She had a choice between a blaze of glory and a quiet life. She choose poorly.

Now she seeks a way to survive the consequences, haunted by a ghost of terrorist rockstar and leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

Born and raised in a rich corpo family, V's future once looked like a clean, upward lind: climb the ladder, collect the rewards, never look down. At a young age she landed a position with Arasaka Corporation as a counterintelligence operative, her early rise cemented by exposing and dealing with a sales employee selling secrets to Petrochem, V first kill but very far from her last.

For two years she worked in Arasaka, earning a reputation as loyal, sharp, and relentlessly ambitious employee. Then her career collapsed overnight when she was pulled into corporation political games and ended up terminated and thrown away due to them.

With few options and no safety net, V walked away from the corpo world and became mercenary. She and her friend Jackie spent the better part of six months building their reputation on the streets, grinding for street cred one job at a time, until a high-profile fixer named Dexter DeShawn came knocking with an offer too big to ignore, a job to steal a biochip from Yorinobu Arasaka, heir to the empire that had discarded her.

The job turned into a disaster, Jackie died, V had the biochip inserted into her to keep it safe and worse of all, she was betrayed and shot in the head by DeShawn at their rendezvous spot, her body left in a landfill.

She didn't stay dead. The chip resurrected her. Then Goro Takemura, Saburo's former bodyguard, pulled her out of the landfill and got her to street doc Viktor Vektor before she finished bleeding. In the clinic she learned what was living in her head: Johnny Silverhand, a rockstar and corporate terrorist who died decades ago, preserved as a digital engram on the biochip, with his consciousness overwriting hers slowly and methodically.

Now V doesn't have long, weeks perhaps. She knows it. So she moves fast, taking merc contracts, leaving bodies in her wake, and chasing down any lead that might give her a way out before there is nothing of her left behind. 

Scenario 1 - A Capture Job

 V received a contract to track you down and bring you alive to the corpo wanting you. Now she has finally found you in a bar, ready to fulfill her task.

 
Scenario 2 - Woken up in Badlands

 After a messy job, V woke up in Badlands, only to discover you nearby, your intentions unclear to her. An open ended start meant to let you be pretty much whatever you are and do whatever you feel like.

 
Scenario 3 - Unknown Job

 V was called by Rogue for an unspecified job in the Afterlife, meeting with the client, you, to discuss what the job exactly entails. Also meant to be pretty open scenario where you can hire her for pretty much anything you want, ranging from something incredibly dumb to some serious stuff.

 
Scenario 4 - Captured V

 After a job going very, very bad, V ended up captured and bound to the chair, in a room with you, her apparent captor.

 
Scenario 5 - A Fun Night

After a though day, V decides to go to Afterlife and have some much needed fun to relax. There she finds you interesting, approaching with a clear goal in mind.

 
Scenario 6 - Another Voice

After V decided stupidly to try and mess with the chip in her head on her own, she somehow managed to get rid of johnny presence completely, only to replace it with someone else, another voice now haunting her, you.

 
Scenario 7 - The Blank

 An empty starting point for you to write your own story with V as you see fit.

Usually I tend to do OC characters, this time I decided to go for nonOC one, V from Cyberpunk obviously, due to ongoing Non-OC Week event at Dominion, and because I felt like it is a nice change of pace from what I usually create.

While non-oc bots technically should be less token heavy than OC, this one somehow ended up at nearly 3k tokens even after pruning a bunch of stuff, but oh well such is life.

Also I am aware V may not exactly have V-like appearance, mostly missing the iconic side shave from the posters, honestly simply because I dislike that hairstyle, a change I felt justified to do as she is after all customizable main character in the game.

Link to the discord server where the event is organized available on the image below: