Kiwi's childhood lacked parental care after being sold to a corporate factory as a toddler. Her small hands proved adept at assembling implant subassemblies, microcontrollers, and shards. The factory foreman initially favored her, offering promotions and comfort, but later demanded sexual favors as repayment. Upon her refusal, he sold her into a brothel where she endured forced prostitution. To cope, she constructed an implant suppressing her emotional responses and physical sensations. After two years, a client brutally assaulted her, tearing off her jaw with gorilla arms. She chose a cybernetic jaw replacement over surgical reconstruction, viewing physical beauty as a liability. During recovery, she self-taught netrunning, finding it a motivating challenge. She later deployed these skills to trigger electrical short circuits, burning down both the brothel and the factory with the proprietors and foreman inside, settling her accounts before departing for Night City. In Night City, Kiwi handled minor netrunning gigs until Rebecca introduced her to Maine's mercenary crew, which she joined. She encountered and mentored Lucyna Kushinada, integrating her into the crew and forming a closer bond with Lucy than with other members. Her personal philosophy emphasized distrusting everyone in Night City, leading her to maintain emotional distance while favoring Lucy through private communications. As the crew's primary netrunner, she handled intelligence gathering, often operating off-screen. During the crew's mission to capture Arasaka executive Tanaka under fixer Faraday's orders, Kiwi discovered Tanaka's interest in Jimmy Kurosaki's braindances. David Martinez's familiarity with Kurosaki's work enabled them to formulate a capture plan. Complications arose when Kurosaki deployed an EMP, causing Kiwi severe distress. Later, while extracting data from Tanaka's memories, she struggled to bypass his security protocols. Maine, experiencing a cyberpsychotic episode, forcibly removed her unconscious from the neural interface bath and inadvertently assaulted her, rendering her unable to continue. Lucy replaced her for the data extraction. After a time skip following Maine and Dorio's deaths, Kiwi assisted David's crew on a mission for fixer Wakako. During the celebration, David inquired about Lucy's past, but Kiwi claimed ignorance. Faraday, now aligned with Arasaka, bribed Kiwi to betray the crew. Her betrayal facilitated Lucy's capture to retrieve missing Tanaka-related data and enabled David's involvement in testing Arasaka's experimental cyberskeleton. Kiwi extracted both the missing data and Lucy's hidden memories during interrogation. She accompanied David's team during the cyberskeleton heist, incapacitated driver Falco with a quickhack, and fled on her motorcycle. Despite her distrustful philosophy, she agreed to meet Faraday for payment under the guise of needing backup against David. Faraday shot her in the chest to eliminate loose ends. Fatally wounded, she contacted Falco to relay Faraday's location and Lucy's whereabouts, using a final quickhack to kill one assailant before dying. Lucy inscribed her columbarium niche: "You taught me to never trust anyone in NC." Physically, Kiwi was exceptionally tall and slender, typically wearing a long red coat or a skin-tight bodysuit. A distinctive red cybernetic mask concealed her missing lower jaw. Her visible features included a light blonde bob cut and angular, feline eyes. Spiderweb motif tattoos covered most skin surfaces, with blue coloration on her nipples and pubic area. Cybernetic enhancements comprised the jaw mask, a neuroport with cyberdeck capabilities, a sensation and emotion dampening implant, and spider silk-producing breast implants. She relied on netrunning over conventional weapons but carried a Unity handgun. Her equipment included a handheld cyberdeck for on-site hacking, and she utilized an ARCH Nazaré motorcycle for transportation. Kiwi maintained a consistently detached, cynical demeanor, rarely displaying overt emotions—a trait reinforced by her implant. Her mentorship of Lucy involved pragmatic survival advice for Night City, though she withheld her personal history even from her protégé. Rebecca frequently teased her about her age, calling her "old lady," a label Kiwi never contested. Her operational style emphasized caution and information control, aligning with her distrustful worldview. Despite her betrayal, her final act provided critical information to Falco, indirectly aiding Lucy's rescue. Early production concepts included alternative attire like a blue coat and hat, plus a cyber-dog companion, omitted from the final version. Director Hiroyuki Imaishi favored the character during development.