writer & aspiring artist. feel free to send asks or tag me in things regardless of whether we're mutuals. tech enthusiast interested in cyberpunk worldbuilding. avid lover of nuance.
#heart-thief valentine
valentine myśliwiec | 33 | corpo techie | nonbinary (she/he/they)
former Arasaka employee with complicated feelings about the company that molded her and then tossed her out. loyal enough to help Takemura accomplish his goals and cynical enough not to trust any of Hanako's promises. skilled in getting things done but not in combat. willing to help anybody but herself.
#the damn things overlap
longfic covering the game's events from Valentine's POV after doing Hellman's and Evelyn's quests in Act 2, with some canon divergence and a vastly accelerated timeline. caught between her determination to help Takemura in his plan for revenge and her decision to let Johnny have her body, all the while avoiding the question of her future, which is growing shorter by the day. a story about becoming a martyr, the dangers of success, and the art of avoiding difficult problems.
ships:
#twin human highway flares - goro/valentine
#a pair of open graves - johnny/valentine (neither romantic or platonic but some secret third thing)
#nothing gold can stay - abernathy/valentine
smut fics:
the binds that tie
valentine ties up and soft doms goro
everything where it belongs
valentine/goro domestic fluff with a dash of forbidden relationship
when her edges soften
johnny/valentine post-game bonding activities. combative. homoerotic. johnny is borrowing a body based on a deal that clouds made with alt while valentine is back working at arasaka.
cwe 755 - improper handling of exceptional conditions
victoria/valentine corpos vying for control at work. what if the relic could be used for some... recreational stimulation?
thread-safe
valentine/goro au where everything is worse. goro refused all of valentine's advances and pined from a distance. after a stint back at arasaka, she fled with johnny, kerry, rogue, and alt to las vegas. goro is sent to retrieve her. contains two story branches based on whether he succeeds.
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other tags of note:
#cyberpunk meta
#felix talks tech
wip wednesday
#art!!
#my art
#my fic
and of course:
#felix is a hater : when I get annoyed at cyberpunk worldbuilding
last note: I do have most virtual photography filtered, because quite a large percentage of it has people looking into the camera or close-ups on faces and having so much of it on my dash was stressful and exhausting. If you are a mostly vp-focused blog I may not follow or may be low on interactions, and that's why. It's nothing personal– unfortunately this is the best solution I've found to keep myself sane. If we're mutuals feel free to show me stuff or tag me if you'd like me to take a look at something cool :) And thank you to all who have tagged things as #eye contact cw or #scopophobia because I do like to peek at things from my mutuals from time to time and its helpful to know what I'm in for.
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at the end of the day I won't lie I'm arranging the cyberpunk universe to have the most confrontations possible between powerful women. saburo is gonna fuck off back to japan to where he feels safest and most comfortable without a body: in his seat of power.
leaving hanako to look after yorinobu, and as the only person he can really trust, to look after things in NC after the mess yorinobu made. hanako is the one looking for rogue after she narrowly survives assaulting the tower. hanako is the one picking through the ashes of alt's destruction of mikoshi.
hanako is the one still in NC when myers' plane crashes into dogtown. when so mi makes contact with alt. doesn't that sound like fun?
I see a lot of people who seem worried about fucking with canon Too Much and so trying to keep their stories in line with everything that happens the way it happens in the game, and look—there's absolutely nothing wrong with keeping things canonical if you want. There's still plenty to play with, it allows for little tragedies where you twist things but they ultimately go right back to where they started. It means less work thinking up alternatives.
But sometimes you gotta go full indulgence. Pick what speaks to you and change the rest. Move the world to suit you without apologizing ahead of time. For me that's the question what if all the Big Important People were women and also what if it turned out it was more complicated than "woman" for half of them, and then they loomed large not just in the background of the story but front and center and complicated and mean and stressed and sharp as hell. Ten year old me would shit herself in glee watching those previews.
at the end of the day I won't lie I'm arranging the cyberpunk universe to have the most confrontations possible between powerful women. saburo is gonna fuck off back to japan to where he feels safest and most comfortable without a body: in his seat of power.
leaving hanako to look after yorinobu, and as the only person he can really trust, to look after things in NC after the mess yorinobu made. hanako is the one looking for rogue after she narrowly survives assaulting the tower. hanako is the one picking through the ashes of alt's destruction of mikoshi.
