#[ JOHNNY SILVERHAND / CONNECTIONS: alt cunningham. ]

[lcsthings]

johnny silverhand.

i probably won’t be as active on him until i’ve finished my second playthrough.

[k9effect]

I've made a discovery in Cyberpunk that I haven't heard anyone talk about so I thought I'd make a post about it!

So I assumed that the only grave Johnny Silverhand got was the unmarked grave in the oil fields, and I was understandably very emotional about that. I ended up, for a completely different reason, wandering into that memorial place, the Columbarium and I decided to look around and see what I could find and stumbled upon something I didn't expect. I had seen a post earlier about Johnny's original name and some dots got connected very quickly and I got very emotional about this:

While Johnny Silverhand didn't get a grave, Robert John Linder did, and he got memorialised as a legend.

Bonus:

Not only did he get memorialised, but he got memorialised next to Alt Cunningham, who I like to think he truly did care about.

[avenger09]

What If Other Video Game Characters Where In Mass Effect?

I was inspired by the YouTube PopCross and his artistic crossovers and came up with one of my own in honour of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Doomslayer (Doom)

Following the discovery of the Protheon ruins on Mars a wave of new expeditions scrambled to scour the red planet for whatever else may be hidden beneath it's surface. One company in particular, the United Aerospace Corporation found something that defined explanation; asarcophagus marked with a strange red symbol and text, and without a doubt an occupant.  A partial translation read:

May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.

An ominous warning that only fuelled further curiosity and the need for further study, had the first contact war not occurred.  In the chaos the Prothean sarcophagus disappeared before it could be publicly revealed. Hidden away in secret by the the UAC's own founder, for he had manged to decipher the remaining text before any one else and it said:

Against all the horror's of the Reaper's return... Against all the wickedness the galaxy shall endure, we shall send unto you... Only him. Unleash the avatar of Doom.... Let him rip and tear, until it is done.

It may be decades until then, but Samuel Hayden will make sure to be alive to release this ancient warrior.

(Prothean Doomslayer just sounded amazing to me. And while Javik doesn't wear a helmet in game, something like this could be the Slayers)

https://www.deviantart.com/gordyi-treugolnik/art/ME-Proth-armour-409666049

Johnny Silverhand (Cyberpunk 2077)

"Never Fade Away." If anything could sum up the lifestyle of infamous Omega rocker and mercenary, it would be that lyric. One of the first Humans to make it out that far following Humanity's inclusion to the Galactic community back in the 2160's, he lived and died a raging flame, always lambasting the corporations which where slowly sinking their claws across the galaxy squeezing the life outta whatever they could get ahold of, whenever he wasn't getting blitzed on drugs and boozes, and burning anyone who got to close to him that is. When the AraGeni corp, took his on again, off again, girlfriend Alt Cunningham and subjected her to inhumane experiments, Silverhand went mental, somehow getting hold of mini-nuke powerful enough to destroy their colonial HQ, and launched an assault on the building, What exactly happened there remains a mystery to this day.

Some say he was killed fighting the cyborg, Adam Smasher, but Zaeed Massani, who had joined Silverhand's mission claims he was the one who fought and survived the "Metal bastard" and that Silverhand had mearly "Had the shit kicked outta him". However witnesses claim that just as they where being taken out of the blast zone, they spotted a man matching Johnny's description being airlifted to another location. If so the legendary rocker might still be alive, but if he is in the custody of A vengeful AraGeni, he might've been better off going out with a bang.

(I was picturing him still as a hologram AI, but one that can be summoned on an OmniTool as a hardlight projection, like a combat drone. So it's not as gruesome a fate as Cyberpunk since he can actually interact with things, but it's certainly not anything you'd want.)

Eltariel (Lord of the Rings: Shadow of War)

An Asari commando in service to a renowned, matriarch. Once an ally to a Turian soldier, Tallion, who'd lost everyone when the Reaper's struck Palavan and was taken by Cerberus and forcibly merged with implants and a Prothean AI based upon the persona of one of their Empires great leaders, Calibrim whose presence prevented indoctrination.

Freed by her, the trio fought together to push back the Reaper onslaught, with Tallion using his unique connection with Calibrim to override Reaper troopers and turning them against their creators, but the alliance soured when Tallion grew disgusted by Calibrim's increasingly ruthless tactics, which finally broke entirely when the AI attemptef to convert a dying human into another like him, releasing and allowing the poor man to die before it could happen.

