Return to innocence

If you were looking for the most famous jacker of London-sur-Seine, John Lyberman was the one you turned to, and he'd probably accept if your cred-account had the right numbers of zeros after the first digits.
However, if you were looking for someone who could do anything, it was someone else you asked, and he most likely wouldn't answer. Or he'd pull a jacked-gun and aim where it would hurt.

His real name was unknown, his nickname barely whispered. He had been jacking for ages, even though he didn't seem old. His tools of trade were his cyber-glasses AESG 3.87 and a SPS glove cyberdeck. He was always wearing them and talks in the street were that he was always jacked one way or an other, dreaming in the vast lands of the matrix.
To the few people who managed to get words from him, other than his employers, he said his motivation was the thrill of challenge. He had nearly flat-lined thrice when attacking the amerasian governement security but that never stopped him from uncovering the antartic terraforming projects. He also played a key-role on various sides during the corporate wars of 2196, which brought him a relative freedom provided he kept some secrets hidden and unheard.

This time however the space he was jacking was none other than his own memory, and the thing he was looking for wasn't a project agenda or a list or competitors requiring to be silenced. It was something he had grown to miss through the years :

his long lost innocence and dreams.
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This picture is a kind of sequel to fav.me/d58l8m2 . The other picture was made last year when I had acquired Sega's 3D glasses for the Master System, which instantly had made me think about cyberpunk glasses. This time my motivation was the glove I'd found in a small fair, which appeared to be a Playstation gamepad. I immediately saw the cyberpunk potential and had to take a photo of myself wearing it. Actually, using the glove itself in games is an interesting experience : too bad it's not compatible with PS2 games.

The original photo has been taken with just a tripod and a remote trigger. It took me about an hour of tries to get something usable. To put the glove/cyberdeck in context, I had to make a virtual environnment background. It was the occasion to use what I had taught myself with Gimp recently and I think it went well considering this is my first project of that kind.
I took inspiration from Shadowrun on Genesis for the overall look of the virtual environnement, and from the first Matrix movie for the character columns. A geek or a computer techie might want to full view to try to figure what's written. Yes, they aren't random letters stacked together.

In any case, it's been fun to work on something cyberpunk-related.