(mostly) Silverdyne Anon

I've written a few fics for silverdyne on AO3. Plus other cyberpunk stuff as well. But mostly Silverdyne. I love them.

[silverdyneanon]

Tag Guide

#art reblog: reblogs of other people's art.

#text reblog: reblogs of other people's non-fic textposts.

#fic reblog: reblogs of other people's fanfiction.

#recommends: posts where I recommend other people's fics but with my own thoughts/commentary. Extended positive reviews.

#og: the tag for all my original posts.

#edgerunners: self explanatory. Everything edgerunners goes under this tag.

[mrartemystic]

silver smoke (2026)

posted this on my cyberpunk blog a week ago maybe but wanted to get him up on this one too :3

[gobald]

Alright Silverdyne!

[gobald]

There's really a lot of manipulation around V and it makes the 'the easy way out' ending like the only moment where V is in full control of their life and decisions.

[silverdyneanon]

Probably my favorite thing about Johnny is just how disarming his dialogue can be. 'Cause yes he's an asshole who loves starting fights but he's also more than capable of dissolving them.

[silverhanding]

johnny and ker lounging on the couch, high out of their minds, watching porn movies on the tv, casually and lazily jerking each other off, giving the other a helping hand. johnny says it’s just bros being bros

[sstvar]

matching tattoos with his car are you kidding me

[silverdyneanon]

Reluctant Silverdyne. Plausible deniability.

Kerry justifies their psudeo romance by labeling Johnny's affection pity. Johnny justifies the intimacy by pretending he's ahead, just manipulating Kerry for his own ends.

But most importantly, they don't talk about it. It kills them both. It kills the relationship.

They each take whatever they feel they're able to get away with. It kills them both.

[silverdyneanon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

"Look," Nancy starts. Toeing the line between scarily gentle and cuttingly sharp. All of that housed in a single word.

Kerry dares a glance at his arms.

[milk-underscore-guts]

johnny and kerry performing together in 2013

2 panels from a comic im working on

[hrrria]

Songbird

[pinkyjulien]

- Mike Pondsmith on Kerry Eurodyne's sexuality

Big thanks to @eggyanne for sharing this interview!

"Um, I think the biggest surprise for me, oddly enough, was Kerry Eurodyne because [they told me] "we're making Kerry gay". And I said, well, the only problem is that, in actual canon, Kerry is actually married to this woman, I think she was like a ballerina or something but anyway, and he has a daughter who, by that time would be like early 20s. And I thought, well that's kind of a problem because it's written in there, so we kind of sat around and went well you know, he had a midlife crisis and realized that he swung both ways or maybe you know the other direction and that he'd always had a thing about Johnny but he had been pushing it down, because they already had fought about things. And I said, "Okay, I can see that", you know, and I think it actually added a bunch of dimensions to Kerry that I'd never thought of before. I went "Oh okay that's kind of interesting" [...] And so I think that was the biggest [surprise] character-wise because you know a lot of ways Kerry was kind of a cipher, and all of a sudden he had this background and it was kind of tragic [...]" - Mike Pondsmith, timestamp 36:00

[silverdyneanon]

I love the conversation with Viktor during the tower ending. Especially the one dialogue option that will cause Viktor to point out how self destructive V is being. It's not even as if V is wrong in how they view things. Viktor doesn't deny the facts. He just lets V know that the attitude they have is hurting them. A fact V needs to confront if they want to live. Except it's not totally clear that V does want to live post-tower.

It puts Vik in a weird spot, one that says a lot about their relationship.

It's obvious that Viktor himself is trying really hard not to give up...and here comes an old friend of his who's somehow doing worse. They both need more support than the other is able to give. But V is too wrapped up in grief and existential worry to see Viktor's situation as anything other than proof that the world is shit.

[silverdyneanon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's a good combination, by the way. Rage and neurostims. Energy feeding off itself. 'Course all that fire's gotta go somewhere.

Kerry's an easy target. Most of the time.

[silverdyneanon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Kerry's hiding out in a bathroom stall. What's there left to say?

[silverdyneanon]

I find it odd how Silverdyne is considered a rarepair.

I think textually there's a lot of support for the idea of their relationship being complicated. Maybe borderline romantic.

Just looking at the text of the game*:

Kerry is canonically queer

He often threatened to leave the band but he couldn't stay away.

He struggles with addiction and mental health issues. Johnny names those issues as a reason they got along despite everything else. There's a level of shared damage implied in that.

Johnny cares enough about Kerry to check up on him even after several years have passed.

There's a dialogue option where V can ask if Johnny had beef with Kerry. Johnny says something like "[Kerry] couldn't tell if he wanted to fuck me or throw me out of the band".

One of the only kind dialogue options available in Johnny's flashbacks is directed towards Kerry right before he leaves for the tower.

Kerry was arguably Johnny's closest friend. And they both look back on their time together fondly.

Even if we're reading Johnny as straight here, it's not unreasonable to say that there might have been romantic feelings on Kerry's part. That sort of one sided dynamic is huge. It makes for good potential story wise.

If we're not reading Johnny as straight, it's easy to chalk it up to repression when he says he's not into Kerry. It's not at all out of character for Johnny to lie about his feelings.

I'm not saying that Silverdyne literally did happen in canon. But there's so many reasons to believe it could/would even if it's unhealthy.

[silverdyneanon]

Yeah!! That moment is so so telling. Because no matter what did (or didn't) happen, Johnny doesn't want to face it.

And you can read that line a lot of different ways. Is it regret? Jealousy? Projection?

There's SO MUCH in that one little moment.

[kresstreetkid]

Putting my addition under a cut for the sake of mobile users, because I think it'll be long.

On the date with Rogue, when she asks Johnny what he'd do if he could go back to the past, you can choose to have him say "I'd do Kerry. He always tried so damned hard." And when he gives control back to V and asks to go to see Kerry, V will tease him, saying 'Any more conjugal visits?'.

There's also speculation about the nature of Kerry's feelings (and of his relationship with Johnny) on shards - and a piece of in-game Silverdyne fanfic (which isn't proof of anything, but I think is fun regardless.)

In my opinion, Kerry being in love with Johnny is canon - The game stops just short of explicitly stating it because it doesn't need to. One particularly interesting file on Kerry's computer appears to attest to this:

Johnny's feelings are a different story... It's my headcanon that he does have romantic feelings for Kerry in some way, but I don't have the confidence to call it canon.

I could ramble forever.

Anyway, Silverdyne is juicy and preem ship fuel. Will reblog again later with the shards I mentioned.

[kresstreetkid]

Shard as promised! -

The fanfiction one is under the cut. CW for self-injury. -

[silverdyneanon]

I'd never seen the computer file before! Pretty cool.

[kresstreetkid]

Choombas! REBLOG WITH YOUR CYBERPUNK 2077 RARE-PAIR SHIPS! I want to hear about them!!! Zero judgement!

[silverdyneanon]

You'll never guess what mine is...