User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Some of my honest opinions about RWBY so far/@comment-25405817-20150608020045

One issue I found with this volume is the revelation that Penny is a "Synthetic Person". Why?

When the "Red" Trailer came out and we saw the shilouettes of W, B and Y, everybody was going mental, claiming that "B" has kitty ears. The series premiers and we learn in "Ruby Rose" that there are people born with animal traits, further feeding the fires of the theory that Blake has kitty ears. It all comes down in "The Stray" (which ironically enough introduces Penny) and the cat comes out of the bag (pun not intended). I personally wasn't surprised, which kinda soured the reveal for me.

Now go back to Penny. A clumsy girl, with stiff movements and mechanical form of speech, who later appears to store a bunch of swords on her freaking torax. People called "Robot!", and lo and behold, Penny IS a robot! Whoop-dee-fucking-do!

I believe they had such a huge opportunity to pull out an un-reveal with this character, but nope, they did the exact same thing as Blake, and without any period of time between Blake's reveal as a Faunus and Penny's introduction. In fact, there is "negative time" between the two events, because they happened the other way around (first Penny gets introduced and then Blake reveals she's a Faunus)