Kay Damaris

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Expressive Database

File #11 Feb 2018 06:59

Summary

Name Kaydence Lee N. Damaris Aliases T1SIPHONE, T1 Status Unregistered Expressive Ability Technopathy Gender Female Birthdate November 5, 1978 Age 42 Height 5'9" Build Slender Eyes Brown Hair Blonde Residence Cresting Wave Apartments Employment Yamagato Industries, Director of Public Relations Parents Brittany Cole-Delacroix Hank Delacroix Siblings None Marital Status Spencer Carroll Damaris† Children Coleen Marcella Rozlynn Damaris First Scene Main Mission Last Scene Profile A detective with the NYPD before the war, Kay now applies her talents as the Director of Public Relations for Yamagato Industries. A single mother to a seventeen-year-old daughter, 'Ella, Kay has a reputation as a soccer mom. She's on the PTA of her daughter's school and helps run her Scout troop. (Ask her about cookies!) The role Kay has stepped back into since being returned from her abduction by agents of Mazdak operating within Renautas-Weiss is not the role she left behind. With Kimiko Nakamura gone, Hayate Kawahara governs Yamagato Industries with an iron fist. It's been made clear that her position is one that she leaves only in a body bag. If she's even given that much dignity. Kay has decided to fight back, and she has a plan.

portrayed by Maggie Grace

Background

November 7, 2010 saw an end to the mystery of who killed Kaydence Lee's husband when Kain Zarek showed up on her front door and confessed to having done it himself on Daniel Linderman's orders. Spencer Damaris wouldn't take a bribe. Wouldn't keep quiet. Kain made sure he would. Devastated, but furious with herself for falling into the very trap her husband had died to protect their family from, Kay found it in her heart to forgive Kain. They were similar kinds of wounded animals, and both had done terrible things while taking Linderman's money. Zarek gave her a warning: He was about to blow the lid on everything, and she needed to get the hell out of the city before the shitstorm began. The next night, he was dead. Kaydence resigned from the NYPD immediately, packed up her house, and moved upstate with her parents and her daughter.

The first year was incredibly hard, but she rediscovered her purpose in being a good mother to her young daughter. Her father employed her at his auto repair business, both in the front office and in the garage. But like it had five years ago, tragedy struck New York City and the fallout forced Kay into better focus. When the war began, she stayed with her family to ensure they were protected. Never for a moment did she consider choosing a side and joining the fight. The world had taken enough from her and her daughter. She wouldn't be the next casualty.

It was a new world when it was over. Finally deciding it was time to stand up on her own again, Kaydence Lee took advantage of the resettlement incentive and moved with her daughter back to New York City's new Safe Zone. For a time, she did repair work for cash and barter – mostly barter – while looking for steady work. Her resume caught the eye of Yamagato Industries, who were aware of her past connections to the Linderman Group. They had no need to resort to blackmail to recruit the woman, however. When a position was offered to her, she readily accepted it – accepted the security and protection employment with Yamagato offered her and 'Ella, just the way she had done when Linderman offered her work. There was a reason she'd gone down that path before, and she never hesitated to start down it again.

In short order, she proved herself capable and trustworthy, and found herself promoted to Public Relations – on paper. In practice, she's a handler for Yamagato's fixers. Kay is the voice in her agent's ear when there's a mission, delivering intel on their surroundings and their targets, and granting access to whatever information she's able to get her hands on on the fly. The truth of her work is a secret. Her public face is such a change from the brash woman people knew nearly a decade ago. The Bitch is now all poise and careful wording, and she no longer makes an effort to hide her Louisiana-influenced accent, relying on the way a sugary southern drawl can disarm some people. Outside of work, Kay could be described as a soccer mom. She doesn't think of it so much as a dual life as she does a distinct separation of work and home.

Psych Profile

Kaydence Lee is known for her cool and level approach to situations - a far cry from the person she used to be. In many ways, getting away from all the reminders of her life with her late husband helped to pull her out of her constant despair and anger. In many other ways, she only trained herself to refocus those feelings to fuel calculated decisions that would serve her better than her volatile temper ever did. While she still absolutely still has a temper, it's now the type that simmers quietly. Kay doesn't lash out kicking and screeching anymore, opting instead to wait for the right moment to exact revenge.

