Losing my mind over how in love they are and how damn tender the scene where neo and trinity make love is.
I am just in awe over the cinematography in the whole scene, how arty it is and how the warm glowing light of candles cascades off them both. How the light makes Trinity's eyes seem like these deep and endless rock pools of grey and green.
Trying my best to gather more coherent thoughts but just I'm just like UGH THEM. Screaming crying over How they hold eachother, how they care for eachother and are like eachother's home. I love them I love them I love them!!!!
the only character who gets to have two faces in color on her new banner, since the dichotomy of how she presents herself as Antoine the tailor and as Queen LaBelle proper is essential to her character.
it already shows up in Chapter 8 with Joey actively correcting himself when addressing her outside of Club Chez Cabaret because she doesnt attempt to "pass" or "stealth" in public - the 2022 term would probably be "boymoding" but shes ~32 and has a day job, so hardly a "boy". she came into being trans as an adult from years of cross-dressing for fun, which also caused her relationship with Jasper "The Marquis" to fall apart (since she quite literally was no longer the man he fell in love with).
this and the belligerence of her home's police towards public signs of "deviance" gives a different view of gender expression than say, Reah (who got to experience a social and medical transition in her youth) or even her own protégé Joey (who arrived in Tyvia with no roots to connect him to a past identity and who can pass as a teenage boy).
leaving her home behind untethers her from the material need to be Antoine in her daily life, but not from the habit of doing so as a way to protect herself from outside scrutiny. i wont get ahead of myself and spoil Chapter 9 just yet, but this knot does not untangle itself so easily.
im just a random person from online so i dont presume to know every single queer or trans experience, let alone write them flawlessly, but i found it important to include a variety of them that differ from my own or from common tropes in the stories accepted as "good representation". im trying to write characters that i find interesting to think about! hopefully this translates to them being interesting to read about too
WHO EDITED TH WIKI👁 The relationships part. The timeline is incorrect @viktorvautour @theskyisalwaysfalling @officialjuniperdefender @tsiaf-explained @winifredolmsted someone explain
Give me your three favorite things about your canon ships: Jackie, Netwatch Bastard, and Kurt
(yeah I forgot his name for a second but we're going with it)
HI WASH WELCOME TO SLEEPOVER SATURDAY (WEDNESDAY EDITION) TIME 2 BLORO YAP ABOUT MY FAVE THINGS ABOUT MY BELOVED OC X CANON SHIPS.
this is a long post and i'm not sorry for once. you can find all my yapping under the cut
OTP: TO THIS (JACKIE WELLES / VIRIDIAN MILLER)
These two were my ground zero for cp2077 worldbuilding. Viridian was my first oc... as an oc is so important too me, at this point its safe to say she's got a lot of me in her, and i've got a lot of her in me. I see lowkey see Jackie as a "what i would maybehaps want as a partner" (in the most vague aroace spec way but we wont be unpacking that today nope ) - I love Jackie for his physical traits (tall strong ect) but also his personality traits (Jackie is kind and has a fiery and passionate character - he is headstrong!) - so like... idk them both as characters play into a fave thing (if that counts lamo)
2. About you by the 1975 (this banger of a song) is my fave song on their playlist. I have a series of half strung ideas around this song and how it connects to them. All I can give rn are key words such as LONGING !!! YEARNING !!!! MIXED SIGNALS THAT TRY TO HIDE A MUTUAL ATTRACTION!!!!!! (god one day I will write a fic about this!)
3. My blorbo thoughts about how Jackie and Viridian will meet each other in every universe and time-line for cp2077 and beyond. Even if things are doomed to fail - they will meet each other!!!!!!!!!!!
Just how long and far back these two's story goes . Like with Jackie and Viridian... and well everything else- , most of my world building is still in my head or not posted to tumblr. In my head.not on paper I have ideas of how Edith relocates to Europe from South Africa 20 /25 years prior to and how she and Bryce have an on and off working relationship and so much more over the span of these 20/25 years.... (they both also realize they're some flavor of aroace during this time lamo)
2. THIS ART OF EDITH AND BRYCE BY THE TALENTED @vrovij (see below) - i love spin's use of texture and how there such a hand drawn / traditional feels to this digital piece. Also the colour pallete is so yummy and i am forever eating this up (irl is printed on my wall in my room with lots of other yummy art)
3. This text post below by @tryksters sums up a lot.
OTP: ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO (AMRIN ELLIS / KURT HANSEN)
A fave part of Amrin and Kurt's story are plot points and themes i've tried to weave in. These include "finding love again after later in life "* and "reconnecting with feelings you promised yourself you would never want to feel again" . In my world building, Amrin goes through a messy string of life and work events which lead into her and my other oc Rasmus getting a divorce . When this happens , Amrin packs up her life in night city- she packs up her feelings, along side it she suppresses and moves on. Then Kurt comes into her life and on the inside she's like "fuck". It takes her and Kurt literal years to build trust which builds into friendship which then builds into something more for them both.
