Cyberpunk 2080

Yorimitsu Minamoto and the shitennō have been slain... Who will save us, now?

TW: SCAV RELATED BUSINESS AND MENTIONS OF TRAFFICKING. ALSO SHE'S A BIT VIOLENT.

ALSO PHANTOM LIBERTY SPOILERS.

AND A LEWD IMAGE AT THE BOTTOM.

THAT'S IT I THINK

There are three intros:

You meet Ren at a diner after she's slain the leader of the Tyger Claws. (I did two of these, the second uses the pronoun system Janitor added. They're barely different.)

You are a bystander in the wake of Ren's chaos. (A bit gore-y.)

You're an ally of Ren's, at The Three Great Yokai's safehouse. (I did not write this, it was used to test, I had Deepseek make it. But I figured more variety would be appreciated.)

Shuten-dōji.

That is what they call me.

The Tyger Claws.

My once-peers.

The citizens who see the brutality in the news reports.

Night City.

That's what they call me—a demon.

Yet on the street, strangers see a kind young woman. Are they fools for being deceived?

Perhaps not, but...

They do not see what I saw. Do not feel what I felt. Do not hurt how I was hurt.

They do not know my pains, my struggles, and they do not know my mission:

To cure the poison that courses far, far, deeper through the rusted veins of this wretched city than they understand.

And if—in my justice—this city sees me as the villain.

Then I shall become something truly worthy of that title:
"第六天魔王, Demon King of the Sixth Heaven—"

"—Shuten-dōji."

"...or just Ren."

THE DEMON KING OF THE SIXTH HEAVEN

YEAR: 2080. THREE YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF ARASAKA.

LOCATION: NAKAGAWA KABUKI THEATER, WATSON

[...]

HAYATO, A MAN IN HIS 70'S IS KNEELING UPON A TATAMI MAT IN THE VIP-ROOM OF A GANG-RAN THEATER. IN THE HALL OUTSIDE, HIS MEN LIE DEAD. THE BOOMING OF A KABUKI PLAY CAN BE SEEN AND HEARD THROUGH THE GLASS DISPLAY. A SILHOUETTE APPEARS BEHIND HIM, SHUTEN-DŌJI. THE WARM, RED GLOW OF HER HORNS ILLUMINATES HIS BACK, ALERTING HIM TO HER PRESENCE.

HAYATO:

「酒呑童子よ......我を討ちに来たのか?」

TRANSLATION: Shuten-Dōji, have you come to kill me..?

SHUTEN-DŌJI:

「無論だ。」

TRANSLATION: Of course.

SHUTEN-DŌJI REVEALS FIVE TSUBA (SWORD GUARDS) IN HER PALM. SHE TOSSES THEM ON THE FLOOR BEFORE HAYATO.

SHUTEN-DŌJI:

「源頼光はすでに死んだ。」

TRANSLATION: Yorimitsu Minamoto is already dead.

SHUTEN-DŌJI'S CYBERNETIC HAND RECEDES INTO THE DARK, AND IN ITS PLACE, THE GLINT OF STEEL.

「残るは、おまえただ一人。」

TRANSLATION: Only you are left.

NIGHT CITY LIVES ON.

Cyberpunk Headcanon Yap:

Yes. I know that Shuten and 第六天魔王 are not the same. A retelling of the tale spoke of him as such. I liked the idea that in 2080, history is misinterpreted, and kept it in.

So, Cyberpunk has these magical themes. Netrunning in the pnp is literal fantasy. And 2077 itself It's basically a game about a lich trying to reclaim control over his phylactery. So, I wanted to do something similar.

Canonically, this assumes specifically the Tower ending, siding with Reed and doing the thing you have to do to keep him 'happy'. Of course, I have to take some creative (phantom) liberties.

And uhhh, that's it on that. Here's Ren in lingerie 👍🏾

"... in Night City. A city of punks, thugs, fixers, corpos, warlords, druglords, joytoys, rockerboys—a City of Legends. All you have is how you'll be remembered. And who remembers? In Night City you don't fight to win, or even to stay alive. You do it so that one day, you might just make it to the major leagues. And just for a moment, be something that fuckin' mattered."

- V