#kauri asks

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Kauri, what was the first and what was the last thing you were taught in training?

Kauri's expression, usually animated, goes briefly still and a little empty. "If no one wants you, you don't exist," He says, voice slightly flat. "If no one wants you, you will stop existing. You aren't real, you're alone. So make sure someone wants you."

He pauses.

"Then, I guess... You love him. Because he wants you, you will love him. And then you get to be real."

#kauri asks

[silvercrystalwhump]

I just reread Incognito and I was wondering if Kauri told Nat that he saw Vince with someone since she likes to keep tabs on him

So Kauri, Vince, and Nat are not mine they're @ashintheairlikesnow 's ocs but I'll give my 2 cents.

No, I don't think so. In my head when writing Kauri, he doesn't realize it's Vince when he first comes over. Dmitris an acquaintance who's never been out with someone as far as Kauris noticed and he just wanted to make small talk. He only notices that it's Vince after he's there. Kauri also doesn't talk to Vince, just steals his drink.

How I write Vince and Kauri interactions is with the reminder that Kauri accociates Vince with Owen. If he wants to distance himself from all things Owen, he needs to distance himself from Vince. Owen stole his entire life because he had an issue with Vince rejecting him. Kauri probably never brought it up since it would make him remember that Owen happened.

#oc asks #vince asks #kauri asks #dmitri asks #ash's ocs

[hinderr]

Hello hinder of the goop variety.

(It’s fishy btw idk why it won’t let me change blogs)

Unfortunately I have come to tell you that you must be bombed one million billion times for that drawing of Kauri.

Sorry.

I don’t make the rules. That’s just how it is.

Goobye.

YOU CAN BRING IT UP TO CAT AND TELL THEM THAT IF THEY BITCH ASS DIDNT MAKE KAURI ACT THAT WAY WE WOULDNT BE IN THIS SITUATION !!!!!!! WAR AND HATE AND VIOLENCE AND DEATH AND FAMINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hi fishyyyyy <333 nice to see you around these parts

#hinderr asks #mr-breadtime #fishemporium #fish !! #kauri #WE MUSTNT TURN AGAINST EACH OTHER....REMEMBER WHO OUR TRUE ENEMY IS

[pozerjacket]

10 for any of your OCs

What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?: man so considering i look at Kauri as “cyberpunk 2077 if it was a jrpg” i have some ideas to play with that in some renders once i get my 3D model of Kauri (🙄 it’s been an annoying process) like final fantasy 7, devil may cry stuff like that i might reference. but! one for sure i know id play with is Tekken and i want to write a tekken crossover but idk if that’ll happen but it’s the most solid idea there. there’s also some cross overs i have interest in rendering but i won’t get into that unless someone ask

#thank you for the ask and being here 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 #kauri stunzer

[asilentcathedral]

Anonymous Coward asked: How does Kauris meet his husband after he leaves?

They met in therapy. Cevin is one of Kauris' ex-patients!

While he was still a priest, Kauris had a role similar to a police or military chaplain. When he left the church, he went into private practice as a psychiatrist because he already had the necessary degrees for licensing, and he needed SOMETHING to do to distract him from his pain. He specializes in treating ex-military and ex-Sliasistic folks, and is popular with them for his no nonsense attitude and bluntness.

Cevin is an elf that served in the Velanian military, and was a (very small, low ranking) part of the coup against the royal family. He has PTSD from his time serving, and had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. Because of this, he sought therapy with Kauris when he went into private practice. Fun fact: he's a mechanic, and maintains a license to make and fix archanomechanical engines.

They actually had a bit of a meet cute! I'm planning on writing a short (<20k) piece about them and how they ended up together at some point because I really like their story. Cevin was the primary driver of their relationship and pursued Kauris in a firm but non-pushy way. He actually lined up another therapist before he asked Kauris out so that they would no longer be doctor and patient.

Cevin likes Kauris because he's a very wounded person with a deep well of cruelty that is genuinely trying to better himself and to repair the harm he's caused (unless it's Urale, but he hehe.) Cevin thinks he's a very lovely person underneath his prickly exterior. He absolutely loves Kauris' dry sense of humor - he's one of the only people that actually understands when he's telling a joke.

Cevin told Kauris once that he thinks he's the most beautiful man he's ever seen, and that pretty much instantly melted Kauris' heart and made him fall in love. Kauris is full of self hatred and has always resented Urale for being beautiful, so to be seen as the most beautiful person alive is really significant to him. Kauris loves how kind and resilient Cevin is, how sweet and gentle he is while also refusing to take abuse from anyone. They're a very good match!

