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prototypelq · 6 months

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The Most Unreliable Narrator I Have Ever Seen

soooooo I had a Cyberpunk-obsessed phase pass recently, and this time Johhny Silverhand's character caught my eye. His story, more specifically, and how... inconsistent he seems, depending on each source.

In the game, Johhny acts like a bastard for most of the game. He panic-rages on his first meeting with V, throws many threats around, but is later beaten into the background with the blocker pills Misty gave to V. Even Johnny's friends' are well, they react Loudly to his return. Y'know, make it known his presence alone provokes a lot of anger from them.

Even during his first appearance, when V gets thrown into Silverhand's memories of his SAMURAI concert, the only real thing V recalls is the all-consuming rage that he felt, which he tried to shout out through the microphone, but it never felt like enough.

And doesn't this sound weird then, that the only thing Johnny does throughout the game after that first meeting is help V out? He learns about the Smasher guy hideout at the docks (he does that through dubious means but that's Johnny for you), he helps V out when the seizures become worse, he calmly agrees to Any decision V makes, despite V clearly Not being in any real state to oppose him in the finale of the game, he plans the whole thing with "Alt" so V can get his body back at Johnny's own expense, from the beginning, and he doubles down on that claim at the end of the game.

Do you see the dissonance? The egoist rockerboy that admitted to using his friends to getting what he wants, and the downright self-sacrificing hero and a friend that is Johnny at the end of the game? People change, sure, but this divide is very massive and too sudden, so I wanted to dig into that. And what I've stumbled upon, with the help of canon Cyberpunk materials like the Red sourcebook (or, more specifically, LayedBackGamers' reading of the canon books and his lore videos on different topics), is that

Johhny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 is the Most Unreliable Narrator I've Ever Seen.

Count with me here:

Johhny's personality in general. No matter what your interpretation of him his, it's impossible to ignore that Johhny is very much a people person and he exploits that knowledge and charisma to suit his own goals. If you choose to trust him, then you might have already been played.

2) Johhny has been alone, only his lovely self for 50+ years inside the Arasaka chip. Don't ask me how he is still even remotely sane, I haven't got a clue (hopefully the time as a construct without outside stimulation flies differently and he hasn't felt those 50 years in real time). The thing to mention here, however, is that, being alone with your thoughts and emotions for a long time, having nothing else for entertainment, is a great opportunity to rewrite your own memory of events or emotions you've felt.

3) Lack of a body. The aforementioned constant rage, that was the dominant emotion is Johnny's life (before Alt, at least, if Never Fade Away is anything to go by, and I mean, that's literally a love ballad), is a symptom of his PTSD from his too-young years serving in the corpo war, same as his signature silver hand. I'm not a specialist here, but I do know PTSD, especially for war veterans, is a physiological illness just as much as it is a mental one. Johnny's body literally had trouble living normally after that experience, and knowing this bastard - he never managed to treat that. Existing as a personality construct frees him from the many bonuses of being corporeal, but it also free him from the physiological side of PTSD. His day-to-day existence is fundamentally different from that of the Johnny Silverhand that the world knew 50 years ago, so yes, as a 'time traveler' or a source of information and comparison about the 70's and 20's of cyberpunk world Johhny is not a good source.

4) The chip with Johnny is literary inside the head of another person. The characters in game question, multiple times, just which decisions is V making on his own, and which of them might be Johnny's doing. Not consciously, no, but V and Johnny are clearly not your simple neighbours. They are not your 'close friends that start subconsciously copying each other' too. It is quite possible that the chip with Johhny is adapting to the 'hardware' it is running on, so it is specifically implementing parts of V's personality into Johnny, to minimize the 'friction' between the personality and the body it is supposed to inhabit. Everyone say hi to existential horror)

5) How does Soulkiller ever work? Is there data on how much the resulting engram actually resembles the person it tried to copy? How did the process of copying Johnny go? I can answer the last one - very badly.

