#virgile corpo years

[gloryride]

NetWatch Agent

Virgile worked for NetWatch for 6 years. And while I saw him more in a chair than in the field, the idea has been growing in my mind for a while. I like Virgile in the field. And he hated it, going out to stop netrunners live, arresting them, stealing (because that's the right word) their equipment and data to protect the Net.

[glitchinginthegarden]

OC Smash Or Pass

I'm doing another one because I can. No pressure tagging: @matapang-coffee, @totentnz, @perhapsrampancy, @hiighborg

RULES: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

A/S/L (or something)

Full Name: Virgil "Gil" Vickerström / changed to Gil Vickers in 2071

Age: 35

Height: 6'5 / 196cm

Eyes: Cloud gray Kiroshis, naturally brown

Hair: Teal/phthalo green 'hawk, dirty blonde sides/roots (sometimes dyes his short hairs for fun)

Gender: Cis man

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Pros +

LORGE. In every way. Yes, that way too.

Polite AF. Gil grew up corpo and a lot of the etiquette he had drilled into him during that time stuck. He says his "please" and "thank you"s, is usually the first to offer a handshake, holds doors open for others, will carry your groceries, etc etc.

Generally just a flat out good dude.

Extremely laid back, friendly, chill - to the point that it makes some people wary of him because they think it's not genuine. He is guilty of using this to his advantage if the situation calls for it though.

Grade A cuddler. You will never be cold, you will always have ample tits to rest your weary head upon, and he's content to spend an entire day like that.

Cons -

He participates in street fights at least one or two nights every week. He will come back bloody and bruised and possibly in need of stitches. And he will be thrilled about it. He will not ask for anything from you in tending to these wounds.

Watson's local ('ganic) weed man. If you don't like the dank, this ain't gonna work. He used to deal hard drugs too but stopped years ago.

Drives a candy grape panel van (or in-universe a Mahir Supron) and has no interest in upgrading his wheels.

His laid-back attitude can sometimes make his partners feel as though he's not invested.

He takes a loooong time to actually open up to someone. If you want more than a quick romp, he takes work.

Can "flip a switch" when he needs to be cold/ruthless/etc. Putting this in cons because it's jarring and borderline unhealthy (thanks, Arasaka).

Extra Propaganda

Most commonly seen in an open pink bathrobe, boxers, and nothing else. Will run errands like this. Take that as you will.

Connections out the wazoo. If you need something, he either has it or knows who does.

Extrovert and well practiced in carrying introverts through social situations.

Most things are low stakes to him. He's not the type to get upset or take it personally if someone turns him down for anything. Very "go with the flow".

Ex-hit man. If you need someone gone in Night City, he'll have it done in a week, max, but it'll cost you.

Likes to feel useful and that extends to bedroom. He's very service forward. Ultimately, an absolute switch though.

Good luck getting him to keep a shirt on.

[cherryrockpops]

OTP: Caught In Your Orbit - Brief Explanation on our Alternate Universe

I realize from the way the comic panels start off, and from what fans know of the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, that there will be some questions on things you don't see. For example why is there no cyberspace Johnny in all of this? So this post is to clarify a few key details about this Universe along with wanting to give fans of the OTP a bit of character backstory.

To start things off:

Johnny is 100% dead. He did not survive the bombing of Arasaka Tower and his mind was never copied onto a shard. Reason for this is so our V isn't on borrowed time and we didn't have to try and RP his malware ass

Even though there is no Relic to steal, Jackie still unfortunately perishes during a high-paying gig around the same time the original gig would have happened.

Kerry meets V through Rogue's recommendation rather than V paying a visit to Kerry on Johnny's request.

This world does include other OC appearances but overall all OC's, including Nick and Virgil, have their own sperate timelines/worlds. What happens in this one doesn't need to accurately match the original world they come from, including NPC's like Kerry, Rogue and Dino.

I might be missing a few others but more will be explained as the story progresses.

Character Backstories! (or at least what you need to know for now)

Kerry Eurodyne

Most of Kerry’s story is the same as in-game. Kerry’s career path still goes from being a Samurai band member to a Rock Star Soloist. He gets married, divorced, and has that issue with UsCracks and his manager. In our world, we have expanded his character to be more of a family man where he would fret over you skipping meals or not sleeping properly. His biggest regrets in life are losing Johnny when he should have held on, and choosing his career over his kids when Louise blackmailed him. Kerry misses both dearly and he hates himself for not being strong enough when it mattered most.

Virgil Avara

Our official “V” in the story and @sammysilverdyne OC. Corpo-born, Virgil grew up in a tough environment that pushed him to succeed, where only the strong would survive and the weak would perish. Luckily though, Virgil never lost touch with the compassion and mercy within his heart and with the help of his best friend Jackie, left the Corpo life behind. From there the story plays out the same, minus how Jackie dies, and after Jackie’s death Virgil goes into a long period of mourning. It's not until the rent comes due that Virgil finally starts working again but strictly as a solo player, never taking on a partner even if it would make the job that much easier.

Nicolas B

Nicky first appeared in Kerry’s life back when Samurai was just a back-street band. He was their on-call roadie, taking care of their equipment and handling other day-to-day tasks before they signed on with Universal. They didn't meet back up again until Nancy's trial. During their time apart, Nick had become a hired mercenary, specializing in infiltration along while hustling his own custom tech for extra cash. He was the one who introduced Rogue to Johnny, and it was him Johnny first went to when the Rockerboy wanted to launch an attack on Arasaka. After the Arasaka Tower bombing, Nicolas disappeared without a trace and was presumed dead by those who knew him… that is until 50 years later when Virgil catches him skulking around Kerry’s villa. It is not revealed yet where he was during that time nor why he appeared now, but it is revealed that he goes by a new identity. B, a notorious arms dealer in Night City's underground market.

