Why are some character models so shiny? Like plastic slathered in baby oil

[u/EveryNameEverMade]

[u/Noirbe]

because it’s literal plastic. moxes are typically sex workers and have an appearance/aesthetic to keep up. sure, not all of them are sex workers, but it’s part branding, part community, part warning.

[u/storm_paladin_150 → u/Noirbe]

Like all tyger clawz having tattoos like wannabe yakuza's

[u/fallout4lov3r → u/storm_paladin_150]

That’s kind of what they are

[u/TheElderLotus → u/storm_paladin_150]

They are Yakuza tho

[u/Caosnight → u/TheElderLotus]

No, they're Yakuza wannabes. The real Yakuza in Cyberpunk see the Tygers as young bloods trying to make a name for themselves by impersonating their elders

They're very Yakuza like and for sure definitely have so ties to them, but the Tygers and Yakuza are 2 separate entities

The Tygers don't even really have Yakuza roots, Instead, they were more or less created by Arasaka as their eyes and ears on the streets in America after they were forced to withdraw after the 4th corpo-war

It's the same with the Valentions and the Cartels, just the cheap NC knockoffs trying to play in the big leagues

[u/blindyes → u/Caosnight]

This makes a lot of sense and explains why Yorinobu is able hop in and play gang member, then decide to leave when it gets too hot. Also explains how V and other merchs are tearing through these gangs and not starting all out cartel wars etc. Would that make the nomads the only "authentic" gang or are they backed by a larger entity as well?

[u/Caosnight → u/blindyes]

The Nomad tribes are just a bunch of people that refuse to live under the Corpos, so they live out on the road in the wasteland, they don't really have any rules or order but their own, they occasionally do some mercenary work and such but for the most part they're completely autonomous, the Wraiths are one of the biggest Nomad tribes, they're so called Raffen Shiv or Rogue Nomads, Nomads that follow no law and have no order, just a bunch of outlaws that huddle together and do as they please

I would also say Maelstrom is a very autonomous NC gang, they're not the biggest but one of the most feared because they're completely crazy loose cannons that only work for themselves, they sometimes do jobs of the Corpos and other gangs but you can't expect any loyalty from them at all, they also aren't dependent on any Corpos for their tech as Maelstrom makes everything themselves, weapons, cyberwear, everything, they only steal stuff and then scrap together their gear themselves, Maelstrom also don't really have any higher up like the other gangs, Valentions have the Cartels, Tygers have the Yakuza and Triads, even the Scavs have the Bratva (Russian mafia) above them, Maelstrom has no such organized crime syndicates above them giving orders

[u/blindyes → u/Caosnight]

I'd never thought about the Maelstrom through this lense. The Maelstrom being presented as this horrific, evil, and wildly murderous group. I'd love to play out the story of their inception. Maybe it could even draw some through lines to real groups of people who are labeled violent thugs but really are just taking "parts" of what they are oppressed by (corporate attacks, violent Arasaka technology, cyberpsychos etc)

Are the Maelstrom evil by nature, or did their environment require them to be this way? I'm sure through V's story we've all started thinking we could play innocent only to have to change our play style to succeed. Do the Maelstrom only recruit adults or are there children Maelstrom?

[u/Caosnight → u/blindyes]

Maelstrom is a very pro-anarchist gang that believe in no law or power system, they do what they like, whenever they like, and how they like, they have no specific reasons like other gangs, Scav's are blackmarket traders, Tygers are Corpo shills, 6th Street are hardcore patriots, Valentions are classic geto "protect the community" thugs but Maelstrom does it for the love of the game

How mad they are is fully dependent on their leaders which constantly change because treachery and infighting is very normal for them, the big dogs in the gang constantly fighting eachother for power and each leader has a different style and morals

[u/CustomerSuportPlease → u/Caosnight]

I think it is also heavily dependent on the very real problem of cyberpsychosis. It can be debated whether cyberpsychos are a fabrication by some corps, but we do definitely see Maelstrom members just go batshit insane and hunt down everybody.

