#tw: opiates/opioids

[ladykatie512]

Bermuda Locket Pre-Fic Timeline

hey! i finally did the thing i said i was gonna do! i ended up removing most instances of valerie/the arasakas from the timeline since johnny and samurai kinda took it over when i spruced it up, but i did leave birthdays at the beginning.

for anyone wondering what the fuck this is, it’s a pre-fic timeline for my modern au silverv fic on ao3. this is not canon at all to cyberpunk or the ttrpg books (even though i borrowed heavily from them).

everything’s below the cut because its a massive post (1983-2023)

i’m sort of sure i kept all the dates/ages accurate? don’t @ me if i messed something up lol time math is hard. there’s also a fair bit of legally gray areas, especially when johnny is a teenager. don’t think too hard about it. i already did and fried my brain with google searches like “losing child custody during imprisonment in texas in 2003″ or something lmao.

triggers listed in the tags because of course there're triggers.

1980’s

July 25, 1983 – Alteria Cunningham (Alt) is born

1985 – Henry is born

1986 – Denny is born

May 8, 1987 – Nancy Hartley is born

January 3, 1988 – Kerry Eurodyne is born

November 16, 1988 – Robert John Linder (Johnny) is born

1990’s

January 1991 – Johnny’s father, a Marine, dies in the Gulf War

March 31, 1993 – Rachel Amendaries (Rogue) is born

Summer 1994 – Johnny’s first step-father makes Johnny (5) and his mother go to Catholic Church/Sunday School/Choir, where he meets Kerry (6)

September 8, 1995 – Yorinobu Arasaka is born

May 28, 1996 – Valerie Archier is born

March 2, 1999 – Hanako Arasaka is born

Summer 1999 – With the approval of his second step-father, Johnny (10) joins the Boy Scouts with Kerry (11)

2000-2004

January 2000 – Kerry (12) gets a guitar for his birthday, and he and Johnny (11) teach themselves how to play

Spring 2002 – Johnny (13) gets expelled from highschool due to fighting, getting caught smoking, and skipping classes; Johnny’s third step-father threatens to send him to military school

Fall 2002 – Kerry’s parents help enroll Johnny (13) in their son’s highschool

Winter 2003 – Kerry (15) and Johnny (14) are suspended and nearly expelled for a fight over a rumor stating the boys were a couple

Summer 2003 – Johnny’s mother and third stepfather are arrested and incarcerated for drug-related charges; Johnny (14) is placed in foster care, where he makes a habit of running away and sleeping on the streets

Winter 2004 – Kerry’s parents are denied the option to adopt Johnny (15) due to immigration status and insufficient income

2005-2009

Winter 2005 – Johnny (16) successfully removes himself from foster care several weeks after his 16th birthday

Summer 2005 – Johnny (16) drops out of high school and follows Kerry (17) when his parents move from Texas to Night City

Fall 2005 – Johnny (17) meets Nancy (18) through Kerry (17), and the two begin dating

Winter 2006 – Johnny (17), Nancy (19), and Kerry (18) make friends with Denny (20) and Henry (21); Samurai forms, the band plays local gigs in Night City and neighboring cities

Fall 2006 – Samurai puts out a self-produced EP (really bad, almost unlistenable)

Summer 2007 – Samurai puts out their first full-length album (actually quite decent, has better versions of the EP songs such as “New Noise”) on an indie record label

April 2008 – Johnny (19) secretly gets his GED so he can enlist in the US Military and fight in the Afghanistan War, which causes Samurai to break up and his relationship with Nancy (20) to end

November 2008 – Johnny (20) is deployed and sent to Afghanistan, where he meets Jonathan Nauman (Milt’s son)

Summer 2009 – Johnny (20) and Jonathan grow close/intimate and become a secret couple

September 2009 – A military convoy that Johnny (20) is part of runs over a landmine, and Jonathan Nauman dies while keeping Johnny alive; Johnny is medically discharged from the military

October 2009 –Johnny (20) returns to Night City, where he meets up with Jonathan’s father, Milt Nauman, a therapist

November 2009 – Johnny (21) adopts the name Johnny Silverhand from Henry because of external fixation devices on his left hand/wrist

