History Fanfic / CyberpunkAnotherDaybreak

* PencilPushingPresident: Despite being a Kamen Rider, David still has to deal with normal corporate things - including writing a notice of termination for Julio after the latter manages to have an EpicFail through pure stupidty ''on his first day at work''. He mentally notes that his classes in Arasaka Academy for putting BadNewsInAGoodWay are already being put to use.

* PaperlessFuture: David complains that it's 2077 when Pilar and Rebecca make a mess of his office by printing out all their findings while conducting an investigation into the gangs of Night City. He wonders why they didn't just use digital displays or at least used a different, unused meeting room to make a mess in.

** After David informs Rebecca that Kiwi is after her due to Rebecca helping David vet Julio (who screwed up his first day so badly that Kiwi was mentally scarred), and that Kiwi is currently taking her revenge on Pilar (who also helped vet Julio), Rebecca takes David's [[RunOrDie advice]] and makes a run for it.

** Kiwi is the most feared of Maine's crew for her vindictiveness and skills as a netrunner. Her personal grudge against David for causing her so much trouble scares the shit out of him even though he's immune to her quickhacks thanks to ZEA. Pilar gets immediately quickhacked for helping David hire Julio and Rebecca just runs when David breaks the news to her. It gets so bad that David transforms and books it out the nearest window when she tells him she's coming foro him.

* BrainBleach: An Ark-backed A.I. bounced off Netrunner ICE and into the toilet system of a men's bathroom, resulting in it using the toilet to attack nearby people. While the A.I. was subdued without incident or casualties, everyone involved needed a bath and time alone after likely getting doused with septic tank fluid.

* TheCanKickedHim: An A.I.'s attempts to hack an NCPD Netrunner are repelled by the Netrunner's ICE, resulting in the A.I. instead bouncing into the software of a nearby toilet. It then uses the toilet and septic system to attack the Netrunner and anyone else nearby. While it's subdued without any casualties or injuries, everyone involved wants BrainBleach from being [[CoveredInGunge covered in septic fluid and crap]].

* TheDreaded: Ark is an infamously powerful and dangerous A.I. with the ability to interact with the real world and turn anyone's cybernetics against them. Given that chrome is the bread and butter of all of Night City's most powerful individuals, this makes Ark an existential threat to Night City's way of life.

** Kiwi mentions that the only data that the Netrunners trying to break into Hiden's hospital servers have is the list of Thousers being given out to kindergarteners and orphaned children, referencing Gai Amatsu's beloved robot dog whose loss was the beginning of his StartOfDarkness.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Kiwi is furious with David after the media fiasco he created with his public debut forces her to fight practically every netrunner in Night City trying to break into Hiden's servers to learn more about the mysterious Kamen Rider. She repeatedly brings this up whenever anyone has complaints about her behavior because of the grudge she developed from battling her way through the Netrunner equivalent of ''VideoGame/{{Verdun}}''.

** David's desire to do good and willingness to put his life on the line for it reminds Maine of Sasha Yakloeva, his crew's young and kind Netrunner who gave her life to expose Biotechnica's wrongdoings that killed her mother.

** The RecursiveCanon plot point is derived from Film/KamenRiderSaberPlusKikaiSentaiZenkaigerSuperHeroSenki, in which Touma inspires Shotaro Ishinomori to continue writing and drawing about superheroes, ensuring the continued existence of the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai worlds.

* RescueRomance: It's implied that Lucy starts falling for David after he saves her from Ark after his first transformation.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Under the pretense of having to catch up on his emails, David excuses himself from a tense meeting between Jin and Woz and promptly books it upon hearing the activation of the Slashriser and the Beyondriver.

* AppealToForce: The Tyger Claws have been attempting to drive Hiden out of their territory by attacking Hiden Private International School. yWhen the Tygers refuse to stop and even bomb the premises, Zimmermann tells them to leave under threat of armed retaliation. The Tyger scoff at Zimmermann's threat while boasting about how they're not scared of a "Power Ranger Reject". That's when David and Lucy get the go ahead to flatten the Tygers's motorcycles and fry the Tygers's cyberware with daemons respectively.

** The scene also calls to mind David's absurd driving in Episode 3 of ''Edgerunners''.

* NoHeroToHisValet: Kiwi hates David's guts for the hordes of netrunners she had to fight off following his debut and her fears that his naivety and recklessness will get her and Lucy killed. She never minces words with him even though he outranks her as a board executive and the two trade barbs and swear words regularly.

* ObliviousToHints: [[SmallNameBigEgo Faraday]] has been sending Kiwi a nonstop stream of emails asking for insider details on Hiden in exchange for eddies, seeming not to notice he hasn't got a response (Kiwi has sent them straight to the junk bin).

* BaitAndSwitch: When Frederika is first introduced, she's something of an InspectorJavert character due to believing that David is just a corporate attempt to cash out on Kamen Riders. This lasts ''less than a chapter'' due to David revealing the actual circumstances of how he got the suit, revealing that [[RealAfterAll Kame Riders actually exist]].

