Editing Kenzie Martin (section)

==Personality==
For better or, often, for worse Kenzie is a people person. She likes making connections and helping people, to the point that a former teammate of hers called it a "people addiction".<ref>Houndstooth looked toward me and Tristan.  “There was a time, about a year back, where I was talking to a teammate.  He said a food addiction was the only addiction that you couldn’t go cold turkey on.  You can’t not eat, and that’s hard, when the addiction makes dealing with food in moderation next to impossible.  Immediately, I thought of Kenzie.  I thought, within a second or two of him saying that, he was wrong, there was another addiction like that.  You say she’s human, but she’s a ''people addict''.  She’s addicted to humans.  You can’t expect a young girl to not interact with people, and you can’t expect her to deal with people in moderation.”<br><br>“And you think the way to solve that is to… minimize that interaction to the barest bones?” I asked.<br><br>“Over months and years, gradually loosen that belt.  If the therapist okays it.”<br><br>I sighed.<br><br>“She’s doing exceptionally well,” Tristan said.<br><br>“You could hold a gun to my head, and I wouldn’t say she lacked a work ethic,” Houndstooth said.  “She’s brilliant for her age, she’s good-hearted in her way, and she doesn’t deserve a thousandth of what she’s gone through.  It’s heartbreaking and worrying.”<br>[...]<br>“Powers and agents don’t even really play into this,” Houndstooth said. “If you took away her powers and the influence of her agent today, I’d give you all the same warnings tomorrow.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/08/shade-4-4/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.4]]</ref>

Kenzie tended to think everybody and everything was "pretty neat", which could devalue her compliments somewhat.<ref name="II2.7">[[Flare 2.7]]</ref><ref name="II2.6"/> She was almost always ebullient and enthusiastic, even painfully so, but when discussing her fears she spoke more slowly and deliberately and tended to talk passively or passive-aggressively.<ref name="II2.6"/> She tended to smile when she was upset, feeling that it bothered people less than if she were to cry.<ref>“I always smile when I’m upset or bothered,” Kenzie answered.  She swallowed hard.  “That’s just how I am.  It’s easier than crying, it doesn’t bother people as much.”<br><br>“What do you do when you’re happy?”<br><br>“I don’t smile, I guess,” Kenzie said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/26/torch-interlude-7-x/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref>

She felt that she tended to drive almost everyone away as a result of a lack of boundaries.<ref name="II2.6"/> She would go to extreme lengths to please others and receive positive reactions while often endangering herself in the process, to the point of losing hair and vomiting from stress. Examples of this include devoting all her spare time to watch camera feeds, pulling consecutive all-nighters to work on school projects, and at one point volunteering to be a replacement for a woman's dead daughter after seeing it online. <ref>Kenzie sat in her chair at the table-turned desk, the projector showing the camera’s image of Cedar Point. “Did you skip class to get here as quick as you did?” I asked. “No,” Kenzie said, not turning around.  “I went to class, I stopped in at study hall at the start of lunch and asked if I could go early.  They said okay.  You can call if you need to check.” “I don’t need to check,” I said.  “You’re honest.” “Sorry for all the emails.  Sveta yelled at me.  Well, she didn’t yell, but she came close.  I sent her almost as many as I sent you.” “Did you eat lunch?” “It’s in my bag, in case I get hungry.” “Too nervous?” I asked. She turned around in her computer chair and smiled.  “Yeah.” “Houndstooth wanted to make sure you were okay first.  Making sure you weren’t getting too much homework,” I said.  “He had some tips about how we should make sure you aren’t tinkering yourself to the bone after hours.” “It helps sometimes.  Distracting myself with it.” “We should figure out a balance.  He was suspicious you were staying up late, watching and rewatching camera feeds.” “When I can’t sleep it’s nice to be able to watch that stuff with my laptop beside me in the dark room.  I doze off.” I nodded. “Did he say the embarrassing stuff?” “I don’t know what qualifies as embarrassing,” I said.  “Problems with teachers, school.  Tristan and Ashley defended you pretty fiercely.” “And you?” “I just want to figure out what needs to be figured out,” I said.  “So everyone’s happy and healthy, and the team stays together and positive overall.  I shared some of the good stuff I know of.” “Did he mention the old lady?” “I’m not sure.” “She was on the internet and she wanted a replacement for her dead daughter and I almost went with her, and then later we started thinking she killed her daughter.  Embarrassing.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/08/shade-4-4/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.4]]</ref>

Heart_Shaped_Pupil's typing style was unusually sloppy,<ref name="P.3e1">Heart_Shaped_Pupil: so x-ited to b working with u.<br>Strange_Mammal: @ K / Heart_Shaped_Pupil…<br>Strange_Mammal: …type like a grown up…<br>Strange_Mammal: …my eyes are already bleeding - [[Glow-worm P.3]]</ref> with lots of typos and extensive use of emojis and abbreviations.<ref name="P.4e1"/> She displayed some familiarity with [[PHO]]'s search function, but seemingly less than [[Strange Mammal]]'s.<ref name="P.4e1">of5: Wanted k actually.<br>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: yuss!  \♥/<br>of5: you know this site.  I want search terms to find some people.  Articles, anything else.  Would need to cover a lot of bases.  Normal site search limits # of terms.<br>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: uh.  that hard.  you want packaged search string<br>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: i can try<br>Questionable_Mammal: you’re looking for others in your set?<br>of5: yes<br>Questionable_Mammal: I can make attempt.  gimme time.  you might want to fine tune after. - [[Glow-worm P.4]]</ref> [[Strange_Mammal]] claimed that K would almost certainly check how long [[Mangled_Wings]] had been online and catch her in a minor lie.<ref>Strange_Mammal: for your information…<br>Strange_Mammal: …others can see time you spend online on your profile.  you spent longer than one hour…<br>Strange_Mammal: …you’ve been online all day.<br>Mangled_Wings: I am at the library.  Something to do with that, I’d think.<br>Strange_Mammal: it doesn’t work that way.  I am 95% sure.<br>Strange_Mammal: there is no need to lie, A<br>Strange_Mammal: the reason for this project is supposed to be we know each other<br>Strange_Mammal: K will find out if she does not already know.  she pays attention to those things - [[Glow-worm P.3]]</ref>