hanako is the one still in NC when myers' plane crashes into dogtown. when so mi makes contact with alt. doesn't that sound like fun?
at the end of the day I won't lie I'm arranging the cyberpunk universe to have the most confrontations possible between powerful women. saburo is gonna fuck off back to japan to where he feels safest and most comfortable without a body: in his seat of power.
leaving hanako to look after yorinobu, and as the only person he can really trust, to look after things in NC after the mess yorinobu made. hanako is the one looking for rogue after she narrowly survives assaulting the tower. hanako is the one picking through the ashes of alt's destruction of mikoshi.
hanako is the one still in NC when myers' plane crashes into dogtown. when so mi makes contact with alt. doesn't that sound like fun?
Who knew Saburo had an engram? Saburo himself, certainly. Hanako. Hellman. I could see an argument for Yorinobu but I think it's unlikely.
Did he have a protocol for what to do in case of his death? If so, why did Hanako not retrieve him immediately? Was her hand forced by the parade or by her brother sequestering her in the estate?
Takemura didn't know—okay, makes sense you want your guard to fight as though you're the only one. But who did he trust to bring him back? Or was there no plan, because no one, including himself, wanted to consider it? And yet it seems the inevitable conclusion of the Relic program was to infinitely sustain Saburo's own life.
I think about this all the time, because it's like Saburo must have thought he was invincible. He's somewhere over 150 years old and fought in WW2 and in 2076 he's still head of the family company and outlived two of his sons, leaving his youngest son, who he doesn't care for, and his daughter, who he has sequestered away from the public eye for decades. His granddaughter is running what is nominally her own company.
He has no publicly declared successor.
When he dies under suspicious circumstances no one opposes Yorinobu's takeover. Including Hanako, who we can assume knew their familial dynamic very well. This is in line with what we know about her relationship to her brother, and her documented history of pleading for his case. She is also, in some way, at the head of the internal Arasaka faction that champions Saburo's methods and beliefs.
After the parade, no matter what path V chooses, she goes to the board meeting. In the Devil Ending we know she goes first to Mikoshi to retrieve Saburo's engram. She knew it was there. It's unclear if she makes it there in the other endings, or dies before she can, or is prevented from doing so by Alt.
The parade is a catalyst. Yorinobu loses her support, and it seems her support is the difference between Saburo regaining control or being either trapped as an engram or destroyed by Alt. The other players on the board are unwilling or unable to oppose Yorinobu before a board meeting, and naive enough to meet him in NC and get slaughtered.
Can you imagine the blow to Saburo's ego when he gets pulled from Mikoshi and figures out that the son he was going to disinherit had almost no resistance from the rest of his company after killing him in the heat of the moment? That his daughter hesitated before bringing him back? That his ultimate authority created a company structure where everything falls apart in his absence? If he lives another 150 years he'll still be mad about it.
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Who knew Saburo had an engram? Saburo himself, certainly. Hanako. Hellman. I could see an argument for Yorinobu but I think it's unlikely.
Did he have a protocol for what to do in case of his death? If so, why did Hanako not retrieve him immediately? Was her hand forced by the parade or by her brother sequestering her in the estate?
Takemura didn't know—okay, makes sense you want your guard to fight as though you're the only one. But who did he trust to bring him back? Or was there no plan, because no one, including himself, wanted to consider it? And yet it seems the inevitable conclusion of the Relic program was to infinitely sustain Saburo's own life.
it does suck to have a certain dynamic i wanna write and explore but also i don't, because i know people are going to apply Gender Roles to it that are specifically not textually expressed. people can't even comprehend the idea that submission and bottoming are not inherently emasculating or feminizing. god forbid you don't want to imply masculine or feminine "vibes" at all. it's not that i can or want to control how people interpret stuff it's just that i feel like i'm personally going insane when i see it happen specifically because it's unconscious.
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when the characters call each other their “partner” as some sort of formality (detectives, business, agency, etc.) but it also has a double meaning/homoerotic undertones
man I love a tragedy and Johnny Silverhand/V is thee doomed relationship. What if I was a virus eating your mind and killing you but in the process of trying to save your life we learned to share a body and a brain and we do actually get along despite everything. What if I taught you passion and believing in a cause and you taught me compassion and joy. What if after becoming one, we were doomed to separate in order for either of us to survive and it leaves neither of us whole.
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