[turboloverjudas69]

OC list:

Mass effect:

Sam Shepard - Earth born, Akuze, very impulsive paragon

Michael Shepard - Sams little brother that he raised on the streets (12 year age gap), gen z experience as a person + Basically smol Sam

Dragon age Inq:

Athar Levallan - elf rouge assassin, not qualified for the job at all but he tries

Aslan Adaar - qunari battle mage, 7ft tall baby, his most famous quote: “if we all work together we can defeat the rotting bitch with the power of friendship”

Rhyder Levallan - elf rouge, archer tempest, very small very angry, absolute slut but in the end ends up with Dorian. Has no idea what he’s doing but will die before admitting

Cyberpunk 2077:

Vincent - male nomad baby, chaotic evil, gay. Handguns and revolvers. May or may not be qualified to save his own and Johnny’s life. Calls Johnny, Johnathan just to fuck with hi.

Vance - male corpo slut, chaotic Bisexual, hackier 100, also s W O r d S, boi does before he thinks.

Virgil - male street-kid, angry gay, annihilation 100, no regrets™️

[r3venant-mechanika]

2077 playthrough version 2.0

Disgraced former Corpo-rat Virgil North, 24 years old.  Pushed into working for Arasaka by overbearing Corpo parents, he was actually pretty relieved when he got booted out of the company. He cut contact with his family, joined the merc biz with his broski Jackie and never looked back.

Where my Streetkid V ,Viola, is survivalist and filled with existential dread, Virgil is pretty much the exact opposite. He’s generally good-natured and optimistic, and it’s obvious he’s trying very hard to be the opposite of what he was raised to be. His main focus is retaining his freedom and getting to experience all that life has to offer him. 

[inactiive-shit]

Life As A Sanders

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Part 5: Lunchtime Battles

((Previous))//((Next))

Fandom: Sanders Sides

Warnings: broken arm, bullying, fight

Pairing: Familial DLAMP

Words: 4,205

Summary: School is alright. It really, really is. Logan likes it and Virgil doesn't, and when you add them together, that makes it alright.Some days are just...worse than others.

Age: 8

Chapter 5, here we are!

“You can’t climb that tree,” said the little boy who was nine years old. Virgil looked up at the tree and nodded in agreement with a boy he usually avoided. There weren’t enough branches on the tree, and they were way too far apart. They’d never make it up, and even if they did, how were they supposed to get back down? It was an impossible task.

“Don’t be widiciwous,” Logan said. Well, snapped. He’d been arguing with Trevor about different things all day now. First it was how to pronounce green (Trevor insisted that you had to draw out the ‘E’ noise because there were two of them. Logan said that wasn’t prati-pracl-practil? Something that started like that.), and then it had been about whether a marker was blue or purple (Logan got mad when Virgil tried to find a corpo-compis-compro- an in-between and suggested blurple. Evidently, that was not a color, either. Figures.), and then it was a bunch of other things too, and Virgil just wanted to go home to Daddy so he could take a nap and make some cookies and play dress up and maybe even play with the make-up Missy let him see sometimes.

Virgil had also been hoping that Logan would just leave Trevor alone once recess started so that he could read his book and Virgil could catch ants and caterpillars and grasshoppers to show Logan and Logan could spew off a bunch of facts about them that Virgil had probably heard a million times before. And it had begun like that, and Virgil relaxed because Trevor wasn’t very nice usually, and Virgil would rather say nothing than talk to Trevor.

Logan would say that didn’t make sense because Virgil said nothing most of the time anyway.

Virgil realized quickly that Logan starting things wasn’t what he should’ve been worried about. It was, in fact, Trevor who had come up to their quiet area on the curb and begun taunting them again. And somehow, Virgil wasn’t sure when, they’d all ended up in a different area of the playground with a bunch of Trevor’s friends. Virgil was holding a grasshopper in his hands, looking nervously at his brother. Logan’s book was clenched tightly under one arm, and Virgil was worried that the spine would break and then Logan would end up crying again, like last time when Virgil had accidentally dropped Logan’s dictionary on the floor and it had cracked the spine.

“You can not climb that tree!” Trevor yelled at Logan. The group of kids was giggling behind their hands.

“I can too!” Logan shouted back, looking about ready to weaponize his book against Trevor.

“Prove it!” Trevor demanded. Logan froze for a second, looking up at the tree.

“L, c’mon. Please. I think I saw a really cool spider over there,” Virgil mumbled, pulling at Logan’s sleeve. A girl standing near him squealed when he said spider, and Virgil did his absolute best to ignore her. The other kids thought it was weird that Virgil liked bugs, and that Logan knew so much about them but wouldn’t touch them. Dad said they should just ignore them and do what makes them happy, and Logan didn’t seem very bothered by it, but Virgil very much was.

Logan shoved his book into Virgil’s arms. It was dark blue - Logan’s favorite shade of blue, which is why he was reading it, though he’d never admit that to anyone but Virgil - and it said Alice In Wonderland across the cover in shiny gold letters. It was a bigger book than Virgil would normally read, but Logan had no such reservations about whether he could pick up the books he read or not.

“I’wl cwimb it!” Logan snapped at Trevor. He shook Virgil’s hand off his sleeve and approached the tree. Virgil watched silently, wishing he make Logan stop it and come look at an inch worm with him. He was going to fall out of the tree and get hurt. Or embarrass himself.

