Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-115.166.21.215-20161005151230/@comment-25936766-20161005203939

ChishioKunrin wrote: We're forgetting the most important part: Monty did not come up with the idea for the Maidens until after they finished making Volume 2. Which means that having Maiden powers is definitely not Penny's original purpose. You mention that quite often. I hope you realize that it doesn't really prove anytHing.

Anything that was never answered before Maidens were added, may have been retconned/changed when changes were made to the general plan, to something more related to the Maidens.

In this case, we were never told Penny's outright purpose, beyond being pretty much a Robot Huntress Super Prototype. Following the topic of this discussion, there are 2 possibilities:

1) She had a second planned purpose beyond just being a simple Robot Huntress, which was later changed along with most of the plan when Maidens were added.

2) She had only 1 purpose, and a second, deeper purpose was added when Maidens were added.

In both cases, as this second purpose was never revealed, there was no problem with adding/changing it. It could easily be anything from "a weapon to surpass the Maidens" to "backup body for Maiden powers to move to should something happen".

Now, personally I believe Penny's purpose was just that: A Robot Huntress, more dispensable, "mentally" superior due to having a computer for a brain (thus faster thinking), and yet still capable of using Aura.

If Penny had any deeper purposes, at most I think it would be for Atlas to, after working out the flaws and finding a way to mass-produce it, make an army of Pennies/Robot Hunters. Though this depends on how they get the Soul to begin with (is it developed? Or inserted?).

If the Soul is developed, requiring them to develop a personality, which Penny certainly has, then it would be similar to the Clones from Star Wars; they are almost-identically the same, with slight variations in different traits and personality to make them become more individualistic.