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Vijay through the years – Part 2 of 4

|—2064: Sweet Sixteen. |

|—2068: Rebel Yell.

SHORT VERSION: (for the long version klick the Keep Reading under the time line and skip the short version) What has happened to the cute cinnamon boy from next door? The answer is simple: bad influence — through a girl named Reva, he met around 2065 and fell in love with. Vijay saw no sense in staying with his parents who didn't care about him anyway, so he went off to live with Reva and the gang she was in instead. The result? — three years of thievery, harassment, vandalism, violence and even murdering. He also started smoking, drinking and taking drugs. Reva was addicted to add cyberware to her body and in three years only she replaced more and more of it with chrome. That combined with hard drugs she was taking all Vijay was able to do was to watch her disintegration. It went so far, that she wanted him to modify his body as well, trying to force him, but he didn’t want to replace any of his limbs. Though he loved her, at some point he knew if he didn't break up and cut ties completely to everyone from that group it wouldn't have ended well for him. Well, it almost cost him his life because Reva turned Cyberpsycho one day, attacking him with her mantis blades that cut his throat, luckily leaving him alive but damaging his thyroid so, it had to be replaced with a synth one, visibly seen on his throat. After rehabilitation and finishing school, he set for a new start in a city far away from Portland: Night City. Vijay does not talk about this span of his life. He buried it deep down in his memories and would love to entirely forget about it, but the memories keep coming back in form of nightmares. And mantis blades can be a huge trigger for him.

| |—2073: Shock to the System. | |—2077: Neuromancer.

LONG VERSION:

At some point of his life in 2065 Vijay met a girl named Reva. Well, you could already say she was a young woman, because she was about three years older than him. V was fascinated by her appearance because she didn’t look like any other girl he knew from school. She looked rebellious — dressed all in black, had a side cut and if he had to describe it in a style, he’d say she looked like a goth-punk-rock girl. He took a liking of her immediately. She was doing things he’d never dared to do, she smoked, she was fearless, she loved to prank and every story she told of herself sounded exciting to him. Vijay didn’t see it as bad influence on him back then but it definitely turned out to be exactly that. He was a naïve young guy who happened to be totally over the moon for her. She would spoil him almost completely.

One day, Reva offered him that she could get him a cyberdeck. Vijay was really into hacking and read a lot about cyberdecks and quick hacks. He had found himself a liking to hack into computers, servers and practically anything that is connected to the net by using his own devices just for reading about information while staying invisible. He took the offer and Reva took him to the place where she lived. A friend of her started to make himself a living by becoming a ripper doc and through him V got his very first cyberdeck. Of course, he had to do something in return for that because he couldn’t pay for it. The favor he had to do was hacking into Portland’s police data base system to delete a few files that gave any info on Reva’s gang. Easy task for him. Thrilled from that new triumph he licked blood and the gang saw potential in him as well.

Reva showed him the entire place and he met all the people she lived with — you could call them some kind of a nameless outlaw gang where everyone really seemed to live either some punk-rock or vampire-goth style (the last one is to take seriously as well, because at some point in those three years a few of the gang really started believing they were vampires, getting themselves vampire fangs, drinking blood and only be active at night). Vijay got excited — it was the entire opposite of what he’d known so far. Out of nowhere, he was thrilled to become a part of it. To break this cycle of his boring and often lonely life of the teenager he was. Following rules, taking orders, always be polite, learn all day so you get good grades — for what? He didn’t know what to do with his life anyway. So, he decided to join these people — not caring about school. Not caring about the future. Not even caring about his parents. They didn’t care about him anyway in the past 17 years. So, what?

