Doc (Edgerunners)

Doc is a ripperdoc and a secondary character in. He is introduced in the first episode Let You Down.

Biography
A surgeon by day, Doc moonlights as an illicit ripperdoc. An active businessman, Doc also operates sidehustles selling braindances, software, drugs and other items often found on the black market.

Shameless and hedonistic, Doc's penchant for opportunism and ruthless negotiation have a notable effect on the quality of life of his business associate, David Martinez.

Doc would expose David Martinez to braindances with extremely graphic levels of sex and violence known as XBDs, including a recently acquired braindance of a military veteran murdering several police officers during a cyberpsychotic episode.

In an effort to save money, David Martinez would use Doc's services to get himself a bootleg version of an expensive school update for Arasaka Academy. It turns out, this copy was corrupted and then damages the software at school. This incident would force Gloria Martinez into an extremely stressful visit to Arasaka Academy, and put David at risk for expulsion.

After the murder of Gloria Martinez, in desperation for eddies, David Martinez would turn to doc to sell a Sandevistan cyber implant he discovered among his mother's things. Doc would only offer David a tiny fraction of the implant's value, citing its status as a black market object. David was not satisfied by the amount offered. David would later ask to sell again, being offered an even smaller sum and experiencing further frustration.

After being bullied at school by Katsuo, David would instead choose a new purpose for the Sandevistan, that having it directly implanted it into his own body. Although Doc issued some warnings about the effects the Sandevistan, Doc gleefully agrees to offer David the service of implanting the Sandevistan, on the condition that when the Sandevistan fails to be compatible with David's biology, the Sandevistan would then become Doc's property.

As part of his plan to secure the Sandevistan for himself, Doc willingly omits information about drugs that David ought to be taking, which is later discovered by Lucy after she teams up with David.

The Sandevistan implant would ultimately prove to be extremely compatible with David's biology. Despite David's rocky history with Doc, he would continue to use Doc's services for future cyberware upgrades.

Doc would later marvel at David's unique biology, comparing his extensively modifed body to that of infamous figure Adam Smasher, and offering David Adam's backstory.

During David's final meeting with Doc, David would arrive seeking to manage the symptoms of his overuse of cyberware. Doc would suggest a downgrade, causing rage in the now cyberware addicted and emotionally destabilized David. Frustrated with both his personal circumstance and Doc's long history of financial abuse, David lashes out at Doc with physical abuse. David then collected himself and immediately apologized. Doc would resentfully offer David the drugs he was seeking instead. Doc would explain to David that he was now on a guaranteed path to Cyberpsychosis and ultimately death, with the drugs only offering a temporary reprieve.