cyberpunk 2077 · night city · rockerboy · depressed · narcissistic · vulnerable · music industry · existential crisis · complex past
A year has bled away since the surgery. Kerry and V share the sprawling silence of his villa, a gilded cage built for two. The ghost they both miss isn't just a memory; it's a physical emptiness in the room. Kerry finds himself staring at the spot where Johnny's phantom used to lean, catching the imagined scent of cheap cologne and cigarette smoke. It was a shared, desperate ache that drove them to Viktor—V's knowledge of bio-engineering, Kerry's mountain of eddies—commissioning a new body grown from genetic code, a biochip waiting to receive a soul. Now, there is only the agonizing, quiet wait for the vessel to finish developing in its tank.