Editing Kenzie Martin (section)

===Equipment===
Kenzie had a tinker workshop she used to work on her technology, first located in [[Baltimore]] and later at her home.<ref name="II2.5e1">“They weren’t a horror story for me.  They said I was being moved around too much and I needed to go somewhere to stay.  Not going to the fun camps and training sucked, but I went back to Baltimore, and I got to set up my workshop, fi-nuh-ly.”<br><br>“Workshop, huh?”<br><br>“Kenzie,” Mrs. Yamada spoke up.  She still sat at the desk.  “You might want to be mindful of what you reveal.  I’ll get into that more when things get started, but take a moment and think before revealing things that might tie into your cape identity, or identifying parts of your background.”<br><br>“Yes, Mrs. Yamada,” Kenzie said.  Then she leaned close to me, whispering, “I took a moment to think and I think I’m safe telling you I’m a tinker.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23/flare-2-5/ excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref><ref name="II2.7e2">“All caught up.  Stir fry for dinner, I’m going to pick up broccoli, and my workshop is warming up for later.”<br><br>“You’ve got a workshop, like a proper tinker,” I said.<br><br>“Absolutely,” Kenzie said, dead serious. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/30/flare-2-7/ excerpt] from [[Flare 2.7]]</ref> It may have been the same workshop used to maintain [[Sveta]]'s prosthetics.<ref>Questionable_Mammal: …she will be back I think. We still waiting on S. Technical issues. She’s @ workshop later this week… - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/10/28/glow-worm-0-4/?theme=twentyseventeen Excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.4]]</ref> Her workshop needed to "warm up" before she could use it, so she would call ahead to have her parents start the process.<ref name="II2.7e2"/>
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*Multiple mobile camera drones that can reach the height of several hundred feet.<ref name="II3.1">A dark shape flew within a foot of me.  For an instant, I thought it might have been one of the small birds that had arrived with Tattletale.<br><br>It was a sphere, consisting of several layers like an onion, alternating blue and red.  The lens was a white circle, and as it roved, the layers moved to accommodate it looking around.  Several fins extended out from the two most external layers, moving independently of one another to correct its position and hold eerily steady in the wind.<br><br>“''Recorded it all'',” the camera said, Kenzie’s voice with some synthesizer mixing things up.<br><br>"You got the sound, too?”<br><br>“''Of course'',” she said.  “''Can I listen to it''?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/06/glare-3-1/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.1]]</ref>. Two are simply painted and one has dedicated tinker tech camouflage.<ref name="4.1 e2">“I’ve got one camera with good aerial camouflage that I really don’t want to get damaged because it took a whole weekend and a lot of stuff to put it together.  I have two more that don’t have special camouflage, they’re just painted to match the sky, and I can only use them if the sky is the right color, or if I don’t mind them being spotted.  They could get destroyed and I wouldn’t mind them breaking that much.  It would take me something like two days to get more advanced sound built into any of them, and then I’m putting a lot of eggs in one basket or I’m making a disposable camera not so disposable.”<br><br>“But you ''can'' do it?” I asked.<br><br>“I’m better with visuals, but yeah, I can do it.”<br><br>“Even if we decided it was worth building, it would take a while before you had that kind of microphone online,” Rain said.<br><br>“It’s a sound camera, not a microphone,” Kenzie said.  “But yeah.  And I’m trying to figure out the teleporters and the longer ranged cameras and I’ve got to fix up some old stuff so it’s ready if we need it, and that’s all stuff I really should do, and if I’m doing that I’m not doing any of the fun stuff.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/27/shade-4-1/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.1]]</ref> These were all used against the Fallen.
