The Lost Storyline of T-Bug | Fiction Forensics | Cyberpunk 2077 Explained 

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I believe T-Bug was killed by a Demon. According to the tabletop RPG, "Demons are a form of Black ICE with a limited Artificial Intelligence" . They can use the "zap" ability to defend itself within the architecture. I guarantee the Konpeki subnet was littered with all sorts of AI who sit waiting for netrunners. I think the devs changed her fate to show players how dangerous the net can be. As V, you don't really do real netrunning, and so if you don't play the tabletop game you might not understand how it works.

I always got the vibe that T-Bug wasn't on the up-and-up w/ V and Jackie. She makes very clear that she isn't your friend during the Scav job. It's just a job to her, and you're the crew she was tasked with. She was looking to get ahead, but always on her terms.

One detail I notice about T-Bug is that she is using a really ancient Cyberdeck, one similar we retrieve from Bartmoss, which is like seeing a hacker using a laptop PC from 1993 or something. She could be using it as a firewall addon or something, but it still adds some strange idea of her character being very fond of older technology for reliability.

you know it's bad and she was done dirty when for my first playthrough I literally thought her main role was to be an npc for the training tutorial

V randomly receives a shard in his apartment in act 2 titled “Greetings from Des Moines”. It reads “Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.” I always thought that was somewhat fitting for a T bug betrayal. Maybe she’s living her quiet life in Des Moines

That Konpeki plaza heist just went so bad. It never was going to be successful. Reminded me of Reservoir Dogs.

I like TBug, people can say she wanted to betray V and Jackie and she is cold but i respect her for staying with the gang to the end, opening those doors. She could just bail out instantly after hearing news about death of Saburo, but she didnt, helped our heroes and payed the price for it. I also like Bug character as a reminder that anyone who wants to leave NC on their own terms will end badly.

I feel that Arasaka wouldn't use Soul Killer. From people we know they use it on, they only use it on high value targets. During the heist, all they know about Bug is that it's some random runner, not anyone particularly important or notable.

My personal theory is that T-bug only agreed to participate in this job because she planned on betraying Dexter as payback for what probably happened 5 years ago in Pacifica, but never got the chance because she got hit with black ice. Either that or she faked her death and skipped the country leaving everyone else out to dry.

12:00 Now this is an interesting detail. This gives the notion of T-Bug being more prominent character initially. Knowing how troubled development was, it feels like they had to do a rewrite and cut plenty in the last minute.

The part that always intrigued me is the philosophical edge. Was there going to be a questline referring to that trait? What was the thematic reason for having her be a philosophy aficionado? Quoting Marcus Aurelius and Aristotle in particular makes me wonder-a Stoic and a rationalist, those aren’t mutually exclusive but there’s clearly connective tissue missing here.

Given the explanation of t-bugs concept it sounds like her original design might've gotten spun off for maman brigitte. The animation for the promo trailer was most likely made way in advance, based on an early draft of a scene. And if they hadn't yet decided on the details, it would make sense that everyone involved with the mission would be present at the No Tell Motel unless specified otherwise.

I think the decision to move bugs death up to the mission rather than after is to boost Jackie. Had he been the only one to go down he looks like s goofy gonk who never stood s chance. But by killing the hyper-competent T-Bug, it raises the stakes during the mission, sells the danger of Arasaka, and makes Jackie not the only one to die from a betrayal (Dax and V) 3 betrayers rather than 2 may have also veen one too many

T-Bug was one of my favorite characters and was so disappointed we didn't see them again. I need some fanfiction of this character!

My take is that Marcus Aurelius both never said it and is its originator. Meditations is inspired by Greek philosophy, and there’s a tendency in that literature to make up conversations to prove a moral point, such as Euyphro’s Dilemma. Just as Plato both felt obliged to his mentor Socrates and used him as a rhetorical authority, Marcus referred to his own mentors.

There was a FIA agent code named Ladybug, killed during the heist, revealed in notes in Phantom Liberty. This agent was directly implicated into the heist. There is four characters possible: T-Bug, Dex, his bodyguard and Jackie. The more probable character is T-Bug and it is compatible with your theory with the VDB with T-Bug as triple agent. The code name is a little too obvious but it is an internal code name so maybe FIA was a little too sure about their network security.

