Penny Wilson

**Penny** is a receptionist at the KARP building. She works for Walter Jung, whom she also briefly dated.

She drives a red convertable.

## Personal History

Very little is known about Penny. She works as a receptionist at the KARP building, and is employed by Walter. At some point, she and Walter began dating, though it’s possible she may have acted as a beard for him.

Penny drives a red convertable, is moderately skilled at baseball, and may be vegetarian. In Mt Tabor, she and Walter are shown snorting cocaine together on a date.

## Romantic Life

### Walter

In Mt Tabor, Penny and Walter go on a date. After missing work on Monday, Penny’s entire schedule gets thrown of, causing her to accidentally stand him up on Wednesday. They go on Thursday instead, which is a risky move for Walter, since his show airs on Fridays. Throughout the date, the two engage in strictly platonic activities. They go to a batting cage, get McDonald’s, and drive up to Mt Tabor park in Portland. While stopped at a small lot, a brief argument breaks out between them, resulting in Walter falling off a steep embankment and breaing his jaw for a second time. Penny attempts to administer first aid from her car, but Walter is reluctant to let her touch him. Instead, she convinces him to go to a hospital, and after, drives him home. When Walter wakes the next morning to find Penny asleep on his sofa, he breaks off the relationship.

When Walter refuses to let her touch him, she is not surprised or put off. Instead, she argues her side until he relents.

### RJ

In Tinder Lovin, Penny has a one night stand with RJ, a water buffalo. After Walter breaks up with her, Penny heads to tinder and matches up with RJ, thinking he is a ram. When he turns out to be a water buffalo several times her size, Penny begins to have second thoughts. She goes on the date anyway, and follows him home. After Netflix and Chill turns into a one-night stand, she leaves.

## Personality

Penny seems easy-going, and a little air-headed at times. Despite this, she is able to talk her way out of a police stop, after snorting the last of her cocaine stash with Walter. She is capable of making decisions, and isn’t very intimidated by Walter’s personality, even when he appears to be at his worst.

She seems to take the breakup in stride, as if she was expecting it sooner or later.

## Appearance

Penny in an anthropomorphic hare, with long, red head hair and amber-coloured eyes. She is described as being fairly small and petite. Her ears are particularly large, and cause a small amount of damage to her car when she shakes her head quickly.

## Events of the Books

### Mt Tabor

Main Article: Mt Tabor

Penny is introduced in Mt Tabor, when Walter accuses her of standing him up. She denies it at first, until she realises she’s been running a day behind after missing work on Monday. Penny offers to take him out that night instead, but Walter doesn’t respond. Instead, he throws a ball of paper at her and goes back to the studio to work on his show. Penny is left behind with her co-worker, who does not seem to approve of the relationship.

Later, Penny drives to Walter’s house to meet him in his driveway. After some brief banter, he gets into her roadster and lets her take him back into town. They start off going to the batting cages, but are kicked out early when Penny loses her bat. Unsure what else to do, they get back into her car and head to McDonalds for dinner. Walter isn’t thrilled with this choice, but goes along with it. After they get through the drive-thru, Penny drives him through town, and up to Mt Tabor, a park in the middle of Portland. They drive up to a pull-off area and park. Penny pulls out a small stash of cocaine from under her seat, and the two of them clear out what’s left of it. Once the coke is gone, they begin to eat their dinner. As Walter is finishing his burger, they’re visited by a police officer, who lies about the park’s hours. It’s likely he doesn’t recognise Walter in the dark, and with Walter’s mouth full of fast food burger, Penny is left doing all of the talking. Eventually, the officer leaves, and Walter gets out of the car to move around. He doesn’t want too park up on Mt Tabor, but Penny is hesitant to do anything else, since they got out so late and very little is open.

When the headlights of a passing car startles Walter, he loses his footing and topples down a steep edge. Penny chases him down the side of the hill and helps him back up. He loses his glasses in the fall, and has cut his chest open. Penny gets him into the front seat of the car and tries to clean the cut on his chest, but Walter gets angry when she tries to touch him. He eventually relents when it becomes clear there’s little Penny can do with a travel first aid kit. When Penny touches his face, Walter shouts in pain, startling them both. Penny convinces him to go to a hospital, and takes him to the nearest one. She then comments on a large scar running down Walter’s front, with his only comment about it being he was once gutted “like a fish.”

Penny takes Walter to the emergency room, where he learns he broke his jaw in the fall. On the way home, Penny struggles to find an open pharmacy, and comes up with only coffee and an apple pie from a 7-11. After that, she takes Walter home, and stays with him while he settles down in his chair.

When Walter wakes up the next morning, he finds Penny asleep on his sofa. Later, he finds her in the kitchen, awake and making coffee. He breaks up with her on the spot, telling her to lock up when she leaves, and to spread whatever rumours about him she wants. He leaves her in the kitchen, and heads to work.

### Tinder Lovin

Main Article: Tinder Lovin

Penny waits outside a restaurant, regretting not bringing a jacket as the evening wind turns cold. She’s matched with someone on Tinder, and is hoping for a one-night stand after ending her chaste relationship with Walter. When her date arrives, she is surprised to find that she hadn’t scrutinsed his profile very well, as he turns out to be a water buffalo, instead of the ram she was expecting. Still, she agrees to have dinner with him, and go dutch. The two enter the restaurant together.

Intending to leave after dinner, Penny finds herself following RJ to his car. He takes her to his home in Milwaukie, where his roommate is upstairs in her room. The prescence of a female roommate puts Penny somewhat at ease as they go to the sofa to watch cooking shows on Netflix. Before long, RJ begins touching her, with Penny encouraging it. They have sex on the sofa. Penny cannot decide if she regrets it or not, and asks to take a shower. RJ offers her some clean clothes to change into.

## Trivia

In an earlier draft, Penny was much more energetic, and deliberately got them kicked out of the batting cages. She had a much smaller role, and did not initially work for Walter at all.