Penelope Yin

Penelope Yin is a super heroine from the M.M.O., City of Heroes. Penny is a mutant - born with the ability to use telekinesis, though later refined her abilities and eventually trained herself to use telepathy as well. Penny is initially a contact in the zone, Faultline, but is one of the few contacts in the game to move passed her initial contact point and eventually be accepted as one of the Freedom Phalanx - Paragon City's most celebrated heroes and heroines.
==Faultline arc==
Penelope if first encountered as the second contact in the Faultline Arc. Faultline is a zone that was formally known as Overbrook, until a meta-human triggered earthquake destroyed the local area. In recent years Fault line is on it's way to being re-built, but with the massive fissures functioning as major blockades in the recovery progress. The first contact in the zone is a man named Jim Temblor - son of the super-villain "Faultline" who triggered the quake and who the area got it's new short-hand from. Jim and his friend Fusionette are involved in recovering parts of the city but in the course of their efforts find the implication that Faultline was not the mastermind of the quake, but just an enforcer for another villain, the psychic scientist - Psi-Curse. Jim sends heroes to work with Penelope whose father is missing and who may be able to answer questions about a device Psi-Curse had - The PsychoChronoMetron.
Penelope explains she is a mutant - a psychic one. Penelope had been picking up what she knew from the imprisoned super-villain - Clockwork King, who, at the time, was only recently bought to justice by the hero Synapse. The Clockwork King believed he was a great genius who could build anything from junk, Synapse exposed that he was in-fact a delusional psychic, the pieces of junk he assembled "robots" from, little more than telekinetic puppets. Penelope had been trying to help him come to terms with his mutation from lock-up, and to repay her kindness, the Clockwork King had been teaching her his telekinetic puppeteering techniques. Jim recommended her to solve the issue of what the PsychoChronoMetron could do because of her talents. Penelope wants to help but at the time is mostly concerned with her father's recovery. Mr. Yin was a local store owner who was kidnapped by The Lost - mutated homeless people who seem to share a transmitted mental thrall and kidnap anyone they can to hypnotically convert to more Lost. The clues eventually lead to Penelope's father and rescuing him for Penelope ensures Penelope has the attention to focus on the PsychoChronoMetron mystery for the Heroes and Jim. Penelope says they will have her working tirelessly on understanding for them, but clues given during the hunt for Penelope's father also indicate that Faultline was actually a super-hero, though that does not seem to make sense as everyone has only known him as a villain, and Jim himself was surprised his loving caring father turned out to secretly be a super-villain, so the prospect of him also being a hero somehow does not seem to make sense with the records found.
Penelope recommends Doc Delilah - a super-strong mutant work works and an archeologist and has been salvaging Faultline for the past few years. Over the course of Doc Delilah's investigation, in combination with the Hero's expedition and Penelope's research, it is revealed the PsychoChronoMetron - was created by Psi-Curse, to amplify psychic energy through time itself - amplifying even minor psychics into psychic forces on nature - by looping through time over and over. With it, Psi-Curse was able to not merely hypnotize a single person, but alter all memories through-out history. Faultline, had in-fact been a super-hero, but when cornering Psi-Curse, Faultline was not only hypnotized into being Psi-Curse's super-villain enforcer, but collective memory of him through-out the city was re-written so he had always been a super-villain. After the truth is exposed a member of the Hero Corpse, Agent G, makes contact to track down PsychoChronoMetron, which had been stolen, along with Penelope, by Arbiter Sands, of the super-villain nation of The Rogue Isles, for it's military/government - Arachnos. Arbiter Sands, a rival of his named Nocturne, and the head of the Sky Raider pirates - Captain Casillo all manage to recover pieces of the PsychoChronoMetron and want to join them together with Penelope to get their hands on a device that can re-write memories through time. Penelope is held as a hostage for the last leg of the zone's mission arc, but during such time she is coming to terms with the power of the PsychoChronoMetron. When Sands, Nocturne and Casillo are all dealt with and the completed PsychoChronoMetron is assembled, the Hero will give it to Penelope to ensure it can not be used for evil. Penelope uses telekinesis instead of telepathy funneled through the PsychoChronoMetron. Penelope telekinetically breaks the PsychoChronoMetron but as she was using it at the time, temporal feed-back loop ensures it has now always been broken, and can not be used again as it now functions as it's own paradox.