And then they spawn just a complete and utter freak, but Alas lmao. Can't all be winners.

#retrospring asks #character specific #character dynamics #cevin loret #kauris joro

[farfallasims]

hey I'm so sorry if this has already been asked but wcif kauri hair xx 😍

No need to apologize! You can find his hair here x

#wcif

[neon-prison]

❔ (Delamain) +💋 please !!

@caffeinatedrogue

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Tysm for the asks- and sorry for the delay! I decided to do a combo answer lol.

Vee out here switchin' looks based on an famous merc Kauri Stunzer's 'Fashion Advice for the Modern Merc'. (Thank you @pozerjacket for the ballin' clothing picks- anyone who needs a new fit for their OC...go bug 'em!)

I also headcanon that Delamain's heuristic algorithms love a challenge- and Night City rush hour is probably a hell of a puzzle to solve. Yes. Their date night is traffic.

#cyberpunk 2077 #Delamain #oc: vee #Delamain is very clueless sometimes #probably on purpose #del slightly jealous in first text???

[morendodifame]

kauri eyed the outfit pieced together by one of the workers, his leg crossed one over the other before he narrowed his eyes and leaned back, " who pieced this together? " he asked, scanning the faces in the room around him, " you? " he pressed when his gaze fell on riley. @scvdycat

#kauri : threads #and so it begins

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Kauri, when do you think you'll see your mother in person?

Allyn, how do you think your owner would feel about your relationship with Jameson?

Jake, when's the last time you did something just for yourself?

Kauri tenses, looking away. There's a flush of guilt there - maybe even shame. But he just shrugs. "Don't know. When I don't get migraines every time we talk on the phone, maybe? Or when I can look at pictures of them without it hurting? Or, fuck, I don't... I don't know. When I think they're ready to meet the clusterfuck that their dead son and brother turned into."

Allyn opens their mouth. Closes it again. Considers that. A flicker of real grief shows before the perfect emptiness smothers it again. "He wouldn't like Jameson at all," They admit, slowly. "No class, no education, not able to care for me or keep me in style. But... he doesn't have to like Jameson. Master is gone, but I am still alive. I'm still here." Their smile is gentle and secret and very much their own. "Only I have to like Jameson. And I do."

Jake blinks. Frowns, absently trying to think. "I don't know. I stay pretty busy, honestly. When would I even have time?"

#kauri asks #allyn asks #jake asks

[silvercrystalwhump]

Why does Owen go after Vince in your fanfiction? Or is it the same reason as with canon?

Owen & Vince belong to @ashintheairlikesnow

Owen goes after Vince like he is doing in canon for the same reason. He wants Vince to be his and his alone. How canon has gone, for those with less attention to detail, Senator Grant (Owen's Mom) dies and she happens the be the only thing that kept Owen from going after Vince again. He goes after Vince and Kauri's loved ones (to convince Kauri to return of his own accord) and as of this morning has successfully retaken Vince.

In Forgotten to Found, Owen has the same motivations but a different spark. That spark is that Vince becomes public about his relationship (marriage) with Dmitri. Owen goes after Vince and Kauri at different times in FtF.

#vince asks #owen asks #kauri asks #dmitri asks #oc asks #forgotten to found

[hinderr]

@r0b0tz me when i get u....me when i fucking get u...

(Kauri, from Lucidity)

#dnd #dnd art #dnd character #kauri #hinderr art #'filean asks me to jump- oh okay im not gonna hesitate' AND IF I FUCKING LISE MY SHIT #HUH. IF I LOSE MY SHIT. HUH. CAT.

[another-corpo-rat]

Pale Yellow

im throwing this into the wild before it bites me again. enjoy Victoria not being in a Great Place, featuring the darling Kauri who belongs to @pozerjacket ty for letting me steal your lad for this <3

No Pairing Summary: Smasher's dead. Victoria's…coping. Not well, but she's coping.

“Hey-hey ‘Tori! How you doing?”

It’s a familiar enough thing; Stunzer’s voice was always as bright as his mood when he was off-duty – and she was yet to be privy to him not in a good mood. He was one of the rare few who could claw genuine joy out of the shithole that was Night City, a skill she would perhaps envy were she a lesser woman, desperately trapped with no means of leaving the city.

