Gloria Martinez, a Santo Domingo paramedic and single mother residing in Megabuilding H4, balanced grueling shifts as a REO Meatwagon EMT with covert black-market dealings to secure her son David’s future. Her clandestine work involved harvesting cyberware from the dead, including a military Sandevistan implant scavenged from cyberpsycho James Norris, which she planned to sell to edgerunner Maine. Driven to enroll David in Arasaka Academy despite financial precarity, she endured workplace discrimination and physical strain, stretching herself to cover tuition and survival costs. Her resilience defined pivotal moments: delivering David in a speeding ambulance during an emergency call, aided by a mercenary who severed the umbilical cord with mantis blades. Years later, gang crossfire triggered a car crash while driving David home, leaving her critically injured. Denied Trauma Team coverage, she received inadequate care at a budget clinic. Her condition worsened overnight, with a surgeon citing chronic exhaustion as the fatal factor. David cremated her on a budget, storing her ashes in a plastic urn and safeguarding her EMT jacket—which hid the stolen Sandevistan. The implant later fueled David’s edgerunner ascent, embedding Gloria’s legacy into his doomed trajectory. Her ambition for him to “reach Arasaka Tower’s summit” twisted into reality when he died there battling Adam Smasher. Lucy, David’s partner, interred Gloria’s ashes at North Oak Columbarium, etching an epitaph acknowledging this macabre fulfillment. Lingering questions about clinic malpractice or experimentation persist, tied to the facility’s later exposure for unethical practices. Gloria’s dual existence—nurturer and illicit scavenger—mirrored Night City’s oppressive cycles, where survival often demanded moral erosion beneath its uncorporatized skyline.