Though Eltariel had no ill will towards her Turian comrade, she sided with the AI, believing the dire days ahead required drastic measures to defeat the Reaper's, a mandate set by her mistress she was determined to fulfil. Thus she accepted the AI when Tallion transferred him to her OmniTool. He no longer cared for their goals and would instead continue to fight on his own with what little time he had left before he was lost to the Reaper's influence, when that day comes Eltariel will be the one to grant him peace.

[i-am-vpelno]

BRYCE MOSELEY MIGHT BE MAGNIFICENT CURTIS WHO MIGHT BE A ROGUE RACHE BARTMOSS AI CRACK POT THEORY

Okay from the top make it pop it’s a whack ass theory, it takes a lot a reach of thought but it’s an interesting query.

Let’s start with some facts and reasonable assumptions before I jump into it. By 2013 Alt Cunningham was the best Netrunner in Night City and just about done with the Soulkiller program. Rache Bartmoss was also the most prolific and paranoid hacker in Night City. He believed that mega corporations were using tech and info to oppress people. Now, an assumption. Who’s the say they hadn’t met, at the very least they had to be aware of each other. The same year, the Netwatch US Branch was created.

2021, after sealing himself inside a hollowed out fridge in the middle of nowhere so he could monitor the Net and prepare the Data Krash, Rache Bartmoss died after the life support to the fridge failed. This triggered a virus that hacked into every data cache, classified file, and, unintentionally, artificial intelligence programs. Suddenly the Net was flooded with untethered AI and every corporation’s secrets laid bare. Another part of Rache’s virus was a his own RABIDS AI. It’s not clear how far the AI went to conform to Rache’s personality but there are rumors that they killed netrunners in order to gain more bandwidth.

Through the 2020’s society attempted to recover from the Krash by returning to internet less data storage and methods of performing tasks previously rendered obsolete by the Net. However, as time went on, countries began individually recovering by creating their own versions of Net. This meant that several different “Internets” existed for different countries and Mega Corporations that all had their own perplexities such as boundaries in Cyberspace that shifted depending on which Corporation had control or even if the weather didn’t allow for the boundary to reach that far. The Net most important to this theory was Pacifica. This Net that arose covers the entire Pacific Ocean as well as *Australia*, West coast of the USA, Japan, Russia and Hong Kong. It’s boundaries are flexible and strong enough to compensate for other Nets when they’re having issues.

Now I know that this is dense and I’m not an expert but read closely. Imagine if Google didn’t just control your browser settings but could see your history, what you searched, controlled what you saw AND could send you to jail at any time your activity seemed suspicious. This is the problem with the current state of the Net. Constant supervision and tailored search results, kind of like what we have now except theres no ad blocker or VPNS and the only way to access the free unmonitored stuff puts you at risk of getting fried.

In 2023 Johnny silverhand destroyed Arasaka’s access point to their Net, Mikoshi, freeing Alt.

This is where Netwatch comes in. No one really took the company seriously until a figure called Magnificent Curtis arose. Previously known as *Rocky*, Curtis nurtured a strict and effective team that lead to Pacifica becoming the nose secure, fair and pleasing version of the Net out there. Curtis is known to be a calm perfectionist with a lethal edge. The name Rocky could either be a reference to the fictional boxer, the slang term “Rock” which means to beat the shit out of someone’s head specifically, or Rocky from ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ a fictional character created by a mad scientist to be the sexy version of Frankenstein.

2030 A mysterious vlogger called UR (you are) pops up with the company Ziggurat. The company is quickly allied with Night Corp and immediately begins producing their own high quality Nets all over the world.

Sometime in the 2040s the Blackwall is finally created by Netwatch. An insanely dense firewall meant to keep the AI in. It’s rumored that the only way they were able to complete the Blackwall was with the help of untethered AI that also wanted to block the corrupted Net for some reason. This is when Alt becomes trapped beyond the black wall.

2043 UR spreads their popular Nets to Netwatch source England and Australia. By the 2070’s there are rumors and claims by Sandra Dorset that Night Corps has an AI focused on brainwashing employees into complacency.

