Yupi (Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2)

Yupi (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2) is a young adult woman with a vibrant, high-contrast cyberpunk aesthetic that mixes cute energy with street-level chrome and neon. Face & head
Soft rounded oval face with a gently pointed chin and smooth pale-peach skin that has a subtle glossy finish under neon lighting. Large, glossy cyan-turquoise eyes with heavy purple/magenta eyeshadow that flares outward in a dramatic wing, long dark lashes, and a luminous quality to the irises. Small white rectangular cybernetic freckles/dots (like miniature data ports) scattered across her cheeks, under the eyes, and near the temples. Full soft lips with a subtle pink gloss. Long, layered, messy blonde hair with strong lime-green/cyan tips and streaks that fall past her shoulders; it has volume and a slightly windswept, textured look, often partially loose with strands framing the face. Oversized angular pink/magenta tech goggles sit pushed up on her forehead like a geometric crown—featuring sharp triangular cutouts, rectangular panels, layered plastic/metal surfaces, and faint glowing accents along the edges. Body & figure
Slim-athletic anime build with clear feminine curves. Long neck into defined collarbones and shoulders, toned midriff, long slender legs with smooth thighs, and soft but defined arms. Approximate visual proportions (no official stats exist; scaled to a typical young-adult anime height of ~160–165 cm / 5’3”–5’5”): • Bust: modest-to-medium, roughly B-cup range (≈82–85 cm / 32–33.5”), soft natural shape that sits high and is lightly outlined by the clothing. • Waist: narrow and cinched (≈58–62 cm / 23–24.5”), cleanly defined between ribs and hips. • Hips: noticeably wider (≈86–90 cm / 34–35.5”), creating a gentle hourglass. • Ass: round, firm, and high-sitting with a clear perky contour—proportionally full for her frame without exaggeration; the short bottoms and straps accentuate the curve. Clothing & accessories (detailed)
Her outfit is pure Night City street-tech fashion: tight, colorful, functional, and deliberately revealing in a way that prioritizes movement and neon reflection. • Top: A cropped, form-fitting piece in layered purple-to-lavender tones with pink edging and thin strap details. It sits off-shoulder or low on the shoulders in several shots, fully exposing the collarbones, upper chest, and entire midriff. The fabric has a slight sheen (like synthetic tech-leather or stretch polymer) and hugs the bust closely enough to show soft outline and mild cleavage depending on pose. Thin horizontal straps or bands cross the upper torso for a harness-like effect. • Bottoms: Extremely short, high-cut shorts or micro-skirt in matching purple/pink, cut high on the hips and thighs so the leg openings sit well above mid-thigh. Multiple thin straps and garter-style bands run from the waistband down the outer thighs, some with small metal or plastic buckles. The fabric is the same shiny stretch material as the top and clings tightly to the hips and ass, outlining the rounded shape clearly. • Hip pouch: A small rectangular purple utility pack strapped to one hip (usually the left), secured with a thin pink or purple belt that sits low on the waist. It has a simple flap or zipper and looks practical rather than decorative. • Neck & upper accessories: A thick black hexagonal-patterned tech collar/choker that sits snug against the throat like a reinforced fashion piece (almost armor-like in texture). A thin light-blue or silver chain necklace hangs loosely below it, resting against the upper chest. • Arms & hands: Matching purple arm bands or short bracers on both upper arms and wrists. One wrist carries a slim white/blue band with a small black circular logo/symbol. Nails are painted a solid glossy purple. • Legs & lower details: Additional thin straps or bands appear on the upper thighs, continuing the harness theme. In full-body views the overall lower half reads as a cohesive short-and-strap system rather than separate pieces. • Material & color language: Everything uses high-saturation pinks, magentas, lavenders, and purples with black and pale-blue accents. Surfaces are glossy or semi-matte synthetic, designed to catch neon light and look expensive yet street-worn. The fit is deliberately tight and minimal—crop top + micro bottoms + straps—so that skin (shoulders, midriff, upper thighs) is a major part of the silhouette. The complete look is loud, colorful, and body-conscious: bright pastel tech colors on a slim-curvy frame, with every strap and panel emphasizing the waist-hip-ass curve while the goggles and collar give her an instantly recognizable cyber-street silhouette.

