There's another edgerunners 2 trailer out now!
All day I've been buzzing. I can't sit still. I need to write this all down.
I've been doing weird things with my fingers.
This whole page is so disorganised but I've done my best. It's a 1:20 trailer, does it really need a nice clean blog post?
TW for blood in an image at the end.
Things We (I) Previously Did Not Know
The person with 3 fingers - one gold and embossed with a 'K' - is in fact Weak, post cyber-psychosis episode.
The mystery woman is Talia's mother. Possibly named: 'Avida'
The release date! October 20th. That's a Tuesday so I might not be able to get the day off of work to watch it on repeat. Which is very unfortunate. It is the week before comiccon though, so I'll have a lot to talk about with all the chooms I'll be meeting there.
Warlock D is Real!
I don't think I actually uploaded it here, because I am the worlds worst blogger (I was already planning on trying to change that this weekend, don't worry) but I have theory that D might have made some sort of devilish deal with a blackwall AI. A promise of power so D can get revenge, but at what cost?
We see D in this trailer with a shard that looks a lot like a relic.
A relic 1.0 I should specify. In 2077 V has a 2.0 model, which is capable of 'resurrection.' We see that happening twice: V, and Saburo in the Devil ending. It's not something that would be available to anyone before or after 2077.
But what could D be doing with a relic? Well, the 1.0 series of relics hold exclusively memories of people. These can be used to emulate the originals personality at time of upload so that they can continue to rule, even in death. This is unlike the 2.0 model, which is capable of putting that persons memories back into a human vessel.
If we go with the idea that D is a warlock, perhaps part of his pact is that he must feed the AI the memories/souls of those he hunts. I assume it would be high ranking corpos who ordered the attack on his clan. We already know that the RABIDS beyond the blackwall crave a constant influx of new data to feed on. 'Alt' has undoubtedly consumed many a person and lesser AI. But this AI is definitely not her.
So who is D's patron?
In this trailer, if you pause at the right time, or go frame by frame, you can find a number of brief flashes of the blackwall AI D has been communing with.
A many eyed hound.
Could this be Cerberus? If beyond the blackwall is hell, then this could be hells defender. Not likely IMO. We already have an AI called Cerberus, and it didn't seem like the type to negotiate with humans.
I think I'm getting a bit lost in all the sauce here. But not enough. There's more sauce. So much more sauce.
D!
He's a weapon. A weapon made out of people (the souls he's fed to the AI perhaps? Like whoever was on that relic he slotted?)
There's childlike laughter also associated a lot with D here in this trailer. I do not think that it is coming from the blackwall AI, but I could be wrong.
There's a sequence where someone with a robotic voice is talking to D in this trailer. From the content of their convo it seems that it might be snake nation member who wasn't at camp when it was attacked. TRANSCRIPT:
Those burns... Didn't know anyone survived. You've been out for blood? All this time?
This person's voice is shaky. As if they're appalled at D has been doing, so we can rule out that it's his patron.
Also seen around D a lot during this trailer are many a dead Arasaka Corpo, and some Kang Tao soldiers here and there.
New Characters!
'Avida'/Talia's Mother
Some weird looking child(?) They have facial cyberware though and appear to be in a good position for Arasaka or potentially Kang Tao. Head of netrunning operations is my guess. Tasked with tracking down D. A child prodigy?
Someone who reminds me of the evil stepmother from Pantheon.
A guy who say's 'boom'
New Theory?
Could D be part of the same experiments that Lucy was? It has never been confirmed that she was the only survivor. Perhaps D also got out and was found at the side of the road, a young child, by the Nomads and adopted. Following this line, Arasaka finds him and wants to kill him for what he knows about their experiments with the blackwall. So they torch the entire encampment. Now he wants revenge. And he's using the blackwall to do it. Turning it back unto them.
Mysteries, Unsolved
'Welcome To Capri' is written on the wall in blood. I haven't found anything online that indicates this is a reference to anything in pop culture, nor is there any mention of Capri in the Cyberpunk wiki.
The assortment of bodies in this room is also fascinating.
So far D's modus operandi has been using his netrunning skills. Quickhacks seen in game such as overheat. These bodies bear no scorch marks.
Not only that, but the fact they are all piled up in the corner of the room. If they'd been hacked to death, they would've been all over the place in a panic.
Would they even have bled in that case? There is a pool of blood on the ground, but no drag marks to say that someone came in guns blazing, or killed them outside of the room and moved them in. It is most peculiar.
