I crave for more romances/friendships (Long post) [Might contain Spoilers]

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This idea got bashed in another social media platform, but my stubborn self couldn't refrain from sharing it yet again. Here goes nothing, I think.

Meredith Stout

Requirements
: Meredith must be alive after dealing with the Maelstroms. V must have met Meredith in the No-Tell Motel.
Who can romance her: Both male and female V.
Johnny’s reaction: He doesn’t seem particularly excited to see V dating a “Militech bitch”, but he will admire her determination.
Missions:
  • Mission 1: Meredith will call V for help to retrieve sensitive Militech data, stolen by an Arasaka team. Choose the option to take the lethal route and stay undetected to earn a bonus. Suggest Meredith that you also have more ideas of how she can pay you, she will say it was a one-time deal, that doesn’t mean you will be locked out of the romance.

  • Mission 2: Meredith will call after 48 hrs to give you another contract. You have to dress as a corpo and be her bodyguard in a business meeting at a luxurious restaurant. Why? Because the other party already knows her usual bodyguards, and you’re a complete stranger, who will play the role of an apprentice. If V has a corpo life path, they will have extra dialogues during the mission. Once in the restaurant, you have to scan the place and inform her of any possible threat. Failing to do so will result in Meredith getting hurt when the deal goes south, and she will delete V from her contacts after this.
If you successfully protected her from danger, she will tell V how pleased she is with their performance. When she asks the reason why V is accepting this high risks contracts and meddling in the corpo world, V will have the option to say a) For the money b) For the thrill c) Because you intrigue me. Choosing either “b” and “c” will progress the romance.

  • Mission 3: Wait a couple of days to receive a text from Meredith, asking you to meet up. When you get there, she tells you that she needs your help with a personal matter: Someone inside Militech who wants to boost their chances to get a promotion has been digging in her past, and has delicate information that could ruin her reputation. She needs V to retrieve the data and deliver her the body of the blackmailer (dead or alive).
V will have to infiltrate the home of a corpo and deal with drones and guards. When they reach the room where the evidence is, the corpo will tell V that Meredith isn’t who she says she is, that she has lied to Militech and to them, and offers to pay them double the amount of what she promised. V can accept the deal, which will inevitably make Meredith get mad at them and disappear from their lives completely, or finish the job like she asked. V will have the option to take a look at the shard with the information about her, and if they do, they will see information about Meredith’s parents and how she used to live in the slums, revealing that she falsified her background and family documents to appear like a more attractive candidate to higher positions inside the corporation.
Carry the body all the way to her car’s trunk, then Meredith will ask if they looked at the shard. The options are a) Of course I didn’t (If they actually didn’t) b) No (Lie) c) Yes, I did.
If you didn’t take a look she will pay you, but then she will tell you that she’s grateful for your services, pull you into a kiss and leave. A couple of days later she will text you thank you again, and you’ll notice she refilled the militech crate inside your apartment with a legendary Militech Vest and some ammo (nomad path). Streetkid and Corpo will she the crate for the first time.
If you lied about it, she will pay you in that moment, but after a couple of days she will call you, telling you she knows what you did, and threating you to keep your mouth shut before deleting you from her contacts.
If you tell her you did, you will have to have either high Body or Intelligence levels to prevent her from getting mad. If you don’t have them, she will only pay you half of the initial amount she promised and delete you from her contacts in that moment. If you managed to calm her down, she’ll pay you and tell you that she’ll call you tomorrow, and leave.

  • Mission 4: After 24 hrs, Meredith will call you and ask you to pick her up. After you do it, she will give you the coords to where she wants you to drive her, and you will have a small chat on your way there. You’ll realize you have driven her to the slums you saw in the shard. You will get out of the car and start walking around the place. She tells you her family used to be dirt poor, her mother left her father when he couldn’t get enough money to support them, and she left her with him. At this point, 3 people will see her corpo clothes and will try to pick a fight with you. You can either solve the issue peacefully of fight them.
After dealing with the thugs, you will enter a ruined building and Meredith will take you to the small unit she used to live in, now abandoned. You’ll have the chance to scan and look around to know more about her past. Once you reach a balcony, she will tell you that her dad got extremely sick when working in a factory with hazardous materials and little protection, and one day he got so bad he had to rush him to the hospital. They couldn’t afford the trauma team membership and her dad died on the way, and after that she promised to herself she’d work hard to achieve the life her father could never give her and his wife. That included falsifying her background to get a better chance to success. She tells V the reason why she had been content to have one-night stands is because all the people in her life who have tried bed her just wanted to kill her or find juicy secrets to destroy her reputation. V will have the option to tell them that, since they don’t belong to the corpo world and have other interests in mind, that’s not their intention. V will also tell them about Johnny and the engram, and she will offer her help.
When give the option, choose “I was planning to stick around a bit longer” to finally unlock the romance, and have a sexual cutscene with you and Meredith against the railing of the balcony. After that, you can assure her again that you will stay. Wait some in-game days to receive a text from Meredith, informing you that she started renovating her old unit, which will become one of V’s safehouses. Meredith will also call and text V every once in a while, showing both her sweet and dominant side, depending on her mood.

