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Misfit System 9-10 (Patreon)

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2026-09-16 21:35:07
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2026-09
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Whoohoo! Time for the rest of this month's Author's Choice release, in the form of two very chonky chapters of Misfit System. Both are close to 5k which, combined with the slightly-over-10k first release of it this month, bring it over the 20k goal line.

As for the chapters themselves, I'm pretty happy with them. One has some more interaction between Jackie and Vicky, along with her first official 'Gig.' I consider Chapter 10 even more important, though, as it starts shifting the pace away from a frantic action-to-action race and towards Vicky actually sitting down to think and plan. Though we don't see much of the thinking and planning results yet. It will mark a steady transition of pacing toward my more typical style, though, so that we can actually get somewhere long-term :-p.

Now, this release also marks two important things for this fic. One, is that I've decided to go ahead and add it to the monthly poll. I know I said that I might run a poll to determine if it should go in the poll, but it was always a might. After getting this far with it and scribbling down a solid outline for where to take the story, I've decided to commit Author's Fiat in this case to go ahead and add it. If it doesn't poll well against the others, I can and will remove it. Which has the same general effect, without waffling around with a poll about a poll ;-).

Second, and part of the reason for the the author's fiat on the poll thing, is that Misfit System has now passed the threshold for me to post it to the various sites I use for the publicly accessibly portion of every fic. (Scribblehub, Questionable Questing, and Fanfiction.net in this case. It would not survive the puritanical mods over on Spacebattles). I've decided, in order to truly give the story a fair shake, that I'm going to go ahead and post the first 30k of it. Which technically means I'm not reserving as much of the story for Early Access yet, with just this most recent 10k being so reserved. I don't think anyone will be too upset about that, as it gives it the best shot of drawing in fans. If you like the story in the first place, you likely want it to collect those people to help you vote for it ;-).

As always, the new content is attached to this post in various formats! Since this is the last update of this for the month, I will also be updating the Master File for the story in the Pinned Master Story Threads Post as well :-). Author's Notes will be in the comments! Enjoy more of Misfit System!

P.S. The Eve/Vicky art is by cheshirrrrr on DeviantArt. The pictures for her (not furnished yet) new apartment are actually from a Cyberpunk 2077 mod, but Nexus is acting up at the moment so I can't find it again -_-. It's not actually one in Watson, it's just one I felt had the right look/feel.

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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 9 A/N 1: So, someone already guessed what I intended for Peeping Eye...but Vicky hasn't quite gotten there yet. Though she's putting together that it might be even more useful than she thought, now that she has a better concept of just how powerful tech weapons are. A/N 2: I'm still feeling my way into writing Jackie, he's surprisingly harder than I expected. As is Vicky, in a way. Likely because both of them are Extra-Extroverts and I'm...very much not :-p. I think I'm getting a decent handle on both of them, though. A/N 3: Padre is actually something of an interesting figure when you look into him. He appears to be unique among Fixers in that his actual goal is 'maintaining the balance' of the city. I mean, I take that with a larggggeeee grain of salt, since it's Night City and Fixers are power brokers. But I gave him at least a bit of credit here, implying that he's not ONLY in it for the money/influence. Which actually makes him a fairly decent fit for dealing with Vicky.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Chapter 10 A/N 1: Right. So...as I said in the main post...mood/pace shift. Up until this point, Vicky has been intentionally throwing herself into things as a way to keep functional despite what has happened to her. Now that she's somewhat stable and has her feet under her...she's not stupid. She took that day to start working through all the angst, even if I'm not the type to actually write how the emotional horribleness, I wanted it clear she IS dealing with it. While at the same time having come to the health decision that she needs to move forward, even if she isn't yet sure what that means. A/N 2: It also starts to deal with her take on the morality of Night City. From what I know of Worm and both her and her mother's personalities, I felt that Vicky having inherited a very FIRM view on people that has stepped over certain lines. Enough so to very much no longer consider their permeant removal an issue, morally. This Vicky also got far enough in the timeline to experience Leviathan and the immediate aftermath, at least, which has hardened her to death somewhat already. A/N 3: For the curious? I'm actually using the Cyberpunk Red core rulebook to create the relative economy. With some adjustments upwards in costs made since Red is set in the 2040s and Vicky is in the late 2060s. There IS an actual basis though, rather than me just throwing random numbers out.

Daemonioros

Quite liked their dealing with the Scav den. It's pretty clear that Vicky needs a lot more experience if a minor borg like that catches her off guard still. But yeah being able to see through walls with weapons that go straight through them is and always will be incredibly powerful. There is a reason wallhacks are so common in many shooter games.

twilightwanderer

I have to ask, is Jackie's rubber duck story a Mauling Snarks shoutout or something else? Thanks for the update

BobyCola

thanks for the chapter!

Wizzy

Thanks for the chapters!

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Nope, not intentionally at least. I honestly didn't remember the Rubber Duck thing from Mauling Snarks until I read your comment :-p. Mind you, I love that particular story, so if you want to consider it one, that's fine. In reality, the story was inspired by something I and a group I worked with back in college did with a little pirate/devil rubber duck we used as a mascot ;-).

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Yep. Which was something intentional on my part. Vicky is a former Alexandra Package, who never used a gun outside a target range until arriving in Night City. She has a lot going for her, but she's not a veteran merc/edgerunner, which means things like that happening. So a weird mix of competent and inexperienced. :-)

White Neko Knight

Vicky was perfectly fine fine killing and hurting gang members on Earth-Bet. She just didn't want to be caught and held to account for doing so. Amusingly Night City might be good for her. Some people just need a bullet to the head. Like rapists, scavs, and human traffickers.

