you would be upset too if some cute kid you met at work was possessed by your shitbag cheating ex who died 50 odd years prior
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johnny just can’t leave rogue the fuck alone (aka i stole half this plot from the eye👀)
“What’s up?” Nix asked with a dry voice, sounding as if he had just woken up from a nap.
“Need you to watch something,” Rogue stated. When the upload was completed, she disconnected herself from the link and stepped over to help Nix disconnect from his chair. Once he was free and standing, Rogue opened the video that had downloaded before turning her back to the screen. She had her arms crossed tightly over her chest, fully expecting Nix to watch the clip and then ask why Rogue had him watch her stare at the bar counter for a full minute.
Instead, with a sharp intake of breath, she heard Nix exclaim, “Christ on a stick, that’s Johnny Silverhand!”
“That can’t be Johnny. Johnny’s dead,” Rogue spoke softly as she turned and met her netrunner’s surprised expression.
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Johnny: "Ever think back, about why we did it?"
Rogue: "Did what?"
Johnny: "Why we took on the corps- strapped in leather, chrome and iron."
Rogue: "Dunno Johnny. We where young. Hot blood in our veins, shit judgement in our heads. Like all pups."
Johnny: "We fought for beauty. Not knowing what was good or true. It was only the beautiful that meant a damn thing to us."
I've been thinking about this exchange non stop for days now. It comes right in the middle of Johnny, Rouge, and Weylan's final raid on Arasaka Tower, and in a moment of rare self reflection for Johnny right before the end. Rogue assumes he's just being nostalgic of course, and tells him to focus on the task at hand, but the truth is that in this moment Johnny is riding the 'last job' high and seems to realize what exactly it is he's fighting for. Not his survival, not his ideals, not to punish Arasaka for what they did to Alt or him- but for beauty. For life. For V's life.
Because Johnny does view V's life as fundamentally beautiful, as worth fighting for. It's why he rages at Alt when he learns the truth, why he desperately tries to reason with V at their lowest, and why, in one final act of rocker boy defiance, he marches to the edge of the Blackwall, rather then take V's final chance away. Johnny fundamentally views six months of V getting to keep living, keep fighting, keep being stubbornly insistently themselves, as more beautiful then a second chance for himself. The final raid on Arasaka Tower, destroying Mikoshi- it's his swan song, his final blaze of glory- his farewell to a world he left behind a long time ago, and that left him behind.
In this moment, Johnny sounds and feels fundamentally free in a way he hasn't all game. Because he realizes he's once again fighting for what that is beautiful, and that is what gives him the determination to kill Smasher and finally bring Arasaka down. That he's doing it for V.
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what was it i said about johnny breaking thru the "veil" to kiss v.
yeah. he fucking killed him thats what
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