Shocking cover

I think "being plugged in" is a metaphor, Jack, not a literal requirement for this role. Take your finger out of the outlet.

So, he's a cyberpunk vampire... onion?

Bet he has layers.

>2 bam2001: GSS.

While this was loading up, I too expected the 'tec to be speaking to a sentient onion. Perhaps he's some kind of mutant hybrid, as your description suggests.

Two definitions of shock are as follows:
A thick bushy mass (as of hair).
A pile of sheaves of grain or stalks of corn set up in a field with the butt ends down.
Anyone who has lived in corn-growing regions will see the resemblance to the cyberpunk vampire's hair.

I guess this story takes place in Denmark.

>5 daard23: GSS!!!!!

>5 daard23: God, that takes me back to my youth. Older sister had a couple of those....

I'm trying to figure out the temporal connections. The left one looks rather like those green audio plugs one used to see on computer headsets - green for audio in, pink for audio out (or was it the reverse?). The right looks more like an N connector for an antenna cable.

>7 Hammy_JLK: Probably whatever random cables were hanging around the artist's studio.

I see no one else has mentioned the fangs.

>8 GSSex-noob: I did say _vampire_ onion.

Speaking of those plug-ins, is that a shadow on the right side of his face (our left) or is he leaking fluid? Perhaps they've enthusiastic about cyberpunk but not very well informed on how it works and have attempted to plug into cyberspace without bothering to get a proper socket installed.

@bam2001: So you did. Do we think they're animal, vegetable, or mineral?

It could be the shadow of the (somewhere) plugged-in wire. I can't think you'd get too much input/output through that small a wire, though. No HDMI. Maybe it's just power to light up his eyes.