#there is a considerable height difference between silverhand and zoe

[ronqueesha]

I've been very slowly going back through Cyberpunk so I can play Phantom Liberty, and I got to this quest again.

In my headcanon, Johnny delivers this line slightly different from how he does in game. He doesn't outright say it, but he mentions he knows what Zoe endured as a child at the hands of her wealthy corpo-scum father. And since their personalities have begun to irreversibly merge, when Johnny rants about his crusade against the civilization that the corps have built, it also becomes a personal crusade to rid the world of her father. When he says "If I need your body, I'll take it", they both know he would absolutely wrench control away from Zoe if it meant he could use her hands to brutally murder the man that represents everything wrong with the world.

And this pisses Zoe off more than she's ever been angry in her life. Some of it no doubt fueled by the rage inside Johnny, but also because her feelings on the matter are deeply complex. And the idea of someone else peering into those moments she wants to bury and forget bring up horrible emotions that dwarf even Silverhands' most depraved destructive thoughts.

It's one of those moments that draw them closer together, but also drives them both deeper into their own darkness.