Agent G sends Penelope off to train with the city's premiere psychic super-heroine - Sister Psyche' and her side-kicks Aurora Borealis and Malaise. With her innate talents, unique techniques of the Clockwork King to work-off of, and training from three of the strongest psychic super-heroes in Paragon City, Penelope looks to be on her way to becoming a truly gifted psychic.
==Lady Grey's Task Force==
Penelope is kidnapped by the Rikti - aliens who had been the ones mutating The Lost in the first place, and keeping up their hive-minded thrall. Penelope had been called in by the anti-alien defense force Vanguard. Head of the Vanguard - Lady Grey, had asked Penelope to help her crack the Rikti's psychic network, but she was kidnapped. Penelope had not known help was on the way and telepathically called out to any psychic listening. As it happened The Clockwork King had been over-seeing Penelope from lock-up, and upon finding out she was kidnapped by the Rikti breaks out in a frenzy to save her. As the Clockwork King was injured (to the point of being a psychic brain in a jar on top of one of his "robots") due to the over-zealousness of the hero Blue Steel, over-taken by Synapse, and forgotten about by the residents of Paragon, his villainy has been less malevolent than reactionary to being met with over-reaching force and disrespect; The single exception to this life of being disrespected is Penelope, who - thanks in part to his delusional state, he sees as something of a daughter-figure. Heroes will need to save Penelope, but then deal with her deluded would-be rescuer, before continuing with the Task Force. Lady Grey releases Clockwork King into Penelope's custody and Penelope tries to rehabilitate him.
==Adulthood with the Freedom Phalanx==
During the events of the Who Will Die, story arc. Sister Psyche's is incapacitated and Aurora recommends Penelope to fill in for her as she has grown into a powerful psychic in adulthood. Penelope runs her own Taskforce, to replace Sister Psyche's. Where Sister Psyche' tries to stop terrorists from blowing up the nuclear plant in Terra Volta, Penelope happens up a scheme to demolish the plant to create a new-cleaner burning one once it is sabotaged by the villain group known as The Freakshow - working for one of the city officials. The Freakshow were just supposed to wreck the plant to give the city official the excuse to tear it down and save the tax-payers money, but the Freakshow are unstable anarchists who end up straying far from their original orders and could potentially blow up half the city. Penelope sends her team to stop the scheme from an explosive wild-card.
==Personality==
Penelope is eager and happy to help Paragon City. She has seen the heroes of the Freedom Phalanx as idols and was very honored to get training under Sister Psyche' alongside Aurora Borealis and Malaise. When she is accepted into the Freedom Phalanx herself she is over-joyed, if concerned she will be underminded as the new and youngest member. She has a strong sense of empathy and is the only one to reach-out to the Clockwork King. Her kindness towards him is what finally lead to his reform, as no one had ever given him the benefit of the doubt before.
==Powers and Abilities==
Penelope Yin can use telepathy, telekinesis and has minor precognition, but her most pronounced ability in adulthood is manifesting her psionic abilities as physical energy. Penelope can create psionic blades and orbs, one to use to enhance her strike personally, and the other to track down and ambush enemies for her. Her work under the Clockwork King has allowed her to understand how to animate the Clockwork as puppets and she has a loyal crew of the junk-composed metallic humanoids following her as semi-body-guards.
Category:Female
Category:Kids
Category:City of Heroes Heroes
Category:Psychics
Category:Friend of a Villain
Category:Teenagers
Category:Paragon
Category:Loyal
Category:Rescuers
Category:Predecessor
Category:Mutants
Category:Neutral Good
Category:Determinators
Category:Protectors of Innocence
Category:Hypnotists