Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-174.3.192.25-20151216165107/@comment-26872876-20151221004807

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: One thing I just realized a day or so ago is that this idea of Aura transfer is cast in a new light when you consider that Penny frequently refers to her creator as her "father" and he apparently views her as his daughter. There was this theory that Penny was created to fill the place of a daughter he had lost or because he never had a daughter, but what if she actually IS his daughter? Maybe his daughter was dying of some incurable disease so he devised a means to transfer her Aura into a powerful android body to protect her.

All of a sudden the Atlesian military learns about his actions, recognizes its utility in combat and offers to use his research while requisitioning Penny. He goes along with it due to the not-so-subtle threat of Penny being disassembled and thus really losing his daughter. Perhaps the transfer does not include memories or, as it was his presumably first attempt with a human, the process didn't work quite right. Even though Penny has some vague concept of her creator as her father, she doesn't realize the full truth of it.

Some people have also speculated this idea; however, I like the idea that she is completely artificial. She desperately wanted to keep her secret with Ruby. It's almost certain that secret will be revealed during the finals. I think being a creation that is ultimately accepted as a real person is better than a real soul being placed in a body and told it's a machine until some final revelation reveals she's a person the whole time.

That being said, I do think it would be interesting if Ironwood is made in the image of a deceased daughter. Though nothing suggests he's married and/or had a child.