Exploring All Edgerunners Backstories | Cyberpunk Mission Kit Explained & Analyzed

Sorry if music is a bit loud in some parts! I swear when I was editing, the volume was much lower, ahhhh. Oh well! 😂 can’t wait to get that new computer to replace my laptop from 2017 lmao

David getting his umbilical cut with a mantis blade goes hard as fuck though, bro (un?)fortunately became truly special

the edgerunner who got his arm stitched back on Gloria was a real one tho. Like, instead of just getting out of there they were like, “Oh damn, here lemme help.”

Ah tragedies of Night City where everyone wants a good ending and it always follows Silverhand's quote "Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."

David: had the most badass birth and was always a little nuts even before the Sandy. Lucy: Found out the fairytale life she lived was built on a mountain of bodies and exploitation that she later experienced first hand. Maine: Always had a complex about his strength. Dorio: David’s second mom who we never really got to know. Falco: Went looking for a challenge and found it. Kiwi: Exploited and abused down to the last moment. Pilar and Rebecca: Born to a legend and left to fend for each other.

This is the heartbreaking part about night city. It's not a city for the weak. David and his crew, generally don't do anything that absurdly different from V, even having the same exact ending with a raid to Arasaka tower and a fight with Smasher. But the City doesn't care what choices you make. It only cares if you got what it takes to make it, and David didn't. His story is not that different from the one in the game.

I love the amount of care and thought put into each of these characters. How even before we got their official backstories in printing, you could tell these characters had a past, a past that still effects them into their present and future. Obviously I don't like what Kiwi did and don't agree with it, but it's always been something I understood. I get why Kiwi did it, and I think that speaks to the level of thought put into these characters. I'm obvious going to rewatch Edgerunners again as it's a comfort show (Yes my therapist is working me though that.) and I just know it's all going to hit that much harder. Another fantastic video. Please keep up the good work, without overworking yourself.

Whomever was the guy that helped with David’s birth, he a real homie. Wish we could’ve seen him in the show or he was added to 2077 as a bit of an Easter egg.

The Mission Kit adds so much to Edgerunners. I did find that Kiwi becomes more understandable, and perhaps easier to explain

David was already having psycho tendencies, which explains why his leg was shaking at the beginning of episodes. Very fitting. He was destined to become an edge runner. He wasn’t Blackhand, but he was a true edge runner. My boy was special 💙

Sewing the severed arm back on the the guy whos about to midwife-assist you is a very disgustingly hard Hisoka esque move

It's very enlightening (in the best way) to now have all this recontextualisation to our beloved Edgerunner crew, even the oh so mysterious Falco lol As one would say in Night City, Preem new hair colour choombatta, nova 👌

The parallel between being delivered in an ambulance and then Lucy “delivering” him from an ambulance after his mothers death is an interesting parallel. These writers need more work.

Beccas death was one of the most well written parts of the show. Its so sudden and absolutely brutal that you dont even have a moment to process it. It really forces the idea that no one is safe from nc

Thank you for the new video and cant wait for the Adam Smasher one. Best wishes from Poland !

I subbed like yesterday, the sheer luck to happen across a new upload this early when I’ve only been watching this channel for a couple days is insane.

"His desire to never let his mother down..." was just the start. Everyone let everyone else down. The end credit song, "Let You Down" carries a lot of that weight.

I just found your channel after watching the dex deshawn video and now I'm invested

The new hair looks dope and the new background is awesome! I love the changes!

I like these background stories. It makes the characters less like thugs and more like humans trying to survive in less than ideal circumstances. I feel more sympathetic towards Maine, Pilar and Kiwi now. It especially recontextualizes Kiwis betrayal and makes it even more tragic. Knowing Pilar's story might also explain Becca's personality. It's also ironic that Pilar died of reckless behaviour before Becca did.