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First off, don't lose track of the fact that Stripper With a System got an update yesterday ;-).

Second off, surprise! Since this is a Holiday Weekend for everyone in the states, I figured it was a good time to release this month's monthly extra. I had it written already and it just needed an editing pass, which I managed to pry the time free for yesterday, despite family stuff. Now, for some important basic info for this story!

1) The Misfit System is a Cyberpunk 2077/Worm crossover, set pretty much entirely in Cyberpunk, with it being a Worm character (NOT Taylor) who crosses over.

2) I have not read Worm. My exposure to Worm is entirely from fanfiction. As such, my characterization of the crossover character reflects said character's (trying hard not to spoil who here) typical fanon depiction. I've been told by at least one person that she's considerably more of a bitch in Worm canon. I don't actually know if I believe that person, since they tend to have opinions on characters and will die bloodily on every hill that involves one of them. Just a fair warning that I have no idea how close she will be to her canon iteration.

3) The attached images are for the body the crossover character ends up arriving in. How and why they do so is explained in the story. Yes, the body is Eve from Stellar Blade. Making it technically a very minor additional crossover, but it's essentially irrelevant aside from knowing where they body came from.

Right! Beyond that, I'm going to let everyone explore this one without more information, as finding out the details is a big part of the intro to this story. Including a few twists that those familiar with Cyberpunk Lore might spot. I'll include some of those in author's notes in the comments!

The only other thing I will say this time is that I actually have a fairly strong muse for this particular idea. Which means, if it gets a positive enough response, it may get more development. Either as another 'Extra' for next month or possibly even an Author's Choice if response is sufficiently positive. If that positive response continued, its one that I could see adding to the poll options after testing the waters farther. Though it would take a strong, consistent response for that, since we only just got the poll down to four stories not long ago :-p.

Still, with me updating more often, having another poll option wouldn't be as bad as before. Doubly so since I'm expecting Displaced Hero to wrap up in under a year at this point. Though how much under I don't know. That's probably the closest current story to finishing, with Stripper With a System ironically being the next closest despite barely having gotten traction yet. The Mass Effect games' timespan is just that much shorter than something like One Piece or Harry Potter...

Anyway! I hope you enjoy this little experiment. Even if you're not a Worm fan, I encourage you to give it a try, as the only crossover element is the inserted character. Much like with Izuku in Displaced Hero.

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Novus's Fanfiction Works

This comment is for author's notes! Beware spoilers! And if you want to comment on one of them, please do so in a separate comment NOT nested here, in order to keep these orderly!

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 1: A/N 1: The Misfit System itself! This has been an idea rolling around in the back of my head since someone pointed out even the 'Trash' abilities in places like the Chaos Gatcha could often be turned into something dangerous/useful. I do, in fact, have a document I've been filling with a lot of ideas for the sort of things available to Vicky in the System. Many of them were taken/adapted from places like Trash/Common abilities of the Chaos Gatcha, Free abilities of the various Celestial Systems, Minor Powers from the Worm COYA or Minor Powers COYA, and a Lewd D&D Handbook. Many of them have been adapted, rather than directly copied, and often given additional defects or drawbacks to fit the concept. That concept, if it wasn't clear, is that everything [Misfit] found in the void were bits and pieces discarded by either System Creators or System Users. Powers deleted or sacrificed by a System User, experimental prototypes from ROBs that didn't make the cut for their final System or had something wrong with them, and occasional items that got 'vanished into the void' by people pulling the same stunt as Contessa did with Vicky. A/N 2: If it somehow wasn't clear, this version of Glory Girl is taken from right after she nearly died to the Nine. Her memories aren't entirely intact, despite [Fragile One]/[Misfit]'s best efforts, but she's more or less experienced Worm canon (as I understand it) up to that point. A/N 3: Just because she can't go home, doesn't mean she can't eventually figure out how to world hop. Which I might do after a certain point. Cyberpunk 2077's Earth isn't the sort of place you can really FIX, exactly. It's screwed up too systemically and internally for that sort of thing. The world is Working As Intended by the people at the top, so Fixing it would be a neigh-impossible nightmare slog forcing you to rip out every single Corp and burn them down root and branch. Even that might not realistically be enough, as the culture is baked in to such an extent that the ambitious would just rebuild the corps. A/N 4: Authors Note 3 is actually WHY I picked Vicky, specifically. She is going to start with the Black and White morality that she had in Worm, which is going to cause her all sorts of internal conflicts...and cause Night City some hiccups as she acts on it. What effect a place like Night City will have on her? Well, that you'll just have to wait and see...