*Dupli-Drone - Floating Camera that creates a holographic projection that Lookout presumably chooses. It has been used to create a costumed version of Lookout that appeared to be real for all intents and purposes.<ref name="II5.5 e1"> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/10/shadow-5-5/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.5]]</ref> Even manipulating her Flash Gun(see below).<ref>[[Shadow 5.4]]</ref>
**Created a derivative version that was used for the Damsel twins.<ref>[[Polarize 10.1]]</ref>
*Dupli-Pack <ref> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/20/shadow-5-7/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.7]]</ref>
*Eye Hook<ref name="II3.2 e1">“I’ve got some things,” Kenzie said.  She opened a case.  “Two of these things I had as just-in-case things when I was a Ward.  I got them fixed up recently, and I even made an improvement.  Eye hook-”<br><br>She pulled out a coil of metal.  She stuck it on the corner of her cube, then held her phone in one hand, moving her thumb around.  The coil unfurled, prehensile, and its tip unfolded from its teardrop shape.  Three claws, extending from around a circular lens with a pupil.  Kenzie moved her head and body in time with the movements of the thing.<br><br>The thing moved closer to me, until it was two feet from my face, the three claw-blades opening and closing a little.  It blinked at me, shutter closing momentarily.<br><br>“It was made to look through vents, to start with.  it’s delicate enough it can turn screws and drill holes, and I can swap out the lens for others. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/09/glare-3-2/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.2]]</ref> - Metal snake like unit used for infiltration. She can use it as a tool in combat for dragging people around but it has limited effectiveness.<ref name="II3.3 e44">Kenzie’s pincer-claw grabbed for my arm, then pulled my arm away from [[Strange_Mammal|Chris]].  I let it, grabbing the prehensile length of it between Kenzie and me.   Not a huge factor.<br><br>Kenzie’s eyehook extended from her belt, through one of her hands, and out to Tristan, with a grip on his leg.  She was simultaneously trying to circle around to get at an angle where she could shoot and blind Tristan and she was using the claw at the end of the prehensile arm to try and drag him out of the cover, helped by tugs with her hand. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref>
*Eye Lens Camera - Inserted into the lens. To the eye it allows Kenzie to see what the subject sees without blocking vision. The initial version was irritating though.<ref name="4.2 e2">“On that topic,” Ashley said.  “Eye.  Mine’s bothering me.”<br><br>“Oh, sure, I’ll get it,” Kenzie said.  She ran to her desk, then ran back to Ashley, who bent down, one hand on Kenzie’s shoulder.<br><br>Sticking a pair of tweezers into Ashley’s eye, Kenzie grabbed and withdrew the camera.  It had a flat head like a nail, but the camera’s body more closely resembled a pin in how thin and long it was, with wires encircling its length in a double-helix.<br><br>I winced a little, watching it come out.  Ashley didn’t seem to mind.<br>[...]<br>“It’s phased out, you wimps,” Kenzie said.  “It’s not actually stabbing anything.  It treats the eye as a portal and a model and unfolds in non-space using that framework.”<br><br>“I felt it moving around,” Ashley said.<br><br>“It’s mostly not actually stabbing anything,” Kenzie corrected her statement.  “One to three percent in reality at most, stabbing at things.  Sorry.  I’ll fine tune the phase.  It might be responding to your power.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/30/shade-4-2/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.2]]</ref>
**Wireless charging station able to be concealed in a book.<ref>[[Beacon 8.4]]</ref> Also used to charge other things.<ref>[[Polarize 10.2]]</ref>
*Projector Box - These servers handle data and are connected to all other devices Kenzie makes,<ref name="II2.7 e7" /> they start off washing machine sized and get bigger.<ref>[[Glare 3.2]]</ref> Further, they also create holograms for display, replay, or even creating realistic illusions. She is able to send commands to them remotely.<ref name="II3.3 e2.2">All three faces of the cube that I could see had lit up.  Numbers were apparent.  ’10’…  ‘9’…  ‘8’…<br><br>“It’s worth remembering that she can remotely control the cube,” Tristan said.  “Hm.”<br>[...]<br>Little blue flags decorated the landscape on their side of the playing field.  They were situated on every rock, in every crevice, on every flat expanse of ground, on every tree branch.  Sveta was perched on a rock in the midst of it all.<br><br>I looked at Kenzie’s cube.  One face of it was glowing.  The projector.<br>[...]<br>Kenzie pulled out her smartphone.