Death of Johnny is told in excruciating detail in the Cyberpunk sourcebooks. Johnny died on the floor of Arasaka tower, torn in two by a shotgun blast from Smasher. There is no information on how much time it takes Soulkiller to create the engram from the brain, but it better have finished doing that before Johnny's brain started dying from a lack of blood and oxygen, and he clearly didn't have much time either, considering bisection is not the best for bodily fluid preservation, so it's a wonder the engram even works properly. Plus, during the initial heist to steal the chip with Johnny, the chip was damaged further before the idiots decided to stick an unknown harddrive into their heads to preserve it. Basically, it's nothing short of a miracle, that engram-Johnny is actually a whole damn person, that he can function, think and feel properly (well, as much as Johnny can do those things)

It is very sad that V can't talk to Johnny about this, as the man does blame himself over things he hasn't even done, and he had done enough emotional damage to himself and people around him without that kind of burden on top of it.

6) Johnny's memories are literally false. The attentive reader had to pick this up in my previous point - didn't Johnny die in the hands of Arasaka after they interrogated him? Nope. Nope, and I can say that confidently because,

(drumroll please)

Cyberpunk tabletop sourcebooks! Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk universe and the TTRP series of games, has worked closely with CDPR writers during the production of the 2077. He oversaw everything, and he says that 2077 is in the same cyberpunk universe too, it's not an 'alternate reality' or anything.

Johnny Silverhand died while trying to buy time for his friends to escape, from a shotgun shot from Adam Smasher. That's it, he died on that floor, there was noone to interrogate, no rooftop helicopter he ran for.

The sequence of 'memories' we see from Johnny's POV in the game is a mishmash of two different assaults on the Arasaka towers, yes towers there were two of them. There is a great video explaining all the small and Major details Johnny's version of events got wrong, because we have the sourcebooks and the text inside. You may accuse me of holding a 'holy canon' argument ... and well, yeah, this is kind of holy knowledge, as it was written for gamemasters.

Still, some of the things in Johnny's version are Major, and while the media certainly covered the whole story extensively with corpo propaganda (oh, btw, Johnny didn't bomb anything, he probably didn't even know there was a nuke involved, he is literally just a scapegoat), there are some holes that a citizen of this world might know and wish to poke. The aforementioned Two Arasaka towers, or the absence of the legendary solo Morgan Blackhand from Johnny's story. Interestingly enough, there is a radiostation of Maximum Mike in-game, who is actually just pretty much Mike Pondsmith, and he does propose a couple of questions the 'official' version of the attack doesn't cover (like, where would a rockerboy even get a nuke, he might have been popular, but that's not just something you find without military contracts, and that means corporations). Another thing is that since Arasaka owns Soulkiller and has had the engram for a couple of decades, it is quite possible they are the ones responsible for messing with Johnny's memories.

So uh, yeah, Johnny is the Most Unrealible Narrator I have ever seen. Johnny of 2077 is most certainly not the Johnny of 2020's, but this might be a good thing. Maybe the 'real' 2020's Silverhand could never have made the progress the engram did, or become such a good friend and companion for V, or maybe he could have done those things too. We'll never know. I really love this story anyway.

#thanks for reading #johnny totally deserves a second chance at life after this why cant he and johnny show alt the finger and delta out of there #so v could live out his days and then johnny would take over #on the other hand johnny is a great example that being an engram is not the end so maybe v could come back in some sort of form later #after giving alt the finger #btw thats not alt either that's probably just an ai that caught little wind of actual alt and just calls itself her #also alt herself might be alive but that story is WEIRD so no idea #cyberpunk lore is great i had an amazing time listening to it and discovering new things #mike pondsmith is also amazing heard a cyberpunk red campaign he mastered and listening to him has been a blast he is a true storyteller #cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk red #legends of night city #mike pondsmith #johnny silverhand #phantom liberty #this is the first and last time I praise cdpr after that back to hate for the ps4 version of the game i go #and for refusing to update the game for that platform and for not releasing the dlc for it and for upping the system reqs even higher #ill live to see actual 2077 before I get access to hardware that can run that shit #btw existential horror enjoyers I sure do hope you have heard of SOMA )))#oh i also dont think johnny was that bad in life either like he was bad but rogue and kerry are clearly happy to have him back so the game #must've shown just a very low time for him he had to be a good friend to earn that kind of loyalty still could behave like a bastard tho

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delta-romance0 · 2 months

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All I can think of is danger days

And i’m getting the comics for my birthday

And bulletproof heart exists

And summertime exists

Do NOT send help.

