V
Also known as: Valerie, Vincent, Samurai
Night City mercenary living on borrowed time after a botched heist leaves Johnny Silverhand's engram slowly overwriting their brain. Every ending is a different flavor of bittersweet, so the fandom writes all of them.
Popular V Ships
Johnny Silverhand/V
6k works
A dead rockerboy terrorist lives on an engram in V's head, slowly overwriting the merc's brain while the two of them bicker their way across Night City. Cyberpunk 2077 forces total intimacy — shared senses, shared memories, one body between them — onto two people who start out wanting each other gone. The fandom turned that doomed cohabitation into its flagship ship.
Judy Alvarez/V
2k works
Judy is Lizzie's Bar's braindance genius, a woman trying to save one corner of a city that eats idealists alive. Her romance with a female V culminates in a quiet dive beneath a drowned town — one of the game's gentlest scenes, surrounded by its loudest violence. Fic gravitates toward Judy as V's reason to want a future at all.
Common Tropes in V Fanfiction
V · Fix-It
480k works
Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.
V · Enemies to Friends to Lovers
25k works
The long road taken in full: open hostility softens into reluctant truce, truce grows into real friendship, and friendship finally tips into romance. The middle stage is the point — these fics insist the characters actually like each other before they love each other.
Other Cyberpunk 2077 Characters
Johnny Silverhand
7k works
Rockerboy terrorist who nuked Arasaka Tower in 2023 and woke up fifty years later as a ghost in V's head. Keanu Reeves' digital revolutionary went from antagonist to reluctant best friend across one shared skull.
Judy Alvarez
2k works
Night City's best braindance technician, a Mox ally with tattooed arms and a dream of leaving the city that keeps breaking her heart. Judy's romance with female V is one of the game's most tenderly written paths.
Goro Takemura
2k works
Saburo Arasaka's disgraced bodyguard, an old-school samurai loyalist adrift in Night City with only V to trust. Takemura's culture-shock food reviews and rigid honor melting into reluctant affection power his fic.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many fanfics feature V?
V appears in 8k+ works on AO3, making them one of the most popular characters in the Cyberpunk 2077 fandom. You can browse all V fanfiction using the Fanfict Reader app.
What are the most popular V ships?
The most popular V ships include Johnny Silverhand/V, Judy Alvarez/V. These pairings feature prominently in AO3 fanfiction.
What tropes are common in V fanfiction?
Common tropes in V fanfiction include Fix-It, Enemies to Friends to Lovers. Use Fanfict Reader to filter and find exactly the type of story you're looking for.
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