I have a feeling Mr. Hands would really have appreciated and valued T. Bug.

More T-Bug makes me think of one beautiful way they could have done the lifepaths. a character from each that 'stuck around'. offered messages, comments, jobs, whatever. THAT DID NOT SHOW UP IN THE OTHER LIFEPATHS.

One thing she says that I notice most don't comment on is that not only does she intend to retire, but that she intends to "never set foot in cyberspace again." Cyberspace has other uses besides business, legal or otherwise, and it wouldn't be surprising if many Greek islands were effectively "off the grid" in Cyberpunk 2077 like our world. This suggests that Tbug wasn't just retiring, but becoming a little bit of a luddite, and if she did have a connection to the VDBs (knowing what they were planning to do with the relic/Silverhand) perhaps she was trying to hide away from the coming AI apocalypse?

Even her name is enigmatic-bug can refer to both her technical prowess and how suddenly her life is snuffed out. But T part, besides the possible connotation that it stands for “tech,” is even more open to interpretation. Not many people use aliases in Night City, somewhat surprisingly, so it raises questions on who, if anyone, is she hiding from.

I think she was altered for the better. The key narrative of 2077, and one Evelyn herself tells us, is falling for the lie of Night City. The bigger you aim, the higher you fall. Be it the Relic heist, or the plot of Edgerunners. It's all quite well executed as everyone but V is all in with the heist, failure doesn't even cross their minds, yet several times V can voice uncertainty, having issues with the small details, and who is the only survivor? The one person with doubt. The one person who didn't buy fully into the lie. T bug's role seems cut down and small, but it all ties into the greater narrative of Night City and shows us that no one is above Night City, no matter how important they seem or how good they think they are.

Love that you highlighted that quote from Aristotle. Everybody ultimately wants the quiet life, but the quiet life is different for everybody. “Just another tale for the next dreamer” Thank you, as always 😁

"Frying" the nervous system is the main way in which ICE, Soulkiller, etc actually kills the person, Soulkiller just basically "scans" the brain and then obliterates it, so even if it was Soulkiller, the fried nervous system wouldnt be out of place. But Soulkiller is also seemingly saved for the people, for whomst death would be too light a sentance (at least in the Arasakas mind). T-Bug was just some netrunner to Arasaka in the end.

You have an oddly comforting way of speaking. You would make for a stellar teacher or councillor or something like that.

Thanks 4 all the hard work.

I think that when they decided to give Johnny a bigger role in the game they cut storylines for Dex and Bug

I fully believe that one version of the game had T-Bug as an Arasaka spy, back when they were toying with the idea of Saburo knowing the Heist would happen, and was planning on using it for his own purposes. If I recall, that was also the build that had Johnny and Saburo as voices on the Relic. Moreover, if anyone cold protect Bug from the Voodoos, it would be Arasaka. I STILL think she faked her death, and always felt like that poem you find on your desk later is from her (the one that ends with "I'm alive, you're all dead").

i was so excited for you to explore this! wish they did more with her

The trailer was just too good. My head canon makes T-Bug a traitor. Who she betrays (everyone, V & Jackie) changes. She could have faked the scream, started a rumor she'd been fried, and skipped the country as she wanted to do. It sounds like Dex screwed her over when he left 5 years ago. Why would she work for him if she knew what a screw-up he was? She didn't know V and Jackie well enough to care, and Dex as payback. I like to think she sold them out to Arasaka and then skeedaddled. Knowing Arasaka, she got her comeuppance eventually.

Glad you were able to hit T-Bug as a topic. She was taken from us too soon!

I do like your theory and think at some point in production that may very well have been the case. But in the final game I do not think she is at all connected to the VDB. First and most important is she does not have a Haitian accent. All the VDB are first gen Americans. Second is her connection to the shop in Kabuki. The VDB do not work with outsiders unless they plan to burn them. So the shop owner being a friend of Bug would indicate she likely has no connection. Lastly her relationship to the rest of the crew. For V and Jackie it seems like the Dorsett job was not their first as a team. And for Dex I have always gotten the vibe that they were an item romantically. I may be misreading but Bug tries to dodge the question about how she knows Dex. If their last job was such a shitshow she likely would never work with him again, unless she had an emotional reason to do so. Lastly Placide is a bastardman. I know it has nothing to do with Tbug but he was in the video and it has to be said.