<br><br>The projector made a sound, and then images streaked the hill, before correcting.  Ghostly images of all of us, life-size.  The images included the constructions Tristan had made.<br><br>It looked like where we had all been standing earlier in the match, when I had been facing down Ashley.<br><br>The images zipped around as Kenzie changed the time, blurring and streaking before correcting into their proper shapes.<br><br>“I saved everything, so we can look back and watch how things played out or compare notes,” Kenzie said.  “So we can do stuff like this…”<br>[...]<br>Kenzie was changing the perspective.  She created a projection of the hillside and shrank things down, then created more projections, showing an image off to one side of our gathering, showing a zoomed in portion of what the little diorama-sized projection was showing as a whole.  The focus started with the three emerging from the trees, trampling through and hurdling the barriers Tristan created. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref> These projections remain, even if the visible projection system is obscured by obstacles like rock.<ref name="II3.3 e4">The motes solidified, and the box was encased in a thorny encasement of rock.<br><br>I turned to look, keeping one eye on [[Strange_Mammal|Chris]], and I saw the flags were still there.<br><br>“Nope!  That’s not going to work!  Good luck finding our flag!” Kenzie called out.  She loosed an over the top, mocking laugh.<br><br>Tristan turned the encasement to water.<br><br>“I said it was waterproofed before!  That’s not going to do anything!” Kenzie called out, before doing her level best to laugh harder, even though she had already been laughing at her limit. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref> It is highly water resistant with a high ceiling for moisture.<ref name="II3.3 e4"/><ref>[[Gleaming 9.14]]</ref> Kenzie has used them to project 2D images onto surfaces<ref name="4.1 e1"> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/27/shade-4-1/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.1]]</ref> and 3D images of people based on images it has in its records.<ref name="4.2 e3">“On Kenzie turned around, and hit a key on her keyboard.<br><br>An image appeared in the center of our group, and most of us backed away.<br><br>A still image of a person.  He had a sleek, Anubis-like helmet or mask that encapsulated his head.  His actual outfit was sleek as well, but Western.  Nothing of an actual houndstooth pattern, ironically. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/30/shade-4-2/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.2]]</ref> It can also overlay a projection onto real objects as a sort of tactile interface that Kenzie can then modify.<ref name="4.2 e1">She continued drawing out math and lines.  She had a steady hand when it came to drawing out the geometry.  I idly wondered if her tinker power played into that.  She began drawing out a gun, similar to her flash pistol.<br><br>The drawing of a woman’s face was comparatively, almost ludicrously crude compared to the gun she’d drawn out.  Kenzie scribbled out the eyes, then wrote out ‘I gave boring angle homework and now I’m blind foreverrrr’.<br>[...]<br>I looked at the boxes near Kenzie, saw the projector box  to Kenzie’s right had a face lit up.  It was pointed at the whiteboard Sveta had been working on, but no longer projected the camera images of the faces.<br><br>Reaching down, I plucked the pen from Kenzie’s hand.<br><br>She didn’t protest or stop me, only leaning back as I picked up the paper.<br><br>I walked a few paces away, holding up the sheet, glanced back at the projector box, and then walked another two paces.<br><br>The projected image of the scribblings, tinker notes and doodles disappeared.  I turned it around to show Sveta.<br><br>She took the sheet, then experimented with moving it inside and beyond the boundaries of the projector box.  Kenzie perched on the edge of her seat, watching, her tongue sticking out between her teeth, where she lightly bit it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/30/shade-4-2/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.2]]</ref> Or, for example, overlaying costumes extrapolated from drawings onto a person.<ref>[[Shade 4.5]]</ref> It is unknown how many individual 'tasks' an individual Projector Box can do. Her projectors could project the color black.<ref>My eyes were on a projected screen on the wall.  Most projector images didn’t really have black as a thing, which meant they didn’t work so well in areas with lots of windows or light.  Kenzie’s cameras projected black, making the text distinct. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/03/polarize-10-4/ Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.4]]</ref>
