What would be the best and worst things about dating V (any gender/lifepath)?
What would be the best and worst things about dating V (any gender/lifepath)?
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The inevitable expiration date.
Taking away the fact that he is a potential genocide and surely he has a lot of enemies
I would say that the fact that he starts talking alone with a certain Johnny
On the surface?
Dating an edgerunner is a great way to get an I/O that just won’t come home someday, with no explanation or warning. There’s the constant reminder that the wonderful person bringing light and life to your days is likely to end up face-down in a gutter with the back of their skull gored out over someone else’s eb, and no one will even bother to tell you about it.
V specifically?
That shit is 100% guaranteed, within 6 months.
But, on the bright side? They’re exciting, living a feast or famine lifestyle with flashy cars, cool technology, inviting you out to exclusive bars and clubs and absolutely obliterating threats that would normally have you hiding.
The inevitable infections and stuff
V keeps plugging into every terminal they find.
And sticks any random chip in their slot. Errr I mean memory card in their memory card port.
I have to imagine that at least some of that stuff is utterly filthy with various bacteria and/or funguses. And now it’s crawling around in their forearm or neck.
Not to mention swimming around in the polluted waters from time to time.
Best: ride or die
Cons: ride or DIE
Jokes aside Val is such a gonk? Judy says “I was just thinking of you and before you ask no, you weren’t wearing clothes” and what does she say.. nothing special same old story.. can’t flirt for shit unless making a move on a straight girl or a bi rockerboy who prefers men.
No charisma or an impressive cock is kind of disappointing.
Potentially V can be pretty fucking psychotic. Which I can understand why given NC, but in context of the game V is stacked with chrome. Small arsenal and some potential to just lose it at any moment.
Johnny Silverhand, as far into your business as anyone could be, all the time.
From third person perspective, like Vik said during a side mission in Dogtown, V’s a literal cyberpsycho who is gunning down everyone who try to stop them while claiming they can talk to a terrorist in their head who died 50 years ago
Since her age has been retconned, she’s too young for my liking. Also the rockerboy living in her head would make every encounter feel like a threesome
Pros: V
Cons: V
On the plus side – V can be affectionate, passionate, and loving, and will probably burn to the ground everyone and everything who tries to mess with their loved ones. . And all these gonks are not as half dangerous as messing up with corpos like Militech and Arasaka. In real life, you will end up in a trunk, or get a pair of wonderful cement-block swimming shoes.
On the plus side – V can be affectionate, passionate, loving, and will probably burn to the ground everyone and everything who tries to mess with their loved ones.
Gang retaliation.
Best is that you have a partner in crime. You do something illigal with every romantic interest
Worse that they’re dying. Slowly it’s unavoidable. Plus you two are never really alone as there is a 80 year old terrorist in their head
Pros: Never gonna get boring, two dates for the price of one of you count Johny, lots of eds so your gonna be eating like a king out on dinners, and as long as your near them you basically have nothing to worry about threat wise
Cons: gonna die in a few months, is a Merc so your always gonna have to worry about them just randomly getting killed and never being seen again, and V definitely has some sort of virus from all the shit they sticks in their head
Well, he/she will die eventually :/
Vs certain death and if we ignore that then the high chance that V just dies during a gig
Too many loose ends. The NUSA, FIA, Arasaka, Militech and numerous others are after V and by extension, you. Granted, they’d just turn them all into a fine red paste, but that’s if they survive. They don’t? Good Luck.
Just ask Hanako in Embers
Worst? He/she almost never takes a shower and always leaves the door open.
Best: Preem apartment in the Glen
Worst: Death
Hearing about some WILD shit that happened on the other side of town, and then getting a phone call like “Yeah, that was me… can you come pick me up?”
You’re fucked in pretty much any endings, Sun/Star they die in 6 months, Suicide or dying in Don’t Fear The Reaper, Temperance Johnny takes their body or V gives it up and you never find out, assuming they either died or ghosted you, the Tower they disappear two fucking years just to come back randomly to tell you they were in a coma, you can’t avoid a bad ending either way and the closest thing to one comes with 2 years of suffering
Dies in a week
All her clothes reek of old blood and guts.
-V is a klepto and will take all your guns, clothes, and snacks.
-Hope you like being watched, what with Johnny just hangin out and commentating all the time.
-Thousands of people wanna get back at V, and that means through you if they find out about you. Get used to being mixed up in everyone else’s shitshows one way or another.
-You better be into the smell of death, asphalt, and garbage. Eau du NC is coming home attached to your lover and getting left all over your bathroom when they wash, or in your sheets if they come home too wiped out, which is probably all the time.
– Scary seizures and personality shifts.
The list goes on.
Also even if V isn’t out banging all the joy toys on the side, they keep slotting random BDs they find on the street and jacking into every questionable terminal and laptop in Night City. You are bound to catch something or other.
The best…no one could/would fuck with you. The worst…probably all the killing and disappearing for days, all the joytoy visits…my V was not a good person.
Pros: Excitement, strong protection.
Questionable(someone might like it): Smell of blood and gunpowder, a weapon warehouse in their home, tons of chrome in their body.
Cons: Fear of being left behind, grief when V dies.
Best thing: V has stories to tell, from their gigs so date night will never be boring.
Worst thing: Sometimes they come to said date covered in blood. Most of the time it’s not their blood.
Completely robotic literal everything. SHOULD be a cyberpsycho but somehow isn’t.
Also tends to puke up blood from time to time
They fucking die???