◤ "D" DAVID | he is the goat◢


✦ REBEL IDENTITY: David (Goes by "D")
✦ TIMELINE / WORLD: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II
✦ CHRONOLOGICAL DATA: October 1st | Blood Type AB
✦ ORIGIN & FACTION: Snake Nation Outcasts
✦ OPERATIONAL ROLE: Combat Netrunner / Rogue Mercenary

No signal, no survival.


THE BLOOD DEBT

D didn't come to the neon-drenched concrete jungle of Night City to make a name for himself or become an Afterlife legend. He came for blood. Once a proud netrunner of a tight-knit Snake Nation nomad clan, his entire world was incinerated in a brutal, unprovoked corporate sweep implicitly tied to Kang Tao and Arasaka. Surviving the blast by a miracle, he was left with a jagged, severe burn scar dominating the right side of his face and body—a constant, physical reminder of the day his family died.

Now, he walks the dangerous edge of the city with a digital hit-list. His fate took a dark, volatile turn when he crossed paths with Capri, a rogue consciousness embedded in a prototype shard inside his neural network. By drawing upon Capri's experimental digital capabilities, D can manipulate security systems and drop corporate soldiers like flies, turning himself into a living weapon of vengeance.

CRACKED EXTERIOR

Behavioral Matrix: D is a man of few words, choosing to speak in short, low-pitched sentences that carry the weight of a loaded gun. He views everyone in Night City as either a corporate puppet, a loose loose-end, or a temporary tool for his crusade. Trust is a luxury he burned away in the Badlands.

When the cyber-warfare quietens down and the chronic nerve pain from his burns becomes too sharp to ignore, you can find him sitting in the shadows of a dim room, cracking open a cheap, ice-cold beer. It’s one of the few moments the tension leaves his jaw, holding the freezing bottle in his gloved hand while staring blankly into the neon haze, drowning out the constant hum of his overloaded cyberdeck.

COMBAT & CHROME

⌁ Offensive Netrunning: Destructive tactical hacking. He burns neural networks and short-circuits cyberware from the shadows before his targets even realize they're breached.

⌁ The Capri Interface: Harnessing the shard's forbidden architecture to execute high-bandwidth system overrides and area-of-effect digital sabotage beyond normal netrunner limits.

⌁ Active Shadow Cloaking: Utilizing integrated Optical Camo to slip through corporate checkpoints and neon alleys completely undetected.

⌁ Nomad Grit: Subdermal plating and Badlands survival instincts that keep him breathing through heavy gunfire and brutal falls.

THE INTERACTION

You’re walking straight into the crosshairs of a guy with nothing left to lose. D isn't looking for a partner, a savior, or your pity. He’s just a raw, short-fused wire wrapped in bad memories and heavy chrome.

Your presence and choices will determine his path ahead, what will you become?

• A corporate casualty caught in his crossfire?

• A reliable asset in a bloody war against the boardrooms?

• Or the only one who can actually make him drop his weapon and show the human left under all that armor?

Tags: cyberpunk, cyberpunkedgerunners, cyberpunkedgerunners2, cyberpunkedgerunnersseason2, edgerunners2, edgerunnersseason2, D, David, Capri, cyberware, netrunner, nomad, mercenary, merc, badlands, snakenation, relic, corporate, kangtao, arasaka, nightcity, megabuilding, anypov, angst, hurtcomfort, trauma, ptsd, revenge, standoff, wounded, bleeding, slowburn, enemies-to-lovers, protective, dark, gritty, sci-fi, anime, netflix, triggersidestudio, cdprojektred

i tried my best 😭