HHHHHH I went straight to taking screenshots for this the day Kerry's birthday was confrimed on the 7th XD But cause life is chaotic and I have too many projects all at once it took me a while to finish it. But here we are now!! ;__; And I'm so happy with how it turned out and uuugghhh my feels I cry looking at some of these frames.
So like, the thing is, Kerry is obviously super happy with Vince, despite all the hardships and battles and whatnot. But also, he's still battling with depression, even the most harmonic, loving relationship and love can't fix that (even if it makes things easier sometimes). And the way I interpret Kerry from how he's depicted in game, I imagine especially around anniversaries of any sorts he probably always gets a bit more gloomy.
But the same way Vince is physically recovering here, Kerry is beginning to as well I'd like to imagine! pushing away the bad thoughts and being like "yeah, you know what, it's been a turbulent but a good life and I'm glad I'm still around to have this now". And they're both healing together and yeah ;___;
Making his eyes brown was a spontaneous decision, they're just Photoshopped real quick. But with his whole theme of embracing himself more again (and I also don't think the blue eyes were necessarily his first choice, but probably more a nice brand deal the label pushed on him and he was just like "whatever" in his depressed state of mind) I think he would eventually go back to his natural eye color.
Vince's scars are also photoshopped, although I hope one day when I have him as NPV I can make him a 2078 appearance that has them properly on the model uwu I really like how they turned out though, especially the one at the base of his skull!
But yeh ;__; happy belated birthday old man (who would only be 36 now, and just 5 years older than me shhh). To many more bad decisions that lead to good things in the long run!
How long do we think it’s been since someone held Kerry’s face the way V did when he went to kiss him?
The look of genuine shock on Kerry’s face for a split second, of someone holding his face like that, like he couldn’t BELIEVE someone would touch him like that again.
When the Us Cracks girls invited him out, Kerry asked V to be his plus one. They all had a blast, but at some point in the evening, the boys seemingly disappeared.
It's finally done ;__; I've been working on this on and off for the better part of half a year now I think. It was one of the first bigger ideas I sketched out one afternoon shortly after finishing my first Cyberpunk playthrough in February '23 xD
The little background story tha inspired it, that I've definitely told before, goes as follows:
During "Gimme Danger", when talking with Takemura about their childhood, Corpo!V will talk about their childhood growing up in Charter Hill. And me, a sucker for details like that, in the middle of building a background story for my V at the time, immediately drove to Charter Hill then to figure out where a good place to live might be.
I chose a random apartment building on Grant Avenue, cause it had metro access, lots of shops, and all the bright neon lights and ads everyhwere that V mentions. Good enough, I thought, it's settled. He grew up there.
Flashforward about 20 hours of gameplay, I finally meet Kerry, and he invites V to Dark Matter. And I don't think I even initially realized it (bc, you know, I was slightly... preoccupied otherwise during that convo) but then it dawned on me... You can actually see the building I chose as V's childhood home quite well from up there. And he would obviously realize it, too. Since Vince doesn't have good memories of the place though he never brings it up, until Kerry eventually, during one of their many dates they end up having up there, notices he's been staring off into the distance a little more than usual.
And yeah... this is that scene and I really wanted to do it as a little comic ;__;
All backgrounds are ingame screenshots, the map of Charter Hill is a heavily edited screenshot of the interactive Cyberpunk Map (https://maps.piggyback.com/cyberpunk-2077/maps/night-city) and the street names I referenced from this map someone on Reddit put together by hand from going around and reading all the ingame street signs (https://www.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/comments/msyg79/i_couldnt_find_a_map_of_night_city_with_street/). Both super duper useful resources for writing, can highly recommend, I use them all the time XD
Anyway, I hope you like my sappy, self-indulgent lil' comic, I sure as hell had a lot of fun working on it and I'm so proud to finally have it finsihed x3
I like to think that if Kerry 2023 version and V were friends or hung out together, V would be that quiet and shy man, who has a huge crush on the rockerboy
Kerry has his doubts but he's like "I'm thinking too much" - Johnny, on the other hand, doesn't even hide the fact that he knows (typical) and love watch the strange situations that Kerry creates with V.
Y’all have been a HUNGRY bunch for that Kerry content so I thought I’d give you something special today :3
Coughs coughs ahem anyways uhh
if it ends up being requested or whatever I’ll maybe post gifs of my more wholesome stuff with Kerry but I’ve kinda been avoiding it as I don’t know if anyone would really interact with it
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you....
Kei had one long-term relationship in his youth. Jamie made working at Arasaka less of a stress-filled hellhole. The man was different than everyone else, honest, with no ulterior motives. They were good together and it lasted a year. Then, he was transferred to the Japan branch of Arasaka and they both knew they wouldn't be able to make it work long-distance. Kei suspected his father had something to do with it, but had no proof. Just a feeling. But his heart was broken, and from then on out Kei preferred hookups to relationships, not wanting to get hurt again. He built a wall around his heart, despite feeling lonely....
Then along came a rockerboy with a hammer to knock down that wall...