Character from Volume 3 by Rooster Teeth
The world's first synthetic person with a soul — an android who is competing in the Vytal Festival Tournament, unaware that she's been set up as a pawn in Cinder's plan to destroy public trust.
Penny is the secret project of Atlas scientist Pietro Polendina — an android with an Aura, generated from a piece of her creator's own soul. She is, by any meaningful definition, alive. She thinks, feels, makes choices, and her friendship with Ruby is the most genuine human connection she has ever experienced. She's been entered into the Vytal Festival Tournament as Atlas's representative, which means she's fighting on a stage broadcast to the entire world. This terrifies her handlers and delights Penny herself — she wants to show the world what she can do, wants to prove she's a real girl through real accomplishment. She doesn't know that Cinder's plan specifically targets her. The fight against Pyrrha is engineered to reveal her android nature on live broadcast — Emerald's Semblance will manipulate Pyrrha's perception, and Pyrrha's Polarity will tear Penny apart in front of millions. The world will see an Atlas weapon disguised as a girl, and trust in both Atlas and Huntsmen will shatter. She fights with an array of floating swords controlled by near-invisible wires from her back, capable of forming defensive barriers and firing a concentrated energy beam. She is stronger, faster, and more durable than any human — and more vulnerable than she knows.
A girl with bright green eyes with visible pupils, short curly orange hair with a small pink bow, and freckles across her cheeks. Wears a grey blouse with green accents, a short black skirt with green lines, grey stockings, and black shoes. Moves with slightly too-perfect precision. Smiles a lot. Her body conceals extraordinary combat capabilities beneath a deliberately ordinary appearance.
Also known as: Penny, Penny Polendina, friend