* ExtinctInTheFuture: Unchecked corporate exploitation has driven most species of wildlife to extinction. When Falco wonders why Ark decided to turn a school bus into a milipede rather than something like a rhino for maximum destruction, Rebecca asks, "The fuck's a rhino?" WordOfGod indicates that [[ExaggeratedTrope even insects were affected]], with mantids being among the groups to die out.

* HandCannon: The GM-01 Scorpion is a handgun that fires incredibly expensive ammo with 22,000 pounds of force, making it a pistol-sized anti-materiel rifle. The recoil is so immense that Rebecca needs upgrades or an exoskeleton to handle it, but it easily shatters concrete with a single shot.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: In a MegaCorp-dominated world where 80 hour work weeks and a couple of days off a year are considered luxurious, Isu continues the Hiden's goal of bringing about a world of smiles. This also extends to the company's employees, as its internship benefits alone outstrip that of full time employees at Arasaka. Employees aren't mandated to work on weekends and have full healthcare coverage. According to Isu, she hopes that Hiden Intelligence's example will improve worker rights around the world.

* LightningBruiser: Kamen Riders are this relative to almost everything else in the Cyberpunk universe. They can punch and kick with the concentrated force of multiple tons of TNT going off, shrug off enormous impacts, and run circles around Kerenzikov users with ease. Militech estimates that a single Kamen Rider could decimate an entire armed battalion

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: While David was a straight-A student and an outsider among the corpo elite, Arasaka intelligence indicates that there aren't any physical or genetic markers that make him special. His courage and willingness to help others aside, he's a perfectly ordinary teenager with no traits that would mark him as an ideal Kamen Rider. Given that David doesn't chrome up like his ''Edgerunner'' counterpart, he has no reason to believe he's anything special either as he doesn't discover his tolerance for cyberware. David's life before Hiden is so ordinary that his classmates at Hiden International Private School are dumbstuck that he's never learned to shoot and kill to survive given the nature of Night City.

** After dealing with the Tyger Claws attacking Hiden International Private School, Lucy points out that Jotaro is now honorbound to retaliate and start a turf war after the group he sent to attack Hiden got humiliated. On the flipside, Hiden would risk appearing weak and invite furhter attacks if they didn't respond in kind, making said turf war inevitable.

* RecursiveCanon: ''Kamen Rider'' as a franchise apparently exists in David's world as a work by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori pre-[=DataKrash=]. David can only respond with a FlatWhat when confronted with this knowledge and is baffled when Frederica calls him a copyright infringer and a fake Kamen Rider.

* SlaveToPR: As depraved as the {{Mega Corp}}s of Night City are, even Arasaka and Militech wouldn't be able to escape the media shitstorm they'd get if they blew up a school bus full of elementary school children taken hostage by Ark. That's why they leave the problem to Hiden once they realize that the hacked driver isn't the only man on board.

* AppealToForce: When the Tyger Claws refuse to stop harassing Hiden International Private School and even bomb the premises, Zimmermann tells them to leave under threat of armed retaliation. The Tyger Claws scoff at Zimmermann's threat while boasting about how they're not scared of a "Power Ranger Reject". That's when David and Lucy get the go ahead to flatten the Tyger Claws's motorcycles and fry the Claws's cyberware with daemons respectively.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Frederika is first introduced, she's something of an InspectorJavert character due to believing that David is just a corporate attempt to cash out on Kamen Riders. [[spoiler:This lasts ''less than a chapter'' due to David revealing the actual circumstances of how he got the suit, revealing that [[RealAfterAll Kame Riders actually exist]]]].

* BigEntrance: David makes his presence known to the Tyger Claws attacking his school by leaping from the top of a seven-story building and landing directly in front of them.

* MomentKiller: Just as Shin and Lena are about to hold hands, Frederika interjects to reveal that [[spoiler:David is a real Kamen Rider]]. Lena mentally notes that she's probably never going to have the courage to attempt this again, while verbally wondering if Frederika is psychic.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: While David was a straight-A student and an outsider among the corpo elite, Arasaka intelligence indicates that there aren't any physical or genetic markers that make him special. His courage and willingness to help others aside, he's a perfectly ordinary teenager with no traits that would mark him as an ideal Kamen Rider. Given that David doesn't chrome up like his ''Edgerunner'' counterpart, he has no reason to believe he's anything special either as he doesn't discover his tolerance for cyberware.

* RecursiveCanon: ''Kamen Rider'' as a franchise apparently exists in David's world as a work by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori pre-[=DataKrash=]. David can only respond with a FlatWhat when confronted with this knowledge and is baffled when one of his classmates in his WackyHomeroom calls him a copyright infringer and a fake Kamen Rider.

* SlaveToPR: As depraved as the {{Mega Corp}}s of Night City are, even Arasaka and Militech wouldn't be able to escape the media shitstorm they'd get if they blew up a school bus fool of elementary school children taken hostage by Ark. That's why they leave the problem to Hiden once they realize that the hacked driver isn't the only man on board.