I cant get over the fact that we literally hear Yorinobu saying he stole the chip yet no one thought that his father might want to confront him, and have a backup plan. You know, since it is such a big and serious heist. It always bugged me. It is either a plothole, bad storywritting or deliberate plan to get rid of V and Jackie. Arasaka gets their culprits but not the chip, Dexter, T-bug and Evelyn would be rich and no longer needing to split with V and Jackie. My pesimism chooses that its bad storywritting.

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I love how there's so much to almost every character introduced in the Cyberpunk world. Great video!

Thanks for the community post, I love your videos.

Oh I love this video so much. Your conjecture about T Bug’s role in the full story sounded really compelling. It would be something I’d add to the plot of some fanfiction or something

amazing video as always! can't wait for the next one! please keep up the awesome work!

I feel the same thing about Evelyn Parker. I feel like she was a super interesting character and they could have given her a bigger role in V’s life post heist. If you had time to develop more of a relationship with her before bad things happened it would have it much harder.

I really find your character deep dives useful for helping refine the stories I build out for the Cyberpunk RED game I run. It's videos like this that help me create characters that have more than a surface level of depth to them.

Excellent insight as always, thanks for the vid

Oh, dude, Fiction Forensics is a great name and given the kind of digging you did it really fits for these videos

Fantastic video! Seen plenty of videos about her, but never heard any of the stuff about the 2019 trailer or her early design, great work!

Didn’t Dex try to find put more about Evelyn and the VBD told him to drop it? That should have clued him in that she was up to something. I bet that was when they were supposed to send in T-bug, who was already familiar with Dex.

I viewed Tbugs use of philosophy as a way to draw structure and reason out of the chaos of NC. She’s trying to cognitively work her way through the trauma of surviving through some pretty heavy stuff.

Got a beat, I can dig it! Thanks for the lovely character deep dives. This is why I wanted KiteTales to revive "What a character".

For last few months I've been GM'ing TTRPG Cyberpunk and all your analisis on cyberpunk characters made me rethink some aspects of NPCs I created and improve their backstories to make them deeper and more "human". Thanks a lot for inspiration!

This is an excellent video! Subbed and now I’m going back for a channel binge. Thanks!!

I love what you have done with you recording room.

The T in T-Bug stands for Tyrannosaurus Also, I like the theory of her working as a monitor/handler for the voodoo boys keeping an eye on Dex, as he would make for an easy independent scapegoat, and I reckon Dex would be too arrogant and narcissistic to realize. Idk it just clicks

I think T-Bug was intended, as you say, to stand with Dex during the betrayal. But her role was scrapped to give more room to Jackie and Dex. Jackie to make sure every player feels that friendship with jackie. And to build up that fury against dex. To have a third character detracts from the "purity" of the emotions towards them. Also, T-Bug would've made that link to voodo boys stronger and seem almost sloppy instead of the "how the shit did you discover this?" angle we get from our investigation with Judy in Evenlynns memories. V needed to seem desperate and grasping for straws to properly hone in the themes of the overarching story.

I feel that the current version of T-bug and her death is a comparison to Jackie. Jackie was a man of passion, he loved, he hated, he fought, he dreamed and he died in a blaze of glory. T-bug seemed to be very detached, we don't even know if she even had friends or family to mourn her passing. Jackie gets a big send off by all those he impacted. From Vik, Mama Welles, Misty, V, the Valentinos, and others he grew up with. T-bug probably got zipped into a body bag and put into a freezer until Arasaka decided she wasn't anyone important. Bug seemed like she was a more watered down version of Kiwi from Edgerunners. She didn't trust anyone, but unlike Kiwi, we don't know why. I assume it's similar to Kiwi were she was betrayed in the past, by either her Parents or a close associate. Either way Bug is just another person squashed by Night City.

