HotlineInput's Cyberpunk Emporium

Huh, seems I abandoned this page for a good while. Wasn't in the mood, nor could I catch up with all the ideas I had. And of course just like for many of you, life goes in the way.

In fact, I haven't even played much Cyberpunk lately, and lore-wise, I went on the route of putting Siara and Nathan, as well as their stories, into a brand new setting, rather can roleplaying CPRED/CP77.

I even fired up Godot for some game ideas but I'm still super undecided without having an artist for illustrations, resources and whatnot. If any of that changes, I'm definitely intending to use this blog as a devlog also.

For the time being, here's a bunch of shots I made since Phantom Liberty came out. Late arriving spoiler: I loved it.

(of course the main ship is with Nathan, but I had to do Following the River once again, too)

No eye makeup, no cyberware lining, 2.0 patch, and a new DLC all did good to her.

Finally, I could mod an NPV into the game so these two are together! Fucking finally! (no pun intended)

If it was not like extremely super late where I'm living, I'd really go great lengths about how much this means to me. Oh well, I guess a short version goes, too: all my life I've had stories, even more specifically, ships like this several times. Like, several times. And it has always been bothering me that I have practically no skills to depict them just like the way I wanted. I was told to learn drawing, and I appreciate the intention, I even tried for a while, but I've never had neither the time management skills, nor the default disposition, or inherent talent?, or affinity, call whatever you want, to draw.

With the way I created Nathan and Siara in Cyberpunk 2077 I'm still a bit far from what I exactly had in my head but it's pretty close. And I can feel it, when I work with AMM, and/or with Photo Mode, that yes, this is what I've been daydreaming all alone! The thing I want to tell, to show people, the thing I may convert to a non-Cyberpunk-affiliated indie video game one day!

This ship also means a lot to me, much more than the previous ones with previous OCs I had because, while I haven't written up much about it, I have a pretty solid image in my head about how things are going between them. And even if I'm biased, I can't help but feel this is the first time in my life, I have a nuanced understanding, and a proper depiction of a mature romance. Sadly, most romance in fiction is not mature, from my experience. (the fact Edgerunners does was huge inspiration to me)

Soooo yeah that's Nathan X Siara for you. My OC couple I came up with to tell a story I maybe should have told, and arguably should have been able to tell a looooooooong time ago.

Still not very good at this social media thingy, but oh well.

Happy Pride Month!

Just a shortie for now; my first attempt at posing with two characters. Still feels very hard; all of you doing it on a regular basis are my heroes!