Waking up inside of a corpse with a bullet in its skull, buried under the wastes of a city, and with a ghost of a dead man isn't the kind of afterlife you'd expect, but it's the one I got. Now to make the most of it.
Corpse^3
is a Cyberpunk 2077 Self-Insert Fic which has the main character wake up as V right after the latter is dumped in the trash.
Corpse^3 contains examples of:
- Benevolent Boss: Once Athena gains employees, she gives them generous wages and vacation hours People who hear of it assume it's propaganda.
- Death by Adaptation: Goro Takemura is killed by Arasaka forces as he is unable to find V before they arrive.
- Morality Chain: Athena makes Johnny hers in an effort to maintain a semblance of humanity.
- Physical God: Athena eventually gains so many abilities that she's effectively a goddess, complete with people openly worshipping her.
- Secret-Keeper: Athena only tells Johnny about her status as a self-insert.
- Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Athena expresses this view whenever she can, explaining that the world is the hellhole that it is because cynicism is rampant.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Some of the things Athena has done offscreen has resulted in some people avoiding their canonical deaths, with the most blatant example being Evelyn.
- That Man Is Dead: Athena tells people who knew V that she's dead and that they should call her Athena. This is because she's inhabiting V's body and genuinely believed V perished rather than survive as in canon.
