⛓️‍💥Hexvoid⛓️‍💥

He's that thing suspended, only existing between life and death, but also? Legitimately V's guardian angel. The only one who had been picking them up when they were down, literally. The thing that saves them, condemns them, revives them so many times after, like during the scav side mission. The only one who could protect them at the time, when he brought them back to the Sofia. Who saved them again in the elevator.

And especially when I think of how, in my eyes, Johnny always considered himself something much much less than deserving, much much worse than any kind of angel, even the ugly ones with all their fucked up eyes. Something sinful, ruined, divergent, deserving of hurt, an eternity of self punishment. And here he is, finding himself to be one of the only omnipresent forces that V can rely on, that reminds V there's something bigger than V, both of them, at play here. Johnny preaches that to V constantly, even.

How Johnny is the only one who can see everything V is doing, like god, how it's pushed that god always knows what you're thinking, doing, needing, desiring, tempted towards, succumbing.

How Johnny's the snake too, telling V, convincing them, to do what he thinks is selfishly the best for himself, but not for them. Tells him 'do it' when they have a fucked up, impulsive thought that could damn both of them. Who puts V through penance, harsh words and petty punishments. That no matter the players choice, he influences V, corrupting them, making them crave cigarettes like Johnny's sin lives through them too, because it does, doesn't it? If that's all he thinks he is? How you might not even notice, as a player, how he influences your choices and actions too, with V. A devil in disguise, snake with a silver tongue.

That to Johnny, with a V who does love him, it does feel like worship, because V's the only one who can love him, see him, believe in him. Ground his existence into reality. To be acknowledged, taken into consideration. Who can read him like a book. An angel who speaks through V, talks to V. Who V wills into existence through belief and faith alone. Belief and faith that Johnny is real and so are their secret conversations, hidden only between them and god. Worship so strong they give themselves over to Johnny, like many do with gods, angels, jesus. Gives themselves over to Its love, even. Gives Johnny the body, and believes him into existence, love given and faith all too trusting.

V's final waking moment in real space, baptized, then reborn with a new soul into a digital landscape, free roaming, the promise of free will like an illusion. Like wealth, freedom, a heaven. Much more of one, at least, than the hell Johnny was trapped in, in Mikoshi.