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Thanks for the ask @themightiestpotato! From the WIP Game Ask

"Making the call"

This is something of a prequel to my longfic No One's Gonna Love You. NOGLY starts with V waking up in Panam's truck. No Johnny, just her alone. She didn't call anyone from the roof, which was not true of my first playthrough where I did in fact call Judy, and immediately fell in love with Mitch. When I started writing NOGLY, it was very soon after finishing the game for the first time, maybe March '21. I barely knew who V was, and she didn't even have a real name until later that fall. I specifically started where I did because I didn't want to write Johnny. As little as I knew her, I felt I knew Johnny even less, or where their relationship fell. I want to do a NOGLY rewrite at some point because the first few chapters are weak in characterizing her, and I think this scene is a crucial step in my own understanding of her mentality.

She paces on the rooftop, cigarette pinched between her fingers, drags punctuating every turn. Her mental finger hovers over Judy’s number. She should call her. At least tell her what she’s about to do; she deserves that much. Another spin on her heel and she paces back toward Johnny who pulls on his own cigarette. No reason to call River— she ghosted him, dressed silently under cover of his soft snores, crept through the trailer before Ross or the kids could catch her, never answered his messages. A coward.

Gonna ghost her, too? Him, sure. Liked her, at least.

“Not helping,” she growls, aloud. She flinches and turns on her heel.

Judy, who just lost Evelyn to suicide, and what is this mission but suicide?

Not true, and you know it.

“No, I don't, and you don't either. Going against Arasaka again. Hasn't worked out well for either of us.”

Then don't call. Not like you've been a good output.

“Fuck you, Johnny,” she says, stabbing at the air. “Like you're one to talk.”

'xactly why I can say it. Was a shitty input, to more'n Alt or Rogue. If Rogue hadn't been on that last op to Arasaka Tower, think I'd've called her?

😍 : What does your OC find irresistible in others? sense of humor 100% lmao! if the other person has a sense of humor that matches hers then head over heels!

Commission for @themightiestpotato !! Thanks for commissioning me <3