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Yay!!! Thank you for the ask 🩷🩷🩷🩷Love talking about my girlpop princess

2. What's their favorite comfort food that they eat when they're sad?

Ooooooooooh, I think there are two. When she can, it's Mama Welles' Tamales. It was the first meal she had at the Welles' house after she got fired from Arasaka, and though it was so different from what she was used to in the corporate life, and where she grew up, lowkey was the most delicious meal she had ever eaten cuz of the love in it. Other than that, to Takemura's absolute horror, despite again having had REAL and like, BETTER ramen, she has a soft spot for the street food ramen she can get around Night City.

3. What's a secret passion of theirs?

Souvenirs, Knickknacks, anything little and cute. Whenever she went somewhere new for Arasaka shed always pick up something small at the airport. While that collection was lost when her assets were seized after she was fired, she started up her collecting again after Jackie picked up something for her. She paused during the Relic fiasco but later in life her collection has grown a lot with things from Kerry and Gabe on his tours, Judy in Oregon, and a number of them are from Johnny as well (most notably samuray from the last ask). When she was younger her secret passion was music (especially rock which was not very ladylike of course). Nowadays other than the Knick knacks she likes doing art! It's a secret tho cuz shes really bad at it shjahss.

18. What's their favorite scent?

Petrichor ! The smell after rain. While its not as nice in Night City as it would be somewhere fresher, especially given acid rain and just general NC trashiness. It still makes her happy.

28. What makes them feel safe?

AAAAAAA thank you so much for this I love to talk about them! I just always forget to actually make posts 😭

Some background, his daughter is named Lera, and she's a holdover from his original iteration as a dragon age inquisition character (his full name in Dragon Age is Dalinev, usually shortened to Dalin or Dal. He's just Dalin/Dal in cyberpunk). She ends up in every verse I make for him in some form.

The biggest obstacle for Dal is finding childcare, I think. I stretch the timeline out longer, Lera is around 2 and a half at the start, and she turns 4 right before the endgame. So he always has to arrange someone to watch her if he's going out. Early on, that's usually gonna be Vik, Misty, Mama Welles, or his neighbor (Jackie would ofc, but he's usually going with). I headcanon his neighbor in the mega building is also a single parent, and he'll sometimes pay her to watch Ler, and will occasionally watch her kids when she needs and he's home.

Later on, after doing Panam's quest and befriending the Aldecaldos, he brings her out there more often than not, especially if it's a long or especially dangerous mission. As the plot progresses and things get more and more dire for him, he thinks a lot more about what he wants to happen to her if he doesn't make it. His mom died when he was a baby, and his dad when he was 4 (a big reason why he tries to hold out for her birthday) and he has a lot of feelings about growing up an orphan in a nomad clan, but he'd prefer that for her than anything else. He has an agreement with the Aldecaldos that they'll take her in should something happen to him. As a result, Lera is pretty close with Panam and with Mitch.

They lost a lot of community feel when they moved to NC, so he takes her to see his friends when he can. I think she only met Judy a handful of times given what was going on, but she develops one of those baby crushes on her, declares she's going to marry her lmao. And he absolutely brings her to the barbecue with River's family. She's younger than Joss's kids so he helps her in the game but she has a blast.

Kerry's relationship with her builds up slowly. He's aware of her from the beginning, before the reunion gig I think, so Kerry goes into the relationship during Boat Drinks knowing that will be a thing. I think he's accounting for that in his "life's loops" thing. His arc ends with him turning a new page, and we really don't get to see any of that cause his quest ends there, so I don't think it'd be too unrealistic in this scenario to say Kerry is accounting for the fact that Lera will be part of his life as long as Dal is. That he's going to end up having some sort of authority/parental-ish/Dad's boyfriend type relationship with her.

He's awkward with her at first, he doesn't really know where the line is of what's appropriate or not until he gets a better understanding of Dal's parenting style, which is... Not lax, exactly, but he doesn't really hide things from her. He's more about explaining at an age appropriate level whenever he can, not babying her. I think his ex wife's expectations on parenting are very different than Dal's (and there's clearly a lot of toxicity and animosity with his ex on that subject in general, and he hasn't exactly been processing it well up to this point), so there's a lot he has to unlearn and rebuild his confidence. Things that might have caused a fight with his ex might be totally fine by Dal, and other things Kerry took for granted may be entirely absent, especially with dalin's nomad "make do with what you have" mindset. Beyond that, Lera is a pretty confident/outgoing child and I think they get along really well once they spend more time together and Kerry stops doubting himself. She also ends up very into drawing and art and eventually wants to be a tattoo artist when she grows up, and he's totally supportive of that he thinks that's cool as hell.

Thank you for the ask! :D (Get-A-Long meme)

Vendrik is intimidated by Saul on most days, though he manages to hide it most of the time. Most of that feeling has little to actually do with Saul though. Saul and Panam's relationship (at least, the screaming and not listening parts) remind him a lot of the relationship he had with the Bakkers' last leader, before he left the clan and they joined Snake Nation.

That head of the family didn't like Vendrik very much, kickstarted by a reckless event that nearly got said head's son -- Veer -- killed, and the relationship deteriorated more and more as the years went on as he intentionally made his life harder. Even though Ven continued speaking his mind whenever what he thought was a bad decision was made, he was terrified that each out of turn statement would be the one that finally got him kicked from the Bakkers. So while he didn't for the Bakkers, Ven initially walks on eggshells around Saul, even while backing Panam up whenever she calls him out. In the beginning, he makes sure to couch his words with extra respect when speaking up but grows more and more annoying to Saul once he becomes comfortable as an Aldecaldo and member of the Bright family.

Commission for @fiannans of their Shepard and Garrus.

Another timelapse!!