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    By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

    For Robert, that was V. For V, that was David. For David, that was dealing with the revelation that he now had a father in his life. Now had the man who was supposed to help raise him. Help him with his problems, and maybe extend the courtesy to his friends. So far, V had come through on most of that...albeit nearly eighteen years late. The man had given him and his mother improved places to live. Supplied him and his friends with plenty of gear and work to stay sharp.

    But David knew V has his own problems to deal with. Corporate beauracy. Shades of his past casting shadows on the present that threatened to take away everything he had worked to build. V hadn't shied away from his problems, and David wasn't about to let the favor go unreturned.

    This fic has a TV Tropes page:
    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/CyberpunkFatherhood

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    In Night City, there’s always been violence, mayhem, and a general sense that death could quite literally be around the corner. That’s the rub for the most dangerous city in the world. Of course, no one expects to be one of those unfortunate souls until they’re staring down the barrel of a gun.

    Adrian Walker was one of those people, content with his lot until his mother is killed in front of him, his arm and eye are destroyed, and his home is burned to the ground. With nothing left to his name but a gun and a choice, he must fight his way out of this predicament by any means necessary, both for his own sake and the sake of the only family he has left. He might not be special, and he might not be strong, but he is beyond determined to carve out a place and get revenge for him and his... or die trying.

    But who is the man that saved him, and why did he agree to train him? Who did his gun belong to before his mother stole it? And who the hell is this short, crazy woman who keeps flirting with him?

    Now with a TV Tropes page! Somehow. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/CyberpunkEdgerunnersTheRebelPath

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    NB: I have crossposted this story to Royalroad under the title System Override.

     

     

    A forced experimental drug treatment at an early age has saddled David with an immense burden.

    His mother’s insistence on his current lifepath as a corpo has done much the same.

    David is a speeding ball of fire hurtling towards an unknown destination, and his mother’s death has left him adrift and unsure of his direction.

    So he does what any teenager with no more fucks left to give does—he chips in some mil-spec chrome and looks for a quick way to earn edds, all the while learning to utilize the nanotechnology that had been forced on him as a child—finding out the immense potential within him as a result.

    Corpo or Edgerunner? Why not both? And why not the best of both while we’re fucking at it?

    Top of Arasaka Tower.

    Night City Legend.

     

     

    God.

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    It started out as a Saturday like any other.

    Then:

    "Oh hey, a present from Dad!" Midoriya beamed down at the black-wrapped box on the table. "Sweet!"

    ...

    "Holy shit Deku is that a gun-"

    "Deku NO-"

    "Deku YES!"

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    He was four when fire burst from his lips.

    Five when the ground trembled beneath his feet.

    Six when light shone from his eyes.

    Seven when his shadow twisted and warped.

    Eight when water surged from his hands.

    And nine when wind settled around his shoulders.

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