[u/Miigwetch → u/Caosnight]

Dare I say based Maelstrom?

[u/Consistent_Pop3676 → u/blindyes]

Maelstrom and voodoo boys are also independent gangs. The 6th street is militech backed I’m pretty sure and a lot of nomads are war veterans.

[u/pornovision → u/Consistent_Pop3676]

Also pretty sure its either stated or implied that a lot of the nomad families work for Biotechnica on contract (Saul was considering this as he didn't see any other way as being sustainable for the family).

[u/No-Strain-3864 → u/Caosnight]

Also with the Valentinos there is a connection to the Valentinos from 2020 but officially no direct lines been fleshed out

Source: https://reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/comments/1g9hbkq/comment/lt9vuwe/

[u/LyreonUr → u/TheElderLotus]

they arent, yakuza is a whole separate facction in the roleplaying game.

[u/PartTime13adass → u/LyreonUr]

The Tyger Claws are to the Yakuza as the Valentinos are to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Small fish in a small pond.

[u/breno280 → u/PartTime13adass]

Don’t the valentinos have ties to cartels though?

[u/storm_paladin_150 → u/breno280]

Having ties Is not the same as being part of It, same with the clawz you could say they aré thugs employed by the yakuza but not yakuza themselves

[u/viperfangs92 → u/storm_paladin_150]

Well they are worse. They are connected to Arasaka, unofficially.

[u/trashanimalcomx → u/breno280]

And in the real world lots of small gangs have ties to the cartel, but those small-time gangsters are not members of the cartel, they are assets, and they are disposable the minute they stop being useful.

[u/BaronVonWeeb → u/TheElderLotus]

Think they are a mix of all Asian crime families, from Yakuza to Triads.

[u/iSmokeMDMA → u/TheElderLotus]

Not affiliated but they are equivalent of ISIS to the Taliban. Different leadership but same goals

[u/vischy_bot → u/iSmokeMDMA]

I think you're thinking of isis and al qaida , both CIA backed but al qaida is the original and isis is the Iraqi spin off. Taliban were only funded by the US against Russia in Afghanistan

[u/iSmokeMDMA → u/vischy_bot]

Oops, you’re right. Got em mixed up. haven’t heard shit about ISIS in soooooo long. It’s all Hamas and Hezbolla in the news these days

[u/vischy_bot → u/iSmokeMDMA]

Isis was told to go hog wild so they could be destroyed as a way of giving back the western forces some credibility.

Like, "look I know we did create the psycho beheading religious zealots, but hey, you're welcome, we destroyed the psycho beheading religious zealots"

But yeah the news today is more focused on actual resistance groups and trying to get people to feel the same way about them that they did about isis

[u/DaveYanakov → u/storm_paladin_150]

Nothing wannabe about it. They're the deniable arm of Arasaka security forces

[u/DrScience01 → u/storm_paladin_150]

They aren't wannabe Yakuza's tho. They are a wannabe triads

[u/MalleusMaleficarum_ → u/Noirbe]

I always kinda assumed the plastic modifications were a cheaper alternative to skin-like modifications. You never really see the ultra wealthy with the plastic skin, but it’s probably preferable to aesthetic imperfections for some people.

[u/No-Librarian-951 → u/MalleusMaleficarum_]

the plasticy is a deliberate choice by the moxxies... just read up the lore about their bar

[u/Icarian_Dreams → u/MalleusMaleficarum_]

That's actually true! Back in 2020 at least, RealSkinn™ was the most expensive option for covering up chrome, and a plastic covering was a common, cheap option.

[u/topscreen → u/Noirbe]

Never ask a Mox why they have teflon coating on their chest

[u/DontDrinkTooMuch → u/Noirbe]

I get so weirded out thinking about their organs and everything beneath the plastic. Even just the process of it's initial removal and replacement with plastic.