Really, thought Virgil, why not both?

Logan approached the tree with the confidence of an eight-year-old who knew everything (meaning, every eight-year-old with the possible exception of Virgil, though he did have his own moments of hubris.) Logan proceeded to jump up, and his fingers barely scraped the lowest branch. He glared up at it, and tried to just stick to the tree with one hand while reaching with the other. He still couldn’t quite get there.

“V, he’p me,” Logan muttered, still straining. The rest of the kids were giggling even more now, and Virgil really didn’t want to contribute to Logan getting hurt, but Virgil also knew that he couldn’t just not climb the tree after he said he would. He’d be embarrassed in front of all the others, and maybe they would make fun of him for that, too.

So Virgil went to the tree and curled up on all fours with the book cradled between his chest and his knees. He knew that Logan would kill him if the book got damaged at all in this whole ordeal. He let the grasshopper, Mrs. Legs, go. He didn’t want to accidentally squish her. Then, Logan stepped onto Virgil’s back, and Virgil’s spine felt like it would snap under the pressure of Logan’s hard shoes. The weight disappeared and Virgil looked up. Logan had pulled himself onto the first branch, and was now far more easily hoisting himself into the tree.

Perhaps the branches weren’t as far apart as Virgil had thought they were.

“You cheated!” Trevor yelled, and he pushed Virgil over as he stomped up to the tree. “You cheated! You cheated!” he chanted. Virgil sat up from the ground, glaring at anybody who looked like they might join in the chant. Virgil wished Percy was with him. She was a lot better at talking to people and standing up for the people she cared about.

Then again, Percy probably would have egged Logan on.

“I did not!” Logan called from a hundred feet high. “You never-” Logan screamed as he fell out of the tree. Lo hit the ground with a crack, and he was still whimpering and crying. Virgil rushed forward to see Logan, and the rest of the kids scattered.

“L? Are you okay? Are you hurt?” Virgil tried to sit Logan up, but he screamed again, and Virgil almost started crying, too. He backed up a little, but put a hand on Logan’s back, trying to remember what Dad did when Virgil got hurt.

Usually, he would kiss the boo-boo, and then he’d get a bandaid. So, Virgil just had to find Logan’s boo-boo, and he could kiss it better. He didn’t have any bandaids, but maybe it wouldn’t need one?

“Lolo? Are-are you hurt?” Virgil mumbled. This time, Logan let Virgil sit him up.

“Muh-my uh-uh-arm hu-uwts, V.” Tears ran down Logan’s face, and Virgil wanted to help him, but he couldn’t quite staring at his arm.

His arm wasn’t supposed to bend like that, was it?

“We-we gotta get a teacher,” Virgil said quietly.

Together, they stumbled to a teacher, and the teacher looked terrified. After that, it was a blur of activity that Virgil and Logan didn’t quite follow. Logan cried the whole time, and then there was a really loud, white car that came up and two grown ups who jumped out and then they were putting Logan in the back of the car, too. Virgil tried to follow, but they were pulling him back, and then Logan and him were both screaming. There was about a minute of pure terror when Virgil and Logan thought that they were going to be separated.

Eventually, they let Virgil get in too. It was stressing Logan out too much, they said, and it would just be easier to let both boys go. As he was pulled in, Virgil vaguely remembered that Dad told him he wasn’t supposed to get in a stranger’s car, but it was too late. Virgil couldn’t just leave Logan in the car by himself, besides. Virgil was Logan’s older brother, and he was supposed to protect him.

When they got to the hospital, Dad was there, and there were tears in his eyes, but he just held Logan’s hand as they rushed him all over the place and a lot of stuff happened. Virgil wasn’t sure what exactly was happening, he just knew that it was bad. Logan was hurt and he was crying a lot still, and Virgil decided right then and there that he hated hospitals.

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By the time Dad finally took them home, Logan was sleeping and there was a weird blue cast on his arm and all of his tears had dried up. Dad didn’t say much on the way home, and Virgil didn’t mind. He was really sleepy too, he just had to make sure they got home safe before he could sleep. Nothing else could happen to Logan today.

This was already Virgil’s fault.

Dad carried Logan in, and Virgil followed on his heels. Once Logan was cuddled up on his purple pillow, Virgil looked at his Dad.

“He’s gonna be okay, right?” Dad jumped, and when he faced Virgil, he looked tired. There was a smile on his face, though. Things couldn’t be that bad if Dad was still smiling.

“Yeah, kiddo. He’s gonna be just fine.” Dad hesitated. “His arm was broken, Virgil. So he’s going to have to wear the cast for a while so that it heals right. Do you understand?” Virgil nodded. He thought he understood. It made sense, anyway. “Okay. Virge, you said he fell out of a tree. Do you know why he was climbing it?”

“He said he couldn’t do it, and they were fighting all day, so Logan got mad. He-he-” Virgil was starting to breathe funny, and he thought he might cry again.

“It’s okay, kiddo. It’s alright. Just take deep breaths. I’m not mad, Virge. I just want to know what happened, okay?”

After a couple minutes of Dad calming Virgil down, Virgil finally told him. “Trevor kept starting fights with Logan all day, and then at recess, he said that Logan couldn’t climb the tree. But Logan was really mad, so he did, and I helped him when I knew he would get hurt and I shouldn’t have I’m really sorry I-”

“Woah woah woah.” Dad put a soothing hand on Virgil’s back, and then he picked him up and carried him to the kitchen. Dad set Virgil on the counter, something that drove Logan insane, and started preparing some ice cream. “Virgil, listen to me. What happened is not your fault.”

