Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-86.158.128.20-20160512004335/@comment-25936766-20160512005629

To be fully honest, one can make arguments for both possibilities, and both sides would sound reasonable.

Penny could be truly original. Artificial creations referring to their creator as "father" or similar, is nothing new.

Penny could be based on someone, probably someone dead. Either their AI is a virtual version of the dead person's, like in Halo, or it's personality is based on them.

Both possibilities sound equally possible and reasonable.