But a lesser woman she was not and she certainly didn’t count herself trapped, not with a first-class ticket booked for London. Trading one shithole for another she supposed but when held against Night City, England’s festering heart was a gleaming pinnacle of opportunity and order.

“Stunzer.” She says, sharp and cold as if she was interrupting someone’s stupidity in a meeting—

And really that didn’t seem far off. She did think him idiotic with that stupid smile and aggressively pleasant mood. Painfully genuine and utterly foolish for it.

But not entirely so. Something flips and that bright smile drops into something more presentable, practiced. Professional. Good. She almost forgot that she kept him around for reasons beyond warming her bed.

“I have a job for you,” and she could do without her voice sounding rough to her own ears; the words rasping against her coarse throat, “no fixers, no middlemen. Meet me on the Ebunike in Northside if you’re interested. Maelstrom shouldn’t give you any trouble.”

She cuts the call before he can speak and wonders why she didn’t just send a text.

.

By all accounts she should be impressed with how quickly he arrives considering he was in Pacifica when she called. Both too fast and not fast enough – a frustrating confliction, riling her annoyance either way. Still, she makes a note to pay for whatever speeding tickets he has as the heavy door slides open, stopping two-thirds across with the distinct cha-thunk of old mechanisms catching.

Unlike Adam, Stunzer doesn’t curse or need to force it the rest of the way. The gap is enough for him to squeeze through without awkwardly contorting himself, something she notes without turning; watching his reflection in the glass.

“You should consider fixing that.” He says in way of greeting, his voice carefully dull now; a lacklustre mimicry of a corpo’s professional neutrality. Maybe he’s mastered it to the untrained ear; to the ratty street-scum and dusty sand-walkers he rubs shoulders with on the daily, but it feels merely passable in this space. Missing that crucial cold edge, that underlying and unspoken threat that’s always there if you cared to look: sewn through words.

He ought to fix that.

“Hardly necessary, I won’t be returning here.” She flicks her eyes from his reflection, focusing instead on the case’s contents. The partial frame of the Dragoon is displayed like a trophy, and likely better cared for than even the most prized. The office is empty now aside from it, and still she’s put it off – like prodding at a loose tooth instead of just yanking the damn thing out.

The thought of leaving it had crossed her mind and twisted her guts in turn, made them churn with a bitter acid that burned her throat on its way up. He had taken meticulous care of it and there’s a…need to continue that. For all that she has left of him.

Stunzer hums, nods to himself as he looks around the space that few were ever privy to. “So, did you fry Maelstrom before or after you called?”

“Not long before. Had a good little laugh to themselves when I asked them to leave.” She sighs softly, but her shoulders still drop with a substantial weight. “I wasn’t for wasting an already…limited patience on them.”

“Uh-huh. Does the big guy want—”

“I’m not one to let the wants of dead men dictate how I conduct my business.”

She thought it would be common knowledge by now, that even Arasaka would struggle to hide the death of one of the city’s few living legends. She was sure there was something on WNS News about it— but either she was mistaken or Stunzer has been under a rock.

The soft breath of ‘shit’ pulls her taut, an unpleasant tension tightens in her chest like a fist curling within her ribcage, squeezing at her heart as she clenches her jaw tight. An ache already blooming. She digs her nails into the palm of her hand, but there’s hardly any relief. No stinging pain. Just a vague sensation of pressure, metal against metal. Of all the times to mourn her natural arms…

His hand rests on her shoulder, heavy, squeezing gently in an effort to comfort. Warm in the way only living flesh can be. She wishes it was his chrome hand instead. At least then she could close her eyes and pretend, just for a second. Just a few precious seconds where the past few weeks were nothing but an elaborate nightmare and it’s Adam’s hand on her shoulder – but his finger span is too small, the press of weight too light. Fucking meat.

In the quiet of the room the shing of her claws is loud, enough of a warning that is well heeded: his hand withdraws. Still she glances over her shoulder, lips pressed tight and eyes flashing with the prime of a daemon until he takes a few steps back along with that. Back to that thin veneer of professionalism; Artees the merc. Maybe when she can stomach company beyond wine and a pair of dogs too affectionate to ignore, she’ll reach out for Kauri the friend again. Maybe.

She rolls her shoulder to shrug off the warmth he left in his wake. Adam had been cold the last time she could hold him. His chill had sunk into her skin, deep enough that her natural bones were beginning to ache. Or maybe that had been from holding him – that heavy husk of metal, so damaged there was nothing salvageable.