Gift inside V’s appartment: Handcuffs hanging on a nail inside their stash room.
Endings: In every ending where V exists (even if they leave NC) she will stay behind to make calls and look for contacts to help them find a cure. In the final holocall it’s implied they’re still together and she can’t wait to have a little escapade with them, maybe visiting another city.
In the ending where V is no more but Johnny is still around, she angrily calls them, reminding them what they promised, before getting visibly sad and whispering she’ll keep waiting.
In the ending where V takes the easy way out, she calls V in a monotone controlled voice, but one can tell she has been crying. She tells them when she first met them, she could see the hunger and perseverance in your eyes, even when she tried to intimidate you, so she cannot believe you’d take the coward’s way out. She says there’s no point in crying for you anymore, and hangs up.
Note: A romanced Meredith will keep V’s cat, if V ever adopted it.
Romanced Meredith will offer V more militech support when they call her during the final mission, but V will decline the help.
Depending on the hour you visit her old unit, one can find Meredith there sometimes.
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Claire Russel

Requirements:
“Beast within me” must have been completed, with V having followed Sampson when Claire asked them to. Whether they allowed her to kill him or not will only have an impact in the dialogues.
Who can romance her: Both male and female V.
Johnny’s reaction: Johnny likes Claire, and he wishes he had met her before so he could have joined her in the races.
Missions:
  • Mission 1: The first mission starts in the Columbarium, when V finds Dean’s (Claire’s late husband) resting place. As soon as they find it, Claire will approach them from behind, greeting them and asking them if it’s a coincidence they’re there. Turns out it’s their wedding anniversary, and Claire has come to have a drink and spend the evening there. To stay in her good graces, accept to drink with her when offered a shot.
Claire and V will have a chance to talk about the races, and she will apologize for having used V to seek vengeance. They can choose between a) Just don’t do it again b) You did what you had to do, for Dean c) You don’t have to apologize, I understand. B and C will make you progress in the relationship.
It starts to get dark and Claire has drunk too much, so she asks for a lift. If you use the beast to drive her home, she will tell you how glad she is to see you liked it so much, and that she seems to be in great hands.
On their way to her garage, she will tell you more about Dean, and how she has been trying to find a new hobbie that is just hers. V gives her a couple of suggestions before dropping her off. They make sure Claire gets inside the garage before driving off, completing the mission.

  • Mission 2: Rogue will call V, asking if they know where Claire is, because apparently, she missed her shift and she isn’t answering her phone. When V asks why she assumed they’ll know where she is, Rogue will tell them she knows everything about the races, and what they do in their free time is their own business, but they better not be distracting her from her duties. After V tells her they weren’t trying to do that, Rogue will ask them to check on her. Johnny shows up, suggesting they should go back to her garage. Once there, V will find the placed trashed and Johnny tells them he has a bad feeling about this. After inspecting the place closer, trying to find any clues about what happened, V will find one of Claire’s mechanics passed out in the office. After waking him up, they’ll say some nomads just barged in screaming something about their rigs, then trashed the placed, beat them up and took Claire with them.
V can call either Panam, Dakota or Saul to ask them about any nomads who had recently lost their rigs in a race, and all of them will tell them about Adrien, who was kicked out of the clan some time before the races with Claire started, and then joined the Wraiths. V will be given the location of 3 wraith camps where they can look for Claire, but she will be taken hostage in the same place we fought Nash during Panam’s mission. Johnny will advice it’s better to take them down during night time, so if it’s early you will have to wait a couple of hours to take action. V will have to fight 2 waves of Raffens, the first one will be already there, but if a stealth route isn’t taken Adrien will immediately call them to attack you. When Adrien’s HP bar is at half, a second wave of raffens will arrive in their cars and join the battle.
Defeat them all to rescue Claire, who has been beaten up but safe. She tells you she was forced to repair their rigs, and then they were planning to flatline her, and she has no idea what she would do without you. You will be given a quick timed action to hug her, while trying to reassure her. Claire will lean in for a second, before uncomfortably pulling away. She wants you to drop her at her garage, which you can accept, refuse, or suggest to drop her off at the Afterlife. Refusing will allow you to take her to your place instead.
Once there, Claire asks if she can take a shower, and while she’s there, you will have a lighthearted conversation. You will have the choice to take a peek, and if this choice is taken, we will see a cutscene of V slowly approaching to the shower and looking at Claire from behind, with “Claire’s song” in the background. When she has finished, she will say she’s tired, and V will be offered 3 choices:
A) Offer her the bed – No change in the relationship.
B) Offer to share the bed –Romantic relationship progression
C) Offer her the couch – Friendship route.
However, if the bed is shared, V will have the chance to tell Claire what exactly happened with Jackie during the heist at Konpeki Plaza, and how they thought they were going to die as well after Dex shot them. Claire will tell them she isn’t surprised about Dex’s betrayal, but ever since the moment she saw V walking inside the Afterlife, smile and eyes shining bright with hope and ambition, she knew they were one strong and stubborn individual, and if there’s someone who can beat the odds it’s them. They fall asleep looking at each other.
V will wake up the next morning alone in bed, they will receive a text from Claire, thanking them for the first night of good sleep she’s had in a while and telling them Rogue sent one of her people to pick her up and make sure the garage is sage. This will complete the mission.

