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STATISTICS

Tomoki Vidal Miura

FULL NAME

Moonlight

ALIAS

Cyberpunk RED

CANON

male

SEX

AGE

Kabuki, Watson Development, Night City

LOCATION

Fixer

PROFESSION

APPEARANCE

pale grey

EYES

silver/white; mid-back length; worn in a bun

HAIR

5'9" (175cm)

HEIGHT

lean, moderately toned

BUILD

Japanese & Mexican-American

NATIONALITY

white cosmetic cyberware on cheeks; four-pointed star beneath right eye; moon phases in a vertical line beneath nape; multiple piercings in both ears; all fingers on left hand replaced with pearl white prosthetics.

DISTINGUISHING MARKS

Primarily kitsch: bare midriff or deep neckline tops, tight pants in denim, leather, or sequins.

FASHION

PERSONALITY

CONGENIAL Upon first impression, Moonlight is capable of connecting with just about anyone. Night City's population is comprised of dozens of nationalities and subcultures, and all levels of social strata from the chronically homeless to the top 0.1%. A fixer's job —Moonlight's job— is to seamlessly and naturally interact with people from all walks of life, and in a way that makes them want to do business. He's been doing this (albeit on a small scale) since childhood, and he's good at it. In the same vein, Moonlight makes a good networker. After all, a fixer must be the middle ground, ready to supply whatever demand comes his way. An illegal weapon? Black market cyberware? A contract kill? To facilitate this supply and demand well, Moonlight knows a lot of people. Of course, it's not enough to simply know - people also trust him enough to handle what is often very personal or private business.

SELF-RELIANT Moonlight has clawed himself up from being an orphan on the streets to being a respected fixer for the new district of Kabuki, doing so on his own merits. He relies on his own wit, knowledge, and skills to do what needs to be done. By the same token, he devalues the strengths and experiences of others — at least, when it comes to his own life and decisions. While he may seek out advice on occasion, and even follow it, if his mind is made up about something, or if the advice is unsolicited, Moonlight will disregard it without consideration (regardless of how well-intentioned or helpful said advice actually is).

ALOOF While Moonlight is the perfect image of cordiality, and even friendliness, spending any amount of time with him makes it clear he keeps everyone at an arm's length. He is critical about who he works with, and even more cautious about who he is truly friends with. Night City is cutthroat in every social sphere, and fixers dip their toes in all of them.

UNETHICAL In Night City, those who take the moral high ground are limited to obscurity and poverty— or a quick death. Moonlight will work with anyone that puts enough eddies on the table — provided he is sure he can do business with them without ending up with a knife in his back. (He isn't picky about whether that trust comes from the other person's scruples, or Moonlight's trust that he can control said person via blackmail or some other means, so long as one or the other are in play.)

INTRACTABLE While he will admit it to no one, Moonlight holds a deepseated fear of being under someone else's control or command. He spent much of his late teens and early 20s under the thumb of a gang and its vicious and fickle leader. Escaping the Tyger's Claw cost him the fingers of his left hand — and the life of his lover. He now dislikes even owing anyone a favor, and will do almost anything to avoid becoming indebted to someone. As a fixer, which involves the exhange of goods, services, and information, 'whatever it takes' sometimes involves manipulation or, failing that, some mental gymnastics on his own part to avoid admitting to himself that he owes someone.

BENEVOLENT Moonlight grew up alongside the hundreds of other children orphaned or otherwise left on the streets. Many died, others are still entrenched in the gangs that scouted them, still more are chronically homeless, addicted to drugs or alcohol. While he has no desire to fight the system, he does at least want to help others growing up on the same brutal streets he did. To some he has given food or money; others he has given jobs or introduced them to corporate or nomad connections.

CYBERWARE

CYBERAUDIO SUITE

An audial cyberware implant that replicates normal human hearing. In addition, Moonlight has two modifications:
• Voice stress analyzer: essentially a built-in lie-detector, although very good liars might slip through.
• Audio recording

OPTICAL IMPLANT

An eye capable of 20/20 vision. Moonlight's left eye has been replaced. He has one upgrade:
• Chyron: projects a subscreen into the user's field of vision. A subscreen can display messages, videos, etc. from other cyberware or electronics.

SANDEVISTAN

A neural cyberware implant that greatly boosts reaction speed for a short burst of time, before requiring a cooldown period. To an observer, use of the Sandevistan appears as though the user is moving at superhuman speeds.

