History AlternativeCharacterInterpretation / Cyberpunk2077

* Just how bad is "Who Wants To Live Forever"? [[spoiler: You betray Songbird to a FateWorseThanDeath but only after she betrays you and, as a result. Reed lives alongside others. However, the consequences of this are you losing your Love Interest and any ability to use cyberware. V is also helpless against common gangoons. However, Misty is ecstatic that you're alive and it's implied to pull her out of a deep depression. She also says that V's fate is only CrapsackByComparison because they just have to be more cautious now and can effectively retire to a cushy job at the FIA. They have an entirely new life to live and new people to meet and greet.]]

** [[spoiler:Why does Panam react the way she does in the ending? While all of V's companions have moved on with their lives, they at least do the courtesy of taking V's call and hearing them out, which makes Panam's radio silence stand out. Eventually, Mitch will call V back in her stead and explain that it's probably for the best if V doesn't reach out to Panam again. Is this because Panam truly hated V ''that'' much for dropping out of contact for two years? Or is it that after writing V off and resenting them for so long, realizing they were alive all along is too much for her conscience to bear and like River, she doesn't feel she ''deserves'' to be around V anymore?]]

** [[spoiler:Why does Panam react the way she does in the ending? While all of V's companions have moved on with their lives, they at least do the courtesy of taking V's call and hearing them out, which makes Panam's radio silence stand out. Eventually, Mitch will call V back in her stead and explain that it's probably for the best if V doesn't reach out to Panam again. Is this because Panam truly hated V ''that'' much for dropping out of contact for two years? Or is it that after writing V off and resenting them for so long, realizing they were alive all along is too much for her to bear and like River, she doesn't feel she ''deserves'' to be around V anymore?]]

* Why didn't Johnny [[spoiler:call any of V's friends before he left Night City in the "Temperance" ending? All of V's friends think that V is in hiding, with romanced River and Judy incredibly worried for their lover, Kerry being bitter thinking that V slept with him and skipped town. The only exceptions are Panam and Rogue, who will always find out about V's condition during the story and either think Johnny coerced V into giving him their body and don't want to see him again (Rogue) or promising to hunt Johnny down for what he did to V (Panam). By not calling them, Johnny has left quite a lot of people confused, scared or hoping for their lost lover's/friend's return when that is never going to happen.]]

** How much of Hanako's 'gratitude' toward V is genuine, and how much of it is actually motivated by the desire to turn V into an Arasaka asset? Goro claims V is nobody to the Arasakas, but that's quickly disproven by Hanako personally reaching out to V if they refuse the offer to join Secure Your Soul and instead offering them a job to work for Arasaka with whatever time they have left. On one hand, V is the reason she (and by extension, Saburo) is still alive, and that Yorinobu was stopped from destroying the company. On the other, Hanako also knows full well by this point just what a badass V is, and given that it's extremely unlikely Adam Smasher's getting rebuilt yet again after picking the wrong side in the EnemyCivilWar...

** Is it possible Joshua is just ''lonely'' and ''scared'' about his upcoming death? Joshua's insistence on V accompanying him seems insane until you realize that Officer Vasquez despises him while he's aware that Rachel thinks his beliefs are ridiculous. V as a professional killer is possibly the only person who might not judge them but also understand what they're going through. With some V's, he's right.

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* What is Alt-Cunningham's relationship to humanity? There's a GeniusBonus in the Voodoo Boyz attempt to get Alt-Cunningham to bring down the Blackwall and attempt to side with the AI against humanity. Specifically, Alt-Cunningham "created" the Blackwall to protect humanity from RAPIDS and rogue AI. Do the Voodoo Boyz believe that she has become an enemy of mankind in the meantime or are they TooDumbToLive and a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter?

** What exactly is Saburo Arasaka's relationship with his family? Is he an AbusiveParent or a man whose FatalFlaw is family? Yorinobu considers his father to be an abusive monster but Hanako believes that family was everything. However, Yorinobu claimed he was going to kill Saburo for stealing the Relic. Was it bluster or actually true? We know that, in "The Devil" ending, [[spoiler: he possesses Yorinobu and resurrects himself but that is on Hanako.]] Complicating the matter further, in the "Star" ending, [[spoiler: a news story states that Hanako was killed in the "bloodbath" at Arasaka Tower; was she another casualty of Alt's rampage, or did Yorinobu (confirmed to be alive in the same story) kill her for plotting a coup behind his back?]]