What keeps Kay sane, as ever, is her focus on her work. Only now, she's able to balance it with a focus on her family life. It's easy enough for her to view managing her and her daughter's busy schedules as work. The quiet moments, when she's forced to slow down and be alone with her thoughts, are still the hardest.

Evolved Ability

TECHNOPATHY

Kaydence possesses the ability to manipulate electronic devices with a thought. In order to use this ability Kaydence must be able to directly see the device she wishes to affect (not second-hand such as on a screen or in a still image) and she must be within 30 feet of the device.

This ability requires little critical thought or effort, which means that until Kaydence gains better familiarity and control of it she may unintentionally affect electronic devices she can see with a subconscious thought, such as changing a traffic light she is looking at to green if she is in a rush.

Kaydence's technopathy is represented by the following talents:

Talents

Talents	Effort	Description	Learned From
Manipulate Device	None	With a thought, Kaydence can make any powered electronic device within range perform a function that it is programmed to do, regardless of any interface or security requirements. For instance, Kaydence could look at a computer and make it turn off (but not back on again), she could instruct a cell phone to call a number she can recollect, she could give multiple complex orders to a drone so long as it remains within sight and it is the only device she is giving commands to. This ability does not allow Kaydence to command networked devices (such as using one computer to control another), unless the devices are already configured to allow that control. See "Limitations" below for more details.	Manifestation

Limitations
Knowledge	Kaydence gains no inherent understanding or knowledge of an electronic device she is presented with. If she does not know what it does she may not be able to effectively issue commands without trial and error. For example, if Kaydence didn't know what a cell phone was and tried to order it to fire a laser, nothing would happen. Additionally, she cannot access any data within a device beyond what the device's interface allows for. While she could gain access to a laptop and command it to open or print files, she would not know what files there were without looking at the file explorer herself. She can, however, instruct the computer to search for and show her hidden files.
Technopaths	Other technopaths can prevent Kaydence from being able to influence devices so long as they maintain direct influence over it. However, the moment a technopath stops directly interacting with a technological device, Kaydence may immediately assert control over it provided she is within range.
One At a Time	Kaydence can only command one device at a time. For instance, if she is giving prolonged commands to a robot to override its current functions and she switches her attention to command another robot, the original robot automatically resumes its normal functions. Furthermore, if Kaydence moves out of range of her ability she is no longer able to give prolonged commands.

The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than of what remains.

Appendices

Relationships

Family

'Ella		Coleen Marcella is Kay's teenage daughter. Preferring to call herself 'Ella, she's a Scout, plays shortstop for her travelling softball team, and balances worrying about her mother with trying to live a normal teenage life. 'Ella was very young when her father died in the line of duty, and while it has a profound affect on her, she's more concerned about what the loss of Spencer Damaris did to her mother. The two have a bond like steel, but even steel can bend. 'Ella struggles with her mother's propensity to send her away to stay with her grandparents when things get rough, sometimes lashing out at her for it and calling her selfish, lonely, and bitter. She knows deep down that only one of those things is true; her mother's been alone ever since Matt Parkman called off their engagement over a decade ago. It's 'Ella's hope that Kay will eventually crawl out of her self-loathing disguised as work ethic and start really living life again. She has no idea how dark her mother's world truly is.

Work

Kawahara		Misogynist Monster.
Major Housen		Shadow. Assassin.
Doctor Wenyi		Technological Frankenstein.
Ms Nakamura		Judge. Jury. Executioner.
Marlowe		Technological Marvel.
Asi		Ghost in the Machine.
Elaine		Keeper of History.
Isabelle		Hothead.
Shaw		Mr. Hothead.

Friends and Associates

August		More Than Friends By a Whole Heap.
Godfrey		Hottie Alert! 'Ella, get out.
Eizen		Exiled.
Liz		Bitches United.
Ray		Allied Rival.
Thatcher		Smart Cookie.
Monica		Ex-Work Wife.

