#vincent's choice was king of wands

[lucky38-2077]

Starting over to survive😔 At the time Phantom Liberty event happened, Goro and Vincent's relationship had grown quite deep. Although Vincent didn't tell Goro what he was exactly doing in Dogtown, Goro knew something was going on there thanks to the tracker he had placed on Vincent before.

Goro patiently waited until Vincent finally called him to the dock and told what happened. He felt bitter asking "Do you not trust me?" and Vincent only answered "I trust you, but not Arasaka yet."

[wayfaringellie]

So serious question I love to ask people. What are the chances of V's survival you think in every ending? I know its a loaded question but I love theories and reading them

Okay so I've played the game through on every lifepath (streetkid Valerie is my absolute favorite though and she's default for me at this point and I've also never finished a full playthrough with Vincent because I end up missing Val too much) but I either take The Star ending or I don't approach the point of no return ('meet Hanako at Embers') at all and just mess around for trophies after I've finished all the side stuff. I've seen bits and pieces of the other base game endings but I've only ever completed The Star.

I'm not a fan of V siding with corporations (the FIA/NUSA included) regardless of desperation or V giving her body up for someone who already lived his life and kinda took it for granted when he still had a physical body of his own. Don't get me wrong though! I love Johnny, but his time came and passed. V shouldn't have to share the same fate as Johnny or Alt.

After Phantom Liberty (CDPR couldn't have chosen a better title honestly), I feel like V could have a decent chance at survival if she any had idea where to look albeit six months isn't long. I feel like my preferred ending would be Mr Blue Eyes helping So Mi as was agreed to but using his undoubtedly vast amount of resources to put together another AI blackbox (Militech could make a neutral matrix so why couldn't someone theorized to be an AI himself) to save V under the binding agreement that she does something for him in return. Something that she normally wouldn't agree to of course because I love inner conflict and a plot that drips with angst.

What she does would drastically tip the scales in politics (i.e. assassinating someone, etc, whatever it is that furthers his agenda). And she doesn't trust Mr Blue Eyes one bit, perhaps learns it was him behind the whole Peralez machination (my V really liked/respected Jefferson and Elizabeth and was upset by the end with being unable to truly help despite them being corpos). I really hope Project Orion centers on the next Corporate War along with the Blackwall. Then the third game (make it a trilogy with V, CDPR!) could be post-apocalyptic like Judgment Day In T2/T3. I loved to see two of my favorite genres merging together: cyberpunk and post-apocalypse!

I digress! My favorite ending for V is King of Wands that segues into The Star.

I know it doesn't really answer your question in full but I've got a habit of making the same choices over again throughout each playthrough and playing V as a softie at heart with good intentions but also takes on the jobs that are heavily in the morally grey. Acting as the judge, jury and at times executioner is fun in this universe, not gonna lie.

[alsbesluit]

  It was only a couple of days into the new school year and Draco was something that he called completely and utterly done. Left and right wherever he went, even in the common room, students were insinuating that he’d murdered Albus Dumbledore (not that they knew he knew that they were thinking it, though), the first years were scared of him after Amycus Carrow left him in charge of detention after torturing a few of them for no apparent reason and all of his friends were thinking what none of them were saying aloud (that he looked like a ghost, that the Draco they knew didn’t even seem to be there, that they were worried about him). He couldn’t deal with one of those things seperately after the summer he had, never mind all three of them at once. And the worst part was that it wasn’t even the thing that he was most worried about.   No, what was on his mind when he ascended the stairs to the dormitory (his hide-out of choice, since Blaise had gone to the pitch, Theo was in the library and Gregory and Vincent were busy sucking up to Amycus) were his friends. How could he stop the Dark Lord from getting Theo the Mark after graduation? Should he get married to Pansy to avoid her getting married off to some much older creep? Did Daphne need help handling her family now that her brother left? Was Blaise going to leave the country with his mother and leave them behind? Had Gregory and Vincent absolutely lost it? Just as he got his cycle to Tracey (just had her and Millicent to go before starting again at Theo) he walked into his dormitory and immediately spotted someone sitting on his bed.   He got his wand and fired out the first spell that came to mind (Stupefy) before immediately penetrating their thoughts afterwards. A girl with dark hair and two boys, one with hair like Theo and another with even darker hair. Daphne’s little sister, except she was all grown up now, and looked pretty too. And then there it was: recognizable blond hair, multi-coloured eyes that could not belong to anyone else and a much, much older face. It was undoubtedly Draco’s older version telling this boy to have a good year at Hogwarts, that he would see him soon, and that he shouldn’t get into trouble Draco wouldn’t have gotten into either. He hugged the boy, kissed his forehead, and watched Astoria do the same before the three of them left for King’s Cross.  That was all Draco needed. He lifted the Legilimens spell, lifted Stupify immediately afterwards as well and hurried over to the boy to help him up.    “For future reference, don’t do that again,” he said dryly. “It could be someone with worse intentions than me walking in here. Or less skills to figure out who you are.” With that, he let go of the boy and allowed himself a closer look at him. He didn’t quite have the Malfoy haircolour, it was a bit darker, but there was definitely a resemblance. What was however exactly like Draco was the bone structure at the jaw and cheeks, exactly like every Black had. “I’m so sorry. I would not have done that had I known who you were. Though -” With that he paused and frowned. “Let’s start with your name and what exactly you’re doing here, since I’m going to take an educated guess and assume you’re not meant to be here?”