Judy Álvarez

Judy Álvarez is a skilled braindance technician and member of the Moxes in. She is also a possible romance option for V.

Evelyn Parker is her best friend.

Childhood
Judy was born in Laguna Bend, a small town in the rural outskirts of Night City. Her father was never around, and her mother died when she was just a child. She still has a photo of her, but can barely remember her. Judy was raised instead by her grandparents. Her grandfather was a techie and taught her all that she knows. She also loved to hear the stories he told. Her grandmother was temperamental, something Judy herself seems to have inherited.

While growing up in her hometown, Judy used to hang out with the other kids, sometimes playing street hockey on rollerblades or "MaxTac and psychos", though they often mocked her for not having her parents around and being poor. She also liked to eat the burgers of Flo's Diner, the only eatery in the town.

Twenty years ago Judy hid Jenni Chapman's doll as she thought only losers played with dolls. What Judy really wanted, though, was for Jenni to notice her, and she proposed to help her find the missing doll. In the end neither of those things happened. Judy sometimes visited the church, a building she always thought looked old and out of place, not because she was a believer but because it was just there. Once, she sneaked inside of it when no one was around and stood at the altar, wondering what went through the priest's mind when he looked at the people, asking herself how he could read their minds and know everything about them. She then screamed at the top of her lungs to check the acoustics of the building, but when the echo returned, it scared her and she run away. Judy thought it was all the guilt she felt for having a crush on Jenni, so when she screamed it out, it flew right back at her.

When the area around Laguna Bend was bought out by NC Dam Ltd. some time around 2062 in order to be converted into a reservoir, the residents were forced to vacate the town since it would be submerged. Judy and her grandparents moved into a rental apartment in Night City, but her grandparents hated the city and left after two years. They moved further north to Oregon while Judy stayed and made the apartment her own.

2070s
Judy worked as a technician at Clouds for a time. There she met Maiko Maeda, whom she entered into a relationship with, but once Maiko was promoted things changed between them and they eventually broke up.

At some point Judy found work at Lizzie's Bar as a braindance technician and editor, joining the Moxes as she thought they could change people's life for the better.

Database Entry

 * One of braindance's most gifted editors and a skilled techie. If she wanted to, she could get hired at any corpo entertainment studio and make bank, but Judy values her independence too much to sell out - she rejects every offer that comes her way. Her anarchist spirit drew her to the Mox in the hope that they could improve the lives of people in Night City. Her biggest flaw is that she can't keep her mouth shut in the face of injustice - something that always gets her in trouble. For some, though, it's her greatest virtue.

Main Quests

 * The Information
 * Automatic Love
 * The Space in Between
 * Disasterpiece
 * Double Life
 * Nocturne Op55N1 (dependent)
 * All Along the Watchtower (dependent)
 * Path of Glory (dependent)
 * Where is My Mind? (dependent)

Side Quests

 * Both Sides, Now
 * Ex-Factor
 * Talkin' 'bout a Revolution
 * Pisces
 * Pyramid Song
 * I Fought the Law (mentioned in Elizabeth Peralez's laptop)