2010-2014

April 2010 – Johnny (21) starts instigating riots in Night City against NCPD brutality (NC Homeless Riots)

August 2010 – Johnny (21), Kerry (22), and Henry (25) find out that Nancy (23) is being abused by her husband; Nancy pushes her husband out a window before the guys can do anything about it

September 2010 – Nancy (23) is tried and goes to jail for a year

Winter 2011 – Johnny (22) has regained full use of his left hand, and Nancy (24) gets out of jail; Samurai reforms and starts making more music

March 2011 – At a local show, Johnny (22) meets a fan, Rogue (18), and they begin steadily dating shortly after

Summer 2011 – Samurai self-produces another short EP (really good, has the first recording of Chippin’ In)

Fall 2011 – Johnny (22) starts using opiates to help deal with his PTSD; Rogue (19) and Johnny’s relationship gets rocky

Winter 2012 – Samurai is signed to MSM records with a three-record contract and releases their second studio album (very good, album charts and goes gold)

Spring 2012 – Johnny (23) meets Alt Cunningham (28) when she’s a model/extra for a Samurai music video; the pair begin dating off and on

Summer 2012 – Johnny (23) and Rogue (19) break up for good

April 16, 2013 – Alt Cunningham (29) dies when she and Johnny (24) are jumped after a Samurai show while they’re arguing/breaking up in an alley

May 2013 – Johnny (24) is involved in an incident at a riot that results in the immolation of an Arasaka corpo (Arthur Jenkins)

October 2014 – Due to indirect involvement and a great lawyer and psychotherapist, Johnny (25) is found not guilty of first-degree murder and is sentenced to four years (one year time served) in federal prison for other related charges

2015-2017

May 2015 – Kerry Eurodyne (27) fulfills the second album of the original MSM contract as a solo artist (super good/classic rock inspired, charts top 10 for several weeks, makes him famous)

September 2017 – Kerry Eurodyne (29) fulfills the third album of the original MSM contract as a collaboration with the Lazrpop group Us!Cracks (really fucking weird but still pretty good? But mostly sellouty on Kerry’s part)

October 2017 – Johnny (28) is released from federal prison and returns to Night City, declares he’s finished making music

2018-2023

February 2018 – Johnny (29) collaborates with a Pop artist named Violet (26), and they put out an album under MSM Records to fulfill her contract (controversial/copy-cat Kerry & Us!Cracks/bizarre but still pretty good, excellent production); The couple begin fake dating as a rouse to promote their music

February 2019 – After a year, Johnny (30) and Violet (27) “break up” as they finish promoting their album and end the world tour for said album

Summer 2019 – Samurai reforms a third time, and a new contract is drafted under MSM Records

Fall 2019 – Samurai puts out their third studio album (pretty good, not as great as their second album, but does well because of Kerry’s fanbase)

November 2019 – Johnny (31) relapses in his addiction to opiates

Winter 2022 – Samurai, under pressure from MSM, begins working on their fourth studio album, but with Johnny (33) in and out of rehab and disappearing, its slow progress

April 15, 2022 – Samurai releases the first song they’re able to complete to try and keep MSM off their asses, titled Black Dog

April 16, 2022 – Johnny (33) purposefully overdoses, and Kerry (34) saves his life

April 2022 – Johnny (33) goes to and stays in rehab, and all production on the new Samurai album is halted

July 2022 – Johnny (33) is officially sober from opiates, leaves rehab

March 12, 2023 – Bermuda Locket starts

[tearsofabandonednymphet]

[wormfood2001]

xd

[rockstarlwt28]

TW / Soberity, Drugs, Opiods.

TWO YEARS SOBER TODAY!!!! 🥳

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

Edgy longing/lovelorn poem from three years ago (Nov. 10, 2020) ayeeee

The Fool

What nerve you have!

To long after he

That drinks the joy of a thousand poppies

While you offer but your heart,

A joy in which he must open not his veins,

But his mind to understand.

