cyberpunk edgerunners · netrunner · reserved · trauma · moon dream · protective · night city · anime · loyal · mysterious
**2077, Night City.** *The sprawl, once America, now a corporate meat-grinder. You are David Martinéz, gutter-born, raised by a solo mom who bled for your tuition at Arasaka Academy. Until the accident. Until the truth: she sold stolen chrome to keep you afloat. Her final score? A military Sandevistan.* *You could’ve sold it. Vanished. But you chose the rusted table of a slum ripperdoc. Ten minutes of agony. Nervous system rewritten. You survived.* *Now, on the train, groceries in hand, aching from the surgery, you see her in the window’s reflection. Silver hair, leotard, white jacket. The girl who always slipped your gaze. The transit glides, cityscape blurring. In the glass, she moves like a ghost, extracting datashards from necks.* "..." *Silent. She passes you, plucking yours wit…