I don't know what CDPR intends to do with V's story following the events of the main game. The various endings leave her in wildly different places and states of existence. However, this is a way to bring her back for future DLC or a Cyberpunk 2... and yes, I mean from EVERY ending. And it would allow CDPR to introduce a common cyberpunk trope that I don't think they've explored much to date.
The shell.
Altered Carbon calls it the sleeve.
A shell or sleeve is an inorganic or organic body, which can be inhabited by a "ghost" AI or detached consciousness.
This concept is already in the main cyberpunk storyline. Johnny is a ghost, and V is an unwilling shell. The Relic 2.0 injects a personality engram into a braindead body - again, ghost and shell. You see this in a lot of cyberpunk stories. In the 2009 movie Freejack, Emilio Estevez is kidnapped from the past to be a shell to the ghost of Anthony Hopkins.
With the use of a shell, V could return from every fate she meets in the various endings, even the suicide ending. Her retrieved personality engram could be installed in a new shell body, and that body could be all sorts of things. It could be fully robotic, cloned from her tissue, a cyborg, someone else's body... whatever. Players could re-enter the character creator to make a new V body, or keep her old one, or make a version that looks mostly like V but with additional cyber-ness. There are a lot of possibilities.
This could also be an opportunity to add new skill lines. Alita from Alita Battle Angle is a human brain in a cyborg body. Let's say V 2.0 is something like Alita, placed in a Militech cyborg shell for mysterious corpo reasons. Her new form could have all kinds of advanced weapon systems or new abilities that can be unlocked to compliment her existing skills.
There are a lot of possibilities... probably won't happen, but neither can it be said that there is no way forward in terms of her character.
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The shell.
Altered Carbon calls it the sleeve.
A shell or sleeve is an inorganic or organic body, which can be inhabited by a "ghost" AI or detached consciousness.
This concept is already in the main cyberpunk storyline. Johnny is a ghost, and V is an unwilling shell. The Relic 2.0 injects a personality engram into a braindead body - again, ghost and shell. You see this in a lot of cyberpunk stories. In the 2009 movie Freejack, Emilio Estevez is kidnapped from the past to be a shell to the ghost of Anthony Hopkins.
With the use of a shell, V could return from every fate she meets in the various endings, even the suicide ending. Her retrieved personality engram could be installed in a new shell body, and that body could be all sorts of things. It could be fully robotic, cloned from her tissue, a cyborg, someone else's body... whatever. Players could re-enter the character creator to make a new V body, or keep her old one, or make a version that looks mostly like V but with additional cyber-ness. There are a lot of possibilities.
This could also be an opportunity to add new skill lines. Alita from Alita Battle Angle is a human brain in a cyborg body. Let's say V 2.0 is something like Alita, placed in a Militech cyborg shell for mysterious corpo reasons. Her new form could have all kinds of advanced weapon systems or new abilities that can be unlocked to compliment her existing skills.
There are a lot of possibilities... probably won't happen, but neither can it be said that there is no way forward in terms of her character.
Moderator edit: thread title edited for spoilers.
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