tbh i have not beaten a playthrough of cyberpunk 2077 for myself SORRYYYY i ask for some generalized patience because while i know basically everything that happens and the variants of the endings i've forgotten a lot of basic terminology and maps of the city and stuff. i like to play cyberpunk 2077 to crash my car and do like 2 main quests before i forget to play for 3 months. writing bitchy keanu is what i'm here for. feel free to tell me if i mess something up lore-wise, idm!
anyways here's some like. simple johnny info and hooks/etc.
i really like writing johnny as an engram!! i think it's fun to have him take up residency in someone's brain, with or without a canon reason for him to be there. obviously for people writing Vs and characters with cyberpunk verses where they can operate as V or cyberpunk OCs who can also 'take over' V's role in an adjacent AU, this is pretty easy, but otherwise we can just do a crossover where for some reason johnny silverhand, dead rockstar (either from your character's world or we can keep it a total crossover) is now just in your character's mind. we don't even need a brain chip excuse, the world is our oyster!!!
i prefer to write engram-johnny just cuz i think the little implications that engram-johnny and 'real'-johnny aren't the same person and have memory discrepancies and stuff that can effectively ship of theseus them from each other is rly interesting!
otherwise, having interactions, especially crossover ones, that are more or less johnny before his death at arasaka are easy to operate in, and we can just make him an asshole rockstar for crossover purposes.
for cyberpunk muses who might want to talk with johnny but it might be difficult in the confines of the game with johnny being an engram, like panam, judy, etc.. we can set something in a version of events after the game in an ending where johnny overwrites V and we can just operate off the assumption that your muse knows or is about to know about this.
