History Fanfic / TheNewManAnAdamSmasherSI

* SimpleYetAwesome: Adam is of the firm opinion that most augments are superfluous and over-designed, and that people who actually want to fight need to strip down to basics, e.g. drop [[BladeBelowTheShoulder the Mantis Blades]] and just carry a sword if you want to cut things. One chapter in which he trains Lucy, Rebecca and Gloria has him espouse the virtues of a Techtronika-15 Microwaver in how despite being cheap and causing minimal damage is very capable in shutting down any cyberware without proper radiation shielding (IE, everyone save for corpo-quality full-borgs), noting that it was a signature weapon of Morgan Blackhand.

* MoralSociopathy: Uriel is claimed by both himself and WordOfGod to possess a very muted capacity for empathy but a highly developed sense of ethics. Commentators eventually made a strong case for him actually being above average on the Cyberpunk empathy scale (if only by a little bit) due to just how [[WretchedHiveOfScumAndVillainy brutal Night City is]] and how [[ApatheticCitizens callous its residents are as a consequence]]. Along with this, his empathy stat is pretty high at 8, which contrasts with his more LackOfEmpathy moments, such as calling [[spoiler: Chiri Tanaka's funeral "boring"]].

* WretchedHive: All of Night City basically counts as one, [[CrapsackWorld per usual]] but one exists [[spoiler: in the corporate controlled Tokyo, the Tokyo Bay Crossway. A massive bridge that has internal factories and robots managing it, run by a Rogue AI that attacks all military that go near it. It's too heavily fortified to take out, and as a result all of the criminals, mercenaries, homeless, and minor remaining yakuza make their home in camps around it. [[BerserkButton This infuriates]] [[ControlFreak Saburo Arasaka]] [[BerserkButton like nothing else.]] ]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: Mentally, Adam often notes he has no real authority over the people he's bossing around, "But most folks don’t try to argue with Adam Smasher nowadays."

* VillainsNeverLie: One of Smasher's few genuine virtues is his honesty, due to believing that he's too strong to bother with lying. While this typically manifests in BrutalHonesty it also means that he tends to be fair and direct in his dealings.

* BadassNormal: Falco considers Vincent to be "the strongest man without chrome I ever met." This bears out when Brosef gave a rough tier list of the characters' general combat capabilities and Vincent, despite being just some completely organic nomad, is on par with Ordo Panzer Grandmasters. However, there are implications that his father did something to him that made him that way.

** Saburo Arasaka, typically the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, is also affected by this where both time as well as Hanako's influence have mellowed him out. Where once he despised the USA, he now has a begrudging respect for it. That and he's primarily shown interacting to people within his inner circle. He's still a fairly insidious figure who's had his fingers in various amoral schemes and projects.

** During the finale, Adam is, through a serious series of battles, brought down once again to his Gemini frame for his fight with [[spoiler: Silverhand.]] Afterwards, due to [[spoiler:Saburo's death leading to the termination of his contract with Arasaka, he loses access to most of his frames and is forced to rely on an Alpha-grade Frame that he deems barely adequate]].

* ConsummateProfessional: Adam is inarguably the best hired killer in the world, and follows the motions of his contracted jobs to a tee.

* EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Mono-katanas are a thing in-setting that Adam very much likes to use when he can. Saburo commissions a set to be MadeOfIndestructium so that "when he can" will become "always".

* HeroAntagonist: Johnny Silverhand and V serve as a looming threat to Smasher in how his primary goal is to avert his canonical death at their hands.

* RestrainingBolt: Smasher's augment-interface system is coded so that he is forced to obey and protect anyone who holds his "Long-Term Contract", with the current holder being Saburo Arasaka and later on Yorinobu Arasaka. The Contract also include various "tiers" below the primary holder, with second-tiers being any other members of the Arasaka family while the President of the NC branch is the third-tier, allowing them to give him orders provided it doesn't supersede the the First-Tier contract holder. Since it's based on Smasher's mind, this also prevents him from actively subverting orders via finding loopholes since his mind will recognize them as him attempting to bypass the contract.

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** During the finale, Adam is, through a serious series of battles, brought down once again to his Gemini frame for his fight with [[spoiler: Silverhand.]]