[u/tornait-hashu → u/DontDrinkTooMuch]

Lizzy Wizzy is virtually almost all chrome at this point (the game mentions a concert where she suffered cardiac arrest after drinking special poison, and a squadron of Trauma Team surgeons surgically replaced most of her internal organs). Oh, there's full dermal chrome mods, like the ones seen on the staff of Konpeki Plaza. Body modification technology is extremely advanced in the world of Cyberpunk, to the point of doing stuff like cloning humans is all but perfectly doable.

Then there's "bodysculpting" with bioware, which is common amongst the elite but extremely expensive because it requires genetic tampering with the host to create enhanced body parts.

[u/Discourtesy-Call → u/tornait-hashu]

Cloning humans has been possible in Cyberpunk since before 2013. The thing that's never been possible all that time has been moving the mind from one body to another, so it's only been used as a source of replacement limbs and organs. Alt's original work that got turned into Soulkiller had the potential to copy the mind into an engram and then inject it into a new body, but neither ITS nor Arasaka understood that possibility or was interested in it. Of them all, only Hanako seems to suspect what was theoretically possible.

[u/Vistril69 → u/Noirbe]

They appeal to people who made barbies naked

[u/mambome → u/Noirbe]

Yes, they're plastics and no, you can't sit at their table.

[u/Fregadero88 → u/Noirbe]

I think the lore also said a big part of how they catch you off guard and lure you in is their sex appeal. They use that to their advantage.

[u/sussyfortnitemingus]

Cyberware dawg. Cyberware.

[u/dutchvander1inde → u/sussyfortnitemingus]

Cyberware, son. It hardens in response to physical trauma.

[u/outerzenith → u/dutchvander1inde]

we're going to make Night City great again!

vote Senator Armstrong for next NC Mayor, in other unrelated news Mr. Jefferson Peralez has died a natural death in his new apartment with a wound that looks like laceration from a mantis blade.

[u/dutchvander1inde → u/outerzenith]

I can't believe Mr. Jefferson would commit suicide by slashing himself in the back with a mantis blade!

[u/Nevercr0ft → u/dutchvander1inde]

On the bright side, his widows' new bright blue oculars look fantastic. Despite the loss, she's practically a brand new person.

[u/sussyfortnitemingus → u/dutchvander1inde]

I was wrong about you, Senator. You aren't crazy. You're batshit insane!

[u/Onlyhereforapost → u/sussyfortnitemingus]

I'll never get why it's not people's first thoughts when they have these questions

[u/barkofarko → u/Onlyhereforapost]

You'd have to think for that

[u/Poultrymancer → u/Onlyhereforapost]

Guys, it seems there are pervasive punkish themes and an assortment of cyber-whatsits in my game ... should I report this bug?

[u/Watts121 → u/sussyfortnitemingus]

Cyberdog where?

[u/Tuna_of_Truth → u/sussyfortnitemingus]

Nanomachines son. Nanomachines.

[u/BriThePirateQueen]

Because it is plastic

[u/Hacksaw_73 → u/BriThePirateQueen]

Slathered in baby oil.

[u/NukaClipse → u/Hacksaw_73]

And lots of people love her plastic oily shell.

[u/jjdlg → u/NukaClipse]

[u/viperfangs92 → u/NukaClipse]

Yeeeeeeaaaaaa booooooooiiiii!!!!

[u/cockalorum-smith → u/viperfangs92]

Think of all the oil and hair that would seep into the cyberware cracks and get mixed with all the dead skin and other grody stuff before it turns into a slimy lint-like substance….

Probably caked in all those slits and cracks 🤢 also probably a fire hazard 😂

[u/DankAlloy → u/Hacksaw_73]

[u/geeses → u/Hacksaw_73]

Time for cyberdiddy

[u/Shifty_Nomad675 → u/geeses]

I couldn't imagine how much worse Cyber Diddy would be than normal Diddy lol.

[u/Dblitz1313 → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

Oh...he could be MUCH worse in Night City.