Necessary Evil

Candice		The Enemy of My Enemy.
Samson		Tenuous Alliance.

Spectres

Kain		In Pursuit.
d'Sarthe		This Motherfucker.
Kam		A Word of Warning.
Redd		Creepy Sonuvah—

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Logs

Icons
Unstructured
Eurydice	Tisiphone	Erinys
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What Remains of Kaydence Lee
Mournful	Unbroken
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Volume III: Horizons

2020
Date	Record	Objective	Targets
03/21	Friend of the Family	What could have been and never will be.	Matthew and Robyn
06/06	Hard to Come By	This won't be done without a fight.	Godfrey
07/19	The Best You Give	Despite this upset, nothing has changed.	Asi
07/31	Remember, Trust No One	This aggression will not go unanswered.	Eizen, Isabelle, Jiba, Kimiko, Marlowe, Otomo, and Shaw
10/11	I'd Like to Speak to Your Manager	Working together can accomplish much.	Kaylee and Richard
11/08	Faces in the Fog	What an evil omen.	Godfrey and Kain
	I Know I'm One	That dive was always going to be headfirst.	Kain and Lucas
	Keys to the City	The only way out… is closed.	Solo, Eizen and Kain
11/09	I'm Not Here	Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.	Kravid and Lucien
2021
Date	Record	Objective	Targets
02/26	Eurydice's Song	Oh, my heart, it aches to stay, but the flesh will have its way…	Solo
	Operation Orpheus	Oh, the way is dark and long. I'm already gone.	Asi, Avi, Chess, Devon, Eizen, Elliot, Francis, Godfrey, Kravid, Ling, Lucille, Melody, and Wright
02/28	We Won't Get Fooled Again	We were liberated from the fold, that's all.	Eizen and Wenyi
03/02	We Won't Get Fooled Again	And the morals that they worship will be gone.	Aoi and Hayate
	And Still Insists She Sees the Ghosts	What is the inheritance?	Jiba and Kimiko
	Language Without Words	There must be a way to subvert this hold.	Elaine
	Niban	T(w)o friends.	Asi
03/03	Table Setting	Time to get the new lay of the land.	Aoi, Jiba, and Wenyi
04/22	Erinyes	Is this worth the fight?	Richard
05/02	Old Troubles in New Little China	Maybe at least one thing will pan out.	August
05/04	A Bond Stronger Than Blue Blood	Not in this alone.	Aura, Elisabeth, and 'Ella
05/05	Night of the Hunter	A new approach yields new intel.	Aoi, Samson, and Weiss
	Girls' Night Out	A chat old acquaintance and an introduction to a new one.	Candice and Samson
05/14	Sore wa Inbou desu	It's time again to share the burden.	Marlowe (and 'Ella)
06/12	Uptown Girl, Downtown Boy	All the reasons why not, but who cares?	August
06/18	It'll Come Back Around, Part V	Back to fixing things, I guess.	Eizen, Kain, Ling, and Ricky
07/13	The Mountain Above	Time to put plans into motion.	Wenyi

Volume II: Resurrection

2019
Date	Record	Objective	Targets
04/29	The Eight-Headed Serpent, Part IV	After months in the dark, Kay is brought back into the harsh light of day and offered a new position she can't refuse.	Kimiko
05/15	World's Fair: Mantis	Raytech's offerings are impressive.	Elisabeth, Marlowe, Richard, and others
05/24	Showcase	Nothing goes off without a hitch. Thank goodness.	Eizen, Godfrey, Isabelle, Kimiko, Marlowe, Yao, and others
	Showcase Showdown	Celebrations and preparations are in order.	Eizen, Godfrey, Isabelle, Kimiko, and Marlowe
10/16	Sore wa Himitsu desu	Sometimes it's just good to know you don't have to carry your burdens alone.	Marlowe (and 'Ella)
11/24	Bohemian Meltdown	Some secrets are brought to light by those who work in the shadows.	Asi, Godfrey, and Marlowe
12/12	Past Made Present	The past never does stay buried.	Asi
12/22	Shitennou	A plan begins to form.	Asi, Godfrey, and Marlowe
12/31	Operation Armagettin	The time has come to reclaim what's ours.	Asi, Eizen, Godfrey, Isabelle, Marlowe, and Tsai
2020
Date	Record	Objective	Targets
01/01	Catching Fire	That includes wayward pyrokinetics.	Isabelle
02/11	Ichiban	Friends have each other's backs.	Asi
02/12	All the Rowboats	It's not betrayal if it's in their best interests.	Asi, Jiba, and Kimiko
02/14	I Say I'm Sorry Less Than I Am Wrong	The time is long overdue.	Monica
	aVoiDAntlY	Valentine's Day is one to be avoided.	Godfrey (and 'Ella)

