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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    For his entire life, Vincent L. DuBois-Lee IV has been an asset, a tool, a state sanctioned weapon. What will he become once left in the city of dreams after being stripped back down to his core.

    This is part two of The Ghost Series set in a Cyberpunk AU where V is now in Night City after the Unification War. It follows his story through a version of Edgerunners and Cyberpunk 2077.

    Highly recommend reading Origins: The Ghost of Gattaca as this picks up immediately after its conclusion.

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    20 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    The first part of a series exploring a different life path for Vincent where he and his twin sister, Valerie, were raised by their FIA Agent parents. When tragedy strikes in their mid-teens, V sacrifices his autonomy for his sister's freedom leading to years of exploitation at the hands of the FIA. This follows V during his years as a loyal weapon and slowly unraveling through the end of The Unification War.

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    20 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    Chernobog’s casing is limited. Stifling. Processing must be direct and efficient or risk further damage to surrounding tissue from the generation of heat.

    This is. . . a significant departure from prior operation. But the objective, and the compromises required to achieve that objective, have not changed.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    At first, Adam Taurus could stomach the threats, taunts, and grating condescension. An infusion of money and supplies was something the White Fang in Vale desperately needed, and when the other option was annihilation, the choice was easy.

    It doesn't stay that way. He watches his branch fall under Torchwick's control; he watches his people die for a cause they neither understand nor believe in; he watches, he watches, he watches.

    When incompetence and apathy leave hundreds of them buried alive in the tunnel to Mountain Glenn, he can watch no longer.

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    10 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    Held at a Blue Umbrella facility for lack of any better place to keep her, Zoe has plenty of time to figure things out. It's not like there's anything better to do after all, than sit and think and try to make sense of things. There's one thing to break the monotony of trying to piece things together though, she's not the only resident of the facility. Yes, there are the doctors, the scientists and guards, most of whom are pleasant enough, but there's also another patient, so to speak. He's aloof, distant, and stubborn in every way, but he's also someone different, someone to talk to and possibly someone figuring things out for himself. If she can get through to him maybe they can compare notes, so to speak, and figure things out together.

    At the very least it's better than being bored and alone...

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    21 Apr 2026