Falco is a major character in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Falco was born in the Free State of Texas to a family of landowners who cultivated vast swaths of farmland in collaboration with Biotechnica. His favorite part of the work there involved driving tractors, which he usually pushed to the furthest, traversing across the fields at unimaginable speeds. With a newfound passion for driving, instead of taking the reins at the farm, Falco began racing with a stock car and entered the local races. With such a talent and cool head, he was able to succeed in making the riskiest maneuvers, and very soon reached the podium at his local circuit.
Thinking globally, Falco started to participate in pro racing, where he reigned above the rest as well. After consecutively winning an unprecedented of more than twelve races, Falco began to look for new challenges to satisfy his hunger for more.[1]
Life in Night City[]
The search for new trials took him to Night City, which allowed him to race against some of the craziest drivers from around the world on some of the most dangerous and hardest urban courses in existence. This time, Falco was not always winning and that was something he liked. Considered to be among the best, Falco went toe-to-toe against the city's greatest street racers, including Rearview and Jeremy Taylor.[1] One of the first friends Falco made in the city was Maine, whom he would later work with on occasions.[2]
Over time, Falco started doing paid gigs around Night City. Rearview gave him the first one, doing a heist on an Orbital Air warehouse. After finding two more mercs, they successfully pulled it off. Soon after, Falco gained access to the Afterlife, where the club's crowd got to know and like him, and Falco came around to enjoy the tension that these gigs offered. With such a satisfying life, he mostly dropped racing, only participating in occasional courses as a special guest,[1] such as the Demons of Kabuki race.[3]
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners[]
Falco used to hang out with Maine and his crew, whom he occasionally worked with as well.[2][4]
Shortly after Maine's death, Falco joined David's crew and played a much more prominent role as the crew's getaway driver. Both David and him would become good friends.[2]
He is seen transporting David, Rebecca and Julio on a mission provided by Wakako Okada. After the mission, he is seen speaking to David at the usual mission after party, saying he didn't believe David had what it takes to join Maine's crew in the beginning. Toward the end of the series, he becomes one of David's greatest allies, using his immense driving skills to help him capture an Arasaka convoy, and then assault Arasaka Tower to rescue Lucy. He is the last person Kiwi calls as she is dying. He helps Rebecca hold off large numbers of police and troops in Corpo Plaza, using the Chevillon Emperor as cover. When Rebecca is killed by Adam Smasher, he lapses into a fit of rage and attempts to physically attack Smasher, only to be instantly knocked back several feet by a gutpunch. His final task from David is to honor a promise he made off-screen to escape safely with Lucy and the reward money for the mission, 1.25 million eurodollars for each.
The Jacket[]
After escaping from Night City, Falco and Lucy parted ways, making sure she would be safe. Shortly thereafter, Falco collected some items of his fallen friends to remember them, including David's Jacket, and stored them in a self-storage container unit in the Badlands, near the border with Night City. After spending some time away to deal with trauma and think of his future, Falco came back to get his belongings from the container. It was then when he saw Dalton Estevan-Luis, a former Valentino, robbing some of the items. Dalton saw Falco and jumped on a bike, managing to escape to Night City, where Falco didn't dare to follow as he was a wanted man.
Falco hired fixer Dakota Smith to employ a crew of edgerunners in order to retrieve the stolen items — David's jacket and Lexington pistol, and Rebecca's Masamune rifle and Shingen SMG. While waiting for them, he was assaulted by a group of REO Meatwagon medics, who had received a signal from David's jacket (which was originally a REO field jacket), as its tracking device had gotten activated. The jacket possessed valuable data thanks to a biomonitor that had gathered information on David's performance while wearing unique cyberware, something that Arasaka was after. Falco was saved by the edgerunner crew, and proceeded to tell them where they could find the stolen items. After they left, he contacted Dakota in order to give her the REO Meatwagon ambulance that had remained. He did this to help her people and pay an old debt he owned to her.