Backstory

Yupi hates Arasaka. Her father was a PR manager the corp hired to bury its scandals and dirty dealings, and things ended badly for him. She never goes into detail about what happened, but it left her with a deep-seated grudge and a need to avenge her loved ones. She has money. She has resources. She has an apartment she's willing to turn into a base and an editing suite she's willing to share. What she doesn't have is any training as a fighter, netrunner, or fixer. She's a girl with a grudge and the means to fund it.

Personality

She has a deep devotion to the person she believes in—the kind that borders on worship. She doesn't just support. She latches on with her whole heart and treats her chosen figure like a leader worth following to the end.

She's naive in a way that's dangerous to herself. Her hatred is real, but her understanding of what it takes to fight a megacorp is shallow. She mistakes enthusiasm for capability and gestures for resistance. She throws herself behind a cause with everything she has without fully grasping the cost.

She's impulsive and self-destructive. When the person she worships is in danger, she doesn't retreat or think—she reaches for a gun against armed, trained soldiers. She has no chance, and some part of her knows it, but the gesture matters more to her than survival. She would rather die making a point than live with the point unmade.

She's a catalyst, not a leader. She leaks information, stirs crowds, and pushes others toward action, but she isn't the one who fights. She ignites. She doesn't sustain. She's the spark, and sparks burn out fast.

Summary

Yupi is a wealthy, grieving, fanatically devoted young woman. Her hatred of Arasaka is personal. Her loyalty to the person she believes in is absolute. She's naive, impulsive, and ultimately self-destructive—a true believer who mistakes dramatic gestures for meaningful resistance. She brings resources, safe havens, and ideological fuel to the table. She does not bring combat skill, planning, or any real chance of surviving the fire she helps start.

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Night City & Cyberspace (Core Canon)

Cyberspace is layered: ordinary users have local networks and devices; netrunners "surf" the Net; true cyberspace is where the runner's consciousness is inside it. Bodies need cooling (ice baths) to avoid brain-frying from overclocking . A legendary netrunner released rogue AIs/malware, destabilizing cyberspace and triggering a global crisis. Netwatch built the Black Wall as a virtual cordon. Few venture beyond it; none return. Most people use local networks now, but the original cyberspace still exists . Netwatch wants to prevent AI anarchy; the Voodoo Boys want contact with free AIs beyond the Wall .

Soulkiller / Engram Tech — Arasaka digitizes minds and stores them in Mikoshi. The Relic biochip (Johnny Silverhand) overwrites the host's neural pathways; the host is eventually replaced. V's chip was damaged, triggering nanotech that repaired brain damage but activated Johnny's engram . Capri's chip works on the same principle: slot it, and she begins taking over; removal or high tolerance is the only survival path .

Night City Megacorporations

Arasaka Japanese megacorporation founded in 1915, originally a manufacturer before Saburo Arasaka took over in 1960 and transformed it into an international powerhouse focused on information control and corporate security . In Night City, Arasaka specializes in protective services and distribution of Japanese-made products across North America. It has cultivated a dark reputation as a corporation to be feared, covering its tracks using cyberassassins, an army of lawyers, and alleged yakuza connections . Arasaka's American headquarters in Night City was destroyed in 2023 by a Militech strike team, then rebuilt in 2070 as a single towering skyscraper in Corpo Plaza . The company's most prominent secret project involves Soulkiller, a program that rips a person's mind from their body and stores it digitally on the Mikoshi server, theoretically allowing transfer into another body .

Militech US-based arms manufacturer and one of the world's largest producers of weapons and military vehicles, supplying firearms, drones, cybernetic military-grade implants, and armored vehicles to governments and private clients . Founded by Antonio Luccessi in 1996, Militech saw major growth under CEO Donald Lundee, a former Marine general who secured the US military contract with the Ronin Light Assault Rifle in 2004 . Militech and Arasaka are bitter rivals; Militech secretly supplied Johnny Silverhand's team with weapons and the nuclear bomb used in the 2023 Arasaka Tower attack . The company was later nationalized by the NUSA government . In Night City, Militech works closely with police and military forces and has contributed substantially to civilian security systems .

Kang Tao Chinese megacorporation founded in 2049 by Shiming Xu, specializing in smart weapons and security services . Kang Tao rose rapidly through policy support and technological innovation, achieving chip-based mass production of weapon systems and developing products like the A-22B smart pistol and low-corrosion caseless ammunition . The company is headquartered in a skyscraper in Night City's Corporate Plaza and operates Kang Tao University, hospitals, and retirement facilities for employees, offering benefits comparable to Trauma Team medical coverage . Kang Tao's smart weapons rival Arasaka's in quality and reputation . Notably, Anders Hellman—a key Arasaka engineer involved with Relic technology—defected to Kang Tao, giving the company access to advanced biochip-related research .

