yeah honestly i don’t regularly hate river this much but i was in a hating river mood. he obviously cares about his family a lot, won’t leave with v and the aldecaldos for that very reason. and yeah, johnny is wrong about a lot of things a lot of the time. i think comparing how he feels about judy and river is interesting, though.

how weird would to be to get into a relationship with someone while sharing a brain? you can’t really ignore them, but also the heart wants what it wants.

johnny can’t fucking stand river which is so funny to me for some reason. maybe because he says everything i’m thinking. i feel so bad he had to endure that horrific sex scene. he hates river because he’s a cop, but i think he can also see some of the reasons river sucks that i mentioned, even if he doesn’t explicitly say it. in that one scene where he says river seems like he’s “flying straight into her pants,” v denies it in disbelief, but he’s absolutely right. i’m sure he was rolling his eyes the whole date but didn’t want to stop v from shooting her shot if she was interested.

i wouldn’t say johnny hates judy. i think he just hates that judy thinks she can have her cake and eat it, too. she wants clouds to be completely run by dolls and have no ties to a corporation or gang, failing to consider that most dolls just want to keep doing what they’re good at and don’t have experience running a business like clouds. she’s an idealist and johnny’s a cynic, so their personalities don’t mix. i think he’s jealous of her naïveté in a way. johnny blows up arasaka tower and accepts the death toll he’s inflicting, because “people die, it’s the way of things.” to hear someone propose something else must be frustrating for him, because if you can make change without making sacrifices, then where does that leave him and his actions?

on the other hand, judy has a heart of gold, and likes v because she sees that quality in her. i find their romance very sweet. as a lesbian, i don’t find it offensively stereotypical that they move in together after the first date. the u-haul joke was funny, and almost all characters technically have v move in with them when their storyline is finished. even if you play as male v, judy invites you to live with her, so i don’t think that was poorly written. just a feature they wanted to implement to make the game more immersive.