“But I-”

“No, Virge. You might have thought Logan was going to get hurt, but you didn’t know. And if Logan was angry, do you really think he would have left the tree for anything?” Virgil shook his head. “It’s not your fault, kiddo. I promise. Logan doesn’t blame you, I don’t blame you, and you shouldn’t blame yourself. Logan was going to climb that tree either way.” Then, Dad smiled. “Besides, kiddo, you got Lolo to the teacher and you stayed with him the whole time and kept him calm. I’m really proud of you. You did really good.” Dad handed Virgil a bowl of ice cream in a suspicious shade of blue with cookie dough in it. “It’s alright, Virgil. You did the best you could, and you protected your brother. That’s all I’ve ever asked of you.”

Virgil ate his ice cream a little too quickly, and he got brain freeze part way through. But he knew the quicker he ate, the sooner he go see Logan. Even if Logan was still sleeping. Virgil didn’t really care what Logan was doing, he just wanted his brother.

By nine o’clock, Virgil had crawled into Logan’s bed with his blankets and pillow. He snuggled up to Logan’s not-broken arm, and Logan curled toward him. They stayed in that position all night.

As a matter of fact, Logan did not go to school for the rest of the week (two days) (despite his protests. Logan liked school, for some reason). Virgil refused to move from his spot by Logan’s side, bringing him toys and books and games and whatever else Logan wanted to pass the time. They both got tons of make-up work which Logan rejoiced in completing and which Virgil debated the merits of not doing at all.

Come Monday, though, they were both due back at school. Much to Virgil’s relief, Trevor didn’t say anything to them. For the most part, things were peaceful. They did math and they did some reading, and then, right before lunch, the teacher had everybody line-up so they could sign Logan’s cast with sharpies. Despite the fact that Logan did not want everybody to sign his cast with sharpies.

But the teacher said he had to be nice or something of the sort, and while Logan heartily disagreed, he didn’t get much of a say in the matter. So he stood, mostly without complaint, and let the other kids write weird things on his cast that were probably meant to be funny in whatever nonsensical language it seemed all the other kids spoke. He didn’t quite get it, and he really wasn’t sure if Virgil understood it or not, but he and Virgil had their own language, so Logan didn’t really feel like he was missing out on anything important.

Finally, when it was all said and done, the teacher took their class to the lunch room. Virgil and Logan always sat together, and sometimes Johnny or Maddie or Gina sat with them. Logan liked those days a lot because Maddie knew more about dinosaurs than Logan did and Gina always had really cool snacks she shared with them. Johnny usually made a giant mess of his pudding, and it always made Virgil laugh so hard he cried.

But today it was just Logan and Virgil. Virgil was helping Logan open containers and eat his food, and forgetting to eat his own food in the process. Once everything was set out, Logan pushed Virgil back to his own food and demanded that Virgil eat, too. Logan felt very lucky that Virgil didn’t have to feed him because it was his right arm that was broken. Logan, unlike Virgil, was left-handed, which tended to make life harder. At least this didn’t change that much.

Logan was eating the grapes Dad had cut in half for him, and listening to Virgil mumble about math under his breath. He wasn’t a fan of multiplication, but division made absolutely no sense. They said it was like multiplication, but backward. You can’t do multiplication backward! That’s not how it works.

Normally, Logan would be reading while he ate, half-listening to Virgil’s rants. However, it required all his available appendages to eat.

Actually, that wasn’t quite right. His legs weren’t doing anything important. If he really tried, he could hold his book open with his feet. But then he’d get shoe prints on his book, which was unacceptable, really. Especially after what had happened to Alice in Wonderland last week. So he’d have to take his shoes off. That might work, but would he be able to eat if he was staring at the ground? Probably not, and Dad always said that he shouldn’t hold his food over his books.

While Logan wondered whether going shoeless was worth the cost, Virgil had stopped mumbling about math and was looking over at Trevor, who kept looking at Logan and laughing. Virgil wanted to make Trevor leave them alone, but he wasn’t sure how. Words didn’t work with morons - that was Logan’s favorite word to describe Trevor. Dad was horrified that Logan would call anybody that and that Logan had even known the word. Lo didn’t say it in front of Dad anymore. Virgil also knew he could never fight Trevor. Trevor was tall; a lot taller than Virgil, who was rather small for their age. So was Logan.

Virgil got so lost in his thoughts about Trevor that it took hearing a sniffle to pull him out of it. He looked over at his little brother, and Logan was staring down at his cast with tears in his eyes. Virgil was immediately alarmed.

“Logan? Does your arm hurt?” That’s what Dad had been asking Lo all weekend, and Virgil figured that it was a good place to start. Dad was really good at making things better, and knowing what was wrong.

Except, Logan didn’t say anything. His lips trembled like he was going to start crying, and he showed Virgil his cast. Virgil started reading all the words on it, and then he saw it. The shaky, nasty handwriting that said ‘your stuped.’

Virgil knew exactly who had written that.

“You’re not stupid, L,” Virgil mumbled, pulling Logan into a hug. Logan sat and trembled against Virgil, blue cast that Logan had liked so much resting awkwardly on the table, as far away as Logan could get it.

Logan wished he hadn’t climbed the tree. He wished he hadn’t fallen and that it hadn’t hurt so bad and he wished that Trevor would just leave him alone. Logan wished he was at home with Dad instead of at school.

