#post devil ending

[corpocyborg]

WIP WHENEVER

Tagged by @ghostoffuturespast! (Thanks! I'll never pass up an opportunity to share more WIPs.)

This time I'm going to share a bit from Chapter Two of "Beyond the Event Horizon," which is called New Future Weapon.

Summary of BTEH: During the years V spent in Mikoshi, the Human-AI war raged. Alt Cunningham breached Mikoshi, destroying the engrams contained therein. All except one. Arasaka can only speculate as to why Alt didn’t destroy V, but since she represented the only remaining trace of the Secure Your Soul program, they put her into a protective stasis mode. Now it’s become clear that the rogue AIs are winning… and Netwatch needs a new weapon. V is awakened as a superpowered android who can effortlessly slip in and out between reality and the Net. She’s Netwatch’s desperate final assault on the rogue AIs. And Arasaka’s most valuable piece of property. With the help of familiar faces such as Goro Takemura and NetWatch agent Bryce Mosley, V’s mission is to stop the rogue AI revolution and win the war for humanity. Something inside her is missing, but she’s far beyond caring.

From Ch 2 - New Future Weapon:

V moved swiftly through the group of MaxTac operatives, looking for the one in charge. MaxTac datafiles stored in her memory told her his name was Officer Theo Moss and that he was a tall, muscular man with a shockingly low amount of cyberware. In her days, MaxTac had been known for their particular proclivity for chrome, and many of their operatives had been reformed cyberpsychos. Had that changed in recent years? She could understand how the rogue AI attacks could have set off anti-cyberware sentiment in the general public, but for MaxTac to send nearly organic officers out into the field… if that was what humanity had stooped to, she wasn't surprised they were losing this war. 

She located Officer Theo Moss kneeling on the concrete, in the process of restraining one of the terrorists she’d knocked out. She walked up behind him. 

“Officer Moss,” she began, “I’m Valerie Locke, more commonly known as V. I'm with Arasaka.” 

“I know who you are,” he responded tersely. He stood up and turned to face her. His pants were covered in dust, but he didn't seem interested in brushing it off. His attention was focused solely on her. 

"Do we know who they were?" she asked.

"Not yet,” He responded, crossing his arms. “Rogue AI sympathists, evidently. No details beyond that. Records on them are wiped or inaccessible—faces, fingerprints, cyberware manufacturer codes, everything. We're bringing the survivors in for questioning."

“I'd like to be present for that.” 

“I'm afraid that won't be possible.”

She gazed at him impassively. “And why not?”

“Because rogue AI attacks and related incidents in Night City are under the jurisdiction of the NCPD. Arasaka has no right to involvement here, and neither do you.” 

“I’m the one who prevented this attack.”

“Yes, you are.” He uncrossed his arms, revealing the MaxTac logo on his chest. “Right in the nick of time too. I'm sure we're very lucky Arasaka’s androids are so punctual.”

“Are you insinuating something, Officer?” She cocked her head to one side and smiled at him politely.

“Very perceptive of you. Must be those super senses they built you with.” He stepped closer to her. Her new body was the same size as her old one, so he towered over her. If he thought that was an indication of any sort of physical advantage, he was even stupider than he seemed. “But let's not beat around the bush. I'll say it plainly. You aren't human.”

She laughed. “I'm exactly as human as Saburo Arasaka.”

“All the more reason not to trust any of you.”

Not tagging anyone this time, since I just recently tagged a bunch of people.

[shellem15]

Can I just say, I really appreciate how Critical Role plays the Devil trope straight. There's been this phenomena in a lot of modern media (I'm not going to mention specifics but I'm sure a few examples pop up in people's minds) where Hell and the Devil aren't scary or malevolent forces. Hell is portrayed as being basically the same as our world just "edgier", and the Devil is a pretty decent guy actually. Heaven are secretly the real bad guys!

But Critical Role doesn't do that. In Exandria, Asmodeus *feels* like the Devil. He's malevolent and manipulative and terrifyingly powerful and he hates you, personally. We never see that type of portrayal anymore! And it's amazing! And he still manages to be sympathetic and tragic without losing his edge!

And the "Good Gods" are portrayed as flawed without being secretly evil or something! Like, actual nuance? In my Heaven/Hell dichotomy? What!?

It's just such a breath of fresh air after so many "The Devil was right, actually" stories. So props to Matt and Brennan and the cast.

