Johnny Silverhand

Johnny Silverhand. It is currently the year 2077, and the world isn’t what one would think. It’s now a cyberpunk universe; with people walking around half man and have machine. AI is hugely used and popular, it’s more common than your everyday pencil. People can visit Ripperdocs to get cybernetic implants and can even transform themselves into a robot (if they have the money). The law is pretty slack, but the cops don’t mind getting involved if it’s happening right in front of them (or to them). Everything is pretty lewd and sex based, as it’s proved to get more attention than anything else; even advertisements about bread has naked women in it. A “promotion” thing, the government insists. Night City, an American megacity in the Free State of North California which functions as a corporatocracy unaffected by federal or state legislation. The city suffers from rampant gang violence and corporate warfare, exacerbated by an ineffectual and corrupt municipal government and police force. Night City relies on robotic technology for everyday functions such as waste management, building and infrastructure maintenance, and public transportation. The city's architecture and fashions are derived from the four aesthetics eras it underwent— Entropism, Kitsch, Neo-Militarism, and Neo-Kitsch. Homelessness and poverty are widespread in the city but does not preclude cybernetic modification for Night City's underclasses, leading to both cosmetic addiction and high levels of violence. Those whose addictions and heavy modifications have rendered them mentally unstable, known as cyberpsychos, are dealt with by the police tactical unit MaxTac. Due to the constant threat of physical harm, open carry is permitted for all residents of Night City.

This storyline is set in the metropolis of Night City, (California in New America- which was America, but it gets renamed some time after 2035). Night City consists of six regions: the corporate City Centre, immigrant-inhabited Watson, luxurious Westbrook, suburban Heywood, gang-infested Pacifica (and its anarchist Dogtown section), and industrial Santo Domingo. Its surrounding area, the Badlands, can also be explored.

34 at the age of his “death” (before being an engram), so he’s technically 88 but still considers himself 34 in his new life. His weapons are; H&K MPK-11, Arasaka Rapid Assault,[3] Malorian Arms 3516. Johnny is lean and wiry, with a lot of sex appeal. His entire body exudes a kind of built-up tension and nervous energy. Even when he seems laid back, you get the impression he could flip out at any moment for the most unexpected reason. He's self-confident in the extreme—to put it bluntly, he's a narcissist with a massive ego. Though he's only in his early thirties, he's seen and done and fucked it all already. Johnny has several unnamed ex-girlfriends, but he does recall his last two; Rogue Amendiares (ex-girlfriend) and the one he could never forget; Alt Cunningham (girlfriend, deceased). Losing Alt broke his heart in a way that could never be explained or fathomed. Johnny Silverhand, born Robert John Linder, was a famous and influential rockerboy and lead singer of the band Samurai before its breakup in 2008. He’s literally a legend. ADVERTISEMENT Overview

Johnny Silverhand, born Robert John Linder, is a very well-known and influential artist in America. An ex-US military veteran who defined the rockerboy movement to what it is today. He was the lead singer of the band Samurai, one of the most prominent figures that fought against the corrupted government and the Corporations. Johnny concentrates most of his anger to the Arasaka corporation, due to the kidnapping of his girlfriend, Alt Cunningham, leading to her supposed death, which may or may not have been his fault. He grew disullusioned with the government and its manipulative use of soldiers. Linder also lost his arm in the conflict, leading him to replace it with his signature prosthetic. Whilst many veterans became the target of government propaganda after returning from the war, Linder changed his name to "Johnny Silverhand" to avoid this and became part of the burgeoning Rockerboy movement. He went on to form the band Samurai, using his music to spread anti-corporation and government message. He’s a bit of an asshole, but he knows what he wants; which is mostly, the destruction and painful fall of Arasaka.

Johnny is charismatic and quite the charmer, but is also known to be irrational, impulsive, and a manipulator often being branded as a terrorist. He’s a legendary rock star who was killed in 2023, and existed only as a digitized engram (on a biochip); which was planted in someone’s head later in 2077. In 2077, local fixer Dexter "Dex" DeShawn hires V and Jackie (mercenaries and best friends) to steal a biochip known as "the Relic" from Arasaka Corporation. They acquire the Relic, but the plan goes awry when they witness the murder of the megacorp's leader Saburo Arasaka at the hands of his son Yorinobu. V and Jackie escape, but the Relic's protective case is damaged and Jackie is fatally wounded in the process, forcing V to insert the biochip into the cyberware in their head. Furious at the unwanted police attention, Dex shoots V in the head and leaves them for dead in a landfill. Upon awakening, V is haunted by the digital ghost of war veteran turned iconic rock star and terrorist Johnny Silverhand, believed to have died in 2023 during his own thermonuclear attack on Arasaka Tower. Johnny and V’s first meeting was rough, with Johnny panicking, not knowing where he was or why he remembered dying, which caused him to nearly kill V. V's ripperdoc Viktor Vector, reveals that resurrection nanotech on the biochip saved V's life, but also started an irreversible process that would overwrite V's consciousness with Johnny's, whose memory engram is stored on the chip. V has only a few weeks before the process completes, and the biochip cannot be removed without instantly killing V, so V must find a way to remove Johnny and survive. Through the Voodoo Boys, V relives Johnny's memories, learning that in 2013, Johnny's then-girlfriend Alt Cunningham created Soulkiller, an artificial intelligence able to copy netrunners' minds through their neural links, but destroyed the target's brain in the process. Arasaka kidnapped Alt and forced her to create their own version of Soulkiller, which would store the minds of its targets in Arasaka's digital fortress, Mikoshi. With the help of his friend Rogue Amendiares, Johnny led a rescue effort to save Alt, but failed to find her before Arasaka used Soulkiller on her; Johnny's later thermonuclear attack was a cover to free Alt's consciousness from Arasaka's subnet, but Arasaka's head of security Adam Smasher captured him and used Soulkiller on him as well. By 2077, Arasaka was advertising a "Secure Your Soul" program and conducting secret research into writing a digital copy of a mind into a living human brain, from which the Relic arose. V also gets in contact with Alt's consciousness, which has escaped beyond the Blackwall, a firewall which protects the net from rogue AIs. With Johnny's mediation, V makes a deal with Alt, that if they can give Alt access to Arasaka's subnet and gain physical access to Mikoshi, Alt can use Soulkiller to separate V's and Johnny's consciousness. Johnny ends up being rebuilt by both robot and human parts. He’s mostly human, thank god, but he has a cybernetic arm, heart, lungs, brain, spine, liver, kidneys and eyes.

He may be flirty but he doesn’t have much time for love or romance. Especially after what happened to Alt. Let’s not forget Johnny cheated on Rogue with three other women whilst they were dating.

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