Zena Kent

**Captain** Zena Louise Kent is one of the major antagonists in *Engines of Lara's Point*. She is the co-leader of The Syndicate. Zena is more commonly known as the **Black Widow**

Zena is an arcane witch. Using her psychic abilties & witchcraft skills to manipulate others to do her bidding, it is revealed that she has been the sole operator of the North Midland Railway's destruction.

After the battle at the warehouse, she flees with Grace & kidnaps Eliza for her own benefit, leaving her current status unknown.

## Biography

Zena Kent was born on the 20th of August 1902 to her parents Edward White & Suzie Kent and her younger sister, Sophie was born 4 years later.

During her childhood, her mother died from cancer when she was 7, this event led to some questionable personality traits from Zena, she became more cunning & cold-hearted to those around her.

When she was 10, she would inherit dormant magic from her mother. She would practise these abilties using an old spellbook she had found in the attic & would become one of the powerful witches on Earth.

She had formed a close friendship with Bruce Brown, her neighbour and a young boy from the Midlands named Richard Bailey.

Once Zena reached 16, she ran away from home, leaving her younger sister with her father, she later moved with Bruce, and the two started dating.

On August 22 of 1920, the two formed a gang named "The Syndicate".

In 1921, Bruce & Zena would break up but still remained friends & business partners.

On September 2 of 1924, one member of the gang, Lara-Jean would be shot in the neck by Officer Newton after trying to escape the police. This was a cover-up story as Zena killed her for trying to betray the gang.

In 1929, Zena had organised a smuggling operation but it soon went south when Richard Bailey betrayed the group and told Officer Newton about their operations, in which it caused them to be arrested and sent to prison for 25 years.

Throughout most of her jail time, she was planning a escape plan and a revenge plan for Richard. In 1942, a guard by the name of Brendan Pearce freed Zena & Bruce and evenutally joined them, and assumed the occupation of Richard Bailey's assistant to get intel.

In 1955, she would get a call from her sister that her father was dying in the hospital and she agreed to visit him. Once she arrived at the hospital, she saw her father once last time, kissed him on the forehead and smothered him via using a pillow.

After killing her father, she would flee the hospital and start planning the bombing of Lara's Point.

Around 1957, she would later kill her sister, Sophie by crushing her heart using her magic.

Zena would fight in the warehouse battle with Hayley & Richard's bodyguards, Zena would shoot the 2 bodyguards while Hayley would kill Bruce and Zena would kill Amelia while trying to flee, but after Richard died, Zena would flee the warehouse, destroying it. She later went on the run with Grace & Brendan, leaving her status unknown.

## Personality

Zena is a manipulative, cunning and cold-hearted women. She believes that her actions can be justified for reason, which according to most people, her actions often get people in physical or emotional damager or danger.

She portrays herself as an uptight young lady who takes no shit from anyone, she also holds no remorse for her actions and doesn't hesitate to violate boundaries

## Powers & Abilities

* **Magic**: Through discovering her arcane abilities from her mother, she would find an old spellbook abd she would starting to utilize her magical abilties. By age 10, she would start practising magic and uses the energies of telepathy & telekinesis as her main offense.
	+ **Longevity**: Due to Zena studying old arcane magic, she is able to use these abilities to possess a long lifespan. Despite the fact, that Zena's "natural" age is in her mid 60s, she looks in her young 20s to 30s.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Through her magic, Zena can move & control objects with her mind
		- **Telepathy**: Zena can read the minds of others as well as speak to them telepathically. She could also show people her memories and make people relive their flashbacks and their own memories.
		- **Memory Manipulation**: Zena can control memories of herself and others, allowing said memories to be modified, fabricated, suppressed or erased.
			* **Mind Walking**: Zena can enter the minds of others, where they can see all the thoughts, memories and emotions of that person.
			* **Mental Manipulation**: Zena can get inside people's minds to manipulate them and force them to do their bidding. Through this it is also possible to access memories and change their personalities.
	+ **Voice Projection**: Zena can project her voice great distances without actually being present, either mentally or psychically.
	+ **Elemental Control**: Using her magical feats, Zena can create, manipulate and create some of the elements.
		- **Pyrokinesis:** Zena can control, manipulate and create fire using her telekinetic mind field.
		- **Ferrukinesis**: Using her proficiencies in telekinesis, Zena is able to manipulate, bend and destroy steal. She was able to do this in "The Fray", when she used her telekinetic powers to destroy the abandoned warehouse.
	+ **Levitation**: Zena can levitate herself over the ground, by simply hovering.
	+ **Teleportation**: Zena can teleport herself and others from one location to another.

## Victims

* Sophie White (Heart crushed)
* 40 Unnamed Passengers (Burned alive/blown up in station explosion; By Proxy)
* Amelia Stone (Shot)
* Cora (Blown up; resurrected)
* Nathalie (Held hostage; escaped)
* Eliza (Held hostage; unknown)
* Elliot (Manipulated to blow up harbour; unknown)
* Shawn (Held hostage; escaped)
* Cora (Held hostage; escaped)
* Scarlett (Held hostage; unknown)

## Appearances

* Painful Reunions
* Blackout
* Disclosed (mentioned)
* Higher Stakes
* The Harbour Conspiracy
* The Fray

## Trivia

* In the original script for "The Harbour Conspiracy", Zena was originally going to have mind control abilites to control Shawn to plung over the cliff side, this part of the script was later removed.
	+ This would later foreshadow Zena's magical abilities as an arcane witch.