What is Johnny doing when he's not active?

[suicidalfailure]

When V goes around Night City, doing whatever he pleases... What's Johnny POV?

Is it like that Black Mirror episode (S04E06 - Black Museum) where the wife is trapped in the husband body? (Stuck inside his head with a big monitor with V's vision like a theater; No way to look away; No sense of time passing differently, just endless observation, unless the "relic" lets him “speak up.”; Can think, brood, reflect, and likely feels boredom or frustration when he can’t interact?)

Watching everything? Sometimes judging silently? Probably talking to himself in V's head like, “Jesus, you’re gonna die doing that, V.”

He doesn’t sleep? He’s always on? Unless the chip glitches?

 

[Spockprime]

When V goes around Night City, doing whatever he pleases... What's Johnny POV?

Is it like that Black Mirror episode (S04E06 - Black Museum) where the wife is trapped in the husband body? (Stuck inside his head with a big monitor with V's vision like a theater; No way to look away; No sense of time passing differently, just endless observation, unless the "relic" lets him “speak up.”; Can think, brood, reflect, and likely feels boredom or frustration when he can’t interact?)

Watching everything? Sometimes judging silently? Probably talking to himself in V's head like, “Jesus, you’re gonna die doing that, V.”

He doesn’t sleep? He’s always on? Unless the chip glitches?

Yes, basically. He frequently complains that he has to witness every gonk move that V makes, and can't do a thing about it.

 

[LeKill3rFou]

When V goes around Night City, doing whatever he pleases... What's Johnny POV?

Johnny said it himself... He experienced V's point of view and sensations.

 

[Tarille]

Johnny experiences everything V does. In fact, part of his perspective is that someone else is controlling "His" body (This is most apparent in the initial Johnny scene, where he and V are fighting and they both realize that Johnny was mirroring V's movements just before Johnny tried to pull the chip out/kill V)

He even derides V for "Making him do" certain things, because to him it feels like "His" body.

Beyond that, he does have his own mind. He can go and think about things independently of V.

As far as sleeping... It's suggested that he is permanently active, even when V is asleep. We get this from the start of Act 2 where after the initial fight with Johnny, V goes to bed and then the next day V is contacted by Takemura and you can go directly to him for the conversation about removing the Relic, after which Johnny shows up and mentions that "He's had time to think" with the only time he's really had, being when V was asleep.

How this would feel, would be strange. Since, he feels everything V does, so he'd feel being tired, and then feel being asleep but also be awake (I suppose it might be similar to Paradoxical Insomnia)

 

[MajorKusanagi]

Johnny experiences everything V does, huh? Well my V spends all her hard-earned Eddies on gorgeous Joytoys (specially the best one, Brittany Hayes!) so he can't complain

 

[Dunaedine]

Johnny experiences everything V does, huh? Well my V spends all her hard-earned Eddies on gorgeous Joytoys (specially the best one, Brittany Hayes!) so he can't complain

Johnny always find a way to complain. Probably his main skill.

 

[MajorKusanagi]

Johnny always find a way to complain. Probably his main skill.

Normally I'd agree, but I just played the Sun ending after getting the Devil ending a couple days ago (my first complete playthrough of the main story) and I'm in awe with what he's done: he was right about working with Hanako all along, it ended up in clusterfuck. And he chose to leave V's body and stay with Alt forever (yeah it was actually I the player who made that choice but still). He ended up being a true friend. Johnny Silverhand never forget

 

[SigilFey]

I think the point of the engram is that, when he's not visible, he's being V.

It's when V is thinking or doing something that Johnny doesn't agree with or doesn't understand that there's a disconnect between V and the engram. That's when Johnny materializes in V's mind. It's like the tech going: Error. Please, realign mental processes.

 

[Dunaedine]

Normally I'd agree, but I just played the Sun ending after getting the Devil ending a couple days ago (my first complete playthrough of the main story) and I'm in awe with what he's done: he was right about working with Hanako all along, it ended up in clusterfuck. And he chose to leave V's body and stay with Alt forever (yeah it was actually I the player who made that choice but still). He ended up being a true friend. Johnny Silverhand never forget

It was humour, maybe needed more smiley . Yes I agree he have some good points, but he also love to complain on many little things. A good writing, a character with some flaws. Sometime in the rights, and sometime not. I loved the fact that in Phantom Liberty, he admit that he was lost. For him, with his ego, that indicating some evolution in his behavior (compared to the insuferable egomaniac we can see in his "memory").

 

[Ceenobi52]

I often wondered something like this too, but I guess on a little different spectrum, because if you play with a female V, how does it work experiencing things as a woman that Johnny has never felt

 

[Tarille]

I often wondered something like this too, but I guess on a little different spectrum, because if you play with a female V, how does it work experiencing things as a woman that Johnny has never felt

It'd be pretty weird for sure. But it would go both ways. Fem V reliving Johnny's memories (Specifically, when he has sex with Alt) would be a strange experience.

Of course, one caveat for shared experience does seem to be that emotions are not felt. Not properly anyway. I recall when you're doing Judy romance as Fem V and interact with stuff in her apartment Johnny makes a remark about "She makes you feel all mushy inside" - Meaning that he is feeling some response to the emotion, but not the emotion itself (He is not falling in love with Judy himself)

 

[LeKill3rFou]

I often wondered something like this too, but I guess on a little different spectrum, because if you play with a female V, how does it work experiencing things as a woman that Johnny has never felt

Yes, he say how it feels during "Tapeworm" quest, quest which pop up after main quests. It feels very weirds.... I think it's a bit like V experiencing death during the BD at Lizzie's, something I assume V never felt before

 

[Ceenobi52]

I can only imagine, it made me think after a visit to jigjig street

 

[Fatalist]

Johnny is always active, but his activity can be internal or external.
During periods of external activity, when he emerges from the depths of V's mind, he participates in dialogues, reacts to events, etc.
During periods of internal activity, he quietly absorbs V's life energy, rewrites the neural structures of his brain, and devoures his psyche.

 

[fazemyztik]

Johnny experiencing V having sex with the joytoys must be fun for him.