Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24038343-20131031234620/@comment-24038343-20131102174636

With regard to Penny:

She is giving off quite the robot vibe, however....



She seems to have fangs and she came in on the same ship as that Wukong did. The team assumed that he was one of their competitors so it's likely that the school she's from is known for having lot of faunus students.

It would make sense if the faunus, being a bit different, tended to be socially awkward around humans. Perhaps their brains work in such a way as to seem like high functioning autistics to humans, unable to "get" social subtleties.(and perhaps humans likewise miss THEIR cues). This would explain some of the societal problems and why a group of exotic and attractive sentients are aggressively (rather than passive aggressively) discriminated against.

Now this would seem to be counter-indicated by Blake, who considered Penny quite odd as well. However, Blake herself is very reserved socially. She may seem more savvy because she's good in combat and has a very sexy voice that's husky enough to win the Iditerod. Her social interactionshowever have mostly been trying to find a quiet place to read.

Of course this is tenuous speculation at best...Penny might be a robot, a dust golem or a really lonely ginger who is into planking.