I never put together that the net-runner in the trailer was T-bug. I feel like a dultz. I love the deep dig that you've done! These videos help the game feel so alive. I always took T-Bug as an agoraphobic type. I use edgerunner/netrunner as an analog to extroverts/introverts sometimes. It makes T-Bug's demeanor make sense. It explains a lot of the cyberpsychos you have to put down as well and it reminds me of the self-destructive behavior I've seen friends go through. Whether it was bringing in the wrong people or isolating themselves. The scary thing is that in the moment; their behavior was completely rationalized in their own head as they rushed to their own doom. Cyberpunk 2077's story goes so hard. Every character can be held in a different light.

My personal theory is that all three characters you sit down with to plan the hiest were supposed to be a lot more involved than what we got. You were probably going to get a much longer intro sequenece through the origin process, likely having unique missions with Jackie based on the origin you chose. T-bug and deshawn were likely going to be targets of V's revenge. I suspect one of the branching narrative moments they had planned was that if you told Dex evyln wanted to betray him that was going to change the outcome down the line with some of that content.

Two things stand out to me: Firstly, it makes no sense to obscure T-Bugs fate in that cinematic trailer and have her appear as a betrayer, when three big things are spoiled in the trailer. Deshawn's betrayal, Jackie's death and Silverhand's existence. It'd be a little silly to spoil those three big plot points but hide that T-Bug dies pretty much off screen to the point some players didn't even realize she died. Considering T-Bug was closer to Jackie and Deshawn levels of importance, it's a little strange how she only gets a missable piece of dialog even confirming her death. That's closer to Deshawn's body guard who just disappears compared to Jackie and Deshawn who get some level of epilogue, Jackie with remembrance get together and Deshawn still lying at the dump with his gun as loot. Like, you'd think we'd at least be able to scrounge around Night City and find T-Bug's netrunner lair with her dead in her netrunner chair with some loot. And second, during the Afterlife meet with Deshawn and T-Bug, T-Bug's shoes have the words "Delta V" on the buckles, which is an interesting detail. It seems a little too specific for a story important character to have a detail that essentially reads as "Hey V, get out of here" and not have it mean something. Along with the fact that Cyberpunk is, or at least was, an unfinished game, it's doubtless that aspects were altered and cut. But the one detail that really makes me think T-Bug was meant to be more important is that cosplay guide mentioned in the video, that feels like something only important characters would get, or highly marketed ones. Add in that one cinematic trailer scene implying she took out a corpo, and it definitely feels like T-Bug had more to her that never got to be shown. Sadly, that is the nature of game development, ideas are made, trimmed, cut down or thrown out entirely all across the development process, but with Cyberpunk it's a little worse as the game came out so unfinished. Who knows how much was cut to crunch the game into existence.

ah thanks for this, always felt it was odd the way her character was set up and then abruptly cut down

Great video with interesting insights! Glad I discovered your channel. Subbed!

Thank you for this video! :) T-Bug is mentioned in Phantom Liberty if you take a specific path and make a specific dialog choice when talking to Alex

I really enjoyed this story dive! New subscriber now. 😁 I'd love to see more Cyberpunk characters analyzed! I've been a "forever DM" in Dungeons & Dragons since I was ten years old, so 45 years? ...and character building is one of my great loves. Thanks for this!

Something i notice is that in phantom liberty when you hang out with alex (I think it before or after the songbird rescue mission) you can make a toast to some character that passed away and you can toast to T-Bug. A little detail I think some haven't noticed

This is the first video I've seen from you and lady your the first channel of this type that doesn't literally put me to sleep. Going to troll through your videos but I wanted to say thank you for putting work into your presentation unlike a lot of your competitors in this genre of vids.

I've played this game several times and something about T-Bug and Dex's relationship always made me wonder if she was part of the Voodoo Boys. It would explain why Dex owes her for his cock-up in Pacifica. Who better to help him escape than a VDB? Also the part with Evelyn being watched by the VDBs makes a ton of sense, which is why I always get revenge on them when I play. I know it was them that remote hacked her chrome. They fried her so bad that Woodman did those horrible things to her and then pawned her off to Fingers who allegedly did the best he could with rot he sells, which ultimately led to her being given to the Scavs, her mental trauma and eventual flatlining. That Netwatch agent pretty much confirms that by telling V they consider outsiders "ranyons" and showed that they planted a virus inside of him. If Evelyn never went to Fingers she probably would have flatlined after that remote hack or virus. Another thing, after reading the light novel Cyberpunk 2077: No_Coincidence, it does seem the writers do kind of operate with a domino effect in mind. Also the title alone tells you that everything happens for a reason in at least *that* story, but it's still connected to the story in this game as well apparently. It is unfortunate that whatever ties T-Bug may have had to the VDBs died with her and Dexter Deshawn (thanks Goro).

