Penelope Silvers

**Penelope Silvers** is a rocker, political figure, and member of the Bad Bitches. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, she moved to Chicago with her sisters Andromeda and Marianne after the Martial Law Authority's coup of the British monarchy and violence perpetrated by Scottish nationalist movements separated her and her sisters from the rest of their family. In Chicago, she started the Martyrs of Belladonna with her sisters and, after a series of jobs from her friend Olen, became a fugitive from StormTech along with the rest of the Bad Bitches. Taking refuge among the Raffen Shiv within the Seven Nations, Silvers and the Bad Bitches quickly rose to prominence as an influential group in Nomad politics and Chicago politics as a whole.

## Traits

### Appearance

Penelope is a pale, Scottish woman. She stands at about 5'4, although often sports platform boots that make her appear taller than she is. Her eyes are normally blue, although she almost constantly is wearing cosmetic contacts that are generally some sort of green or black. She has poofy, curly red hair that is currently mostly dyed teal, aside from two fringe pieces and two strands that she tries up into a bun. She previously had a piece of green techhair, but removed it while on the run from StormTech and Militech. She prefers a more punk style of dress, usually wearing a black tube top with some form of jacket and ripped up leggings. Her current jacket has a patch bearing the logo of The Bad Bitches sewn onto the sleeve. It is unknown where she got this, or when she might have had the time to make it herself.

### Personality

Penelope is brash, headstrong, and quick to upset. She is shown to be strong willed and not afraid to take a few risks, either to achieve her goals or to have a bit of fun. She can be quite contrarian at times, but at the end of the day, her stubborn compassion and hope for a better future for the people she cares about are the things that drive her.

### Interests, Likes and Dislikes

Penelope is a musician, who sings and plays the guitar. She likes writing songs, graffiti, judo, and coffee, although she has also been shown to drink beer when an alcoholic beverage is called for. She dislikes capitalism, religious fundamentalism, and the English.

## Relationships

### Family

Penelope has two twin sisters, Andromeda and Marianne, whom she is in a punk band with called the Martyrs of Belladonna. She and Andromeda have a strained relationship due to opposing political views and wildly differing personalities, but they generally manage to remain civil enough with each other to live and work together. Marianne, on the other hand, looks up to Penelope and tries to emulate her. The triplets have four other siblings whom they are not in contact with after they were separated when they were younger.

Similarly, Penelope does not have contact with either of her parents, and hasn't for quite some years now, due to losing track of them. She is mildly upset about not knowing the status or whereabouts of the rest of her family, but has long since given up on ever being able find them again. She was rather close with her father before the split.

### Romantic Relationships

**Orientation:** Lesbian

Penelope is currently the long term affair partner of Ella Gorgonzolla, the media personality wife of a StormTech employee. She s fully aware of Ella's marriage, but is under the impression that it is an unhappy marriage and also has no qualms about cucking a corpo. She is extremely enamored with Ella, although she has been known to flirt with other women on occasion. Their relationship has been a happy one, if clandestine.

### Friends and allies

#### Frankie Dole

Frankie Dole is a close friend of Penelope's. The two share a passion of graffiti art, which is how they met. They were graffitiing the same building, eventually making a game of painting over each other's previously painted on stuff. This game continued on for some months before they actually met in person, going to take their turn at the same time, becoming fast friends.

#### Sara Nightlock

Sara Nightlock is another good friend of Penelope's, serving as a de-facto maternal figure for the triplets, living in the apartment next to theirs. She taught Penelope Judo, and celebrates holidays with the triplets on occasion.

#### Elizabeth Grimm

Elizabeth Grimm is a mentor figure in the lives of the triplets, and was one of their first connections to the larger Chicago rocker scene. The Martyrs of Belladonna were the opening act for her band when they were first getting started, and she saw a lot of potential in the group. This is who Penelope would go to if she's feeling stumped on a tricky piece of music or is lost on how to achieve a particular effect.