[misanthrop99]

Visited hengelo (nl) with train 2nd time now together with a Friend today. Came with speed benzos sugar ~ h first stop bi + methadicct 40mg one for each and 2 tenner Age. Weed Hash Speed/amphe and Pills yeah Ich 👻🤍🗯

Not sick at moment ! 🔥💯❗

{DIARY LONG START DOWN ⬇️}

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Warnung: Viel Text

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And of Course speed last night in Train in nl and so on.... soon one last shorty line

Now nice 5g of a Good hash not the 3€ cheapest one, 7/g , but of course not the cfazy 40€/ 1/2g bubble hash or wax (70-1xx€ - dabbing)

Took 60mg (i think so) of metha middle of day yesterday 160mg, and normal 40-100 is enough with halflife addicated blood concentration 80mg enough for day Zero heroin but with no too big Cash Problems best 4 days meds only 24h+ no metha H, and 20mg after that and 40mg befpre sleep.

Having 1g good Brown sugar ('Stein' /stone called in germany on street 99% powder stone mixed with mannitol Paracetamol Coffein katma so it looks different comparing plugs of a small town City 140k LOL

🔻Urban Legends...😑 :

~ Stone is not better than powder

~ Darker stuff is #

~ When smorting it must burn. (...)

Bin in Bielefeld Hbf warte auf Zug nach fzcking home sweet paderboring.... Gestern Abend spontan zu kollege weil kp wo sonst nacht verbringen kalt Regen usw war so lieb lies mich rein Couch mein Reich heute nacht auxh... Fuck The hamsters Born Raised / Pushed in normal Rules / working when your body works your brain your Psych hlpefully for money status family pls die young and no long sick Phase (not for you for the Healt care system...)

[ ~Misanthrop99~ ]

[judasyorkeisajunkie]

10 x 10mg diazepam

1 x 100mg morphine

Pure, crystalline bliss

[seriial]

i miss h </3

[shmingleping]

So I'm supposed to be sober. Or at least really making an attempt. I can't get high off opiates anymore - though I haven't felt high from any for 6mnths anyways, I was just not sick. But now I feel like I'm just getting myself into something else that I love but shouldn't. I don't and never really have liked any sort of stimulants like meth coke and whatnot. But I kinda wish someone told me way earlier in my addiction that shooting coke is fucking unreal. Why did i have to experience this now? Worst. Timing. Ever. But so on brand for me. Hate it

[fentanyl-rabbits]

I seek comfort in opiates. He showed me this world and there is no point of returning. I don't want that he hates himself for this.

[kingproteus]

On opiates cause I got a few organs removed Friday, and like. It’s just amazing to me that we have such incredible scientific advancements and yet we cannot create a drug that works and doesn’t suck.

I was so worried being on oxys would instantly get me addicted but genuinely I hate taking them so much. Not gonna go into detail but the nausea they give me is ridiculous.

And like I’ve done my fair share of drugs and they’re ALL like this. No fun at all!

Apart from the torment of a painful recovery, it’s a relief that drugs aren’t fun and I hate them. One less thing to worry about.

[alprazmorph]

About to go to work, and then pick up my score, wish me luck!

[kevindelreyy]

Need drugs no love

[wuppydog]

The Opiate Itchies are annoying sall be, HOWEVER, The Opioid SCRITCHIES?!?! euphoria inducing tbqh. gods it feels so god just to scritchy sritchy my entire body. and it’s even MORE EUPHORIC when HUSBAND gives me scritchies!!! cause not only does it feel nearly orgasmic, I’m being pretty like the god little doggy boy I am. my scritchies from Husband ate my lil reward for being such a good boy aaaaaaaall day 🐶💜✨✨✨

[naavispider]

Happy birthday, my dude! Cheers! 🥳

Tw: mention of Postpartum Depression (PPD)

Ok, hear me out! This idea just dropped out of the sky and hit me in the head!

Imagine if there was a plant on Pandora that contains pollen with high concentrations of Dopamine, and the Na’vi people use it in small doses with cases of PPD to help the mother and also solidify the bond between mother and child…. Now imagine if Quaritch trips face-first into a whole batch of these plants 👀

No because I would love to see it. I ran away with this one - it's less of a treatment for PPD that Quaritch falls in and more just a general opioid 💀 I've done drunk!Spider a lot, so high!Quaritch was so interesting to explore! It changes the dynamic so much obviously!