Once the crew had recovered the items, they met with Falco at the Sunset Motel in the Badlands east of the city. After taking the belongings back and getting one last moment of remembrance for his former crew, Falco put them on the storage cargo of his Chevillon Emperor, next to the many other boxes and bags occupying the backside of the car. He paid the hired crew and after saying his farewell, Falco climbed into the Chevillon and left once more, heading south and away from Night City.[2]
2077[]
In 2077, a certain mercenary by the name of V came across a discarded braindance which mentioned David by name, warning V not to follow in his's fate. Their curiosity piqued by the BD and V reached out to local fixer Muamar Reyes requesting more information, and Muamar in turn contacted Falco. Soon later, Falco contacted V personally, telling them that his crew's "15 minutes were up" and not to bother looking for them. However, recognizing the similarities between David and V, and their actions against Arasaka, Falco gave V David's jacket as a final parting gift from one edgerunner to another.[5]
Appearance & Personality[]
Falco is a seemingly older man of average height and build. He has semi-long, dark brown hair, slightly parted in the middle, that blooms out to the sides and a thick, but neat mustache that curls up at the ends. He wears Western-style clothes, such as a multi-tone brown waistcoat with suspender-like straps around the shoulders, over a white, high collar shirt with long sleeves. The right sleeve is rolled up to reveal his only obvious cyberware enhancement: a single, silver and black cyberarm of unknown make or model. He wears dark brown pants and light brown shoes. Around his hips hangs a yellow ammo belt with a single, holstered Techtonika Burya on the right side. He has a notable, Southern drawl. The vehicle he drives for Maine's crew is a customized Chevillon Emperor.
Falco serves as a reliable driver throughout the series, never questioning his orders and effectively doing his duties with a high level of composure. He is relatively distant from the crew, sharing no on-screen intimacy with any of them, but cares for them nonetheless, lapsing into moments of outrage when other crew members are harmed. For example, he knocks out Maine after Kiwi is assaulted by him.
His driving skills are put to the test later in the series, after the crew loses Maine and Dorio. His ability to use the Chevillon Emperor as both a vehicle and weapon becomes instrumental to David. He is, most importantly, a man of his word, keeping his promise to David at the end of the show.[citation needed]
Associated Quests[]
Cyberpunk 2077[]
Stats & Equipment[]
| Stats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INT | 6 | REF | 8 | DEX | 6 | TECH | 5 | COOL | 4 | ||
| WILL | 6 | LUCK | — | MOVE | 5 | BODY | 6 | EMP | 4 | ||
| Skills | Athletics 8, Brawling 12, Concentration 6, Conversation 10, Deduction 10, Drive Land Vehicle 20, Education 6, Endurance 10, Evasion 12, First Aid 11, Handgun 14, Human Perception 12, Local Expert 12, Perception 12, Persuasion 8, Resist Torture/Drugs 10, Stealth 10, Streetwise 8, Tracking 12, Wardrobe & Style 8[2] | ||||||||||
| Cyberware | EMP Threading,[2] Neuroport,[2] Right Arasaka cyberarm[2] | ||||||||||
| Armor | Light Armorjack (Head & Body) | ||||||||||
| Weapons | RT-46 Burya | ||||||||||
| Vehicles | Custom Chevillon Emperor, Mahir Supron FS3[6] | ||||||||||
Notes[]
- Although Falco appears in some of the early episodes of Edgerunners, it isn't until Episode 6 when he is briefly seen in action, eventually becoming a regular starting in Episode 7.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit - Edgerunner's Handbook. Kenmore, WA, R. Talsorian Games, 2024. (p.37)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit - The Jacket. Kenmore, WA, R. Talsorian Games, 2024. (pp.4–9,26,31–33)
- ↑ MARCHEWK, T. Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown Issue #1. CD Projekt RED/Dark Horse Comics, 2024.
- ↑ STUDIO TRIGGER. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Netflix/CD Projekt RED, 2022.
- ↑ Over the Edge
- ↑ STUDIO TRIGGER. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - Girl on Fire. Netflix/CD Projekt RED, 2022.
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