That’s when he started being a different Vijay. He dyed his naturally ginger hair black, shaved his sides and added piercings over the following three years to his body. His wardrobe changed into one of a rocker-like style, so he’d fit the overall gang look and started living a life as a true Portland rebel outlaw. That of course included him starting to be involved into thievery, robbing, vandalism, harassments, using violence and also sometimes murder in self-defense. He taught himself to shoot a gun at a self-constructed shooting range and he developed his skills in quick hacking where he definitely found a liking in using mostly non-lethal or useful hacks at first such as Overheat, Short Circuit or Breach Protocol and Cyberware Malfunction. Once he experienced that he was also able to kill someone by also using quick hacks only such as Suicide or Synapse Burnout he kind of felt inviolable. But he was also scared after using it the first time. The sheer power it gave him to decide about life and death was something very dangerous he could play with. He had to keep himself under control not to use it too often because it awakened a rush deep inside him, a superior feeling of being untouchable, that he could be the one deciding whose life was to hang by a thread. He agreed with himself he would only make use of it in desperate situations.

Of course, he also started to smoke, drink and — yes, he also took drugs. Why? — Because everyone did and they all said it was a great feeling it gave you, so Vijay didn’t hesitate any moment. He had no fear of taking some but consumed mostly Blue Glass or Stim drugs, though. The hallucinogenic Blue Glass had this amazing flashing out effect on him, where he often stared blankly at pretty neon colors in his mind that began to form the craziest 80s style vaporwave worlds he could have ever imagined — and he already had a very bright imagination without the use of any drug when he was daydreaming escaping into his fantasy worlds back when he was still a kid. Somehow, he had been rational enough not to take the real hard stuff — either it was because he was completely fine with being on Blue Glass only or because of the stories he had heard and even witnessed what some drugs were able to do to a human.

The first year and a half were times full of fun, excitement, thrill and new experiences for Vijay. He felt completely wrapped up in his new self. After having his first time with Reva and losing his virginity as well he was able to live out the sex life he was having the wildest fantasies about for so long (everything in the city is sexualized so teenagers get early into contact with that sadly). She was fun and loved to experiment. This was also the time Vijay eventually found the explanation why he liked men and women the same way — he discovered he is bisexual. By reaching teenage age he slowly noticed that he didn't want to kiss only girls but also boys but thought it was wrong at first since all his male school friends had been with girls. So, he did the same, until someday, when a young man joined the gang a year after him, who Vijay found quite attractive. That young man made a move and kissed him while the gang was having fun at a lake going skinny dipping. Reva was the one to encourage the two to try out some more. She was completely fine with it. Maybe it was just because everybody has been permanently high from the consume of drugs — however, Vijay was still in a happy relationship with Reva which soon was doomed to turn into a nightmare.

The last year and a half, Vijay slowly began to notice that the life he lived for now was not making him really happy anymore. He was far away from being content. The use of drugs and alcohol made him look like a mess and he often felt a big emptiness inside him. He was living through the day without any reason until the gang decided they would need to rob someone because they ran out of money. He began to ask himself what was the purpose of all this? This couldn’t be it. He witnessed the ruin Portland got into because he was part of it: underclass slowly decaying in the back alleys being pumped up with drugs and robbed of the few eddies they got while the rich and filthy upper class bathed themselves in real champagne and shiny gold at luxurious parties. He wanted to do something against that but the rest of the gang didn’t. They found it too risky to get involved with the high society so they continued focusing on easier targets — and Vijay didn’t like that because it was wrong. After all, these people where in the same need of money and fighting to survive every day as them.

And to cap it all: Reva had begun to add more and more cyberware to her body. She already had lots of fashionable chrome on her face but found a liking to replace her limbs with entire cyberware such a thermal mantis blades. She simply got obsessed with it — any part that made her human needed to be replaced bit by bit. Once she got the eddies together she was always at the ripper doc getting new chrome. V began to worry about her — not only did it change her outer looks, no — her soul seemed to change as well. He tried to appeal to her conscience but it was no use getting through even not a breach protocol helped because he wasn’t advanced enough to get through. She was addicted to replace everything. She even went so far trying to get him into it as well as soon as she seemed to run out of what she could replace on herself.

