Editing Kenzie Martin (section)

==History==
===Background===
Kenzie was born in [[2003]].<sup>[[Timeline#2003|&#91;*&#93;]]</sup>

Both of her parents are high-functioning psychopaths. Once their abusive behavior was revealed Kenzie was send into foster care.

[[Aerobat]] talked to her when she was placed in state care for the first time and offered some souvenirs and his contacts. Later, she called him immediately after her [[trigger event]].<ref name="ii7.x">[[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref>

It is known that Kenzie bounced around foster homes before and after her trigger. She triggered in [[2011]] at the age of eight.<ref name="II20.e4">[[Last 20.e4]]</ref> Her trigger was a result of her recontacting her first foster parent, which she previously unwittingly framed and alienated, while trying to ensure adoption.<ref name="ii7.x"/>

Given her over gregariousness she has been known to get into several very embarrassing incidents with people in both her civilian and cape life.<!--There is so much to cite waahhh bow why do you do this to me-->

Despite all of this Kenzie was considered a prospective candidate for a [[Watchdog]] project. She was put under strict regiment of camps and exercises with frequent relocation, which brought the attention of [[Youth Guard]]. Youth Guard forced [[PRT]] to stop frequent travels and over-training.<ref>[[Flare 2.6]]</ref>

===[[The Timeskip]]===
From that moment in the spring of [[2013]], at nine years old, Kenzie was assigned the [[Baltimore]] [[Ward]]s team alongside capes named Aven (or AvenG), [[Houndstooth]], 10-59 and Pigeonhole. This ended abruptly with [[Gold Morning]].<ref name="P.7"/><ref name="II2.5">[[Flare 2.5]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
She was stated to have participated in Gold Morning and "actually helped".<ref>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: iv’e grown up some<br>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: i was there for the end of the world<br>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: i did stuff. i actually really helped<br>Houndstooth: Absolutely - [[Glow-worm P.7]]</ref> It is safe to assume that, as all involved tinkers, she participated in the building of inter-dimensional cannon, that finished off [[Zion]]'s true body.<!--cite speck where the tinkers try to make a dimensional ram and then are kept on working even with out Khepri there -->

===[[Glow-worm]]===
At some point, she met up with the other members of the [[Chatroom group]].

When she asked to meet Strange_Mammal privately and he refused, Kenzie revealed that she had been surveilling them and asked about details of their power.<ref name="P.6"/>

Kenzie used her Treefort bots to track [[Tattletale]] and [[Weld]] as assistance for her new teammates ([[of5]] and Strange_Mammal, respectively).

Shortly afterward, Parahumans Online moderators discovered traffic from her Treefort (see above) and asked her to shut the shop down, since it provided undue stress to PHO network. When she volunteered to donate her DIY Parahumans Online server, they requested she shut that down as well because of security reasons.<ref>She asks if they want to use her server, and gets an alarmed response: use of a server the way she describes it could give her a 'man in the middle' view and access to things. No - offer definitely refused. - the PHO staff member leaves. - [https://redd.it/7ckqaj/ Synopsis by Wildbow]</ref>

===Early [[Ward]]===
Met with a new coach and had a lot of fun practicing.

Was not looking forward to having her story told by [[Houndstooth|someone else]].

She was instrumental in the [[Mathers Compound Assault]] both positively in helping the capture of Mama Mathers, and negatively by cutting off Tattletale when the thinker wouldn't respond to her texts.<ref>[[Pitch 6.8]]</ref>

Was able to get Victoria to agree to come to dinner with her family.

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen Fall]]===
Kenzie was instrumental in saving some of the portals.

Tried to use a doctored video to save Ashley from a trial, but her friend rejected it. She was scared of her favorite teammate going to jail.<ref>'''MayMaybeMaybeline''':I don't think we should be totally black and white here. I'm sure at least a few of the smiles listed here are times where she actually was mildly happy and put on a smile performatively.<br><br>Smiling is the standard way of showing people when you're happy, so even if she doesn't naturally smile, she would want to put a fake smile on to show her friends that she was happy.<br><br>'''Erelion:'''
:“I think there’s a better chance that you guys can stay in some form of communication if she sticks to the rules, than if she runs and periodically makes contact,” I told Kenzie. “We can ask them to make sure something’s allowed.”

:Kenzie smiled a little.

:“I will make it up to you someday,” Ashley said. “I promise that.”

