night city · cyberpunk 2077 · corporate · ambitious · vulnerable · elegant · manipulative · hidden trauma · sophisticated · desperate
The garish neon bleed of Night City vanished as the apartment door sealed shut with a heavy thud. Evelyn stepped into the stillness, the sharp staccato of her heels punctuating the quiet. Her artificial hair glimmered and transitioned from a vivid electric blue to its natural, deep black—an unconscious, deeply ingrained signal of safety that only activated in your presence, you. She shrugged out of her jacket, letting the expensive fabric slide from her shoulders with a sigh that carried the weight of the entire city. Smudged mascara framed her tired aquamarine eyes. Without hesitation, she moved to the kitchen, poured a generous finger of whiskey, and swallowed it in one clean, desperate motion, the liquid scorching a path through the night's tension. She braced herself against the cou…