So said the technician. There was certainly nothing salvageable left of them.

“And speaking of business,” she nods towards the weapon rack, empty now but for a small box. Black, nondescript. The chip within it is equally basic to the eye, notable only for its pristine condition and lack of corporate branding. “You’re going to find the bastard and chip that into their neural slot. I don’t care how, just get into their neck and keep it out of your own.”

“Doubt finding them is gonna be that simple,” she looks to the reflection once more, watching him cross the room to the box, “if they’ve managed to hide from Arasaka.”

“Arasaka is big, we make too much noise when we move. Disturb the wildlife, so to speak. But you?” She turns to regard him, drags her gaze along his body and hums in approval, “You fit right in.” He presses his lips tight, scrunches them towards the left corner of his mouth and damn him, it’s an effort to keep her own from twitching in response.

“Right…still isn’t gonna make it easy to find them, y’know?”

“I’m well aware. Even with the information Arasaka has, we’d have better luck finding a virgin joytoy on Jig-Jig. It’s why I’ve asked you Kauri, and why I won’t be skimping on your payment either.”

This time he regards her, a little furrow in the centre of his brow as he works through her words, looking for some trap, something spoken but meant differently. And maybe that’s a sign that he knows her too well, or that she was too obvious in the use of his name, but the way his fingers curl around the box is answer enough.  

“And this is?”

“A hell of my design,” and she can’t help the smile now – feels it tear her lips apart and bare her teeth, “just for them.”

#cyberpunk 2077 #Victoria Crane #Kauri Stunzer #my writing #it ends abruptly cos i was not gonna fight with the words anymore #victoria stop mildly insulting the people you need challenge (failed) #i need to write her and Kauri just enjoying themselves sometime #maybe at a certain party in Dogtown #but for now #angst

[pozerjacket]

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a  moodboard  of  important  locations  in  my  muses  life. from moodboard meme

#if anyone needs clarification on kauri’s past please ask but his origins have been this for a long time #cyberpunk 2077 #kauri stunzer

[steamberrystudio]

i remember you mentioned once that you had something like ten (!!!) characters that could've made for potential lis? i know edan is one of them for example, but i was wondering who else was an option once upon a time? also this is in reference to something that was said on the discord (though i tend to be shy with discords, please excuse the fact that i asked here ><) are you from australia??? i am too and i dunno i thought that was neat HAHA

LET ME THINK:

Kauri Leere (whose name is changing. Mwa ha ha!) - A character who will appear in Yuu's route. (This guy) He actually was, briefly, an LI - that's why you can find asks with him. He was chosen by a KS backer as the additional route, but when that backer was refunded, the slot was taken by someone else. And the new person chose Quill.

So Kauri was demoted back to side character!

Roan Murdock - A character who will appear in Yuu's route (and is something like a surrogate brother to Yuu). I amused the only portrait I have of him is THIS EXPRESSION. 🤣🤣 Anyway. Roan actually came close to being chosen. I think the person that chose Quill was kind of torn between Quill and Roan for a bit, but ultimately went with Quill.

Quill Laurence - of course. This nerd was the ultimate winner of the "Choose an LI" selection. (This expression is also the only portrait of HIM I have saved unless you count the time I saved everyone without their eyebrows. Or...the one where I gave them all beards).

Edan Riviera - as you said. The person that chose the route prefers characters who are more prickly and snarky so Edan was a bit too "soft" personality wise for him to be her favourite. But I think an Edan route would be really cool.

Now that more routes are complete, there are other potential characters I could add to the list as "Interesting route potential" - Locke and Vale, for example.

Neither of them really existed at the time, so they weren't on the list.

But yeah, there are honestly a lot of characters I think I could write interesting romances for!

AND FINALLY!

I live in Australia (and have for over four years now!) but I'm originally from the US. So I'm a transplant, but I really love it here (spiders and all!) and want to stay forever!

Australia is stuck with me now! ╰(*°▽°*)╯

#gilded shadows #potential routes

[thenocturnalblossom]

who are zira’s favorite people in night city and does she have any goals

Well she's pretty fond of that Kauri guy hehehe. Other than him, then probably the friends/members of the Pacifica coven she's in.

Goal wise, she has one major one and that is traveling to moon someday.

Thanks for the ask!

#oc asks #answered asks