#### Olen

Penelope considers Olen a friend of hers, and she was a regular at the bar they owned, either stopping in for a beer when she needed to get out of the house for the night or playing gigs there with her band. She also volunteered at Olen's Shelter, helping out where she could. Their disappearance after the John Hancock Center 86th Floor Attack worried her immensely.

#### Oscar Wood

She respects Oscar Wood's anit-terf grind, but she cannot respect him for being English.

#### Brandee

Penelope's relationship with Brandee has been consistently a little rocky due to her dislike of Brandee's methods as well as their consistently clashing ideals. They tend to butt heads the most out of the Bad Bitches. Despite this, she considers Brandee a friend and ally, and would take a bullet for her if need be, and the two have had plenty of moments where they see eye-to-eye.

#### Irene

Penelope has found in Irene a friend and collaborator. Despite their extremely differing music styles, the two have collaborated and collaborated well on a number of occasions, especially during the absence of the rest of their respective groups while they were hiding amongst the Raffen Shiv.

#### Dominique

Penelope probably gets along the best with Dominique out of all of the Bad Bitches, as the two are always up for a little chaos. They have begun picking up on each other's more difficult to understand vocal habits, and use this to their advantage on occasion, having conversations that nobody else quite understands but them.

## History

### Childhood

Penelope and her sisters were born the second, third, and fourth siblings of a moderately well-to-do corporate family in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her parents worked for the Japanese Corp Tsunami Defense Systems, also known as simply Tsunami Arms.

Shortly after the birth of the triplets, the British Monarchy was overthrown by the anti-monarchist military organization know as the Martial Law Authority, of simply the MLA. They assumed power through a constant State of Emergency. The King and his brother were killed trying to fight the MLA in 2000.

Despite the growing unrest in the UK, Penelope's childhood was for the most part calm and relatively normal, her parents continuing to work and act like nothing was wrong. In fact, they were so committed to the bit they went on to have three more children in the coming years. All of the children attended a private school up until 2013, when Penelope was 14, when the whole of Scotland was plunged into chaos and destruction due to a Scottish Nationalist Party's war with the MLA.

### London

After the fight made its way to Edinburgh and things began to get dicey due to the undeclared war, the Silvers family fled their Scottish home and made their way to the mildly calmer English capital of London. Penelope's parents struggled to bring them back to the prosperity they had grown accustomed to in Scotland, and the children's care fell by the wayside because of it. Penelope began sneaking out into the city at night, not wanting to watch her parents struggle with the bills at the kitchen table. This is when she discovered the UK's thriving punk scene, and fell in love with the hardcore sights and sounds she found there. She introduced this culture to her two other twins, and the three of them quickly adopted this new style. Their siblings weren't thrilled with them playing Dropkick Murphys CDs at all hours of the night, but there wasn't much they could do to stop them.

Their stay in London came to an abrupt end in 2016, when Scotland broke open into open rebellion and the situation in England started heating up just the same as it had in Scotland as people grew more and more unhappy with the MLA dictatorship. During a night of violent protest and chaos, the family was hurriedly trying to flee when they got separated in the chaos. The triplets wandered London for a week, searching for their family, before they decided the situation was so unstable that they had to flee once again.

### Move to NUSA and Chicago

The triplets, after a lot of back and forth and aimless wandering across the American continent,with brief stays in other cities like Boston and Nashville landed themselves in Chicago. The triplets picked up lots of odd jobs in order to make ends meet as they tried to get their music career to pick up. They moved into a small apartment on the North side, where they met Sara Nightlock. Slowly, their music started to build up a local reputation as they made more connections and started playing at Olen's Tavern more consistently. Their punchy, anti-corp lyrics found their niche, and while they are not well known by any stretch of the imagination, The Martyrs of Belladonna is a locally recognizable name on the rocker scene.

Penelope found herself suddenly swept away from the relative comfort of her new life near the beginning of 2020, when she accepted a job from Olen with the group that would later become known as the Bad Bitches regarding a shipment that the shelter hadn't received. This snowballed into the group becoming extremely politically influential in the greater Chicago area.