Kenzie Martin

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Heart_Shaped_Pupil, is a parahuman and user of Parahumans Online. Her real name was Kenzie, with an unknown last name beginning with "M".<ref>AvenG: ?
Heart_Shaped_Pupil: Hi Aven. It’s Kenzie
AvenG: Oh. Kenzie M?
Heart_Shaped_Pupil: That me. - Glow-worm P.7</ref>

Personality

Kenzie tended to think everybody and everything was "pretty neat", which could devalue her compliments somewhat.<ref name="II2.7"/><ref name="II2.6"/> She was almost always 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 felt that she tended to drive almost everyone away as a result of her personality.<ref name="II2.6"/>

Skills

She took some pride in her skill at paperwork when she was with the Wards.<ref name="II2.7"/>

Heart_Shaped_Pupil's typing style was unusually sloppy,<ref name="P.3e1">Heart_Shaped_Pupil: so x-ited to b working with u.
Strange_Mammal: @ K / Heart_Shaped_Pupil…
Strange_Mammal: …type like a grown up…
Strange_Mammal: …my eyes are already bleeding - Glow-worm P.3 </ref> with lots of typos and extensive use of emojis and abbreviations.^{[citation needed]} She displayed some familiarity with PHO's search function, but seemingly less than Strange Mammal's.<ref name="P.4e1">of5: Wanted k actually. Heart_Shaped_Pupil: yuss! \♥/ 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. Heart_Shaped_Pupil: uh. that hard. you want packaged search string Heart_Shaped_Pupil: i can try Questionable_Mammal: you’re looking for others in your set? of5: yes 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…

Strange_Mammal: …others can see time you spend online on your profile. you spent longer than one hour… Strange_Mammal: …you’ve been online all day. Mangled_Wings: I am at the library. Something to do with that, I’d think. Strange_Mammal: it doesn’t work that way. I am 95% sure. Strange_Mammal: there is no need to lie, A Strange_Mammal: the reason for this project is supposed to be we know each other Strange_Mammal: K will find out if she does not already know. she pays attention to those things - Glow-worm P.3 </ref>

HSP was familiar with details regarding the true nature of passengers.<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>

Relationships

Wards

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"/>

Treefort

Heart_Shaped_Pupil was a member of the Treefort_Lookout chatroom on Parahumans Online, a room for discussing current events and searching for info. She seemed friendly with the users there, who provided them with information.

She was also a member of the connected chatrooms Pillowfort_Lazytalk (where they discussed their personal life) and Snowfort_Mission.

However, in reality the chatrooms ware filled entirely with chat-bots Kenzie had constructed herself, that acquired their information from automated PHO searches.<ref name="P.7"/> She was in the process of constructing chatbots that would mimic her teammates' conversation styles when she was forced to disable the system.<ref>Executioner404: /Kill Goatfish
Goatfish: WIP_Capbot is disconnecting…
Goatfish has left the conversation.
Executioner404: /kill Shameful_Manatee
Shameful_Manatee: WIP_Chrisbot is disconnecting…
Shameful_Manatee has left the conversation. - Glow-worm P.7</ref><ref>*HSP goes idle again. She returns to chat and an 'Executioner' joins chat, doing the rest of the /Kill work. HSP changes the channel name and deletes the text from the topic, then leaves while the executioner continues its work with her gone. - Synopsis by Wildbow</ref>

Chatroom Group

Heart_Shaped_Pupil is a member of a group of parahumans that primarily communicate via PHO.

