipment, or are they making do? What does their gear look like?

arms: Does your OC have any weapons? What weapons do they carry, and how do they wear them when they're not fighting?

hair: How does your OC wear their hair? Does it have some kind of meaning?

For any OCs you like <3 (I wanna hear about any and all of them 👁👁)

tysm kieran !! <3 i'll answer for my cyberpunk guys! from this ask game

road: What does your OC wear while traveling? Do they have high-quality equipment, or are they making do? What does their gear look like?

Venus doesn't really wear anything special when she's traveling, they mostly just stick to what they would usually wear but might tone it down on accessories and stuff that would get in the way! I don't really know how to categorize her style per se since she likes to switch it up but I would just say alt to be general. Lots of black with splashes of neon colors here and there (mostly purple). As for equipment, they are armed more often than not but nothing too extensive since they're more fond of the monowire.

Mars is maybe a bit more practical in his clothing when he's traveling and in general. He doesn't do much compared to Venus, at least until after the events of the game so he's never really felt the need to change. He's got the whole cowboy thing going for him anyway which is probably more practical than what Venus wears fdjsklf. As for equipment, he's not as prepared as Venus nor does he really have many high quality things. He mainly sticks with a revolver to defend himself but Venus eventually teaches him to use other things.

arms: Does your OC have any weapons? What weapons do they carry, and how do they wear them when they're not fighting?

As said above, Venus is pretty fond of the monowire but knows that's not always practical so she carries around whatever she thinks will be best for what's coming. Though they're best with handguns, they can use pretty much anything. She'll usually have one in a holster or in her bag or something that's accessible.

Mars carries around a revolver that he's modified pretty heavily in a holster on his belt or he'll keep it in the back of his pants if he needs to be more discreet.

hair: How does your OC wear their hair? Does it have some kind of meaning?

They both mainly just wear their natural curls and take pretty good care of their hair! Venus usually ties her hair into a bun if it's getting in her face too much since it's pretty long and occasionally braids it but doesn't do much to it otherwise. They also like to keep a streak that's a funky color, usually neon pink or purple :^)

[pozer-jacket]

Here is my Netrunner build nobody asked for.

I'm playing on Hard difficulty and I'm terrible at strategizing, I just jump at enemies (sometimes literally as the player character) and get surrounded, then start scanning and hacking.

This build started out as Melee and Heavy Weapons build at first, I did the boxing missions with Gorilla Arms and used a Sandevistan for the longest time.

Body 20 Technical Ability 20 Reflexes 15, mostly for air dash, I can't live without it Intelligence 20 (added last when leveling up) Cool 4, we got no cool lol

Cyberware Capacity: total 342/344, I wish I knew how to get extra to get NEOFIBER instead of something useless but the shards stopped spawning.

All items are Tier 5++.

FRONTAL CORTEX

COX-2 CYBERSOMATIC OPTIMIZER (iconic) - very important, all hacks are crits

RAM REALLOCATOR (iconic) - very important, recovers 45% RAM about every 10 seconds (extra cooldowns are achieved by 20 Intelligence, a perk, Idk what else)

EX-DISK - extra RAM, we want as much of that as possible for this build.. I think I got 35 or so

ARMS

MONOWIRE - doesn't matter which

SKELETON

EPIMORPHIC SKELETON - extra health and good armor

UNIVERSAL BOOSTER - extra health, armor, health item effectiveness

RARA AVIS (iconic) - extra extra armor, extra health

NERVOUS SYSTEM

REFLEX TUNER - there just to fill a slot for extra cyberware cooldown

ATOMIC SENSORS - same as above, just filling a slot

ADRENALINE CONVERTER - same as above, just filling a slot

INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

PAIN EDITOR - armor and minus 7% of all received damage

CELLULAR ADAPTER - armor and some resistances, item recharge speed

PAINDUCER - armor and stuff

OPERATING SYSTEM

TETRATONIC RIPPLER MK.5 - very important, 20 base RAM, +12 RAM from being Tier 5++, activating Overclock applies Reboot Optics and Weapon Glitch to surrounding enemies within 8 meters

FACE

BACIS KIROSHI OPTICS - only 1 cyberware capacity so yeah

HANDS

SMART LINK - +2 RAM plus you can just use a weapon if you for whatever reason don't want to hack… or aim lol

BALLISTIC COPROCESSOR - just to fill a slot and for the extra numbers that every piece of cyberware has

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

HEAL-ON-KILL

BLOOD PUMP

BIOMONITOR -> this combo is a survival dream team, no need to worry about pressing a button for healing when in Overclock mode plus the biomon and blood pump make for very effective healing

