Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 may have hinted towards female V being canon, but showrunner Bartosz Sztybor has said that's still open for interpretation – and there is currently no canon ending to Cyberpunk 2077.
"It's left for interpretation," Sztybor told IGN of the second season moment that caught fans' attention.
There, Roman and D. chanced upon an Arasaka shortlist of viable candidates for the Capricorn program, including David Martinez and what appeared to be a female V.
He continued, "But also the dialogue that they're having there is, I think, very important. So yeah, it's left for interpretation."
That fence-sitting also bled into Edgerunners not deciding on a Cyberpunk 2077 canon ending, despite being set in 2078 according to CD Projekt Red loremaster Patrick Mills. Instead, it was kept deliberately vague so that each option chosen by the player V while preparing to assault Arasaka HQ was viable.
"It's not like super abstract, but also, we don't want to set a canon ending," Sztybor said. So there were a lot of conversations again with the lore team to see what we can do to somehow satisfy all the endings, and what will be the state of the world after the game."
Sztybor also added, intriguingly, that they will "probably reveal the state of the world in more comic books and other stuff."
"So there are discussions. There are discussions, but we are not setting one kind of ending."
CD Projekt Red does draw the line somewhere, however. As revealed during its recent REDStreams event discussing Edgerunners 2, animation studio Studio Trigger wanted to raze Night City to the ground – a request that was swiftly denied.
For a spoiler-filled breakdown of the event that nearly destroyed Night City, check out our Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 ending guide.
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