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Commission I just finished for @bravewriting of their AU/fic War Machines which you can read right HERE. It’s a Nuts & Dolts AU where Ruby and Penny were swapped at birth and Penny ends up on team RWBY (now team BSYP or Battleship). This scene is in Chapter 12 and is Penny coming out to her team as a robot girl

I had fun drawing this, but god damn multi person hugs are complicated. I had to color code the sketch just to keep track of all the limbs lol

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Also I have to say, part of me was hoping for some sort of mention of Penny during Ruby and Yang's talk, but ah well :')

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Hmmm, though an interesting thing to note is that the portal Somewhat saw has the same blue centre of Ambrosius' portals, not the rainbow colours of the Blacksmith's

Ok so it was definitely an Ascended Neo that Somewhat saw, right? Is there some other obvious option I'm forgetting?

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Also they still refuse to even hint at anything to do with Pietro, like I'm not surprised by it at this point, but they're absolutely hiding something massive there

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Ok so it was definitely an Ascended Neo that Somewhat saw, right? Is there some other obvious option I'm forgetting?

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This is a scene from a Nuts and Dolts fanfic where Ruby and Penny switch places, and Penny is a Beacon student with amnesia while Ruby was raised as a supersoldier in Atlas. Check out War Machines on AO3 written by @bravewriting, who commissioned this! You can commission me as well

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Hoping that when they do secure a new partner for RWBY, they're able to take some time to produce the remaining episodes of V9 Beyond that got cut. I'd love to be able to see everything they originally had planned for the series

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I heard that it’s Lesbian Visibility Week. 🏳️‍🌈

So I made a Lesbian!Penny moodboard. 💕

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Work doodle inspired by yesterday's news :P

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this made my day

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The Diary of Penny Polendina

The other day I was inspired to try working on a different NeverFell Projects installment, one that would probably be a lot shorter and quicker to write, because it's not like I care that deeply about Penny, right??

Well, I was incredibly wrong. ^^; So wrong that I'm actually having trouble with this story now...essentially, Penny goes through a bit of a 'rebellious phase' (gross oversimplification, but that's all you get for now) and there are, surprisingly, a lot of aspects of that character arc that I want to explore. Plus, a pivotal connection with Pyrrha, the climax of which I haven't quite figured out yet...

God only knows if I'll be able to finish, or if I'll just write the first 2/3rds of the story and leave it at that. But I figured I might as well warm up by talking about the designs. ^^

Penny's new look is basically 'Disney's Pinocchio, color picked from Arthur Watts' character design'~

I didn't necessarily want her to look evil, just...bolder. Like she specifically picked 'daring' items that maybe her father or Ironwood's PR team would rather she didn't wear, at least not compared to the more innocent frilly pastels she had on before. Between the chest window, midriff, and short sleeves, she's actually showing a lot more skin than before, despite still being 90% covered up. ^^;

Those multicolored wrist accessories are prototype weapons invented by Dr. Watts, that mix and pressurize Dust from the cartridges to cast "artificial magic". This way I get to do a bit of the 'Winter Maiden Penny' stuff in this Vol. 3-locked AU~

Penny's magic usage is one of the things that stumped me when writing this story...In NeverFell, magic isn't just glowy rainbow lasers or weather powers-- it essentially allows the user access to any conceivable semblance at any time; its potential is limitless. Being a beginner, Penny would probably just come up with one signature 'spell' to use in tandem with her Floating Array...but I can't decide what I want her to do. ^^; I think I'd like for her to do something connected to dance, because I feel like that's something unique to her, the way she dances with her weapons before striking. Nobody ever points out how the "robot" in the cast is the one who chooses to spend energy on unnecessary movements that aren't even used to maneuver around an enemy; they're just cute and fun. ^^ I think that's a great encapsulation of who Penny is~

Redesigning Pyrrha is always super difficult, because her original design is so perfect. But I like this end result a LOT. ^^ I may need to adjust the pant legs a bit, but overall it feels like a very believable alt outfit that keeps the spirit of the character.

Pyrrha is another one of the stumbling blocks in this story, because I'm now forced to create at least one malleable personality trait for her-- i.e. one that isn't intrinsically tied to Jaune and/or the plot. Something that she could actually take into a meaningful relationship with a different character... I had the idea to expand her "I'm sorry!" gag into a real guilt complex, where she has trouble letting go of instances where she's made mistakes or hurt someone. In this case, dismembering Penny 1.0 and essentially ending her life. :T She seeks out 2.0 in a desperate effort to make things right, and ends up helping her with ...things, and growing as people or whatever, and all that other stuff I have yet to write. ^^;

I just realized that Pyrrha could use her polarity semblance to pull Penny towards her in a situation where they need to reach each other...that's so cute. ^^ I gotta remember that~

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Just saw the announcement that both of the remaining episodes are happening this Saturday... Ough

Man, as fun and exciting as V9 Beyond is, I also can't help but think about how every episode brings us closer to the end of official RWBY content until V10 gets picked up

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But do you think it would still actually be Penny if it were a computer program independent of her aura/soul or more like a copy of her mind? Because I feel like it would need her soul to be her, and bringing her back as a copy that doesn’t keep the actual consciousness of the original is more replacing her than anything

I mean, I don't know what the op of that post was going for necessarily, but in my mind any Penny revival theory implicity includes recovering and restoring her aura/soul in one way or another, or else as you say, it isn't much of a revival

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If Penny does come back, it should be as an AI. like from HALO/Red vs Blue, an artificial intelligence computer program that can freely move between machines and so forth.

My reasoning is that the process used to save Penny from Watts' virus was to have Ambrosius use Penny's robot body to make a new body, and her aura becomes a 100% flesh and blood construct. The new robot body then vanishes. But here's the thing. Ambrosius is the spirit of creation, not destruction. So how could he destroy Penny's robot machinery? What if it became pure data itself, and went to the nearest appropriate receptacle.

Also, it would be the ultimate bait-and-switch. After we are told that Penny's robot half was "just extra" that would be the only part still existing. But as Ruby said, "You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me?"

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I know Penny is Italian, but have you considered she looks adorable in lederhosen/dirndl

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Everyone look at this sleepy old man

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Man, as fun and exciting as V9 Beyond is, I also can't help but think about how every episode brings us closer to the end of official RWBY content until V10 gets picked up