#I am mod v >:)

[wanderingaldecaldo]

breakfast of champions

[pizzawave-aesthetic]

☁️🦆🍰

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

OC: Macha Richter | for @theviridianbunny 's new mod Mature Complexion for Fem V - out on Nexus now - give this a try because it looks so good!

[harellan]

i've had them for one day and i'd do anything for them

[neonhellscape]

The towering creature comprised primarily of metal spikes looks at you with its nine optics.

[despairforme]

happiness (tendō's smile) is free, actually.

[mechanismslorearchive]

hi i have a question because i'm uh stupid and ur my last hope for an answer since yk ur an lore archive for mecha, WHO IS DR CARMILLA? HOW DO I FIND ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HER??

Hello! This is a fantastic question, actually, because it gives me a chance to infodump about my beloved Carmilla.

I don’t know how much information you have, so I’m going to start at the very beginning.

In-character: Dr. Carmilla was the scientist who invented the mechanization process and created (some of!) the Mechanisms. She traveled with them for a while before departing under mysterious circumstances, which the crew claims was a tragic accident involving her falling out of (read: one of the crew shoved her out of*) an airlock. She is loosely inspired by the titular character of the 1872 vampire novel Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu.

Since her time with the mechs, she’s been up to vague and mysterious shenanigans, and last I heard was working with a forthcoming band called Dr. Carmilla and the Void Quartet.

Out-of-character: she’s another musical artist named Maki Yamazaki who originally formed the band as Dr. Carmilla and the Mechanisms, before they decided to go their separate ways. She still makes music, both as Dr. Carmilla and as herself!

It’s worth noting that while the Mechanisms don’t discuss her in a flattering light, they do canonically lie to the audience (source with spoilers to Death to the Mechanisms), and that there are two sides to every story. Carmilla has been a… let’s say, a controversial figure to the fandom, in the past, but, if I can editorialize a bit, she is no more evil or violent than any of the Mechanisms (which is to say, she’s done many terrible things, but no worse than they have).

If you want more information about her, the two starting points I’d recommend are this fantastic and extremely thorough post by lucky-sevens, and checking out her music, which you can find on her Bandcamp here or on YouTube here! There’s also Lashings, which is the only live show we have a full recording of where she appears with the Mechs, and is well worth a watch!

(*The crew canonically shoved her out an airlock on at least three occasions, but according to word-of-god canon from Maki her final departure was not via the airlock! Still, I’m including these sources for informational purposes)

[usbkinitopet]

"Untitled Kinito Song"

(Wanted to share this video while I recover my energy for a new video coming soon!.. especially towards an ask!! If you can get what I based this song on, your rad, because this is meant to be silly and canon to USB!Kinito lore c:) - Mod Soni

[grymkoena]

Shake the disease.

[OC: Valentine Artorius (they/ them)]

[risingsunresistance]

tragic news, my wings no longer have a shadow. hilarious news, my ign DOES have a shadow

[katsigian]

⁺⊹𑁍˚𖥸 𝙒𝙄𝙋 𝙒𝙃𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 𖥸˚𑁍⊹⁺────────

Hiiii everyone, we are so back.

First up, Valen baby. I recoloured his cyberware! All of that golden hardware he has - his forearms, his neural wiring on his face, his piercings, his wedding ring - finally match. I recoloured them to be the same gold as his eyes and he matches so nicely that I've ascended into heaven. I love matching and symmetry in OC designs 🫠

I also made Valen more freckle-y. I love freckles, so Valen's got even more on his shoulders and chest. Lastly, lore-accurate love marks; Valen's normally covered in both bitemarks and hickies. Why? Because Valen and his husband are (healthily) possessive of each other + leaving marks is a way for them to bond (they're also just extremely horny for each other). That bond with his husband is essential to his character, so I figured I'd add them in

More ongoing projects under here ♡

Second up, Vesper baby. Yes, my rarely seen second son is getting an awful lot of upgrades and will be reappearing soon because I missed him. He's back to being pink like his OG version! It'll be a little while yet before I've got him done, as I'm making him a new hair from almost scratch in Blender + giving him brand new tattoos. I'm very happy with how he's coming along so far, though.

Lastly, I'm recolouring cyberware for public release on Nexus! I really needed more variety when it comes to OC creation + I haven't seen recolours of these before. So I figured If Not Me, Then Who. There's two ready to go and I'll likely do more if everything goes well.

