#cyberpunk 2077 spoilers

[dreamskug]

Not random, this place, is it?

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

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[elvenbeard]

POV: You’re very gay and problematic older men (affectionate) keep distracting you from the very pressing issue of figuring out how not to die from the problematic older man (derogatory) living on the experimental biochip in your head.

(I know River is not that much older than V probably but ssshhh, it counts)

Bonus:

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

Late to the party but Goro should have been a romance option. This man’s voice. The way he looks at V. His general vibes. Just yes.

[xsdjkl]

How many times V and So Mi touch each other?

Total count as well every scene included is under cut. Hope I didn't miss anything. If I did, feel free to add :)

I counted scenes with So Mi's Relic version as well, even though technically they can't touch each other

Also, I allowed myself to add some comments in few scenes

Enjoy ;)

EDITED: Total count: 27/9

First number for siding with So Mi, second - siding with Reed

Dog Eat Dog - V tries to touch So Mi

Dog Eat Dog - So Mi grabs V's hand

THAT SCENE i was screaming

You Know My Name - V meets So Mi face to face and touches her back

You Know My Name - Songbird reestablishes Relic conection through touch

You Know My Name - the same

The Damned (I won't count it, but still wanted to include it ) - So Mi tries to touch V

Firestarter - V helps So Mi get up from the ground

Killing Moon - they touch each other so many times, it was actually difficult to count 😅

V comforts So Mi in the van

So Mi and V hide from the helicopter

my beloved water scene - V helps So Mi get up (and notice how she holds on to V as long as she can 🥹)

Tower scene, V kneels down and places their hand on So Mi's knee

when V connects to Songbird via personal link, So Mi takes their hand into her own

V touches So Mi's shoulder before she connects to the Blackwall

V helps So Mi stand up

EDIT : V protects So Mi from the helicopter blast (I reached attachment limit, so I can't add this gif here😥. EDIT2: I removed one gif to add this one! Also, huge thanks @jshepardtsoni for reminding me about that scene in ur tags 💙)

V checks if So Mi's still alive

V picks So Mi up (her voice breaks me)

V helps So Mi sit down in the train

Knee scene 🥹🥹 *pat pat*

V keeps So Mi awake (was I the only person who had flashbacks to Jackie's death?? I was so scared for her ._.)

A little help from V

V places So Mi on the ground

AND I'M SORRY, BUT V DIDN'T HAVE ANY REASON TO HOLD SO MI'S HAND FOR SO LONG

there is no heterosexual explanation for this

V picks So Mi up from the ground

V places So Mi in the seat

V prepares So Mi for the flight

Last time V touches So Mi

Somewhat Damaged - EDIT3: Added gif. I reached attachment limit tho, so not all scenes are shown :')

Comforting So Mi - V hugs her and the way she's holding their hand is just destroying me. and the hand nuzzle ._. i'm weak

Also, V can shake So Mi instead of hugging her

this fcking scene ._. and it's worth mentioning that V touches So Mi's face twice

V carries So Mi's body from the car

[arasakadog]

[tau1tvec]

Tell me all the ways I hurt your name If you could see You wanna keep me as forever But it was just all a game [♫]

[kharonion]

Hi I'm suddenly Emotional thinking about this one tiny part of Kerry's quest...

Seems like a generic video game thing of "oh wow, look at his unique weapon for your collection", but to me, it's anything but.

Because this is the same firearm Kerry walks out of the shower with. And sure, you can write that off as something less if you want but... the implications are harrowing.

Especially when you think about the moments in Holdin' On—when Johnny tells V about Kerry's past attempts on his own life, when Kerry evades all the questions about the tabloids and then lets slip how everyone in his employ has that very day off. When you think about how he doesn't need to readily arm himself for defense because he has numerous bots patrolling the villa at all times.

When you think about the implication that if V did not show up that day, there would've been catastrophic consequences.

And now, we fast-forward to this moment in A Like Supreme, when Kerry hands V the very pistol that could've resulted in that awful result.

The trust he puts into V in this very moment is astronomical, brings me to tears every damn time. Kerry is basically saying without words to V "hey, you saved my damn life", and he takes the first step toward a new lease on life, feeling more invigorated—and even a smidgen more positive.

Essentially, this is just a small yet powerful moment that tugs at my soul every time, and I wanted to talk about it. :')

[merlgeim]

I'm sure these two would get along concerningly well.

[gamingladies]

"V? What're you doing here?"

Meeting Lizzy Wizzy again in Phantom Liberty

[humberg]

'This city won't be the same without you. Least for me.'