HSP's writing style irritated their teammate Strange_Mammal.<ref name="P.3e1"/>

She professed to be an admirer of Mangled_Wings,<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 Mangled-Wings was serious about this. Mangled_Wings considered them one of the few people worthy of her attention and investment.<ref name="P.7"/>

She claimed possible romantic interest in Strange_Mammal.<ref name="P.6">Glow-worm P.6</ref> In conversation with Strange_Mammal, HSP revealed that she had been observing Mammal's private conversations with other users. Mammal had known they were 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>

Appearance

Kenzie was a young black "tween" with long skinny limbs and large eyes, proportionately to her size. She had "kinky", glossy black hair. She was the same height as Chris.<ref name="II2.7"/>

When she was happy, she would bounce one foot, like a dog wagging it's tail.<ref name="II2.6">Daybreak 2.6</ref>

On one occasion, she wore her hair in two buns at the back and with a star-shaped hairpin to keep it in place, with a blue corduroy dress and sequinned shirt. Her general appearance was immaculate, with carefully-chosen clothes that were freshly ironed, fashionable and matching (in colour and with a running "star" theme throughout), and hair that looked like it had taken at least half an hour. She noted that she wanted to look good because she was meeting Victoria for the first time.<ref name="II2.7"/>

Abilities and Powers

Heart_Shaped_Pupil is a tinker<ref name="P.7"/><ref name="II2.5e1"/> who has stated she specializes in cameras and immobile terminals, with little ability for offence or defence.<ref>“Are you hiding a jetpack inside that raincoat, or are those rocket boots?” I asked.
“I wish,” Kenzie said. “I can’t do that stuff. I make cameras and inconveniently big boxes. My best stuff is inconveniently big, box-shaped cameras.”
“Big boxes?” I asked.
“The term in my file is emplacements. Terminals, tech, and computers big enough they’re hard to move around. Like turrets, but I can’t really make good weapons or defensive things.” -

excerpt from Flare 2.7</ref>

Her power was useful, so much so that she worried she might be kidnapped by people seeking to exploit it.<ref>Heart_Shaped_Pupil: you’re a smart guy and you were a good leader. you know how these things work. you know my power has its uses. others would kidnap me for it. I am offering myself to you and you would be stupid to turn me down. - Glow-worm P.7</ref> Chris stated that she would make a terrifying villain should she choose to.<ref name="II2.6"/>

She was able to construct a parallel Parahumans Online server, giving her a faster connection and allowing her to view private information on the site. She also constructed a group of relatively sophisticated chatbots (see Treefort above), although she stated that this was not her specialty, and she was not capable of creating true AI.<ref name="P.7"/> She claimed that she would likely be able to construct immobile teleportation terminals, although they would require regular maintenance.<ref>“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.” -

excerpt from Flare 2.7</ref>

She stated that she was not a part of a multitrigger group.<ref>Cap: I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with the cluster-trigger clusterfuck
Heart_Shaped_Pupil: Amen.
Mangled_Wings: Agreed. - Excerpt from Glow-worm P.6</ref>

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.”

“Workshop, huh?”
“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.”
“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.” - 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.”
“You’ve got a workshop, like a proper tinker,” I said.
“Absolutely,” Kenzie said, dead serious. -

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… -
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"/>

History

Background

She stated that her trigger event resulted from the first time in her life when someone acted like they wanted her around.<ref name="II2.6e1">There have only ever been three times in my life where people acted like they wanted me around. Not counting the adults who get paid to look after me, sorry Mrs. Yamada. The first one, it led to my trigger, so you can imagine how well that went. The second one was the couple of months I spent with the Baltimore Wards, and they don’t want anything to do with me anymore. The third is here. These guys. -

excerpt from Flare 2.6</ref>

Kenzie was considered a prospective candidate for a Watchdog project. She was put under strict regiment of camps and exercises with frequent relocations, which brought attention of Youth Guard. Youth Guard forced PRT to stop frequent travels and over-training.

From that moment in the spring of 2013, at ten years old, Kenzie was assigned the Baltimore Wards 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">Daybreak 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
Heart_Shaped_Pupil: i was there for the end of the world
Heart_Shaped_Pupil: i did stuff. i actually really helped

Houndstooth: Absolutely - Glow-worm P.7</ref> It's safe to assume that, as all involved tinkers, she participated in the building of inter-dimensional cannon, that finished off Scion's true body.

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 DYI 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. - Synopsis by Wildbow</ref>

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