“It’s okay, Lolo,” Virgil said. He let go of Logan when he started squirming, and he gave Logan his napkin. Logan wiped his face off, and stared at the words branded into his cast.

Then, suddenly, Virgil was getting up and walking down their table. Logan watched after Virgil, shocked. They weren’t allowed to get up during lunchtime, and Virgil never broke the rules. He was too scared of getting yelled at. Not anymore, apparently, because Virgil didn’t hesitate to walk right up to Trevor, and Logan knew exactly what was going to happen next.

“You called my brother stupid and you made him fall out of a tree. You make fun of him because he can’t say some of his letters right,” Logan barely heard Virgil say. Virgil was glowering at Trevor, and Logan had never seen him so mad. “I hate you,” Virgil hissed. Then, he jumped on Trevor.

It took approximately five seconds for the lunch monitors to notice the brawl Virgil had initiated and in those five seconds, things hadn’t gone great for Virgil. Trevor was so much bigger that Virgil hadn’t ever had a chance, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t give it his all. While Logan watched, stunned, a word came into his mind to describe his brother: feral. He’d learned it recently, because Virgil wanted to pet stray cats and Dad always wanted to pet dogs on the street, but they weren’t allowed to pet the feral ones. That meant they were wild, and they could hurt you.

Logan jumped as a couple of teachers pulled them apart. Virgil’s lip was bleeding, but he kept struggling and hissing against the teacher, trying to get back to Trevor, who actually looked scared. They were both pulled into the office, and Logan ran after them. The teachers didn’t even try to stop him. By this point, they knew better than to separate Logan and Virgil.

Logan did his best to make sure Virgil was okay. When they said they’d be calling their parents, Virgil had immediately become so scared that Dad would be mad at him that he couldn’t breathe. Logan didn’t know how to help, but he got as close to Virgil as he could and, when that wasn’t close enough, they had moved to the floor. Logan and Virgil sat on the floor of the lobby, curled up together, and waited for their Dad to arrive.

It turned out, Virgil had nothing to be afraid of. Once all three boys, Dad, and Trevor’s parents were in the office, the principal asked what happened. Trevor immediately tried telling everything in his own twisted way, and Virgil didn’t say a thing. After Trevor’s over-dramatised (Logan learned that word from their teacher, who liked giving him ‘challenge vocabulary’ because Logan was smart) retelling, the principal looked to Virgil.

“What do you have to say, young man?” And Virgil said nothing. He stared at the principal, eyes wide and face pale, and he didn’t say a thing. Logan knew sometimes it was hard for Virgil to remember how to talk, and that sometimes the words Virgil needed weren’t there. So Logan opened his mouth instead.

And promptly got shut down.

“I was asking your brother,” the principal said, silencing Logan. And then Dad got involved.

“I’ll thank you to be a little kinder to my children,” Dad said quietly. Then, he crouched in front of Virgil.

“What happened, kiddo? I’m not mad, but I need to know what happened, okay?” Virgil nodded.

“H-he. . .he wrote on-uhm, he-”

“Oh, for god’s sake!” shouted Trevor’s dad. “The boy can’t even speak. He attacked our son, and our son defended himself. It’s as simple as that. Quit dragging out all this nonsense!”

Dad spun around and stood so quickly Logan almost got whiplash. “Do not speak to or about my children like that.” Logan had never seen Dad look so mad before. Not when Logan and Virgil got in fights, or when they broke something, or when something went bad at the bakery. Logan had absolutely never seen the look on his Dad’s face on his Dad’s face before. “You will let him speak, and he will take as much time as he needs.” Dad turned back to Virgil. His voice was much softer when he said, “What happened, Virgil?”

“The-the teacher muh-made everybody sign-they signed his-cast? And-and he wrote something m-mean,” Virgil whispered. He went quiet again, and Dad directed his eyes toward Logan.

“Can you show me, kiddo?” Logan nodded and lifted his cast, pointing at the offending phrase. Dad leaned down and read what was written there. His eyes looked angry, and Logan had to remind himself that it wasn’t directed at him.

“Logan, is this the same boy who made you fall out of the tree?”  Dad asked. Logan nodded. “Is this the one who was making fun of you earlier this year?” Logan nodded. Dad faced the principal, and looking back, this would be a defining moment for Logan. This is the moment that Logan realized his Dad was not always happy and was, in fact, very very capable of anger. When retelling this story to an older brother and a younger brother he does not yet have, Logan would describe what Dad did as ‘raining down the fires of hell.’ Because, at the end of that meeting, Trevor was no longer in their class, Trevor’s parents had tried to pay for half of Logan’s doctor bill and been denied on account of the fact that Dad did not want anything to do with them. Virgil was suspended for the rest of the week, as was policy for first fights, and so was Trevor. Dad hadn’t objected to the suspension, because they shouldn’t have been fighting, but he also defended that his son had been protecting his brother in the only way immediately available.

At the end of the day, things had turned out okay. Virgil wasn’t in trouble at home, and though Logan wanted to, he wasn’t allowed to stay home with Virgil. He brought Virgil’s make-up work home everyday, and they both got a very stern talking to about fighting once they got home that day.

When Virgil did finally go back to school, he was a bit of a celebrity amongst the other kids, and especially with the ones that Trevor had targeted. Trevor didn’t bother either of them or anyone else for the rest of the school year, and his mom got a new job that summer and they moved away. Logan was glad that he never had to see Trevor again, and he was glad that Virgil didn’t either.

