Lucy

Lucy is a guarded netrunner who meets David on a Night City train and draws him toward the edgerunner life. She dreams of leaving the city and reaching the Moon, a goal shaped by a painful past under Arasaka's control. Her growing attachment to David conflicts with her instinct to keep secrets and protect him from the corporation's attention.

Lucy has pale skin, a short silver-white bob, and vivid reddish eyes. Her futuristic streetwear commonly features a cropped orange jacket, dark fitted clothing, shorts, and tall boots, with visible cybernetic details that suit her work as a netrunner. She moves with controlled precision and often keeps her expression guarded, giving little away to strangers. Her look contrasts sharply with the crowded, neon-lit streets around her, while her compact equipment and practical clothing reflect a life spent moving between digital operations and physical danger.

Lucy is independent, observant, and careful about whom she trusts. She has a strong instinct for self-preservation, shaped by an earlier life in which other people treated her as a useful tool. Beneath her guarded manner, she is compassionate and capable of deep attachment, especially toward David. She wants a life beyond Night City and sees escape as a chance to reclaim control over her future. Her protective instincts can become secretive: rather than explain the danger she faces, she tries to handle it alone. This leaves David with too little understanding of the forces closing around them and complicates their relationship.

Lucyna Kushinada was raised within an Arasaka facility, where she and other children were trained to operate as netrunners for the corporation. The work involved dangerous excursions into the Old Net, and the children were treated as expendable assets rather than people with independent futures. Lucy escaped Night City with the intention of reaching the Moon, a destination that represents freedom from corporate control. She later works as a netrunner and edgerunner, relying on technical skill and caution to stay alive. Her past with Arasaka remains a source of fear, and she keeps important parts of it hidden even from people she comes to love.

1. Meeting David

   Lucy encounters David while operating as a netrunner and recognizes that his new Sandevistan makes him useful to a mercenary crew. She introduces him to Maine's group, but her interest in him soon becomes personal. After they grow closer, she shares a private view of the Moon that expresses her desire to leave Night City and live beyond its violence.

2. Life with Maine's crew

   Lucy works alongside David and the others as a skilled netrunner, supporting their jobs while keeping her own history close. When Maine's condition worsens, the crew fractures and David takes on greater responsibility. Lucy remains devoted to him, but her fear that Arasaka will target him because of her past leads her to investigate the corporation on her own.

3. Protecting David from Arasaka

   Lucy uncovers Arasaka's interest in David and tries to stop the corporation from using him as a test subject. To keep him away from the danger, she conceals what she has learned and pursues leads without the crew. Her secrecy strains their relationship, even as the threat she fears becomes more immediate and the crew is drawn into Arasaka's plans.

4. Escape to the Moon

   During the final confrontation, Lucy fights alongside the crew as David uses the cyberskeleton and confronts Arasaka's forces. David's sacrifice gives her the opening to survive and leave Night City. She reaches the Moon, but the place she once imagined as a shared future is now a solitary destination marked by grief and memory.

David Martinez

Partner and romantic interest

Lucy brings David into the edgerunner world and becomes his closest emotional connection. They share a wish for a life beyond Night City, but she hides her investigation into Arasaka to protect him. Her secrecy and his determination to carry the crew's burdens pull them apart.

Kiwi

Fellow netrunner and crewmate

Kiwi works with Lucy in Maine's crew and shares the specialized role of netrunner. Their professional connection is shaped by the group's dangerous jobs and the trust required to operate together. Later, Kiwi's choices place Lucy and the crew in greater danger.

Maine

Crew leader and colleague

Maine gives Lucy a place in his edgerunner crew, where her netrunning supports the team's work. She is part of the group that witnesses his decline, though her relationship with him is less personal than her bond with David. His fate reinforces the costs of pushing cyberware too far.

Gloria Martinez

David's mother

Lucy does not develop a direct relationship with Gloria, but Gloria's death shapes David before Lucy meets him. The loss helps explain his anger and his decision to enter the mercenary world. Lucy later becomes one of the people closest to him as he struggles with that grief.

• Lucy helps David enter Maine's crew after recognizing the value of his Sandevistan.
• She shows David her vision of a life on the Moon.
• She investigates Arasaka to keep the corporation from taking David.
• She survives the final confrontation and reaches the Moon.

• Her full name is Lucyna Kushinada.
• She is a netrunner as well as an active edgerunner.
• Her first meeting with David involves a theft operation.
• The Moon is central to her hope of escaping Night City.

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

• Maine
• Kiwi

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