LEGS

REINFORCED TENDONS - double jump, the only good leg cyberware, this plus air dash lets you catch cars on foot if you want to

Perks etc: BODY - middle tree all the way up REFLEXES - middle tree all the way up as it goes with the stat at 15 TECHNICAL ABILITY - middle tree all the way up including all the perks in that tree, a few perks on the left tree just for extra health item charge (Glutton for War, Transfusion, Health Freak 1 and 2) COOL - just the faster movement while sneaking and maybe Killer Instinct for extra damage outside of combat INTELLIGENCE - everything in the left and middle trees, although Shadowrunner is kinda useless, I also skipped Explosion Hazard and Forcekill Cypher RELIC - the Vulnerability and Monowire perks

Preferred QuickHacks: Overheat, Cyberware Malfunction, Short Circuit, Suicide, System Collapse, Memory Wipe, Synapse Burnout. It all depends on whether or not you want the enemy alive or not.

This build could use Optical Camo for stealth but I found it completely unnecessary, there's always other ways to deal with situations than sneaking by right in front of someone. Luckily all this cyberware that might make V weigh like half a ton doesn't make her footsteps louder.

It's hard to run out of RAM for longer than a few seconds and if you do, just hit enemies with the Monowire to restore RAM, chances are they'll all be dead before you need to hack them again. Between Overclock in combination with powerful healing effects and a decent amount of HP plus extra from Adrenaline Rush, and the iconic RAM REALLOCATOR which restores 45% of RAM about every 10 seconds if it gets low.. yeah.

[ghostoffuturespast]

Grandpa V’s Greatest Hits 15 Lines of Dialogue

Tagged by @merge-conflict (here) and @luvwich (here) Thank you! 🧡

Rules: Post 15 lines (or less) of character dialogue. You can include context for the scene if you wish!

Pulled all these from So It Goes (I can do greatest hits now because I finished it, ha!) and they're all roughly in chronological order, but feel free to send an ask with a number if you want/need more context.

1 “As for my table manners, those went out the window with my shame and my corporate career.”

2 "Rumors are true. Who’d you get your referral from?"

3 “Don’t see a reason to be shy, and not like you haven’t seen a pair of tits before either.”

4 “How’s your aim? And how do you feel about some fireworks with our light show.”

5 “Fine. You can write ‘salty’ on my tombstone.”

6 “You’re a real fucking gentleman you know that. Making me do all your heavy lifting for you. You’re lucky I’m already getting paid to do this shit.”

7 “Hear me out? I’ll buy you a coffee. Or if you need something stronger, I can arrange that too.”

8 "Compact, discreet, can't check it at the door, always have a weapon on hand. What's not to like? Thought about getting mantis blades at first, easier learning curve but I'm glad I went with the monowire. Think it's a bit more practical, multipurpose."

9 “Well, I’ve got… duct tape and zip ties in my pockets.”

10 “When Bear mentioned ‘your girls’ earlier, I was a little concerned because for a second I thought…”

11 “Still f–fightin’ wars we can't win… M–makes you wonder why we stay.”

12 “Well, when everything else in your life’s hard, soft’s awfully appealing. And he gives excellent head.”

13 “I’m sorry, I–I can’t.”

14 “Still think I’m worth loving after all this, Detective?”

15 “You take after her, y’know.”

Tagging with no pressure: @baublekute @dreadfulsanity @shimmer-like-agirl @seeker-of-truth @fly-amanitaa

[kimarisgundam]

I said "I know Judo b*tch" cos my friends were meta gaming and saying stuff like "Oh no she's going to die 😰" and "we have to reach her! She's defenceless 😰"...

My point was, my character isn't defenseless. Yeah, I have the lowest Body stat, but I'm not defenseless without my hacks >_>... it's insulting when you guys act like I can't save myself >_>...

But our DM thought this was really funny... so she canonised this as my Netrunner yelling "I know Judo b*tch" at a Militech agent before judo throwing him...

