I Can’t Believe That A Game Is Making Me Want To Write Again... Getting So Many Snippets Of Ideas For

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Johnny with a gun + driving around Night City when he got his body back

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Having a blast using @silverhand-hoe mods to swap Jackie and Johnny, so check it out if you want, it’s on her page! ^^

Played through the Pistis Sophia scene again, trying out all the options as you do. Found out that if you keep disagreeing with him and being suspicious of his motives, there's a point where this happens:

V: No, refuse to let you manipulate me.

Johnny: Huh. Not workin', is it?

Which is... interesting.

I also was reminded that when you answer his promise by saying you'd do the same for him, he has this slightly odd response.

Just this extremely flat, very emotionless "Yeah, thanks."

I don't think that's a mistake. I don't think Keanu misread the tone of the line or there was a lack of direction during recording. With the hindsight that he absolutely will take V's body for a joyride once he gets it, I feel like this scene is very much supposed to be him gently, not without sincerity in parts (because the best lies include the truth, and Johnny is very good at all things charisma skill), manipulating V to get what he wants.

I think the dogtags, the war story, the promise, it wasn't completely untrue, but he deliberately presented it the way he did to get something he wanted. He even led V every way he could to get the "I'd take a bullet for you" admission, which he of course expected and knew he was manipulating out of them, for the purpose of setting up his request to be received as well as possible.

But when V takes it farther than he expected, returning his promise and taking their prior statement from a nebulous hypothetical to a very real declaration about their very real situation, I think Johnny has absolutely no idea what to do with that.

I think that moment is his first pang of regret. I think it's the seed for the talk at the gravesite. I think he can't muster a slick response, this wasn't part of the plan, this wasn't how this was supposed to go.

I mean when they are still out on the balcony and you accuse him, he's angry and has an immediate response. Same with when you thank him, he has a smooth and pretty warmly delivered reply.

But when V says this, his voice goes flat and he barely gets two words out. He goes from leaning forward with open posture and looking right at V to looking away and leaning back, crossing his arms in front of him. And he immediately changes the subject.

Johnny doesn't say *internal panic, existential crisis .exe started*, he says "Yeah, thanks." and I just think that's so beautiful.

I’m just rambling here

The lore doesn’t make any sense to me regarding the timeline...

Johnny was born in 1988, he was part of the Second Central American War, which supposedly began on January 13th, 2003, so Johnny would have been 15 at the time. Which is impossible as the youngest a man can go to war is 17 with parents consent, 18 without. So technically Johnny would have gone in minimum 2005. Which would be technically alright as the war lasted until 2010.

HOWEVER, Johnny supposedly FORMED Samurai in 2003 with the others AFTER he went to war, as we are made to also believe that he formed the band to revolt against the corporations he hated since the war.

So you’re telling me young Johnny at age 15 had already went to war and wanted to burn everything down??? I mean, fucking hell, same, honestly, but it makes me think that he should have been older in the lore. (I mean, with even looking specifically at the visual in the game, Keanu/Johnny doesn’t look like a 32 years old man, more like a 40ish y/o man)

ALSO, you’re telling me that Johnny fucking waited 10 YEARS to make a move on Arasaka after they took Alt??? Alt was taken in 2013, Johnny raided Arasaka Tower in 2023 (which is both shown in the game AND the Cyberpunk 2020 sourcebook). WTF DUDE, 1 year I would concede, but 10 fucking whole years?? What took you so long??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Okay, I’m cool, I’m calm...

Does it show that much that I am spending much of my free time reading stuff about the lore of Cyberpunk? I feel like I could talk about that game for ages... Fucking hell, I love it, haha!

lethal

Rewatched a vid of the rollercoaster, no laughter, only him smiling and shouting :)

FANDOM UNITE AND HELP ME

My good thirsty friends of Johnny Silverhand, I need your help with something!

I have played the game, finished it, went through many endings, but as I was daydreaming about Johnny as usual, I came across a question that I could not answer and hope some of you could:

Do we ever hear Johnny laugh during the game? Not a sarcastic laugh, but a real chuckle, or genuine laugh of happiness?? 

I cannot remember for the life of me… But I have a mighty need!!

Gosh I forgot haow much I loved vines x)

I’m v offended I haven’t seen some of those in the rip vine videos so I made my own

eyy same anon with the shades who asked the band question, thanks so much for answering btw *heart hands*; the group i gave you is not actually a group, but the name of a VERY good song - supermassive black hole by muse :3 (the guitar parts give me such johnny vibes like ,,,, perfection)

so far as other bands go, ima have to give that one more thought, but one real-world artist i could imagine samurai playing with would have to be lindsey stirling, the violinist. even though she does mainly dubstep, she still rocks HARD (rock with an electric violin would be AWESOME ngl) and her whole vibe would fit right into the Cyberpunk universe <3

Goddamn, I just proved my point that I know little about music, haha

Ah! Muse, yeah, of course, I understand what you mean now xDD Indeed, quite fitting!

Honestly, you surprise me with Lindsey Stirling, I would have never made a link between them. I listened to her waaaaay back, but not anymore so I do not know what she makes anymore, but I’ll take your word for it ^^

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Peter is such a goof and I love him