  • You will receive a non-mission call from Claire asking you how you feel lately, with V responding “Well, you know how it is...”. Claire will say she has been thinking a lot about them, and V can choose between:
A) It was nice to catch up, later – Friendship route.
B) How you, now? Tell me more – Progresses romantic relationship. This response will make Claire chuckle and tell V maybe they’ll know more soon, before telling them to take care and hanging up.

  • Mission 3: 24 hours later V will wonder what Claire is up to, and Johnny will suggest them to stop wandering and get their asses at the Afterlife. As soon as you go in and approach her, Claire will be thrilled to see you and tell you she’s planning to kidnap you for the rest of the day. You will then drive her to the coordinates she gives you, with some light chatter on the way, and V will be surprised to see they arrived to laser tag place. Since there’s only a group of kids and 3 members of the 6th Street, they decide to play against the later, and it doesn’t matter if you are good or bad at it (hell, you don’t even have to shoot them at all), Claire’s abilities will make you guys win. The gang members will not be pleased with this, claiming they somehow cheated and ask them for a second match. You have a timed response to tell them to fuck off, else Claire will be the one to say it, and this will make them so angry they will end up drawing lethal weapons and start attacking them. They will also call for reinforcements, so Claire and V will have to defeat them all. Once they do it, an exhausted Claire will finally drop slowly on the floor while leaning against a wall, apologizing to V because she just wanted to find a non-lethal hobbie that they could both share, and yet again they ended up shooting people and risking their lives.
You will have a timed action to grab her chin and pull her closer to kiss her, but she will pull away after a few seconds, looking visibly shocked and leaving her silent. When V tries to apologize, the can choose between:
A) I’m so sorry... - This causes Claire to stand up and saying she needs time to think. Then she leaves the place, completing the mission.
B) Let’s just pretend this never happened – This will make Claire angry, asking V if they think she’s just a toy they can play with and kiss like it was nothing. When V tries to apologize, she will interrupt them, saying there aren’t any hard feelings before leaving. This completes the mission. BEWARE: Choosing this will finish her questline prematurely, and even though she won’t delete your contact, from now on she will greet you in a cold manner whenever you visit Afterlife.
C) I thought you wanted it too -. This will cause Claire to look visibly conflicted and confess she doesn’t know what she wants anymore. She’ll then apologize to V and tell them she needs time, before leaving. This completes the mission.
If you didn’t kiss Claire, she will just take a deep breath and smile, before thanking V for coming along and indulging her, and then she will say goodbye and leave. This completes the mission.

