Penelope Kaplin

"'Any of you dull cunts got a light?'""— Penny when speaking to a group of Nerds after being brutally beaten by Prefects."

Penelope Kaplin is a character in Northwright Academy, she is currently a member of the Punks. She is played by motherchloe.

Physical Description
Penelope is among one of the taller members who resides in Punks, scaling up to an intimidating 6'0 with her heavy platform boots that she wears up to her shins, her appearance is typically complimented with some electric pink get-up which she sports with large framed goggles on her head that cover a matted grey beanie, originally given to her by Maverick Alistair, a close friend of hers. Penny's wavy hair is usually slicked back under her headgear, long pink strands visible as they drape down to her lower back in a careless state, she has dark blue eyes that compliment her pale complexion, she also wears silver canine grills which are able to pierce through flesh. Kaplin is a second generation Eurasian student, transferring to many other schools before Northwright from Scotland in her Freshman year of high school, she speaks with a heavy Glaswegian accent along with Scottish dialect which is difficult for others to properly understand.

It's usually quite easy to point Penny out from a crowd of people due to her strange outfit choices which consist of a real bullet belt and/or an electric pink dog collar looped around her neck. Penelope only wears her hair down as she complains it's, "too much of a hassle" to take care of, the real reasoning behind this is because of an old scar on the nape of her neck which form the initials, "SW". This has recently been covered up with the name of her current boyfriend and Reject leader, Marcello Lewis.

Characteristics
By others Penny can be explained as deluded, some even going as far as to call her insane as she's typically seen doing hard drugs or walking around on a dog leash like a mutt. Despite this, very little is truly known about Penny and the infamous scar on her nape. Prior to attending Northwright, she had been to two other reformative schools, it's alleged that she suffered under the hand of extremely corrupt Prefects and just barely lived to tell the disturbing story. Her past trauma with other students along with authority is the main reason why Penelope suffers with BPD, BD and also substance abuse, occasionally she'll slip into an episode and mention her life before being expelled from other schools along with the people she was unfortunately forced away from — this is very rare and only happens if something is to trigger her.

Regardless of her past, Penelope is a bright, friendly person and absolutely loves chatting with her peers despite others being intimidated by her. She pays no mind to the opinion of others and doesn't care about showing her true self. Kaplin earned the nickname 'Dog' as when coming up, she will walk on a dog leash which is usually kept at the hand of Josefina Li, one of Penelope's best friends who she is often seen hanging out with. Her fighting style is also very dog-like as she pounces on others, using her grills to rip through skin effortlessly.

Penelope currently struggles with a narcotic addiction, those around her are currently trying to help her with this before she finishes her senior year of high school.

June Avery
June and Penelope originally through their circle of friends and the girls almost immediately hit it off, being inseparable since. After an intense game of Russian roulette at the beach, Penny decided to give June one of her teeth as a sign of their friendship.

Josefina Li
Josefina didn't exactly like Penny from the beginning and felt her status of being the craziest girl on campus was threatened, the pair realized that they were better off as friends as they had similar personalities and overall enjoyed being around one another. Josie and Penny are now two peas in a pod, their relationship sometimes getting dangerously intimate as they've had casual hook-ups since meeting.

Marcello Lewis
While others are usually intimidated by Marcello, Penelope didn't let his reputation fool her upon the two meeting. Instead, she was able to gain his interest at the summer solstice by carelessly doing narcotics. In order to impress Penny, Marcello then did them too, the pair have been together since and even have matching tattoos with each others names and blood vial necklaces.

Mark Fry
Despite having a strong hate for Varsity, Mark Fry was the exception. Penny enjoyed stirring the pot and just generally annoying him as it easily got on his nerves, typically finding herself doing this to any male with a form of authority.

Trivia

 * Penny's current faceclaim is Jules Vaughn from Euphoria, she was loosely inspired off of characters such as Harley Quinn.


 * Her favourite colour is specifically bubblegum pink.
 * She was named after the character Penny Pingleton from Hairspray.



Josefina, June and Penny.