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nic | 93 kid | she/her art blog @nixaeris

[paisleycowboys]

man I love a tragedy and Johnny Silverhand/V is thee doomed relationship. What if I was a virus eating your mind and killing you but in the process of trying to save your life we learned to share a body and a brain and we do actually get along despite everything. What if I taught you passion and believing in a cause and you taught me compassion and joy. What if after becoming one, we were doomed to separate in order for either of us to survive and it leaves neither of us whole.

[fishmechs]

[rrevvenant]

i will die for silverv

[shubheshpedam]

art by @yoracrab

[glitchinginthegarden]

some johnny arms im really enjoying rn nothing else going on here

[glitchinginthegarden]

something something fighting as foreplay

[lumichenart]

😭 Listen, they’re not tears…it’s hot lava pouring from my eyeballs okay. That’s how angry I am. 😡😫

[igrraine]

[obsidian-bone]

When the Camp Sleeps...

I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of this one... I think the lighting is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. I am very proud of my little embers, though! That was legitimately a lot of fun to paint. Idk, something feels off. Maybe it's the character's anatomy, maybe the pose is too stiff? Constructive criticism from my fellow artists and art enthusiasts is greatly appreciated! Full below:

[reaping-ravens]

the transhumanism conversation of cyberpunk 2077 is so fascinating, especially in regards to the soul. it’s said multiple times that soulkiller “does exactly what it sets out to do” in that it replicates everything but the soul, leaving that final, crucial component to die along with the victim’s body. we can see a perfect example of the soulless nature of engrams with jackie’s during the devil ending; he was a caricature of the jackie that once lived. misty even makes a point of saying that there was more to him than what most people saw. as an engram, all of his layers had been stripped away, leaving only the most surface level version that a casual acquaintance might recognise as jackie welles.

naturally, i don’t think many would classify jackie as human any longer at that point. but what about johnny? why is he more human than jackie in the same engrammatic state?

when v talks to the monks after the pisces questline, there’s a really interesting dialogue about what makes someone / something human and there was particular emphasis on suffering. if an engram or digitised psyche can experience suffer, then they are a real person.

i think we can all agree that johnny suffers A Lot but that’s entirely because of his proximity to v. the busted state of the relic allows him to suffer and experience and live alongside v as if he were them. his soul may have been destroyed in 2023, but his ability to share v’s is the only reason he’s not a husk of his living self. his access to their soul is what makes him human.

they’re quite literally soulmates your honour…

EDIT: okay a lot of ppl have made two really interesting points that i wanna add:

- jackie’s engram was made after he died vs johnny’s being made as he died. so naturally, johnny is gonna have more personality and “humanity”

- there’s evidence of johnny suffering as an engram before v’s involvement. i worded the og post the way i did because he describes mikoshi as sleep, so i suppose i interpreted it as the pain only becoming apparent once he had “woken up” which doesn’t necessarily negate the presence of suffering before so .. i was wrong i apologise 🙏

[passionpeachy]

idea for a couple’s sweater

[yuck-fou-choom]

SilverV

[lovepersimmin]

we're a tangled web, you and me. one and the same.

[sisifroggy]

Unhinged Text Posts: Alistair Theirin Edition (Part 5)

Shout out to @amatus-lavellan for letting me steal your Warden Cousland and her himbo

More Text Post Memes:

Alistair | Dragon Age

[liarsblade]

Possessiveness is awesome.specifically if the possessive person is kind of embarrassed and ashamed and turning inwards about it

[liarsblade]

Alpha boyfriend beats the shit out of some guy for touching his discord kitten or whatever <- unfathomably unsexy

Repressed freak has private breakdown about other people being affectionate with their favorite person on earth and has a guilt spiral about it afterwards <- awesome and sexy. To Me.

[liarsblade]

Repressed freak does all of that and then is forced for some reason to say, out loud, with their words that yeah basically I feel like you're Mine and it's very upsetting to me when other people touch you or make you smile or laugh sorry I try not to feel that way I know it's wrong of me sorry sorry sorry <- REALLY AWESOME AND SEXY. TO ME.

[reaping-ravens]

never seen / gotten this dialogue with johnny before and yes it did make me lose my mind a bit because what do you mean he’s writing a new song and when can we hear it

you think seeing v and river get closer (platonically or romantically) makes johnny feel jealous and helpless because he can’t treat v the way he wants to, he can’t take them out, kiss them, touch them.. so he hides in their brain and shuts out the whole evening by writing a song that could somehow communicate how he feels about v but he knows he’ll never get the chance to record it the way he wants to so instead of showing v, the melody / lyrics just creep into v’s subconscious until they start humming along oblivious to its true meaning

[mrartemystic]

arm vein…. (wip)

[virevas]

“Ir abelas, vhenan… But I cannot.”