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“Mikoshi has begun to malfunction,” said a man whose digital ghost now wore his son’s body.
Arasaka Saburo sat straight-backed in his black leather chair behind a tiered marble table, his back to the ridged skyline of Tokyo city. The same table, chair, and bonsai adorned Saburo’s offices in every key Arasaka complex. When he had been Saburo’s bodyguard, Takemura knew them in perfect detail. Memorised exits, defensible positions, and potential situational weaknesses, down to questions of ventilation and security rotations. Being in such an office again after a year away from his role felt disorienting, rather than familiar. Unsettling, to hear Saburo’s clipped intonation emerge from Yorinobu’s mouth, a man Takemura had once written off as reckless and dissolute.
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22 Jul 2022
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Set between missions “Search and Destroy” and “Nocturne Op55N1”. So, spoilers!
Goro pays V a surprise visit at her apartment to repay her for saving his life.
A sort-of fix-it piece for V & Goro, because I’m convinced ~something~ happened between them before the Devil ending.
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01 Feb 2022
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10 Jan 2022
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The heist went off without a hitch! Jackie and V made it into the major leagues! Now all they need to do is lay low for a while before they return to Night City where fame and fortune await them. In a stroke of genius (or foolishness) V decided to hide in plain sight working for Arasaka as one of their data analysts. Unfortunately her naivete gets the best of her as she gets wrapped up with the wrong crowd and has to learn first hand just how cutthroat the corpo world really is.
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30 Nov 2021
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Let's Just Live by arasakas_ronin
Fandoms: Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), Cyberpunk & Cyberpunk 2020 (Roleplaying Games)
09 Nov 2021
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Part of a series, but can be read standalone. Pinky promise, you'll not lack any context as long as you know the game.
Tōkyō, 2080
Vee never thought she'd have her first major spat with Goro over Yorinobu Arasaka — not with the ghost of Johnny Silverhand to fight about, the eternal cyberpsycho in the attic. Yet here she is, on her way to Night City, looking for… she's got no idea what. But there's so much they've never talked about, and she's got no idea how to start. And where can she find something to help her, if not in Night City?
Meanwhile, Viktor is… can you call it babysitting if the baby has more gray hair than you and can punch straight through a brick wall? Keeping an eye on the kid's husband for her.
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- Part 6 of The Street Rat and the Samurai
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10 Nov 2021
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Fifteen years ago, she did a heist that went horribly wrong. Now, there’s a debt to pay to a corporation that has zero intention of ever letting her go, while trying to keep some semblance of independence at night. Living two separate lives isn’t easy, but it’s manageable. The careful balance she created tips too easily once she meets a Night City legend who holds just as many regrets about the past as she does. Only difference is that his past is why she has any of these problems in the first place.
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- Part 8 of Kick Out the Jams
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11 Oct 2021
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V is a Mox and Merc although lately merc work has been better for paying the bills until a heist gone wrong puts her in the presence of an up-tight ex-corpo who's pretty easy on the eyes, Goro Takemura. He's after justice, determined to prove that the death of Saburo Arasaka was not his doing. An unlikely pair, V and Takemura find that perhaps they have more in common than they initially thought.
Who doesn't love a slow burn?
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27 Sep 2021
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"Let's skip the pleasantries. I know why you're here, V, I can practically smell it on you. Why don't you save us both the time and tell me what you really want." V turned around to face him, Takemura stared down at him with blown pupils and desire in his eyes.
V found himself stuttering for an answer that wouldn't make him seem like a laughing stock. "I… uhh… I don't know what I need, exactly…"
"Look at me." The dominance in his voice made V cave and he slowly began to look up at Takemura. "You know what you need. Tell me."Series
- Part 1 of Cyberfuck2077
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15 Sep 2021
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Some of life's biggest failures have the habit of haunting us for years to come, a lesson Goro Takemura has learned the hard way.
Torn between the company that gave him a life and a mercenary who'd shown him how to live, the old soldier has to make a decision.I've decided to turn this One Shot into something more, since the tiniest spark latched to my lazy brain and forced me to create an entire outline, oops.
I am currently in the process of writing the different chapters and I've decided to split the original material into two parts.
Feel free to check in from time to time :)Series
- Part 5 of The Cross Of Truth
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15 Sep 2021
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A blissfully unaware Goro Takemura sets out to avenge Saburo-samas death – the ensuing chaos throwing him for a loop only one person can help him make sense of: the half-dead petty thief he rescued from the Night City landfill.
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- Part 2 of The Cross Of Truth
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15 Sep 2021
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Takemura and V parted ways after she agreed to join the Secure Your Soul-program – a lot of things between them left unsaid and undone. Years have passed and the Arasaka soldier still finds himself unable to let go of the past or forgive himself for all the times let her down.
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- Part 3 of The Cross Of Truth
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15 Sep 2021
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“To think,” V said raggedly, “Some lucky bastards have guardian angels, patron saints...”
“Or bakeneko.”
“Or bakeneko,” she smiled. “Guess you and I make do.” After a moment, her eyes fluttered open, and her expression grew serious again. “What're you gonna do 'bout this mess?”
____Takemura catches a thief, uncovers a conspiracy, and repays his debts.
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- Part 3 of consolation prizes
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15 Sep 2021
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"For fuck's sake, V, can you stop thinking about that?" V flinched as he was startled out of his daydreaming and looked up to find Johnny sitting on his bed. Glaring at him, which was nothing new of course.
"He's naked, in my shower, literally a few feet away from me." V glanced briefly in the direction of his bathroom, where the water was still running. "What else do you expect me to think about?"
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09 Sep 2021
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A reimagining of the events before and after the parade. V and Goro are locked in a contentious battle for the upper hand, navigating unresolved tension along the way, eventually leading to a fiery crescendo. Johnny is less than helpful.
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24 Aug 2021
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V ruminates over her worsening condition and perpetual self-doubt, and Takemura clarifies the terms of their partnership.
"Can I ask you a dumb question?" Valerie followed him back into the living space and settled onto her couch.
"You are only now seeking my permission to ask dumb questions?" he replied with a wide smile.
She rolled her eyes in mock offense and grinned back at him. "Not a dumb question, then. A personal question."
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- Part 2 of Valerie Powell - One-Shots
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15 Aug 2021
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The collar of her hospital shirt slid to the side, exposing the protruding vertebrae. V seems made of bird bones and paper, she’s fragile as сhōchin: one careless touch and the paper will tear and the wind will blow out the candle inside the lantern, forever.
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- Part 5 of Cyberpunk 2077: Artificial Nocturne
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15 Aug 2021
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Arasaka Corp. always fulfills its promises, and V comes back to life in a new body. Unfortunately, both sides have their obligations under the contract, and the price of V’s rebirth seems too high...
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- Part 6 of Cyberpunk 2077: Artificial Nocturne
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01 Aug 2021
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The conclusion of the Square Meals series: an exciting choose-your-own smutventure collection of V's erotic adventures. Will she end up with the cyberninja? The ronin? Or more? You decide. This isn't just a meal anymore -- fuck it, it's a buffet.
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- Part 5 of Square Meals
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23 Jul 2021
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The Sum Total of Everything by orphan_account for forcelest
Fandoms: Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
13 Jul 2021
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His eyes punched right through her chest. Screaming to her with a thousand tiny voices that this man was important. Someone to remember. Someone for her. It was enough to make her stop in her tracks, clutch her belongings with white knuckles, remain and consume in their moment of unreadable tension for as long as time would slow enough to allow it.
What a silly dream.
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15 Jul 2021
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16 Jun 2021