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Welcome to The Jungle!

Johnny Silverhand Cosplay by Brian Matyas

Clipped from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty — Launch Party | Phantom Liberty Tour London.

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The Most Unreliable Narrator I Have Ever Seen

soooooo I had a Cyberpunk-obsessed phase pass recently, and this time Johhny Silverhand's character caught my eye. His story, more specifically, and how... inconsistent he seems, depending on each source.

In the game, Johhny acts like a bastard for most of the game. He panic-rages on his first meeting with V, throws many threats around, but is later beaten into the background with the blocker pills Misty gave to V. Even Johnny's friends' are well, they react Loudly to his return. Y'know, make it known his presence alone provokes a lot of anger from them.

Even during his first appearance, when V gets thrown into Silverhand's memories of his SAMURAI concert, the only real thing V recalls is the all-consuming rage that he felt, which he tried to shout out through the microphone, but it never felt like enough.

And doesn't this sound weird then, that the only thing Johnny does throughout the game after that first meeting is help V out? He learns about the Smasher guy hideout at the docks (he does that through dubious means but that's Johnny for you), he helps V out when the seizures become worse, he calmly agrees to Any decision V makes, despite V clearly Not being in any real state to oppose him in the finale of the game, he plans the whole thing with "Alt" so V can get his body back at Johnny's own expense, from the beginning, and he doubles down on that claim at the end of the game.

Do you see the dissonance? The egoist rockerboy that admitted to using his friends to getting what he wants, and the downright self-sacrificing hero and a friend that is Johnny at the end of the game? People change, sure, but this divide is very massive and too sudden, so I wanted to dig into that. And what I've stumbled upon, with the help of canon Cyberpunk materials like the Red sourcebook (or, more specifically, LayedBackGamers' reading of the canon books and his lore videos on different topics), is that

Johhny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 is the Most Unreliable Narrator I've Ever Seen.

Count with me here:

Johhny's personality in general. No matter what your interpretation of him his, it's impossible to ignore that Johhny is very much a people person and he exploits that knowledge and charisma to suit his own goals. If you choose to trust him, then you might have already been played.

2) Johhny has been alone, only his lovely self for 50+ years inside the Arasaka chip. Don't ask me how he is still even remotely sane, I haven't got a clue (hopefully the time as a construct without outside stimulation flies differently and he hasn't felt those 50 years in real time). The thing to mention here, however, is that, being alone with your thoughts and emotions for a long time, having nothing else for entertainment, is a great opportunity to rewrite your own memory of events or emotions you've felt.

3) Lack of a body. The aforementioned constant rage, that was the dominant emotion is Johnny's life (before Alt, at least, if Never Fade Away is anything to go by, and I mean, that's literally a love ballad), is a symptom of his PTSD from his too-young years serving in the corpo war, same as his signature silver hand. I'm not a specialist here, but I do know PTSD, especially for war veterans, is a physiological illness just as much as it is a mental one. Johnny's body literally had trouble living normally after that experience, and knowing this bastard - he never managed to treat that. Existing as a personality construct frees him from the many bonuses of being corporeal, but it also free him from the physiological side of PTSD. His day-to-day existence is fundamentally different from that of the Johnny Silverhand that the world knew 50 years ago, so yes, as a 'time traveler' or a source of information and comparison about the 70's and 20's of cyberpunk world Johhny is not a good source.

4) The chip with Johnny is literary inside the head of another person. The characters in game question, multiple times, just which decisions is V making on his own, and which of them might be Johnny's doing. Not consciously, no, but V and Johnny are clearly not your simple neighbours. They are not your 'close friends that start subconsciously copying each other' too. It is quite possible that the chip with Johhny is adapting to the 'hardware' it is running on, so it is specifically implementing parts of V's personality into Johnny, to minimize the 'friction' between the personality and the body it is supposed to inhabit. Everyone say hi to existential horror)

5) How does Soulkiller ever work? Is there data on how much the resulting engram actually resembles the person it tried to copy? How did the process of copying Johnny go? I can answer the last one - very badly.

Death of Johnny is told in excruciating detail in the Cyberpunk sourcebooks. Johnny died on the floor of Arasaka tower, torn in two by a shotgun blast from Smasher. There is no information on how much time it takes Soulkiller to create the engram from the brain, but it better have finished doing that before Johnny's brain started dying from a lack of blood and oxygen, and he clearly didn't have much time either, considering bisection is not the best for bodily fluid preservation, so it's a wonder the engram even works properly. Plus, during the initial heist to steal the chip with Johnny, the chip was damaged further before the idiots decided to stick an unknown harddrive into their heads to preserve it. Basically, it's nothing short of a miracle, that engram-Johnny is actually a whole damn person, that he can function, think and feel properly (well, as much as Johnny can do those things)

It is very sad that V can't talk to Johnny about this, as the man does blame himself over things he hasn't even done, and he had done enough emotional damage to himself and people around him without that kind of burden on top of it.

