It's finally done ;__; I've been working on this on and off for the better part of half a year now I think. It was one of the first bigger ideas I sketched out one afternoon shortly after finishing my first Cyberpunk playthrough in February '23 xD
The little background story tha inspired it, that I've definitely told before, goes as follows:
During "Gimme Danger", when talking with Takemura about their childhood, Corpo!V will talk about their childhood growing up in Charter Hill. And me, a sucker for details like that, in the middle of building a background story for my V at the time, immediately drove to Charter Hill then to figure out where a good place to live might be.
I chose a random apartment building on Grant Avenue, cause it had metro access, lots of shops, and all the bright neon lights and ads everyhwere that V mentions. Good enough, I thought, it's settled. He grew up there.
Flashforward about 20 hours of gameplay, I finally meet Kerry, and he invites V to Dark Matter. And I don't think I even initially realized it (bc, you know, I was slightly... preoccupied otherwise during that convo) but then it dawned on me... You can actually see the building I chose as V's childhood home quite well from up there. And he would obviously realize it, too. Since Vince doesn't have good memories of the place though he never brings it up, until Kerry eventually, during one of their many dates they end up having up there, notices he's been staring off into the distance a little more than usual.
And yeah... this is that scene and I really wanted to do it as a little comic ;__;
All backgrounds are ingame screenshots, the map of Charter Hill is a heavily edited screenshot of the interactive Cyberpunk Map (https://maps.piggyback.com/cyberpunk-2077/maps/night-city) and the street names I referenced from this map someone on Reddit put together by hand from going around and reading all the ingame street signs (https://www.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/comments/msyg79/i_couldnt_find_a_map_of_night_city_with_street/). Both super duper useful resources for writing, can highly recommend, I use them all the time XD
Anyway, I hope you like my sappy, self-indulgent lil' comic, I sure as hell had a lot of fun working on it and I'm so proud to finally have it finsihed x3
How long do we think it’s been since someone held Kerry’s face the way V did when he went to kiss him?
The look of genuine shock on Kerry’s face for a split second, of someone holding his face like that, like he couldn’t BELIEVE someone would touch him like that again.
When the Us Cracks girls invited him out, Kerry asked V to be his plus one. They all had a blast, but at some point in the evening, the boys seemingly disappeared.
"See, stayin' in for once for a movie night isn't half bad!"
Vince has to be forced to relax now and then, otherwise he'll always be out and about and never stop xD Kerry and a few select others manage to convince him to sit down and just stay in for the night occasionally xD Loosely inspired by Kerry's ending call message where he wishes he and V could spend more time chilling and just watching a movie together with a big bowl of popcorn cause hell yes, they deserve that ;__;
Bonus:
At some point they both just fall asleep xD Cause honestly, best part about comfy stay-at-home movie date is cuddling and dozing off together.
I honestly think that Kerry caught feelings for V early on. He looks at V in certain ways that can be easily missed, but they're there. Case in point, during Holdin' On. When V gets back in control and he's making his way upstairs and then if V goes to see him before he leaves, when he asks if V wants to join him for a nap. It's in the eyes, the smirk. Subtle.
And even though he leaves abruptly, you see the same look when Kerry grabs V's shoulder after the concert. I personally think he left because he was feeling conflicted, unsure if his feelings for V are legit, or if he still has unresolved feelings for Johnny.
I could be just imagining things, but I don't believe so. The text message that follows shows he wants to get to know V himself. I definitely believe there were feelings early on, just based on his body language and his facial expressions, the way he looks at V, but he didn't act on them, either due to him being the older one in the situation and not wanting to seem like he's taking advantage, or due to his own conflicting feelings when it comes to Johnny.
Either way, those are my thoughts. Agree? Disagree?
Y’all have been a HUNGRY bunch for that Kerry content so I thought I’d give you something special today :3
Coughs coughs ahem anyways uhh
if it ends up being requested or whatever I’ll maybe post gifs of my more wholesome stuff with Kerry but I’ve kinda been avoiding it as I don’t know if anyone would really interact with it