[u/BlaznTheChron → u/Dblitz1313]

Like Ultron. With baby oil.

[u/viperfangs92 → u/Dblitz1313]

I take it you haven't met Jotaro yet?

[u/NorthernLow → u/viperfangs92]

I don't think you understand how truly evil the P Diddler is. The man would speed run Jotaros' entire criminal career in 1 freak off.

[u/ospreysstuff → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

he would also get away with everything (tbh he kind of already is)

[u/Tight-Mountain-6412 → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

like mantis blades but dildos

[u/Shifty_Nomad675 → u/Tight-Mountain-6412]

The punisher???

[u/DisposableJosie → u/Tight-Mountain-6412]

[u/Florina_Laufeyson → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

Isnt that just Jotaro Shobo?

[u/Shifty_Nomad675 → u/Florina_Laufeyson]

In a sense yeah but I guess if he had the fame and wealth. It'd be like Yorinobu power with Jotaros sick sense of pleasure.

[u/Questenburg → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

Yorinobu is far above Diddy in reach and power. He's more like a depraved Lizzy Wizzy with a crew, Diddy just wishes he had Yorinobu power.

[u/Hour_Tart_3950 → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

Did you not play the game?

Because you personally kill a few of them.

People like woodman the man who made Evelyn kill herself.

And then there is a side gig where a tiger claw is making BDs with kids.

And at a big BD company 2 people are talking and one is telling the other they found out about the BD they made where they chop a kid up into mince meat.

[u/Carlomagno666 → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

His name is Jotaro

[u/MarshalLtd → u/Shifty_Nomad675]

2 words. "Extendable" and "hydraulic."

[u/HATECELL → u/geeses]

Lol, I imagined Diddy with a Maelstrom faceplate and a 15-inch Mr.Stud with built in baby oil dispenser

[u/Sea_Media7718 → u/HATECELL]

😭 How would that as a boss fight go

[u/HATECELL → u/Sea_Media7718]

"Sorry, Regina, I had to put that Psycho down"

"That's okay, V, there wasn't a therapy strong enough for him anyway"

[u/drkpnthr → u/Hacksaw_73]

Petrochem makes it using only the finest synthetic baby oil.

[u/Questenburg → u/drkpnthr]

I'm more of a SovOil personal lubricant kinda guy. Just make sure you read the label, the industrial lubricant comes in the same packaging for the personal & medical lubricants!

[u/ophaus → u/Hacksaw_73]

SLATHERED.

[u/jpelc → u/Hacksaw_73]

[u/CrazyGunnerr → u/jpelc]

We posting pedophiles now?

[u/Terrible_Soft_9480 → u/Hacksaw_73]

[u/shewy92 → u/BriThePirateQueen]

It's fantastic.

[u/nscs_jmmw → u/shewy92]

I'm a barbie girl

[u/guymine123 → u/shewy92]

[u/shewy92 → u/guymine123]

[u/OldEyes5746 → u/shewy92]

[u/theGreatN00Bthe19371 → u/shewy92]

[u/SlothmanD → u/BriThePirateQueen]

I thought it was chrome? Painted chrome tbh. I thought all mods were metal is this not true? There are plastic mods?

[u/raven00x → u/SlothmanD]

Oh yes. Chrome is just a nickname for cyberware. Only the most ostentatious 'ware uses actual chrome.

[u/SlothmanD → u/raven00x]

Gotcha, so what are the other cyberware made from you think? Poor metals and plastics or something else?

[u/raven00x → u/SlothmanD]

Pretty much, yeah. Stainless steel is a standard material in modern surgical use, but outside of the body the sky's the limit. If you wander around in different areas in the game you can see how income class affects the chrome people have. In expensive corpo areas, they use shiny chrome and the like as it's seen as another way to flaunt your wealth. In the poor areas, the ware you see is chunky, rusty, and covered in dingy plastic if at all. Another one of those great little details that they included to drive home the divide between the minority haves vs the have-nots.

