Penny Polendina

**Penny Polendina** (ペニー・ポレンディーナ, *Penī Porendīna*) is an android created by her father, Pietro Polendina, when he somehow gave her a part of his own Aura to grant her a soul.

Later on, she regains her human form.

## Description

### Appearance

Penny has short, rather curly orange hair that come down to her chin with a small cowlick on top, and she wears a pink bow on the back of her head. She also has bright green eyes, light skin, and freckles.

She wears an off white old-fashioned styled off the shoulder blouse with frill detailed trim and frill flared cuffs that half coveres her hands alongside copper button detailing on the lower parts of her sleeves.

She also sports a short gray pinafore dress with golden trim on the hem alongside four light green stalagmite styled stripes on the lower half of the dress, two on the front and two on the back, accompanied by two matching colored circles above the tips that has a stripe that runs around her waistline, with golden outlines, and a detachable black and light green collar. She also wears a pair of black thigh-high leg pieces that seemingly attaches to black shoes. The leg pieces have a single green stripe up the sides that appears to light up.

### Personality

Penny is amiable, excitable, kind and curious. It's stated that Penny got a lot of her attitude from her father. She often shows a distinct lack of social awareness, likely due to not having a lot of experience with Human nature. When Ruby made an unconditional offer of friendship, Penny seemed both immensely pleased and somewhat surprised. Another small quirk is that Penny hiccups whenever she tells a lie. She was also really excited when Ruby Rose offered her a fist-bump in A *Night Off*, an action that nobody had ever offered to her and wanted to do it perfectly.

She also seems to place great value on friendship, for she was greatly angered at the sight of Ruby being knocked down by Roman Torchwick's flare in *"Black and White"*. She also placed trust in Ruby based on the latter promising that she was her friend in *"A Minor Hiccup"*.

Furthermore, Penny seems to be immensely curious. Upon hearing that Blake Belladonna had run away, she proceeded to ask Ruby numerous questions, all related to Blake and friendship in general. Despite being told not to wander off, Penny still wandered Vale on her own.

Penny occasionally shows insecurities about her artificial nature. Upon confiding in Ruby that she was a synthetic being, Penny was worried about how she would take the news. However, after seeing Ruby took it rather well, she was glad that Ruby did not seem to care that she was really a machine, for what truly mattered was her heart and soul.

Penny's most notable trait is her kindness. Upon meeting Team RWBY, she greeted them with a jovial "Salutations!", complimented Weiss' hair, and offered to help Ruby track down Blake. In addition, she once saved Ruby from a truck before she asked the driver if he was okay, thanked Team CRDL during the Vytal Festival for the time she had, and told Pyrrha in the finals that it was a pleasure to finally meet her. Despite Atlas and Mantle originally being hesitant of Penny, she still works as their proud protector.

Penny's more peculiar social quirks appears to have tone down as the series progressed. While earlier appearances had her depicted as cheery, curious, and unfamiliar with many aspects of social interaction, these aspects appeared to diminish with each subsequent appearance; by the time of the Vytal Festival, Penny was barely distinguishable from her former self's naivete and volatile emotional state, sharing a conversation with Ruby about both her plans to stay at Beacon, despite her teammate Ciel Soleil objecting due to running short on time.

Penny is apparently very perceptive, for she saw through Blake's disguise and recognized that she was a Faunus while most people did not. She could also spot both Joanna Greenleaf and May Marigold in "Sparks", even though the latter was using her Semblance to hide them.

## Trivia

* Penny's fighting style resembles that of Naminé as she is depicted in *Dead Fantasy*, an online series also created by the late Monty Oum.
* Going along with her robotic theme, her swords have the international standby/power symbol on each of them.
* The destroyed character model of Penny from "PvP" and "Battle of Beacon" was actually built by her voice actress, Taylor McNee, who is also a 3D artist on the show.
* Penny's emblem is a green sword, similar in design to the swords she uses in combat.
* Penny's model number is revealed in "Never Miss a Beat" to be M374, which is possibly a reference to the M374 Hephaestus Combat Suit worn by the Meta in *Red vs. Blue*.
* A new model of Penny based off of a scene from the Shirow Miwa manga was set to be included in RWBY: Amity Arena, but Rooster Teeth denied use of it owing to Penny's return in Volume 7.