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 2: A/N 1: Timeline. Vicky is 10 years before the start of the game for a good reason. One I assume any of you familiar with the game caught. She is, for all intents and purposes, an Alternate Start for V, the game protagonist. I did my research the best I could, and V is apparently supposed to be in her late 20s at the start of the game. Vicky is 17/18 (not sure her exact Birthday), so for her to be an Alt Start I put her in at the appropriate time. That this also means she'll be able to interact with some of the Edgerunners Characters is also helpful. A/N 2: Jackie is actually a bit older than V, apparently, by a good 3-4 years. So...yep, the person Camilla called at the end for help? That was Jackie Wells, still running with the Valentinos at this point. Camilla is one of Jackie's exes (who isn't even dating him yet) and 'Cal'...Cal is one of Jackie's brothers who Should Have Died. He was supposed to die...but Vicky happened. Which is going to alter things a bit for the Wells family, particularly since they are doing to be VERY grateful to Vicky. Likewise, Camilla was apparently 'a bit crazy,' but an event that might have contributed to that is now less traumatic...

Ototsu_Yume

Bitchy worm character really doesn't narrow it down lol. Off the top of my head the most likely (and used) characters for it are probably PanPan, Collateral Damage Barbie (Glory Girl), Tattletale, Dragon or Vista. I love Worm and Worm fanfics though I'm really not a fan of C77 so hopefully I'll still be able to read it. Thanks for writing.

Arya13579

Okay, kind of ambivalent about this one so far (Not a huge fan of Vicky, but the system seems interesting), but right off the bat, is she replacing canon V?

Andrew Evans

Great start, hope to see more of this in the future. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this style of worm/cyberpunk 2077 crossover before so, congrats on finding a unique way to mix the settings.

novakose

Loving this so far!

Orchamus

FUCKK YEESSSSS!!! A VICKY STORY, HUZZAAAHHH!!!! SO EXCITED!!! AND SHE TOOK THE NAME V!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!😆🎊😆🎊 Seriously though, so stoked for this, I only ever got into Cyberpunk because of Seras and her Cyberpunk GitS fic, but when I find promising fics like this it makes my day.

Silvereagle21

Eh. Honestly not a fan of this. To start, I don't particularly like Vicky as a character. Furthermore, I am not a fan of this system where there are lots of abilities this quickly. Plus I do not like stories where systems have quest features as well. Overall, not something I would want to see continue instead of other options. I am enjoying your other works much more so than this.

Gscruiser

Eh, not my thing. Cyberpunk is fine, while it's a crapsack universe things can go right for people. Worm however, is grimderp for the sake of being grim, everyone fights for possession of the idiot ball and everyone is horrible.

TheCoolest7248

Eh, I love worm, but I never got into ward because I'm not a fan of Vicky. Still nice though.

DALucifer

i really like this, vicky taking the name V in night city is peak. the defective system idea is a great one too, looking forwards to where you go with it

Novus's Fanfiction Works

This story does not visit the Worm verse at all. The only crossover element is bringing a single character over from Worm to be the protagonist.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

*blink* Okay, I'm confused about the 'lots of abilities' thing. Currently, she literally only has illusionary clothes, a gun, and a cellphone equivalent. Everything else were NERFs of her original powers I put in place to prevent her from being too OP for the Cyberpunk setting.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I try not to tread too much old ground with my fics ;-). I've seen a couple of Worm/Cyberpunk fics, but it's always Taylor, usually post-Gold Morning. Which is sometimes interesting, but I wanted something different.

