Everyone has their own opinion and take on this, but this is mine.
I’ve been sitting with this for almost two weeks and it feels like a weight in my chest that won't move. When we choose to side with Reed in the stadium, it isn’t just a tactical betrayal. It is the moment Songbird’s world finally collapses. Up until that second, her sheer willpower was the only thing holding the doors shut against the rogue AIs. She was fighting a war on two fronts and V was the only person she trusted to stand by her. When that trust broke, she didn't just lose a friend, she lost her reason to keep fighting.
I can almost see her in my mind disappointed, exhausted, and finally dropping to her knees and let it all go…the Blackwall flood in. It is like she finally accepted the most haunting answer the world could give her, which is that she was completely and utterly alone.
But the part that truly crushes me is why she shared her memories. It wasn’t just a plea for sympathy. She knew she was dying or even worse, being erased. By letting V into her past, her childhood, and her first loves, she was uploading her humanity into us.
She made V a living archive of who So Mi was before the FIA and the AI turned her into a shell.I’m walking around Night City carrying the shards of a soul that doesn't exist anymore. I was her last witness and the weight of that responsibility is haunting.
Doing other missions feels….empty. I completed 100% of the game but at what cost..i admit i ugly cry choombas and im not okay…