Ghostviper

Nice chapters, also liked Vicky deciding to live. I noticed one thing, but let me preface this with this: I don't know if it's fanon or Canon. One of the reasons original Jackie died was because he did not have subdermal armor because his ex ( I think Camilla) did not like it or something like that. All good if that's fanon, might want to make a point of it if Canon.

White Neko Knight

We are curious how she'll "fix" the city. It's so dystopian and the culture is so ingrained, intentionally so, that any attempt to change things will require quite a bit of effort. A Hero won't change much in Nightcity, the corporations will either eliminate her, using a nuke if they have to, or co-opt her. She'll need to build a movement, a culture, and a logistics base to support it all. It's like if "No truck" was dystopian. Having her fall into a depressive spiral wouldn't be a surprise when she realizes the enormity of her task, and the compromises she might have to make. She can do it. Misfit has the skills for sure, and the sexuality will help her blend in. Yet she'll need to build something grand and robust. This world is filled with Coils that'll undermine her at every turn. We're excited to see it

Justin Archibald

Yeah I like combo as well. Of course her ability to jump like she can means she can get to the roof the look and shoot down into the room.

Justin Archibald

The fact Vicky is friends with Carmen and willing to warn Jackie off her crazy train is hilarious to me.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Somebody gotta help poor Jackie avoid sticking it in the wrong kinda crazy :-p. Misty is a much better flavor of crazy!

Novus's Fanfiction Works

I have a solid outline on how she can make a long-term impact. Though it likely won't be a full 'fix,' so much as something that can self-perpetuate to begin the process of shifting the culture to leverage it against the City (and world in general, Night City might be one of the worst, but the rest of the Cyberpunk Earth isn't exactly great either).

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Eh, most chrome in cyberpunk is something that can be chipped/unchipped. I decided his officially known chrome was...weirdly almost non-existent for someone who (at the time of the game, not current story) had been active as a merc for a decade and claimed to want to be a Legend. Officially, his only known chrome is the same neruoport that pretty much EVERYONE has. That's a little too absurd for me. So I added at least cybereyes and subdermal armor.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

Yeah, that's kinda part of why I picked her. A lot of the Worm cast would have issues (heck a lot of character from other realities, too). Vicky has the right personality to adjust to Night City, without letting it completely drag her morals in Murderhobo land. Taylor, who I've seen other people crossover into Cyberpunk, doesn't have that. Her whole Escalation bit tend to encourage Muderhobo solutions as the Big Red Button she should press immediately.

Sadalfa

Thanks for the chapter! Scav Den in the beginning is always a good starting point, as you can't really go wrong with it! People who chop up other people for their parts aren't really worthy of a morality crisis after all :) Carmen as a possible friend who has nothing to do with edgerunning / merc stuff, but is just there to hang out with and do "normal" crazy shit together, could be a really nice way for V to destress. I'm curious to see which "builds" you want to use for Powers. There are quite a few completely different ways you could make Vicky strong without making her OP in Cyberpunk. In terms of not being able to deal with cameras / other hacking-related things → an Omnitool from The System could solve that problem nicely and could also tie two of your stories together a bit. As a -or rather, The- negative, it could have its ability to Flash-Forge (Omni-Blades) removed or broken... The computing power should be equal to, or even above upper-class cyberdecks, and they seem to have the ability to connect to pretty much everything wirelessly. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing what else you will cook up in the future!

Wratus

This was nice but a bit disappointed that Vicky didn't take any of the scavs car for herself as they would have had their keys on them when getting looted. Maybe later during another mission against some other scavs or perhaps even the Tyger Claws she will get the chance to get herself a car with a bullet discount. Hoping for it to be a Shion Mizutani MZ2 or Targa MZT, but any of the Quadra's would also work.

Novus's Fanfiction Works

The scavs only had a single Van, a kidnapper special that got shot up. At least on site. Individual scavs might have owned other vehicles parked at their own homes. But parking a bunch of them at a place that wasn't supposed to be in use would have been dumb. Just as importantly, though, Vicky wasn't thinking about a car yet :-p. She's still to use to 'fly everywhere' mentality, as it's only been a handful of days since her arrival. Eventually, she'll acquire something to get around with, though Jackie might influence her into starting with a bike. Really the only reason to use anything larger in Night City traffic is carrying gear or loot, and she has other options for that, even if they aren't the Best options yet.

Camille

Thanks for the update! It's nice to see things taking shape as Vicky starts to settle down in her new reality. Looking forward to finding out what potential powers she decides to focus on and how she decides to develop her fighting style. I also like her collaboration with Jacky, it should be fun to see how they get more comfortable working as a team over time (since in this first gig Jacky hesitated a little before following Vicky's directions for example). As another commenter noted, Vicky being inexperienced in some aspects of her new fighting style such as her lack of efficiency when using guns, makes me look forward to seeing her improve over time too.

The Foreign Traveler

...Honestly curious what V(ictora)'s plans are for Night City. Making even a SHRED of difference in a place like this? Good luck...she'll need it. Edit 1: Her body could handle the recoil which was its primary “drawback”, and it might come in handy. Her body could handle the recoil which was its primary “advantage”, and it might come in handy. (?) Edit 2: ...in not running his Fixer business from any one location. ...in not running “into” his Fixer business from any one location. (?) Edit 3: ...she was “doing” to have to do... ...she was “going” to have to do... Edit 4: ...above are “boarder” up... ...above are “boarded” up... Edit 5: ...how the fuck do I “fixed” that? ...how the fuck do I “fix” that? Edit 6: ...the thrift “stories”... ...the thrift “stores”...