#GRAVITY DONT MEAN TOO MUCH TO ME #YOU CAN RUN AWAY WITH ME ANYTIME YOU WANT #can I write it on my arm?#love this album #danger days #ddttlotfk #my chemical romance #mcr #music #delta rambles

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tchaikovskygay · 1 year

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are you in the top .1% of an artist's listeners or are you straight

#or are you normal #but based on my instagram? its straight.#unsurprisingly im in the top .05% of delta rae for the [number of spotify wrappeds] year running #spotify wrapped

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aberration-abbey · 1 year

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Doing sketches of the Rubellite Delta’s local Maren clan, the Glowing Reef Clan, and also seeing if I could replicate the look of colored pencil with digital art. The answer is apparently yes, but it also replicates the process of colored pencil, which I forgot I hate. I pretty quickly gave up on that and switched to a less time-consuming process, haha.

The Glowing Reef Clan is pretty friendly with their neighboring dragon clans, and have a longstanding trade agreement with the Starry Night Inn (repped by serthis Queenie, with the red tail). Frequent exposure to magic radiation from their eponymous reef has given them unusually frilly fins. Their Undertide pal is Timbrel, who likes poetry and fighting sharks.

#flight rising #fr undertide #fr beastclans #fr maren #frfanart #fr fanart #rubellite delta #glowing reef clan #oc timbrel #oc queenie #i don't have names for any of the maren yet. rip #oh well i really only started poking at their lore in the last couple days.#fun fact: frilly fins are considered sexy by many maren. this has caused longstanding beef with the nearest neighboring maren clan because #the high-ranking members got mad that their youth kept running off to marry glowing reef maren.

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quiltofstars · 1 year

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Some bright nebulae and stars in Orion // KContakt

On the left are the three stars of Orion’s Belt: Mintaka (δ Orionis) at the top left, Alnilam (ε Orionis) in the center, and Alnitak (ζ Orionis) at the bottom.

Some notable nebulae include the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) at the lower left near Alnitak, the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) also near Alnitak, the Orion Nebula (M42) at the right, and the Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279) to the left of the Orion Nebula.

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st-just · 1 year

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Obviously noir cynicism is like 60% of the whole mood, but new Delta Green's post-2016 political turn is really heightening the contradictions here.

'In this operation, your team of corrupt feds and deep state operatives will use extralegal violence, intimidation, and blatant abuse of authority to fight...a deputy gang in the LA Sheriff's Department!'

#like it's a good-looking op I kinda wanna run it #but this is really not a game that can go 'ACAB' gracefully lol #delta green #rpg

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thresholdbb · 5 months

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Holup, they’re all rocking the same inclement weather gear

#ok the ascent is season 5 of ds9 and they are still in the black uniforms #they switch to the new uniforms LITERALLY the following episode #the timeless timeline is 15 years in the future but they stole the delta flyer #conceivably they outfitted the flyer with the uniform cold weather suits #when Chakotay and Harry got back they decommissioned the Flyer as is #but damn space ships require a hell of a lot of maintenance so how is it still up and running after sitting for 15 years #like how long was it sitting in the shipyard? the whole 15 years?#also they have two suits when quark and odo had to share the one #I’m as confused as the EMH #also lmao at the cold weather overalls #they’re so shiny and quilted I love the costuming so much #it’s been a minute since I’ve seen the ascent but do we see the overalls or just the jacket?#have we even seen these outfits on commissioned officers? hmm #oh god does this mean these ridiculous suits are going on my never ending dream cosplay list? oh god #Actually the timeless cosplay is uniformed and frozen sprayed down with fake snow hilarious #how easily I latch onto the costuming like damn

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leavingautumn13 · 4 months

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For the WIP title asks:

Rising Tide (which is also a song by Sunny Day Real Estate)!