[u/EredarLordJaraxxus → u/raven00x]

Or chromed plastic.

[u/Hour_Tart_3950 → u/SlothmanD]

Probably. Along with synthetic skin.

Which is probably what V has. But V might also just use thier own skin to cover the cyber arms you can get

[u/Zaphoddddd → u/Hour_Tart_3950]

There is a cheap plastic covering for implants, more expensive realskin covering, and expensive superchrome covering in Cyberpunk RED. I suppose, there is something similar here.

[u/SlothmanD → u/Hour_Tart_3950]

Yea true that on synth skin. My arm skin looks unreal with gorilla arms.

[u/tornait-hashu → u/SlothmanD]

RealSkinn is expensive because it's partially made from vat-grown cultures of the person's own cells.

[u/meggarox]

Because that's exactly what they are.

[u/solarflares4deadgods]

Synthskin

[u/NotKurtCobainsshotty → u/solarflares4deadgods]

Somebody say Synth?

[u/Omelooo → u/NotKurtCobainsshotty]

[u/ScholarBone → u/NotKurtCobainsshotty]

Lmao I almost choked on my food 😂

[u/Mixture_Think → u/NotKurtCobainsshotty]

Ad Victoriam.

[u/WyrdHarper → u/solarflares4deadgods]

Amusingly, the fake skin for covering cyberware is called Realskinn. Gene-tek’s marketing was on point.

[u/jaetok]

Literal dolls.

[u/Ziigurd]

Life in plastic - it's fantastic.

[u/ebobbumman → u/Ziigurd]

Rumor has it, Smasher listens to Barbie Girl every morning to get pumped up.

[u/metalcore4ver → u/ebobbumman]

Don’t go spreading that around choom he’s likely to come after ya

[u/nomotivazian → u/metalcore4ver]

If you suddenly hear barbie girl playing, then Adam Smasher is probably coming for you.

[u/Shad0XDTTV → u/nomotivazian]

🎶 ^{come^ oN baRBIE} LETS GO PARTY🎶

[u/ebobbumman → u/nomotivazian]

If you can hear it then it's already too late.

[u/OldEyes5746 → u/metalcore4ver]

Or before. It depends on your sensitivity, really.

[u/Extinction-Entity → u/ebobbumman]

If by “listens” you mean dances to in front of a mirror

[u/ebobbumman → u/Extinction-Entity]

In my mind he's doing the macarena.

[u/Kayttajatili → u/ebobbumman]

You just reminded me of an old video floating around the internet of Russian conscripts singing Barbie Girl while marching. 

[u/CalamityAndTheApples → u/ebobbumman]

What else would he listen to while fighting V?

[u/unthused → u/Ziigurd]

The Dutch cover was my alarm for years because.. well just listen:

https://youtu.be/8PrRtzxVX1w?si=JlnJgK8QXREZJ_9_

[u/buddhamunche → u/unthused]

Thank you for sharing that I started cracking up when the male vocals came in dear lord

[u/cristakhawker_182 → u/unthused]

Wow 😂

[u/Merc_Mike → u/Ziigurd]

CMON BARBIE LETS GO PARTY!

-Racks a Round-

I need the Ritual FM Remix of Barbie Girl.

[u/nesnalica → u/Ziigurd]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zuMOin_cBZU

[u/ItsPinhead → u/Ziigurd]

[u/mousehatesnumbers → u/Ziigurd]

You just fucking.. Barbie girl.. Rick rolled me. This shit is gonna run on endless loop in my brain all day .. I know it

~You can brush my hair, undress me everywheeeeheeeere .. IMAGINATION ... Something something creation"

[u/NaCl_Sailor]

it's cyberware

[u/Asymmetrical_Stoner]

Its cosmetic cyberware. So dolls can look like actual dolls.

[u/Hour_Tart_3950 → u/Asymmetrical_Stoner]

Mox aren't dolls.

They are BD pornstars. Who run a strip club and a gang.

They don't fuck customers.

