#making friends learning how to do repairs under a ripperdocs guidance

[aaternum]

cyberpunk verse stuff:

ryu is the daughter of an executive that works for arasaka. ryu was his only living family after the death of his wife and son, and naturally he is overprotective of his daughter.

he primarily dealt with arasaka's dirty work and took part in their acquisition of the soulkiller. because he did a lot of dirt, he had a lot of targets on his back, thus making ryu a target by association. after screwing over maelstrom (a gang in night-city) in a trade. they exacted revenge by finding and killing ryu on her 24th birthday in their home.

distraught and unwilling to let go, he uploads ryu's consciousness, and memories (called an engram) to soulkiller. the issue with uploading a dead persons' engram is they're glitched in a way. parts of them could be missing or incomplete.

arasaka, of course, is not happy to find out her father used their tech without permission and kills him off. but they have an opportunity for research with her engram.

over the years they pilot a project to revive her body/place her engram in replicas in order to use her for research purposes.

they find success in their methods, but she's still a working experiment.

ryu works as a spy/hitman for araska currently when under their influence (when her eyes shift in color; they're mostly in control and when they shift to teal shes in control).

they've convinced her she is doing 'good' work in the footsteps of her late father that was killed in a 'tragic accident'. she is thus forever indebted to them and believes anything they manipulate her into thinking. they have on occasion implanted false memories to help.

when she starts glitching or acting out of accordance, they will not hesitate to kill her and repeat the experiment. usually it occurs when she finds out what's happened to her or something triggers her. as of now she's died a total of 8 times including her real death. but they try to make that a last resort, as every death further shreds her psyche.

her implanted memories lead her to believe she's a ripperdoc assistant with arasaka and she takes on extra work part-time.

she does not know she's not technically alive and every time she dies she loses a bit of self. there are times she doesn't feel real or parts of her real memories that feel like memories come to her.

heavily inspired by the devils ending and the dream on quest.