And that's everything for now!

Taglist ♡ if you'd like to opt in/opt out, please feel free! As always, there's no pressure to do these if you'd rather not. And if you've been tagged already/have done this already, then feel free to ignore! 🖤

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[lemonlilactea]

listen its been a Day and half idk why but instead of game i writing again so. have this thing idk if ever posted any of it on here but now its on ao3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66468067/chapters/171395839

It’s been a long time since the last, but a bad episode with the biochip seems to aggravate something and they wake up screaming . Blinding pain, a ringing in her ears, flashes of the serrated blade, her hand shaking as she knocks the stupid pills off the bed. She can faintly feel Johnny, or hear. Her fingers blindly wrap around a handful of pills, desperately swallowing them down and finding whatever the hell liquid is nearest to wash it down. The burn in her throat hints at whiskey, but it helps distract her, so it’s a bonus at this point. V curls into a ball on the bed, metal arm dangling off the side, as her body trembles, her eyes pressed shut until the wave of flashbacks forces them open, darting around to find anything to focus on. Johnny flickers into view, and her eyes find him in an instant, meeting in a matched sort of panic and yet familiarity. She sucks a breath between her teeth and wonders how often he felt this with his arm, if he did. What happened to him? Would he ever tell her the truth, if he even remembered it? She never told him about hers, he never asked, never said he knew, either. As the pills start to kick in, slowly but surely, her breathing evens out and her heart starts to slow. The pain is still there, her left arm dangling like a dead weight, but it feels less like she’s tied to a stake and burnt alive now. 

[saccadicsins]

“When there is love, there is a safe place for sadness.” ― Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

OC: Vinnie Gallo

Finally he can be the cowboy I imagine him to be thanx to this fabolous mod

[quinttyz]

“the cliffracer incident”

Ok so Lucifer had a lil bit of history between Talen-Jei and Keerava right LMAO,, I headcanon that even though Lucifer is welcome to the tavern, Talen was still upset about what happened last time

So when Lucifer ordered 3 of Talen’s special drinks, the latter decided to ~add a little more spice~ to Lucifer’s drink as a payback HAHAHHA

UNFORTUNATELY, KAIDAN GRABBED THE WRONG DRINK BY MISTAKE and ended up with the cursed cliffracer LMFAO (Sainte-Juste’s idea to wake him up was to literally just hit him with her lute fr fr)

(Bonus: Lucifer tries drinking the cliffracer and just says “wow this is spicier than I remembered” hahaha it literally had no effect on my guy 💀)

[marshmallowprotection]

Hi Kait!

I have a question... to this day, do you still stand by your opinion that V is not OOC in RAE?

I do. I stand by my opinion and I don't believe that will ever change. I understand why people are so jostled when Jihyun holds up a smoke bomb filled with poisonous gas—you don't think he would sink so low as to drug his friends—but I think it's important to understand he has hit rock bottom in the RAE, and that is similar to how he reacts in the Secret Ending as well.

I think people forget that Jihyun was the one who showed up after Unknown contacted Mint Eye with their location to come and find him. Sure, we all understand that he did that with the knowledge he could give Saeyoung a device to contact Jumin and the others to do something about the situation, but he had no way of knowing if he'd be able to get away with that. He took a gamble, a risky gamble, all in the name of his promise to Rika.

Do you know how easily Rika could've ordered the guards to keep him away from Saeyoung? How easily she could've done something to prevent him from giving Saeyoung a way to contact Jumin? That was A DAMN GAMBLE... and he was lucky he was able to give him the phone to do that when all odds were stacked against him.

And, that's really the point I try to make whenever someone brings up this question. He will shoot himself in the foot a hundred times over... all to keep his promise to Rika. He tries to keep his promises to others alive and well, but when those promises come into conflict with what he told Rika, he doesn't do what's right for not only himself but for those he holds dearest to his heart.

You can ask him at least a dozen times in the RAE about his goals and why he decided to return to the toxic cycle he and Rika share, but the answer is always in the same vein if you look at it.

He refuses to abandon Rika, even when he and Rika needed to be FAR, FAR AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER a long time ago. He can't "abandon" her, if he does that, what does it say about the kind of love his mother "died for"? He's self-aware enough about himself to bring up his mother's death during the RAE, and you AND Saeran call him out for trying to use that as an excuse. "Your mother's standing isn't the same as Rika's. Why are you trying to stick by Rika when this isn't healthy for either one of you?"