Arya13579

My bad, I missed the second note, for some reason expanding the reply chain started with just the first one and I didn't notice the button for another reply lol Edit: or maybe i'm just blind, either or

Silvereagle21

Well, I am counting the modded versions of the original abilities also since they are also powers that Vicky has immediately to go along with the new abilities that she has now through the system.

Celti B.

Went into the story a bit ambivalent, came out enthusiastic for more. I quite like (fanon) Vicky and am looking forward to her nerding out about power synergies and tilting at the windmill that is Night City.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

...I mean, I guess I could have left her original powers intact instead? But she'd have ripped Adam Smasher a new asshole in her second week there...

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Right? The stories I've read always depict her as nerding out over powers, which is a big part of why I choose her to try out the Misfit System with :-). The bonus that she's a strong Black/White morality character who won't be able to resist titling at windmills, as you put it, only makes her a better fit. That builds in a path to visible character growth for her.

Gscruiser

I get that part yes, just any time I see anything with Worm connections my brain just hates it....

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I can understand that. I actually used to be that way, until I realized that like 70% of all Worm fanfiction is people trying to fix it to not be Grimderp and reduce the idiot ball handling. I have zero intention of EVER reading the original work, but some of the fanfiction is quite good, since it rips the stupid out of it.

Silvereagle21

I was thinking more that even the modded versions combined with additional capabilities through the system mean that Vicky will overpowered for the setting where there are no other super powered individuals. But regardless, just my opinion. Not trying to tell you how to write with everything.

Dominique Brassel

Well well..... This has just catapulted itself up in my personal rankings of your stories..... It is sharing place 3 with stripper with a system after place one (one piece)and place two(why was there no truck?).... So I would definitely appreciate a lot more of this one..... Now to Victoria I don't know which fanon interpretation you are going with as there are actually several of them but I can confirm canon Vicky was a massive biatch.... That said while most Vicky's do have a kind of black and white outlook on villains and such she is also kind of callous towards violence on criminals In most iterations of worm she from 2-3 up to several dozens of almost kills on criminals that only survived because of Amy healing them which most Vicky's only cared about because it would get her into trouble if it where found out.... So while killing perps is something she be a bit conflicted about it likely won't bother her that much.... On the other hand what will likely cause her significant distress is finding out that there are no such things as the good guys just several flavors of bad to awful..... Next most Vicky's are actually quite intelligent while not geniuses in there areas of interest most Vicky's are on the upper levels of interlect...... Now on the other hand while canon Vicky was completely straight as far as I remember most fanon Vicky's are actually bi/bi-curious or even lesbian but seriously suppressed that part because carol and Brockton Bays Nazi investation so I am personally hopping for a lesbian Vicky..... An additional question the conflict drive most if not all shards inflict on there host is it still present if yes how and why/ if no that can cause some additional distress to Vicky when she examines herself and her own personality/behaviors and how it has changed..... Next your system that is quite interesting I look forward to what all you have included there if you need some more ideas for it I have a list of coyas that are lower powered that could be of interest to you..... Of interest to me is if your system also includes skills and such or if you include some of the tinker powers that are a bit more higher leveled such a tinker Erotics from chaos gacha which is uncommon while I can see you not including tinker cyberpunk which is an epic ability but some of the other tinker abilities specifically augment ones would be interesting.....(I do live those tech users and you tech talks)

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Eh, not really. Remember how common cybernetics are in serious fighters in CP2077. Someone with subdermal plating and a sandy would still be dangerous to her as she is now, let alone full borgs or cyberpyschos. She's actively less durable right now than someone with serious defensive chrome, and the average Animal or Malestorm could match her current strength even with the fifteen minute boost active. She's, at best, currently equivalent to a mid-level edgerunner, and has a lot less combat experience than the edgerunner would.