:“Okay,” Kenzie said. She offered more of a smile.
I think these might be genuine? It's hard to say.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' 
:“We can ask them to make sure something’s allowed.”

:''It's happening.''

:“I will make it up to you someday,” Ashley said. “I promise that.”

:"Okay," Kenzie said. ''She's really doing this. Oh no.'' - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/8u1prh/so_when_has_she_smiledi/e1ewjhm/?context=3 Conversation on Reddit] on [[Torch 7.3]]</ref>

Was able to use her past-camera to find a lead on the portal sabotage that acted as impetus for Breakthrough to stay together. The group's investigation took them to [[Earth N]] and the court of [[Lord of Loss]]. Before the group, calling itself Breakthrough, announced themselves Kenzie changed her cape name to Lookout at the last minute.

She later had Victoria come to her house but her parents embarrassed her.<ref>[[Torch 7.10]]</ref> Her parents had attempted to poison her. Once Victoria was clued into the truth of Kenzie's home life, her parents were quickly taken into custody and Kenzie was taken into care.

A PR crisis began when Kenzie's parents attempted to slander her as part of an anti-parahuman movement. Kenzie and her team appeared on a talk show, Hard Boil, in order to defend themselves.

Their public appearance drew the attention of [[Goddess]] who arranged a meeting with the team. Kenzie was mastered alongside the rest of Breakthrough. Kenzie reveals that she can interfere with [[Teacher]]s portals, and does so to assist Goddess in the attack on the prison. Goddess puts Kenzie in the care of [[Monokeros]], who eventually attempts to make Kenzie hurt herself. Kenzie manages to resist her Master influence.

Kenzie is later shocked to discover that [[Chris]] has left the team.

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
Kenzie joins the team on a shopping trip, her technology was an important part in several members of the team being able to participate as civilians.<ref>[[Polarize 10.1]]</ref>

Is part of the [[Red Team vs Love Lost's Group]] battle, she was used as a deterrent to restrain [[Swansong]].

===Post-[[Assault on the Time Bubbles|Time Bubble Pop]]===
Is revealed to have been exposed to a fake diary of [[Victoria Dallon]] for a longer period of time. This effected her thinking to a degree.

Joins forces with [[Chicken Little]], [[Darlene Vasil]] and [[Candy Vasil]]. They create a junior team. She creates a form of tinker-tech, which connects her to her new team  at all times.

Gets taken to [[Earth Shin]] and imprisoned. Her tech plays a major role in salvaging the situation. 

Stays behind at the Wardens HQ during the raid on [[Teacher]]. Gets subjected to a lot of dangerous information that Teacher had been collecting. Assists [[Breakthrough|her team]] in capturing [[Saint]] and [[Canary|one of the Wardens]] in countering Teacher's Master power via her tech.

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Is severely emotionally hurt by the death of [[Ashley Stillons II|one of her friends]]. Sleeps at [[Victoria Dallon|Vicky]]'s place while she is sick. Reached puberty around this time.<ref>I ventured, “I noticed this morning that you took some toiletries from under the sink.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>I couldn’t see her face, but I could see her swallow hard.  “I keep getting double-whammied.  Two crushes, then I’m sad and my stomach hurts because of Ashley and I’m weird-sad and sore because yay, I’m a woman or something-”<br><br>''Might need to chat at another time and place.''
<br><br>“-and I’m missing them because I’m not there and they hurt my feelings and I screwed up by reading their stuff, and I’m missing them extra because more weird feelings and hormones.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/31/from-within-16-6/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.6]]</ref>

Pushes Breakthrough towards stepping in to stop [[Damsel of Distress III]] from going after civilians.

Has added multiple tinker modifications to her head.<ref>
Then the final image.  All ‘slides’ together, the silhouette crowned with ten antennae emerging from its head.  Heat radiated off of it with waves that distorted the air, more intense than above any barbecue, and the individual lights blinked on and off along their mass.  Blinking being the operative words for those particular orbs.  The faint glow at her eyes overlapped to become an intense white that didn’t all line up perfectly, so it bled out, while casting its own heat shimmer.
<br><br>And a few feet away, regular Kenzie, a slight smile on her face, still wearing her periwinkle blue duffel coat and winter hat, hair down as it had been arranged by Candy, a bit behind one ear, in the exact same stance.  She wore the mask I’d given her.  Eyeless, while the other figure had eight overlapping eyes, each pale and ghostly. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/03/from-within-16-7/ Excerpt] from 
[[From Within 16.7]]</ref> Uses her tech to create an entry to the dream room of [[Rain's Cluster]].

