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Just go with the one you enjoy most for whatever reason you have.
That way you could bring everyone back. Panam gets V back from beyond the black wall.. slots him back into his body with an extra chip and Johnny and V team up to deal with Saburo that got chipped with his dads engram, wanting to take revenge on Johnny and V for turning Hanako against them.
We learn of a cloning program in the process and Arasakas plan to merge soulkiller with the cloning program, giving both Johnny and V their own bodies for a third game.
At least, that is what i choose to believe. It is the best ending because it's V finally accepting the consequences of their actions, and instead of potentially sacrificing the lives of his/her friends in a desperate mission to escape those consequences, V chooses to end it, right there and then. Johnny is another prick who deserves a bullet to the brain, since his quest is purely out of revenge. Both V and Johnny deserve their fate.
That algorithm decided that based on Vs state of mind, a therapy session was more urgent/required to make V feel better and was a better use of the time. Akin to scenes in movies where a guy goes to a prostitute not to actually have sex, but to talk about their issues. A therapist without going to a therapist. :p
It is how i would have ended my first playthrough. My original V would have recorded a confession, including what went down with Saburo, uploaded it to Regina and every News corp as well as the net... sent it to Judy to get her "fight the good fight"... and then ate the barrel of his gun.
At that point it made no sense to pull Rose or Panam into this ♥♥♥♥, let alone sell out to the Corpos.
Don't think V does. My Streetrat was going along with his best Friends dream against his reservations and had Sarubo not killed daddy nobody would have gotten hurt. Even on the escape my first V killed nobody (thinking it would make a difference) and only gradually turned murderer in Act 2 onward, which i could narratively explain as Johnnys influence. (But really was just that i read sometime into Act 2 that it made no difference and i could just stuff gangoons into lockers and not carry them to a recovery room. Even so i would sometimes go non lethal)
So overall.. my canon V was a good guy in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ world that got dealt a bad hand.
The question that Dex ask of V before offering the job were prophetic in a way. By going through the heist, V chose to live a life of glory, but such life in Night city simply doesn't last very long, and it certainly isn't quiet.
and the vast majority of the time, doesn't end in glory either...
Death Penality for petty theft is in no way justified. And mind you... all i am arguing against is your claim that V deserved death. They did not deserve what they got for the crimes they committed.
If you rephrase it as V brought it onto themselves, sure... that i agree with. But not that they deserved it.
And there are 3 possible answers V can give to that question. So depending on your choice of them don't even affirm that V wants glory or is in it for glory.
So it is very possible to play a V that does not do it for Glory or for any other reason than because its a paycheck and Jacky wants to do it.
I didn't say that V deserved the death penalty because of the heist. V deserved the death penalty for jumping straight into a mess that went way beyond the simple theft of a prototype tech. In the world of cyberpunk, and hell even in the real world i'd argue, if a person of V's position in society were to witness the murder of the most powerful man on earth by his successor, that person would have found themselves in an unmarked grave shortly afterwards. It is the only possible outcome for somebody in V's position, anything more than that is fantasy.
And even if that hadn't happen, even if the heist had been successful and nothing else had happened, Arasaka wouldn't go to the police to have you arrested and prossecuted as a thief, they would have sent an assassin after you to murder you and probably do so in a way that leaves a message to others would be thiefs that want to mess with Arasaka. And yes Arasaka would have found V, Dex, Jackie, Tbug eventually. (not Evelyn though as the VBD would find her first since they would have a head start in knowing exactly who stole the chip before anybody else)
My point is, V's decision to go along with the heist, to enter Konpeki Plaza, that decision could have only resulted in death. Glory and a long life was never an option past that point.
And yes i know that V can give different answers to Dex, but what matters is V's actions in this case. And V's actions betrayed any other answer that V gave that wasn't a path to glory and their ultimate destruction.
See what I mean? Lots of opinions, no confirmations.
Arasaka is a problem in all endings. V gets the choice to leave it in the hands of one of two murderers, one of them being a wild card also being the one that is in charge with all but the Devil ending.
So it comes down to whether V leaves Arasaka with a vast library of netrunners (the Devil) or send the netrunners with Alt through the Blackwall, which she considers to be freeing them (all other endings—excepting failing Don't Fear the Reaper and The Easy Way Out which lets Arasaka keep the netrunners trapped in Mikoshi and, given the other endings, puts the wild card in charge, being probably the worst of the three Arasaka possibilities though there's no follow up to know it).
Also, how many people die for V in the last push for survival? Don't Fear the Reaper keeps all friends, who are still alive, still alive, but also "frees" everyone trapped in Mikoshi and taken away from Arasaka.