Mercury313

I like it, the system seems interesting and cyberpunk is a setting where quite a lot and different things can happen be they good or bad. I've to say I'm a huge fan of the drawbacks for some of Vs abilities. You can get very creative with those especially the lewd ones xD

Novus's Fanfiction Works

It's all good :-). I wasn't annoyed or anything, I'd just already typed up a more complex answer than 'yes' in those author's notes, so pointing you there was the quickest solution ;-).

Sadalfa

I love it and i need more of it. Looking forward to Updates down the line! The concept and the character have a LOT of potential in this setting.

Durham Basso

Love how you created the power system and gracefully shoehorned in the worm character as cyberpunk’s mc! Excellent work! I can’t wait to read more already!

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Honestly, considering she was almost killing Nazis, I consider her willingness to go 'too far' a feature, not a bug... [Misfit] isn't truly a Shard any longer at this point, having become a System and lost a lot of its original bits. As such, no, she doesn't have a forced conflict drive. But with her morality in Night City? She doesn't exactly need that... I've decided not to include skills in the Misfit System, not directly at least, as those are less likely to have been 'discarded.' That said, there will be talents available, which come with some degree of basic skill, with Tinker type abilities falling into that category. A talent for understanding gunsmithing, for example, would come with the basic knowledge of how all the tools and such worked. She'd still have to practice practical application herself, though.

Captain2003Rex

Ooh, you have my interest! I’d definitely like to read more when you can fit it in 👍🏼

Matthew Robar

Surprised Vicky didn’t bring up the very obvious combination of illusion clothes and invisibility whilst naked

twilightwanderer

This is a fun idea that I wouldn't mind seeing more of. Cyberpunk's not one of my fandoms but I'm familiar enough thanks to other crossover/isekai-style fanfic, and I think the particular mix here could be very interesting. My personal preference would be to wait on adding it to the rotation until Displaced Hero is closer to completion. Especially with Stripper looking like it could well end up dominating polls, I'd rather not have another work competing for potentially scarce update slots. That's just my two cents, though; if it makes creative and/or economic sense for you to move forward with this, I'll be reading it, and again, I would definitely be interested in having more at some point. Thanks for the chapter.

Matthew Robar

She dosnt have an inventory or a quick swap function for outfits, by having both of these abilities she maximises her ability to disappear and escape from situations nd enter stealth without having to strip nude first

Dominique Brassel

Well yes her willingness to go to far is definitely a feature it just means she won't struggle as much with the necessity to kill...... No conflict drive is good I hoped as much..... As for what was discarded well that is a broad category as you said that it could include discarded things from system creations so someone could have discarded whole skill sub-systems or poorly balanced skills and such but if you don't want them you don't want them...... Also there are abilities and powers in coyas and even the gacha that lets the users diracrd items/abilities/skills permanently to get empowerments and such I would think those are things that end up in the nothingness and could as such have been grabbed up those things will likely cost a lot more in points than the defective stuff and there wouldn't be as many of those as just the lewd stuff but it should exist...... And I was thinking of the tinker stuff because standard cyberpunk cyberware is likely not compatible with her body/existing enhancements so she'll need some way to adapt that stuff for herself..... On the other hand you could have stuff in place to let her pay with her points to adapt and integrate the local cyberware for herself..... Or do you plan to not let her enhance herself with the local tech at all....

Danielle

Interesting… am always down for cyberpunk of any style, and I do like Vicky and the fragile one, so this will be interesting to watch

Josh

Definitely not the route i thought this was gonna take from that blurb but im here for it! Seems like a solid premise and i like the idea for the shard being the system admin. Look forward to seeing it if you do add it to the roster!

Jonas Haaland

This was very interesting. I can’t wait for the next chapter.

Mercury313

Yes, the Author mentioned in this Post

MrRattikarl

Great new story, i need more Cyberpunk. Please tell me the MC is going to wear some of Eve‘s outfits.