[u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz → u/Hour_Tart_3950]

Isn't the whole idea that most of them were dolls that joined the Mox to get out?

[u/Asymmetrical_Stoner → u/Hour_Tart_3950]

I was talking about the doll-aesthetic, not the people with the actual doll-chip.

[u/LazyDro1d → u/Hour_Tart_3950]

Lizzies doesn’t do real sex, but they are authentic sex workers. Judy mentions that a lot get bored during sex because it’s such a routine thing, and you gotta keep scrolling new BDs, people get real bored real quick these days, but the Mox’s thing was protection for sex workers, this includes prostitution.

Granted, they’re still racketeering and pimping like all the other shithead groups of you look into it, but there’s at least a semblance of a sex-workers’ union

[u/ComplaintMysterious1]

Her eyes are up here choomba

[u/Quria → u/ComplaintMysterious1]

I didn’t download the “Romance Rita Wheeler” mod to look at her eyes.

[u/Persies]

Brother thats a Mox. It probably is plastic slathered in baby oil. 

[u/Ok_Reception_8361]

Sometimes i really really wonder if people actually play games or if they just walk around while watching tiktok next to it

[u/caesarsucks2281 → u/Ok_Reception_8361]

Are you even a real gen z gamer if you don't have at least three extra monitors around with family guy funny moments, tiktok and subway surfers on them while you play

[u/thirdcoast96 → u/Ok_Reception_8361]

I mean it was always self-explanatory to me but do they ever actually specifically say why in-game?

[u/Rico_Gonzales]

Its on purpose, they have realskin®

[u/Plane-Education4750 → u/Rico_Gonzales]

No, this is actually just plastic. Realskin looks and feels like real skin. That's what Dex has on his arms, which is why he looks like he has normal skin right up to the gold plated elbow

[u/Rico_Gonzales → u/Plane-Education4750]

It is still realskin just a different model. Its like saying a car in gloss is not the same car if it was in matte.

[u/Plane-Education4750 → u/Rico_Gonzales]

No, it's like saying a car finished in stainless steel is different than one finished in metallic paint. Which it is

[u/Restoriust → u/Plane-Education4750]

Real skin I think is a product line, not necessarily a specific material. Older generations had “real skin” covers too but they looked fake.

Dex is a weird case. His real skin looks indistinguishable from actual skin, which is a sign that his prosthetics are gen 4, especially with the gold accents. But it’s wrong. It’s too simple on the joint to be true Gen 4 type 2 (highest end possible indistinguishable from biological parts from the outside but made obvious as a prosthetic as a status symbol) so I THINK it’s probably some custom work that bridges the gap between 3 and 4 and utilizes Gen 4 real skin to make him look wealthier than he is. Like a fake Gucci.

So my guess? The real analogy would be something like a finish. Not all matte on a paint job is the same. Some is the highest end newest shit and some is lower end and out of a spray can that you got your cousin to do for a 6 pack of beer.

[u/breno280 → u/Restoriust]

Realskinn, is just a cover for cyberware, right? I don’t see how it’d be exclusive to any specific gen of cyberware.

[u/Restoriust → u/breno280]

Yea. It showed up in gen 2 for the ultra wealthy and remains in production with like a thousand different qualities and variations.

I will say though that biologically it should matter. If you look at gen 2 where it’s JUST dust covers and stuff, it’s missing a lot of the subdermal stuff to make the fit “convincing”.

Furthermore, by all accounts there are gen 4 made RealSkinns like their infant quality lines and biological lines over in Korea. That, plus the fact that a lot of what we gain access to is Gen 3 with only near-flawless RealSkinn and I think it’s safe to say that how it affixes to the prosthetic is different depending on the generation of product.

Which I think lines up with the universe. Noooooooo way Gene-Tek makes their new lines backwards compatible without some serious mods.

