Borma

Standing around six and a half feet, Borma matches Batou's imposing build more closely than anyone else on the team. His shaved head and red prosthetic optics are the features people remember him by, and those glowing eyes suggest a different model from Batou's own, likely tuned to other capabilities.

Very little of Borma's past has been confirmed. What surfaces in the series points to a stint in Japan's Self-Defense Force as a demolitions man, leaving open whether he trained as a combat engineer or served with special forces. Some fans have gone further and speculated he was still a virgin at the point of his cyberization, given that the Individual Eleven virus took hold in him. A quieter marker of his standing appears in the episode Selecon, where his avatar, a plain round 0906, sits alongside those of Togusa and Ishikawa in a way that hints at rank.

Explosives are Borma's calling card, and he frequently takes on rear support, usually the lone member hauling heavy weaponry into a fight. He doubles as the squad's authority on cyber-viral warfare, able to engineer countermeasures against a new virus within minutes of its release. His assignments tend to pair him with specific colleagues: Saito for sniping, Pazu for general operations, and Ishikawa for research and viral defense across the net.