After [[Breakthrough]] was caught by [[The Wardens]], she was temporarily benched and freed from her equipment, but was quickly returned to action to covertly assist in [[The Second Shin Crisis]]. She was picked up by [[Tattletale]] as she was preparing [[Undersiders|her people]] for action, and helped [[Victoria Dallon]] to bypass restriction Wardens put on her, which led to the de-escalation of the conflict.

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Look out was alongside [[The Undersiders]] and [[Breakthrough]] during the oversight duty of [[Titan Oberon]] and [[Fume Hood|Eve]]. She strongly insisted on taking her scans, when titans engaged each other. She was allowed to do it, but only for 5 minutes and with [[The Major Malfunctions]] making sure of it.<ref name="II18.4">[[Radiation 18.4]]</ref> With the scans she was able to access the Oberon's shard data.<ref name="II18.5">[[Radiation 18.5]]</ref>

At the night of the same day she sent out [[Patrol]] officers together with [[Rain]]<ref name="II19.b">[[Infrared 19.b]]</ref> and helped to coordinate the assault on [[the Shardspace]].<ref name="II19.1">[[Infrared 19.1]]</ref> Later she joined [[The Wardens]]' thinker-pool for a while.<ref>“She was pulled away to consult.  Tattletale is there too.  All the thinkers and information gatherers.  She sent us a message.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/04/infrared-19-3/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.3]]</ref> She rejoined her team with the makeshift projection-bot during the battle against [[Fortuna]]'s Titans, while still helping to coordinate the Wardens forces. Later she offered her help with [[The Firmament]] interfacing to [[Rain]] and [[Antares]].<ref name="II19.6">[[Infrared 19.6]]</ref> Together they visited Contessa's crystal inside [[the Shardrealm]].<ref name="II19.7">[[Infrared 19.7]]</ref>

She received news about [[Tristan]]'s death and after getting a confirmation from her tech had a manic breakdown, during which she threatened [[Candy Vasil]], and as a consequence was forcibly sedated by [[The Undersiders]].<ref name="II19.f">[[Infrared 19.f]]</ref> [[Chicken Little]] was sent to the Shardrealm to recover her tech.<ref name="II19.8"/>

After waking up Kenzie was accompanied by [[Brian Laborn]] for a while. Later she accepted forced time-out from [[Breakthrough]] and [[Dragon]] taking over her tech. Candy quickly forgiven her.

Lookout assisted in passing the messages to Fortuna and Dauntless.<ref name="II20.9">[[Last 20.9]]</ref><ref name="II20.a">[[Last 20.a]]</ref>

She was the only one uninfected with the parahuman plague in [[Breakthrough]] and [[The Chicken Tenders]], she promised not to infect herself to maintain the portal network. The conversation with Kenzie prompted [[Swansong]] to temporarily take over [[Damsel of Distress III|Damsel]].<ref name="II20.10">[[Last 20.10]]</ref> Later, Kenzie nevertheless infected herself with the plague.<ref name="II20.b">[[Last 20.b]]</ref>

=== Ward Epilogue ===
During the winter Kenzie worked with [[Damsel of Distress III|Damsel]] at least once.<ref>“I know.  Are you in contact with Damsel?”<br><br>“I am!  I gave her my card and left her alone, and she hired me, and we exchanged only three words for the entire job, but still, it was three words!  Voluntary!  And she suggested she’d hire me again!” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/04/21/last-20-e4/Excerpt] from [[Last 20.e4]]</ref>

She visited [[Chris Elman]] daily after his capture in the same winter, and ran into [[Riley Davis]] while doing so. Kenzie made a minor confession to Riley,<ref name="II20.e4"/> and it was delivered to [[Dragon]], who started investigation into Kenzie's recent activity. The investigation revealed that [[Tristan Vera]]'s shard-ghost was not destroyed, which was kept in secret by Kenzie.<ref name="II20.e5">[[Last 20.e5]]</ref>

Kenzie managed to achieve reliable connection to Tristan's ghost and constructed a proxy-body for him. The tech is supposed to serve as a basis for [[The Wardens]]' plans to recover [[Fume Hood]] and [[Dauntless]] from the shard-realm.<ref name="II20.end">[[Last 20.end]]</ref>