He knows what he's doing isn't right by any means, but... he can't step out of the cycle. Having been in a similar dynamic as the one Rika and V are in, I can say it's very difficult to get out of that kind of relationship. Jihyun was actually close to doing so at the end of Ray Route, but when he saw MC and Saeran lean on one another the way they did, he thought he could try to do things differently with Rika... just one more time... and clearly, that wasn't the right thing to do as "trying again" meant walking through hot coals.

But, that's how it is, unfortunately... you'll try to leave, and then... well… something happens and you don't end up leaving. It's a cycle, and it's a hard one to break.

From Jihyun's perspective, imagine this: You know once the police get their hands on Rika, they're going to realize she had Saeran with her if they do a little digging, and even worse, they're likely to find out about Saeyoung and the cathedral as well. Saejoong Choi will find the door to his sons that you both made a promise to protect (let's not go into heavy detail on how this promise was broken damn near day one, okay?) Yet, you know Rika can't get away with what she's done. You're well aware she needs to be held accountable, but you promised to be there for her.

You promised to be her light. What are you supposed to do now? If you let the authorities get her, it's only a matter of time until the truth comes to light. You know you're damned, you know you're going to take as much blame as humanly possible to keep every promise you have ever made, but it gets worse... it gets worse the more you think about it.

He doesn't want to forsake her after everything they've been through because he became her God, her light, her Savior, etc. He wants to be able to keep the promise he made to her, because what he learned at the time of his mother's death was DAMN WELL NOT the real lesson he needed to learn. When his mother saved him with her very life, he took the idea of true love via sacrifice to heart. To love somebody, it means to give them everything you are, even if it leaves you nothing in return. That's what he took to heart.

Now, we all know this is by no means the healthy thing to conclude from the loss of his mother, but that's what he took away from it and it shapes so much of his thinking onward. Now, here's something else I need to put into perspective.

Jihyun witnessed Rika kill Mother Choi in cold blood, and not only did freeze in the moment, he realized the weight of what happened far faster than Rika did. No amount of "this was self defense" would save her from what Saejoong Choi would do to scrub not only Rika from this reality, but him as well. Saeyoung left for the agency at the age of 14-ish, and Saeran was pulled into Mint Eye around the time he was 19 years old. That gives us about... 5 years of wiggle room to play with, and I can tell you that my rough estimation from playing every part of this game leads me to believe she was killed within the last two of those five years.

Now, you'll need to suspend disbelief because this game was written in such a way that V, Jumin, and Rika should've been in their early to mid-30s to make things somewhat believable about the RFA, but!

Jihyun Kim is 26 years old. Saeyoung and Saeran are 21 years old. That gives you about five years of an age difference between them. Now, Rika's age is definitely all over the place because there's been some confusion with her Behind Story and whatnot, but her age was first presented to us as 23 years old. I believe she's older than that to make sense of the DLC timeline we're given, but—what you can take away from this information is that if my approximation is correct—at the time of the murder, if Saeran was 17/18 years old, that means that V was 22 years old, and regardless of what Rika's age is, she would've been in her early twenties as well.

Imagine. You're an early twenty-something, you're barely out of your teen years, and you're still trying to learn how to take care of yourself, much less the illegitimate children that just you encountered that're cowering in fear behind you to avoid being killed by their father, the ACTUAL PRIME MINISTER (or soon to be) OF YOUR COUNTRY. He has the power to get rid of you and these innocent children, but you are trying everything in your power to protect them regardless of the fear you're experiencing.

Now, on top of that, imagine that you have to reason with the boys' alcoholic, abusive mother to be able to take care of them. Because the threat these boys face isn't JUST their father, it's their MOTHER, TOO. She uses them as a meal ticket and it's a wonder that you even had the chance to gain Saeyoung's trust enough to help him as much as you have knowing what that woman is like to him and his brother! You have to put on your best church face to that woman all the time, smile through your teeth, and convince her Saeran should be allowed to go to church so she "doesn't have to deal with him".

Add to this that this woman is hardly rational even when she's in the right state of mind, and she's just as paranoid as both Saeyoung and Saeran are when step outside. You have to fight this woman while it takes everything in you not to think about the crushing weight of this situation. You're an adult, but you feel like a child playing dress up as you navigate situations that not even somebody older than you could easily handle.