I remember one of the devs (I belive it was Paweł Sasko, but I didn't check) said about the trailer that it was one of the decision outcomes players would encounter in the game, and I believe that this was true when Paweł said this, but due to the many problems the game had it had became the only outcome of act 1 with a slight modification- Bug is no longer our enemy. Because it's easier than developing the character further so late into production.

Was excited to hear Great video! Something interesting that I wanted to touch on that you mentioned briefly: I don't think *any* of the crew was nearly as good at their role as they thought they were. They were just the best ones around at the time, or at least among the best. We don't know what V really did prior to leaving for Atlanta, and they're not in NC long enough to become a top-of-the-line merc during play. They're only just beginning to scrape the bottom of the Afterlife. Jackie had been at the game way longer than V, but hadn't made ANY headway until joining V. So he probably wasn't the best merc around, probably due largely to him being more hot-headed and immature. But also, just being one of so many mercs. T-Bug, like you said, takes a LONG time to complete her netrun. Someone else touched on it, but netrunning in 2077 is nothing like what we see in the tabletop, where it's more like jacking into the Matrix and battling digital Pokemon. Even in the tabletop version, though, netrunning time is nowhere near that long. The only people who really vouch for T-Bug's abilities are those whom we know aren't the most reliable sources. V and Jackie, who don't seem to know anything other netrunners, and Dex -- who messed up his last heist so bad, he flew to space. So, maybe not the best judge of character. Even Evelyn, like you said in another video, couldn't separate the job from her humanity and ended up paying the price. Everyone bit off way more than they could chew. Hell, even Silverhand wasn't nearly as good as what he thinks or remembers. The downfall of a lot of mercs seems to be overestimating their skill or importance.

T-Bug's death definitely fits into the theme of Cyberpunk: riding the edge until you fall off. I think there probably was more to her story in initial drafts but as is wont to happen in gaming, the story was scrapped as the game was refined. I would have liked to see some kind of closure for T-Bug. With that being said, I think some of the ideas behind T-Bug's original story ended up getting used with Songbird in "Phantom Liberty". There are times where So Mi's story has some of the same connective tissue as T-Bug's.

It's an interesting video, because I've actually suspected for some time that Bug's role was supposed to be completely different from what it ended up being. Also in relation to Dex, because I've long had the feeling that the background of Dex and the Vodoos is not only directly connected to Bug, but also to the whole Relic story, but as you said so well, we'll probably never know, because we were told a different story in the end. Anyway, thanks for the great video and best regards from Germany.

Good video. For myself, I've always noted the odd vibe that T-Bug gives when Jackie and V arrive in their Konpeki hotel room. She is clearly preoccupied and (imo) holding something back from her teammates. Cut content there, unquestionably. An aside. I'm guessing that T-Bug's apartment was especially close to the Afterlife. Maybe even somewhere INSIDE it? I dunno. Reason being that she is so quickly back online after leaving that final briefing.

This was an amazing video

I would absolutely love to get my hands on all of the development documentation for Cyberpunk 2077 just to see what could have been. I feel like there's a bunch of interesting cut content that was removed either for time or because it was no longer part of the vision they had.

