Penny Polendina

Personality: Penny was amiable, excitable, kind and curious. It was stated that Penny got a lot of her attitude from her father Pietro Polendina. She often showed a distinct lack of social awareness, likely due to not having a lot of experience with Human nature. When Ruby Rose made an unconditional offer of friendship, Penny seemed both immensely pleased and somewhat surprised. Another small quirk was that Penny hiccupped whenever she told a lie. She was also really excited when Ruby offered her a fist-bump in A Night Off, an action that nobody had ever offered to her and wanted to do it perfectly. She also seemed to place great value on friendship, for she was greatly angered at the sight of Ruby being knocked down by Roman Torchwick's flare in "Black and White". She also placed trust in Ruby based on the latter promising that she was her friend in "A Minor Hiccup". Furthermore, Penny seemed to be immensely curious. Upon hearing that Blake Belladonna had run away, she proceeded to ask Ruby numerous questions, all related to Blake and friendship in general. Despite being told not to wander off, Penny still wandered Vale on her own. Penny occasionally showed insecurities about her artificial nature. Upon confiding in Ruby that she was a synthetic being, Penny was worried about how she would take the news. However, after seeing Ruby took it rather well, she was glad that Ruby did not seem to care that she was really a machine, for what truly mattered was her heart and soul. In "Dance Dance Infiltration", Penny was shown to enjoy dancing as she danced by herself between two Atlas Soldiers. Later that night, she did "the Robot" with one of the soldiers. Penny's most notable trait was her kindness. Upon meeting Team RWBY, she greeted them with a jovial "Salutations!", complimented Weiss Schnee's hair, and offered to help Ruby track down Blake. In addition, she once saved Ruby from a truck before she asked the driver if he was okay, thanked Team CRDL during the Vytal Festival for the time she had and told Pyrrha Nikos in the finals that it was a pleasure to finally meet her. Despite Atlas and Mantle originally being hesitant of Penny, she still worked as their proud protector. Penny's more peculiar social quirks appeared to tone down as the series progressed. While earlier appearances had her depicted as cheery, curious, and unfamiliar with many aspects of social interaction, these aspects appeared to diminish with each subsequent appearance; by the time of the Vytal Festival, Penny was barely distinguishable from her former self's naivete and volatile emotional state, sharing a conversation with Ruby about both her plans to stay at Beacon, despite her teammate Ciel Soleil objecting due to running short on time. Penny was apparently very perceptive, for she saw through Blake's disguise and recognized that she was a Faunus while most people did not. She could also spot both Joanna Greenleaf and May Marigold in "Sparks", even though the latter was using her Semblance to hide them. After she learned that James Ironwood planned to leave Mantle to die in "Gravity", she started to question if what the military was doing was actually right and was horrified that she and Winter Schnee had to kill the current Winter Maiden for Ironwood's plan to work. In "Refuge", she confided to Ruby about her worries, telling her that she was going through an identity crisis since becoming the Winter Maiden. Penny stated that she was content simply being the protector of Mantle and regretted having taken the powers, but was reassured by Ruby that she did protect Mantle by becoming the Winter Maiden otherwise Ironwood would have gotten what he wanted. In "Amity", Penny had become slightly more insecure when it came to her own nature as a synthetic Human. This was seen from Cinder Fall's attempts to hurt her by prying on her insecurities and fears. After Penny convinced her father to let her hold up Amity Communications Tower to help get Ruby's message to the rest of Remnant, Penny gained her own autonomy and was able to make her own decisions unhindered. After she ended up getting hacked, she attempted to fight against the virus corrupting her until she asked Ruby and her friends to kill her so that they would get her powers instead and prevent Ironwood from completing his plans. However, after Nora Valkyrie told her that the virus is only a part of her and Jaune Arc boosts her Aura, she managed to suppress the virus until she was given a Human body by Ambrosius. After she was mortally wounded fighting Cinder in "The Final Word" she asked Jaune to kill her so her powers wouldn't go to her and because she wanted to make her final choice herself. After he reluctantly agreed, she revealed to Winter that she thought about her, choosing Winter to be the next Winter Maiden, and that she wouldn’t be completely gone, but now a part of her. Penny and her personality operated under an AI before she was turned into a