Despite being a tattooist, she doesn't have too many herself. The majority were drawn from normal ink, but the ones shown below are her Lumal™ tattoos. 
Kite Adams
Age 25
Gender Female
Nationality Unknown African ethnicity and Scots-Irish
Occupation By day, Kite owns and operates
Sky Tattoos. She became an innovator in her line of work by developing a new type of tinted ink called
Lumal™ that takes better to darker skin. The brightest hues of red and blue and every other color on the spectrum can now adhere to even the tannest of complexions thanks to
Lumal™. Before her great discovery,
Sky Tattoos was a typical tattoo shop in the Foundry, but has since catapulted to popularity, garnering a small pool of clients from Diamond Heights. But that doesn't mean Kite exclusively works with those who hold prestige or honor. In her humble beginnings, she worked with multiple gangs to design and tattoo their varying symbols and sigils. While she is very proud of her recent work and its success, she greatfully remembers her early days and still takes on gangmember clients.
One thing to note about her invention is the process of its creation. Kite experimented with multiple drugs and pigments until finding that certain doses of distilled neon can produce vivid and vibrant colors on brown and black skin when mixed with ink. While she believes that such small amounts of neon cannot harm her clients, she is still very unsure of the possible future consequences that come with these special tattoos. Lately, she finds her own
Lumal™ tattoos itch and tingle, but for now, she'll shovel out as many of the tattoos as much as possible. Her current supplier of distilled neon is the Shang Kal gang. They provide good prices, and from time to time, she gives out a couple free tattoos to Shang Kal gangmembers.
On the flip side of things, Kite pushes organs on the blackmarket to high-maintence celeberties. She had a prosperous and prominent
beau a few years ago who first introduced her to the organ market, but she no longer associates with him. Recently, the culture of wealth has been rejecting certain aspects of cybernetic enhancement. Natural pregnancies and births have become popular again, but many of her clients are in need of fertile reproductive organs. Between the middle and lower classes, Kite occassionally stumbles across a woman or man with clean blood and useful parts and bits. She offers them a sum of money in return for whatever organ she finds most profitable, and in these rough times, who can say no? While she mostly caters to the 'all-naturale' crowd of famous women in search for undamaged uteruses or detoxed kidneys, she sometimes takes special requests of eyes, skin, and other various biological products. Being illegal and all, she often has to pay off law enforcement, or supply to them at reduced prices. Things are going well in her one-woman operation, as many of the Diamond Height bigwigs don't want to be involved in sticky syndicates, but Kite is unknowingly beginning to encroach upon gang property. If she doesn't drop out of her side-job soon, she may find herself a target of a varying number of infamous mobs.
Place of Residence Technically, Kite stays in the Foundry, in the small backroom connected to
Sky Tattoos. It's not too shabby, with a clean bed, a desk and chair, and unstained white walls that Kite painted herself. Under her bed, she hides a minisafe with a good sum of cash and pictures of her family. She knows better than to hang up photos of her mother and siblings. If her room was ever broken into, they might be targeted for blackmail. Sometimes the lack of windows drives her crazy, but she deals with it. Kite owns a separate location in the Lower District,
Studio Garage B19, where she stores and manufactors her ink, along with her neon. She only visits the garage on Sundays when her tattoo parlor is closed, and she buries herself in tireless hours of concocting new dyes for her work. Kite also uses the garage as a pit stop for her organs, temporarily storing new goods there until they can be sold to clients.
Cybernetics While Kite would like to boast that her steady-handediness is all natural, she owes it to metal rods in both her wrists. The enhancements extend into her hands and fingers and are controlled by electronic impulses from her brain. They help keep her from slipping up on tattoos and aid in the precision of frabricating her special ink.
Bio Born to a struggling single-mother family in the Complex, Kite has known poverty, but not like in the Lower District. She always had a warm bed to sleep in and (most of the time) had food in her stomach. As the middle sibling to two sisters, she wasn't given too much special attention or pressure. Her mom had one simple rule:
Don't get caught up in that riff-raff. Kite stayed true to her mother's wishes for the majority of her life, but once her old
beau entered her social sphere, things changed. For the longest time, her mama didn't know a thing about her daugther's illegal activities. Kite was only 22 and a mediocre tattooist; it didn't seem like she had much to hide. Her sisters soon became aware of her side job, and being loyal to their matriarch, snitched. Kite was cast out of the Adams' family and forbidden to see her sisters.
"Come back when you're done or you'll come back when you're dead," she remembers her mother sneered at her before expelling her out of their apartment. Kite hasn't seen them since, not even after the sudden success of
Lumal™.
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