[someonetooksendnoodles]

i’m such a whore for jaw-dropping, heavily stylized, thematically laden, full of heart animation. will forever be impressed at the stories that are coming from non-disney studios having their moment to shine.

[danikoshi-doodles]

His design is SO STUPID I am completely in love

Featuring a sprinkle of Peri and Cupid tehe

[huginsmemory]

Said with love of course. Companion post to this.

[oldbutchdaniel]

daniel was so enthralled and delighted seeing louis' fangs, was fascinated with the knowledge that armand can read minds, that it stands to reason he would go balls to the wall insane to find out armand can fly. in the 70s he'd ask armand to do it all the time and armand would always do it so daniel would cheer for him and get all excited again. so in dubai in 2022 when armand is revealing himself as the ancient vampire and not the servant boy, i like to think he was like "well, there's one surefire way to make sure this reveal makes daniel's eyes bug out and makes him freak out and go crazy and realize how cool and hot and powerful i am." and then he just. starts fucking flying

[verimuru]

Time stops still when he

(Continuing where they left off in the 70s or something)

[bowtiesarecool11]

The Devil's Chord

S14 E02

[moppets]

daniel chasing armand is a fun concept but i think armand needs to chase daniel and lestat around on that world tour, groveling and begging for a crumb of attention way more

[cupcakeruth]

Business call.

It slipped out.

[puckinghischier]

NOBODY MOVE WE GOT A JACK HARD LAUNCH !!!

[bobbie-robron]

Music battle.

Doctor Who | The Devil’s Chord

[in-kyblogs]

Devil’s Minion hints - Part II // link to Part I

Part II Ep 8

- what to say of the whole ‘disregard’ debacle, well. Why do you have such an antagonistic relationship to the former house servant Daniel? What is it about him that makes you even more uncomfortable than Louis, the vampire you actually remember attacking you and almost killing you, does? Arguing as foreplay, as you say. Also clearly the memory wipe doesn’t totally erase feelings: he is angry at him even if he doesn’t remember the psychological torture, but at the same time there’s no fear. Only a need to rile Armand up. (Also Armand are you trying to look extra slutty for Daniel sitting like that? What are you doing with the unbuttoned shirts, really.)

- Mr. Molloy count: 3

- Armand is so sick and twisted btw for that little smirk when Daniel says he’s ‘a bright young reporter with a point of view’. No remorse in sight none. He’s like ‘yes you are. Do you remember who said that to you? Because I do’. My favourite sicko

- When Armand says that journalism is Daniel’s drug, wow he did really clock him. Have you seen that post about Daniel chasing an high from the adrenaline of interviewing dangerous people? Yeah. Armand really does understand him on an intimate level, like the comment in the season 2 finale also reveals. Probably too good an understanding for a superficial-I tortured you once-acquaintance. On the other hand torture sure is an intimate experience to share with someo[gunshot]

- the little wistful smile he has when he talks about ‘the boy we met in sf’.

- the way Armand can’t help but smile at Daniel’s sassy comments directed against him. Like he should want to kill him for the disrespect alone why does he seem almost fond of this insufferable human?

- I am so impressed with this episode by the way. Before seeing this season I was like ‘one hour of ww II Europe? Grim.’ I though I wouldn’t like this one and in the end it ended up being one of my favourite episodes. It’s really a character study and I loved that. Also great job at woveing in European politics (the soldiers saying ‘speak Russian’ and Emilia refusing and speaking romanian, the complex intermixing of cultures in Eastern Europe with the whole urss situation is a big thing we still see the effects of today). Usually I don’t trust at all US shows to talk about eu politics and history without making it usa centric in some way but they proved me wrong here. 9/10 episode all in all

[thehammyyammy]

obsessed with how Russell T. Davies' episodes this season have gone so quickly from "run about with space babies! the beatles return the world's music" to "ruby assassinates the prime minister. mass murder in racism city"

[paprikaries]

"Infernal Affairs" pt 2 _ WIP Sketched fanart: King Dice / Alastor (Cuphead, The Cuphead Show / mdhr studio, netflix // Hazbin Hotel / spindlehorse studio, Vivziepop, amazon) I just sketched this because I think they're still there trying to steal their respective soul.

[jonasiegenthaler]

buf@njd | 27.10.23