But Vijay didn’t intend to replace any of his limps neither to add some cosmetic cyberware. The cyberdeck and his Kiroshi optics he got were already enough for him. He saw no sense at all in replacing any well-functioning part of his body with some partly cheap chrome. The love Reva once had for V slowly vanished and brought up only anger, disappointment and indifference. She developed violent tendencies — first only verbally but soon to be physically as well — her character completely changed with being almost fully chromed and high on drugs. All Vijay was able to do was that he could watch Reva’s disintegration. It hurt him to see her like this, to live through it each day. Some days she felt a little better but most times it was only torture for both of them.

Once he found out she was taking Black Lace, Vijay got to a point where he realized, that this couldn’t go on like this. Either she stopped taking this very dangerous shit and got help or he had to leave for his own good. He didn’t want to see her fall apart while his hands were tied, yet he couldn’t leave her because he loved her. He tried everything he could but she didn’t seem to want any help. She needed that stuff so badly, she failed to resist the addiction, so that it ate away her last bit of humanity throwing her into cyberpsychosis. That was when the worst case eventually happened: Reva attacked V with her thermal blades. She wasn’t able to divide between friend or foe — anything was a thread to her. Vijay almost lost his life that day because one blade pierced his throat just so, that his entire thyroid took damage, thankfully not hitting any important arteries. He was only able to prevent getting his head chopped off by rapidly using the Synapse Burnout quick hack on her that stopped her from ending him — but in a lethal way for her.

He didn’t know how he managed to get out of this entire situation. All he knew was that he dragged himself away from her lifeless body having a blurry vision, pressing one hand onto his throat until he fainted with everything turning black. The next he remembered was waking up in some kind of shady hospital. Someone had brought him there and left him at the doorstep was all the doc would tell. The thermal blades thankfully almost burned the open wound so there wasn’t much of blood loss. His thyroid was completely damaged and had to be replaced with a synthetic one alongside with a few vocal chords that took damage as well. From now on Vijay had to live with a visible scar in form of cyberware on his throat (there is no visible scar left because the skin there is synthetic as well). While everyone just saw some fashionable chrome on him, he would always be reminded of his past and the horrible denouement the first love in his life came to an end. He killed Reva. He had to do it. She would have killed him. One quick hack and she got chipped out of the system. He’ll never forgive himself even though she was lost already. That he couldn’t breach through the wall. That the cybernetics consumed her identity. That he wasn’t able to stop her from becoming cyberpsycho. The only exit was to hit delete.

It took him four months of rehabilitation before he was able to pick up where he left: finishing school and getting his life back together somehow. Once he passed his exams he decided to leave Portland behind and set for a new start in a city far away from the past: Night City. He brought back the happy cute guy he was from before, just in a grown-up version — completely burying the past three years somewhere deep in his mind not telling anyone about it. Nobody would believe him anyway. There are days where he almost entirely forgets about it because life keeps him busy — he started studying marine biology — and he’s thankful for the second chance. He doesn’t try to cling on the past, because he lived right here and now. Yet the memories will haunt him for the rest of his life in form of nightmares — and mantis blades ready for action will continue to remind him and be a huge trigger, when they cross his personal space.

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I wish I could have written in a different view. not only the view of a story teller but also in Vijays view, so it would have maybe more emotions and all. But if I did that I'd spend like half a year on this to get it to a point where I like what I've written and this ist not going to happen.

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Vijay through the years – Part 3 of 4

|—2064: Sweet Sixteen. | |—2068: Rebel Yell. |

|—2073: Shock to the System.

After Vijay left Portland behind to start a new life in Night City at the beginning of 2069 he also went back to his natural ginger hair color. The first two years he's mostly been busy studying marine biology, but soon noticed you need a lot of money to live in a city like Night City. For a while he took every job he could get to buoy up. Of course V also went to dive into NC's night life. He found a liking into to dancing and to party all night long, so he'd be nuts if he didn't go exploring the variety of it reaching form gay night clubs such as Dicky's to shady underground shacks nobody know of their existence. Some day he met Ryder von Scharfenberg, a German dude, at a Depeche Mode party he attended to. Both noticed pretty fast, they liked each other, so they started a relationship that would last about a year. They stayed friends and Vijay would ask him later to join his team he created together with Jackie Welles. Ryder is his go-with-mate when it comes to party to 1980s songs (though Ryder is more the dark/goth wave type rather than 80s disco - but they share a big love for Depeche Mode together). Speaking of Jackie: Vijay ran into him the first time around 2073. Jackie soon became his best friend and introduced V to the mercenary business. It took them a good while and some crazy gigs until they finally made it into the Afterlife.* Vijay immediately loved the atmosphere of that place and found a liking in bein a merc, so he decided to make a living with it — hopefully becomming rich some day. Ryder joined the team in 2074 and a year later Hizumi was asked as well. Together as a team their goal was from now on to make some parts of NC safer for citizens and to clear out mostly gangs, be a shock to the entire running shady system in NC. They got their gigs from fixers at the Afterlife and for a time being they were willing to do almost every job as long as you got a good amount of Eddies as reward.