This doesn't even get into the toxic, codependent relationship V and Rika have that's playing out in the background while these factors are happening, either. But, I digress, you're barely an adult, you fear that you're doing everything wrong, and you're constantly cornered by a beast you can't even begin to imagine... and then one day, the wicked woman raises her hand to you with a threat, and you... panic, no, you both panic.

If you're Rika, you panic, you panic because you've spent your entire life being physically abused by the grown-ups in your life. You don't think twice about defending yourself because you embraced the idea of being a "devil" to reclaim your autonomy, but you don't realize the weight of the glass in your hand will change your life forever. You just want to LIVE. You don't care how. You need to live, you don't want to die, and—you black out... only to come to when your hands are cold... wet... and sticky. You can't take back what you've done, but you... you are alive.

If you're Jihyun, you freeze, you freeze because you don't know what to do in a moment of violence. You've experienced a traumatic event before, but that event was a fire that rendered you unconscious from smoke inhalation. You've never seen two people fight with the intent to live or die. You hate yourself for freezing, for not moving to protect Rika, for not doing SOMETHING to stop this before it was too late to take back... but you can't move... you can't move until you hear Rika come to... and you have no choice but to clean the scene and remove anything that could link this to you two.

You have no choice but to make a pact to take this to your graves. She was a woman, a person just like you, and regardless of how cruel she was, you know you'll never be able to forgive yourselves for what you've done. For Rika, this cements this idea that she's the devil. She no longer believes she can be more than what the church told her she was. What was an attempt at claiming her autonomy has turned into a realization that she's... been a "monster all along."

For Jihyun, this cements the idea that he is a failure. He needs to give more and more and more and more of himself because if he doesn't... he can't bare the thought of what may happen to Rika and all of those promises he made. They're bound together by a murder, accomplices in crime, no matter if the law would call it self-defense. A slap on their wrists. That's a life that was taken and you have to live with that. You have to live with what happened regardless of the reasoning behind it or the justification.

I mean, I don't know if I could imagine what that must've felt like for them, or how it continues to feel because there is no timeline where Mother Choi ISN'T DEAD. The amount of trauma that would come from not only taking someone's life but having to hide it for the rest of your life is unimaginable.

Why else do you think Rika and Jihyun break down the way they do when they reveal this truth to Saeran? The murder of Mother Choi is THE MOMENT IN THE GAME THAT SHAPES WHERE THINGS GO FROM THEN ON. Had she not been killed, I think the events might have played out much differently, I can't say how, but I can say that it'd look different from what we got.

But, what I'm trying to say here is that Jihyun isn't out of character when he goes "overboard" at Rika's side in the RAE and... even the Secret Ending.

It's a byproduct of his promise not to abandon Rika, no matter the cost to himself, and inevitably, the people around him no matter how much he tried to "mitigate" the damage. You, as the player, try your best to reason with him and have to realize that he shouldn't keep his promise to Rika because it's destroying him, but... unless you're on his route, you're never going to be able to get through to Jihyun the way you want to.

Jihyun has a moment where his bio says something like, "How do I be Evil -MeTube search". He knows what he's doing is wrong, but he's so far gone into the sunk-cost fallacy and his devotion to his promise he can't see a way out of the tunnel. V and Rika's relationship is terrible for both of them, and their relationship causes destruction not only to each other for a multitude of reasons, but... to the people around them as well.

I think it's important to understand that Jihyun's promise to Rika is as intense as it is because of the murder. I think he blames himself for not doing more to protect Rika at that moment, and that the reason why Rika is where she is now is because of him. Classic move for V, though, he'll blame himself a hundred times even though that isn't his fault. She saw him as her God, and he tried to be one to her, but what is a God who "fails" his believer?

Jihyun will do a lot to keep his promises... and this is to his detriment. Unfortunately, relatable. I love Jihyun Kim as a character because he makes an uncomfortable mirror at times, but sometimes you need to see that mirror so you can learn and do better for yourself. I mean, it's all well and fair if other people believe Jihyun is being OOC because I get the place you're coming from when you say it! I just don't think he is OOC, and that's my opinion.

Oh, yeah, before I forget! Fun fact! Jihyun is crying in this CG and nobody ever seems to realize that.