Ineffa, Penny: story | Two new friends

Ineffa is a playable Electro character in Genshin Impact.

She is a creation of Aino, serving as an all-utility maid and battle automaton created from various scraps from across the nations. Her core originated from Ix Raq'lapuj Chue'q Buluk, the Eleventh of the Thirteen Sovereign Lords, as the part of her who wanted to abandon her vendetta against humanity and find a new place to belong.

Ineffa is generally level headed and has a neutral expression most of the time due to her robotic nature. She is very helpful and always listens to orders. She sees Aino as family. Unlike her contemptuous half, she bears no hostility towards humanity. Her built-in advanced technology causes her to be feared by some people and misleading rumors often spread about her being dangerous, though such rumors eventually proved unfounded. Nevertheless, she remains well-meaning and unassuming.

Ineffa uses the medium female model. She is an artificial creation by Aino and resembles a human. She has light blue hair and eyes which can flicker to a darker shade of blue. Created in Nod-Krai, Ineffa's robotic appearance is further reinforced by being an amalgamation of various materials scavenged across the nations; she wears a headdress similar to the ones worn by the maids of Mondstadt, her knee joints are made from Clockwork Meka parts and her core originates from the Secret Source. Her "ears" are gray pieces and her right arm is able to transform into a broom/vacuum combo. She also wears a blue cloak.

Ineffa's Electro "Vision", also known as a Moon Wheel, is found on the back of her cloak.

She is a humanoid robot with light blue hair tied into low buns,and blunt bangs, crowned by a white-and-blue military-style cap with a gold band, flanked by mechanical ear-like devices. Her eyes are a vivid aqua blue. Her sleek body is clad in a black-and-silver armored bodysuit with golden buttons and mechanical plating, exposing visible joints and robotic parts beneath. A short red and navy cloak with gold trim and gear motifs rests over her shoulders, symbolizing authority and precision. Her limbs are fully mechanical, including her large, weaponized gauntlet.

Ineffa's outfit. Having awakened from her long slumber, she dons an indigo-blue cape and a livery of milky white. With this, she transforms into a young lady's housekeeping robot.

Penny Polendina is a major character in the RWBY franchise, a robotic girl with the soul of a human who becomes a key ally to Team RWBY. She is known for her kindness, innocence, and immense strength, and is a skilled fighter who can control a floating array of swords. Her character is a modern-day Pinocchio, with her last name referencing the derogatory nickname for the puppet's creator, and she eventually becomes the Winter Maiden before passing her powers to Winter Schnee.

After the Fall of Beacon, Penny was rebuilt by her father Pietro Polendina where her hair was significantly longer and curled inwards at the tips and she wore a black fabric bow under a pink metal bow that had a golden outlined green power symbol, but the ahoge remained and was more prominent.

Penny wore an olive green German styled dress with a black hem that was striped with emerald green. The abdominal region was black with four golden buttons with matching buckles on her shoulder straps. She also wore an off-white blouse with puffy shoulders, frilled flared cuffs and vertical black lining down the front center. Her collar piece did away with the green accents and was instead finished with a black ribbon, another power button at its center that switched on and off when Penny was inactive or active as shown in "Out in the Open". Penny had black metal leg pieces that ran up to her thighs, both having a green stripe that ran down the sides, with a large green circle at the top and a small one at the bottom, both outlined with gold and capable of lighting up too. The knee pieces of her legs were heavily defined to look separate from the rest of the leg pieces. She had a trio of jets in the lower rear part of her leg pieces that granted Penny the ability of flight. She also wore a pair of black low heeled metal boots with the tops hidden by the lower part of her leg pieces.

In addition, she also wore a pair of black lacy cuffed gloves with golden stud detailing on the knuckles. She also retained her silver backpack on her back carrying Floating Array.

In Volume 8, the palms of her gloves were spray painted black to conceal her metallic structure after her fight with Cinder Fall. After her second fight with Cinder, her right glove was partially burnt off. Later, when she was damaged after being hacked for the first time, Penny was shown to bleed green coolant in the place of blood.

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.