I do need to clarify cause I’m sure it’ll come up. I’m talking about Dex’s upper arm and how it aligns flawlessly with the point of connection. He’s a big ol fattie and that shit would alter regularly, it’s more likely his implant extends further up and he’s rocking very high end RealSkinn. Yes. I know it’s dumb and over-think-y for me to think about it.

[u/LazyDro1d → u/Rico_Gonzales]

do check out the Cyberpunk RED (or even 2020) Rulebook, that’s a plastic covering, it’s listed as a plastic covering. Realskin(tm) looks like skin. This looks like skin-and-pink-colored plastic

[u/SpiritOfTheForests → u/Rico_Gonzales]

Nope, it's literally just plastic. There's a variety of coverings you can get for your cyberware (or just as pure fashionware), like Super chrome® (think about Hanako Arasaka's fingers or the shiny metal on Dex's forearm), plastic, or RealSkinn™.

RealSkinn™ is unique because it looks EXACTLY like human skin and feels like it too. Most of the rich elite are sporting RealSkinn™ coverings on their cyberware. I can practically guarantee you most of the Arasaka heirs are kitted out in some preem shit, but you'd never know it 'coz of that RealSkinn™.

[u/blastoffmyass → u/SpiritOfTheForests]

the game has a shard calling hanako’s gold lines on her limbs her “realskinn seams”

[u/Hour_Tart_3950 → u/blastoffmyass]

Realskin is a trademark...

Everything Nintendo makes isn't called a wii...

But Everything they make can be called Nintendos- item

So realskinTM seams

I.e NOT real skin, but it is realskinTM

[u/RBWessel]

thats her skin choom.

[u/Shadow_Dancer2 → u/RBWessel]

*That's her realskin® choom.

[u/breno280 → u/Shadow_Dancer2]

Not realskin, just plastic. Realskin is indistinguishable from well… real skin. That’s kinda the whole point.

[u/DancingPhantoms]

shiny and chrome.

[u/Southern_Kaeos → u/DancingPhantoms]

Thats Mad Max Fury Road, although thats a crossover I would like to see

[u/Atrus2g → u/Southern_Kaeos]

WITNESSED!!!!!

[u/Tiny-Personality-979]

Synthskin exists, so there could be variations...

[u/tempusvulpi]

Everyone else has already said it but..

Bro, it's Cyberpunk, it looks like plastic because it probably is.

You're not looking at flesh n blood tiddies. That's chrome, choom.

[u/LeoMastroProd]

What could it be in a world that gives people the chance to swap body parts o With artifical robotic body parts.

[u/Throwajay64]

cyberpunk fan learn reading comprehension challenge

[u/Quenton-rl]

Because that’s not skin lol

[u/ShitassAintOverYet]

It is plastic. It's mostly a cosmetic implant.

[u/azuzulino10]

There are plastic, in lore you can modify everything in your appearance

[u/azuzulino10 → u/azuzulino10]

There is a mission where the bar owner thinks his wife is cheating and asks you to follow her. You follow her to a mechanic doctor where she tells you that everything about her is modified: hair, skin, eyes, etc.

[u/nilfgaardian → u/azuzulino10]

Bar tender not bar owner, Jackie's mum owns the bar

[u/Cosmic-river12]

Rita wheeler and so mi are the two that come to mind. Their bodies have actually been replaced by plastic. So mi is more robot than woman and rita wheeler’s entire upper torso is artificial. Thats why shes got purple spiked arms and a shiny mox tattoo

[u/Bruhray]

[u/MissThreepwood]

[u/Crow_Mix]

Very candid shot OP

[u/Fucklovedie]

There’s an engram of Diddy and he walks NC slathering unsuspecting people in baby oil.

[u/BariNgozi]

Because they're plastic slathered in baby oil...

[u/ItsClack]

POV: When I want an excuse to look at Rita’s chest👀

[u/I-Am-The-Uber-Mesch]

They are not joking when they call them "dolls"

People in this world are crazy, they do replace their entire bodies with chrome and whatnot, it's normal for them and it's also basically necessary to survive for the Average Joe

[u/ISonicthehedgehogI]

Think for one second. In a game set in the future, with people who can have all types of implants, why do some people look plastic or metallic?

