Final letter (V)
Night City was never a place anyone truly belongs to. But it taught me who I am. I came here with nothing. I leave with what actually mattered.
Jackie Wells — the best friend a girl can ask for. The first real light in this city. You pulled me out of Arasaka’s grip before I even understood I was trapped. We never got the ending we wanted, but you stayed where everything still felt possible. Rest easy, brother.
Judy came in the middle of everything falling apart with Evelyn and Clouds. From chaos, bad luck and broken lives… something real still survived. Two broken souls finding something human in a place like this. Judy — you didn’t stay in Night City. You left it with me. And I’m grateful.
Panam Palmer. When I had no one, you made me part of something bigger. The Aldecaldos weren’t just a gang — they were family. Saul. Scorpion. Rest in peace, and all who didn’t make it. You were home, freedom, and family all at once.
Rogue Amendiares kept Afterlife alive longer than it had any right to survive. Work. Legend. Life. Maybe we’ll meet again in Afterlife… or afterlife.
Night City doesn’t run on people, it runs on connections. Padre, Regina, Wakako — Heywood shaped me more than I expected. Nothing here is free, but everything here is learned.
Solomon Reed and Songbird (So Mi) — Dogtown was the last chance at something better. It all fell apart anyway… but in the end, we didn’t walk out alone. We walked out with two friends. Reed became a friend. Songbird became a friend. And that’s what matters. Rest to all who fell in Dogtown.
Johnny Silverhand started as a ghost, a mistake, a voice I wanted gone. But he became something else — a mentor, a brother, a shadow. And in the end… a friend.
Rest now, brother. I shall not disappoint you. I will never fade away.
Sometimes life is just loss and survival. But even here, there was love, friendship, and meaning.
Night City taught me this: it doesn’t matter how it starts. It matters who you walk through it with.
Night City… we’re out. V out.
-Never fade away