u/MythraxRexLover4Ever

It’s clear V has become avoidant and emotionally distant in this ending, and is primarily focused on maintaining their legacy in Night City and chasing their own ambition. She’s been keeping her condition under wraps for the most part and the only chance V had to even mention it is from a manual dialogue option you have to choose. She had made it clear beforehand that she’s staying a little longer because she owes it to V, but she plans for them to leave together after V gets situated and that’s the ultimate goal. Yet Judy has stuck by V multiple months after the fact in this ending knowing V is the only thing tying her there, and it reaches a breaking point when they can both see it’s not going anywhere. V clearly has no intention of leaving and is prioritizing her own ambition while pretty much never factoring Judy’s own wishes and well-being.

We can see how frustrated Judy is with this. In the kitchen scene, she says "For weeks, I've been wanting to just - run away, from this fucking wall you’ve put up between us". She's obviously been holding herself back from leaving and just waiting around aimlessly in hopes things would get better.

I dislike the fact that when Judy says that she worries about their relationship, V's response is just “no reason to" which really sets her off. Just another empty promise without any intention of actually improving the situation.

I can get the reasoning why V may be behaving the way she’s been since Mikoshi as she’s coming to terms with her own fate, but I don’t see how people can put the fault on Judy in this ending for leaving. It’s not like V is even taking on this suicide heist with the cure in mind either, seeing as she never tells Judy (instead, it’s more about glory and leaving a mark on the world), nor does she have any expectation she’ll ever be cured.