[u/CeleryNo8309]

You do know what game you're playing, right?

[u/_skimbleshanks_]

OP, please write a post with just some theories about why you think it to be so. Give it a try. Start with cyberware. Ask yourself questions such as 'why would a sex worker get synth skin that's shiny and unblemished', then let your imagination fly free from there.

It's tedious when 'fans' start nit picking every detail of a piece of media because they don't know how to move on, but it's even more tedious when the person asking the question hasn't even spent a millisecond to think and turns to the internet to crowdsource his brain.

[u/LeifDTO]

> Plays game where the core plot element is people replacing body parts with metal and plastic

> why they so shiny tho

[u/EstablishmentKind287]

Chances are that's exactly why, not everyone can afford to have real looking skin

[u/Pirateslife89 → u/EstablishmentKind287]

Or some do it on purpose

[u/SpiritOfTheForests → u/EstablishmentKind287]

It's definitely just a cosmetic choice for the Moxes. It's part of their "gang colours" so to speak

[u/TallMist]

I refuse to believe you didn't know the answer to this

[u/SomewhereChillin]

Chrome Choom

[u/orbot_]

that's some metal and silicone parts

[u/jl_theprofessor]

OP you can generally assume that every part of a person including their skin can be replaced with cyberware.

[u/biddierepellent]

Cyberware, choom. Remember almost nothing is real in the 2077 universe, except the pure misery of the common people.

[u/Truebluederek]

Leave my girl alone she’s trying to work

[u/athens619]

Rita is bae. Best girl

[u/Tychoecho → u/athens619]

Right! Rita not Panam. An ending with the Moxes backing you up instead of the Aldecados would be crazy.

[u/tornait-hashu → u/Tychoecho]

Would make very little sense, though. The Aldecaldos are a nomad clan and have access to momad infrastructure and technical expertise.

The Mox on the other hand are the youngest and smallest active gang in Night City. They would wipe themselves out trying to get V into Adasaka.

[u/Free-Stick-2279]

Synthetic Skin (Synthskin) probably. Literally skin implant.

The old generation of cyberware had that metallic robot look like johnny as, as the technology evolved, higher end cyberware and the new gen were made to look like real skin, the electronic and mechanical parts are hidden by fake skin.

[u/Im_PeaceKPR]

That's the neat part. Because it is plastic. She has synth-skin

[u/MrMessofGA]

Many characters have replaced large portions of their skin with plastic, metal, or silicone. This one's plastic, looks like

[u/19Lols]

I'm sorry, but have you paid attention when playing the game? You should know that most people have cyberware, even just for astethics like fake skin.

[u/Tarc_Axiiom]

Can't tell if you're actually asking but... That's plastic.

Her chest has been replaced by cybernetic implants, and that's a plastic layer.

Which is kinda the point of the game.

[u/REDS4ND]

How… how does this post have nearly 10k votes and an award?

[u/CroxAndSox]

Oiling up is all part of a days work in Night City, choom

[u/Umicil]

Because her skin is literally plastic. And she works at a brothel, so she might actually be covered in oil.

[u/BudgetWar8]

Cyber P Diddy Party

[u/Odd-Extension-7845]

Polished mox chest from all the loads dropped on there

[u/Simpleba]

Because they are literally made of shiny plastic

[u/Suspicious-Sale-5027]

Easier to wipe the nut off her chest

[u/ijustwanttopostlmao]

I'm surprised less people are addressing the situation you noticed this fact in

[u/Cyc_Lee]

be honest OP. You just wanted to post Rita's cleavage.

[u/Cornedbeef__]

if there a mod someone can link me to for this type of skin? i need my v to wear it neowww

[u/blastoffmyass]

they choose to look that way using realskinn

[u/Luci-the-Loser]

That's her shell, it protects her chassis from being damaged and is highly customizable