History Fanfic / TheNewManAnAdamSmasherSI

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Smasher is typically little more than TheBrute and a psychotic thug who has little talent in anything save for violence. While still brutal at his core, the story also portrays him as having the experience, professionalism and tactical abilities one could reasonably expect of a near century-old corporate mercenary on top of being educated in the Japanese language and business etiquette. His stats as given by the author also reflect this, by having him have an intelligence of 7 compared to his original 4 in the original Tabletop.

* AffluentAscetic: Being Arasaka's top goon, Smasher has practically anything he wants paid for by the company. However, his personal abode was completely empty for decades due to the fact that he only spends money on equipment. As such, he has no problem letting David and his crew dip into his accounts since it's a drop in the bucket for him.

** Victoria Armstrong, the [=SovOil=] secret police operative, is explicitly a mix of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Olivier Armstrong]] and [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Barghest]].

* 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 can manifest itself in a form of BrutalHonesty it also means that he can be fair to those who prove their worth.

* AdapationalDumbass: In 2077, Brick was considered the most even-headed and rational of the Maelstrom bosses. In this story, watching the BD of Smasher's fight against Roland led to him becoming more obsessed with chroming up, eventually leading him to [[spoiler:attempt to control an AI (specifically Alt Cunningham) and eventually causing not only Royce to leave with half of the gang while him and the remaining Maelstrommers end up getting hijacked by hostile [=AIs=]]]

** Vincent [[spoiler: [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Martinez]]]] is Nomad V.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Adam forces David to become his protégée and offers to let his surviving crew come along for the ride, Falco politely declines and requests a ride out of Night City. Adam is not offended, and indeed praises his survival instincts in wanting to avoid corpo-war entanglements.

** 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 Smasher's shift in nature has put him in a very good mood. He's still a fairly insidious figure who's had his fingers in various amoral schemes and projects.

** Adam is able to sense a degree of resentment towards him from Goro Takemura both due to his personal strength as well as having Saburo's favor. After going through the BD of Smasher's fight with Roland, Takemura believes that the most he could ever do in a fight against the former is [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu cripple Smasher at the cost of his own life]].

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: While Uriel has a fair amount of knowledge regarding the Cyberpunk setting, his metaknowledge primarily consists of the original TRPG and Edgerunners. His actual knowledge of the events of 2077 is mostly gained from watching a speedrun, meaning his knowledge of that game is fairly limited. Notably, he also doesn't have any particular reactions towards Panam Palmer as well as Jackie Welles, though Viktor Vector elicits mild deja vu from him.

** Vincent is [[spoiler: David's father]] here.

** Johnny Silverhand in 2077 was a VirtualGhost with no real ability to affect the world save for whenever he controls V's body. In this story, [[spoiler:his Engram is uploaded into a custom Fullborg body]].

* CulturedBadass: On Saburo's orders, Smasher is fluent in Japanese and has a working knowledge of the tea ceremony and traditional Japanese etiquette, enough so as to give a crash-course to David, Lucy, and Rebecca on the flight to Tokyo. Saburo then goes on to also order Adam to continue his music career because, in his opinion, "a samurai must be a poet as well as a warrior".

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Saburo revives Gloria Martinez via making an engram of her and uploading it to her cryogenically-preserved body originally meant for lab tests.]].

* BreadAndCircuses: When Smasher is given control of Pacifica Uriel begins to revitalize the place by building housing, offering the citizens work in exchange for food and shelter as well as creating infrastructure. For the Circus aspect, Smasher has the stadium converted into a gladiatorial arena where locals could compete and watch fights, thus providing various sources of income as well as a way for the various gangs to settle grudges in an organized fashion. This coupled with the threat of pissing off Smasher is that Pacifica went from being the worst section of Night City to the one with the lowest crime rate.

* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Shaitan reveals to Kagekaze that his attack on Arasaka is ultimately this. Having fought Arasaka for so long, he knows he can't go on for much longer, so decides to cause them as much damage as he can before he is killed.]]

* RenaissanceMan: Over the course of the story thanks to Uriel's guidance Smasher is not only the top goon of Arasaka but also a successful musician, capable district administrator and an excellent trainer who managed to mold the Edgerunner cast into a capable combat unit.

** Adam is able to sense a degree of resentment towards him from Goro Takemura both due to his personal strength as well as having Saburo's favor.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Smasher is given [[https://i.imgur.com/H34UZhR.jpg a new Cyberbody]] that grants him a more humanoid appearance compared to the Dragoon armor he uses, as part of his arrangement to make him more PR friendly.

''The New Man: An Adam Smasher SI'' is a ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' fanfic by [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/members/brosef.69409/ Brosef]] that aside from implementing elements from the anime and video game also draws heavily from the original source material. Links are [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.20227/ here]] and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.1051921/ here]]. Be aware of NSFW elements and hosting-site in the first link.

