David Martinez

David Martinez was the protagonist of.

Appearance
David Martinez is a Latino 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. His father would later abandon his family, forcing Gloria to raise David all by herself. 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 to classmates that he obtained from a ripperdoc friend of his called Doc.

A Day in the Life
One night, Martinez watched a brand new illegal braindance that Doc 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 During that day's class, his outdated braindance wreath spiked his classmates wreaths, because he had Doc install a faulty software update to save money.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 Tanaka, a high Arasaka executive. After the incident, David and his mother met with the academy's 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, while struggling with the loss of his mother, David received a call from Katsuo mocking him and his mother's death, which pushed him over the edge. Eventually, David left his apartment and to visit Doc, and convinced him to have the Sandevistan implanted into his body.

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 on 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.

After a short confrontation with an ambulance worker who wanted to steal David's Sandevistan to sell on the black market, David stays the night at Lucy's apartment, where she tells him her dream of leaving Night City to live on the moon, and shares a braindance with him. The two bond during this experience, but while David is asleep Lucy calls her team of mercs to her apartment. Maine, Dorio, and Pilar arrive and confront David about the stolen Sandevistan, which Gloria had originally planned to sell to Maine. After David reveals that Gloria had died, and demonstrates an extreme tolerance for cyberware, he's given a chance to join their group, on the condition that he proves himself in a small-scale data heist.

Although David's initiation heist goes not as intended, Maine welcomes him to the crew. Maine becomes the new idol for David. David also makes the acquaintance of fixer Faraday. David more and more becomes a part of Maine's crew, and the audience can follow them in a variety of odd jobs. He even intensifies his relationship with Lucy and saves her life, when they are victims of a cyberpsychotic incident. Crewmember Pilar is killed in this attack.

The crew is back on track with Faraday's job and is looking for ways to get to their target, Tanaka, the Arasaka corpo. David, who sold XBDs at school, can give the right hint how Tanaka, whose great fetish are raw BDs from Master editor Jimmy Kurosaki, could be lured into a trap. It is implied that David and Lucy's relationship deepened. Maine congratulates David to his newly found manhood.

David, and the rest of the crew, try to kidnap Kurosaki to win him for their cause. Jimmy can defend himself and kidnaps David instead. He tortures David with the brutal Norris' BD, number 32 of the Edgerunners series, and edited David into the role of Norris. David receives help from Dorio and Lucy, and Jimmy also gives in after a short fight, and does what they ask of him. Before Tanaka arrives, David has a quiet moment with Jimmy, who warns him from too much chrome in his body, but David argues with his special tolerance and ignores it. David then is witness of Tanaka's fight with Maine and Jimmy Kurosaki's death, caused by Tanaka's self-defense.

Weapons

 * M-10AF Lexington
 * DB-2 Satara (given to Julio)
 * Crusher
 * HJKE-11 Yukimura
 * L-69 Zhuo

Clothing

 * David’s Jacket

Cyberware

 * Military grade Sandevistan
 * Cyberaudio
 * Cyberoptics
 * Syn-Lungs
 * Projectile Launch System (taken from Maine)
 * Dermal implants
 * Fortified Ankles
 * Cyberlegs
 * Gorilla Arms
 * Prototype Arasaka Cyberskeleton

Vehicles

 * Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X