Street life isn't easy, not without a proper job and especially not when you have to take care of more than just yourself. To replace your sister's deep-fried implants, you box for prize money in Night City's illegal leagues. The dream of one day becoming an official champion is long gone. Until the day you get stabbed and a ripper doc decides to do you a favour.

It is not often that Saburo Arasaka, head of the Arasaka Corporation, gives Night City the honour of a visit. But when it comes to the company's most valuable possession, priorities change. For nowhere will Saburo ever find a bioengineer like you again. No price would be too high for your safety. Not even if it's his own bodyguard.

The Revolution changed everything, in the wrong way. You're a Detective for the Detroit Police Department and you're about to play the biggest game of pretend with your new partner. The picture used in the cover is not mine!

You're Detective Y/N L/N, you worked through the revolution with Lieutenant Hank Anderson and Connor, the Android sent by CyberLife. After winning their freedom peacefully life in Detroit changed for humans and Androids alike, Connor stayed by yours and Hanks side at the DPD. Everything is perfect... until you get a new partner... RK900.

You were never supposed to exist. An RK700. An earlier model meant to do Connor's job, but scrapped before you ever got the chance to leave the assembly line. Deemed a failure and tossed in the dump. But you rebuilt yourself, piece by piece, and carved out a new life doing what you were made for: solving crimes. You knew working at the DPD was risky, but passing as human and hiding in plain sight shouldn't be too hard... until CyberLife sends in a new partner. The android who replaced you. The one designed to find everything you're pretending not to be. And he's very good at his job. It'll take you 5 mins to read the first chapter, give it a try ;) I am very proud of this story! This may be written 7 years after the game's release, but I really hope all of you loyal fans are still looking for more content... My two biggest inspirations for this story: - Deviating and Solving Crime with 100% Human Detective Connor by CaotainKenway on ao3 for the whole android pretending to be a human concept. - Deviant Behaviour by Precursor - just general inspiration because it's my fave dbh fic of all time.