Now that we have that out of the way, here’s how it connects. If we can assume Rache and Alt knew each other, we can also assume he might’ve lifted some ideas for RABIDS. Rache’s AI we’re meant to carry out his will and also would’ve ended up untethered by his own virus. We know that at least one of his living colleagues, Spider Murphy, who held a similar world view to him believed that what he’d done was a mistake. Let’s assume that Rache would’ve agreed, then the AI would’ve agreed too. Then let’s say two of the AI decided they needed to fix this mistake. Maybe they highjacked some borg bodies or one of the gangs who wanted the AI’s to be free provided them with bodies. They called one Rocky because he was a Sexy Frankenstein and the other UR a play on God’s I AM from the Bible. I think it would be neat if Rache was the real founder of Netwatch, the inside being the best place to protect people from corps. Anyway, Rocky and UR join Netwatch, possibly revealing their true identities and gain trust by helping create the new Nets. Rocky finds his calling, UR is left unfulfilled. They find Alt after Mikoshi is destroyed in 2023 and see that she’s bent on absorbing all the data she can to destroy Arasaka. UR and Rocky, now Magnificent Curtis, work together with Netwatch to create the Blackwall. UR leaves soon after and creates Ziggurat, he is the AI brainwashing Nightcorp employees. Meanwhile, Curtis is spreading Netwatch to every corner of the Net proficiently. In one of these corners there is whispers about the VooDoo Boys trying to get in contact with Alt. Fearful about what they might unleash, Magnificent Curtis goes undercover as Bryce Mosley to take care of the situation himself.

The Magnificent Curtis name could be a reference to the magnificent seven movie, a cowboy film about a ragtag group of gunslingers hired by less fortunate people to take care of a group of outlaws.

A comment V makes comparing Netwatch to villains who think they are heroes is misinterpreted by Bryce Mosley. The Western genre is full of tropes that are similar to Rache Bartmoss’ experience being an outlaw fighting for the right reasons. The slang term “cowboy” means a sexy deckjockey, I think that could be related to how Rache saw himself.

UR could be Mr. Blue Eyes. The mind control of Night Corp’s employees is eerily similar to the Peralez case and the Crystal Palace heist could be a way for the AI to gather more data on humans or use the Crystal Palace as some sort of mind control beacon.

Told you it was a crack pot. Hope you enjoyed!

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I think it is finally time we addressed the considered “canon” ending that will be on this blog. Under the cut will be the in depth analysis of the ending that is going to be considered canon for my V. This post will contain HEAVY spoilers for two different endings. The Nomad ending also known as THE STAR ENDING as well as the legend ending also known as THE WORLD ENDING so please read at your own risk for heavy spoilers for both of those. As an additional preface I would like to state I AM AND WOULD LOVE TO ALTER THIS TO FIT DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIPS AND ROMANCES THAT WILL BE PRESENT ON THIS BLOG SO FEEL FREE TO APPROACH ME AND ASK SHOULD WE HAVE A SHIP OR SOMETHING. A final note, this is just going to be really sad so please be ready for that as well, without further ado what I am going to call THE CHARIOT ENDING.

                            𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬

No amount of planning, or preparations can  create one for the things V has endured. Such is the life of being someone like her in a place like Night City. But, there is trust and closeness that comes between friends and people that is trusted. Options are always on the table and V, well she is lucky enough to have the trust from those close to Johnny and those she managed to not fit in with but also feel like home with. There was always something right about spending her time with the Aldecaldos. So, Johnny dragging her ass to Vik’s clinic scaring the hell out of all of them put into perspective how much all of  it meant. As hard as she tried, and as much as she didn’t want to be close to people especially knowing when it came down to it she would die, V did. And she felt like she finally had a life worth living, finally had a place where she belonged.

