I need to go to sleep but I’m having Cyberpunk and Ernest Hemingway and Ronance thoughts again and I’m unwell

Just,,,

“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you.”

First of all, I fucking sobbed when I was playing Cyberpunk and they pulled that shit out.

Second of all,,, tell me this quote doesn’t scream Ronance. Tell me any Stranger Things character for that matter wouldn’t resonate so deeply with this quote. But I’m putting it on Ronance because that’s what this blog is for.

Nancy Wheeler, the priss, Hawkins princess, who should have been untouchable, pulled into a violent life or death struggle to avenge a friend and save her loved ones. The girl who decides “how hard could it be” to fight monsters and sees horrors she never could have dreamed of and realizes life is a lot more dangerous than she expected.

Robin Buckley, the normal teenager, who does everything to avoid being seen, being dragged into trouble anyway, joining a battle she never should have even known about. The girl who played codebreaker only to find herself kidnapped and drugged and dragged into inter dimensional war.

A pair of girls who saw people die, but never like this. Never considered it could one day be them. Who fall in love but know that next time one of them could lose the other.

They’re just kids man

very curious about cyberpunk ronance 👀 or more from into dust if you prefer!

Cyberpunk ronance is like barely anything right now tbh, its mostly just a placeholder with some vague ideas and it wont get written for a couple months probably, but i think its going to be sort of a detective story about like fate and free will and uh clones or something? I dont know! I keep meaning to work on it for real but other things keep taking precedence.

into dust is for stranger things femslash week for Came Back Wrong and its going to be the Nancy/Barb backstory from the TLOU au. It's still very WIP but I feel like I wrote it already in my brain when I was writing the TLOU au so hopefully it doesnt put up too much of a fight!

thank you for asking!

I’m posting Cyberpunk Ronance thoughts because it’s my blog and I can do what I want

I’m just, I know the game isn’t the best in the world, but god if the storyline didn’t break me, okay?

If you care about Cyberpunk spoilers (not including the show), do not read any further

I think there’s a lot of different ways this au could be played

I think Nancy being V makes good sense if you look at V’s characterization as this badass, ambitious person who ends up in a shitty situation but keeps fighting because it’s all she’s ever known. Bonus V and Nancy and GUNS and general badassery. In this version, perhaps Robin is Johnny—chaotic mess of a human who’s life went to shit, although I see her being less of an overall bastard. Robin in aviators? Robin in aviators. The banter between them with Robin literally stuck in Nancy’s head and apologizing over and over for literally being a sentient brain tumor? Kill me now. Bonus, Barb is Jackie, the good natured friend who helps Nancy and gets killed early on as a consequence of her and Nancy’s ambition. As much as my sad little heart loves angst, I like to think the ending could be twisted, like maybe they find Robin’s body so her engram can be put back into it and Nancy can survive. I just don’t want the ending to be sad, damnit. Panam could be Max maybe? Hmmm. Or maybe El.

I’m also fond of the idea of Robin as V, however, and it boils down to the V/Johnny relationship. Picture with me for a moment: Eddie as Johnny. He fits the bill too well. Bastard of a rocker boy who did drugs and has pretty hair. He gets stuck in the head of one Robin Buckley, and it’s instant wlw/mlm hostility (but it morphs into solidarity, I promise). In this version, I think Steve is heartbreakingly Jackie. Their personalities line up too well. Throwing a bone to the Steddies tho, Steve could be Kerry and all the Johnny/Kerry moments become Steddie. Then Barb could still be Jackie? Or Steve is Jackie and Barb is T-Bug, RIP. Who is Nancy, then? Well, I think Panam or Judy are both excellent options. Just think, Nancy Wheeler, the tech genius who reports and edits brain dances on the side, an ex member of the baddest girl gang in Night City, the Moxes? Sick. But! Nancy Wheeler, badass mercenary who strikes out from her clan on her own to follow ambition and independence, but eventually coming back as a leader. Tbh I’m leaning more the Judy route, as much as I love Panam. The underwater date? Nancy finally being vulnerable, showing Robin her flooded home? Memories of Mike—long since moved away—and her family? Nancy saving Robin from almost dying because of Eddie’s damn chip? Robin being so soft with her afterward? Nancy giving Robin her key? Also Nancy is a vengeful woman and the whole Clouds arc would be something she could do, I think—and Robin helps because ofc, it’s Nancy. THEY’RE GAY YOU’RE HONOR. And, because of course I’m choosing the ending where you leave with the nomads, Nancy leaves Night City with Robin, and she promises to help Robin find a cure (and they do because fuck you ambiguous game ending). I’m thinking this is the ideal scenario for me.