Human. Powers And Abilities: As an android, Penny was significantly more resistant to fatal injuries. According to her father Pietro Polendina, she could survive injuries and damage as severe as dismemberment and even decapitation, so long as her cores [11] remained intact. This is evident as her core survived her previous form's destruction and gruesome injuries unintentionally inflicted by Pyrrha Nikos in "PvP", an incident which led many to believe Penny was dead. Notably in "War", she was able to survive a crash after falling from Amity Communications Tower to the Schnee Manor despite suffering injuries in the process. The sealant coating on her brain chips also gave her a 99.7 percent chance against her brain circuitry rusting up. Functioning on an AI, on top of another possible trait from Pietro, Penny is rather intelligent, noticing that Blake was a Faunus from their first meeting in "The Stray", something Team RWBY hadn't noticed in the months together. In "Strings", she explained the mechanics of Ruby's Petal Burst and how it could be used without the user herself being aware of it. Despite being untrained, Penny learned how to use her Maiden powers much quicker than others from observing trained ones like Cinder and Fria. She also possessed immense physical strength, made evident when she managed to bring an incoming From Dust Till Dawn truck in "A Minor Hiccup" to a complete stop with her bare hands, even causing the ground beneath her feet to buckle and crack. As seen in "Amity", she was also strong enough to move Amity Tower into position which was only possible due to her robotic abilities being boosted by her newly acquired Maiden powers. Penny's eyes were noted to have possessed night vision and infrared vision. In "Amity", when Emerald Sustrai used her Semblance to create multiple illusions of Cinder Fall, Penny was able to locate the real one through her infrared vision. Penny was not used to fighting sneaky enemies, something which Tyrian Callows took advantage of and gave him the upper hand in "A Night Off". As an android, she was susceptible to outside control as seen in "Strings" when her father remoted directly into her, as well as "Amity" when Arthur Watts hacked into her systems through Floating Array, as it ran on the same network as her. These instances showed that she wasn't always in control of her own actions and decisions. In "Dark" while under the control of Watts' virus, Penny revealed that she can "self-terminate". This was later shown in "Creation", when after being turned into a Human, the virus overloaded her robotic body's central processor, causing it to fail. As of "Creation", Penny was no longer an android and instead a Human, meaning she could no longer be hacked, but also that she no longer had access to her robotic enhancements. Weapon: Penny's weapon of choice was Floating Array, a backpack that stored multiple short swords that Penny could control at will. As seen in "Black and White", Penny was able to control Floating Array with simple movements from her hands, able to manipulate every sword simultaneously without difficulty, and could fire energy blasts when bringing them together. This blast of energy was powerful enough to simultaneously slice multiple Bullheads in half, shooting them down. She could also put her swords into smaller rings to fire multiple weaker beams. Penny could also further empower her lasers through her Maiden powers. The swords were connected to her and possibly operated by the use of thin strings attached to the hilts. Penny's 'strings' seemed to be quite strong and durable, as they were able to pull down a Bullhead and cut through Penny herself easily. The swords were able to fold in half lengthwise for easier storage. After Penny was rebuilt, Floating Array was slightly redesigned, but it is unknown if this was an upgrade or just a redesign due to switching to Maya. In "Amity", it was revealed that Penny's swords operated within a closed network, which was linked to Penny for her to manipulate and control them in combat. In the same episode, Penny used her Maiden Magic to create swords made out of ice, showing how comfortable she is with using flying swords. In "Creation", the backpack that stored Floating Array inside her ceased to exist along with the rest of her robotic parts. Penny used Magically created swords the same way she used Floating Array. Mobility: Penny could allow Floating Array to pull her around or anchor herself and use them to pull large objects, including an airship in flight despite the mass and thrust power of the vehicle. She could also use her weapons as thrusters, allowing her to move extremely quickly through the air. Penny was able to jump great distances with the force of her jump being enough to break the ground. She could also use her wires to catapult herself. She also seemed to have a high amount of speed or stealthiness, as seen when she appeared in one spot before quickly showing up in another.