Penny Pointer

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> *"Twenty-something, Aquarius, love to travel - and nearly all of my friends… are birds."*
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## Penelope Pointer

* Penny
* Penelope

## Game Information

### Voice Actor

Tiana Camacho

**Penelope Pointer**, better known as **Penny**, is a stylish and beautiful woman living in Tangle Tower who adores birds, to the extent of identifying with and dressing like them. Despite her extravagant personality, engagement to Fitz, and jet-setting lifestyle, it's implied that she's much lonelier than she appears. She is the niece of Professor Pointer and the cousin of Poppy. She appears in Tangle Tower as a suspect in the Murder of Freya Fellow.

She is voiced by Tiana Camacho.

## Biography

### Background

Between her biological parents' abandonment and Professor Pointer's neglect, she likely had a lonely childhood. Even as an adult, it's obvious that Penny lacks companionship at Tangle Tower.

Due to her loneliness and the fact that some people had left Tangle Tower, she wondered where they had gone and whether she belonged with them, feeling that she doesn't belong in Tangle Tower.

When she was 19, she felt heat on the walls near her bed. The heat made her wallpaper peel. She also started to hear voices. She thought she was cursed until she found a study that can only be accessed by flipping a switch near the aquarium tank in the hall. She found that most of the stuff in the room was burned and saw the picture of the Ambassadors of Mystid Mansion, which included her parents. This drove her to search for the Ambassadors, hoping they could answer her questions. She did so by pretending to be an ornithologist travelling around the world to study birds.

Thanks to an anonymous informant, she managed to track down the Ambassadors. However, she found that the ambassadors left Tangle Tower to do their own thing of tracking separate Mystids instead of a unified purpose. She got very disappointed, and it's implied that she murdered the ambassadors, as indicated by their eyes being crossed out. With that, her investigation on the mystery of the Mystid Mansion was at a dead end.

One day, her uncle decided to take up astronomy (which was an obvious lie to everyone who knew him). She found out that he was actually studying entomology, and only to find a way to breed the golden beetle. She believed that the beetle is from an unknown source and her only lead to investigate Mystid Mansion. Therefore, she stole the beetle, which got her uncle very upset. He originally thought he'd just lost it, but Penelope sees an oppurtunity and suggests that the beetle may have been stolen. She then suggests Pointer hire a detective to help find the beetle, and uses her Detective Hawkshaw persona to investigate further, now having access to places and information Penny didn't. She uses Freya's abstract painting from her nightmare as a design for Hawkshaw, as well as the secret study as a base.

A week before the murder, she uses the beetle to experiment its loud noise in the music room. The experiment was a success as it managed to break glass and cracked the trumpet figure.

5 days before the murder, she, disguised as Hawkshaw, investigates the secrets of Tangle Tower. On the 2nd day, she received the code to the secret passage to the underground laboratory to investigate but disgusted that her uncle is short sighted as he only interested in breeding the golden beetle to obtain the inheritance on Tangle Tower, she also found the lowest level of the mansion and enjoy the lake bottom view.

However, the disguise got Freya’s attention and she did her own investigation on Tangle Tower. However, her investigation lead to the study which Penelope was using and found out what happened to the Ambassadors. Realizing that her secret is revealed, she decides to silence Freya.

### Day of the Murder

Freya was painting Flora with her Inkdip bird feather as a birthday and parting gift. However, before the painting, Penny set up 2 things, she put the beetle inside the gramophone in order to knock Flora and Freya with Flora primarily to make sure she doesn't witness the murder and bear additional suffering. The other thing is that she filled the empty red paint that was replaced by Felix with blood in order to distract Fiona and Poppy and help to cope a little bit and also a distraction.

She use Fitz's earmuffs, which she stole it a week ago as she previously used the beetle as an experiment in the music room, to protect herself from the beetle sound. As soon Tabitha, Penny's bird, activate the beetle, it triggered a noise that knock both Flora and Freya out. Penny, probably in disguise as Hawkshaw, use the crossbow to kill Freya from the attic above. After the murder, she left the reel in the attic and left the crime scene, her footsteps were heard by Felix who was in the workshop at that time. She went to the library to set up an alibi with Pointer found Hawkshaw just out the library, she soon wear her 'Penny' outfit and went to the crime scene. She later exit the crime scene with her uncle but not before disguising as Hawkshaw in the gardens where Fitz met the detective here.

She later went to the hidden rooms to hide the evidence with the metal rod stabbed at a photo (likely angry at Lord Remington for setting this predicament), a crossbow behind the Soulbearer and a feather inside the incinerator.

### Events of Tangle Tower

Penny is first encountered by Grimoire and Sally at the aviary, on the Pointer tower side. She talks about her lifestyle traveling to a variety of places, but always returning to be with Fitz at Tangle Tower. After meeting her, Grimoire and Sally are able to visit her bedroom, just across from the aviary.

Her statement agrees with the rest of the suspects in Tangle Tower, thus reinforcing Felix's and Detective Hawkshaw's stories.

As Grimoire and Sally discover the last piece of the truth at the crime scene, Penelope as Hawkshaw reveales herself after her bird is discovered. The detectives soon tie her up and she reveals her story about Tangle Tower, its mysteries and why she killed Freya. When asked why she returned to the scene of the crime, she replies that she came to get the beetle back. Her bird attacks the gramophone which triggers the beetle shriek, knocking the detectives out. When they come to Fitz, Fifi and Poppy have brought them to dock, and tell them they came into Flora's room as Penelope was crouching over them. They are uncertain whether she was checking the state of the detectives, or about to kill them, either way Fitz intervenes, which forces Penelope to escape through the window and the rooftop garden. She managed to escape with the boat and her whereabouts are currently unknown.