*as of 2077 Amrin is 49. Yes, I know that's not old or classed as "later life" - but I find with so many love stories they focus on teenagers or young adults or humans under 40, at least from my very limited reading of books and fics lamo . In fandom spaces esp cp2077 a lot of ocs we see are young (which ain't a bad thing, people can play cyberbarbie however they want,!!!) so Idk I just wanted to be here with Amrin (and an extent- edith who is even older ) and be like "hey look!!! older ocs!!! who have things going on and are here!!!"
2. I love Kurt as a character (I don't love him as much as Jackie but still - I am a simple lady I see a big man and im like "IS HE FOR ME TO LOOK AT AND THINK BLORBO THOUGHTS ABOUT??") - blorbo thoughts about him and Amrin range from serious ones like "how much will Kurt influence the metaphorical monster laying dormant within Amrin " to silly ones like "who hogs the blankets in bed"
3. I love that Canonically Kurt is 5ft 9!! making Amrins taller than him weheheheh (we love a tall woman here!!)
Need to look into how biotics actually work but I'm having stupid silly brain worms about Menai and Kaidan smooching and there's like a literal charge between them,,
Melani's biotics feeling like a warm tropical rainfall , unsure of what kaidan's would feel like rn !! All I know is they'd smooch and feel everything and more and both lost for words but in a good way :-)
ugh agh I am so normal about them (she was not at all normal about them)
Viridian burns herself out majorly in her mid 20s. She burns out mentally and physically, literally burning bits of her neural network every time she goes under. Burning out her brain and body, leaving her fatigued beyond anything she would think to be humanly possible.
She's Burning herself because she's working extra hard to keep up with her colleagues during her days at Arasaka, especially better skilled runners. Viridian NEEDS to be seen as working hard, doing a good job, to be seen like she's in control, even though she's in far to deep and feels like she's swimming out her depth. She can't loose the job, it's literally a case of adapt or die.
Deep down Viridian never wanted this life, she never really wanted to move to night city for her job transfer from the arasaka EU headquarters. But she also knew a peaceful life would never happen to be hers, not then or now or ever.
Little blorbo lore drabble set after the closing events of the pacifica quest line. Viridian and Jackie have moved on and Edith is on their case, She and Bryce will do anything to make Viridian's supposedly final days worse....
written whilst listening to crystals castles album III - i am determined finish this one day (even if words are hard) because everyone needs to know just how much of a ruthless matriarch my dear Edith is <3
The air thick and sticky with tension as the copper haired netwatch agent stepped into the since abandoned VDB subway network.. Edith detested setting even a single foot on pacifica ground, but had been tasked with picking up scraps data in the aftermath of the red rabbit and her brutish guard dog's escapades in these dimly lit and filthy tunnles.
Thank god for her recently updated vision haptics and the army of lower grade agents that followed her. They could do the heavy lifting, whilst Edith got immerced into the cold embrace of the ice bath, sinking herself into the net.
Marching towards the ice bath prepared for her dive, she threw her hair up into a high bun and sat herself on the side of the setup. Her gaze stalks over her team of lower ranked netrunners, she knew they were all out of their depths here. She knew this, but she did not care. Edith would always remind others that You adapt or you die. No one is coming to save you, not now or ever.
god ive missed writing but damn its hard - anyway enjoy this vague scene set / opening for worldbuilding for ocs Edith and Amrin . set some time before the black sapphire gala - i'm gonna make both these old women suffer (Edith physically through a neuro virus and eye trauma and Amrin mentally as she will have to relive the horrors of her life before dogtown) - under the cut you can find notes and memes
The sunlight hits Edith like a nasty sucker punch. In her waking moments, Her garnet purple eyes strain and burn against the light. Groaning to herself and Vocally commanding the blinds to draw, she receive little relief - the damage having already setting in - like a rot. Like a poison.
Slowly Coming to a seated position, the pure cotton bed sheets soft against her aging skin - Edith struggles to keep up-right and quickly admits defeat to herself- slumping back into a goose-feathered pillow; She's hot and she's cold and her eyes well up with these tears that somehow feel acidic, corrosive to the skin. Glaring straight into the darkness with frustration that's burning like a fire.
She's been in denial about the neuro-virus. The one that'd started to take it's toll ever since she took the first steps back over the border from Dogtown just days prior. At first she just brushed it off as fatigue, but as she re traced her steps back to the humidity of Amrin Ellis's workshop and her the mechanic smiled at her with a chipped set of golden chromed teeth - it all starts to make sense. That bitch must have been the one to set this whole thing off.
Edith makes a mental note to dig on the handsome mechanic, to dig and dig as deep as she can go. The black sapphire Gala is within the coming weeks and Edith knows just how to make Amrin Squirm.
RAMBLES AND WHATEVER ABOUT THEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
also they did more than exchange un pleasantries - amrin 100% blows a fuse and punches edith lamOOO they hate to see a girlboss winning violence is the answer <3 (edith fully deserves it btw because she reaaaaaaaaaalllllllllly hits too many nerves at once yaaayyyy)