NEURAL LINK

A neural processor attached to the spinal cord and integrated with the nervous system. Myriad options exist, but Moonlight has only a few specific upgrades:
• Memory chip: much like upgrading a computer, this allows for storage of recorded data.
• Internal Agent: the ability to mentally interface with his agent, an AI-adjecent program on a device much like a smartphone. He can make calls, schedule meetings... or look up whomever he's talking to in the NCPD database.

MONOWIRE

Mono-filament wire spool mounted in a concealed compartment nestled into Moonlight's left wrist. Monomolecular wire will cut through almost any organic material and most plastics. Can be used as a garrotte, cutter or slicewhip. This is his weapon of choice.

DOLL CHIP

Comprised of three main functions – importing data from systems, steering the doll's behavior in-session and wiping the doll's memory after each and every session. In-universe, this is primarily utilized by sex workers (joytoys). A holdover from his time with the Tyger's Claw, Moonlight rarely resorts to using his chip.

HISTORY

ORIGINS Tomoki Vidal Miura was born to a Japanese father and Mexican-American mother on August 2nd, 2015 in Night City, a city on the southern coast of the semi-autonomous Free State of Northern California. Both parents were lower management for international megacorporation Arasaka, which meant Tomoki's childhood was simple, but comfortable. He was raised largely by a nanny, and his older brother Touma.

NIGHT CITY HOLOCAUST The Fourth Corporate War began in earnest in 2021, when Tomoki was six years old. Two years after that, on August 20, 2023, a half-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated on the 120th floor of Arasaka tower in the midst of the city center. Death toll estimations ranged wildly from 14,000 to 500,000. Tomoki's family, living north of Corpo Plaza, were spared the radiation. The president of the NUSA announced Arasaka had detonated the bomb on their own headquarters to prevent the enemy - Militech - from obtaining company secrets. A manhunt followed, under the pretense of exacting justice for Arasaka's crime. Tomoki's parents, and older brother, were imprisoned for their supposed crimes, though they all claimed their innocence. Tomoki never heard from them again.

STREET KID At 10, Tomoki was too young to be considered involved in the Night City Holocaust, but neither the NUSA's nor Night City's governments cared what became of the child of criminals. Tomoki ended up, like hundreds of other children, on the streets. Tomoki learned very quickly that surviving meant fighting. Over time, he learned fighting wasn't the only way. He endeared himself to shop owners and food vendors in Old Japantown, running errands or cleaning for them. At the very least, it kept him from starving. Eventually, Tomoki built up enough trust that he was able to network with other street kids, having them do errands and paying them a cut of what vendors would sell him. Errands to pick up ingredients or deliver food became small jobs to stock overnight, then to protect a particular store. Tomoki had a good eye for those who could carry out certain tasks - and who wouldn't run off or screw him over.

THE TYGER'S CLAW Despite Richard Night's plans for Night City to be a utopia, the fact of the matter is that the streets are ruled by gangs. In the Japantown district, the Tyger's Claw held a tight grip on the streets and the vendors that used them. Katashi, the leader of a clique of Tyger's Claw in the Old Japantown district, took notice of Tomoki and scouted him for the Tyger's Claw at age 16. Tired of sleeping in the elements with one eye open, and aware of the power the Tyger's Claw held, Tomoki agreed. The next ten years of his life were deeply entrenched in the Tyger's Claw culture, under the vicious and possessive hold of his leader.

ESCAPE After his first love ended tragically, falling in love a second time years later was the final straw for Tomoki. He and his lover Angel fled from Old Japantown, moving east across the bay to New Westbrook. Tomoki began going by Moonlight, a nickname originally given to him by his first love, and entirely changed his appearance - down to his skin and eye color. It wasn't enough. The Tyger's Claw - or at least Katashi - did not take kindly to deserters. The consequence was Moonlight losing all the fingers of his left hand, and Angel losing his life.

FIXER For a time, Moonlight lived with the one man he might call a friend: Aka, a counter-intelligence worker for Arasaka. In Aka's upscale, high security apartment building, the Tyger's Claw had no chance of getting to Moonlight — but Moonlight had no desire to remain like a caged bird. He began networking with old contacts: street kids like him that grew up to be netrunners and solos, shop owners he used to run errands for, even Tyger's Claw members that were no longer so loyal to Katashi. In time, he moved into a brand new shop front in what was coming to be known as the Kabuki district of the Watson Development. Four years after his botched escape from the gang that dictated much of his life, Moonlight is free, a respected fixer that can get anything for the right price.