Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-115.166.21.215-20161005151230

Penny: I'm the world's first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura! . . . My father's the one who built me! . . . He had some help from Mr. Ironwood. . . One day, it will be my job to save the world, but I still have a lot left to learn. Ruby: Penny, what are you talking about? Save the world from what? We're in a time of peace! Penny: That's not what Mr. Ironwood said...

- Painting the Town

Ironwood: For the past few years, Atlas has been studying Aura from a more scientific standpoint; how it works, what's it made of, how it can be used. We've made... significant strides. And we believe we've found a way to capture it.

Qrow: Capture it and cram it into something else.

- Fall

I only recently thought about this for some reason. Do you think Penny was made to receive a maiden's power in an emergency?

Perhaps Penny was allowed to participate in the tournament to judge whether she was capable of protecting the maiden's power, and if she won the tournamen the power would be transfered while she was still there.  