#memaidraws

When I joke about being an old man, I'm just joking!! Y-yeah! >>;;;;

Jimmy and Cait sharing an adorable moment done by the amazing @memaidraws <3 Thank you so much for bringing them to life! They look so happy and in love. Its tooo cute! Highly recommend commissioning memai if you can, beautiful art and wonderful to work with :D!

Thanks so much for asking!! :D

I usually say that my V's background is mostly Corpo, but with some Streetkid influences! I integrated most of the info we have from the Corpo ingame dialogues into his story (he grew up in Charter Hill, had a somewhat big / extended family, Jackie saved his ass before / they have a bit of a common history) and expanded on that.

He is an only child, and while he had a wealthy / relatively secure upbringing, his parents weren't exactly good parents. His father died when he was about 13 (he later figured out that he was assasinated, even though at the time it all looked like a suicide), though while he was alive he was very work-oriented, wanted his kid to follow in his corporate footsteps, be a successful over-achiever etc. etc. He was a Japanese native though had been in Night City for a few years already before he met V's mother, and the Arasaka family dynasty had always been a rolemodel for him / something he wanted to achieve with his own family. He wasn't successful (though at least he wasn't murdered by his own son).

Vince's mother was a Night City native, also a corporate employee for Zetatech (his father had worked at Dynalar) - though both of them were actually coporate spies for Arasaka while the corporation was still banned from NC. There were many like them throughout American and other corporations, living relatively normal and unassuming lives while taking great risks. Vince's mother was a control freak - not just because of her job and lifestyle - and it got worse after her husband died. To her, Vince was an investment more than a human being, and when he started becoming more and more rebellious as a teenager, she didn't know how to handle it apart from punishment and restrictions.

When he was 17 he randomly met Jackie, who was a real member of the Valentinos then, and their fate encounter led to some profound bonding moments - so much so that when V ran away from home for good a few months later, he asked Jackie for help. That was in 2067. He met his mother one more time in 2069, but hasn't seen her - or anyone from his father's side of the family - since.

Until aroud 2071/2 V drifted between random jobs - from a shitty retail job in a small tech shop in Kabuki to roadie work to chip tuning in a semi-legal car workshop in Heywood. He always had a knack for tech and hacking and the next chance encounter put him back on the corpo lifepath in the form of Arthur Jenkins. He brought his car into the garage V worked at at the time for a small repair that was supposed to fly under the radar, and during that V discovered irregularities that pointed to tracking software, which he pointed out to Jenkins. Jenkins at first didn't really care but when he investigated the tracker himself further, it turned out to be something placed by an enemy agent. V saved his ass without even knowing and Jenkins was intrigued enough how some random street punk could know about or discover something like this, and so he unearthed all info on V he could find and in the end offered him a job at Arasaka.

Vince never really fit in that well, but in a way that was also an advantage, because if you're not just a face in the crowd it's easier to make a name for yourself... In both the negative and positive. Overall he thrived in his job - Jenkins had originally wanted him as a Netrunner / Data analyst, but it was quickly recognized that he had potential with work that required management, coordination and further responsibilities too. In the furthest sense of the word V started as a Data Analyst in Counterintel and rose in the ranks there. At the same time though he always stayed in contact with Jackie and fed him some intel that might be useful for someone trying to make it as a merc in the streets - which went against all rules imaginable, but was a risk V was willing to take for all the ways Jackie had already risked things for him and helped him out.

But yeah in the long run... it all ended up not quite working out for a multitude of reasons, which leads to the events in 2077 :D

I am never NOT down for art of or with my characters 🥺

My tag is a mess (like usual) so here are some references! General style and whatnot

More detailed shots of cyberware/piercings/tattoos under the cut because. She nakey.

For the ever patient and lovely @memaidraws, who has waited a long time for this and been an absolute star. Thank you, darling!

Come To Me

The city is quiet today.

Fitting, that it should be. After all, had the people of Baldur’s Gate ever truly elected an Archduke freely and of their own will? Yet here he stood, about to be given that honour and be named Archduke Enver Gortash ... about to take hold of the power just within his grasp and finally set in motion the final act of this narrative. 

A day long in the coming, yet none too soon given the varying spanners being thrown into the ironworks of his plan. No ... their plan. Oh, yes, he knew she was out there - his favourite assassin, his partner-in-all. Orin really shouldn’t have let that slip to him. Until that moment, he had expected to have to wrestle control of the Netherbrain for himself alone once he finally skinned the pathetic braggart who had killed his love. But now ...

A slow smile coaxed the corners of his lips into an upward curve, unnervingly soft for anyone who had not known him when he was at his lowest. With Ketheric dead, Orin was already pushing her luck, and now she had informed him she was not his only option. Such a witless little fool she was, so devoted to the gore and bloodlust of her god that she forgot her own mortality. He would enjoy unlocking the keys to her destruction at the hands of the woman she thought she had defeated. And once that was done ... he would have his love returned to him, his partner-in-all. His Archduchess, dripping in blood. Just as he liked her. 

What is your favorite fact about your OC?

Mara is back and so is my hyperfixation wheeeeee!!

What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?

Coming back to an old oc after years of inactivity naturally leads to a lot of new discoveries but I think some of my favorites are that she no longer has a drug addiction, her dead fiance has been demoted to a dead boyfriend, and a half brother spawned in an au after almost a decade of having her as an only child.

What is your favorite fact about your OC?