User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 20: This is why you work with a party in RPGs./@comment-24.159.179.34-20140815112750

Hmm.

As for Junior's men.... someone as well connected as he is would have connections to the cops as well. So if they had been arrested, he would know it. Sounds more like clean up to keep the operation secure to me.

The actual term for Penny is 'gynoid'. Android is a male synthetic person; robot is merely a term for an automated device that performs a repetetive task, or replaces human action (from the Russian robotnik). And I'm getting the feeling that her creator(s) haven't quite understood that she has free will, and a mind of her own. Never mind that she's capable of forming friendships. Ruby's comment isn't really strange; weapons don't talk, after all. She's still a 15 year old kid, but she's a perceptive kid who apparently can tell the difference between a machine and a being (can't say that Penny is 'living', as life is defined as breathing, eating, reproducing, etc. Of course if she could build another of her, that would take care of that last one... 8D ).

Neo... Nice surpise. Anyone notice that umbrella shaft was a barrel...? I hope she -was- inspired by neopolitan ice cream; with those eyes, she could be the sister of Hokuto from Skiabane Hime, and that could get messy. Should be interesting to find out some of her backstory; the initial vibe I get is 'street rat that Roman found and saved from worse, making her loyal to him'.

We shall see....