Didn't last 5 minutes

Heeeey so I wasn't the only one! I am 40 hours in, don't know at what point I am in the story but the mental background I have has been nice up until now.

My V has a challenge-seeking, daredevil personality with a dash of general teenage angst; she can look dangerous and unhinged but really she likes people at first impact and tries to help whenever possible... you just have to be lucky and not meet her as a mission target, and calibrate your words well.

She usually talks plan first, people later, but can't stand seeing others suffer and can turn into an empathic listener if needed.

She also has a very strong anti-corpo sentiment, hating how some people literally have trillions of eddies laying around while the people around her live below the poverty line. So any damage to corporations is good, to dent their bloated wealth.

>!Even as a street kid, she's not loyal to any gangs, and sees everyone as just generally street kids. This is due to the whole Dex incident which made her lose all faith in "street honor"; now she just removes people standing in her way.!<

>!Also she began being angry at the Silverhand situation and hating Johhny, but then she actually took some time to talk to him in Pacifica and found out they really shared a lot of agendas, so they started to collaborate basically. Now, the doubt that Johnny and V are just getting fused together and aren't really the same exists, but V chooses to ignore it because it's an aid in missions.!<

>!The single worst regret she has is sending Jackie to Vic instead of his family. She used to think Arasaka stealing his body was just a huge injustice and another reason to throw down Arasaka. But then the revelation from Takemura that the megacorp threw Jackie in the Soulkiller destroyed her from the inside.!<

>!Then Barry killed himself in front of her eyes and V really started to think. To ponder about how she'd started to devalue life. Every mission she went on a murderous spree, but for what reason really? If every death made all that suffering happen, had all these consequences, was she bringing that much pain in the world? Was she a bad person?!<

>!She made a promise to try the non-lethal options first. But then at the Clouds Maiko Maeda tried to kill her, and in a one vs one she ended up killing her. The words Judy said right after chilled V to the spine. She had, after all, taken another life, and maybe completely devastated her chances with Judy. Ruined another thing.!<

>!At that point, she solemnly swore she'd never kill another living thing ever again. Switched off the Cyberpsychosis for System Shutdown, installed non-lethal mods on her weapons and set on her new path of helping without leaving a trail of dead bodies, towards a huge change in society that she'll have to cause and that would counter-balance all the kills she has made.!<

>!Also, she has found a new hope in Judy, which she has managed to get in a relationship with even while having done all that. It's her constant reminder that things can still be fixed.!<

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