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* OddFriendship: Chiri Tanaka, the light-hearted yet shrewd Arasaka middle manager, makes a concerted effort to get to know [[spoiler:the recently revived and emotionally distraught Gloria Martinez.]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: Whenever anyone questions how Smasher will deal with a problem, he answers with "I'm Adam fucking Smasher". Mentally, Adam often notes he has no real authority over the people he's bossing around, "But most folks don’t try to argue with Adam Smasher nowadays."

* PressGanged: Adam recruits David as his apprentice by ripping him limb-from-limb out of the Cyberskeleton and telling him he can accept the job or let himself and all his friends be killed. Adam alleviates David's resentment by promising to only force David to take the job for a year and acting like a pretty swell boss, but there is still a bad taste in the boy's mouth over giving in like he did.

--> Everything about Tokyo was clean and refined and beautiful, all it took was absolute submission to Saburo Arasaka and his will.

* RepressiveButEfficient: Adam's internal monologue sums it up best.

** Valerie is Corpo V, who also happens to be friends with Jackie Welles.
** Vincent [[spoiler: [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Martinez]]]] is Nomad V. [[spoiler:He turns out to be the "Canon" V in that he's the one who eventually becomes a major antagonist]].

* AlmightyJanitor: On paper, Smasher is just a contracted mercenary on Arasaka's payroll and has no official rank within the company hierarchy. Unofficially, he has no problems murdering corpos who thinks that this means they can talk down to him, can intimidate most people to get what he wants and is a member of Saburo's inner circle, meaning that he can theoretically appeal directly to the boss if he wanted to but won't because he dislikes relying on others on principle.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Over the course of the story Smasher ends up wiping out the Scavs and the Wraiths, who are two of the most explicitly evil gangs in 2077.
** When Aryas found Project Yokai facility, where there were children's brains being harvested and used to pilot borg frames, he was so disgusted by what he saw that he had all of the Arasaka personnel slaughtered and escaped with every single one of the children.
** After learning of Project Yokai, Yorinobu orders Adam to execute Jun.

** Adam gets hit with this again after being restricted by Jun from using any of his weapons aside from the few he owns for himself, mainly his sword, knives and a few small arms. This means that he faced Roland and his minions with substandard armament. Danger Gal's Victoria notes just how crazy this is given that he lasted fifteen minutes and dealt his foe a heavy blow fighting solo while she, the rest of the Danger Gal elites and Kenichi Zaburo could barely keep up with the master even though he's lacking an arm and down a fair amount of tiger warriors because of Adam.

* CameBackWrong: Gloria is brought back to life [[spoiler: via her Engram being copied onto a cloned brain and stuffed in her preserved body]] resulting in substantial memory loss and numerous small scars across her form.

* BoobsOfSteel: Victoria Armstrong has enormous breasts that are barely proportionate on even her massive frame. She's also packed to the gills with bio-mods and can handily throw around Rebecca's 500-pound [[PoweredArmor ACPA]].

** While he's not exactly nice, Smasher is shockingly tolerant of David and his crew's requests, being willing to let them use his money to renovate his pad within reason, putting them on a Trauma Team Platinum Package on his dime, ensuring they're properly compensated for their work and even lets Rebecca bring in her cats provided that she cleans up after them. This is on top of making sure Lucy and Rebecca (both of whom come to feel both intense fear and gratitude towards him) are trained and equipped when he only really cares about David. He's even willing to socialize with them to a limited extent.

* BigBadEnsemble: The main group causing the most conflict are the Grandmasters of the Ordo Panzer, a group of [[FullConversionCyborg Full-Conversion Cyborgs]], who have traded all of their flesh, including their brain, to be fully mechanized to help master the martial art Panzerfaust. They only oppose Smasher, due to the fact that he's teaching David some of the stances of Panzerfaust, and since they are focused on maintaining the secrecy of Panzerfaust, they've come to kill him.

* FixFic: By the author's own admission, one of the reasons behind writing this story was to give both Smasher and David a far better fate than the ones they got in canon as well as correct any misgivings he has with 2077 such as characterization as well as appearances (most prominently having Michiko ditch her Neokitsch fashion style).

** Vee is Streetkid V.
** Valerie is Corpo V. [[spoiler:She's later shown to friends with Jackie Welles, but muddling things further is the fact that she has a boyfriend named Victor who looks exactly like the default version of a male V]].