Penny

Race: Android

Gender: Female

Age: N/A

Penny Polendina was a character who first appeared in "The Stray". She was originally an android created by her father, Pietro Polendina, when he somehow gave her a part of his own Aura to grant her a soul. In "PvP", Penny was destroyed by her own weapons during her fight with Pyrrha Nikos.

She returned in "The Greatest Kingdom" with a new look made by her father who rebuilt her after the Fall of Beacon. Throughout Volume 7, she served as the official protector of Mantle and eliminated Grimm that invaded the city. In "The Enemy of Trust" after a grueling battle with Cinder Fall, she became the Winter Maiden.

Penny was a light-skinned android with rather curly short orange hair that came down to her chin with a small cowlick on top and she wore a pink bow on the back of her head, bright green eyes and freckles.

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.

Penny was amiable, excitable, kind and curious. It was stated that Penny got a lot of her attitude from her father Pietro Polendina.[6] 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.[7]

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.

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.