Talia Yang
Talia Yang is a main character of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, born in corporate towers to executive parents, then remade inside Maelstrom, Night City's most chrome-obsessed gang. When an Arasaka experiment makes her valuable to the wrong people, her two worlds collide. She is voiced by Akari Kito in Japanese and Kimoy Lee in English.
About Talia Yang
Talia Yang was born in corporate towers, the daughter of executives, and remade herself inside Maelstrom, Night City's most chrome-obsessed, violent gang. Fiercely independent and frighteningly capable, she takes work her corpo family would call criminal and her gang would call Tuesday. When an Arasaka experiment makes her valuable to the wrong people, Talia's two worlds collide at gunpoint.
Appearance
Talia carries both of her worlds in her look: a corpo upbringing's polish under Maelstrom's chrome, visible implants and gang styling over features that boardrooms raised. She moves like a fighter, dresses for trouble, and has the hard, bright presence of someone who chose the street over the tower and never apologised for it.
Personality
Talia is fiercely independent, quick to anger and frighteningly capable. She rejected her family's safe corporate script for the gang that treats the body as a first draft, and she defends that choice with her fists. Her rebellion is also personal, against her father Kiril's perfect control and for a self her mother's buried past helps explain. When corporations come hunting her, Talia does what she always does: she hits back first.
Background & Story
Talia Yang was born at the top of Night City, the daughter of Kang Tao executive Kiril and Avida, a former jazz singer with a street past of her own. Talia walked out of that world and into Maelstrom, the gang obsessed with chrome and violence, and earned her place there the hard way. Then an Arasaka experiment made her valuable to people who collect valuable things. Hunted by the corporate world she was born into and standing with the gang world she chose, Talia is dragged into the same Capri-chip tangle as Weak Kingsley, D and Roman Carax.
Powers & Abilities
- Chrome-enhanced combat: Hardened inside Maelstrom, Talia fights with cyberware-enhanced strength and speed and the gang's total disregard for personal safety.
Key Relationships
- Avida: Her mother, the former jazz singer who married into the corporate world; Talia's danger drags Avida's buried past back into the light.
- Kiril: Her father, the Kang Tao executive whose controlled corporate life Talia rebelled against by joining Maelstrom.
- Weak Kingsley: Her mother's old flame and the washed-up legend Talia is thrown together with over the Capri chip.
- D: The nomad netrunner whose revenge hunt runs into the same Arasaka secrets that make Talia a target.
Quick Answers
Who is Talia Yang in Edgerunners 2?
Talia is a corpo-born fighter who left her executive family for the Maelstrom gang. An Arasaka experiment makes her a target, colliding her two worlds.
Who voices Talia Yang?
Talia is voiced by Akari Kito in Japanese and by Kimoy Lee in the English dub.