I have had a theory lately on this. There was several different plans going in game. The first was the yorinobu plan. Then there was the suburo plan. Yorinobu originally stole the chip with the threat of selling it to netwatch to lure in Suburo Arasaka. The plan was changed when he caught parker spying on him for the VDBs. He secretly manipulated her into going into business for herself thus making her a double agent. He then basically laid the groundwork for the heist while passing it on to you guessed it, T-bug. T-bug acted as the man behind the scenes. Parker would get info from t-bug on dex and t-bug would also arrange for two nobodies to serve as the scapegoats for the heist. As the plan progressed, t-bug kept everything moving along until after suburo was killed. After that yorinobu needed to reclaim the chip which is why he locked the building down. After that T-bug would be paid and would disappear as she was the real key to the plan. That is sadly where his plan ended as after that everything he had planned was ruined. Suburo knew of his son's plans to kill him so he made plans of his own. First he informed Honako of his plans as she was the key to it all. He secretly leaked the info about the silverhand engram and parker to the VDB. Parker was merely a mistress for yorinobu at the time. The VDB's got parker and manipulated her into collecting info for a later heist. When yorinobu caught her spying he flipped the plan against the VDB without realizing it was actually a trap by his father. Suburo prepared to be soulkilled as soon as he died. He came to konpeki and did not fight yorinobu who killed him. Honako immediately arrived and suburo was soulkilled. After that it was up to honako to continue the plan. T-bug knew too much and was a potential liability for arasaka so she was eliminated first. Then parker's location was leaked to the VDB who in turn went after her. At this point yorinobu was suspicious of both t-bug and parker's disappearance which was why honako needed a distraction to keep yorinobu from suspecting her or suburo. She arranged for Dex to be captured which was her last act as yorinobu caught on thus forcing her to stay out of sight. Yorinobu did not know if T-bug shared the details to V and if V would spill to his Suburo's bodyguard so he arranged for both of them to be killed. After that V was used as a massive distraction to keep yorinobu focused on V while ignoring Honako. It was only after V finally met honako at the bar that he became suspicious of her and forced her to live in a mansion. At this point we all know what happens next. The first thing that made me believe T-bug was a double agent is the supposed over inflated value of the chip. No one could give an actual amount. Dex, Parker, V, and Jackie were all led to believe it had a massive value but thus far no one could state what that actual value was. Even 100,000 eddies would be too little. A million eddies? Even split 5 ways that is not the massive amount and considering the massive amounts of money v can rake in from jobs in night city alone. The amount was astronomical but there didn't appear to be a lot of actual buyers. Netwatch wanted it but were not willing to pay a lot for it. The NUSA showed little interest in it. Even the VDB more or less make it clear they never had any plans for the actual chip. They just wanted silverhand. Now comes the question of who created this illusion of value. It could not have been Parker as she is not a tech person. It couldn't be dex because he would only trust a heist like this if it was brought to him by someone he trusts. Who is someone he trusts? T-bug. T-bug was the one who claimed it was enough for everyone to retire comfortably. She was the one who seemed to be putting all the heist together while V collected parts and Dex sat on his keister. Little did they know that only T-bug was the one who knew the actual value. She was the only one who was gonna be collecting that paycheck in the end. The second thing that made me suspect T-bug was a double agent was how dispassionate she was to Jacky, V, and Dex. The way jackie talks to her it appears they were good friends but now she seems to be particularly dispassionate. She knows she is gonna screw over everyone and yet she is trying hard to keep her emotions in check. When you talk to her about what she does after the heist is also when she starts to spill that more ruthless side of her. The side that is willing to abandon everyone in favor of a good retirement. You also will notice a similar dispassionate nature when talking with honako. When she talks about her brother she tries to give the illusion of emotion about her brother and the death of her father. She knows what is really going on but she tries to put on a false front that is quite fake. Crocodile tears anyone? That is what really makes me believe that this whole thing is one big poker game with a ton of bluffs and big gambles. V is the only wild card in this scenario which is why yorinobu wants you dead, honako wants to use you to help her father win, and T-bug basically used jackie and V as scapegoats to help yorinobu's plan which would in turn help her retire. She instead discovered too late that she too was just another card to be played and then discarded as honako was the one who ordered her death.

V & T-Bug might’ve linked up in person on the low. During the meet at the After Life Jackie mention they all finally met in person than T-Bug said “1st time in real space” than winked at V Could nothing could something who knows🤷🏾‍♂️

I don't think Bug is actually dead. She saw the mission go south and chose that moment to use her 'out', cutting all ties by making everyone she knew believe she was dead. If I recall, the door opens _after_ her death scream, and the person delivering the line is someone Bug knows personally, so she would be more likely to have her back. If she did manage to get Dex smuggled out of the mess he created, smuggling herself out of Night City like she always wanted is fairly easy in comparison.

