Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35089270-20180324014303

1) Cinder rightly points out that Atlas has no need of "a soldier disguised as an innocent little girl." She insinuates that this is for the purpose of infiltration and conquering other kingdoms, but it's obvious that that is not what Ironwood has in mind. So why WAS Penny made to look like a young girl?

2) Penny tells Ruby that she is the first synthetic being capable of producing an aura. In Volume 3, Ironwood states "Atlas has been studying aura from a more scientific standpoint." According to him and Qrow, they've developed a way to "capture it and cram it into something else, or in your case" (presumably Qrow meant someone else). This seems to imply to me that they might have experimented with aura transfer to someTHING before. Furthermore, they had no idea what the process of aura transfer would do to Pyrrha, but they seemed to believe it would irrevocably change who she was.

3) Penny consistently refers to her creator as her father. He also seems highly concerned for her well-being, despite her significant combat prowess. It would seem he cares for her far more than an ordinary robot, and the affection is mutual.

These three points seem to add up to suggest a brilliant Atlas scientist with a young daughter who wanted to grow up and become a Huntress, who either had some kind of deadly incurable disease or who was badly injured. So, with some help from Ironwood, he built her a robotic body and transferred her aura to it. The result was Penny, a robot who is, for all intents and purposes, human, but who has no memory of her previous life. Does this seem feasible to anyone else, or am I shooting way off into the dark? 