Omaeda
The netrunner of Hiromi's original Kabuki crew. Present for the early gigs and the H2 loot run, then quietly faded from the story as the crew evolved into something else entirely.
// Appearance
The story introduces him in one word: chunky. That is the only physical descriptor he ever gets. He is a netrunner, so presumably some basic chrome — a cyberdeck port, maybe cheap optics — but nothing in the narrative ever pauses long enough to describe him properly. He fades before the prose ever gets around to it.
// Background
The netrunner of Hiromi's original Ho-Oh club crew — the fourth member of the small Kabuki gang Motoko met on her first night out. Introduced alongside Ichi and Malcolm as part of the regular set that ran low-level gigs in Kabuki and Japantown. He was present for the early Gonzales incident and arrived with the rest of the crew to haul crates from the H2 Megabuilding scav den after Motoko cleared it.
After that point the story stops mentioning him. He was never written out, never killed on-page — the narrative simply moved on as the crew shifted toward higher-risk operations and Section 9 began to take shape. Somewhere in Night City, presumably, a slightly chunky netrunner is still running gigs and not entirely sure what became of the people he used to work with.