I generaly headcannon that she truely did faked her death. Partly due to her 1 knowing the risks involved with this heist along with knowing Dex and their past history. 2 she saw things going to shit and cut and ran early. But lastly because at some point she actualy started to like both Jackie and V but their relationship never had the chance to flourish. Jackie caught on to her jokes and her love of greek poets And V...is well V 2 mercs that actually tried to be her friends despite her pushing them away. I think she faked her death due to her even saying wanting to cut ties with everyone and never setting foot in cyberspace again. But also she started acting...off very early one and just so happens to "Die" when things go bad when we supposedly used counter measures for that. Plus with the store owner saying she was found dead. We NEVER find her body theres not even a hint to where it might have been. We can find Dexs body We can fuck over Merideth and find her body We can actualy find the bodies of almost all the characters but her? I know its probably not true but i hold the theory she escaped in my heart

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she was attacking V in the first video of cyberpunk 2077, and you can also see her acting sus once V and jackie get in the room. she waiting for the arasaka family to come, something big was going on behind the hiest. i think she booked it once things went wrong. the quite life.

I somehow stumbled across this video and really enjoyed it, and was something I felt the same about her.. but never had an idea that there could have been more to her story originally!

❤i’ve been waiting for this one! i’m so early too omg

Another banger of a video! It's great to see your channel taking off c: It's more than earned. Preem content deserves nova rewards, choombata. Also it's so cool you used to cosplay! It's such a cool hobby. It'd be really cool if you did like a cyberpunk cosplay as a subscriber milestone for a video or something. You'd rock an Evelyn fit

I went on a wild theory, that T-Bug was the real Maman Brigitte, while the one we meet in the game was a stand-in, or possibly Maman's second in command. Maybe T-Bug fled to the Blackwall, or perhaps was never personally in Night City in the first place, and acting through a puppet person via implants from beyond the Blackwall, similar to how Hanako did used a (presumably) Joy Girl (or someone), for their implants, to visit V. There's so many different ways you can go with this and I think the Voodoo Boys route is a good way to go. T-Bug is supposed to be skilled at her craft and got captured way too easily to be believable. Pair that with the idea that it seems all too easy to take down the shadowy netrunner organization that are the Voodoo Boys? Which not even Netwatch could get close to? And I think you have a good solution to that with T-Bug. Netwatch claimed to have had Brigitte on lockdown, but if that was never really her in the first place? [shrug] then T-Bug being the true Voodoo Boys lead runner gives the slip to both problems.

I really wish T-Bug did have a bigger story. She was the character I was most looking forward to learning more about. She could have have some amazing interactions with Songbird and the VDBs in Phantom Liberty, too.

I think a lot of the supposed cut content for T-Bug was actually a template for songbird especially the "sacrifice anything and everything to escape" part and us deciding if we let her go or not.

It's also interesting to note that - if this theory is true (and I think you make a great argument) - just how much overlap there would have been with T-Bug and Songbird. It makes me wonder if they either A) Recycled T-Bug's cut content into Songbird, and/or B) T-Bug's content got cut specifically because there ended up being too much overlap, and one of them had to get scaled back, and it wasn't going to be Songbird 😮

Such a great deep dive. Would love to hear any thoughts and theories you have about potential cut story content

Omg girl that dress is amazing!! Also love the cyberpunk lore!!!

Waiting for your take on phantom liberty dlc, would be fun to watch! ^^

My head cannon, the lady in the netrunnner shop would have likely been the closest thing T-Bug had to an actual friend, due to their long standing business relationship. She is the only person who says that T-Bug died and how she died. After she completed hacking the Tower security, why would she need to stay plugged in? As stated, she is overly cautious and would likely have unplugged and paid her “friend” to say how she died. We never see a body whereas we find Bartmoss. I think she is in Greece and just planted the believable lie.

I always felt like T-Bug's early demise, and the holes they leave in her development, were conscious choices. With Jackie, we know what happened to him, since we were there, and we actually have closure about it (especially if you pursue the Ofrenda storyline). With T-bug, whether successfully or not, I believe they were **deliberately** leaving us without closure or even comprehension. She dies, suddenly and...we never really know how, by whom. We never get to do anything about it, even really mourn.