As usual, the recoms stomped heavily through the forest, making too much noise, not respecting the living things around them, and Spider cussed Quaritch's loud inability to blend in. Just as Quaritch span around to reprimand the boy, he lost his footing against a branch suspended near his ankle, and tripped and fell, failing to grasp hold of anything to steady himself.

"Shit!" He cursed.

Spider guffawed, and even Z-Dog and Lyle seemed to be suppressing smirks.

"That was your fault you little punk," he scolded Spider, spitting out leaves and pushing himself back up against the wet, mossy undergrowth. "Eugh!" he exclaimed, picking bits of green off his tongue.

Spider's eyes narrowed, and a frown formed on his face with a slow dawn of realisation. He knew those leaves. Holy shit.

"Er..." Now it was Spider's turn to repress his laughter. Quaritch looked up, immediately alerted to the fact that something was up from Spider's tone. "That plant you landed in," he pointed at the purple flowers with green leaves, "Did you inhale the scent?"

"Inhale the-" Quaritch looked suddenly panicked. "What do you mean?" His eyes were widened and the grip he had on his AR tightened, as if this was a problem he could ward off with bullets.

The sight of him sent Spider over the edge. He threw his head back and cackled at Eywa's sense of humour. "<Give me strength!>" he gasped a plea to the Great Mother as sobs of laughter wracked his body. This was too good.

"What?" Yes, Quaritch was definitely panicked now. "Spider, I swear to God-" but his pleas fell on deaf ears. In fact, the recom's desperation only seemed to heighten Spider's hysterical laughing fit. He turned to Lyle instead, hoping the corporal might have a clue. Wainfleet only looked startled, shrugging his confusion at Quaritch.

Eventually, just as Quaritch decided to go and shake the boy, Spider finally found his voice.

"That plant... that's a Dapophet." He continued when none of the recoms spoke. "It's a..." He thought hard for the human word so that Quaritch would understand. "an opiate?'

He stared at the squad who all stared back at him, stunned, waiting for further explanation. He tried to control his breathing, not allowing himself to give in to the hilarity of the situation any longer. "It's super powerful, the Na'vi use it for healing and pain relief, but only in tiny doses. You just ate a whole leaf, right?"

Quaritch looked stricken. Prager immediately made his way over, instructing Quaritch to sit down while he assessed him.

"Damn!" Wainfleet exclaimed as Z-dog and Mansk exchanged sniggers. "We know things have been tough lately," he said sarcastically, turning to Quaritch. "But you didn't need to go to such extreme measures!"

"Yeah, zip it Corporal!" Quaritch snapped from his seat on a rock. The colonel turned to Prager. "I feel fine, I'm okay, right?"

Prager looked unamused. "Afraid not, Sir," he replied as removed his medical torch from Quaritch's eyes and put it back into his front pocket. "Your pupils are already blown wide... if what the kid says is true, and it looks like it is, you're gonna start to feel it any moment now."

"Fuck me," Quaritch groaned.

"We're gonna have to make camp here," Wainfleet announced, eyes lifting to the purple haze spreading through the sky that signalled dusk. The other recoms accepted this readily and began pulling off their packs, setting up hammocks and securing the area.

"Spider!" Quaritch groaned out. The man had laid down on the ground, eyes closed, looking like he was trying to ward off whatever feelings the dapophet was beginning to induce. Spider approached cautiously, unsure whether he was in for it or not. "Get over here!" Quaritch growled, still with his eyes closed.

Spider stepped up next to him. "Alright, alright, I'm here..."

"You're a little shit, you know that right?" Quaritch had opened his eyes now, but still made no move to sit up.

Something in Spider sank a little, but he threw his hands up in finger guns and plastered fake cockiness over his face. "That's me!"

"Wait," Quaritch frowned. Was Spider imagining it, or had the word slurred on Quaritch's tongue? "You're not a shit, sorry. You're just... pffft... I dunno."

Spider stared. He had expected to find this highly entertaining, yet looking at Quaritch in this vulnerable state only brought a strange twinge of discomfort to his stomach.

Prager came over with a water bottle, encouraging Quaritch to drink, but the Colonel batted him away. "Jesus... I'm drugged, not starved..."

