#noope

Maybe not meet them, not necessarily, but there's a possessive, raw, maybe even selfish urge to point at them and be like : nephews. And he tells V. Maybe he's at Kerry's for whatever bullshit, just passing by, Johnny's eyes fall over Louise's picture (again, if we consider the cut dialogue line about her), and for a second he's burning with the petty outrage of having seen no pictures of Ted and Kim. He wants to see them. He tells V so. V, in the middle of minding his own business, freezes.

A too-long second passes. Even Kerry notices, can almost hear V's gears turning. V steals a glance towards Kerry, then towards the ceiling, then the bar, Johnny waiting, patient for once, but all determined, hard edges, and V breathes deeply, once, then twice.

"Johnny asks about your kids," he says, voice shrouded by a calm he forces himself to feel. This shit has been weird a lot before he had to ask his sort of.. -whatever he and Kerry are-, to talk about the children he never directly mentioned to V. For Johnny's sake. Johnny shouldn't care. Barely does, and all for the wrong reasons, if V were to judge. Maybe it's for Kerry's sake, maybe not, sure as shit V doesn't like that he is involved in it.

"What he saying?" It's smooth, Kerry is good with that, but miles more distant than when they were talking tv shows two seconds ago.

"He wants to see 'em. Something about.. uh, "meeting his nephews", I believe".

Kerry's snort is cute. V curses himself for thinking that the second he sees Johnny rolls his eyes from behind his aviators.

"That's a fucking tall order. What did he plan to do if I say no? Go behind my back and have you stalk Louise?"

The silence that follows is pretty telling, but Kerry's hardening stare even more so.

"No, Ker.." V sighs, hiding in it a silent curse dedicated especially to his cancerous ghost. "No, I wouldn't have. He wouldn't have either, or we wouldn't be having this conversation now. The over-the-top stuff is over. He just.. He's just curious. No harm done, Kerry, I swear."

The silence that follows is less deafening than before, Kerry's gesture slow but confident as he pours himself something from the bar, and then as he offers V a shot of Ab-synth, his favorite, almost like a silent apology.

"Fuck." It's not defeat, but rather something weighty and maybe uncomfortable that draws a line between Kerry's brows. Tension, not quite right and not quite wrong. "Just so you know, they live in Florida, with their mother. I can't just, I don't know, ring them over or shit."

V hums, sends Johnny a glance, waiting for a reaction, but the rockerboy is staring at Kerry, waiting. As Kerry finishes his shot, the wait pays off.

"I can ask Louise if they want to come over this weekend."

A lot is left unsaid. How long has it been since the kids have been to Night City? Why is Kerry even agreeing to this? What does Johnny intend to gain from this? What role is V supposed to play in this weird meet-up? Is it unfair to have the kids travel from the other fucking coast of the NUSA for this? Whatever "this" is.

There's warmth in the hand that lays on his shoulder -even tho it's the metal one, and even tho it's not really there to begin with. It's almost like an offer, and as V meets Kerry's gaze, guarded, but proud and daring and maybe hoping, he knows what he stands to gain.

so i alkready have a brushes i use but that was for paint tool sai, and no w since im swithcing over to csp, i think its time to start anew :]]

[literally for most things, from lineart to coloring :]]

i mainly use artemus hard to lineart and a combination of artemus big boy and artemus hard fior coloring

the artemus pencil thing is genuinely one of the best things out there, and i love it so much cus its so crunchy and texturey

and also the uhh

Why are you jumping into this too i-

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