Volume I: The Way Back

2018
Date	Record	Objective	Targets
03/19	A Crowd of Twisted Things	While grabbing lunch with Jonathan, Kay is visited by a memory that haunts her.	Jonathan and others
03/23	Tabula Rasa	Amnesia strikes and fear settles in. Kay does her best to keep calm.	Alvin, Elaine, Marlowe, and others
03/31	To Best Serve	Given her latest assignment, Kay finds she's personalizing.	Nisatta
04/07	A Celebration of History - Entrance	Kay watches guests filter into the Yamagato Fellowship gala.	Alvin, Jonathan, and others
04/15	In Theory and In Praxis	The mission doesn't go as planned.	Jiba and Barnes
04/30	Sending a Message	Things go very sideways at the employee assembly.	Barbara, Elaine, Monica, Nisatta, and others
05/02	If Memory Serves	One more memory that isn't hers leads Kay and others to the source of their strange visions.	Alvin, Cassandra, Elaine, Marlowe, Robyn, and Tania
05/04	The Spin	An attempt is made to decide how to proceed.	Alvin and Monica
09/29	よろしく	Asi Testuyama arrives in the Safe Zone.	Asi and Nisatta
11/05	Birthday Breakfast	A taste of what could have been.	'Ella
	Raise a Glass	Maybe forty isn't so bad.	Asi, Marlowe, and Monica

2012 - 2017

2016
Date	Record	Objective	Targets
01/26	Main Mission	Kay's new operative proves she's worth Yamagato's investment.	Barnes

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Paths Not Taken
Mrs. Parkman	Wasted

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Miscellany

Skills

Firearms: Having been a member of the NYPD for ten years, Kay is more than merely proficient in the use of firearms. Even out of law enforcement, she kept up on her practice, refusing to let her skills collect rust.

Mechanics: Kay knows her way around an automobile and all of the pieces and parts that make it run, thanks to her father, Hank. While she certainly can't improvise a fix to every mechanical issue that arises with a vehicle, she can generally diagnose the problem and make her own repairs if given the proper tools and equipment.

Profiling: While studying at Cornell, Kay took a liking to Psychology and finds herself with an undeniable need to understand what makes people tick.

Reports: Putting together research and presenting it, knowing how to sell her work and her findings to her superiors is an important skill in Kay's arsenal. It was so with the NYPD and it continues to serve her well at Yamagato Industries.

Performance: Beginning when she was undercover with Vice, Kay has always been good at selling fiction about herself and pushing down her own feelings about her lies. Today, this skill serves her by allowing her to carry on the duplicity of her work and home lives. Very few would guess that the soccer mom is actually cutthroat corporate bitch and handler of assassins.

Investigation: Can't create reports if you don't put in the research. Kay knows where to look to collect intelligence on a person or place in order to better serve her field operative. Her resources have only expanded since joining Yamagato.