6) Johnny's memories are literally false. The attentive reader had to pick this up in my previous point - didn't Johnny die in the hands of Arasaka after they interrogated him? Nope. Nope, and I can say that confidently because,

(drumroll please)

Cyberpunk tabletop sourcebooks! Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk universe and the TTRP series of games, has worked closely with CDPR writers during the production of the 2077. He oversaw everything, and he says that 2077 is in the same cyberpunk universe too, it's not an 'alternate reality' or anything.

Johnny Silverhand died while trying to buy time for his friends to escape, from a shotgun shot from Adam Smasher. That's it, he died on that floor, there was noone to interrogate, no rooftop helicopter he ran for.

The sequence of 'memories' we see from Johnny's POV in the game is a mishmash of two different assaults on the Arasaka towers, yes towers there were two of them. There is a great video explaining all the small and Major details Johnny's version of events got wrong, because we have the sourcebooks and the text inside. You may accuse me of holding a 'holy canon' argument ... and well, yeah, this is kind of holy knowledge, as it was written for gamemasters.

Still, some of the things in Johnny's version are Major, and while the media certainly covered the whole story extensively with corpo propaganda (oh, btw, Johnny didn't bomb anything, he probably didn't even know there was a nuke involved, he is literally just a scapegoat), there are some holes that a citizen of this world might know and wish to poke. The aforementioned Two Arasaka towers, or the absence of the legendary solo Morgan Blackhand from Johnny's story. Interestingly enough, there is a radiostation of Maximum Mike in-game, who is actually just pretty much Mike Pondsmith, and he does propose a couple of questions the 'official' version of the attack doesn't cover (like, where would a rockerboy even get a nuke, he might have been popular, but that's not just something you find without military contracts, and that means corporations). Another thing is that since Arasaka owns Soulkiller and has had the engram for a couple of decades, it is quite possible they are the ones responsible for messing with Johnny's memories.

So uh, yeah, Johnny is the Most Unrealible Narrator I have ever seen. Johnny of 2077 is most certainly not the Johnny of 2020's, but this might be a good thing. Maybe the 'real' 2020's Silverhand could never have made the progress the engram did, or become such a good friend and companion for V, or maybe he could have done those things too. We'll never know. I really love this story anyway.

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My Sunshine || Johnny Silverhand ||

A/n: I lied...this is my last Johnny Silverhand thing I am posting here but I wanted a somewhat soft Johnny so I wrote it.

I got a lot of requests for Decker from Love,death and Robots so while I am writing those I have this....so enjoy.

Warnings: Swearing, Johnny being Johnny. { still being a perv }

Summary:

Johnny thought he had it all when V popped into his life, the former Rock star finally found a woman of his dreams. Though he supposed his heart was big enough when his little girl came into his life, his Sunshine.

Johnny Silverhand didn't know how to react when V first told him that she was pregnant, to many emotions had ran through his mind. It took a long talk with one Ripper Doc named Victor and of course the threat by Jackie Welles from him to finally calm down. He never really knew how long a pregnancy was but shit did V look good through out every trimester. She seemed to glow, he would by lying to himself if he didn't think she was attractive. V or Valerie as he come to known her now was already a beautiful woman but now, shit he really couldn't get enough of her.

Then his little girl was born and his view on his dump of a rock changed everything, while he loved V more than anything he thought it would be it but his Sunshine, well she was just another piece to make him a better person. He knew that this little girl was wrapped around his finger was when she smiled up at him. V was sleeping, out for the night after a long night then his little girl started crying. Not wanting to wake the woman he loved he decided to take care of his kid himself, it took him singing for her to settle down and right before she closed her eyes she gave him a smile.

As she started to groan he noticed how much she started to look like V, while her hair wasn't as light as her mothers it was still a pretty blonde and though she looked like V his little girl was 100% his kid with just her attitude alone, a spitfire she was.

"How's daddy's little Sunshine." Grinning Johnny opened his arms wide to catch his little girl in time, though his smiled faltered once her got a look at V's face. Clearing out his throat he stood up holding his daughter to side. 

"Something wrong Princess.?"

"You can say that Johhny...Nora...why don't you tell daddy what you did today?"

Nora, his own bundle of Sunshine looked up at him with wide innocent eyes, her hair that was in pig tails swung wildly as she shook her head."I didn't do anythin daddy! someone called mommy fat! so I said that he better take that back or my daddy is gonna find him and put a bullet in his stupid fucking head."

Blinking it took him a moment to even register what had happened, did his little girl just swear? But once it hit him he started to laugh. Though V was scowling at him, her hands on her hips. "It's not funny Johnny."

Shaking his head the man took a few steps as he placed his hand on V's very pregnant stomach. "Come on it's a little funny. Shit I wish I was ya. Must have been so damn adorable." Placing his daughter down he ruffled the little girls hair, said child beaming up at her father. Same damn smile Johnny always wore.