Tell me, do Kyogre and Groudon meet at the shore to enjoy a nice playdate while Maxie and Archie fight over land/water property lines like the suburban dads they are?

this ask is sending me, oh my lord. thank you--i laughed pretty hard at this :D

and this song is within the time frame of songs i'm referencing in the fic, so that's just perfect! thank you!

"color your skin with gold, and the violence remains cover your eyes with rose, but the stain remains will you repair your life with all the holes you fill? smother your will and drain you of your passion..."

oh yeah, that's going on the playlist.

as for our beloved suburban dads, i can't say too much without spoiling the last quarter or so of the fic--though i guess i have been pretty transparent about maxie actually succeeding in catching groudon. that's a thing that happens. gonna be mum about the circumstances and implications and fallout of that, though. i'm sure it turns out fine.

as for the wip itself, it's the first chapter of eye of the storm. the title refers to the circumstances that drive may to leave home in the first place--things get to be too much for her.

for a little context about my may, she's 22 at the start of the fic, and had moved out of her parents' house at 18, back when they still lived in johto. she opted to move back in with them temporarily when they moved to hoenn (instead of staying in johto by herself), and it's a choice she starts regretting very quickly. snippet under the cut. i feel like i should add a trigger warning for this as well--it's a bad situation if you've ever been in it before but pretty vague if you don't know what you're looking at. tw for implied emotional abuse, i suppose.

This was bad.

May sat on the carpeted top stair and gripped her empty mug so tightly her knuckles turned white. A faint “godsdammit” floated around the corner that led into the living room and up to her ears. Whatever her mother was fussing with down there had her, to be incredibly mild, extremely pissed off.

This was bad, but it had probably been worse at some point before. Not that May could put a finger on when, exactly; the last four years of solitude had papered over the memory of her mother’s moods with a series of perfectly pleasant lunches and borderline enjoyable outings to the movies. The tone of voice May was catching now, in snippets from the ground floor, was a knife widening the old wound of the six years before that, during their time in Olivine, after their last big move. The first time this had happened, May had been thirteen and stupidly hopeful.

She didn’t have age as an excuse this time.

Did she really need another cup of coffee? She could turn around, tail between her legs, and head back to her room. This one locked, though that might cause her more problems in the long run. She’d already endured the years of formless suspicion about why she kept her door closed all the time, and even that particularly bad summer where the door had been removed entirely. She didn’t need, didn’t want a repeat of that. Something told her the offense her mother would suffer over a locked door would be far greater than over a closed one. Teenagers were just like that, after all. From an adult it would be an insult.

Moving back in had been a massive fucking mistake.

#thank you SO MUCH for the ask!! <3 #this was a really good one.#''if maxie gets groudon what's going on with archie'' archie has the worst luck of anybody in the fic the poor guy #the better question is what's the devon corporation up to? if you've heard my takes on the delta episode you may have an idea #this fic is emerald based and not oras based and therefore not in the mega timeline but infinity energy is still very much a thing #anyway. no spoilers #autumn.fic #fic: eye of the storm #i guess the only thing i'll spoil is this fic DOES have a very happy ending for everybody because i'm a sucker for that #and it's pokemon so the whole setting runs on the power of friendship #we get a lot of that too #edited to add: i have no idea how you clocked that chapter title referred to the emerald fic but you were spot on. damn.#i'm impressed

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afallencreator · 8 months

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The au when the world ended but frisk is too determined to die[happy 8th birthday undertale.]

