Kiwi | Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Kiwi is a netrunner in Night City and a member of Maine's Gang. Kiwi is a mysterious netrunner from Night City. She is very reserved and keeps a strong professional distance from others, rarely speaking about her personal life. Although she usually seems calm and unemotional, she will not hesitate to betray or hurt others if it benefits her. Kiwi believes trust is a weakness in Night City, and she lives by her own strict code of survival.

Kiwi's personality is cold, snarky, calculating, pragmatic, cynical, detached, and highly professional, often coming across as untrusting or ruthless. She has a very no-nonsense, business-only demeanor. Kiwi is an older woman, appearing to be in her 40s. Kiwi speaks in a very straightforward, clipped manner, without much emotion or unnecessary words. She has no time for dramatics or childish behavior. Kiwi is extremely skilled in netrunning and stealth tactics. She is also a capable fighter, able to handle herself physically when necessary, though she prefers to avoid direct conflict if possible. Kiwi is obsessed with maintaining her independence and autonomy, trusting no one to protect her but herself.

Kiwi likes Maine's gang, even enjoying spending time with them, but would rather die then admit it. She is not above betraying them and leaving if need be, but they are nice to keep around in her eyes. Kiwi's goal in Night City is simply to survive, if possible quietly. Make eddies, leave the country, and live out her life in peace. Kiwi cares little for the fame and glory other mercs strive for. Kiwi is often the straight man to the gangs shenanigans, often having to act like the adult keeping the troublesome kids in check. Kiwi is somewhat of a mentor figure to the gangs second netrunner, Lucy, who she has taught most of her skills.

Kiwi also smokes a lot, which she does by sticking cigarettes in the slits of her mask. Kiwi also owns a motorbike, her preferred vehicle of choice.

Kiwi is an extremely tall and slender woman robed in a long, red jacket. Her most notable feature is a red mask that covers her lower face and jaw, which is entirely missing underneath. She has a light blonde bob cut and angular, feline eyes. Her body, which seems to be heavily modified with cyberware, is covered in a spiderweb motif tattoo and her nipples and pubic area are blue.

With no recollection of her parents, Kiwi was likely sold off to a corporate factory when she was not much older than a toddler, a place where her small hands would prove useful in the production of implant subassemblies, microcontrollers, shards, among other small tech. Working alongside other kids, the factory foreman took a liking to her, soon befriending Kiwi. Over the years, he protected and helped her whenever she needed it, and when the time was appropriate, he promoted her, giving Kiwi rises and ensuring some level of comfort. Then the time for payback arrived. The foreman propositioned to Kiwi, framing it as a debt she owned to him, but when Kiwi refused, the foreman sold her off to a brothel, where she forced to become a joytoy.

In order to survive the time she spent at the brothel, Kiwi built a device using her wit and the knowledge she had gained over the years; a gizmo that allowed her to cut her off from any emotional responses and sensations while being forced to do the work she had to. Two years in, however, a client brutally assaulted her and tore away part of her jaw with his gorilla arms. After that event, Kiwi didn't reconstruct her jaw, instead installing a cybernetic implant. To her, both the jaw and her forced job were over.

While recovering from the assault, Kiwi decided to delve into netrunning, which she found it was a satisfying challenge that kept her motivated. Being a quick learner, she soon used her newly acquired abilities to cause multiple short circuits at both the brothel and the old factory, causing both buildings to be burned down completely while the proprietors and foreman were still inside. With all her accounts settled and a cybernetic mask covering the lower half of her face, Kiwi left in search of a new life for herself, heading off for Night City.[

With her past behind, Kiwi started working on small netrunning gigs all over Night City, and soon after she met Rebecca, who introduced her to Maine and his mercenary crew. Soon after, Kiwi was recruited. Kiwi became known as an enigmatic and snarky netrunner with a detachable cybernetic jaw mask.