Things did calm down for them, and everything went back to normal, but better. Logan wasn’t getting picked on anymore, and Virgil had drawn on Logan’s cast so that the words Trevor had written were covered up by a whole galaxy. So were a lot of things the other kids wrote, but Logan hadn’t wanted those on his cast to start. It looked a lot cooler now, he thought, even if the purple glitter glue was a little overboard.

When Virgil and Logan looked back on this story in their history, and when they told anyone else what happened, no one quite believed that their Dad, happy pappy Patton of the Sweet Stuff bakery, had torn their principal a new one for the bullying they had tried to put a stop to before. And no one quite believed that Virgil, anxious and quiet Virgil who never really got a handle on his words, could’ve said all that or gotten in a fight. Even to Virgil and Logan, sometimes, it seemed surreal. But it was real, and it was one of the many times in their lives when their family had come through for them.

Logan wouldn’t trade it (or them) for anything.

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Good Boy

Since i found again this old pic, i wanted to redo again, with better skills. And this harness mod was perfect. But when i saw Virgile in this harness, i just looked at him 😳 so for now, only him, but aaaaaah, suits him well ...

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Blue Night

new eve dress mod by @breezypunk <3 the original owner approves the new colors !

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If you wanna be my lover ...

During his corpo years, Virgile felt alone. He left his clan to survive, to have a Second Heart, now he has to work for NetWatch. And then, he met Valentin, an Arasaka agent, and they became friends, partners in crime ... and lovers. A friendship with benefits, when they can be soft, horny, sad, fun without judgment. Very cute pose to describe their relationship, commissionned by @chevvy-yates and made by talented @jpegelf ♥

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Chooms with benefits

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🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓 for the Saro clan

Yeah, talking about the italians \o/ thanks <33

One for each member in the clan (sorry virgile) let's go !

🍓 Natale is a soldier, not just a contractor. He was trained by his father, Angelo, who was part of his militia and could be hired to protect nomad convoys or farms before becoming a mechanic after the death of his first wife, Livia. Never worked for corpos. So it's only natural that he should enlist on the Free States coast during the Unification War. They wanted the states where he lived to remain free and not under Militech's control, even if it meant working for Arasaka. During this war, he lost his forearm to an explosive, and was relegated to being a mechanic. And he lost his eye when Militech attacked the base by surprise, taking a shard in the eye. Officially, he's no longer a soldier. Still, he retains the attitude: straight back, precise gestures, hands behind his back, piercing eye. He remains a soldier at heart.

🍓 Diana has a tragic story. Orphaned early, she was taken in by the Galvani family, Livia's parents, and raised as their daughter. She finds love in Paolo, a young nomad from the clan with whom she has a little girl. But Paolo, proud and unbearable of the tribal chief's authority, decides to leave and join the Raffens, taking the baby with him. He is found dead a few months later, and the baby is nowhere to be seen. Diana is inconsolable and travels miles to try and find her daughter, even if it means negotiating with the Raffen Shiv, but nothing happens. To this day, she still mourns the loss of her daughter… This story upset her so much that she had two miscarriages before having Enzo and then several more before having Luca.

🍓 Enzo's pretty bad at relationships. He can handle the fun stuff but not the serious business. When Jay started hanging around him, he didn't understand the signals, sure that the brat racer was mainly messing with him. He kept telling anyone who would listen that he wasn't interested in Jay. Yet he stayed and enjoyed spending time with him. Indeed, signs of non-verbal language betrayed his developing feelings, which he was unaware of. One night, his feelings blew up in his face, unable to understand where they might have come from. Jay had a lot of patience and determination to bring the nomad out of his shell and get them together!

🍓 Luca is already a father. He's 19 and already has a one-year-old son. It wasn't planned, he wanted to follow in his father's and grandfather's footsteps as a soldier, but then an accident happened. He's no longer with the mother, who left the clan to marry another Jode from another clan. Still, she left him with the little boy she comes to see occasionally. So Luca spends less time in the militia and more at the camp, keeping watch or doing rounds. He's still a big kid himself, so he still has a lot to learn about being a father, but the little one has the whole Sarto family to look after him, starting with Diana, who's happy to be a grandmother, and Luca's grandparents, who are delighted to see a new generation grow up!

🍓 Chiara is terrified of travelling to the city. According to tradition, young nomads must undergo their initiation, an expedition to the town they call the city adventure (which city-dwellers vulgarly call “wilding”). The youngsters are around 16-18 years old when they set off. But Chiara, 18, still hasn't. Small towns to run an errand is one thing, but spending a week or two in a big city far from home? If she acts recklessly with the clan, it terrifies her, and she puts off her expedition repeatedly…

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WIP WHENEVER

Was tagged by @chevvy-yates and @drunkchasind, thanks both ♥ But, i don't have a lot of things to talk about. My last rest days, i mostly played and continue my commissions. And as i'm back to office + physical therapy 3x/week after work, really few time ...

Mods / Comms I mostly cleaned my comm list, even i'm late on my schedule because of elbow. Still do finish one, update 2 and doing full one. After that, i hope updating mine, but i really doubt about it x) But just a list in case : - i will update Vanessa (2 more nomads AU, 1 merc, 1 casual at least) - i will continue Enzo Npv + scars (chevvy needs it :P) + redo fully Isao and Virgile And for mod, i worked on the collab with Mel, working on refits but i really don't like that, maybe bc i don't use body mods (and other one dropped never enough of big boobs in this game), so i feel no interest doing this ...

