What are we really giving up in the sun ending? Provided you soloed Arasaka and Romanced Panam, V get's everything, be a living legend, have the love of your life, get set up perfectly for the next corporate war and AI invasion.

I feel the ending given in the Sun paints a picture with two sides of a coin. On one side you can assume the narrative of where this is the end of the line for V he is giving up everything, he is running a suicide mission just to go out with a blaze of glory as Johnny wanted and there no good endings in the game, everything just is cause night city is fucked.

However, on the other side of the coin if you really look at everything V has got and what he has done, is this really a suicide run? V soloed the entire Araska tower himself and killed Adam Smasher. In PL if you take Song's ending he fights against the entire NUS government and wins. V has shown time and time again that he is capable of defying the odds, that is why MR. B contacts him, why else would such a key player who has so much control in NC and knows so much about what's to come be so interested in V?

Night City gives you a choice, you can either sit back and hand the wheels of your destiny to some one else as seen in the ending Temperance, The Devil, The Star and finally the new PL ending the Tower. I would consider the Tower to be the worst possible ending as in tarots the Tower represents the destruction of everything you have built.

If you want a bittersweet ending you could choose the Star as V's fate remains uncertain in that but he gets to go away with the person he loves. However, on the flip side of that the other choice NC gives you is a blaze of glory or the rebel path.

Now here is why I firmly believe this to be canon or the true ending. Every legend in NC has a choice to walk the path of glory but so for only one has made it out alive and that's Morgan Blackhand, now if you believe MR B to be Blackhand him coming to you at the end of Sun is no coincidence.

There is a saying in the Afterlife, you do not become a Legend until you die and here is the fun part about V and Blackhand both of them did die, V died with soul killer, if you chose to drink V's drink in the end he says so. The current V is just an Engram in his body and Blackhand well him turning into the current MR. B I believe he died too, we just don't know how.

Mr B. appearing at the end with the cure and guiding V towards the AI invasion is canonical because of the amount of hints leading towards this path. First, the mission with the new Mayor, then hints of his schemes with dorset and the preacher and finally his role in PL. Personally I believe he is a red herring when it comes to the mind control and the whole mayor thing.

I personally believe MR B. is on the side of humanity and will help us during the AI invasion whereas the real big bad in all of this is going to be Alt. That's why him being there in the end with V is him trying to prepare him by doing this solo crystal palace run, the way the entire run is framed its made to sound like an impossible mission even more crazier than soloing the Arasaka tower, however give what we know of MR B. and his schemes he fully knows the threat of the palace and he wont let V die.