Johnny x V
Johnny Silverhand/V
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.
What is Johnny x V?
Johnny x V is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Johnny Silverhand and V from Cyberpunk 2077. With over 6,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.
Why fans love Johnny x V
You cannot get closer than sharing a skull, and you cannot get more tragic than only one of you walking out of it.
Most Popular Johnny x V Fanfics
The highest-rated Johnny x V stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.
And All That Could Have
Completeby ruruie
Johnny Silverhand is given a third shot at life, back in his own body. V, forever grateful and hard working, helps him adjust to life back on the surface. Shit ain't easy, it is Night City, but that's to be expected. What neither party did expect was a shift in dynamics.
Feedback Loop
Completeby Cantique
He exhales, shifting, visibly as on edge as V feels right now. Fuck, she’s getting a little worked up by so much as the proposition, which is… confusing. “You’re still going, which gets me going, which puts us both in a fuckin’--”“Feedback loop,” V concludes. Fuck. He’s got a point. An actual, legit
Shrine
Completeby deeks
“Wait.” She sits up, legs tucked to the side to offer her some modesty (as if it really matters at this point). “You’re seriously asking to take control to—to fucking get off?”V has trouble getting off. Johnny offers his help.
To hurt, to heal
Completeby calamaris
V decides to track down Evelyn Parker sooner rather than later, and unintentionally sets into motion a brand new set of cogs previously left unturned.Alternate timeline, new ending where the choice isn't so painful. Johnny gets a body, V goes nomadic in search for a cure, and the two of them redisco
Sick With Desire
Completeby skitter
For V, loneliness is an insidious corruption, an endless sickness. For Johnny, loneliness is a way of life, a deliberate method of self preservation. In the aftermath of an unimaginable collision, two people with nothing left to lose find themselves clinging to one another for salvation. For them, d
The Rebel Path
Completeby elf_trash
V was just a dirtgirl merc from Heywood with big dreams and a sad sack tragic backstory like the rest of them. After losing her best friend and her left arm in a heist gone awry, she's left with nothing but the digital ghost of a long-dead rockerboy trapped on a chip in her head that's slowly killin
Heat
Completeby JustAnotherSnakeCult
In which V is given the sex pollen/dart/potion/poison treatment. All in Act 2, but the timeline is going to be pretty wibbly-wobbly because honestly, it's porn so who cares, anyway?Y'all, CDPR's romances are SO sub-par, and their sex scenes are SO cringy ... that this happened. 1,000% thirst fiction
Inside Out And a Bit Further
Completeby madmarymad
Johnny wakes up ambushed by heat. He can feel sweat building up under his shirt, with a bulge sticking up without his consent. He turns to the person next to him. Soft morning light comes through the barely open shutters, it drips over his companion’s skin. Shines on them as they stir in their sleep
Never Fade Away
Completeby Cyberp_ssy2077
A thing of beauty I know We’ll never fade away What did it to me? I know So what you have to say? What a thing of beauty… “What a thing of beauty is right,” a pair of lips murmured against V’s ear, as she felt a set of hands materialize and skim down each side of her ribcage to rest on her hi
Just a little spark
Completeby CyberpunkThot
V just wants to hook up with a stranger but Johnny isn’t having any of it. Until he gets a crazy plan to make it up to V.
Melodium
by arcadiumsquire
V enters Mikoshi, but she does not exit. Johnny is running out of time to find her. The moment he offhandedly commented on the fate of every runner being that they would fry themselves in their own chair was weighing on him heavily every day. Particularly now that two of the best Netrunners he has e
Lending a Hand
Completeby orphan_account
“Do you trust me?” Johnny asks, placing his hands on V’s knees. “Not particularly,” V mutters. He tightens his grip on the beer bottle when Johnny drums his fingers on V’s legs. He ignores the electric shocks that run up his spine.“Well, in short, I take over your body, but you remain conscious,” Jo
Just A Bit of Calming Down
Completeby orphan_account
From somewhere deeper inside her apartment, the armory probably, a radio is going, playing a soft tune that she gets lost in as she slowly rubs circles around her entrance. Her throat bobs roughly in anticipation, thumb ghosting along her clit in a way that makes her hips squirm back into the bed. “
Fuck you, Johnny
Completeby skai6 (Biosahar)
Having a legendary terrorist live in one's head is weird enough. Developing feelings for him? Now that's plain catastrophical.Or: Johnny is terribly stubborn when it comes to talking about feelings. V is about done with his constant self-denial. Now he has to help him retrieve his body? Fuck that.
Can You Feel The Sun?
by heartofsnark
V was born to a brutal Nomad family; a pariah within the clan ever since she lost her hearing. Slight after slight, tragedy after tragedy and eventually she could take no more. She ran from the only family she'd known and sought to start anew. And in Night City, of all places, she found her slice of
Cyberpunk 2077: KinkJune
Completeby ruruie
A collection of smut for various kinks in the middle of the year, because why not!The first chapter is a description of the main kink and pairings used in the chapters, as well as a better description of what this is! But know there is smut of varying kinds in here :3 just have fun, be kind, and enj
Peer to Peer
by Cantique
[SEQUEL TO FEEDBACK LOOP]“Less talk, shitheel,” Johnny growls. “You’re gonna shut the fuck up and help me get V back.”Takemura’s eyes lock to Johnny, filled with hate, grief and anger spilling from every pore of his body as he hisses through his teeth. “What makes you think that I would even conside
D3L1C4T3 W34P0N
Completeby calcelmo
"Hold on a second," Johnny says. The sneering, cold edge to his voice makes V want to cringe back, knowing what kind of bastard Johnny can be, but he stands his ground. "I don't care if you have no dick. Two dicks. A fucking mantis blade in place of a dick. I don't care if you're a girl or a guy
The Hollow Men
Completeby masterassassin
“Hold on, what about Johnny?”Johnny groans. “Here we go.”“What happens to him is entirely dependent on your choice,” Alt says. “As it stands now, he could take over your body as it would accept him as its new owner without problems. Or, should you decide to keep your body, he can merge with cyberspa
Orpheus After The Fall
Completeby Silverheart
V really had not expected to return to her apartment to find Johnny Silverhand sitting like a pile of trash tossed in front of her door, but here she was.
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What does Johnny x V mean?
Johnny x V is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Johnny Silverhand and V. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.
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