Penny uncurls her hands to see how the synthetic skin has been sheared away from her palms. It doesn’t hurt; nothing ever hurts. What would have hurt her is leaving helpless people to get hit by a vehicle when she knows she has the ability to stop it. - She moves without thinking through the dark and finds herself on center stage, knives out, the madman who poisoned half a dozen people nowhere to be found. It doesn’t matter that she knows she isn’t guilty because the camera feeds know something different and she was exactly where someone else wanted her to be, just like the last time. If the people of Mantle do not want her protection anymore then maybe they’re right and she should be decommissioned. - If living means a virus will make her hurt her friends, then her death should likewise mean that she gets to choose the next Winter Maiden so she can be useful for once, and she begs Ruby to kill her. They refuse to let her go, over and over, and when the end is unavoidable, it’s not because she was thinking about her death but because she cared about life. She was thinking that she’s not a machine and neither is Winter; they are each other’s friends.
RWBY, Penny Polendina
Penny uncurls her hands to see how the synthetic skin has been sheared away from her palms. It doesn’t hurt; nothing ever hurts. What would have hurt her is leaving helpless people to get hit by a vehicle when she knows she has the ability to stop it.
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She moves without thinking through the dark and finds herself on center stage, knives out, the madman who poisoned half a dozen people nowhere to be found. It doesn’t matter that she knows she isn’t guilty because the camera feeds know something different and she was exactly where someone else wanted her to be, just like the last time. If the people of Mantle do not want her protection anymore then maybe they’re right and she should be decommissioned.
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If living means a virus will make her hurt her friends, then her death should likewise mean that she gets to choose the next Winter Maiden so she can be useful for once, and she begs Ruby to kill her. They refuse to let her go, over and over, and when the end is unavoidable, it’s not because she was thinking about her death but because she cared about life. She was thinking that she’s not a machine and neither is Winter; they are each other’s friends.