#songv

i LOVE how many chances you get to straight up call out song on her manipulation. the game makes the fact that shes doublecrossing you so obvious to both you and v. because of course she is. because of course theres a catch. because like you, shed drop everything to save u, but she cant. she just cant. this world wont let her and she wants to live

i LOVE that she does try to save you. whenever she gets the chance to, even after you betray her. that she really tries her absolute best to. that she will protect you as much as she humanly can. that she trusts you and cares about you this much even after you rob the chance of a life out of her hands

i LOVE the implication that shes falling into nightcorps hands. that even after everything its not enough. itll never be enough. that in night city, in the corperate world, theres always, always a catch. i love the image of v looking to the moon and just wondering, and agonising, is she going to be okay? is she still there? is she waiting for me? and the fact that answer is never given to you. that like v, your mind is left to wonder, what did i fight for?

and i LOVE that v, for all her hardass persona, can forgive her. takes her to that spaceship. shoots reed for it. overcomes the impossible for it. looks her in the eye and promises her that she will do it. that she will save her. that knowing someone like her has a chance is motivation enough for v to push through all hell to get it.

and i love that songs manipulation is never painted as malicious. that she is just vs reflection. someone pushed to the edge, strained to the limit, trying to survive and realising how horrible she has to be to do it. that in a different world, she would bring you to the spaceship, every, single, time. that she loves you. and she loves you so much and she hates that she cant help you. that the guilt is eating her up but that she just has to survive. that she, in some primal way, wants to live. will burn everything to live. even if that means v. even if that means herself. and that when the chips are down, she gets it. that when the betrayal is turned on her, she gets it, and makes sure that v gets the chance she was robbed from. understands that vs betrayal wasnt her fault, that the world robbed the choice from her.

i love that in some unspoken way, they intrinsically understand each other. that they are one in the same. the same, broken, hurt people trying their absolute best to make a better life, one they know wont arrive