Евгений Казанин

Очень интересно получилось. Да, с Тейлор есть интересные истории. Но Вики и Хрупкая - интересная пара. Буду ждать продолжения.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

With the mixed (but trending positive) response, I'll most likely add onto this only as part of the 'Monthly Extra' option for a while. Only if reactuons continue to be mostly positive would it get added to the poll rotation. Meaning Displaced Hero will be at least a few months closer to completion before I consider it.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Huh. I actually hadn't considered it from that direction. Which is, of course, why Vicky didn't wither :-p.

The Foreign Traveler

😏 “Call me V.” Saw what you did there Novus. Had a good laugh. Congratulations on another story being published. Here are some edits for you in celebration! Less work for you in the future! Edit 1: Like Build-a-Bear “buy” way… Like Build-a-Bear “but” way… Edit 2: …though it “wwas”… …though it “was”… Edit 3: …”she” sheer number… …”the” sheer number… Edit 4: …”due” a ‘Mission’… …”do” a ‘Mission’… Edit 5: …look “as” the district… …look “at” the district…

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Thanks! Went ahead and updated the files with your corrections, since there's no certainty when this will update again :-).

Cathbel

Hmm… I must have missed the « dimensional traveler from a modern dark fantasy alternate earth » background when I last played the game. 😝 Awesome start and idea. I admit to being a little eager for what will happen next ! As for the character being a bit of a b*tch… honestly, I, too, haven’t read the work. I dropped it after the second or third instance of Taylor being bullied by the bitch trio… too dark, too depressing. However, since, as you pointed out, she was nicknamed collateral damage Barbie, and from a few fan fictions I read (granted those aren’t canon…) she used her sister’s power to get out of jams when she was too heavy-handed with criminals, I can understand why she’d be considered that way. There’s also the whole hating Amy’s guts but well… I think there’s much baggage to unpack toward the end of the first work.

Cathbel

I thought of the same thing… awesome synergy for powers, right there ! Though I do understand the desire to walk in the piss and filth ridden streets of Night City with real shoes on…

Novus's Fanfiction Works

As I understand it, from researching the timeline, the whole 'hates Amy' thing only JUST happened to her right before her unexpected trip to the void. It was also kinda justified, since Amy tried to fuck with her mind. With her memories scrambled, she currently doesn't even remember that bit and might never. No real point in adding the angst to her memories when I don't intend her to ever go back to Bet (and, even if she did, everyone she knew would be either very old or dead).

Cathbel

Yeah… personally what I know of Worm, I’ve mostly picked from browsing the fandom or reading fanfic. But as you and some of the other readers said, this world is real dark with even heroes being twisted in all the wrong ways. I personally like the Amy portrayed in many fics, and given how she’s treated by her family, along with the whole trauma associated with getting powers in this reality, I can understand her snapping. Though trying to fuck with her sister’s head… yeah, nope 🙂‍↔️ Too bad you don’t plan on having her visiting her old world and family. Though except for closure (and maybe throwing a Stellar Blade character harmed with Cyberpunk weapons at Endbringers), I guess there’s not much of a point. Considering the possibility of V becoming a broken character with her abilities in the near future however, I wonder on which verse you plan to send her to… Anyways, love it ! And thanks for your awesome work as always !

Donan The Barbarian

Interesting start for someone who's only experience with both major fandoms as fanfiction and my sibling info dumping at me about something I didn't previously care about.

Jason Anderson

this is great please continue with this story

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Honestly, I avoided the idea of her ever going back to Worm because I don't know the universal well enough and have little desire too ;-). As for where she might go? Honestly, who knows. I'd probably put it up to a poll once it got to that point, assuming I continue the story.

Cathbel

I hope you do. But, as an aspiring author myself I’d understand if you lose the passion for it. Besides, you’ve got a hell of a lot of fictions in the work already. Between your fan-fictions and your original story. I’ll still read your work ‘cause it’s awesome ! 👏 😎

ThabianGD

Loved this! Is this to go onto the rotation?