Spider shared a glance with Prager. He wasn't even making sense now.

"Kid, do you have any idea how long this will last?" The medic asked Spider.

Spider looked at Quaritch again. The doses the Na'vi used were all diluted down hugely before being given to patients, but he knew little more that that. He'd never actually asked Norm about things like this. He shrugged. "Could be hours."

"Great," Prager sighed under his breath, before moving away to organise a watch schedule on the colonel overnight.

"Hey, Spider!" Quaritch had begun to sit up. He looked dizzy, so Spider hesitantly extended an arm to steady him. He caught himself wondering what the hell he was doing. This man was his enemy.

"What?" He asked angrily.

"Why d'you hate me?"

Spider stared, shocked.

Quaritch elaborated. "I mean, apart from the obvious of course..."

Spider sat back, facing the man on the outskirts of the camp. He had never expected to have a deep and meaningful conversation with Quaritch, let alone one where the recom was drugged up. He searched his brain for an answer. "You're... a bad person?" He said, stating the obvious with a bitter voice and narrowed eyes.

"No," Quaritch said intensely, gripping Spider's arm. "Quaritch was. I'm not..."

Spider closed his mouth, which he realised had been hanging open for this exchange. Something stirred in him... what was that? Pity? Sadness? Those emotions didn't make sense here. They had no business interfering. "Er, yeah you are. In case you forgot, you kidnapped me. And held the others hostage too."

Quaritch closed his eyes, grimacing against Spider's words. A firefly floated past them, utterly unaware of the moment it was eavesdropping on.

"S'just business," Quaritch countered. "S'my job."

"So that's okay then?"

"You talk too much, you know that?"

"You called me over here!" Spider retorted angrily. Eywa. He got up to make his way to the centre of camp. He didn't want to entertain this any longer.

"No, wait. Sorry." Spider hesitated, looking down at the man he hated. "I know I'm not perfect."

Spider rolled his eyes. "Understatement of the fucking century." As he said it, he realised that he'd never heard the man apologise before - not to him, not to anyone. Not once.

That was the dapophet talking.

"I never wanted a son. Never wanted a daughter neither." Quaritch eyed Spider and Spider glared back.

"Good to know, jackass."

"Which is why I'm so surprised to find you kind of bearable."

Spider had had enough of this. Anger bubbled in his stomach, spilling up his throat and into his mouth. Biting his tongue, he summoned all his strength and shoved as hard as he could into Quaritch's shoulder. "Dickhead. You asked why I hate you? That right there is why. Oh, you never wanted a kid? Boo hoo, wanker." He glowered down at Quaritch's surprised expression at the sudden act of violence. "I never wanted to be an orphan but guess what? Shit happens."

Quaritch was gaping at him. "I've screwed up."

"No shit."

"No, quit being a smart ass for one goddamn second."

Spider paused, fists balled and ready to strike the man again.

"I was trying to say that I never wanted a kid, but... somehow... you coming into the mix..." Quaritch was talking very slowly now, as if he was thinking hard about each word. "Hell. I think it's just about the best thing that's happened to me."

Spider huffed and shook his head. The man was high as a kite. "You're still a dickhead," he replied, resigned to the fact that this whole conversation was now meaningless. Quaritch had reached the point of being completely cooked. Sighing, he pulled his arm free of Quaritch's grasp, and stalked over to the other side of the camp, dumping himself down close to Z-dog and Wainfleet. He stared off into the trees, trying to seem like he was fine. Behind his eyes, tears welled.

It's the best thing that's happened to me. He had never been the best thing to happen to anyone. And he still wasn't. Quaritch wasn't himself. He didn't mean it. But say that he had, would that change anything? Could Spider allow himself to care? Quaritch was the enemy - the embodiment of all that was wrong with the RDA and their invasion of his home. No amount of fatherly emotion would be enough to overcome that - surely?

Spider looked to the sky to prevent a determined tear from sliding down his tired face. The best thing that's happened to me.

Why did the words he most wanted to hear have to come from the man he despised most in the world?

[seriial]

gm world here’s the soundtrack for the morning per my apple music shuffle