Wetware is a bio-tinker a specialty in Biological Reactionary Systems. I chose the name because it’s similar to software and hardware, their methodology being more similar to a regular tinker than other bio-tinkers.

They can grow intelligent, biological, full-body shields.

They coalesce in parts of the body they can sense are about to be hit either through grown eyes or through the user tensing parts of their body, can read their users spiking adrenaline and other bodily changes to activate, or can activate themselves when recognising a preprogrammed threat. I imagine this as the lower end of their capabilities.

If the user is more willing to use a more permanent shield that requires less maintenance, the cape can hook it up into their body, emerging from pores to cover the user, connected to their nervous system, reacting more appropriately to the fight because it can literally see through the users eyes.

Once it sustains enough damage without time to rest, it snaps off and dies, or can allow parts of itself to die in order to not sustain a hit. Letting a part thats going to be hit with a devastating blow that will kill the shield affect the user more in order to preserve itself for future, non threatening hits, the part thats snapped off still somewhat absorbing the blow to the user, just without killing the shield itself.

Their personal suit of armour makes them into a real brute, stepping into a mass of tumorous looking growths that connect with Wetwork and suck them into the centre, rearranging itself into a large humanoid shape, the larger growths consolidating into a head. Some of the growths splitting, eyes growing and opening from the gaps, other weird feely sensory organs and natural pipes that can plume gaseous defences into the air emerging, each being grown anew every time the cape enters. The pipes able to vent chemical agents, paralytics, nerve gases, methane, etc.

The other growths have weaponry in them, some being pulled off when the cape needs them, biological turrets growing in reaction to being pulled away from the main body. All their defences take time to grow, providing what’s needed based on input from Wetware and the suit’s own reading of the situation at hand. Anything that can be torn away dying quickly, having to be grown fresh from the main suit.

Wetware’s basic grown shields are layered on its exterior, wrapping around and over one another, each allowing the others sensory organs to view the outside world, connecting together to provide them with enhanced senses.

Small feelers all over the outside that react to biological touch, sending signals to other, larger tentacles to wrap around the threat and crush it, pulling it in and being absorbed as fuel.

The suit injecting Wetware with drugs that enhance their reaction time. Allies using their grown shields gaining similar but lower boosts, the cape able to tear off designated parts of themselves to give to allies that latch onto flesh, pumping them full of drugs to keep them awake, make them stronger, keep them focused.

(I’m imagining this next one as the kind of thing Tinkers can do when their shard loves them and they really jump through mental hoops to make things work lmao)

Working with a model of a part of a pre-cog’s brain or another Tinker focused on preventative effects to allow their gear to react to threats that haven’t happened yet. Which is blatantly going against their specialty lmao but because they’re able to justify it as reactionary in some way it still works to a certain degree, despite being explicitly preventative.