Never seen one of your videos before but I really enjoyed this one. You speak well and put your ideas across clearly. Good job ! Maybe turn the music volume down a touch though 😅

super interesting to think about having just completed phantom liberty recently i wonder how much of that DLC's story was retooled from Tbug's original plot just cause there are a handful of similarities there

34 seconds into the video. I am liked and subscribed. I now know what to do with some of my downtime this weekend

I have a rather unusual theory (and not much to prove it of course, so please don't take it too hard, I know it's mostly headcanon and not very tenable, I just find the thought interesting): The whole Konpeki Plaza heist was set up by Arasaka. They infiltrated the Voodoo Boys (like that one Netwatch guy in Phantom Liberty) and set up the whole mission. They had two goals: 1. to test the Relic before using a possibly faulty Relic on Saburo Araska, and 2. to get through the Blackwall (and possibly Alt Cunningham) to capture the K.Is behind it and make them usable, similar to Militech's Cynosure project, without Netwatch becoming aware of it. This would also explain why Adam Smasher doesn't attack V and Jackie when they hide behind the TV. Of course, things don't quite go according to plan, Saburo Arasaka's death was most likely not foreseen and V becoming "the victim" of the Relic wasn't foreseen either, but Dexter DeShawn may have even been tasked with taking out V (and Jackie, if he was still around) to cover his tracks before Takemura took out Dex. The thing with Saburo's death just threw the plan out the window a bit, even if it was at least partially successful for Arasaka, depending on the ending chosen. Or an absolute disaster in other endings.

T-Bug deserved better also, edgerunners confirms ,indirectly that T-Bug was not soul killed as we see net runners and likely anti runner measures can easily affect a person's entire nervous system (both David and Lucy were completely parlayzed temporarily after getting attacked by a quickhack)

Thank you for the video! Honestly I was super disappointed that Jackie and T-Bug get axed without getting to do more missions with them. The way that mission ended it seemed like T-Bug would pop back up at some point.

I would think someone with T-Bug’s intelligence would know the heist was a suicide mission and would try to convince Dexter that it’s too risky. But she seemed very confident it would go smoothly so did Evelyn.

Gotta be honest, i believed tbug survived or faked her death for like half the plot. I was honestly shocked when my friend told me she doesn't return. It seemed so obvious that she either tried to fake death after the job went south to avoid being looked for or would later turn out to be a couse of the failure in the first place working for a third party. I was really surprised it wasn't the case

in-game, it is openly suggested that T-Bug and Dex once had a.. closer relationship. I took that to be the reason (along with the promise of The Heist) for taking on the job. It was meant to be one last time.

During the final assault on Arisaka in the nomad ending the is a netrunner at the security access point where you add Alt to the tower security system. That netrunner looks exactly like T-bug.

So, you talking about an ending where T-Bug retires to Greece made me realise how similar it is to Alex in the DLC getting her happy retirement in Monaco. Makes me wonder if you were right about T-Bug's story and they transplanted that story to Alex as a way to salvage the concept.

Being honest, on first play through I figured Dex and T-Bug were going to turn on you the second you got the relic (without spoiling, a nice variable was tossed into their plans) and the idea was to get the relic then toss your ass over to Arasaka while they ran off with it to Militech and screwed over the employer.

The heist was always bound to fail because 1. The team underestimated the complexities and dangers of the heist, particularly concerning the powerful figures involved, such as Arasaka Corporation. 2. There were trust issues among the crew, especially between V, Jackie, and their fixer, Dexter DeShawn. This lack of cohesion made the team vulnerable. 3. The sudden appearance of Yorinobu Arasaka, who unexpectedly returned to his penthouse with his father, Saburo Arasaka, introduced unforeseen complications. 4. Arasaka's advanced security systems and the presence of high-level security personnel made the heist far more challenging than anticipated. (This is what killed t bug. ) 5. Dexter Deshawn also put a bullet in V’s brain just so he could cover loose ends up Now the only person that could be possibly lying to v in any way would be Takemura and there’s many instances that show he was just using V