  • Mission 4: Wait 48 hrs for Claire to call you and ask you to join her in her garage. When you arrive, you will find her doing some custom work on her new rig. A nomad V or a V with enough tech points will have extra dialogue to help her fix it. V will ask her if there’s something she wanted to talk about, and she will offer them a drink, which you can either accept or refuse. If you accept it though, she surprises you with the first “Jackie Welles” she has ever made.
She will take a deep breath and tell you how grateful she already felt when you helped with Sampson (Whether you helped her with her original plan of convinced her to walk away), and then you went the extra mile to help her. She confesses she had been planning to have a heart to heart conversation to Dean at his resting place, because she wanted to let him rest in peace and allow herself to move on, and then she found you there as well, and ever since that moment she has been wondering if it was a coincidence or if it was something more cliché, like destiny. V will be given the following options:
A) Yeah, it was destiny cause I was meant to be your friend – This settles the friendship with Claire. If you didn’t kiss her during the prior mission, she will smile and say “And for that I’m grateful. You’re alright, V”. If you kissed her before, she will smile sadly and say “I see... friends then. Listen...thanks for coming V, but I need to keep working on her (pointing at her car). But don’t become a stranger”. This will complete the mission and she will be in good terms with you.
B) Claire... I need to tell you something... - This will continue the dialogues. When Claire asks you what’s going on, Johnny will show up and tell you that after what happened to Dean, she has the right to know all the truth and what she should expect to happen to you if they don’t find a way to remove the chip. If you didn’t before, you will tell her about the heist, T-Bug, Dex’s betrayal, the chip and Johnny, and the fact that you’re slowly dying. Claire will be shocked and ask you questions about Johnny. V will start to tell her she understands if this is too much to process, but she will tell you she doesn’t care how long you have left to live, she wants to be with you, if you let her. V can respond in 2 ways:
A) I can’t do this to you: You tell her that after what happened with Dean, you’re not willing to let her go through another loss. Claire tells you that this is fucking stupid, but if you really feel this way she will respect your decision, and she will be there to support you. V will thank her and leave her, completing the mission, and they will stay in good terms with her.
B) Are you sure about this? - This is only extended dialogue. She says she understands what you said, but she still refuses to lose all hope, that she could discretely ask around in Afterlife to see if somebody knows more about this chip, and if all this fails, she still wants to help you face whatever it comes next.
C) [Kiss icon] Of course I want to... - This makes you kiss Claire, a cutscene starts where you two start making love against Claire’s car. Once the scene finished, you’re both naked laying on the floor. V says they don’t wanna be that kind of person, but they have to go. Claire kisses them again and tells them they better not become a stranger, and to please take care. This completes the mission and Claire becomes your girlfriend. After this, the garage will be unlocked as safehouse, and Claire will text you regularly.

Gift inside V’s apartment: Claire’s picture next to V’s bed.
Endings:
Aldecaldos: She will stay in NC, and tells V she has been trying to convince Rogue to use her contact net to seek for help. They’re still in a relationship, and tells V that they will be visiting them soon during her vacations.
V takes the easy way out: She will be raging at V, will drinking a bottle inside a closed Afterlife, She will remind them about Dean’s loss and that she can’t believe you’d do this. She also says she loves them but she doesn’t know if she will ever forgive them, before hanging up.

Johnny is the new V: She menacingly tells Johnny she asked him to take care of V’s body, and she can’t believe he did this to them. She tells him the only reason she isn’t killing him is because he’s wearing V’s skin, but if he ever shows up in NC again, she might reconsider that and put a bullet in his head.

Notes:
  • A romanced Claire will keep V’s cat if they leave NC of if they leave with Alt.
  • Romanced Claire will notice when Johnny takes charge of V’s body during his mission, and she will remind him on a friendly manner to take care of V, or else...
  • Romanced claire will call V after Johnny’s mission and ask them if they’re okay.
  • Romanced and Friendly Claire will now offer V a free “Jackie Welles” every 24 hours
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Francisco “ Frankie” Leyva

Requirements:
V must have sent Jackie’s body to his family. V must have completed “Heroes”.
Who can romance him: Both male and female V
Johnny’s reaction: He won’t be thrilled with the idea of V getting “mushy” with a man and he dislikes him at first, but he will grow on him.
  • Mission 1: A couple of days after completing Heroes, Frankie will call you for the first time. In the holo, he appears to be a very young and good-looking hispanic (Mexican) man without any cybernetics, and when V asks him where he got their number, he will confess he asked Padre for it. He says he has heard only good things about you, and he thought you could do business together. When V tells him they’re always open to do business with good eddies on it, he asks them to join him at (pending) to talk face to face. WHen V arrives there, Frankie will be waiting for them with a beer. He also offers his condolences for Jackie, and then they have a little chat where he reveals he belongs to the Valentinos, he met Jackie when they were both younger, and Jackie didn’t seem to like him cause “he seemed to be too busy looking pretty and wasting his time on useless gigs”. However, they became friendly to each other before Jackie left the Valentinos, and he mourns his death.
Going back to biz, he wants to find someone to teach some Valentinos a lesson. They have been harassing a family man’s business, trashing the place, demanding protection money and taking whatever they want from his store without paying, and he cannot stand this but also can’t attack them directly. V has to take them out in a non-lethal way, and then warn their leader to cut it out. If they kill any of them, Frankie will still pay V, but he will express how disappointed he is on V for not doing things exactly as he asked for, and they will never call them again. To complete the mission, one has to meet Frankie in person again. When V asks him why didn’t just settle this over the phone, Frankie will tell them that he can be a very traditional man sometimes, and nothing’s better than looking at another person eye to eye and shaking their hands firmly to close a deal. He will then pay V in hard eddies, and leave.

(Pending, too long to be posted).
 
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