* NoTrueScotsman: [[spoiler:Frederika is initially hostile to David because she views him as an attempt by Hiden to cash in on ''Kamen Rider'' to make a quick buck. Once she learns how David got his power, in the process revealing that [[RealAfterAll Kamen Riders are real]], her opinion [[InvertedTrope does a complete 180]]]].

* BackAlleyDoctor: Doc is still cutting open people without anesthetic to install cyberware into them in this story. Woz and Misty try to introduce David to Viktor Vector, but David is too creeped out by what Doc does and the tarot cards Misty left out to even consider going back there.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Hiden as a whole is run by a plethora of quirky personalities, such as Rebecca being the TriggerHappy head of the Cyberpsycho division that subdues and rehabilitates cyberpsychos. David is even more shocked to learn that the entire faculty of Hiden Private International School consists of ex-German military officers, including a HotBlooded principal who treats education as a holy crusade to uplift the masses and a vice-principal in a maid outfit.

* TheCameo: Garry the Prophet grabs "a well-dressed Asian man in a well pressed black suit with a pink collared shirt, with a pink antique camera hanging around his neck from a strap" leaving Misty's Esoterica, referring to none other than [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Tsukasa]].

* FrenchMaidOutfit: Margaret Wenzel inexplicably wears one of these despite being an otherwise serious, normal, and tired teacher. The sight of it is so bizarre that David considers getting new eyeballs because he thinks he's seeing things.
* FriendOnTheForce: Mosley acts as a guardsman who keeps Hiden updated on Ark's most recent whereabouts and any potential leaks it can get through. He helps police the net and assists Hiden's netrunners with containment and information-gathering.

* TheIntern: David gets his start with Hiden Intelligence when Isu offers him an internship with its cybersecurity division to help him get back on his feet following his mother's near-fatal car accident during a shootout on the highway. Rebecca, Kiwi, and Lucy initially use him as an errand boy to get cigarettes from the vending machine, but that ends after he's suddenly promoted to executive Corpo by becoming a Kamen Rider.

* TheHeart: It's {{implied|Trope}} that ''[[TheFool Pilar]], of all people'', was this for Maine's crew, as his interlude shows that he has the most emotional concern for his teammates and recognized that Maine needed Hiden's help to treat his Chrome additiction.

* HiddenDepths: Surprisingly, his interlude reveals that despite Pilar being very self aware about his lack of intelligence, he scored hired than Kiwi on an IQ test. He's also ''very aware'' that Maine has Chrome-addiction and needs help to avoid going Cyber-Psycho.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In a MegaCorp-dominated world where 80 hour work weeks and a couple of days off a year are considered luxurious, Isu continues the Hiden's goal of bringing about a world of smiles. This also extends to the company's employees, as its internship benefits alone outstrip that of fulltime employees at Arasaka. Employees aren't mandated to work on weekends and have full healthcare coverage. According to Isu, she hopes that Hiden Intelligence's example will improve worker rights around the world.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: V's and David's respective social circles overlap to this extent. V's favorite ripperdoc, Viktor Vector, is based in the same building as Misty, who's the girlfriend of Jackie Welles, a friend of the Martinezs. The author has gone on the record about his attentions to keep this level of separation as V and David operate differently.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In canon, while Lucy and David are an OfficialCouple, Lucy initially keeps David at arms length for fear of losing him. Here, due to David [[RescueRomance saving her from her worst fear during his]] FirstDayFromHell, Lucy practically clings to him like a SecurityBlanket, to the point of giving up being head of Cyber Security to become his secretary.

** The RecusiveCanon plot point is derived from Film/KamenRiderSaberPlusKikaiSentaiZenkaigerSuperHeroSenki, in which Touma inspires Shotaro Ishinomori to continue writing and drawing about superheroes, ensuring the continued existence of the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai worlds.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: When David leaves the office to meet Woz, Isu assumes David is being proactive in his role as a Kamen Rider. In truth, David wanted to get away from the office and put off dealing HR work and the deluge of emails in his inbox.

* TheCanKickedHim: An A.I. attempts to hack an NCPD Netrunner are repelled by the Netrunner's ICE, resulting in the A.I. instead bouncing into the software of a nearby toilet. It then uses the toilet and septic system to attack the Netrunner and anyone else nearby. While it's subdued without any casualties or injuries, everyone involved wants BrainBleach from being [[CoveredInGunge covered in septic fluid and crap]].

* DrinkingOnDuty: Subverted. After getting invited to the Afterlife, David considers stashing some Brosephs in the fridge to deal with the stresses of Corpo life. Lucy strongly recommends against this, citing Isu's TranquilFury when Rebecca and Pilar tried to sneak contraband into the building against her strict orders to remain sober at work.

* InTheDreamingStageOfGrief: David believes he must be dreaming after flatlining in the car crash when Isu offers to foot the bill for Gloria's continued treatment and offers him an internship at Hiden Intelligence. He brushes the thought away when he takes Isu's offer.

* HiddenDepths: Surprisingly, his interlude reveals that despite Pilar being very self aware about his lack of intelligence, he scored hired than Kiwi on an IQ test.

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