NEVER FADE AWAY

中務椿 。 even tsubaki have a fragrance.

[altificial]

 # ALTIFICIAL   a canon divergent   and   private   [ ALTIERA CUNNINGHAM ]   sourced   from   CDPR'S   game   series   CYBERPUNK : 2077   written   &   loved   dearly   by   LU   ( twenty-six,   any   pronouns,   cst )   a   focus   on   lost connections,   lost   souls,   and   learning   what   it   means   to   be   dead.  

Visit Original Link

this   account   is   beta   editor   oriented   and   twenty   plus. heavily headcanon reliant, with inspiration from game + tabletop canon.

[altificial]

every day's a good day to miss alt

[altificial]

this was always going to happen. she's been dead since the beginning ( orestes ) — corpo!alt cunningham : arasaka's greatest mind.

[altificial]

alt would be 38 this year and i just think that's so hot.

[altificial]

is somebody gonna match alt's freak

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Tomie (1998)

[mintmatcha]

came back wrong but its from the perspective of the person who came back

[mintmatcha]

Seeing pictures of yourself -the real you, the one people miss, the one people look for in your eyes- is like staring into a foggy mirror. The parts are there, you think, but the details are lost.

Someone who loves you makes you breakfast. You thank him and eat it despite the fact the eggs are too crisp on the sides and missing much needed salt. He says its how you like it, but that just makes that angry, unfettered itch in the back of your brain grow stronger.

How I used to like it, you want to say, how I used to be.

You grip your butter knife harder and light catches the polished metal. The glimpse you catch of yourself in the cutlery looks nothing like the photo on the mantle.

[greelin]

[pleasantly] well i don’t particularly know if i came back wrong. Only time will tell!

[coldnofeelings-archived]

self-care is ignoring canon and substituting my own

[altificial]

RACHE AND SPIDER ARE SO

[altificial]

rache and alt keeping in contact even while she's lost in the sauce (living dead girl) and he's still got time to be smart with her.

[altificial]

controversial take that i will be providing zero nuance for, but i don't think silveralt loved each other the way that people think they did.

[altificial]

altiera  in  her  engram  verse  acts  more  closely  to  her  ai  counterpart, mainly  because  of  how  long  she  was  left  in  cyberspace  unsocialized  &  fusing  with  endless  amounts  of  data  for  almost  a  full  decade  before  they  were  able  to  put  her  back  into  her  body.

she's  a  little  colder  and  mechanically  articulate  when  she  speaks,  there's  distance  in  her  actions;  not  at  all  how  she  was  when  she  was  alive.  there  are  moments, though,  when  her  personality  data  shows  through  &  alt  will  make  jokes  that  can  fall  a  little  flat.  her  words  come  thru  a  little  more  tender  towards  those  the  old  alt  had  love  for.  her hands  become  just a  ghost more  gentle.

she'll  never  be  how  she  used  to,  now  only  warm  body  housing  a  cold  heart  and  a  dead  soul-  but  every  now  and  then,  a  sliver  of  her  peaks  out  and  it's  as  if  she'd  never  left.

[altificial]

alt was absolutely bumping the make yourself album by incubus when she was creating soulkiller.

[altificial]

absolutely nutty of johnny silverhand, who is so vehemently anti-establishment and vocal about the evils of corporate monopolies in nc, to fall in love with a rich nepo baby who works for a software corporation and birthed one of the biggest threats-slash-technological evolutions of cyberspace.

[altificial]

alayna cunningham was a well established doctor while sawyer worked as a marketing officer in a corporate organization from visalia, both coming from respectively comfortable backgrounds themselves. while neither owned their own business, alayna became well known in plastics ( soon as a ripperdoc ) for a few decades while sawyer remained hovering a comfortable position on the corpo ladder for most of their careers.

something something love at first sight something birds of a feather

soon after altiera was born, the cunninghams lost their jobs and were displaced because of the civil wars and skyrocketing growth of gang activity in SoCal- and so they moved closer to the southwestern edge of california which was where night city became established not even a decade later.

despite the financial crash and near-crippling rates of inflation, the cunninghams still had access to their funds and made do with a slightly above average lifestyle. this is when alayna cunningham found her new calling in becoming a ripperdoc- whereas sawyer was stuck licking the boots of corpo suits to try and work his way back into the white collar force.

alt's childhood wasn't entirely hopeless; her parents played an active-enough role in her development despite their demanding careers but nobodies perfect. like many tired parents, altiera was often shoo'd away and young alt was forced to put her time and attention elsewhere. schooling was digital, thanks to the access granted by her father's workpath- and this was one of alt's first experiences with the NET.

something something youthful curiosity got the better of her something this began her love for the NET as well as her ever-growing desire to keep learning.

by the time she'd entered her teen years, altiera became even more familiar with the continuously growing advancements of cyberspace and started dabbling in programming.

something something she'd met a few likeminded people in this time something made friends on the NET and decided to wreak havoc as teens with unlimited access to the internet do

this being said, alt wanted the best hardware she can get her hands on. with well-off parents, it wasn't hard to gain access to good equipment on this side of NC that'd help alt achieve exactly what she wanted, bought the neural processors and interface plugs needed to navigate the Net. her little projects and hobbies were continuously funded by alayna and sawyer, family still kept afloat by their medium success in their respective careers.

unfortunately, alayna and sawyer didn't live to see alt's 19th birthday. car jacking turned violent, shot down in the middle of the highway while altiera was home alone. she didn't get to bury them.

needless to say, alt was granted access to the remainder of her parents' funds ( of which most was burned through a few years later bc of her spending habits ) after their death and chose to continue living out on her own in NC. due to the near crippling grief of losing her parents, alt spent most of her time interacting with cyberspace as a means to cope. she found a home in the 0's and 1's and never truly turned back from it.

in the years passing, alt has since healed and eventually landed a few jobs here and there ranging anywhere from flipping hot dogs at a vendor cart to working digital security for local businesses. somewhere along the way, she'd met rache bartmoss and ran the entire pacifica region of the NET alongside him.

at age 23, she was poached by ITS because of her indomitable skill and presence in cyberspace- all where she'd soon find herself developing what could be considered to be digital immortality.

[classically-lit-memes4u]

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

[altificial]

𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 ? ray  douglas  bradbury  (august  22,  1920  –  june  5,  2012)  was  an  american  fantasy,  science  fiction,  horror  and  mystery  fiction  writer.  best  known  for  his  dystopian  novel fahrenheit  451  (1953)  and  for  the  science  fiction  and  horror  stories  gathered  together  as the  martian  chronicles (1950)  and the  illustrated  man (1951),  bradbury  was  one  of  the  most  celebrated  20th-century  american  writers.  many  of  bradbury's  works  have  been  adapted  into  comic  books,  television  shows  and  films.

tagged by : @sherez kissing u tagging : anyone who sees this <3