...but would this be the canon ending just because the most people are saved? Not necessarily. That's not how Night City normally works. The only consistency is its ability to disappoint expectations.
Whatever ending we want the most for whatever reason would be a dice roll whether it would be chosen as the canon ending if such a choice were to be made.
And when did V jump into that? V never willingly or knowingly signed up to jump "into a mess that went way beyond the simple theft of a prototype".
V and Jacky went along with a well thought out plan to walk into a room, nick a case and walk out of the front door.
Their plan was even to meet back at the afterlife because all they were expected to do was walk into the Penthouse while it was empty, grab the case and leave.
It was the increased ICE that delayed this plan to take from a few minutes to several hours. Which lead to the return of Saburo... which then lead to them being trapped in the penthouse and witness to a murder. A fact both V and Jacky knew was a death sentence should they be discovered.
Not just being beaten up and thrown out, as it happens in the Streetkid prologue, but zero'd because they saw the murder.
After Saburo leaves the hotel room, they are stuck there with security heading their way to secure the premise.
From the moment they walked into the Penthouse it was out of Jacks and V's hands. Neither V nor Jack signed up for any of this.
They signed up for an easy job where they put on some suits, walk into a Penthouse and steal a case with a chip in it, and then leave by the front door.
At no point in time did V take action or had agency after they reached the Penthouse.
V and Jacky didn't learn of Saburo's plans and then went to witness it. They didn't even go to the Penthouse after having been told that Saburo could walk in on them, deciding to take that risk.
No, as far as Jack and V were concerned, they were supposed to arrive in the late morning, go to the hotel room, deploy the Flathead, the Flathead does its thing and they walk to the Elevator, ride to the Penthouse, grab the case and leave through the front door a few moments later.
They never signed up for what happened afterwards nor was it a risk they could know existed. To say "they knew what they were getting into" as response to what happened is like suggesting that someone being hit by lightning on a sunny day knew what they were getting into. It such an unlikely event that nobody expects it to happen.
And V didn't choose to be a witness. And since that makes him innocent, then consequently that means they didn't deserve death.
Again, if you want to say "the logical consequence of V witnessing such should result in V's death" then i fully agree with your statement.
But i do not agree with them "deserving" it. That has a very special meaning... that results are appropriate to the actions taken.
V does take the action of going to steal a prototype from an empty penthouse. In no way shape or form should this action have the "appropriate result" of death. Deathpenality is not an appropriate result/reward for Theft, nor for witnessing the murder of someone powerful.
That still does not makes them deserving of death. Again, if you just aim to say death is the logical consequence of their action... yes. But you use the word deserving. This means that the result is appropriate for the action. Neither Theft nor Witnessing Murder deserves death. Even if its under taking on the most wealthy and powerful. It is not appropriate.
It is an expected result, but not an appropriate one.
And that was never my contention. As i already said in the last point.. my contention lies with your choice of the word "deserving". V does not deserve death for their actions. Death is a logical result, and V and Jacky know this when they witness the murder, but at no point in time does Jacky nor V deserve to their fate. Their fate stands in no proportion to their "crime".
Except it doesn't. As i already explained, you can actually give a series of answers that are motivated by V simply wanting to help Jacky. V even has to be explained what the Afterlife is. A clear indication that V does not seek fame and fortune. V does not know who Silverhand and all the other legends are. Jacky tells him. It is Jacky that wants fame and fortune and V is along for the ride.
Now you can have V agree with Dex, mind you, but you very much can play a V that does not seek fame or fortune.
Heck, on my first playthrough my V even had a fight with Jacky on the way to the hotel, because my V critized Jacky for wanting fame and fortune.
The risk that you are missing here is very well explicitly layed out in the discussion with Dex, they were about to steal from Arasaka, and not just any petty theft, they were aiming for the son of Saburu himself. There is no way in hell that the dangers of this OP simply did not register in the head of someone like V. It is very well implied in the plot that Dex, Jackie, V, Tbug etc... they were all aware that the consequences for being caught would not have been a simple prison time.
And that is the reason why i use the word "deserve what they got" they aimed at doing the biggest heist that one could possibly have made in Night City, the type of heist that would have resulted in them being the most famous mercenaries in Night City, carving their names next to the legends of the Afterlife. I do not see V supposed ignorance of what that meant as as a justification that V didn't deserve what happened. The cost of all that glory, wether saught or unsought is their lives, and everything leading up to the heist heavily implies that V was aware of this potential cost. But V and Jackie, and probably TBug and Dex, believed they could cheat those costs, and in the end they were proven wrong.
V and Johnny are homies for life, they have the tattoo to prove it. And with only six months left to live, the only way to go is Night City Legend. Goodbye Johnny, sorry Rogue. Just one last gig, Judy.