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RESIDENCE ✦ With Nomad!V
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Music always gets hammered down to the Three A's.
Axe, Attitude, and Audience. Me, I had an Axe and an Attitude.
All I had to do was get the third one.

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[secondconflict]

Eh...

'Bout as good as being on an alien rock planet where no one knows my name can be.

[culero]

Hey, don't worry.
Think of it as an opportunity to start over.
Rebuild your image the way you want it from the ground up.

[secondconflict]

Thought I already did so back in '23.

From the ashes and shit.

Still, nothing compared to you and Johnny, right? You two get a chance to literally do that. New bodies and everything.

[culero]

Then maybe it's more of a 3rd take for you. I know how it feels though. To have been happier how things were and then ending up somewhere new where nothing is familiar and you have to start over from the ground up.

Yeah...It's hard to know what to do with a second chance. I don't even know if I want to be the same person I was before. I'm only ever gonna have one shot to have a do-over so I'm still thinking that shit over.

[secondconflict]

Well, you know you have folks here who will support you no matter who you choose to be right?

V's here. And there's a whole 'nother V too. We lucked out. They're both super fucking cute.

[culero]

Yeah, I know.. And I appreciate it. En serio. There were things I always wanted to do before that I never got a chance at because Night City is Night City. I feel like there's a chance for more here.

Sounds more like you lucked out. Neither of them is my V, technically, but it's not like the feeling is any different. Still my best chooms, just not quite how I remember em. Two V's and no Misty, though. Sucks.

[secondconflict]

Yeah. I'm sorry about that, man. If I see any sign of her, you'll be the first one I tell.

Also, can't help but be curious about your V. Gonna share deets?

[culero]

Much appreciated.

My V and I go way back--from his corpo days. A lot of the shit that happened seems like it was consistent but there's some shit that isn't. They're all three very distinct people who made different decisions and lived slightly different lives, but they all feel...right? Just different.

Ain't bad, and I'm already getting used to it, but it's just something I noticed. I was thinking we all came from the same time and place, but it seems like this shit is more random than I thought. What if home the way it was is a little different for each of us.

1/2

[secondconflict]

Hold on.

Wait, wait, wait. Give me a sec to deal.

2/2

[secondconflict]

[Another person might assume the thing he has to process is the suggestion they might all be from different Night Cities - even Johnny, Nomad V, and him who basically remember the same things.

But, nope, it's not that.]

V was a CORPO RAT?!

Who'd he work for? If you say Arasaka I'm gonna fucking die laughing.

[culero]

Don't know if it helps any, but Arasaka seized his bank accounts and locked him out of all his accounts and housing. Found him a place after that and we figured the rest out from there.

Never liked the shit I heard about Arasaka before, but that sealed the deal. And it always gave him pretty good insight into how those overpaid corpo clowns think. Came in handy, I think.

[secondconflict]

So it was Arasaka?

[The thought that Johnny woke up and found himself in the brain of someone who had once worked for Arasaka is both incredibly tragic and hilarious.]

And sounds like he has as much reason to hate them as any rockerboy. Imagine that's why he agreed to the heist?

[culero]

Yeah, definitely contributed.
Payback can be a strong motivator even when money ain't in it.
Which wasn't the case either.
We were gonna be loaded afterward.
Still feel bad it didn't work out that way.

[secondconflict]

How much did V, either of the Vs, tell you about how things turned out?

I mean after the dust settled.

[culero]

It's kinda hard to understand because they talk about it so casually but there's no way giving up your body or taking someone else's isn't heavy. Musical chairs wasn't meant to be played with bodies or consciousness.

Unless you mean about Arasaka? No, didn't really ask.
Not sure I care about what became of them..

I just heard that my mother's alive. Misty is hanging in there, and my bike is being taken care of. If you have more deets than that, I'm happy to listen, papito.

[secondconflict]

I meant about Johnny. Sounds like they told you, if that's what you mean about 'musical chairs.'

[culero]

No, they didn't go into any detail about that--Johnny, I mean. Didn't ask, really.

[All he recalls is that Johnny's subconscious in V's head (either V) was also slowly killing him.]

[secondconflict]

That's why I met him. He broke into my house to give Johnny a chance for a real goodbye.

The first time I saw him, he's wasn't himself. Johnny was in control.

Fucking wild experience, that.

[culero]

Did you and Johnny ever have the kind of relationship you have with V? I can see how that would be incredibly confusing for you.

[secondconflict]

You believe the screamsheets about that shit?

Nah. Never did. I know the Medias like to make it look like we did, or at least that I wanted it and that's what fueled my music.

[That used to make him so fucking angry too. 50 years after Johnny blew up thousands of people, and every once and a while there was still a stray Media who would ask him about how Silverhand influenced each of his albums.]

Hell, there's some truth to that. Except that he didn't have shit to do with my music. I wrote a bunch of Samurai's hits all by myself. And everything after is all me.

Instead of thinking of it in terms of a lover riding back into your life after death--It's more like a brother. A best friend. The person who pissed you off the most but also made you believe you could rule the whole fucking world.

Then, you lose them to their own hubris and they make sure to take thousands of innocent people with them. They're gone for 50 fucking years only to show up as the hottest edgerunner you've ever laid eyes on...

And I've seen a lot of handsome mercs in my time, kid.

[culero]

Never really followed them, honestly. Just figured I'd ask since I don't know you like V does. All I have to go off of is decade old rumors and things you or V mention.

I can understand that. Feel the same way about V. Both of em. They're my brothers. Family. I mean, neither of them are terrorists, I don't think, but I'm not sure anything would change even if they did something terrible.

[Also he doesn't think V has it in him to give any one entity a big enough fuck you to cause the death of thousands of innocent bystanders as well in the process. That's definitely just a Johnny thing.]

Kid? Are you going to play the age card on me now, old man?
You're right though. The two of you make a handsome pair. Or, well, the three of you.

[secondconflict]

No offense meant. There aren't many folks who aren't a kid to me and most of them are way above my paygrade.

V's many things, not all of them sunshine and rainbows, but I don't think we gotta worry about him ever going that far.

[culero]

You're not wrong, but you look like you stopped aging at 29, and I look like life has put me through so much shit I could pass for 40. You can call me whatever you like though, you do have the years to back it up.

I'm thankful for that.

[secondconflict]

29? Really. You're my new favorite, Jackie.

[culero]

All it took was a little flattery to get on your good side?
I'll take it, amigo.