Penguin

Penguin is a seemingly normal stuffed penguin found in the apartments in the Refuge. In the Solstice chapter, it is found inside the cafe. It was made in the image of a foreign avian deity which can be encountered in the secret unreality room. Both serve no purpose to the overall plot.
== Appearance ==
Penguin is a simplistic black and white penguin plush with no wings. It has beady white eyes and a yellow beak.
== Personality ==
 
"HELLO"
== Plot ==
=== Main Story ===
A few days after OneShot's release, a couch in the silent girl's room was sacrificed and replaced with a Penguin plush.https://tcrf.net/OneShot_(2016)/Version_Differences#Room2_-_staregirl
If Niko interacts with the Penguin plush and says "Hello, penguin!", they are greeted by an audible, raspy voice saying "hello". This is a homage to a series of joke games Hello Penguin developed by The Hello Penguin Team (Noxid, PluswPlus, Brabbit, and HyMyNameIsMatt).
=== Solstice Update ===
Due to the evacuation of the apartments, the Penguin plush is relocated to the cafe. When Niko interacts with it, they are greeted by an audible, raspy voice saying "hello".
At some point after the Solstice update, a secret "Hello Penguin" room, also known as the unreality room, was added. It can be accessed on a run that isn't Solstice or the first run by entering "HELLO PENGUIN" as the password into the door below the Solstice countdown clock in the Refuge office building. The "secret" sound will play instead of a normal "ding", and the door will open, revealing a much bigger and more powerful version of the Penguin plush.
Depending on the Player's answers, various events can occur. One possible event is Penguin temporarily turns Niko into a plush of itself. This could suggest that the apartment Penguin plush was once a person too before being transformed by Penguin.
Another possible event is Penguin melting. This is a reference to the first Hello Penguin game, in which the command that melts Penguin is "HELLO SUN".
If Niko has talked to the plush before, they will make a connection.
Before Niko leaves the unreality room, they say, "Goodbye, penguin!", causing Penguin to get covered in squares. In the original Hello Penguin games, saying/typing these two words always leads to something bad, spooky, or weird, so the squares are likely the World Machine protecting Niko from being smitten with its wrath.
The secret unreality room can only be visited once per run. If the "SOLSTICE" password was entered on a New Game+ run, the door will not ask for a password again on this run.
== Trivia ==
* The "secret" and "HELLO" sounds come from Hello Penguin 2. Noxid of The Hello Penguin Team voiced the Penguin plush.
* There's an unused version of the Solstice map where Niko comes face to face with the World Machine but the Niko's reflection is replaced by the Penguin plush.https://tcrf.net/OneShot_(2016)/Unused_Maps#Encounter_PENG
* The secret penguin room theme, unreality.ogg, was made by the composer for Hello Penguin 2 HD, PluswPlus, and its actual name is "?p?e?n?g?" (peng). Its cover art on SoundCloud is the WIP Solstice OST doodle but cropped and filtered.https://nightmargin.tumblr.com/post/159068412356/preview-of-the-solstice-album-art
** The song starts out exactly like the quiet synth melody below the guitar melody in the secret Hello Penguin 2 HD "Goodbye (Penguin)" boss fight theme. It also shares a melody/leitmotif with the "Penguin Phase 2" theme from Hello Penguin 2 / Hello Penguin 2 HD.
== Video Gallery ==
== References ==
ru:Пингвин