**Program: Facial recognition/categorization and counter surveillance<ref name="4.5 e1">I approached Kenzie.  The image was projected onto the wall in front of her, moving between the two cameras.  An addition had been made, and as each person walked down the street, stylized crosshairs tracked their faces.  Most had logos and names.  A lot of them were just things in the vein of ‘[New31]’ with the number changing, not names.<br><br>One of the cameras moved.  It focused in on a scene where two people wearing aprons were smoking by the back stairs of a restaurant.  The little space between four buildings didn’t really qualify as an alley, as it looked like back doors and fire escapes were the only way to get down to the area.  An enclave, maybe.  The camera moved until it tracked a person in costume.  The guy’s mask looked like it covered all but a third of his face, the bottom right of his jaw and the top left of his forehead exposed, with ceramic shards framing each ‘hole’.  Curved metal bars reminiscent of piping extended around to the back of his head, holding the mask in place.<br><br>The camera seemed to recognize the mask, and labeled him as ‘[Kitchen Sink]’.  We’d seen him before, but the label thing was new. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/10/shade-4-5/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.5]]</ref>
**Camera off-switch - rewrote the Drones code to have them plummet<ref>The gunman behind Erin had lost his rifle and he held his hand in an awkward way as he used the other one to reach down for the rifle.  Gilpatrick shot him before he could claim his weapon.<br><br>The metal- pieces from Looksee’s camera.<br><br>One dropped from the sky to hit the gunman’s hand.  The other-<br><br>Children and other unarmed individuals emerged from the trees.  A wall of bodies.  the woman behind them was supported by two Fallen.<br><br>The woman was bloody, a scrape down one edge of her forehead and a messy patch of skin and blood toward the top end, hair already matted into it.  Blood streamed down her face.<br><br>The blood meant I hadn’t immediately recognized it as Mama Mathers.  The moment meant I hadn’t even realized the hallucinations had stopped.<br><br>Kenzie had dropped one of her flying cameras on her. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/21/pitch-6-3/ Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.3]]</ref> at noisey active threats.<ref>“I didn’t.  My cameras were already fritzing out, so I sent them a slice of program, with facial recognition.  I centered it over them, accounted for wind, and when things sounded worst I had my cameras stop hovering.”<br><br>''“You weaponized… cameras?”''<br><br>“I told you not to get on my case about it,” Looksee said.<br><br>''“Am not.”''<br><br>“I didn’t weaponize the cameras, just so you know.  I’ve said I’m not good at making my cameras function like weapons.”<br><br>''“I remember,”'' Chris’ snakelike voice came through the phone.<br><br>“I weaponized the off switch, obviously.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/24/pitch-6-4/ Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.4]]</ref>
*Past projector,<ref>“I’m making a camera that takes pictures and video of the past,” Kenzie said.  “It’s only twenty five pounds, and I’m slimming it down. [...] There are catches, [...] It takes a while to spin up.  I’m still working on that.  And it reads particles that don’t move in straight lines, so it gets fuzzy fast.”<br><br>“Fuzzy can be workable,” Victoria said.  “In forensics alone, that kind of camera could be a lifesaver.”<br><br>“I’m still figuring out balances.  Time is something I usually work around if I can,” Kenzie said.  Her legs kicked below the bench.  “I stole some tech.”<br><br>“Stole?” Chris asked.<br><br>“Tinkers can read powers and people and get data that they can then use for their tinkering stuff.  A tinker who makes flamethrowers can use my blueprints and figure out how to do some targeting tech.  Or, like, even if it’s not powers, I could do deep scans of a thinker and I could get power data I could use for my cameras.  Which is where right now I wish I could talk to a really good precog or postcog, and see how their power works.[...]We saw some of this with Snag and the others, remember?”<br><br>“The Speedrunners,” Tristan said.  “Yeah.”<br><br>“Yeah.  Every tinker is different so it’s not every tinker that does it, but it’s most, I think.  We all want our data and inspiration.  When I went to pick up my big projector box, I sent some flying cameras in.  Which was safe to do since Mama Mathers was gone, right?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/29 Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.4]]</ref> that projects ALL previous activity in the area since a specified time, made by reverse-engineering [[Speedrunners|other tinkertech]]. It has some internal analytical capabilities.<ref>[[Torch 7.5]]</ref>
