Cyber Hanami

[cyberhanami]

Welcome to CyberHanami Week 2023! (サイバー花見 2023)

Grab your cans of NiCola™ and gather all your chooms under a holo cherry tree this upcoming week! 

We are celebrating the traditional Japanese custom of Hanami (花見) in the heart of Night City. We’ll revel in the transient beauty of flowers while contemplating on whether you wanna wither away of old age or go out in a blaze of glory.

Between 27 March – 2 April, we are holding a CyberHanami Week event on Tumblr and Twitter for all Cyberpunk 2077 fans.

All you need to know:

🌸 You can participate with any type of creative work — fanfics, fanarts, screenshots, videos, GIFs, playlists, etc.

🌸 The celebration week has 6 themes and 1 free day. Each theme has 3 prompts which you'll find below!

🌸 Join us for as many days and prompts as you want. A whole week and a single day are both valid and highly appreciated.

🌸 You can use any platform(s) of your choice. However, as we only have event accounts on Tumblr and Twitter, we can interact with your posts only on those two social media.

🌸 Tag your work with #CyberHanami23 so we can like and reblog it!

🌸 Any doubts or questions? Check out rules or contact us directly: @CyberHanami on Tumblr and Twitter.

And the most important thing: enjoy your drinks, spread the love, and have fun!

[cyberhanami]

Cyber Hanami 23 Wrapped

Konnichiwa!

To everyone who admired the beauty of fandom flowers blooming with us — we thank you! This is the post about how it went.

🌸 So many flowers 🌸

24 participants created 98 posts on both Tumblr and Twitter.

🌺 Days 🌺

The most popular day is Day 1. What can we say, we all love that special feeling of falling in love, don't we?

💮 Genres 💮

Virtual Photography is the most popular genre of all. But we are excited to see Fanfiction to be widely mastered as well!

🌷 Outstanding 🌷

What is it? An achievement section? Why not!

@lizzy--wizzy has the Longest Streak: 8 posts in the row!

@cosmic-aquamarine-art @projectdanse @quaddmgd @merge-conflict @bnbc @another-corpo-rat are just as cool! Posting for all 7 days is a huge job and we appreciate it deeply.

[cosmic-aquamarine-art]

day 7/unfinished business (free day) for @cyberhanami

so get off your low and let's dance like we used to / but there's a light in the distance waiting for me, i will wait for you

[taiyo-yokai]

Day 7: Cyber Hanami Free day.

Top cyberdeck, packin pistols, pointy things & sassy Attitude .

[quaddmgd]

Day 7 (Free Day) - Ghosts

@cyberhanami

[merge-conflict]

you and me and the devil makes three

cyberhanami day 7: "free space"

content warning: strong emotional distress, soul horror

summary: They could not be separated, Alt had said. All Rogue could do was wait for them to wake up. And just when everything is going to shit, they do.

song: Saveoursoulissa (from the Ravenous soundtrack / instrumental)

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The first sound they hear is the drone of an AV engine, shaking through the walls and calling them awake. Not a gentle call– not this one, arriving as it does in the twisted hellish spiral of dreams. They are born again choking and gasping into a hovel of a room just before the bullets start to fly. Instinct brings them to the floor, but the gunshots are farther away than that. The shouts that follow are closer. Much closer.

Arasaka, they think, and shiver. And then, with teeth bared, who else?

“Who else?” they ask, but it comes out wretched and weak. Laughter oozes, bubbles up out of their lungs like tar. “Who else!”

An explosion rocks the building just as they stagger to their feet, sending them into the doorframe. In the hallway a plume of dust and plaster sweeps over them, sending them into a coughing fit that protects them from the worst effects of the flashbang that follows. With clear eyes and deaf ears they press on. Today is a good day to die. Today is a good day to kill.

They meet the first person stepping through the cloud, but only then do they know that they are unarmed. One armed, a part of them thinks, through clenched teeth meant to muffle laughter. Nullhand. Adrenaline spikes all the way through them, hot like sparks, but the hand that catches their remaining fist is cool and uncompromising. The ringing is beginning to fade. Someone yells for Johnny.

Recognition besets them, startled and grieving. Rogue is calling for Johnny.

Now, the man holding them is no longer obscured, and his face is beautiful and his face is terrible, and everything is wrong. Panic, slamming through the same floodgates as anger, sends them lunging away in animal instinct. Dream they think, loud, as though they can drown everything else out with it, just a dream. But the dream holds tight– the dream is starting to grind away the bones in their wrist, and the man– he–

In the dream a man opens his mouth, and says with perfect chilly rage: “Silverhand.”

“Dead.” The word comes out a curse, lungs heaving in smoke and dust. In agony. “He’s dead.”

