Kiwi

Kiwi is a skilled and reserved netrunner who works alongside Lucy and the rest of Maine's crew. She prefers caution to emotional attachment and is wary of the risks that come with trusting people in Night City. Her practical outlook makes her an effective operator, though her choices under pressure reveal the limits of self-preservation in a world shaped by powerful employers.

Kiwi is a slender woman with pale skin and short, light-colored hair. A dark respirator-style mask covers much of her lower face, giving her an impassive look and making her difficult to read. Her outfit uses dark, close-fitting layers suited to a netrunner, with cybernetic equipment and ports integrated into her working setup. She tends to hold herself still and apart from the louder members of the crew. Her quiet, guarded appearance contrasts with the flamboyant styles of Rebecca and Pilar.

Kiwi is reserved, pragmatic, and deeply guarded. She tends to approach relationships as potential risks and places survival above loyalty when circumstances become threatening. This outlook helps her remain composed and cautious, but it also leads her to betray people who have trusted her. Her connection with Lucy complicates that reputation: she once served as a mentor and offered her guidance, yet later acts against her. Kiwi is not presented as simply cruel; fear and self-preservation shape her choices. Even when she tries to escape the consequences of betrayal, she remains wary of trusting anyone else.

Before the main events, Kiwi is already a capable netrunner and part of Maine's edgerunner crew. The series also establishes that she knew Lucy before Lucy became involved with David, and that Kiwi helped bring her into the crew's world. She offered Lucy advice shaped by a distrustful view of Night City and its people. The show does not explain Kiwi's childhood, family, or full history as a netrunner, leaving much of her life before the crew unknown. Her guarded philosophy appears to have developed from experience in a dangerous profession where alliances can quickly become liabilities.

1. Netrunner for Maine's crew

   Kiwi works behind the scenes as a netrunner for Maine's group. Her restrained manner distinguishes her from the crew's more outspoken members, and her digital skills support their operations. She is already an established presence when David joins, though she rarely takes the lead in the group's social interactions.

2. Lucy and David's partnership

   Kiwi's past connection with Lucy becomes important as Lucy grows closer to David and the crew. Kiwi had helped guide Lucy into the edgerunner world and had encouraged her to be cautious about trust. Their shared history gives Kiwi access to Lucy's confidence, making her later choices more consequential.

3. Working with Faraday

   As David's condition and the crew's importance attract attention, Kiwi secretly cooperates with the fixer Faraday. She supplies information that helps Faraday manipulate the situation around David and Lucy. Her decision reflects her preference for a private escape route over continued loyalty to the crew, but it leaves her exposed when the arrangement turns against her.

4. Betrayal and death

   Kiwi eventually tries to withdraw from the dangerous deal and warns Lucy that she should not trust people easily. Faraday's side catches up with her before she can get away. She is shot and killed, becoming another casualty of the betrayals and violence surrounding David's final operation.

Lucy

Former mentor and fellow netrunner

Kiwi knew Lucy before the main events and helped draw her into the edgerunner world. Their shared history gives them a bond built around netrunning and caution, but Kiwi's cooperation with Faraday betrays Lucy's trust. She later tries to warn Lucy before she is killed.

Faraday

Fixer and secret employer

Kiwi makes a deal with Faraday and passes him information about David and the crew. Their arrangement is based on mutual advantage rather than personal affection. When Kiwi tries to leave the situation, Faraday's people kill her, revealing how little protection the deal provided.

Maine

Former crew leader

Kiwi works as a netrunner in the crew led by Maine. Her role is part of the group's operations, even though she tends to remain emotionally distant from its members. Maine's decline and the crew's later upheaval form the background to her eventual choices.

David Martinez

Fellow edgerunner

Kiwi works alongside David after he joins Maine's crew and later becomes the center of Faraday's interest. She uses her access to the group to provide Faraday with information about him. Their relationship is professional and marked by Kiwi's secret betrayal rather than close friendship.

• She serves as the crew's quiet netrunner while Maine leads the team.
• Her past mentorship of Lucy is revealed as their relationship becomes central to the plot.
• She secretly gives Faraday information about David and the crew.
• She tries to warn Lucy and escape the consequences of her deal, but Faraday's people kill her.

• Kiwi is a netrunner in Maine's crew.
• A respirator-style mask is a defining part of her appearance.
• She is voiced in Japanese by Takako Honda and in English by Stephanie Wong.

• David Martinez
• Lucy
• Gloria Martinez
• Katsuo Tanaka
• Dorio
• Pilar

• Maine
• Rebecca

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