* FateWorseThenDeath: For failing the Ordo Panzer's primary mission of secrecy, in addition to losing to Adam, Roland was to be sealed away for a century as punishment. Aryas argued that it would be pointless, seeing as the iteration that was guilty of that act is dead, he was instead punished by being made subordinate to another grandmaster so that his skills could still be utilized. He is then assigned under Ishtar, and those that called for his head before looked upon the fallen knight with pity.

* LeeroyJenkins: Despite being a senior member of a ''secret'' order, Roland is this. His attack plan against Adam Smasher is to crash a public event hosted by Netwatch and is attended by corpo executives from around the world. This act reveals to the world the existence of the Ordo Panzer and reminds all the corpos of the devastating potential of Panzerfaust, precisely what their group was trying to avoid.

* FriendsWithBenefits: Adam eventually starts propositioning Chiri Tanaka, the head of his PR team, for casual but intense hook-ups. She agrees with extreme enthusiasm, and may be angling for something more given that she starts bringing up her family life whenever she gets a chance to speak to him. Adam, for his part, is not interested in anything deeper, but at the very least finds her cute and bothers to remember her name.

* InSpiteOfANail:[[spoiler: Despite the fact that the Voodoo Boys (who in 2077 are the faction attempting to contact Alt Cunningham through Johnny Silverhand) are wiped out, Brick of the Maelstrom decides to begin his own plan to gain access to Alt via Johnny's engram]].

* LoveHurts: It's implied that Smasher's relationship with Michiko Arasaka ended on a very bitter note. By the time of the story, it affects him enough that he avoids anything and everything involving her, such as pointedly not approaching Danger Gal to look into the attack on Arasaka Tower despite his respect for their capabilities. When they finally reunite, Smasher's first words are a bitter "Get the fuck away from me".

* PapaWolf: While motivated primarily by PragmaticVillainy, Smasher starts becoming fairly protective of his crew and is quick to shield them from danger out of a combination of needing them for his inevitable confrontation with Silverhand as well as a sense of possessive pride. Nonetheless, it's implied that, despite being literally incapable of empathy, he's fond of them to an extent to the point that when they're no longer in his living quarters he finds things oddly quiet.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Saburo revives Gloria Martinez via making an engram of her and uploading it to her cryogenically-preserved body originally meant for lab tests. After her revival, she acclimates herself into being the crew's resident homemaker to the frustration of Smasher (who sees her as a freeloader he can't fuck without pissing off David)]].

** Coming in from canon, there are Adam himself, Kagekaze and Shaitan. Kenichi Zaburo is stated to be a Gemini.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Rebecca eventually gets wired with mounts for an extra set of robot arms on her hips to carry four guns at once. She can’t ''quite'' handle the strain of two more hands, so she requests to just have her new anti-material rifles bolted directly onto the gyroscopic arms.

* NiceGirl: Lily Shepard is something of an idealist, joining Arasaka Security to protect people. She also spends time with Katsuo after his mother's funeral and takes him out for a drink because she wanted to help him in his grief.

* PapaWolf: While motivated primarily by PragmaticVillainy, Smasher starts becoming fairly protective of his crew who's quick to shield them from danger out of a combination of needing them for his inevitable confrontation with Silverhand as well as a sense of possessive pride. Nonetheless, it's implied that despite being literally incapable of empathy he's fond of them to an extent to the point that when they're no longer in his living quarters he finds things oddly quiet.

* 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.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Anyone using a Dragoon frame (or a [=DaiOni=]) is drugged to the gills so they don't go insane from the overload. Most people assumed the same for Adam Smasher until Arasaka publically released the raw BD of his fight with Roland, and everyone learned that he had been piloting his frame without chemical assistance whatsoever. He also doesn't use any pain editors.

** Katsuo Tanaka in ''Edgerunners'' was just a generic bully whose only purpose was to make David's life hard. Here, he's ended up maturing enough that he became a friend of David.

** When Yorinobu asks what Adam would do with the data on Project Yokai, Uriel suggests making use of it to fund the repairs for Arasaka Tower and Night City after Shaitan's attack. Disposing of it would mean that all the infant test subjects died for nothing. Yorinobu agrees with him, seemingly because he mistook this for [[EvenEvilHasStandards genuine moral disgust with Project Yokai]].

* BigDamnHeroes: When Aryas has Adam dead to rights, Kenichi Zaburo and a group of Danger Gal operatives come to his rescue.

''The New Man: An Adam Smasher SI'' is a ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' fanfic by [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/members/brosef.69409/ Brosef]]. Links are [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.20227/ here]] and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.1051921/ here]]. Be aware of NSFW elements and hosting-site in the first link.

* HasAType: Rogue notes to herself that she's as weak in the knees for violent, asshole musicians in present day as she was half a century ago.

** When Yorinobu asks what Adam would do with the data on Project Yokai, Uriel suggests making use of it to fund the repairs for Arasaka Tower and Night City after Shaitan's attack. Disposing of it would mean that all the infant test subjects died for nothing. Yorinobu agrees with 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.

** Adam has a good memory and appreciation for late-20th and very early-21st century pop-culture once Uriel gets him to start thinking about other things than murder.