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[dreamskug]

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

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[sh00kspeared]

Cyberpunk 2077 poetry geekery incoming:

The fact that this poem is entitled Death of a Mercenary and can be found on Johnny’s dresser during the Temperance ending just breaks my heart. It’s so beautiful and symbolic of their relationship! “With you I wished to be and so I go”, “still the glassy dust will naught but rise”, “the chill-bleached delirium of desire”... argh, my literature nerd heart! I love this poem so much. Johnny and V love each other so much. I have spoken.

[elvenbeard]

"Fuck, was that V just walkin' in?" "Shit... think so. What's been goin' on with him ever since that gig?"

--------------------------- Had this scene rotating in my brain for a while and I really wanted to do a little drawing of my poor boy during a not so good time... walking into the Afterlife more dead than alive but with some important business to talk that cannot wait!

I wanna include the full scene in one way or another in my Post-Sun-Ending fic at some point, as it's a little subject to change still 👀👀

But yeah... he's not long post some surgery that may or may not help his condition, and of course shit is hitting the fan all around him...

I so badly wanna make a mod for that eye makeup a little further down the line (and his head scars 👀) - and he's really only wearing so much of it to cover up how fucking exhausted he is. Maybe also to make himself look scary and intimidating while actually he should rest in bed rn and is physically and mentally not at his best.

Alt version without it all, just because I can:

(I pinky promise he'll be fine in the end!! I just love angst too much xD)

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

V, fumbling the holo keyboard because he and Kerry have been holed up in his kress street fuck shack doing it dirty nasty for a week and change and he’s suffering from dehydration at this point: maybe wouldn’t put it past him. the stacks tho? uh i mean. ttyl.

[engrambug]

And she had no fear

There are many reasons why I love (Don't Fear) The Reaper, and none of them have to do with being a legend. Chasing glory will never get you far.

Friends get you far. Love does.

Most of those reasons have to do with how I roleplay my V and what makes more sense for her to choose at the end of it all. She knows that Panam would ride to hell and back with her, same as Rogue would for Johnny, but she'd rather not let anybody else die in her wake. A further reason (a bigger one) is that V doesn't want to surrender her body to Johnny for what could be her final hours. After all they've been through, however, she doesn't want to spend them without him either. They've been through hell and high water together. She had taken his hand, she had become like they are.

CDPR gave us many opportunities to bond with Johnny throughout the game, be it through casual (or not-so-casual) dialogue or by giving him closure with some of his friends and ex-lovers. None of that is enough to unlock this ending, though, and in my opinion that's one small, brilliant detail (among many) in how Johnny was written.

You see, this man had his own way with people for a long, long time. And when they realized what brand of asshole he was, they turned their back on him--which, hey, fair. Now there's this merc he screws over just as he did everybody else who cared about him, and she rightly gives him shit for it. V knows him better than anybody else at this point (Johnny is a literal witness to that knowledge), and yet, she finds it in her to give him another chance. The last one, sure. But nobody had done that before, knowing what she knows.

It's no wonder that the ending in which he trusts V enough to storm Arasaka tower with him, on their lonesome, is only possible when V shows Johnny she trusts him enough not to blow his last chance at friendship.

So yeah, there are a lot of reasons why I absolutely love this ending, and most of them are sappy. Sorry, this was meant to be a funny one. Let's get on with it: Did you know that the Arasaka guards at the HQ will get more scared the longer you fight hordes and hordes of them without going down? I've compiled most, if not all, of them.

They're fairly confident in the lobby. A random merc just strolled in like it was a supermarket, no biggy. Shit starts to get real when the random merc manages to make her way down to netrun operations control.

The sheer panic in their voice is conveyed even through text. Yelling about needing backup, covering fire--wondering how the fuck she's still standing against a building full of Arasaka soldiers. They're not just scared, they're bewildered.

By the time V reaches the tower's mainframe, they know they're not getting out of there alive. Some kind of demon has been unleashed in Arasaka HQ, and they're cannon fodder.

I have to give it to CDPR: They wrote one hell of an end for V's story--both the meaningful trigger and the mission itself, full of little details that make it feel viscerally real. The relic eating away at what's left of V's body while she's still in it; Johnny's help and support, for the first time letting go of the snarky façade; tasting the fear of your enemies in their voice as you perform a feat never seen before. There's no going back if you flatline--it's an all in. You, and the tech that was designed to replace you, fighting side by side against impossible odds.

We all know there are no happy endings in Night City, and Cyberpunk 2077 is a tragedy in three acts. But I would be lying if I said that there is no happiness at all in some of the choices we make, the causes we fight for, or the ways in which we say goodbye.

All in all, I'd say this is a pretty good one.

[danse-fucker-danse]