Final Fantasy XIV
⮡ FFXIV main is @whitherwanderer
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🡮 OCs
SIF
Cyberpunk 2077 → Nomad. Driver. Sniper. Busker with an old guitar. Separate story from V. Shipped with fallen corpo asset and walking cyberpsychosis risk Dugald Walker (@mamanewt's OC).
main tag || ship tag || playlist
RIGEL
Cyberpunk 2077 → Corpo. Former Arasaka Risk Management. Heavy weapons and close combat specialist. Following V's story. Ship pending?
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SAWYER
Cyberpunk 2077 → Streetkid. Cybersec turned hacker, making deals with forces beyond the Blackwall. Musician and indie music producer. Separate story from V. Shipped with AM-3S Version H1.A, aka Amesha (also @mamanewt's OC).
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DENALI
Warframe → Mesa. An ancient gunslinger newly freed from her duties as a warden, waking up to a masterless solar system and discovering her new place in it.
God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you're back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun's cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me.
*Me, two months later*............oh yeah, uh, this.
Obviously this is not a 1 for 1 interpretation but I think it's interesting to note:
Takemura's neck cyberware is prominently displayed during his time as Saburo's bodyguard. When Saburo dies and Takemura is sacked, he covers it with a high collar jacket and button up. The cyberware still peaks out, though, from under all his clothes. The Arasaka logo there is always visible.
Hanako's cyberware is very obvious but very elegant, very aesthetically pleasing. Golds up her arms and legs and silvery-white eyes. Hanako Arasaka showers you with promises of saving your life that ultimately end up harming more than helping-- she tells you everything you want to hear when her offer is effectively meaningless. In another word, she's offering you fool's gold in exchange for your help
Songbird's engram form has very little cyberware. Facial wiring and a C-link. This is the way she likes to appear to you, and probably to herself as well. The more you learn about her-- the more she reveals to you-- the more you see her true body. Industrial mods and wires and plating. The bulk of her cyberware never actually faces you. When you and So Mi are facing each other, everything that's built her is always out of sight.
Solomon Reed's cyberware is noticeable but mostly in covered places, on the undersides of his arms or hidden beneath his shirts. He is mostly honest with you, mostly straightforward, but you can never shake the feeling that he's keeping you in the dark about something. In the Tower ending and beyond, when he is sharing his own feelings and conflicting about what he and V have gone through, it's arguably the moment where he is at his most honest with you about his feelings regarding Song and the NUSA. He's also, noticeably, chipped a pair of gorilla arms during your coma.
Alex Xenakis' cyberware is always in plain sight, always visible-- you have to know she has it in order to clock it's there. Alex puts her position on this fight in no unclear terms-- she wants out of the FIA the second it's wrapped, and she never wants to go back. You always see her intentions, you always know what she wants. What you don't know is how far she's willing to go to get it.
Johnny Silverhand makes no efforts to hide his silver cybernetic arm: not from you, not from anything. It's a part of his identity and in some ways even drives the way he acts and feels. It sticks out, catches the eye-- it's as gaudy and loud as he is. Friendship or not, Johnny is the one character in the narrative who's intention is to help V. Whether out of revenge or spite or mutual fondness, he makes his intentions clear to you in the end: you are the reason he wants to live, and you are the reason he ends up dying in peace.
“Alone Together is an ongoing photographic project by Aristotle Roufanis, for which the London-based photographer takes photos of large metropoles in a way that only tiny, individual apartment lights are visible. Hardly recognisable in the dark, some of the world’s most famous metropoles such as London, Paris, Miami and Athens are transformed into sprawling canvases of anonymity, where countless people have decided to make their home but hardly connect to each other. The project takes this phenomenon of social alienation in urban centres as a starting point, and adds a positive, optimistic twist to it.”
