David Martinez

David Martinez is the protagonist of.

Appearance
David Martinez is a Hispanic teenager with light brown eyes and brown hair that he wears in a quaffed hairstyle, with the sides shaved. He has a thin athletic build typical of a teenager his age. David's typical style is Kitsch, sporting a black t-shirt, two golden chain necklaces (one with a cross), gray cropped sweatpants with two yellow straps on either side, and white tennis shoes with blue straps. Later on, he starts to wear his mother's yellow EMT jacket with a blue luminescent collar on the inside of the material, with a green logo painted on the back.

David gradually adds more implants to his body, becoming taller and more muscular. While keeping his overall outfit intact, he no longer wears a black shirt, preferring to remain bare-chested when not covered by the EMT jacket.

Early Life
David Martinez was born to Gloria Martinez and an unknown father. He grew up on the streets of Santo Domingo, while living out of an apartment of Megabuilding H4 in Arroyo. Due to his mother putting great effort into her job as an EMT for Night City Medical Center, David was eligible for enrollment into the Arasaka Academy located in Corpo Plaza. After joining the academy, he began selling XBDs that he obtained from Doc to classmates.

A Day in the Life
One night, early on in 2076, Martinez watched a brand new illegal braindance that his ripperdoc obtained from Jimmy Kurosaki. The braindance contained the death of the former New United States Armed Forces Lt. Col. James Norris, who went cyberpsycho a couple hours prior.

The following day, after finding his mother sleeping on the couch, the two talked money problems regarding his school expenses and watched the news of James Norris' death, which included her mom carrying the body. Martinez caught a glimpse of a young woman on his way to school, who disappeared when he attempted to approach her. During that day's class, his outdated braindance wreath spiked his classmates wreaths, because he had Doc install a faulty software update to save money. This caused an outrage among the students, Katsuo Tanaka in particular, the son of the school principal. After the incident, David and his mother met with the principal, whom suggested that David could benefit from a change of environment as he did not fit in with his wealthier classmates. Gloria agreed to pay any monetary damages made.

While driving home, the two of them became bystanders in an Animals assault on an Arasaka corporate vehicle, where they crashed into the corporate vehicle after it was blown up by a rocket. Martinez saw his mother lying motionless on the road after regaining consciousness. Trauma Team arrived shortly after, but ignored them for not being insured, and only took the corporate client with them. David managed to bring his mother to a back-alley clinic, where she got stabilized. Martinez arrived back at the apartment with his mother's belongings, and discovered that she had procured a military grade Sandevistan neuralware implant from the cyberpsycho. David informed Doc about the implant and was told that it was worth around 10,000 eurodollars on the black market.

The next morning, on his way to Corpo Plaza, Martinez saw that Tanaka and his friends were waiting for him while he was looking for the mysterious woman. They took him to a back-alley, where Tanaka beat him using a martial arts chip. Shortly after the fight, David received a call from the clinic that his mother had passed away, and had to arrange a funeral for her. David, not being able to afford the other options, chose to cremate her remains at an automated service that would dispense the ashes in a metal canister. Once home, struggling with the loss of his mother, David decided to have the Sandevistan implanted into his body by Doc.

Becoming an Edgerunner
After being chipped in, David—while still expelled—returned the following day to the academy, in search of a rematch with Katsuo. Utilizing his Sandevistan implant, David easily floored Katsuo with a single blow to the head and broke his nose. Once returned home, David stared at the urn holding his mother's ashes, when he received a call from the academy's principal. The principal told David that his expulsion had been formally processed, but before the principal could end his sentence, David ended the conversation.

The next morning, making his way to the academy, he noticed that the mysterious girl was aboard the NCART train, stealing shards from unsuspecting Corporate employees on their way to City Center. The woman attempted to also take David's shards, but was quickly intercepted by David utilizing his implant. He grasped her arm, which she shrugged off and instead took him with her to the end of the cart, and interrogated David why he was messing with her “job”. After a short discussion, the two came to an agreement to work together, Lucy taking on David as her trainee, and split their earnings seventy-to-thirty.

Weapons

 * M-10AF Lexington
 * HJKE-11 Yukimura
 * Rostović DB-2 Satara (given to Julio)

Clothing

 * David’s Jacket

Cyberware

 * Military grade Sandevistan
 * Syn-Lungs 04
 * Projectile Launch System
 * Dermal implants
 * Unnamed cyberlegs
 * Fortified Ankles
 * Prototype Arasaka exo-skeleton

Pre-Release
David is a street kid from Arroyo, Santo Domingo in Night City, who is enrolled into Arasaka's educational system at Arasaka Academy. He lives with his mother Gloria in an apartment of Megabuilding H4.

After experiencing a personal tragedy, David has the powerful Sandevistan speedware installed in his body and becomes one of Night City's edgerunners. He also becomes acquainted with Lucy, who leads him into the city's criminal underworld, and chooses to join the gang of edgerunners she is a part of, led by Maine.