#by default all posts on this blog take place roughly during the in-game timeline

[bloodrosebriars]

// flops……. okay. call me naive, call this ooc, whatevs whatevs, but i’m. i think i’m gonna make it the canon of this blog that mohg eventually returns miquella to the haligtree and forsakes the formless mother by his own accord

he just. he just loves miquella so much, so much more than anything else in this world. and i’m imagining like. once miquella gets close enough to hatching, he’ll definitely visit mohg in his dreams and speak to him. of his pain. his suffering. his hatred. his own dreams. everything that mohg didn’t know and didn’t want to think about, confirmed. all those fears and horrors. and mohg will break down in guilt and do whatever he can to make miquella happy. even if it means the shattering of his own dynasty

what good is a dynasty of love led by someone so full of hate and resentment, so full of pain and suffering? and without miquella, there can be no dynasty, after all, too

hh

but if anyone wants to do a thread or dialogue that’s like, around this part in the timeline, of their muse trying to convince mohg to bring miquella back, of them helping him through his doubts, of helping him learn to grieve and deal with guilt, of him as a fresh sewer rat trying to learn to live without his powers, etc etc, totally hmu cus i’m thinkin a lot abt this aaa

[nomadpunkv]

Some note on canon divergence on this blog, I’m gonna go into some in depth stuff regarding the ending of the game as well so PLEASE! If you have not finished the game yet DO NOT READ; spoilers are head ( this post will also be tagged with the spoiler tag) !

CANON DIVERGENCE MASTERLIST ON THIS BLOG

1. Vance does not have the relic by default. In his primary main verse tagged as “ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᶜᵃⁿ ˢʰᵒʷ ᵐᵉ ʰᵒʷ ᵗᵒ ˡᵒᵛᵉ; ⁱ'ᵐ ᵍᵒⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ʷⁱᵗʰᵈʳᵃʷᵃˡˢ* ( main I )” he comes to Night City to find his twin sister, Vera, written on @streetpunkv​ is the one who meets Jackie first, goes on the heist job and ends up with the relic & Johnny Silverhand in her head. The reason Vance can SEE and HEAR and FEEL the effects of the Relic as well as Johnny Silverhand is because he and Vera are NEURALLY LINKED via a cyberware tattoo that the two of them got when Vance first reunited with her so they’d ALWAYS be together. So while by default Vance doesn’t have the relic in his head, he can FEEL it & see & hear Johnny.

2. I DO have a verse where Vance has the relic tagged “ˡᵒᵒᵏ ʷʰᵃᵗ ʸᵒᵘ'ᵛᵉ ᵈᵒⁿᵉ;ⁱ 'ᵐ ᵃ ᵐᵒᵗʰᵉʳᶠᵘᶜᵏⁱⁿ' ˢᵗᵃʳᵇᵒʸ* ( main II )” where he ends up with the Relic and it essentially swaps Vera & his place in the story and sees him being the one suffering the effects of Johnny and the relic with Vera being the one watching & feeling without actually suffering.

3. Vance is TECHNICALLY a “nomad” lifepath V, but he and his twin sister grew up in a gang out in the badlands until Vera was roughly 13 and she decided to leave to go to Night City. Vance stayed with the clan until he was 26 and decided to leave to find Vera again after he got tired of Nomad Life and being apart from his sister. This follows the baseline Nomad opening for the game, with Vance rolling into the town outside the Border of Night City in his Galena Rattler, getting comms up and running and then running his job for Jackie. However the tweak to this is during the time they’re together, Vance actually tells Jackie he’s looking for his sister, Vera. He hasn’t seen her in 13 years but he knew she set out for Night City. Jackie, having known Vera ( now going by V at this point ), discreetly calls her during their drive into the City, and this leads to Vance & Vera reuniting for the first time in 13 years. From there the 1.5 year time skip is Vance-centric in that he sticks with Jackie & V and their friends to set up roots in Night City

4. Vera is CANON across all Vance’s timelines as he’s the ENTIRE reason he’s in Night City to begin with, so she’ll come up in threads often even if it’s with OTHER Vs, but it should be assumed that she’s in existence if VANCE is in existence.

5. Vance does NOT go by “V”. He never has, and he never will. If referred to as such he’ll correct the other person.

6. Vance cares deeply about Jackie and the entire Welles family, however he chose to take VECTOR as his last name as he didn’t really have a father figure growing up and while he admires Mama Welles, Vance was closer with Viktor than anyone else and began viewing him as a father figure to the point where he eventually ( albeit quietly ), starting telling people his name is ‘Vance Vector’ and he affectionately ( and jokingly ) refers to Viktor as “the ‘ol man”.

From here on out now we’re getting into spoiler territory with the ENDINGS:

7. In Verses where Vance HAS the Relic: He does storm Arasaka with the Aldecaldos after helping Panam and their clan with as much as he does. He isn’t named an OFFICIAL Aldecaldo, but he’s an honorary member and he actually pulls a bunch of strings to help get them out of Night City once they’re ready to leave. He regularly messages Panam to see how things are going with the Aldecaldos and makes sure they know if they ever roll around town again that they’ve got a friend in the City.  Per Rogue’s Request: Vance KILLS Adam Smasher, and as a reward for doing so, takes over the Afterlife for Rogue becoming a fixer in her place so she can retire and live out a somewhat normal life now that Adam is gone, but he remains in very close contact with his sister.

8. In Verses where Vance DOES NOT have the Relic: Vance helps siege Arasaka alongside his sister and again per Rogue’s request decides to kill Adam Smasher with Vera’s help. When all is said and done and Vera returns back from splitting with Johnny’s persona and what Vance does from there is DETERMINANT upon what Vera does. 

IF VERA LEAVES NIGHT CITY: Vance doesn’t give it a second thought and absolutely goes with her regardless of what anyone tries to say, he is dedicated to staying with her and while he’ll miss people and even offer to have them tag along for the ride, he ultimately doesn’t try to force anyone to come with them on their next adventure.

IF VERA STAYS IN NIGHT CITY: As aforementioned in Vance’s relic verse, he takes over the Afterlife from Rogue ( or Vera takes over from Rogue ), after she retires and they stay TOGETHER in Night City continuing to live out their lives as they try to undermine corpos and make as many eddies as possible to become Night City Legends.

9. Vance as the Owner of Afterlife: Also another real important thing to note is Vance as the owner of Afterlife actually works WITH other Fixers from time to time. Not always of course, but from time to time he does. He also doesn’t entirely give up being a merc. Everyone in the Afterlife makes it a point to be secretive about who is in charge at the Afterlife after that and Vance is very careful to craft a narrative that makes leadership of the Afterlife elusive and mysterious to A) prevent a target from being put on his back B) make it so he doesn’t have to be completely taken out of the action with being as young as he is.