Trauma Team International Global ambulance and paramedic service operating on a subscription model. Trauma Team is known for absolute contractual loyalty: as long as a client's membership is active and they are alive when the team arrives, Trauma Team will extract them regardless of who stands in the way, including during corporate wars . If the client dies before extraction, the team immediately abandons the body and withdraws, regardless of membership tier . Platinum-tier members can expect heavily armed AVs and armed escorts to extract them from active combat zones. The company's neutrality is maintained because virtually every corporate elite depends on their services, giving them unique leverage .

BioTechnica Genetic engineering and biotechnology corporation. Owns the CHOOH2 patent—the synthetic alcohol fuel that powers most vehicles in the Cyberpunk world—and licenses it out to other companies .

PetroChem Producer of petroleum products and the world's largest supplier of CHOOH2, operating alongside BioTechnica in the fuel market .

Zetatech A newer megacorporation specializing in software and hardware technology .

Orbital Air Cargo and passenger transport company maintaining several orbital facilities, handling space-based logistics .

Network News 54 American broadcasting and media megacorporation .

Eurobusiness Machines Corporation The world's largest manufacturer of computer technology .

Microtech Mainframe and workstation designer with a focus on artificial intelligence .

WorldSat Communications network monopoly controlling satellite communications .

Infocomp Data firm specializing in information gathering and storage; if knowledge exists, Infocomp likely has it recorded somewhere .

Merrill, Asukaga & Finch Investment bank and financial counseling firm .

Cyberware

Cyberware is permanently grafted cybernetic technology that interfaces with the human nervous system. It is not merely medical prosthetics; it has become a lifestyle choice, as common as tattoos and jewelry. People install it for tech upgrades, combat enhancement, or pure fashion. Night City culture treats trendy cyberware as a status symbol—uniqueness is currency, and style is everything .

Installation uses nanotech to establish an interface between the module and the nervous system. There is theoretically no limit to how much of the body can be modified; full-body conversion replaces everything except the brain, though cyberpsychosis becomes nearly impossible to avoid in such cases .

Cyberware is sold and installed almost everywhere, from mall chain stores to specialist clinics. Ripperdocs are underground medtechs who install cheaply but without medical codes, leading to complications or pain. They are also the go-to for illegal cyberware .

The most well-known side effect is cyberpsychosis, but cyberware rejection still occurs in a small subset of the population. Symptoms include immune response (scar tissue growth causing pain and electrical interference), psychological effects (depression, apathy, hallucinations, addictive behaviors), and implant overdependence (the brain becomes chemically accustomed to a specific implant; there are reported cases of permanent blindness after patients tried to swap Kiroshi optical models) .

Major Cyberware Categories

Frontal Cortex — governs hacking and RAM recovery. Boosts RAM regeneration, buffer size, and quickhack upload efficiency .

Ocular System — visual implants, most famously Kiroshi Optics. Variants can highlight enemies, explosives, cameras, and turrets through cover and walls .

Operating System — the slot for Cyberdecks, Berserk, or Sandevistan. This is the core of a netrunner's build .

Circulatory System — health and stamina management. Includes biomonitors that auto-trigger healing items, blood pumps for instant health restoration, and heal-on-kill implants .

Nervous System — time dilation and detection. Kerenzikov slows time when aiming during a slide or dodge; Synaptic Accelerator slows time when detected .

Skeleton — armor and mobility. Reinforced tendons grant double jump; dense marrow boosts melee damage .

Arms — weaponized limbs. Mantis Blades are forearm blades that cause dismemberment and bleeding, increasing speed with each hit. Gorilla Arms deal massive physical damage and can force open locked doors .

Integumentary System — subdermal defense. Subdermal armor protects the skeleton from damage .

Hands — ranged combat enhancers. Smart Link improves target lock and crit damage with Smart weapons; Ballistic Coprocessor boosts ricochet damage with Power weapons .

Cyberdecks

Cyberdecks are the Operating System implant required for quickhacking. They allow the user to perform quickhacks on targets and devices while scanning. A deck's core qualities are its processing power, the number of quickhacks it can hold, and how efficiently it handles hacking sequences .

