Disclaimer: This fanfiction was not created with ill-willed intention towards anyone. This story was created for the sake of practicing my ability to critique. With that said, I kindly request for fans of the show to not take my criticism harsly and to respect my opinion on the matter. Any reviews that are among the lines of 'Screw you!' will be deleted, however constructive disagreement is welcomed.
Hey everyone! Time for a bit of a bonus chapter.
You see, I am an idiot and completely forgot to add Penny into the wasted character chapter.
So, here you go.
A girl with green eyes and orange hair, wearing a grey dress, pink bow, black shoes, and a brown backpack, was walking down the street. She saw a sign that said 'possibilities' on a white van, "What an odd sign. I ponder what it means!"
A man with a large white shirt and had the word 'Wasted' on his back walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder, "It will give ya's a lot of stuff and potential."
Penny turned to him and smiled, "Salutations! I'm Penny!"
The man rolled his eyes, "Yeah sure, you've gots a good future ahead of ya."
The man pushed Penny into the van and he stood next to the sign, causing the 'Possibilities' on the sign and the 'Wasted' to form 'Wasted Possibilities.' He turned behind him and winked to no one in particular.
-Three Weeks Later-
A woman with silver hair and yellow eyes, who was wearing a purple dress, was speaking into a camera, "A young robotic woman was found, completely torn apart."
A picture of Penny, torn apart and on a sidewalk, appeared in the corner of the screen,"She was identified as Penny Polendina, a student of Atlas academy. As tensions rise, for some reason, General Ironwood is currently at a meeting with Beacon Headmaster Ozpin to discuss the situation."
-Beacon Tower-
Ironwood had a completely worried look on his face, "Ozpin, the girl, I can explain-"
Ozpin, silver hair hipster, rose his hand, "You brought one of your machines into my academy. She could have set up unresolved subplots that were turned into wasted time if she only existed to be a plot point."
Ironwood rose his eyebrow, "What?"
"Nevermind. Let's just take care of this."
-Dorm Room-
Ruby was kneeling on the floor crying, "Whyyyy?"
Yang opened the door, "Ruby, are you okay-"
Jaune busted into the room, "Get over it! I lost my kinda sorta girlfriend!"
Ruby stood up and smiled, "Okay!"
Wow. Got a little disturbing on that last bit, didn't I?
Overview: A good character, but her death wasted all of the potential for interesting conflict.
Let me start this by saying I like Penny. I do. She's got an interesting backstory, a likeable personality, cool abilities, some pretty funny moments, and was an actually important character to the story.
What makes me think that she was wasted was her death came before her character arc reached a good conclusion. If Ironwood had agreed to let Penny stay in Beacon like she wanted to, then I think that her death would have made more of a personal impact.
Don't get me wrong, her death was probably the only scene in the entire show to get an emotional reaction from me and is probably the best scene in the show. But, the whole 'Penny wanting to stay in Beacon' thing felt like it could have been an interesting subplot.
Granted, they probably wouldn't have focused on it if they did, (Because we really needed to spend more time with JNPR) but it would have actually been an interesting thing.
Think about how much more soul crushing it would have been for Penny to have gotten this huge happy turn in her life, only to die, because of Pyrrha and Emerald.
But nnnnnooooo, we instead get this to be the JNPR show and nobody else but JNPR should be focused on.
I liked her, but thought that her character arc could have been resolved before her death.
I guess you could say that she was a PENNY SPENT.
Next up is the higher up character or the adult characters. I promise that! It will be one hundred perCENT be that.
Lates!