Wratus

Hmmmm yes me like and would like to see more, and this is coming from someone that just became a member of yours because i couldn't wait for the next public release of Stripper with a System. Now the biggest question for her system is whether or not if it can integrate some of the local cybernetics as while Vicky is kind of more of a Sandivistan or Berserk girl it would be funny to see her trying to use a Cyberdeck and become a combat Netrunner, would be even more funny if she ends up being actually good at it and ends up doing Deep Dives in the net and even the Old Net if she's brave enough.

Keht Jelicho

I, like you, have not read the actual Worm and have only had exposure to it through fanfics (and supplemental wiki dives to compensate for not having read the source material). That said from the various fics I have seen you're pretty close to portraying Vicky to how I understand her character to be, and with what she has been through (new body, her powers no longer being from a Shard and thus also likely missing the Shards' inherent "push towards conflict" directive, scrambled memories, different brain chemistry... if that even applies with the new body- is "brain chemistry" a thing for a synthetic gynoid body's brain or brain equivalent?) well, with all that change there is more than enough justification for her being a bit OOC. As for Vicky being bitchy, well personally I think you touch on several aspects for how she can come across as such, and I furthermore think it is mostly unintentional/unrealized bitchiness on Vicky's behalf. Shards have a direct influence on their hosts' minds, Fragile One feeding their belief that "Vicky is the Best" and the types of Abilities Vicky had directly fueled her arrogance and narcissistic aspects. She has "Pretty Privilege", plus even if she opposes it she's grown up in a city with a strong Nazi gang influence and she was a blond white girl with powers. She had a superiority complex because she legitimately was, as a Parahuman and even among parahumans as an "Alexandria Package", superior to many others, in a city that had a gang actively promoting white supremacy. Even without being a proponent for white supremacy herself, there were those in the city that would look more favorably on her because of her skin color, and them doing so also fed into her self-image of "being the best". If she'd been Latina, or Black instead she would have faced a lot different reactions, and I don't know if she ever consciously realized/thought about that. I think she was somewhat aware of and took advantage of the "pretty privilege" but not necessarily that she also benefited from white privilege, or at least how much more of a role that played a part in the city as a whole due to the influence of the Empire 88. And her Shard just amplified it all into a constant feedback of "I'm the best, things go my way". The second aspect you touched on, and are going to be using as a driving influence for this story it seems, is her Black and White Morality. But even moreso, her Biased and personal interpretation of what falls under Black or White. To the point of hypocrisy/"I can do no real wrong". To borrow from the story (and reference to worm Canon) she will be brutal to criminals, to the point of excess (in worm she would have been a murderer multiple times over in my understanding if she hadn't had Amy bail her out when she went too far against the gangs on several occasions) and she just shrugs it off as she did with the guy in the alley here. Yet she also seems the type that if someone else was to go around killing gangers she'd consider them a villain. Then what you haven't really touched on (and may not, but there hasn't been enough story to tell, and she hasn't got anyone for this to apply to yet either) is the bitchiness of ignorance and casual assumption/attempted good intentions. Notably shown in how she kept trying to set Amy up with guys/dragging her on double dates/shopping/etc. She saw her sister had issues, and she tried to help, but she didn't or couldn't see that her attempts only made things worse. She didn't really try to find out, and just went with the assumption that the things she herself enjoyed would help make Amy happy too.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I've actually read quite a bit of The Brink and Back :-). I kinda lost interest when the author ramped up beyond basic sanity though. Building giant underground cities and such. A lot of such systems don't throttle their gains very well, resulting in eventually ending up with a completely OP character that can just run roughshod over everything. That's part of why I created the Misfit System the way I did, as the various 'defects,' drawbacks, and need to create synergies will help throttle Vicky's power level to something sane, at least until she leaves Cyberpunk behind. Assuming the story ever gets that far.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I'm not intending for her to be able to directly add local cybernetics, but instead to make that something she can sort of do via the System. As seen when a 'Get a cellphone' type cheap perk gave her an internal agent instead. Or else, that she can get powers that would work similarly, such as something that had a speed boost...with a drawback. Which is exactly what a Sandy is supposed to be, in the setting lore. As you risk cooking yourself if you over use it.

