Look, I know Rosalind Myers is a ruthless, empathy-less politician who wouldn’t hesitate to toss you aside the second you're no longer useful to her agenda. She manipulates, lies, and plays everyone like chess pieces in her grand scheme. And yet… I can't help but feel drawn to her character.
From the moment you first meet her after the crash, I immediately respected her, not just because of her authority, but because of how she handles herself. I thought she'd be just another high-ranking politician who survived thanks to bodyguards or luck. But no she’s got serious combat ability. She’s calm under pressure, completely composed, and capable of handling things herself. She’s not just powerful on paper.
What really got me, though, is how well she reads you as V. She sees right through you, understands your motives, and still manages to subtly (or not-so-subtly) manipulate you into doing her bidding all while making it feel like it was your choice. It’s actually impressive.
And yeah, I can totally understand why Reed is still loyal to her, even after everything. She commands loyalty not through warmth, but through sheer presence. That charisma, that military discipline, that cold elegance… she’s kind of magnetic in her own terrifying way.
Also ngl she looks PREEM in her formal attire. Every time she walks into a scene, she carries this weight of power and class that’s hard to ignore.
So yeah… maybe I’m just a sucker for strong, morally grey characters in power suits, but I’d probably take the oath and sign up for the NUSA under her command without a second thought. 🫡
Anyone else feel the same? Or am I the only one who's been manipulated too effectively?
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No
Nope
Not too bad for a politician
I think, to me at least, her appeal is in picking up a gun and fighting hard when things have gone totally to shit. She’s not cowed and asking where her protection team is; she’s doing it herself. In that moment I am not really thinking about the politics, she’s probably like all the rest of them – especially in a cyberpunk world.
I haven’t finished the DLC but I hope we do have that dinner (date?!), it would be very interesting, she’d probably be quite good at opening up to V, someone who’s not from “her world”.
No
Strong morally grey character? She’s literally a 100% bad person.
Now I can’t help but imagine her as a female version of Senator Armstrong
She’s not meant to be a likeable character, at least not to anyone with any media literacy at all. Not really any grey area here. She’s more just a device to get the real story rolling.
If by really like you mean really hate, then I definitely do!
No
She’s a terrible evil person, I love her.
She’s an interesting character. If you do some research in-game, she’s ex-Militech (I think ex-Militech CEO), and there are some personal shards she has where she’s exploring whether she could separate NUSA from Militech. The answer appears to be ‘no’.
I read her as someone so gung-ho about bringing back the old US of A that she’s willing to do some really awful things to do so.
I like her a lot as a character, not as a person. She’s very well written, like practically all the Cyberpunk characters.
Character wise she’s definitely well written, morality wise…she can go fuck herself
I liked her guts, her pezaz and that. But as someone in power in a corrupt world you have to separate private and business. And business wise I know she will fuck me over when she no longer has use for me. I would smash, I would entertain a conversation or a dinner. I will not compromise my anarchist ways for the sake of feelings!
Easily my favourite one in phantom liberty
Well, she’s an ex-marine with top-of-the-line Militech chrome, so I’d hope she can handle herself in combat.
I like her as a character as she’s well written, I’d despise her as a person if she was real.
She’s not Grey. She’s trying to appear as likable as possible because V’s the only one remotely on her side in dogtown.
Johnny’s 100% right about her.
She’s a great character. Just a horrible person.
I really liked her, I thought damn another badass Female president in another amazing game. Then I found out what she did, she can shove rocks. Fucking bitch.
she’s a former marine and considering that the whole us army forces were completely reorganized after the end of 4th corporate war is reasonable to speculate she’s like 90 years old having probably took part to 2nd central america conflict too before joining militech where she climbed ranks up to become CEO after gen.lundee death.
No doubt she has more military experience than the bodyguard tasked to protect her.
Reed is loyal to his country. so he knows he has to get along with myers despite everything
Morally grey is really pushing it. I’d say she’s pretty much evil.
knowing the cyberpunk community there has to be a percentage that wished for her to be a romance option soooo…
Hell no. But that’s by design.
She is an interesting character but I absolutely hate her and want her to die the most horrific death imaginable. I wish it was her I shot at the end.
As a songbird apologist i can’t
No. She’s the NUSA equivalent of Saburo Arasaka, except Saburo at least has a national and personal sense of honour and reciprocates loyalty, whereas Myers is jingoistic, treats even loyal soldiers like nothing (i.e. Reed) and, according to Alex, if her Blackwall insanity came to light would threaten the existence of what is left of the NUSA.
She’s literally not just evil but also callous and incompetent at the same time that you start to appreciate the fact that Arasaka exists and intervened on behalf of the free states and Night City in the war
I hate her, I prefer Kurt Hansen. I would like that Phantom Liberty had the chance of aligning with him against Rosalind.
Myers is the right woman for her time and place. As V, as Songbird and as any of the people on the ground, you have every right to not like her, but it definitely takes someone as tough and as ruthless to make any meaningful headway against the corporate-dominated environment that is 2077 America.
Swap her out for someone more morally stiff, they’d be out of office or dead in the first week. Swap her out for someone more reconciliatory, you end up with yet another corporate puppet. For Myers to have been able to stay in office, make meaningful changes, hold to power and yet still have a firm vision in mind and not be hopelessly controlled or corrupted is already incredible. You can hate her guts, but it’s never her job to be likeable.
Being an effective political visionary in the Cyberpunk universe is one of the most impressive things one can do. It’s one thing to be a free-spirited solo shooting people for a living, another to be a rockerboy legend, and yet another to be people like Myers and Yorinobu, navigating a web of intrigue, slowly slowly pushing for an endgame only they can see, without hopes of ever being understood.
I will try to fuck her plan up on every playthrough, either Songbird gets to go to the Moon or she’s gone.
I dunno, but my V swore an oath to her and her cause without blinking an eye. And in the due time stayed loyal. Never regretted this decision and never could bring myself to do otherwise during replays.
Yu-huh me, me
Every president was a scumbag.
I respect her until we’re in the hideout after getting Reed. Her apology for turning him over to Arasaka is “Sorry, can we be friends again and you save my ass.” I realized that we’d gone past the “comrades in arms” to “Madam President.”
If you read the lore, she’s a dictator that rules the NUSA with an iron fist and martial law rules the land. So no, hard to like a character like that when we already have how many of those in real life.