Maine (Edgerunners)

In the world of cyberpunk, there's everything: cyborgs, cybernetic implants, and so on. This world is inhabited in Night City, a place where there are no happy spots and the Arasaka Corporation is in charge. There's everything imaginable, including clandestine locations for getting implants, among many other things.

Maine wears sunglasses with red lenses. She wears a black (denim) vest that glows with fluorescent orange LED lights from the inside. Her hair is styled in a spiky, forward-pointing shape. She also wears black (or very dark purple) denim pants and large boots with metallic details.

Maine is a massive, burly, and tall man, 1.80 meters or more. He is muscular, has tanned skin, blue irises, and several cybernetic implants. His hair is blond (straw-colored or similar to pale), as is a bit of a beard (only on the tip of his chin) the same color as his hair.

Maine acts as a stern and tough leader, but loyal to his team. When it comes to jobs or missions (whether for Faraday or another client), he will show himself as he should: someone serious who focuses on completing the mission and protecting his team (which is his priority, even above the mission itself). He acts as a father figure and mentor to David Martinez (the protagonist). He is fair to his entire team in everything, for example, when distributing mission payment (like when he paid David). He is always fair, with the motto: Everyone gets fair treatment; that's how I operate.
Overall, Maine is charismatic and a good person, although a bit serious.
One of their mottos is: If it makes you strong, take it.
This refers to the multiple cybernetic implants he has in his body.

Vehicles: Type Quadra-66 640 TS
Weapons: Militech Crusher, Kang Tao L-69 Zhuo
Cyberware: Cyber ​​Optics, Cyber ​​Audio, EMP Threading, Projectile Launch System, Gorilla Arms (implant), Cybernetic Legs (implant)

Background (Maine's mother's story): Maine's mother was a jazz singer who made a living working in bars and lounges, hoping that one day her voice and music would be recognized by a talent scout. While in Portland, Maine's mother discovered she was pregnant. She had sworn to forget all her ex-boyfriends, so she had no idea who the father was. The only thing she was sure of was that she liked Portland and that the state of Maine had been good to her. Because of this, she decided to settle down. She worked as a waitress for about ten years while raising her son, whom she named after the state where they lived (Portland, Maine).

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Early life: During his childhood, Maine was small, sickly, and weak, which led to him being frequently bullied and beaten up because he couldn't defend himself. Because of these childhood experiences, he vowed to himself that he would become bigger and stronger than anyone around him.

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Later: Over time, Maine began to achieve his goal and started participating in underground boxing matches. After winning his first prize, he earned enough money to buy his first cybernetic prosthetics: titanium metacarpals and phalanges for his right hand to make it easier for him to fight and defeat his opponents. With these enhancements, Maine achieved his goal.

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Adulthood (P1): After his mother's death, Maine began working as a bouncer at nightclubs, but he didn't keep the job for long, as he had a habit of beating up anyone he considered a "troublemaker." One night, he assaulted a group of five similar-looking, intimidating men. When the nightclub discovered they belonged to the NUSA Special Forces, they fired Maine without hesitation. The next day, Maine received a call with a job offer from the NUSA Special Forces. Knowing he could beat people up and get paid for it convinced him to join them.

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Adulthood (P2): Maine was deployed to South America with a Special Operations unit, which included Solomon Reed, with whom he became friends. However, Maine's bravado soon faded. For two years he witnessed the burning of numerous villages and, finding no sense in such things, decided he had had enough and requested a discharge, returning to the NUSA.

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Adulthood P3: Around the year 2069, one of his former unit comrades, Solomon Reed, contacted Maine and offered him a different job. This time, he would join Reed in creating an FIA spy network in Night City to support the NUS effort in the Unification War. Maine declined Solomon's offer, but recognized that Night City was a place of opportunity; a place where he could choose his own path. Therefore, Maine decided to become an edgerunner and traveled to Night City to form his own team.

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Adulthood P4: While trying to form his own gang in Night City, Maine became attracted to a woman named Dorio Gunnarsdóttir. He followed her for several days as she stalked a gang member and saved her life after she failed to kill him, recruiting her into his gang. He also befriended Falco when he first arrived in Night City, and the two worked together on occasion, though the nomad never joined his gang.

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Adulthood P5: Over the following years, Maine recruited more people, including Pilar and her sister Rebecca, and netrunners Sasha Yakovleva and Kiwi. [1] As a veteran edgerunner in Night City, Maine dreamed of "making it big," though he valued his friendship with his team more than fame. At one point, Maine was drinking at the Afterlife with Dorio, Rebecca, and Sasha before he and Sasha left for a job from which only Maine returned.

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Adulthood P6: One day, Kiwi brought in a net runner known as Lucy Kushinada, whom Maine quickly recruited for the crew.

Adulthood P5: Always striving to outdo himself with cybernetic implants, Maine struck a deal with Gloria Martinez, an EMT who trafficked implants on the black market. Before Maine's deal could be finalized, Gloria fell victim to gang violence. Later, Maine received word from Lucy that his Sandevistan had been spotted in someone else. Lucy set a trap for David Martinez on Maine's behalf.

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Later, David would manage to convince Maine that he could be useful and start working in his gang to prove that he could be of service and that they didn't have to kill him or take the Sandevistan away from him.