| |—2077: Neuromancer.

*In my head canon, V knows Jackie a lot earlier and they also get to go to the Afterlife a lot earlier and not like how it is in the game.

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Vijay Steyr — through the years.

2064 — 2068 — 2073 — 2077

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Vijay through the years – Part 4 of 4

|—2064: Sweet Sixteen. | |—2068: Rebel Yell. | |—2073: Shock to the System. |

|—2077: Neuromancer.

I've got not much to tell about it other than this got two ways to go:

The official way: As in all events of Cyperpunk 2077 are going to happen to him. Vijay as a streetkid, want's to be rich enough, that he can live a normal life some day and stay alive (find a cure).

The headcanon way: Where Vijay lives the normal merc live, Jackie sadly still dies on a job, though. V sticks his nose too far into some urban legend stuff he likes to do in between his daily job live and gets confronted with the Demon of Kabuki. He meets Arki. The latter was going through the events of CP77, freed Johnny Silverhand and continued on with his journey of the battle for his own freedom.

He tells Vijay about what happened: the biochip, Johnny, Arasaka and all the shady stuff that came along with it, after V finds some parts of Adam Smasher in a display, Arki took home as a trophy, wanting to know what it's all about. Arki pretty much tells him everything he needs to know: memory manipulation, AI installments, Mr. Blue Eyes, the Night family etc. It simply blows his mind, yet he decides to help Arki on his journey — and yeah, something between them is about to spark as well.

And one thing is for sure: V wants to become one of the greatest hackers and be alongside the best mercs of Night City — eat the rich, burn corpo shit, wipe out some gangs that are poison to the city. He'll try anything to help making the abyss, the city is getting soaked into, narrower. Night City sure can't be brought back to any of the glory it was supposed to be but if noone is doing anything about it it won't solve itself. And as a team you can achieve more than a solo.

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Vijay through the years – Part 1 of 4 |—2064: Sweet Sixteen.

Roughly 16 years old, Vijay Steyr was just like any other good boy parents could be proud of — they just didn't care in his case. He brought good grades back home, he didn't do bad things that would bring consequences, he had no pranks in mind — he simply was everybody’s sweetheart. Even though he had a lot of friends in school, Vijay often felt like kind of disconnected, spent most of the time with day dreaming, reading books about marine life or hacking into the net to soak up even more information on any stuff he came across that he found interesting. He saw no purpose in what he would be going to do after school either. He just lived through the daily life circle of a simple teenage boy that consisted of: getting up early, going to school, doing homework, meeting up with friends in the city, mostly going to play arcade games, watching movies at home in the evening, going to sleep. Repeat. His life would soon lead him into a completely different direction.

| |—2068: Rebel Yell. | |—2073: Shock to the System. | |—2077: Neuromancer.

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Vijay Steyr – Blade Runner 2049 -esque style

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At the foot of the Dark Matter, Westbrook, Japantown, Night City.

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"Shion MZ2. Upgraded turbo. Increased tire grip. The fasted of all Shions. Jackie, I tell ya – once I made enough Eddies, I'm gonna buy that babe." – Vijay Steyr

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Same guy moments later:

I wouldn't say he looks like he could kill you – he definitely does not, but – he's a cinnamon roll.

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"Hey-hey good lookin', what you got cookin'?"

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