Or the above but it’s Eddie as Johnny, Nancy as V, Robin as Panam, I like that too.

Chrissy is undoubtedly Misty in any version, only she’s not dating the Jackie character because she’s a lesbian in my mind and you can pry that headcanon from my cold dead hands. Maybe Vickie is Victor (heh, Vic, same nickname) and they have a little tension going on with Chrissy’s Esoterica being right outside Vickie’s Clinic.

Maybe agent Owens as Takemura? Henry is Yorinobu, Brenner is Saburo. The female agent who’s name I can’t remember is Hanako. I feel like these all fit scary well.

Ofc Hopper is Saul, you can’t tell me he doesn’t fit that role damn near perfect. Most of the rest of the Hawkins crew are probably Aldecaldos as well. I’m thinking Jonathan is Mitch and Argyle could be Scorpion (I know that one is a bad fit but fight me on it, Jargyle boyfriends and also Scorpion/Argyle gets to live because it’s my au and I can do what I want). Thinking about El as Panam more now actually, her stubborn personality and whatnot. It’s vibes, okay? It’s 1 am, let me enjoy my brain worms.

Beyond who’s who: think about Nancy Wheeler with mantis blades. Need I say more? She’s a badass with a katana and throwing knives, and REALLY scary good at hacking. She has a professional cyberdeck and all the best tech. I think she’d be a Corpo background V. Don’t put her in hand to hand combat though, she is small and will get her shit wrecked.

But! Robin Buckley would have less tech. She doesn’t trust it—maybe she’s a conspiracy theorist, sue her. She’s a Nomad background V, and she is really good with bigger guns and weapons that require less finesse. I’m picturing her with a trusty baseball bat and a shotgun that she alternates between. When she does hack, it’s usually cameras and whatnot for stealth missions—but we all know she’s bad with coordination and most stealth missions turn into guns blazing missions. Oops?

Cyberpunk Ronance chapter one is out hehe

Spewing Cyberpunk AU thoughts because I’ve officially named it and started it because I don’t know how to not have a million WIPs at once

It’s called “there’s a room where the light won’t find you”

The story focuses on Nancy in the role of V, an up and coming mercenary who dreams of making it big and becoming a legend. Barbara, in the role of best friend and fellow merc Jackie, helps line up the gig of a lifetime.

Larry Kline (evil ST3 mayor) plays the role of Dex, the man who gives the mission—stealing a Creel (Arasaka) Corp prototype called the Relic

For those who haven’t played Cyberpunk 2077, the Relic is a chip upon which an engram (construct of someone’s personality and memories) is uploaded supposedly as the ultimate form of life insurance. It can be inserted into a new body.

Shit goes south during the Heist. Barb is killed. The specialized case for the Relic gets damaged and the only way to keep the Relic from degrading is inserting it into Nancy’s own neural port

Little does Nancy know, the Relic is storing the engram of one Eddie Munson, notorious rockerboy who helped start a mini revolution against Creel Corp about 60 years ago before being killed in the process

The Relic is simultaneously the only thing keeping Nancy alive while also slowly killing her by rewiring her brain to let Eddie’s engram take over her body. The story is spent trying to figure out how to remove it without dying before this happens

Naturally, they hate each other and have very different ideas of what they should do with Nancy’s body as Eddie gains more and more control

Robin plays the role of Judy, an incredibly intelligent techie who helps with the original heist, as well as throughout the fic. Choosing to diverge from the og game plot line to make Robin be there for most of the fic, rather than a recurring side character. Also giving her some skills with cybernetics, so she can help Nancy out

Angst aplenty as Robin watches the Relic slowly rewrite Nancy until she’s almost indistinguishable from Eddie, while also trying to save her girl from certain death

Nancy Wheeler getting to be an unhinged, badass mercenary <333

I’m just rambling now but I’m EXCITED

Here’s a sneak peek, if you want it

Cyberpunk Nancy my beloved (attempt one)

Changing the name of the cyberpunk fic to Evanescence lyrics because fuck you I do what I want

Having thoughts about Cyberpunk 2077. I need to watch Edgerunners so bad. I’m also still bitter that Panam Palmer is straight because bitch this is the most bisexual woman I have ever seen.

Back on my Cyberpunk Ronance au bullshit…