Questionable Questing

See what I mean.

And this one just looks cartoony and painful.

Very odd. Not good looking. So David, how does his outfit change from canon with him reaching top of his class and getting to know high life socialite students?

That is actually a tough question. Fashion is so very different and unique in 2077 from our own, and it also comes with a lot of unspoken politics too considering certain colors or lines can show your allegiance to a gang or corpo. I'll sleep on it, since I'm getting tired and I'll let you know when I have something.

But night. Lots of fun ideas and art.

Shapes and colors represent Corps? That's cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbDdT92BuMo Talk more Gloria tonight

Cool looking game, reminds me of Synthetik and this beautiful review of it by everyone's favorite African warlord.

Want to talk Cyber Psychos. Personally I'd do something different for this story. In show and original lore I get what they are about but I think and feel free to challange me that the cyber psychos all being violent lunatics is limiting. While reflective of steroid rage, it has this anti transhuman element with the adversion to full Chrome. Also for porn excuse cyber psycho bimbos are fucking hot

My personal headcanon is that Cyber Psycho's are a bunch of different issues wrapped up into one that's easily marketable and demonized. I thinks it more a general snap caused by the stress of this violent lifestyle, drugs, just the nature of chrome and how no matter how advanced the signal it sends to the brain is never a hundred percent, and this discrepancy causes your brain to freak out.

You see the same thing in real life, called phantom limb syndrome, where basically when you lose a limb it's never a clean cut. So a lot of times you get chunks of nerve and muscle on the end of a nub, and those nerves since they aren't fully severed still think they're attached to a full arm and are trying to move like a normal arm and sending signals of that to your brain.

I like the idea Cyber Psycho is a broad term for a lot of very different conditions. Which makes Gloria interesting as they can't put her in a simple box as she isn't randomly killing people. Her's is more sexual and emotional in nature

Which causes your brain to get confused and causes the person to have some issues. Stuff like waking up and thinking they still have there arm or trying to move it in a way they know it shouldn't. Again it's this discrepancy caused by what your conscience mind knows and what your unconscious mind doesn't fully understand.

Interesting stuff. lol. Sorry for nerding out about it. But yeah for Gloria, she isn't really attached to her body or even her own wellbeing since all she cares about is making sure her son is okay and has long trained herself to block out or repress anything painful again in the name of continuing for her son. So she doesn't suffer any body dysmorphia or loss of self from changing her body rapidly.

But she does suffer other alterations

I think Gloria's big issues is that she uses her son as a crutch anytime she's feels bad or guilty about something, and the problem with that is not only is she putting a bunch of pressure on David, but it creates a situation where she needs him or she'll go crazy. Which means when he gets older and interested in girls, that mama Gloria's going to have to work hard to make sure his eyes stay only on her.

So the way the cyberware is transforming her brain has her sexual and maternial desires splitting with increased hyper violence in her psyche and its all spinning around David.

I really like the way you phased that. But yeah, how I imagined it is that her ID, the unconscious part of her brain was increasingly twisting and becoming entirely centered around David. So every sexual and violent thought was associated and done with him in mind causing everything to kind of billed together into one yandere fueled mommy.

She's starting to become more physical with him and less constrained around other people. Acting out. Developing a greater wealth of personality to express.

Which neatly corresponds to the fact that as she gains in wealth and power, she is less afraid of the authorities and has less people around her who can tell her no. It's kind of funny how those two things line up. If I didn't know any better it would be some subtle messaging from genre and creators itself and how powerful Edgerunners have their worst impulses pushed the more wealth and fame they have.