tonight we feast

Brief Biography : Verida Maus (pronounced 'Moss', but her name being mispronounced gifted her the nickname 'Mouse') was born in 1990 in a tiny central valley town just outside of Fresno. She was raised by a single father, as her mother had left her life before she was four years old. By the time she turned five, she and her father had moved to Night City, where she lived with other gangoons and street rats in an overcrowded apartment building. As a teenager, she grew a love and fascination for music, and she started working as an equipment technician for music venues such as Rainbow Cadenza, where she met and connected with the band SAMURAI. She, Kerry, and Nancy became fast friends, and soon she was offered to be SAMURAI's resident musical techie. During this time, she and Johnny began sleeping together casually. She traveled with them until the band's unfortunate split following Nancy's arrest and jail time, and when given a choice, Verida chose to remain the sound tech for Johnny's solo project over Kerry's, severely tainting her friendship with Kerry that she doesn't get to reconcile until 2077. In 2013, just before Alt's kidnapping and death by the hands of Arasaka, Verida broke off her situationship with Johnny, and stopped working in music to pursue Merc work. She worked alongside fixers, and started gaining a reputation until the atomic bomb in 2023 forced her and many other mercs in hiding. She settles into a normal life in Laguna Bend until the 50's, when she starts dabbling in merc work again, and returning to it full time after 2062, when Laguna Bend got swept underwater and she moved back to Night City proper. She made a name for herself as an efficient assassin under a new moniker, V. The Konpeki Plaza job was supposed to be her retirement, and a kickstart for a friend to enter the big leagues. Obviously, the job goes horribly wrong, and so begins her journey.

2013 2077