My Netrunner rarely swears (she was raised to behave like a "lady"), so now Rockerboy and Exec are side eyeing her >_>

I ended up saving myself btw. So I don't know why my friends think my character needs protecting 🙄

Like seriously. My friends' characters are all gonks. If I want something done, I got to do it myself 🙄

They should know by now that my Netrunner acts weak and defenceless just to get people to do the heavy lifting for her. I would have installed monowires if I wasn't capable of using them 🙄

^ I kinda want to say that everything is OK now... but my Netrunner got into a serious argument with our Rockerboy again

(and I guess me and my friend don't see eye to eye irl too)

The evidence of Militech's bribe and footage of NCPD torturing Rockerboy and his bandmate NPC is with my Netrunner and our Media

My Netrunner has a NPC friend that she's close with. They were friends since Arasaka Academy. This friend has a high rank in NCPD and was the one who created the distraction that let my Netrunner escape

He wants her to delete the evidence of the bribe and of what his colleagues did to Rockerboy cos:

This is a PR nightmare cos of Rockerboy's popularity... and he doesn't want to deal with this

The bribe was from Militech. He doesn't want to create tension between NCPD and Arasaka

It's not like NCPD as a whole took the bribe. I was just a few officers. He will deal with them internally for causing me trouble

He admits he takes bribes too, and he admits there's a lot of bad blood between him and Rockerboy... but he backed off every since he found out I'm friends with Rockerboy. So can't I return the favour?

Exposing NCPD is bad for Rockerboy too. A lot of the officers already hate him. If he creates more trouble for them, he's just painting a bigger target on his back

I covered up for Rockerboy everytime he messes with Militech. But Militech isn't dumb, they know it's Rockerboy. Exposing Militech publicly like this is just going to make them angrier

I... I guess I agree with all of my NPC friend's points. That's why I don't want to hand over the evidence to Rockerboy

Our part-time party member also agrees with my irl, and as his Media. Exposing this will do more harm than good

^ Plus Media is aware of my Netrunner's reputation. He views her as a valuable "resource" so he's more inclined to side with her

Now it's my Netrunner, Exec, and Media Vs Rockerboy, and both solos... Wraith wants to stay out of this argument cos he's just Exec's huscle

My friend is mad at me cos she ships our characters together and she feels my Netrunner never reciprocates anything he does for her

And I'm mad at my friend cos how many times do I have to say it's impossible between them. And wtf do you mean she doesn't reciprocate? Who do you think she left Arasaka and her dad for? She left Arasaka cos she chose his life over her duty >:U

I literally chose this friendship over my bio dad and brother >:T

This isn't about her friend. It's about not doing things to provoke Militech any further. There's already a target on his head. He made so many powerful enemies. Can he just stop and listen for once?? I feel like my Netrunner is arguing with a wall

[bunwithantlers]

The Voight-Kampff-test theory totally makes sense, especially for Corpos!! I think it's one of the fear tools they use to keep their employees in check.

My first V Val has the Corpo lifepath, and I think she'd probably be able to still pass one in active cyberpsychosis because of how often she did them. She's the sweetest person, always believes in forgiveness and never wants to hurt anyone, but I headcanon her to have a talent for switching into this Corpo mindset where she essentially larps being evil. I think that's how she got to a job this high up the ladder while still being baby, actually.

On the other side is my Streetkid V Viper, whose favourite hobby is stealing other people's big trucks and setting them on fire, and I think she's just too impulsive to pass the test. She has a monowire and she had to basically beg Vik to let her have them even though she consistently fails the checks ('pls pls pls I can be trusted around laser wires in my wrists pls I'm going to be so normal with them and not become MaxTac fodder'), and only after threatening to go see Fingers to get them instead is when Vik finally relented and let her have them.

idk if the vouight-kampff test was ever discussed here but i want to do it 👉👈 we know it exists in cyberpunk 2077 because it's one of the tests that v has to go through during the devil ending. considering there's no replicants in cyberpunk (that i know of?) i think it's then used to check cyberpsychosis levels or just general brain and mental stability.

with that in mind, i have a headcanon that it essentially functions like an IQ test. passing a vouight-kampff test doesn't automatically mean you're not a cyberpsycho just as a high IQ test results doesn't automatically mean you're smart. it just means you're good at doing the test.

since a big part of vouight-kampff tests are repetition and emotional knee-jerk questions, i personally headcanon that *my* V would usually fail it. (too fidgety, too forgetful, flips between being empathetic and trying to be distant, answers vary too wildly than the baseline, etc etc.) i also headcanon that the test is usually mandatory for corpos, and as a streetkid he's just not as used to the environment as someone with a corpo background. nomads probably barely (if ever) go through the test, with the whole no unnecessary implants needed mentality.

i think some rippers (especially high-end ones), would require non-members to do a vouight-kampff tests before allowing cyber-implants, so little v probably struggled to pass one to get his mantis blades installed. (this was before Vik.) but anw, what do yall think about the test and its uses in-world and with your Vs?

[thebookworm0001]

Decided to get V arm implants and now she has a whole ass electric wire in her body she can use to murder fools