The conversation on the roof wasn’t a short one. Trust issues, the abandonment issues all of the things V has struggled with in her life come back to the surface and they fight and argue. But, as scare as it is, as much as she tries to argue and fight him on it she finally agrees. She finally says she completely trusts him and it is honest and true. He has been with her for so long and understands her that she knows that the only person she can and ever will trust more than anything, and trust with her life completely is Johnny fuckin Silverhand. And she hates to think it but, she cares about him even it came down to herself and what she wanted he had a factor in her moves now her thought process of her next steps. Hell, always did once they got to terms with the situation. But, time was running out and at this rate they had to be calculated, they had to take the time to acknowledge each and every possibility and causality that would come with it. They couldn’t agree. They hardly did but that didn’t mean V thought his idea was a bad one, but hers wasn’t either. So, they did what was normal, the smart move anyone in their situation would do. Compromised, came up with a plan of their own. But it wasn’t just a one group plan or pack, it was going to take the people V trusted more than anything and the ones Johnny trusted more than anything.

The first call that was made was to Panam. In the time that V managed to connect with Panam she found herself in the same shoes as her, at a crossroads deciding what was the most important for herself but carrying the weight of others on their shoulders. Not to mention the similar energy and vibe they both had. V found family in Panam, as much as she hated to think that, knowing the pain it would lead to by the end of this mission she did. But, Panny had come up with a plan and V wanted to hear it out. Make it work with what her and Johnny had planned and Panny, she seemed fine with that.

She waits for Panam to come and get her with Misty, she gets a reading that is something ending in a complete mystery, not just Johnny’s future but hers as well. It makes her afraid, but she already knows how this is all going to play out. It is a simple request, but she asks for one more of each of the pills. You see, V and Johnny, they worked out a deal. V was to meet with the Aldecaldos, set up the plan to work with what Johnny knew he was going to propose to Rogue. If this was going to work and they were going to buy V more time, then these two pieces of the puzzle while on complete separate ends of the spectrum would need to come together. But that was easier when you had two puzzle pieces like Johnny and V right?

V explains that she can’t spend all of her time with the Aldecaldos on the drive but ends up passing out before being able to full dive into what her and Johnny laid out. Once she is awake Panam and Saul workout the details of the plan. This is where V interjects, in her backpocket sat Rogue, sending herself or rather Johnny in with Rogue while the Aldecaldos drew fire from both Arasaka and Militech by tunneling into Mikoshi. Johnny would be in full control of V until they plugged Alt in. Once they were stable, and Rogue and Johnny managed to find the outlet for Alt, Johnny would take the pill allowing V to take back over and switch and be the one to plug in Alt. After this they would meet up with the Aldecaldos in a secure location to all move forward to Mikoshi having triggered an Arasaka elite force. With the backing of Rogue, Panam, Saul and whomever Rogue decided would be her second they would be fine. It was hesitant at first but Panam stepped up, she agreed and with that Saul took a moment before nodding. If things worked out this would help put the Aldecaldos on the track to rise from the ashes as Bobby would put it. And V, well that was all she wanted. To set up a group of good genuinely good people up whoever she could.

Once agreed upon V met with Alt at the Aldecaldo’s camp with the help of Dakota. In her conversation with Alt it was clear that while Alt, may not be Alt Cunningham it was clear what Alt was doing was for Johnny, it would always be for Johnny. V was defensive in speaking with her, hurt. Without V, Johnny wouldn’t have seen her again, wouldn’t even fucking have existed and she was treated like nothing but a conduit. It hurt her, but she was used to it, thick skin from a life of nothing but hurt and pain. She shoved it down and when Alt begins to explain more there is worry that comes from V about what will become of Johnny after this deal. If there was any other way to bring him back. But she knows the answer, Alt and Johnny do too and she isn’t so upset but it is still a pain that lives in her chest. After frying their tech and getting the shard she makes the choice, with Johnny’s agreement to make sure the Aldecaldo’s had everything ready. Returning Panam’s gun to her and bestowing several she had managed to collect that were heavier duty since this all started. What is unexpected is being told Saul wanted to see her. Being pulled onto a truck and suddenly V was part of the family. She got a jacket. V was an Aldecaldo. And she knew it was for show, to gain everyone’s support but it still made her smile. It still made her weep because for the first time, even if it was a lie, or for show she got to be part of a family. AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. She manages to save face while it is presented, but the moment she steps off the truck she excuses herself, only to be followed by both Panam and Saul while she breaks down. For the first time since this all began V weeps. This is the first time, this is the only time since getting Johnny’s jacket that she takes it off. Looking between both of them she holds it out.

                              𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐈𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞 '𝐊𝐚𝐲 ?