Kenzie was familiar with details regarding the true nature of [[passenger]]s.<ref>Heart_Shaped_Pupil:  If you think about it, with powers and all, the center of your being could include the vast monster in another dimension that’s all hooked up into you.  Passenger stuff.  The center of mass could be in the middle of an alien god monster the size of a mountain or moon.  I imagine it has the energy of a small star stored in it. - [[Glow-worm P.7]]</ref>

Due to her young age, she has a hard time grasping that others<ref name=":5">Kid Win mentions, when modifying the earbud with Armsmaster’s lie detector, that anything he does will naturally be less elegant and the work will suffer for it.  The same applies for anything in regular use with non-tinkers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/scourge-19-6/#comment-12175 comment by Wildbow] on [[Scourge 19.6]].</ref> would have a hard time using her tinker technology.<ref name="II3.3 e7">Tristan was still fiddling with Kenzie’s remote for the projector box.<br><br>“It doesn’t make any sense.  Why isn’t it easier to move forward and back in time?”<br><br>“Because the box doesn’t perceive time, you dummy.  It perceives images.”<br><br>“Why not have it perceive things like time, so you can go backward and forward in time without doing… whatever arcane thing you’re doing right now?”<br><br>“Because if it perceived time,” Kenzie said, patiently, her focus on the smartphone remote, “Then it wouldn’t perceive images.  And that would be a dumb thing for a projector box that works with images.  Dummy.”<br><br>“You can stop calling me a dummy now.”<br><br>“I will if you stop being dumb.  This stuff is ''obvious''.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13 Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref>

===Relationships===
====[[Baltimore]] [[Protectorate]]====
Kenzie had largely alienated the members of her old [[Wards]] team, a fact she regretted. However, she did discuss the possibility of one day working with her old leader again.<ref name="P.7"/>

====[[Breakthrough]]====
Kenzie is a member of a [[Breakthrough|therapy group]] that primarily communicates via [[PHO]].

She professed to be an admirer of [[Ashley]],<ref name="P.3">[[Glow-worm P.3]]</ref> and had agreed to work with them as an independent villain at a later date, although she was initially unsure if Ashley was serious about this. Ashley considered Kenzie one of the few people worthy of her attention and investment.<ref name="P.7"/> They have started treating each other like family.

She claimed a possible romantic interest in [[Chris Elman]].<ref name="P.6">[[Glow-worm P.6]]</ref> In conversation with him, HSP revealed that she had been observing Mammal's private conversations with other users. Chris had known he was being watched for some time, noting that their stalker was too skilled not to be watching their activities on PHO.<ref name="P.6">[[Glow-worm P.6]]</ref> She noticed that both of them shared similar interests and personalities, including a familiarity for all consuming special projects, and was heartbroken that he didn't think that was enough for a relationship.<ref>“I don’t know exactly how to put it.  A bunch of people here probably get it, or they got a taste of it,” Kenzie said.  “You don’t get powers unless you don’t have anyone to turn to, or something?  But there’s a difference between being totally alone the once and being totally, one hundred percent alone because that’s the way things are, or it’s the way you are, and it’s a pattern.  And because it’s a pattern you’ll probably be this alone again in five years or ten years.  It’s a loneliness that’s lonelier because there’s no way it can get better.”<br><br>“I think you’d be surprised how others relate to that,” Sveta said.<br><br>“I guess so,” Kenzie said.  “I haven’t thought that much about it.” <br>[...]<br>“Um.  Anyway, that pattern?  There’s more to it.  Chris gets it, I think.  He welcomes it, encourages it.  We’re different because I don’t want it, but he and I have that common ground.  We’ve both nosedived into big projects that you can only really do if you don’t do ''anything'' else, and we can talk about those things.  That was a me and him thing. [...] I was talking with him about it not all that long ago, especially over the summer when there wasn’t school, and I remember thinking it would be so nice to do that for a long time.  It made so much sense because we had that common ground, right?  I kind of fell in love with that idea and I fell in love with him at the same time.  Not regular love, it was a bit different this time.  Maybe crush-love.”<br><br>Ah.  So that was what she’d been getting at.<br><br>“Aw, hon,” Erin said.  She’d returned a minute ago, and I hadn’t noticed.<br><br>“He said no, by the way,” Kenzie added.  “He said we’d never get along and he’s right.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/30 Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.3]]</ref> She didn't know that he was a tinker.<ref>[[Blinding 11.2]]</ref>

====Parents====
Kenzie kept them in makeshift 'rehab program' under a threat of sending them to prison again. They hated her enough to try to kill her regularly, despite a known dead man's switch.<ref name="ii7.x"/>

====[[The Chicken Tenders]]====
Kenzie has professed to having romantic feelings for [[Aiden Tate|Aiden]]<ref>“And you like him,” Candy said.<br><br>“I do.  And I like her, and I like you, and I like my team-”<br><br>“You know what I mean.”<br><br>Lookout stared at her screen.<br><br>Candy elbowed her.<br><br>“I’m being good,” Lookout said, quiet.  “And I won’t get in the way.”- [[Heavens 12.x]]</ref> and [[Candy Vasil|Candy]].{{cite}}

After some Kenzie-induced turbulence she was accepted by [[The Heartbroken]] as part of the family.