Playlist

The Devil's Eyes
Break the Fall	We found our ways to make it work Two different people in one moment
Bad Self Portraits	I've spent my life so lost on lovin' I could have been a painter or a president But after 25 years I should be good at something Gone are the days of me being so reticent
How	Time can come and take away the pain But I just want my memories to remain To hear your voice, to see your face There's not one moment I'd erase
The End of All Things	Whether near or far I am always yours Any change in time We are young again
Velodrome	I don't believe my will's quite free I'm half machine, at least half steam Aquinas, call on me How many angels on the head of your pin? Anybody in stilettos can answer that old thing It's one for the right foot, one for the left Half an angel per pin at best Add wings, add heart, add harp, all set
Change	Do you ever think you're being thought about? Do you still believe we need to sort things out? Does it matter all those things we said? I want to know, can I still creep into your bed at night and leave your head alone
The Grand Experiment	Isn't it marvelous? Just darling, it's the newest thing It's totally harmless, but it's charming, it's the cutest thing But it bites — not hard — just hard enough to break the skin And your bone And your back And the bank But wait! It comes with a warranty — for a week — and that's respectable It's cheap and it's ethical — well, it's "ethical" — well, it's magical, really See, you put your cash in the till, fill in the blanks and that's it For my next trick, I need your password and an exit And then poof! Cue the fog machines
Confident	'Cause this is my game, and you better come play I used to hold my freak back, now I'm letting go I make my own choice Bitch, I run this show
THE BADDEST	I spit heat, I melt your face off Disappear, I'm your eraser In the cut just like a razor Murder business, where my blazer?
Call Off Your Ghost	You once said if we were careful that we could do this all our lives Oh, but one of us got clumsy and both of us got wise And now we're not so young, seems our wishing well's gone dry
still feel.	Oh, I can feel a kick down in my soul It's pulling me back to Earth to let me know That I am not a slave, can't be contained So pick me from the dark and pull me from my grave, 'cause I still feel alive When it is hopeless, I start to notice I still feel alive Falling forward, back into orbit
You're A Cad	Still I know the truth, but I have a sweet tooth For a cad and a bounder, a dog and a cheat All the lives that you've had, all the hearts you eat You're a rascal and a rogue, a villain and a crook Still I tug at your line, I'm a fish on your hook You're rash and you're hasty, you're reckless with my heart Still I wait by the phone, I'll never get smart I should be better, but I'm worse
Nights in White Satin	Nights in white satin Never reaching the end Letters I've written Never meaning to send Beauty I've always missed With these eyes before Just what the truth is I can't say anymore
House of the Rising Sun	There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl And God, I know I'm one
To Be Loved	I built a house for a love to grow I was so young that it was hard to know I'm as lost now as I was back then Always make a mess of everything It's about time that I face myself
I Am Her	All that glitters isn't gold, at least that's what I've been told I've got so many issues and problems that I go through Sometimes I can't sleep at night If I hide my face, heaven forbid It wouldn't be the worst thing that I ever did It's a hell of a world that we're living in James 2:10, a sin is a sin Don't look at me immediately And whisper behind my back thinking I'm naïve That's my southern hospitality Tolerates more BS than even I can believe
Becoming All Alone	Why doesn't it get better with time? I'm becoming all alone again Stay, stay, stay

Pictures

Alts

Nicole		Empress of her domain. Everything she wants is everything she sees. And I wonder if you can bilocate.
Odessa		Biomedical Researcher for Raytech Industries. Eponymous Rossignol. Prisoner of love. Burdened with glorious purpose.
Rue		Intelligence Operative for the CIA. Barfly. Storm clouds and hailstones. Rumor has it…
Nicole?		Assistant to the Director of SESA-NY. War hero. Here for all things political.

NPCs

Caderina		Everything is cherries on top.
Destiny		Straight on ‘til mourning. The only way out is through.
'Ella		Undecided major on an unrelated matter.
Gracie		Great listener. Willing to wait for it.
Hollis		Molding young minds. Unafraid of the dark.
Joey		Talented artist. Sketchy business.
"Marlene"		Hindsight is 20/20. Living on borrowed time.

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Things of Note

Known to Most

• Was a member of the NYPD for ten years, having achieved the rank of Detective.
• Formerly engaged to Matt Parkman of DHS infamy.

Known to Some

• Resentful of her status as SLC Non-Expressive, feeling that it limited her career path in law enforcement. (This aged like milk.)
• Previously attached to Kain Zarek.

Known to Few

• Manifested a technopathic ability on November 8, 2020. She is keeping it secret for now and has not yet registered. She has an agenda first.
• Formerly undercover for the NYPD.
• Was a fixer with the Linderman Group, a dirty cop.