Editing PC Snoops (section)

== Character Background ==
Anne “Snoops” Kato is one of those rare children born to orks who was not only born metatypically human, but that did not goblinize as she got older. Despite being human, Snoops remains fiercely loyal to her orkish family and community and identifies as an ork, ethnically if not metatypically. As she grew older, she found that being human opened many doors to her that were closed to her orkish family, friends and neighbors, something that outraged her sense of justice. Not only did orks face discrimination from the Seattle city government and the major employers in the area, but the Seattle ork underground was frequently targeted by hate groups like Humanis Policlub. Determined to right these wrongs, Snoops became an independent, muckraking, investigative journalist, using a combination of charm, stealth and drone technology to get the dirt on the orkish community’s enemies. In this she was encouraged by the orkish neighborhood matriarch and shaman, “Abuela” Gomez, who saw a lot of promise in Annie and began mentoring her in high school. Among other things, she encouraged Annie to enter various citywide writing contests--in one of which Annie managed to win a decent amount of money. It was with these winnings that she bought her rigging implants and first drones from “Mac” MacIntosh, a local dwarf mechanic.

From her snooping into various things that her enemies would rather she wouldn’t, she earned the street name “Snoops.” At first, she focused mainly on the most visible threat--explicit hate groups. She worked as a freelancer, selling articles on this topic, as well as more run of the mill reportage, to a number of Seattle-area news sites. She managed to make enough money this way to help support her large, extended family, which all lived together in a rambling apartment complex in Seattle’s ork underground. As she dug deeper into the things that harmed the orkish community, she began writing more and more about the discrimination coming out of city hall and the big corps. This made her enemies and she began getting increasingly frozen out of major news sites, even for mundane news stories. Knowing she needed money, her fixer contact, Mac, who had helped set her up with her drone and rigger equipment, helped her find her first shadowrunning jobs.

Snoops’ modus operandi as an investigative journalist involves using a mix of charm, stealth and spy drones to dig up information. She often carries some of the smaller drones in a smuggling compartment built into her ribcage or a false fingertip. She might use her charm to get into the outer perimeter of a place she wants to know more about, then slip into the bathroom, open up her smuggling compartment and release her drones to penetrate more deeply in. She is now in the process of adapting these techniques to her new life as a shadowrunner.

'''Snoops’ Family''':<br>
Snoops’ family for the most part still can her  “Annie,” instead of her street name. Her parents’ names are Goro and Jennifer, both of whom come from large families as well. Snoops has eight brothers and sisters of varying ages, many of whom continue to live with family, all of whom frequently drop in to visit if they don’t. Many have children, leaving Snoops with a large number of nieces and nephews, as a well as numerous cousins of various ages.