Writing

I finished chapter 4 of Virgile x Eve \o/ ... in french. Time to spend hours of translation, rewrite some parts because finally it's not that good, adding things, removing. But true writing parts is finally done. I have a VP idea, but i really needed to write the scene, because i won't do 75 pics for a story, but there was many things i wanted to tell. How Enzo secretly defied the clan's ban to see his brother Virgile again, how he came up with the idea and how it came to fruition. And it starts with a confrontation with his father, 19yrs brat finally understands things about his papa too ... Just a snippet poorly translate :

Therein lay the crux of the problem. He just understood it. They'd been arguing about it for a week, and Enzo had just put his finger on why. It wasn't a question of pride, of absurd parental authority, but of mourning. Grieving for someone who's still alive, but whom they can no longer see. A son, a brother. A sudden wave of sadness swept over him, his proud face replaced by that of a bewildered young man, almost a little boy. Even his voice softened. "Papa, keeping the car won't bring him back. You've already kept all his memories, I …" The long, dejected sigh stopped him in his sentence. His father crushed his cigarette stub, and he suddenly saw him hunched over, crushed by the weight of sadness, suddenly looking old. "I miss him so much…"

VP

So i will do a 2 or 3 parts story about Enzo finally comes to NC for the first time and find his brother. But for this, i need to update Enzo's npv with a younger version. Was before his accident, and i found the perfect style for a real young brat racer in all his confident (need to think about accessories and his tattoos) Look at this brat, with this stupid idea to bleach hair x)

And i continue to give boys some good clothes ! You already saw Isao, and now it's Virgile's turn ♥ But he's easier, i have him since 2 years 1/2, i know his style and i want for him. But i will split in two saves, with his corpo years. But for now, Blue has many nomads outfits, less city ones, but here 2 with some nice ones ♥

tagging @rosapexa @chessalein @wanderingaldecaldo @johnau6ust @therealnightcity (no pressure of course !)

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3. Virgile 7. Vanessa but also Enzo 20. Isao 14. Oscar 30. Mieko 17. Roxanne 23. Enzo 29. Aurore u wanted for all the babies :P

Ah ah you're crazy ! But let's do this !!!

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weapon of choice? any particular reason they chose their weapon?

VIRGILE

Already answered here

But I just want to add to bunch of hack he uses (non exhaustive list) :

Red-Out (freezes the attacking netrunner for a while)

Opium (personal variant of Knockout, knocks out the opponent, making them faint)

Delirium (personal hack where the opponent has visual and/or auditory hallucinations, depending on their cyberware, causing them to lose control for a few moments)

Euthan (personal hack and variant of Cyberware Malfunction, where it can reroute and stop a vital implant. Can be lethal if misused) …

7. favourite animal? why?

VANESSA

She loves felines and finds them graceful. But above all, she adores panthers. She loves their grace, their suppleness, their speed, while remaining discreet. She has a preference for black panthers, which she finds majestic. Of course, she's never seen one in real life, only in videos. To compensate, she has cats!

ENZO

He had a fascination for geckos as a child. Especially when his brother told him that they were animals dating back millions of years, little Enzo loved playing with these miniature dinosaurs. Even today, he still gets a kick out of finding one in his tent or in the middle of the clan, and takes it in his hands to give it back its freedom away from humans.

But more simply, he loves dogs, just like his brother. He managed to persuade his mother to keep a baby coyote they found on their own, which they kept for a few years before regaining its freedom.

if applicable, can they drive? if they have their own, what color is their vehicle? is the inside neat and tidy, or a mess?

ISAO

He drives both a car and a bike. He brought back from Japan his Toyota Supra, which he bought for himself after a promotion, and which he uses most of the time. It's fast, it's easy to drive, he paid a fortune to take it with him but it's worth it. In Night City, he bought a beautiful Rayfield Aerondight which he uses more for events. He also kept his Kusanagi motorbike that he'd picked up from his infiltration of the Tyger Claws. Formerly red with stickers, it's now black and chrome. He's not a great car enthusiast or materialistic, but Isao likes the best for his personal comfort.

Oh, and they're all clean and well-maintained. Nobody smokes, eats or drinks (except for water, and that's still to come), and they're tidy. Isao is tidy everywhere.

are they any good with numbers?

OSCAR

Ah ah …. no! Oscar still has learning difficulties, despite the best efforts of his parents and then his aunt Brigitte. He can barely read, hardly write and can barely count. This is quite common in the Cyberpunk universe, especially in deprived areas like Pacifica. So Oscar knows how to count, basic addition and subtraction perhaps, but don't ask him to do more than that, it would be too complex for him. That's why he often uses the calculator on his phone, which he uses by voice, like all the other functions!

do they smell like anything notable?

MIEKO

She wears a subtle fragrance of orange blossom - ylang-ylang - sandalwood - mandarin. It's light, almost childlike, but also heady, lingering in the air without you really knowing where it comes from. A bit like her!

how did they spend their summers/free time as a child?

ROXANNE

Roxy lived in Ireland until she was a teenager, and has wonderful memories of her time there. Ireland is one of the few countries to have been largely unaffected by climate change and the social metamorphosis brought about by environmental protection laws. While during the year she lived in Dublin - one of the few modern cities where her parents worked as subordinate corpo - she spent all her summers near Galway where her grandparents had a house and land. She was able to run in the green grass, jump in the mud with her boots, and stroke farm animals. A surreal life for a girl growing up in the 2030s, but perfectly normal for an Irish girl. Otherwise, to keep her busy, she listened to music. She's always loved it, always with headphones on, listening to daddy's old rock and granny's new rock. Whether she was lying in bed, on the grass or dancing in her bedroom, music was part of her life!

how would you describe their voice? can they sing?

