Profile: Penelope Henry

Personal Data

Name: Penelope “Penny”
Gender: Intersex Female
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 15 years old
Birthday: November 18th
Ethnicity: White American
Nationality: American
Species: Human
Sexuality: Bisexual

Family: Penelope was adopted at two years old by a black couple, who later adopted a boy. Her father is a gym teacher and former military, while she lost her mother three years ago.

Strengths: Technically Handy, Charming, skilled fighter and gunslinger,
Weaknesses: Impulsive, poor attention span, disregards people’s feelings

Appearance and Style: Penny is a white girl with carrot-colored hair that reaches about the middle of her back but that is typically held back by a ponytail, she is covered in freckles. She usually wears more practical and rural outfits; jeans, chaps, plaid shirts, and favors cowboy boots. She often wears hats to protect her delicate skin from the sun as she burns easily. Sometimes she likes to wear patterned dresses or older gentlemen’s styles of jackets and waistcoats.

Superhero Data

Supranym: Oakley
Status: Alive, Active

Metahuman Type: Mutant
Abilities: Hypertech abilities focused on chemicals, a minor enhancement to strength, speed, and endurance. ‘mechanical’ reflexes. Hypertech munitions with special effects.

Ravenhold Data

Acceptance to Ravenhold: Parole

Class: Four
Power Category: Hypertech
Roommate: Onez

Backstory

Not long after her birth, Penny was put into foster care by an anonymous mother, she was picked by the Henry family who fell in love with the little baby girl, whom they would eventually adopt permanently. Penny was discovered to be Deaf at a young age and following their doctor’s advice Penny received a cochlear implant, although the Henrys also studied on ASL to make their daughter as comfortable as possible.

Penny grew up to be a rather ordinary if hyperactive and curious girl. When she was seven however she manifested as a hypertech seemingly out of nowhere due to the anxiety of end-of-year exams, doctors speculated her mother must have also been a mutant but the information was confidential. The next big upheaval came a few years later when it was discovered Penny was actually intersex, a fact that’s always caused her great anxiety.

Penny’s life continued somewhat ordinarily, Penny however gained a reputation for being a lazy overachiever; her powers made it easy for her to retain information and do a lot of things, making her poorly motivated as she never experienced a true challenge. This was when her to gardening as a hobby. Penny gave it the usual effort, only for all of her plants to die. This shocked Penny who had never really failed at anything, so she read up everything she could on plant biology and care, she tried again with renewed care and passion. Over time her garden became her greatest pride.

Penny experienced tragedy when her mother died in a mugging gone wrong when she was 13. Penny grieved hard and turned deeper into religion to cope with her mother’s loss. However the next big tragedy in her life happened only a few months ago; when out shopping with her best friend Matilda the two were caught in a neo-nazi gang drive-by, Penny was unhurt but Matilda was shot in the spine, permanently losing the ability to walk.

This angered Penny deeply, she felt the law was moving far too slow to catch the perpetrators, the local sheriff’s office being overwhelmed and outgunned and waiting for state troopers. So Penny took matters into her own hands; she build a bulletproof costume, two hypertech revolvers, and went to town on the gang’s country home, shooting them with non-lethal rounds until they got the message to stay down.

The house had been under surveillance and the police came soon. Penny surrendered voluntarily and confessed to what she’d done. Thankfully for her, a Southern Hero heard of her action and offered for her to channel her energies at Ravenhold.

Misc Information

• Penny speaks ASL fluently.
• Penny’s personal childhood hero was Annie Oakley
• Penny has a pet ball python named Piper she’s had for ten years and pampers rotten.
• Penny has Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) which she and her family learned when her testes herniated and had to be removed. Because of this Penny needs to take estrogen and has always felt insecure about being a ‘real girl’ so she hides it from people.
• Growing up Penny developed a lot of more traditionally masculine hobbies such as martial arts, hunting, camping, fishing, and an interest in vintage muscle cars and trucks. She shot her first buck at 11 and used the antlers in a special project.
• Penny is allergic to tree pollen and spends most of the spring sedated on antihistamine.
• Penny was briefly romantically involved with her best friend Matilda but the relationship ended on a sour note when Penny cheated on her. They eventually decided to just be friends.
• Penny is somewhat hypersexual and has had a few sexual flings with boys in the past, which she usually proceed to ignore and pretend it has not happened. Penny however has a romantic preference for other girls or non-binary people.
• Penny competes in MMA for low-level metahumans at the regional level and won a few silver and bronze medals. It’s where she met many of her flings.
• Penny learned to cook from her mother and is into black southern cuisine as a result.
• Penny’s favorite music genres are classical rock and country music, with CCR, the Dixie Chicks, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Johnny Cash as her favorite musicians.
• Penny has picked up many skills from her ability to mechanically repeat actions such as guitar, dance, gymnastics, and many others but none of these ever really interested her.