## Appearance

She is dressed in an impossibly stylish ensemble that is meant to evoke a bird, complete with sleeves that resemble bird wings. She also has a bird that she wears as a hat and apparently thinks of as an article of clothing, not even bothering to name it like she does for her other birds.

## Personality

At first glance, Penny seems to be a polite woman with high-fashion interests (based on her first impression of Sally's not-so high fashion style) and an energetic, loud person who seems to enjoy traveling to different places to study different bird species, as she states in one of your first interactions at the aviary. Penny even states that her love for traveling is limited only by her love for Fitz, as he doesn't like to travel at all.

She thinks that "Penny" is a better name for herself, as "Penelope" sounds a bit ostentatious. However, she also seems to be somewhat narcissistic, and when her true self is revealed at the end, she requests to be addressed as "Penelope" when Grimoire calls her "Penny".

As some clues fly by, she begins to show that she only studies birds because that's "the only thing she's good at." Her suspicion reveals a jealous side of herself about Fitz's relation with Poppy. Towards the end of the game, she shows her true, cold nature and reveals that almost everything that she said to Grimoire and Sally was mere lies, including her official statement.

When Penelope reveals herself as the murderer, everything she has said, both as Penny and as Hawkshaw, is called into question. For example, she makes it very clear she has no sense of belonging with the other residents at the mansion, and doesn't mention her relationship with Fitz even once at this point. The way Hawkshaw talked about Penny also indicates she is either very capable of seeing herself from the perspective of others, or has been faking "Penny's" personality the entire time. The latter could be supported by her request to be called Penelope during the final confrontation, and that she is clearly far more intelligent than she pretended to be as Penny.

Most of her opinions about the rest of the members of Tangle Tower indicate that she doesn't have a strong relationship with any of them, not even Fitz or Professor Pointer. She demonstrates a special depreciation and hateful personality towards Poppy. This is likely because of Poppy’s musical talent, and Poppy’s desire to hang out In the rooftop garden with Fitz. She expresses some tenderness towards Flora, as she wanted to spare her the pain of witnessing Freya's murder.

## Relationships

### Her Parents (Pandora Pointer & Buck Brackley)

Her relationship with her parents is non-existent as her parents left Penny behind when she was young, leaving her in her uncle's care. It is likely she grew some hatred of her parents for her abandonment and negligect. When Sally mentioned about the ambassadors included Penny's parents with the implication that Penny murdered them, Penny went silent.

### Percieval Pointer

Her relationship between her and her uncle is estranged as most of his attention is towards Poppy, his daughter. As 'Penny', she expresses annoyance with her uncle's fixation on astronomy, as he keeps filling her head with useless knowledge on the subject.

However, as 'Penelope', not much is known about the relationship but she is disgusted with her uncle for his short sighted ambition to compete with Felix over Tangle Tower inheritance.

### Freya Fellow

Penny respected Freya immensely as Freya had been kind to Penny. She has a particularly fond memory of receiving a drawing Freya drew of all the birds of the aviary as a birthday gift. It is likely to Penny, Freya was her only friend, or the closest thing she had to one. Penny even took inspiration from Freya's nightmare painting as a disguise for Detective Hawkshaw.

Her murder of Freya has nothing to do with her relationship with Freya but rather to silence Freya about her implied murder of the Ambassadors.

### Fitz Fellow

Fitz is Penny's fiancée. When in her Penny persona, she claims Fitz is the main reason she keeps coming back to Tangle Tower, as he is not so keen on travelling. She also expresses an intense jealousy of Fitz's relationship with Poppy, largely fueled by the two of them having exclusive access to the rooftop garden, where they spend a lot of time together. However, as Penelope she doesn't mention Fitz even once.

### Flora Fellow

It's made quite clear that Penelope cares for Flora, and empathises with her, even though they weren't close. She specifically wished to render Flora unconscious before killing Freya, to spare her the trauma of witnessing the murder of her friend.

## Quotes

> *"I… can’t stand it! Knowing the two of them are hidden away up there… in their private little garden… I couldn’t risk spying on them myself. So I asked dear Tabatha to do it for me. I knew she’d be able to bring me back some evidence."*
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> *"You don’t understand… Fitz is slipping away from me… He’s so quiet with me these days. But being with Poppy… seems to be bringing him out of his shell… I don’t know what he sees in her… miserable little…"*
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## Trivia

* She is apparently offended at being shown a cassette tape combining three different shades of pink.
* The names of her birds include Tabatha, Tatiana, Tamara, Isabelle, Clementine, Genevieve, Myrtle, and Lysandre.
* The aviary in which she spends most of her time resembles a giant birdcage.
* When asked about Flora, Penny remarks that she could have done much better than settling for Felix and responds to Grimoire's "ouch" with an amused, "I said it."
* As a gift, Fitz grows her a flower he bred to look exactly like her, however she often neglects the flower due to her indifference to plants.
* Given that Penny’s star sign is Aquarius, that would put her birthday somewhere in between January 20th to February 18th.
* Despite Penny’s hatred for Poppy, she still respects the fact that Poppy doesn’t want to be associated with her younger self.
* In early concepts, Penny had freckles.
* Penelope and Hawkshaw are the only characters to have 5 fingers.

## Gallery

* Penny
* Penelope

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