A simple nod from them both, taking the jacket from her. She doesn’t ask what they do with it, nor does she want to know but it will be looked after. It won’t be pawned here someone will always wear and cherish Johnny’s jacket and that is what’s important to her. The rest is quick drinks and catching up with everyone ensuring they are prepared and when Johnny pops himself in to let V know it’s time she stops. V meets with Panam and they exchanged some parting words until tomorrow. That’s when it comes up, the question of death and fear. She doesn’t hide it, she knows her time is limited and the best way to end things should they go south is with honest. V TELLS PANAM SHE IS TERRIFIED EVERY SINGLE DAY TO DIE. She explains how she has been this whole time and they have a good laugh about how well they hide it. With a thank you, and an understanding V quietly sneaks away from the Aldecaldo’s camp and enters the city. Standing outside of the Afterlife is where the switch happens, she takes the pill and well, the rest is a blur.

It comes to her in waves, and in moments. Sometimes the layer is lighter, other times it isn’t. V doesn’t know a lot of what happens back and forth between Johnny, and Ro. Faint things are made out, small details of their plan and how it is going to end with them meeting with Panam and Saul. The conversation Rogue has with her son. The moment where they almost switch as they take off for Arasaka tower, that was an accident but they were slipping and fading between one another so much easier now. The rest is a blur, bits and pieces of the fight, of seeing Weyland. But it isn’t until Johnny lets go, takes the final pill and allows V to return that she knows they trust one another fully. This is where she connects Alt. Taking this time to lean on Panam and give herself a boost to maintain it until the got into Mikoshi.

From here they wait, until Alt gives them the all clear about the path, following this V manages to make it to where they need to go. But things were going too easy, she heard about what the Aldecaldo’s had risked while waiting and it was a guilt that was heavier than the weight she felt in the moments of dying, responsibility for Bobby and Teddy’s deaths were not carried lightly. Already making plans for what to do and what to say when the time was right, if the time was right and her stupid fucking plan with Johnny even worked. As the make it to the last few hallways she feels it, the gut feeling something is wrong. And then it happens. Ears ringing and body hurt, Saul is the first to see the pains of crossing Adam Smasher, Rogue just past the sightline. But not enough he doesn’t register her and pick her up next. The blood of both feel heavy, feel like they have a magnetic pull to the center of the world. But, the rage that is now inside of not only V but Johnny it burns and festers so much stronger. Adam Smasher never stood a chance against the rage of them combine in one body. The bullet right in his head, it is the only thing that felt right about the whole mission. It is the only thing that is right. Nothing will ever compared, in all of whatever remains of her life to the guilt and hate she has for herself being responsible for not only the death of Teddy and Bobby but Rogue, the best of the best, the queen and Saul. Their blood, it was on V’s hands and V’s hands alone. She had to bear that weight and she would never ever forgive herself for that. But, they have done it and she drags her sorry excuse for a body to Mikoshi. She jacks in and she finds Alt, she follows the words and poetry of the other woman and she sees Johnny. They did this together and instead of tapping his shoulder she hugs him. A full embrace, one of the only issues of human contact she has allowed herself to really feel in her heart.

                             𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮, 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈'𝐦 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲

It’s the simple words they need to have. Standing together as he explains that Soul Killer is tearing them apart. V laughs, makes a joke about still having one and he laughs too. They talk like a pair of old friends and V cries. Silent tears roll down her features and then they finally bring it back around to Alt. To leaving it up to her and the bombshell hits. V’s body, it’s going to reject her, her engram all of it. The body that is hers no longer belongs to her it belongs to Johnny. She isn’t mad, she isn’t even angry, she is sad, defeated. This time Johnny does the talking and she is at a loss for words for the first time ever. Tears decorate her features as if it were a christmas tree and she feels sick. Alt and Johnny argue, much like a lovers quarrel and finally she breaks through it asking for her and Johnny to have a moment. If she goes back she is still going to die but if he does, then he will live and V, well she just becomes another part of Alt fucking Cunningham. Or whatever the fuck she was now.

