The fastest way to get on Penny's bad side is to refer to her as a thing, a weapon, a puppet, as if the Aura animating her doesn't set her apart from all of the soulless machines of Atlas. General Ironwood always calls her everything except what she most desperately wants to be.

For that brief and fleeting time when she is free from the appearance of metal and silicon, everyone gets to see her as she has always seen herself, a real girl capable of all the things others girls can do.