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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    It all starts at eight years old.

    His dad’s still on the bearable side of alcoholism, where the mood swings and abuse haven’t really settled in as part of their daily lives yet – or maybe Johnny’s just too young to recognize the bad parts. Either way, when Johnny’s eight years old, Joseph Linder’s still takin’ some enjoyment outta life. One of the things he enjoys besides alcohol is music, and when little Robbie rides shotgun with Joe on his way to the liquor store, he’s entranced by the deep voice singing outta the truck’s dingy speakers.

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    Snapshots of Johnny Silverhand's life and the importance music played along the way.

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    15 Jan 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    A series of Johnny characters studies, looking at his life in Night City prior to August of 2023.

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    08 Jul 2022

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    After hooking up with Meredith Stout, V and Johnny discuss the merits of casual relationships, and get to know each other a little better along the way.

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    20 Dec 2021

  4. Rec 53

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    Posters on the wall said that Johnny and Kerry were performing as a double ticket, the date given being March 30th, 2013. This placed her right before Alt’s death, his downward spiral already underway. Issues with Kerry, lost glory days of Samurai, drug abuse, and not to mention he and Alt were on the rocks so bad they’d be done in about fifteen days and she’d be dead right after they ended it. Johnny told her once that this was the nightmare he had that plagued him, the one that made him sweat, never forgetting a single detail. Including the month leading up to it. Fuck. Of course they landed right in the middle of this, why wouldn’t they? Couldn’t have been back in 2004 when he was living his best life. Nope. Had to be now.

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    22 Nov 2021

  5. Rec 63

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    Because the Herculean burden of being human can’t be satisfied with being anything but the most heart-wrenching experience of your life. It demands empathy without any reward, forgiveness without any justice. Being human requires you to chug along and drive onwards, even when everything you are is screaming to stay behind. Being human means not only being able to accept change, but not fearing it, either.

    And “human” is something Johnny Silverhand is decidedly not. Not in a straightforward sense, at least.

    But if V can’t accept change, what does that make her?

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    In which a former nomad and a dead rockerboy have to learn how to live again.

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    22 Nov 2021