It is here where V tells Johnny about Ro, about what happened with her and the Aldecaldo’s. She tells him in such graphic vivid detail it drains her face of any color, some parts of the cyberspace even recreating it. And it hurts, it beats against her rib cage and her heart and chest as she relives it. And they cry, and they hug. It was all for nothing she says. And Johnny just shakes his head, if she didn’t want say goodbye, if she still had a life to live it was hers. V apologizes, for all the times they were a pain in each others asses, for all the things she had said and done that cut deep before she understood him. But, she also explains what led her to be like that. V tells him about her past, about Atlanta and Jackie, she tells him about her issues with family and that she wants to go back because she has that. She has the one thing she wanted in life more than anything with the Aldecaldo’s. People who love and care for her because of being her. He understands, and they say goodbye. A promise to never forget Johnny as they part and V enters the well.

She doesn’t remember a lot after that. The couple of weeks that follow had a lot of medication and sleeping. She is in charge of the Afterlife but hands it over to the son of Rogue and Blue Eyes to look after it while she lives with her family. And they. do, of course reminding V should she ever come back it was hers. But other than that most of those days and weeks are filled with jumbles and fragments of memories. But one thing is for sure, she wears his shoes and aviators every day and she spends each day with the Aldecaldo’s. Saying goodbye to Night City to go to the badlands and she feels fine, in fact she feels fantastic. Maybe Alt was wrong, having not seen or been able to process something like what had happened to V before in any data stream it was possible. And for the next six months V was happy. She was alive and well, she was in the Badlands with money and family. V was happy. But, they said it to one another before her and Johnny. There were no happy endings. She is fixing something and it bubbles up, the coughing. A look at her hand and it’s there. The blood. Taking a breath she lets herself stay with the Aldecaldo’s another few months, Panam trying people who have gotten some of the Aldecaldo’s out of some bad places but nothing is helping nothing is working.

                                                 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐤

It is settled, one night when they are alone talking about her state, about the fact V was dying still. She leaves in the middle of the night. She leaves letters and is gone. Good Morning Night City is whispered under her breathe as she is welcomed back with the warm arms of Misty, Mama Welles and Vik. But, it isn’t happy. She tells them and the work begins. Time goes on, things seem to look better if not delayed. They are trying their best and with what she pulled with Mikoshi, well V has enough money to have her own place. Although she misses the sun, the love and feeling of belonging in the Aldecaldo’s she manages just fine back into old habits and places of Night City. But, her dreams are plagued with vivid nightmares of not just Rogue’s death but Saul’s. V doesn’t sleep anymore. V doesn’t look or seem like V anymore. She is tired and trying but she is dying and it hurts and it sucks. So she loses herself again, she becomes who she was in the time she was in Atlanta. It isn’t until she gets a voicemail of concern from Panam and Mitch she snaps out of it. It’s been a year since Mikoshi and things aren’t as good as they thought. Vik asked to stop seeing for three months before the year anniversary as everything appeared to be looking up but in that time, things got worse.

Her body, the pain she felt and the small moments of completely not being inside her head they grew. It was a constant pain now, like a tinnitus but for the body. So, she took medications, a lot of them and hid what was happening to everyone that she worked for or with at the Afterlife. She buried the pain, she buried herself and let her name rise up. Working on that new project and working out how to save her own life. The year that follows this is one that holds nothing but loss and pain for V. Constant updates to cyberwear to try and keep her together but, nothing works. She has to stop the merc work. Shorting out in missions, almost dying because of bullet holes. She may have her name next to Rogue and Jackie on the Afterlife menu but this wasn’t the life of a legend she wanted. She lives in a castle, alone with the money she got from Mikoshi for destroying Arasaka during the last two years. The total isolation, it takes time, slowly pulling herself away and losing everything and everyone she loves. She stops answering the phone. She gets a new place, a small one under a fake name out in Pacifica. She lives there for the next year. And the last month, that single month that she is away from hitting that third official year of being free. She is off the grid. V no longer exists. Stacks and stacks of voicemails, Vik, Misty, Panam, Mitch, Kerry, River, hell some people she only worked with once. She finally listens, because she knows its coming, it is like every single one of the relic malfunctions is hitting her at once the last few days and she wants to hear what they all have to say about her, to her. V dies, in a house under a fake name listening to endless voicemails. It happens at exactly midnight on the third year of being the anniversary of what happened at Mikoshi. She impacted so many people and had friends, family but to spare them, to hopefully avoid all the pain V died how she lived.

                                              𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