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Regardless of what it probably looked like in the feeds, Johnny Silverhand was not having a great time.
He wanted that on record. There was a version of tonight already assembling itself somewhere in the city's media infrastructure, one that started with the concert footage and ended with something that rhymed with legendary, and that version was going to be a lie in the specific way that all the best lies were lies — mostly true, just wrong about the part that mattered.
Johnny Silverhand develops a deeply inconvenient crush on the girl who’s been anonymously mailing him pornographic polaroids and poetry. Unfortunately, when he finally meets her, she turns out to be impossible to seduce properly and genuinely willing to be his friend — which is somehow worse.A cyberpunk rom-com AU about two deeply maladjusted people.
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26 May 2026
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"You ever hear that old myth?" Val asked, not looking at him, her fingers tracing the raised scars on her forearm. "About the red thread?" Robert snorted, kicking at a loose stone with the toe of his boot. "The fuck kinda fortune cookie bullshit is that?"
She didn’t answer right away. Instead, she leaned back against the windshield, the glass groaning under her weight. The sky was bleeding orange at the edges; the kind of sunset that made the desert look like it was on fire. She exhaled, slow, like she was trying to let go of something heavy. "Means we’re tied," she said finally, "like, in every lifetime. No matter what."
He didn't know what to say or where to begin, so he did what he had always done. Acted. The kiss wasn't soft. It wasn't gentle. It was the kind of kiss that tasted like hope, dreams, and the world in front of them. Robert gripped the back of V's neck and for a second, he let himself believe in that stupid red thread shit.
**V and Johnny meet throughout their lives at different times as different people, but their feelings remain the same.**
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- Part 1 of Red Thread Theory
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23 May 2026