Keht Jelicho

Ah, but the scale of what is needed to not just fix Night City, but the entire planet, without the corporate interests (or the people in the space stations with orbital nukes and "rods of god") deciding to destroy the world if they cannot control it? Plus to actually fix all the ecological damage to the planet? Without causing absolutely horrendous amounts of collateral damage/casualties? And to then go even beyond fixing the current problems but work to actually uplift human society? To (eventually, even they admit it will take years if not generations to reach it) actually turn humanity to a post-scarcity society and to further spread them throughout the Stars? And do so from the shithole that is Night City (and the rest of the world/society at large) as a starting point? The scale of the gains are only just starting to reach the scope necessary to accomplish the goals, and there is ever growing limit/practical end point to the MC gaining access to tech trees in the future (the break between trees is growing, possibly exponentially or logarithmically or something- its getting longer between them and relatively 'soon' it will reach months or years). Furthermore there has been some possible foreshadowing that there may be alien civilizations (at least they are preparing for the possibility), so if that ends up being the case the scale of issues could end up growing even bigger, while the sources of new tech are becoming rarer/further apart, thus forcing ever more creative combinations and fusions of tech sources. The most recent tech tree is the one I am actually the most concerned about snowballing, but its been just introduced so am taking a "wait and see approach". Though, they have recently completely taken over Night City (replaced government, aiding in a coup of the police force, wiped out most of the gangs and coopted the remaining into legitimate community support organizations, wiped out Militech completely from the city, scared out most of the more minor megacorps and started putting ultimatums out to the rest that hadn't yet pulled out. Etc etc etc) so they're already at the "cleaned up the city" part for the most part, and are moving into the "defend it/themselves" part which will itself be the opening for an eventual war of global conquest and eventual restoration.

Wratus

Well at least some of the lewd powers that she can get will let her perhaps copy some if not all the perks of a Midnight Lady implant since she can't get it herself, the most convenient perk with that implant is a birth control that the user can turn on and of at will, and STD resistance and i guess it also helps with treatments as well. All other things with the implant are just bonuses compared to those two perks.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

You aren't wrong. Let me clarify, though. My issue wasn't with GETTING that level of power, it was the SPEED of the build up. After a certain point it started to feel very forced to me, rather than a steady progression, it felt like it was being railroaded super fast due to lack of anything else to do with the plot. The same tech trees and development spread over a couple of years wouldn't have bothered me too much. But the timeline was super compressed.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Oh, she absolutely has options better than anything the Midnight Lady can provide :-p. Though for the Birth Control and STD resistance in particular, those are something she already has, since her body is an artificial gynoid already. It wouldn't exactly make a lot of sense to create a gynoid intended for hostile environment work against biological horrors that was vulnerable to regular disease ;-).

Keht Jelicho

Ah, ok I can kinda see that, though I don't think dealing with Night City really can be done slowly. The rest of the world afterwards, maybe (if the governments and megacorps give you the time to consolidate/don't force you to respond/if you don't mind giving them time to prepare). But thats not the type of individualized "street level" or personal/individual storyline you do your best writing for. (Not saying Brink is necessarily doing a great job on the organizational/"kingdom building" aspect either, but I think them Not really knowing what they're doing along those lines is a ongoing intentional part of the story). I guess it will really depend on how much longer the story goes. 120+ chapters and over 500k words and they haven't even fully solidified their control over Night City yet (not even touched the outlying areas of Pacifica/Dogtown for one). I can easily see it being able to take that much or more again to cover the War Arc. And thats still just the opening act it feels like. The more the story progresses the more it really feels like the whole of Cyberpunk is just the tutorial stage for the "tinker of fiction" ability. Like the whole goal for the ability is to let the MC bootstrap/uplift humanity into becoming a true interstellar polity/entity, thus the current rapid accumulation (though it is slowing as stated before) of new tech trees is just meant to give a strong base level of tech for the next stage/true goal of the MC having the ability.