 "Scratch that! I'm happy I wasn't cause I would have knocked that bastard on his ass, dumb ass doesn't know a smoking hot chick when he see's one..."

“Johnny.!” Sighing V pinched the bridge of her nose, she could already feel a headache forming."Can you just refrain from not swearing in front or Nora....or our next child." 

Distracted, she missed when Johnny walked towards her, his hand moving to caress her belly as he gave her a crooked smile."...Shit Princess I'll try. just for you okay..." 

Kneeling down he gave his daughter a smile. "And Sunshine." Lowering his voice so V wouldn't hear him he held his hand out. "Promise no swearing in front of mommy alright."

Giggling, Nora nodded her head as she then gave her father a small fist bump when he closed his hand. "Ok."

"Great now who's hungry?!"

Wrapping his hand around around V’s waist Johnny watched as his child jump up down in excitement.

“Me!me!Me!”

Leaning in close to his wife Johnny placed a kiss to the nape of her neck. “Don’t worry V, this will tucker our little Sunshine out. And once she I’m gonna fuck ya good in that Porsche.”

Cheeks burning V rolled her eyes. “I’ll hold you to that Silverhand.”

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character study

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Layer 01: The Outside

Name: Vera Hendrix ( Likes to be called V )

Eye Color: Before she came to Night City they were a dark brown that looked like polished ebony. Now, she wears purple-colored contacts.

Hair Style/Color: Her original hair color was black and her style was a mass of dark curls that framed her face. Her current hair style is similar to what Rogue had in her younger years...except it’s purple. 

Height: 5′2′’

Clothing Style: Dresses in dark purples and blacks. Settled for a Kitsch look to blend in. 

Best Physical Feature: Her eyes. 

Layer 02: The Inside

Fears: Losing her freedom, death, losing all she holds dear, the dark.

Guilty Pleasures: Sleeping in, junk food, driving fast with no restrictions.

Biggest Pet-peeves: Squeaky shopping carts, dirty areas, people singing loud in public, unwanted physical contact.

Ambitions For The Future: Make it big, leave Night City, get the chip out of her head. 

Layer 03: Thoughts

First Thought Waking Up: “I’m still in hell...”

What They Think About Most: How good her life was before her parents died and the clan fell apart, getting Johhny Silverhand out of her head, a way to help Takemura without giving up her morals, Mama Welles delicious cooking, food, old regrets, leaving Night City. 

What They Think About Right Before Bed: “I’m still breathing, so that’s a plus.”

What They Think Their Good Quality Is: Her sense of family. 

Layer 04: Either Or

Single or Group Dates: Single. Vera prefers to spend as much alone time as she can with Takemura. 

To Be Loved or Respected: Respected.

Beauty or Brains: brains; Brains. She cannot stand stupidity.

Dogs or Cats: Both. 

Layer 05: Do They...

Lie: If absolutely necessary. Sometimes you must lie to survive.

Believe In Themselves: It depends. She has confidence in her skill as a mercenary, but there are moments when she’ll doubt herself and hate herself for not being “good” enough for the job. 

Believe In Love: Yes. Her parents were deeply in love and had a strong marriage. She wanted a love like theirs and found it in Takemura. 

Want Someone: Takemura. No one compares to him. 

Layer 06: Have They...

Been On Stage: Yes. Kerry was determined to have her sing up onstage with him and with Johnny’s help, she played like a pro. 

Done Drugs: Only once. She needed to get that spider bot from Maelstrom and if that meant taking a whiff then so be it. 

Changed Who They Were To Fit In: Sometimes. Vera will often mirror the people around her to blend in or make them feel comfortable enough to confide in her.

Layer 07: What’s Their...

Favorite Color: Purple and Black.

Favorite Animal: Coyote.

Favorite Book: Pride & Prejudice.

Favorite Game: Boxing. 

Layer 08: Age

Day Their Next Birthday Will Be: July 3

How Old Will They Be: 28

Layer 09: I...

I Love: My friends, Jackie, Takemura, Vik, Misty, and even Johnny...

I Feel: Scared. I don’t want to die...

I Hide: How afraid I am. 

I Miss: My parents. They were my rock. 

I Wish: I could go back in time and tell Dex to go fuck himself. That Heist was a death trap. 

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Outtakes

Out-takes ... V and River's relationship starts rockier than the game implies. Because girl has issues.

"I... I'm sorry, I need to go. This is a bad idea, River." - "V. Wait."

"PEPE! More tequila!"

"One of those nights again, Pepe? Go ahead, I unlocked the elevator for you." - "Thanks, Ana." - "Don't mention it. I'll make sure to tell Toni at shift change to check on her in the morning."

"Call him." - "Why do you even care, Johnny? You don't like him." - "I am an expert of running away from commitment. It isn't worth it. Call him." -"Ugh... fine."

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El Coyote Cojo

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my cyberpunk edit

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Johnny looks so cute with his smug smile and lazy pose I'm-

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CITY ALWAYS WINS IN THE END