ENZO

This question took me a while because I was looking for the right voice for Enzo … and I think I've found it (here) For me, Enzo has a deep voice, despite the Italian intonations, which is charming and pleasant to the ear. He speaks English very well, but his mother tongue is Italian, and he has an accent when he speaks, often rolling his R's, accentuating words when he shouldn't, and -th's are pronounced -f for him. And the angrier or more excited he is, the more noticeable the accent.

As far as singing goes, he's not bad. His voice is described as baritone, so it's quite deep, but he doesn't always hold the note. You'll hear him humming and singing just a few passages.

are they associated with any particular element (air, earth, fire, water)?

AURORE

I had originally associated her with fire, but I find that this element is more suited to Misty. In the end, I prefer earth for Aurore, which is about wisdom, abundance, connection with the world and life. In a city and a world where nature hardly exists, there's this need for connection. In symbolism, earth follows fire. It gives concrete form to the conquests of fire, making them durable and adaptable in terms of materials and shapes, and they complement each other. Like Aurore and Misty.

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I'll go this time with: 🖊 Virgile 🖊Enzoliiiiiiinooooooo x)

Of course you ask for them <3

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Sarting with Enzo ♥ I'm going to talk about his relationship with his father. 'll talk about another time with his mother bc he's lucky enough to know them and to get on well with them most of the time. With his father Natale, it's almost a wordless relationship. The former soldier is a quiet man, who doesn't like to make conversation. Enzo has followed his father since he could walk, watching him work with cars, then teaching him, and now they work together. And yet they exchange very few words, just to explain what needs to be done, when one of them needs help, or to go for a break/lunch. The longest conversations are when Enzo comes back from winning a race, but that rarely lasts more than a few minutes. The only time father and son really talk is when Enzo wants to sell the Galena that Virgil left him. It was the first time his father cried in front of him and talked to him about feelings. The second was after Enzo's accident, when Natale thought he was going to lose his other son. But it's also the person he fears most. His father rarely gets angry, just grumbles and moans about little things, but when he does raise his voice, it's best not to be the target. Enzo hasn't always been a model teenager, or an adult, and when he does something stupid, his first thought is for his father. To be clear, he's never beaten him, but just raising his voice is enough. And yet, the two men are accomplices and look very much alike. The way they walk, the way they smoke, the way they lean on a car, the same gestures, the similar styles at camp… words are sometimes superfluous!

And for Virgile, i already told he was hunted by NetWatch after stealing them data. And i found a chapter i wrote in 2021 (and i didn't remember it) where he was finally free ! So here we go :

"It's a fair deal, Mr. Lacroix. Your help on this case, and I'll give up the hunt for Mr. Sarto. I'll classify the case." Valentin, shotgun still pointed at Mosley as much as his steely gaze, addressed the interested party. "What do you think, bro?" Virgile froze in place, unable to answer right away. His best friend proposed a pact with NetWatch against the VDBs, and the exchange currency would be his freedom. Hunted for years, forced to hide, to erase every last piece of data, even to the point of burning down an old lair to escape them, Virgiel could see the end of the tunnel of this nightmare. He had hoped for it, and now that it was within reach, he could not accept it. His Second Heart raced like a real one, his cooling implants activated, but he couldn't stop sweating, drops ran down his back from the nape of his neck, and he wriggled his hands like a child unable to make up his mind. Mosley stared at him, impassive despite the gun pointed at him, waiting for his answer. Valentin finally turned his head too, making him more indecisive. "I don't want you to push yourself on my account," he murmured at last, embarrassed. "Look, I don't like the way they treated me. The Placide, I don't feel him, and you know I don't trust gangs. But you always told me to be careful with NetWatch. Now, I REALLY need you to make up your damn mind!" He took two steps back to approach his buddy. "Don't think about what he proposed. What would be better for me? VDB or NetWatch?" He always knew how to talk to him. When Virgile panicked or didn't know what to do, his choom would offer a pragmatic choice, one he could think about without the constraint of feelings, even if it was hard to get past it this time. So much resentment towards NetWatch and those corpos years … but he'd also worked with Mosley on the VDBs, so he knew a thing or two about their methods and aims. His blue eyes surveyed the room, then settled on the film on the screen, that old western he'd seen dozens of times. He knew the best choice, or at least the least worst. His gaze met that of his best friend, grave but decisive. "NetWatch." Valentin nodded, then turned to Mosley. "Then I accept your deal." "Good!" Bryce typed on his computer and turned it toward the two men, a huge CLASSIFIED logo in front of a document with Virgile's photo. "Sarto, you're a free man."

So finally, Virgile is free during game events thanks to Valentin !

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Sometime ago, i saw @fereldanwench post about saves with pics to organize, and was happy to do it too !

These last days, i did some update of my saves, adding clothes or remove them, giving saves to enzo's parents and even to Vanessa nomad AU or Virgile during corpo years to not have too many clothes in one save. Then i looked for gig/quests names to fit with each of them. Only miss Vanessa bc bb girl is the final boss, but for now it's clean and pretty <3

As i play in french, maybe english names aren't all the same, but as they fit so well in my language i'm happy. Error 404 for Virgile is my best idea, even the geek husband approved XD

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Virgile Sarto

This year, baby blue boy had an evolution of style, with the expansion of his corpo years, but also his cowboy style (and the cowboy AU). The nomad who didn't know how to dress on Xbox has a very nice wardrobe, functional but fashionable (thanks to Panam and Valentin for dressing him) My fav : September // August // May ♥

and you ?

amazing template by @wanderingaldecaldo ♥