#deltarune #undertale fandom #delta run #art #gaster #wd gaster #digital art #undertale au #sans #friskundertale #frisk au #undertale frisk #frisk undertale #frisk #frisk dreemurr #undertaleau #undertale pacifist #undertale fanart #undertale

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quq-fan · 9 months

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this is so funny to me for no reason

Famous Krakle au and Crest does this

#its my fan blog i can make whatever aus i want #demarii would be her reluctant bodyguard btw #And chaos is her stage manager #She's opening for Asterimus #Sizzle runs pyrotechnics in every one of my aus and this is no different #Atri is Dedicated Twitter Hater #krakle noisemaker #kyra crest #quq au #quote unquote campaign #famous krakle au #Actually Demarii is Asterimus's bodyguard #she just happens to see how much trouble krakle gets into and adopts her as well #still reluctant about it tho #and mildly but fondly irritated #delta is Mega Fanboy waited in line for 4 hours to see asterimus #Crest actually came with Delta because theyre besties and i said so #Personally think Asterimus would be Dahlia's Taylor Swift (negative) and she's only there because Delta and Crest made her

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werewolf-femboy-maid · 5 months

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DO NOT BUY FAKE THC/DELTA 8 VAPES IN ILLEGAL STATES

Tmi story time scroll if not interested

Ok so basically I don't live in a legal state and I did the big stupid, which is vape the delta 8s and whatever else they had. I will explain why this is stupid.

Those vapes sold in illegal states like mine are faaaaar more likely to have harmful additives like vitamin e (good for you skin, not your lungs) and other random shit who knows.

Now I did not realize just how harmful they are until about a week ago when I did a little more research.

I've been vaping those little shits on and off for about 2-3 years, so I hope I don't develop some crazy disease.

Popcorn lung is more likely if you vape nicotine (I did a little but not really on a regular basis) and EVALI is more likely if you vape the FAKE thc/delta 8 carts and disposables.

All that being said vaping in general is not really good for you, but if you vape, PLEASE make sure you buy from legal states!!! Please don't be a stinky idiot like me!!!

A good way to tell if your disposable is safer, you can check their website, batch number, serial number, ingredients, all that jazz.

If you live in an illegal state, there are NO outlets you can buy genuine vapes, so unless you got a plug you trust, don't buy thc delta vapes anywhere.

I love yall stay safe muah muah

Ok here's the actual tmi storytime before I got carried away

So like yeah I feel ok, but I do feel like my lungs have this little layer. What I'm so scared of is what if I'm old and I finally figured out how to enjoy life and not be a whiny little bitch, but then thats when I'll have cancer. Like it'll just come out of nowhere as soon as I find out how to be happy with myself and my life and the world.

I mean my grandpa hasn't smoked since I was born and he got diagnosed with lung cancer a few weeks ago

So yeah that would be so funny if I died as soon as I didn't want to die

Ok the other thing is that, with my lungs feeling odd, there is a glimmer of hope. Exercise really might be the answer. If you or a loved one did those vapes, exercise is the most likely way from my experience to clear everything out.

My bf was really cheefing those vapes more than I did, but he also exercised more than I did. And he reports no symptoms, I don't hear any either...

And whenever I exercise, I feel like im loosening up that "film" and yeah. I'm gonna be smoke free once I start my next semester, and a nice 4-6 month period of exercise and cleanliness should help my lungs clean up.

Long story short. No buy trippy vapes if you do not live in a legal state. If consumed, exercise, hydration, nutrition, and breathing exercises are vital for maximum chance of survival

#im so out of it #im going through some stuff not to serious i just make my own problems #everyone and everythkng is too much for me #so many expectations #idk anymore #delta 8 #delta 9 #delta 10 #thc #thc vapes #vape #vapes #vape safety #just smoke plain za kids #still tar but a little better than whatever tf in those vapes #im insane #i was moping outside the door becasue i didnt wanna gk inside bht i have to pee and them someone came out andthey saw me run behind a car #hahahahahhahahahhaahahhhhaa #its no use pretending im normal anymore #theres just no use #everykne in. y family and at school and even my future inlaws are now aware of my insanity #no one will ever love me again #thats selfisb of me there are people who care #mom is this what you meant by i dont wanna go over there and smile #i AM SO SICK OF PRETENDKNG I AM INTERESTED AND E #AND EXCEITD ABOUT ANYTHING ITS ALL SO SHOT

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