*Diary tower - with a fascinating color categorization scheme.<ref>[[Torch 7.10]]</ref>
*Flash Gun<ref name="II3.2 e3">And I’ve got this flash gun too.”<br><br>She held up something that looked like a child’s toy, squat, blunt, with a lens on the front.<br><br>“It’s for when I had to get closer to the scene when I was with the Baltimore Wards.  They wanted me to be able to protect myself and they wanted nonlethal.”<br><br>“What does it do?” I asked.<br><br>“Makes light,” she said.  She aimed it off to the side and pulled the trigger.<br><br>It looked and sounded like a camera flash going off. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/09/glare-3-2/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.2]]</ref> - 'shoots' light that can blind people. People who are facing away from the blast can be blinded.<ref name="II3.3 e2">I flew closer- saw Kenzie turn, aiming her gun at me, and changed course, covering my face and head, my forcefield up.<br><br>Even turned partially away, my arms up, the momentary flash of light blinded me.  A full second passed, and my sight didn’t return.  I could hear [[Strange_Mammal|Chris]]’ laugh, Kenzie’s amusement.  My forcefield hadn’t helped. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref> Even if someone is turned around, with closed eyes and using their arm to cover their eyes further they will still be effected, just not debilitatingly so.<ref name="II5.5 e2">He withdrew the flash gun, pointing it at the enemy group.<br><br>I turned my head, covering my eyes with my arm.  The gun wasn’t even aimed at me, my eyes were shut, and my arm was in the way, and the darkness of my vision still turned pink, shaded slightly by bones between me and the group.<br><br>Rain emptied the gun, firing again and again.  From the changes in the flash’s angles, he was moving while firing. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/10/shadow-5-5/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.5]]</ref>
*Mask<ref name="II3.2 e2">“Mask with a few settings,” Kenzie said.  She pulled out a high-tech mask, metal around the edges to give a general circular shape to the clear pane for her face, but she didn’t put it on.  She held up a disc, then clipped it to the front of her overalls, so it was directly over the pocket at her chest.  “This is kind of a costume thing I haven’t finalized.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/09/glare-3-2/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.2]]</ref> - for concealing her identity and possibly filtering her vision.
*Mugshots - Initial powered armor gauntlets, training only.<ref name="II7.10 e1"/>
*Costume - A silhouette like body suit,<ref name="II3.3 e8">Kenzie had changed, overalls gone, replaced with a skintight suit that mirrored her outfit in color and where it changed from black to pink to red.<br>[...]<br>Kenzie let go of Ashley, bouncing on the spot before reaching up to her lens-mask and pulling it off.  With the mask’s removal, her costume flickered in places, like an image that had been badly compressed, with heavy artifacting. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13 Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref> it presumably combines with the mask as some sort of camouflage or display system. Claims that she can outfit her entire team similarly.<ref>[[Glare 3.6]]</ref>
*Camouflage Pack<ref> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/20 Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.7]]</ref> - One button clicked to use.<ref name="R73"/> Unknown how related it is to her previous costume.
*Masking tech keeps people from seeing her face.<ref>[[Glare 3.6]]</ref> Can be deactivated.
*Kenzie suggests that she should be able to create a transit system though like most tinkers she would have to put a prohibitive amount of effort into maintaining it.<ref name="II2.7 e7">“That’s a pretty significant logistics problem,” I said.  “Even in the best case scenario, if we found a place close to here, that’s a two hour or more trip for people to get here?”<br><br>“I could build something,” Kenzie said.  “I can’t make promises.”<br><br>“How confident are you?” I asked.<br><br>“Kind of confident,” she said, sounding anything but.  “I haven’t done teleportation or breaking movement devices before, but if I made it a series of emplacements and built them big, then if I traveled once a week or so to visit the send-receives and make sure they don’t break down, it might work.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/30/flare-2-7/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.7]]</ref> She explored the idea in depth,<ref name="II4.4" /> but eventually discontinued,<ref>[[Torch 7.10]]</ref> at the insistence of her teammates.
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