Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-26397825-20151213094536

Well...the thought that Penny was created from taking someone elses aura did occur to me as I watched it...and I wondered if she even knew just what the Atlas military had done to create her.

And then I wondered if she was created as a desperate measure from a father who's daughter was dying; Mr Polendina anyone? He may have made Penny in her image and found the way to place her aura in Penny, and got the Atlas Military to fund him because he was trying to do what they needed for the Autumn Situation. He wasn't aware of the reasons behind why they were funding it, simply believing it to be because of science, but Ironwood wasn't above capitalising on the situaton to see if it is possible.

So Penny might actually be the scientists daughter in soul, even if she doesn't have the memories or anything. And maybe some of her rebellious thoughts are bleedthrough's of Polendina's daughter, who is confined to watching from behind a computer screen in the mental mindscape that is Penny. Which could be the reason behind Penny wanting to go to Beacon, even if she doesn't realise it. Polendina's daughter might be aware (or her soul might be, metaphysical concepts are hard) that Ironwood/Atlas did something wrong (by removing her soul from her body and shoving it in an artificial body) and so wants to get away from them. This then bleeds through to Penny, who doesn't really know where the desire came from but decides to act upon it anyway.