Lucyna Kushinada

Lucyna Kushinada, more commonly known as just Lucy, is a netrunner and the deuteragonist of.

Characteristics
Lucy is a mysterious netrunner from Night City. She is quite introverted and doesn't like to talk much about her past. Although she looks innocent, she won't hesitate to kill a person in a heartbeat if they tick her off. Lucy also considers Night City a prison, and dreams of one day leaving it for the Moon.

Appearance
Lucy is a young woman with naturally white hair and red-purple eyes. She wears light red eye and lip makeup. Her hair is cut in a split bob - with her left side left longer - and dyed with a colorful pastel rainbow gradient. Her eyes appear to reflect with the colors of her hair. Her style generally follows Kitsch mixed with Neomilitarism as Lucy wears a cropped white jacket with a black netrunner unitard with red accents over a pair of white shorts and high gray stockings, and black knee-high boots.

Early Life
Lucy is of Japanese and Polish descent. She was selected at a young age after having taken a proficiency test–alongside 12 other children–to receive training at an undisclosed Arasaka facility and become a netrunner. Being led on by the dream of "serving the world's most powerful megacorp" one day got her and the others through the toughest days and training.

When their training concluded, they were moved underground to participate in deep dives into the pre-DataKrash Net, as Arasaka sent them looking for knowledge that was lost. As they dove into the Net, they were susceptible to old world Demons and rogue AIs. The children were picked off one by one, and it didn't take long until only a handful of them were left.

After realizing that they could pursue other dreams, instead of being enslaved by the corporation, the remaining children, including Lucy, used their netrunning skills to overwhelm the Arasaka staff and escape. While making their escape, most of the children were shot down one-by-one, and only Lucy managed to survive.

After escaping, Lucy woke up in a junkyard, not planning to stay long. Roaming from place to place, eventually she ended up in Night City, no longer feeling like she was being chased by the megacorp.

Life in Night City
In 2075, Lucy met Kiwi, who mentored her and introduced her to Maine and his edgerunner crew. She later became the secondary netrunner of the crew.

In 2076, while stealing shards from corpos on their way to Corpo Plaza by NCART, she attempted to steal shards held by a teenager named David Martinez. He, having noticed her presence beforehand, utilized his Sandevistan implant, and was able to intercept her actions and grasped her by her arm. Lucy shrugged off David's arm, and grasped his with the motion to follow her. Lucy proceeded to interrogate David, as he was messing with her “job”. After a short discussion, the two came to an agreement to work together, resulting in Lucy taking on David as her trainee and them splitting their earnings seventy-to-thirty. Lucy challenged David to steal from a variety of people on the train to test his skills. After they had enough, they went to a plaza to talk about their split, but David collapsed from not taking immunosupressants for the new implant. Lucy then called for an ambulance. She saves David's life from the corrupt EMT on the ambulance and finally brought him to Doc, as David was about to collapse again. She paid for David's immunosupressants, but also secretly informed Maine about the Sandevistan, which he originally wanted from Gloria. Lucy then invited David home to her apartment and even included him in a romantic moonwalk Braindance.

Firearms

 * Unity

Cyberware

 * Cyberaudio
 * Cyberoptics
 * Cyberdeck
 * EMP Threading
 * Monowire
 * Subdermal neural processor
 * Various Interface Plugs

Trivia

 * Polish given name Lucyna is derived from Latin Lūcīna, which means "One who Brings into the Light".
 * Lucina is sometimes used synonymously with the Roman goddesses Juno or (less often) Diana in the role of goddess of childbirth, midwives, and newborns.
 * One of the challenges Cyberpunk: Edgerunners character designer Yoh Yoshinari faced when designing Lucy was to avoid making her look like Motoko Kusanagi as featured in the 1980-90s' Ghost in the Shell media. Despite this, Lucy can seem to resemble Motoko in her 2020s' SAC_2045 incarnation.