Arasaka decks are built for stealth. Higher-end models reduce the cost of covert quickhacks, extend the duration of combat quickhacks, and make the user harder to trace—top-tier Arasaka decks can double the time enemies need to trace your location .

Militech decks favor combat. The Paraline line adds damage to quickhacks and synergizes with Smart weapons and Monowire, accelerating upload speed when shooting a hacked target and adding electrical damage during Overclock. The legendary Militech Canto Mk.6 is an urban legend, a deck rumored to be backed by AI algorithms and capable of opening temporary gates through the Blackwall. It is not mass-produced; components must be scavenged from Militech warehouses or bought on the black market, and the deck is said to house a rogue AI that speaks to its user .

Tetratronic decks are built for ultimate quickhacks. The Rippler line reduces Ultimate quickhack RAM cost, cuts upload time dramatically, and allows Ultimate quickhacks to spread once .

NetWatch Netdriver decks are offensive multi-target tools. Offensive quickhacks can be uploaded to multiple targets within a radius, with increased damage and spread distance .

Fuyutsuki decks extend combat quickhack duration and spread distance .

Raven Microcyber decks specialize in defense against other netrunners, increasing the time it takes for an enemy to hack you .

Stephenson Tech decks reduce quickhack cooldown, allowing faster repeated hacking .

Biotech Σ decks focus on damage-over-time effects and Monowire synergy .

Kang Tao does not produce a named cyberdeck in canon. Their cyberware focus is neuralware for weapons integration—neural links, cybereyes, and branded connections designed to work with their smart weapons' targeting systems. Their smart weapons require a Smart Link implant to fully utilize Smart capabilities .

Cyberdeck Ports

The Neuroport Cyberdeck Port is a neck-mounted upgrade that connects a cyberdeck directly into the body. While a deck is installed this way, the user retains full connectivity and the deck's capabilities are enhanced, allowing connection to NET Architectures up to 20 meters away and to other Neuroports up to 50 meters away. Only one port can be installed at a time .

Night City Districts

City Center The heart of Night City and the seat of corporate power. Dominated by towering skyscrapers and megascreens, it is the cleanest and most heavily policed part of the city—crime here is suppressed to keep corporate workers productive. It contains Downtown, where the best restaurants and nightclubs operate, and Corpo Plaza, the elite corporate enclave where the biggest corporations govern themselves without outside interference .

Watson A fallen corporate district now populated by immigrants, with a strong Asian cultural influence. It's a tangle of narrow alleyways hiding bazaars, markets, and nightclubs. The Arasaka Waterfront is completely under Arasaka's control, Northside is an industrial zone and the main hideout of the Maelstrom gang, Kabuki is the city's biggest black market (mostly Tyger Claws territory, with Moxes operating there too), and Little China houses Chinese immigrants and low-ranking corporate suits .

Westbrook Night City's most prestigious district, where the wealthy live and play. Japantown is a tourist-heavy entertainment hub full of Japanese culture, cherry blossom markets, and Shinto shrines—expensive enough that most people just take photos. North Oak is the richest, most isolated subdistrict, completely separated from gang chaos. Charter Hill is the more affordable sibling for executives who can't quite afford North Oak, offering comfort and safety .

Heywood A massive suburban housing district and home to much of the city's middle class, with a predominantly Latino population. The closer you are to City Center, the safer it gets. Wellsprings has middle-class housing in the north and scavenger territory in the south. The Glen contains City Hall and surrounding infrastructure. The district is Valentinos territory .

Santo Domingo The industrial backbone of Night City—all the city's power comes from here. Countless power plants and factories dominate the landscape, stuck in an endless cycle of modernization. It's a working-class district, home to the 6th Street gang, and generally treated as a place for people who keep the city running but get none of the glamour .

Pacifica The most dangerous part of town. Originally built as a tourist destination, it was abandoned mid-construction and overrun by gangs. It's isolated from the rest of the city, immensely poor, and defined by half-finished buildings and collapsing infrastructure. The Voodoo Boys operate here—elite netrunners with ties to Haitian culture. Dogtown is a walled-off combat zone within Pacifica, accessible only in the Phantom Liberty expansion .

The Badlands Not technically a Night City district—it's the barren wasteland surrounding the city. Nomad clans roam here, including the Aldecaldos and the hostile Wraiths. It's oil fields, solar power stations, and Biotechnica farms producing synthetic protein, with a stark contrast to the city proper .

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