Not even the Trauma Team can save any of us from the feels<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Plenty of people who watched Season 1 of the Netflix original anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/strong><\/mark><\/em> all the way through have felt the weight of Lucy and David’s relationship, their attachment to each of them, and that lingering sense of loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into what became of Lucy after the anime, drawing on the main game, the related TRPG, and other official material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u203bWarning: This article contains major spoilers for the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final episode of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em> (Episode 10, “My Moon My Man”) ends with Lucy standing alone on the surface of the moon<\/strong>. In the battle at Arasaka Tower, David is defeated by Adam Smasher and killed, while Lucy escapes Night City with Falco’s help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Going to the moon was Lucy’s dream from the start, and David promised that he would take her there someday. By the end of the story she does make it to the moon, but David isn’t by her side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Lucy walks across the lunar surface in her spacesuit, a phantom of David appears beside her. It’s a quiet way of driving home that the dream was fulfilled not by the two of them together, but by her alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucy is alive in this final scene, and her death is never depicted within the anime itself<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The show never tells us how she lived after reaching the moon or whether she ever returned to Night City. It simply rolls into the ending and closes. That heartbreaking finale, where the loss of someone precious outweighs the joy of a dream come true, is what made the series so beloved. It’s also why speculation about “what happened to Lucy” has never stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit<\/em>, a starter box set for the TRPG that lets players experience the world of Edgerunners<\/em>, was released in Japan by Hobby Japan on January 30, 2025. A Reddit user who read the guide PDF pointed out that it contains a passage where Falco acknowledges that Lucy left for the moon and never came back.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, after heading to the moon at the end of the anime, Lucy never returned to Night City<\/strong><\/mark>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that point, though, many questions still remained about what happened after the final scene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These were still open questions as of January 30, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s look back at the inscription on David’s memorial in the main game. These words, engraved on David’s grave, are one of the few places in the game where you can sense Lucy’s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You didn’t take me to the moon, but you were there with me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n It’s heartbreaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The memorial conveys Lucy’s desperate wish: she truly wanted David to take her to the moon, and she wanted to go there together, alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n However, this memorial sparked two theories among fans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the inscription most likely means something else: “We never made it to the moon together, but back then (presumably when we went to the moon together through a braindance), you were there with me.” It reads as a message of love for David, looking back on a precious memory from that braindance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25bcThe conversation between Lucy and David at the end of Episode 2, during their braindance on the moon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucy: “It’s my first time doing this with someone.” Lucy had run from a painful past and lived alone her whole life. For her, that moment was the first time she ever felt she could open her heart to someone.<\/strong> The words on the memorial were likely the last thing she left behind in Night City, written while thinking back on that precious time with David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s also summarize Lucy’s backstory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucy’s father was Takeshi Kushinada, an elite Arasaka veteran of the Fourth Corporate War. Her mother was Shimmer, a runner from the Polish underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucy was deeply loved by her father, but their relationship changed when she discovered records of the brutal atrocities he had committed during the war. Shocked by what she learned, she resolved to defy him at the age of seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, because Lucy had the potential to become the best netrunner in the world, her father sent her to Arasaka’s black-ops netrunning team. In a dark underground facility, she was forced to deep-dive into the dangerous Old Net. One child after another failed to return from the Old Net and died, and Lucy eventually killed the adults and escaped the Arasaka facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After fleeing Arasaka, Lucy decided to keep running until she had saved enough money to escape her family and Arasaka forever. She drifted from state to state, taking small jobs and honing her skills, until she finally met Kiwi. She then settled in Night City, which conveniently doubled as a place to hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Final Scene: Lucy Heads to the Moon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Falco’s Mention of Lucy in the TRPG<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Lucy Death Theory and the Memorial in Cyberpunk 2077<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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David: “Oh\u2026 wait, why’d you show me this?”
Lucy: “Dunno\u2026 I guess I figured it was okay to show you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nBefore the Final Analysis: Lucy’s Past<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lucy’s True Ending, Revealed in the Wuthering Waves<\/em> \u00d7 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em> Collab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n