Appearance

Physical Description

Scrawny and scrappy, she's still putting weight back on from her captivity. In many ways she seems a bit small for her age but she has a tendency to walk a bit hunched and is also often in the presence of particularly tall people. She's also 13, so she's going through some stuff she's REALLY not a fan of on this front.

Identifying Characteristics

Her spiral horns curl around and under her ears. Her ears are long, semi-mobile, and have a single horn-like tag of cartilage on each. Her tail is spaded and her legs are goat-like in appearance.

Physical quirks

Exceptionally sharp-toothed, clawed. No visible white sclera. Pupils can contract in to fully upright or horizontal slits, suggesting a star-like appearance if half-contracted. Penny is either a F1 or F2 tiefling.

Apparel & Accessories

Usually seen wearing oversized clothing she has been gifted or has taken from the various adult friends she has made around the base. Her favorite piece is a shirt with Wobbles the gonkbamu on it, from the MONAM gift shop.

Special abilities

Penny is intensely psionic. She is especially good at reading auras and seems to learn very quickly. She doesn't seem to have medium abilities.

Mentality

Personal history

Penny was an illegal birth that should have been terminated in-utero because of her high percentage of infernal blood. Her mother Marissa managed to keep her secret and fly under the radar. She was raised in a low income household by a single parent, her mom squeezing in homeschooling as much as she could possibly manage. Her father was completely absent from the picture. Penny had to remain hidden so was kept indoors a lot of the time, only ever leaving the apartment building on particularly brief errands or very special occasions. Her friends were the elderly folk that lived in the apartment building, and she spent a lot of her time reading anything she could get from them. She would watch the street much of the day. Penny tried to be understanding of her situation but it's still hard on a kid.
 
Eventually to continue keeping up with the price of living Marissa had to give up on homeschooling and pray her daughter would go unnoticed. Public school was not kind to Penny, as she had a lot of very obvious buttons to push. Teasing for her species, not having a father around, second-hand clothes, quiet nature and poor social skills hounded her constantly. She went from a pretty happy kid to withdrawn and quiet, and then angry. Unfortunately for everyone involved the children weren't the only ones to give Penny fuss: her teacher did as well as she was quick to blame problems on the tiefling. Eventually there were threats of detention and she knew her mother couldn't afford to come pick her up so she was pleading for her innocence. Eventually something snapped; all tieflings have hellish rebuke innately but Penny's first casting of the spell somehow involved the teacher being thrown out the window with the furniture at the front of the room going up in a blaze and supernatural panic seizing her classmates.
 
Her true nature revealed, Penny was abducted that same evening, and thus began a hellish 3yr stint of mental exercises, physical testing and blood taking. Many people, especially those her age, died early after their induction in to the program. Penny had the unfortunate honor of being an exceptional individual. She has mentioned being "locked down" as well as having a constant supervisor/caretaker
 
After one of the Sky Whales was crashed chaos kicked up at the facility where she was held and people started to make mistakes. Penny managed to sneak out holding on to a deploying special force vehicle that was headed out to an ambush Copper Fang contacts. She destroyed that portion of the ambush and when the rest of the forces arrived she escaped with help from Desiel, Adari and Oum, who were brand new initiates to the Copper Fangs at the time. She was brought to the base with them and subsequently sort-of kind-of adopted because... the fuck do you even do with this poor kid? Especially since everyone was looking for her now, and they had the unfortunate news that Melissa was likely killed after rescuing the trio from near certain death.
 
Penny has since befriended a motley crew and claimed a found family in the base while unspokenly intimidating the rest, as well as making her distaste of her mother's sort-of fiance well known to him and everyone else. She spends her days much like she did before everything happened, just in a very different setting. She has been doing markedly better now that she knows her mother is actually still alive but much still plagues her mind and she is still learning how to process anything that has happened.

Education

Penny was home schooled for as long as her mother could afford to do it, but when she hit 10 that was no longer an option. She learned well until that first year in public school when she became withdrawn and angry leading to the first time she ever struggled with her schooling. Once abducted the state continued to provide her learning material for their own testing purposes, but this was by no means a standardized education. As it stands right now Penny is relatively brilliant and is schooling herself by teaching and learning alongside Remmy.