Everything is screaming: the building, the AV, the guns, all the warm bodies and their red threaded souls. Hell on earth. And him. Takemura. Saburo’s righteous right hand. That fucking bitter old guard dog. Goro–

His face changes with just the barest hint of relief. The wave of self-revulsion that follows rips them apart. In the midst of it they are unraveled, parceled out, found wanting. There’s not enough left to divide equally, and there never was. To let it continue will kill them all again.

They lean in a little closer and with a flat, snarling smile they tell him, “She’s dead too.”

[johnau6ust]

Day 7, Banshee's Return to those who managed to escape death

[bnbc]

Day 7: Free day // Shut Up and Dance @cyberhanami

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[gloryride]

cyber hanami 2023 - day 7 : the warrior's rest (free day) @cyberhanami

The cherry blossoms Put the whole world Under the tree (Watsujin)

[another-corpo-rat]

Don’t look at me. I know. But I am also a weak ass bitch who rereads Pride & Prejudice almost yearly.

And boy if I thought Smasher’s voice was hard to find before, it was near impossible considering this AU is so not him. Alas he’s but a toy to my whimsy so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Prompt: Free Day – AU {Regency} Adam Smasher/OC Summary: After breaking her heart years ago, Victoria doesn’t take Adam’s return well. At all.

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All the years of careful steps and dutiful presentation as the perfect daughter, the perfect lady, the potentially perfect wife, walking with her chin held high and her temper pressed well underfoot, amount to nothing when she lays eyes on the man again.

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[johnau6ust]

Day 6 "Sake Under The Moon"

Enjoy the Silence (and sake as well)

[shynrel-vp]

Day 6 : Sake Under The Moon - Enjoy The Silence

[corphoe]

"I've got something else that's pink you can look at if cherry blossoms aren't enough"

Day 7 - Free day @cyberhanami

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Do I Wanna Know? Chapter One

Sunset Motel The Badlands, 2078

V, Queen of the Afterlife and Night City's most famous (living) solo, strolls into the bar of the Sunset Motel, looking for a client. She doesn't expect to run into Mitch Anderson.

A photostory inspired by CyberHanami. Thank you so much for the prompts, @cyberhanami! Full story and transcript after the cut.

Do I Wanna Know? Meet With Client

Sunset Motel The Badlands, 2078

Mitch: (Is that...?)

V: (This meeting should have been an email.)

Mitch: V! Thought that was you!

V: Mitch! Good to see you, choom! Been awhile.

Mitch: How the hell are ya? Buy you a beer?

V: Sorry, can't. Was just meeting a client to get detes for a gig.

Mitch: Why's anyone out here calling you and not Dakota?

V: Already did. Dakota referred 'em to me. Need the best.

Mitch: Now, hold on. You're going after those Raffen, aren't you? By yourself?

V: Yeah?

Mitch: Got a plan? Even know where to find 'em?

V: Not tryna tell me how to do my job...?

Mitch: Aw hell, I'm sorry, V. Just think you're gonna need backup. And... Just can't let a friend go off alone like that. Not again. Not if I can help it.

V: (Wouldn't have even been there 'cept for me... Fuck...) Guess I better cut you in on the pay.

Mitch: Not a chance. Taking out Raffen's payment enough.

V: At least lemme buy you that beer after.

Mitch: Heh, it's a deal.

V: Actually... got 'nother idea. Let's go.

Mitch: What's this about, V?

V: Ah, here we go. 'Bout righting a wrong. Time I return Overwatch to her owner.

Mitch: What! Absolutely not. I gave that to—

V: Gave it to Panam, not me.

Mitch: Not the point—

V: Gonna watch my ass or what? 'Sides, I'm a lousy shot with it.

Mitch: (Did she...?) You're sure? Alright. Made some upgrades to her. Didn't know you liked to tinker.

V: Heh, yeah. Little bit.

Mitch: Listen, V... Thanks.

V: You're welcome, Mitch. Now, ready to go kick some Raffen ass? Or are you rusty and gotta warm up on some scavs first?

Mitch: Gimme a break, kid. Like riding a bike.

V & Mitch Will Return

Jacket | Shirt | Pants | Mitch Face | Outfit

[corphoe]

Day 6 - Enjoy the Silence

@cyberhanami

[maimaiapologist]

@cyberhanami DAY 6: SAKE UNDER THE MOON / Enjoy the Silence—a moment of peace amidst the madness of Night City.

alt version under the cut:

[quaddmgd]

Day 6 "Sake Under The Moon" - Enjoy The Silence

"How long until she comes to?" "No idea. Depends on how thick their ICE is, how much they spent on security in general. Could be hours." "Wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't scorching hot today." "If you'll get too hot, get inside and just keep the doors open. I'll shout for you in case I see someone. Got some free space in the fridge?" "Barely. I come here often lately." "Well, if it's not enough we can always cool our drinks with Elegy in the bathtub. Whole lot of ice there and she won't mind."

Judy and Crystal, guarding their deep diving friend.

@cyberhanami