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It's been five years since V died in Arasaka Tower. Panam is rotting in the Afterlife, until a stray merc shatters the silence she’s been hiding in for half a decade.
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- Part 3 of And Found Wanting
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A continuation of The Star ending following Male V and Panam
V left Night City behind, chasing peace in the desert with Panam and the Aldecaldos. But the relic in his head is eating away at him, and each night something from past the Blackwall whispers louder, dragging him toward something inhuman.
Raffen gangs close in, Arasaka still hunts him, and the clan’s survival hangs on a knife’s edge. To protect the only family he’s ever known, V must face enemies both outside and within before the relic claims him completely.
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V finishes the meeting with Hanako at the Sunset Motel and takes a drive out to the desert to wrap his head around what comes next. A late-night call to Panam turns into a reminder of what he's actually fighting for.
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You Have Been Weighed, You Have Been Measured... by desertpunk96
Fandoms: Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
01 Mar 2026
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A companion story to I Heard About You On The News Today from V's perspective as he takes the (Don't Fear) The Reaper ending but doesn't make it out of the tower.
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- Part 2 of And Found Wanting
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I Heard About You On The News Today by desertpunk96
Fandoms: Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
25 Feb 2026
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The day after V assaults Arasaka Tower alone Panam is waiting for a holocall that is never going to come.
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- Part 1 of And Found Wanting
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An alternate ending to (Don't Fear) The Reaper where V never makes it out of Arasaka Tower that follows Panam hearing about it on the news in one story, V's journey through the tower in the next, and finally the aftermath 5 years later.
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“Come with me.” She interrupted, voice so quiet she was almost convinced he’d keep talking, but the way his brow furrowed told her he had heard her. And that he thought she was insane. “If there’s an answer for me, there’s an answer for you, right? A body for you. The Relic is dormant now, yeah? So I just, we can- I can find something- an answer- a way. Anything. Just- stay.”
After doing the fuckin' impossible and soloing the basement of Arasaka tower, storming Mikoshi on her own two feet, V is met with an answer she never wanted to hear. It was too late; there was nothing to be done. She was dying.
When Johnny refuses to take the body instead, she makes a deal. Johnny returns to the Relic, and V gets three months to find him a body. If she fails? She will plug him back into the net to disappear beyond the Blackwall.
Determined to find a happy ending in the city that never gets one, V fights to find Johnny a body. And after that? Working together to find a cure for her.
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11 May 2026
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After an mistake on stage costs her everything, a former prima ballerina is discarded and left for dead in an alley. She survives, but Night City is ravenous.
Five years later, Jade Labonté is a high-end doll at Licks, with clients of every kind. Her job is simple: be what they want. The dollchip ensures encounters are private and secure, and forgotten the moment it ends.
But Jade isn’t forgetting.
Fragments begin to surface. She catches snatches of conversations, flashes of intimate moments. The persona meant to switch on only during sessions now lingers, bleeding into her voice and her thoughts.
The chip isn’t meant to run all the time. And it was never supposed to fail.
As the cracks begin to show, it’s clear someone’s tampered with her behavioral chip. And when the man responsible realizes she’s aware of it, staying alive becomes a performance she can’t afford to get wrong.
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03 May 2026
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The heist of a lifetime turns into a living nightmare.
A chance meeting leads to an unexpected rescue.V came to Night City in a search for a new life and answers to a past unknown to her. Instead she finds herself juggling death and corpos and backstabbing fixers. And amidst it all she falls completely and utterly in love.
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- Part 2 of The Lifepaths Series
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03 May 2026
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V was hired to investigate the passing of the late Mayor Lucius Rhyne and teams up with an NCPD detective to solve the case. A cop and a merc, an unlikely pairing under the gloom of Night City, yet they find it hard to deny their chemistry with each passing moment spent together.
The only problem was that V was running out of time.This fic contains some rehashing of some canon events, mostly the first chapter though some will be used later on as well.
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- Part 1 of The Lifepaths Series
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03 May 2026
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After Biotechnica discovers she's been gathering intel on their illegal projects, corporate negotiator Vénus Laroche faces termination and a slow death by biovirus. Rescued by Jackie Welles, her long term "complication", V finds herself recovering in a world she no longer belongs to: his world. As her corpo life crumbles, Jackie's stubborn, quiet devotion becomes the only thing keeping her alive—and the only home she has left...
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Bookmarked by desertpunk96
28 Apr 2026