Mental Trauma

Penny suffers from PTSD related to her entire stay within the Central Government's psionic program and struggles with related anxiety from time to time. She tries to bury this deep down, to varying degrees of success. Some days are better than others, and some hours are better than others. She's prone to bouts of sudden depression and the emotions that build up tend to make her lash out.

Intellectual Characteristics

Despite being 13 Penny is fluent in several languages, with language and cultural history seeming to be her favorite subjects. She also seems eager to learn about chemistry and physics since these subjects were heavily restricted as far as what her captors would allow her to study for fear she might leverage that information to escape.
 
It's possible Penny is autistic and has ADHD, but it is currently very difficult to separate her core functioning from the trauma she just endured which also had her in poor socialization conditions and extreme sedentary periods.

Morality & Philosophy

Penny is just a kid and is still forming these sort of deeply held life views. Things that are likely to stick with her are she never wants to hurt anybody but will choose herself over an antagonist without hesitation, and that nothing has ever been or will ever be fair but there's probably happiness to be found anyway.

person.gender_identity

She/Her

Known Languages

Common, Telepathy (single,) Telepathy (broadcast,) Infernal, Abyssal, Draconic, Elvish, Dwarven, Orcish (newly fluent,) Celestial (broken: just learning,) sign language (common script)

Personality

Motivation

She really wants to rescue her mother, as well as thwart the plans of the people who separated them and hurt her.

Social

Birthplace

Central Capital

Contacts & Relations

• Adari, Rook and Dot - They haven't achieved the prestigious Sibling title in her book as of yet (and may never since that just doesn't seem like their thing) but Penny has been ingratiated with the party's original 2 members since she first arrived and has been happy to know the new two. They are her go-tos for mischief and gossip.


• Desiel and Sol - For whatever reason she has decided these two are her big brothers, which is unique even though she calls all of her friends "a family." She always wanted siblings and both Desiel and Sol exude that Brother Energy.


• Remmy - A gigantic dragon turtle many times her age and many more times her size is a peculiar choice in best friends but she and Remmy adore each other and spend a lot of time learning together. She speaks telepathically with Remmy for the most part and something about this has helped her friend overcome some learning issues fostered by extensive isolation.


• Dizzy - She and Dizzy have a strange way of addressing one another, built on some strange instant mutual respect the two developed nearly unspoken. They both just tend to assume the other knows something either they don't, the party doesn't, or both. It isn't uncommon to see them get in to a bit of a feedback loop of laughing or venting if one of them shares with the other.


• Tinley - He's the Adventure Master for the Ages of Adventure game she plays in so she spends a surprising amount of time talking about character ideas with him and getting invested in some of the nerdery he tends to surround himself with. She can be a bit much for him but Wheeler appreciates that her presence puts him on his best behavior.


• Little Lady and Snippet - Maybe it is how familiars tend to be empathetic or maybe it's the fact they're often a bit childlike, but she gets along very well with the familiars at the base.


• Bernard - A human werewolf. He proposed to her mother at some point in the last year, and Marissa wanted to say yes but declined until she could find her daughter and get her opinion. Bernard made an incredibly bad first impression on Penny and she hasn't gotten anywhere close to giving him a second chance, saying she would disapprove.

Family Ties

Marissa - Her mother, a tiefling who joined the Copper Fangs when the government stole her daughter because no one else believed her nor would help her in the search. She is currently MIA but known to be alive. Back when they were still living together her mother wasn't the secret spy type in the least and was devoted to keeping Penny safe and well cared for.

Mannerisms

Penny has a tendency to barrel ahead in a conversation saying things she doesn't realize are causing discomfort and has trouble reading many social ques. She also tends to rely on reading auras too much which don't always match up with what a person is wanted to project.

Hobbies & Pets

Reading is still her #1 love, but she is curious to try new things out. It is just difficult to in her current situation.