Lucyna Kushinada[4], more commonly known as just Lucy, is a netrunner and the deuteragonist of

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Lucy is a mysterious netrunner from Night City. She is quite introverted and doesn't like to talk much
about her past.[5] Although she looks innocent, she won't hesitate to kill a person in a heartbeat if they
tick her off.[6] Lucy also considers Night City a prison and dreams of one day leaving it for the moon.[7]

Lucy is a young woman with naturally white hair and purple and red gradient pupils. 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. Lucy wears a cropped
white jacket with a black, sleeve- and thighless netrunner jumpsuit 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[4], and 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.[8]

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 daemons 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.[8]

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.[8]

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.[8]

After being in Night City for some time, Lucy joined Maine's edgerunner crew, where she was
mentored by another netrunner named Kiwi.[9]

Around a year later, 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, Lucy taking on David as her trainee,
and split their earnings seventy-to-thirty. Lucy challenged the boy to steal from a variety of
people on the train and tested 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 and
Lucy called for an ambulance. She then saved David's life from the corrupt EMT on the
ambulance and finally brought him to Doc, when 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.[10]