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Kalos

Born to two rather busy parents, Penelope grew up virtually alone. Not unloved, just alone. Her father's research and her mother's ranger work kept them both occupied and Penny was forced to find her own means of entertaining herself, usually finding enjoyment in her mother's old music, or playing with the Pokemon her father was studying with the latter allowing her some brief time with her father as he documented evolutionary changes in Pokemon due to environment or circumstance.[break]
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It's of note that Penelope lived rather well. As the only child of two fairly successful parents, the little girl grew up wanting for virtually nothing, outside from more attention from her parents. Of course, not all was well within her home, as her father's tendency to use his daughter to prove his hypotheses was a constant point of contention for her parents, her mother seeing Pokemon more as poorly tamed wild beasts than companions contrasted greatly from her lover's view that they were one of the world's few remaining biological mysteries. It wasn't uncommon for Penny to catch the heated end of her parents arguments, only to wonder why they had so much time to yell at eachother, and yet so little time to spend with her.[break][break]
She was fortunate enough to bring her love of dance to their attention, and she would come to be enrolled at a local school of performance arts which honed her talent and passion into a host of frankly remarkable skills, namely for dance and gymnastics, where she had learned to blend her instinctive rhythm with hard learned, refined movements. This was the majority of her life, her personality still left her very reserved in social interactions and her demure, shy approached rarely helped her make friends. Combined with her somewhat sheltered lifestyle the girl had precious few friends beyond her instructors.[break][break]

Hoenn

Spending nineteen years living in the Kalos region, Penelope found herself uprooted by her father. In further pursuit of his research he moved his family to the Hoenn region. She hadn't made too many friends in Kalos, mostly passing acquaintanceships with the children of her parents friends, and a small hand full of classmates whom she always was quite shy around if she were not performing. However, over the following years she would come out of her proverbial shell. Penny had always desired the attention of her parents, who even after showing excellence in her classes had always seemed to be too busy to attend a recital, and as her head was beginning to fill with all sorts of rebellious thoughts the blossoming beauty took up a popular alternative to the Pokemon League founded in Hoenn, and became a contest coordinator. Borrowing some Pokemon from her father the girl took off on a journey of her own, despite her mother's protests.[break][break]
She preformed very well, as to be expected. Few coordinators at the basic to intermediate levels had half her talent, fewer still her years of professional training, and since she had little interest in the Pokemon league challenge, she wasn't quite able to go beyond these levels. Still, she made some worthwhile friends and began to become her own person. The attention she had been craving from her parents slowly became progressively less important, replaced by a desire to find a life of her own.[break][break]
She adopted a more liberal school of thought as she continued to grow, interacting with so many different sorts of people, ultimately joining an elderly trainer on his Pokemon league challenge. This offered her the opportunity to enter the more advanced contests, which she gladly took full advantage of. Eventually their journey would come to an end in their respective failures. Hers at lilicove, where she underestimated her competition and his at evergrande, where he simply couldn't continue. The two had spent a lot of time together, enough so that a relationship of sorts grew between them. Needless to say over time she began to adopt his philosophy on life, as it resonated with her in a way nothing else really had. "Everything happens for a reason".[break]
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It was also not long before her father would reach out to inform her they were moving again, this time without her mother. As it so happens, the ranger was quite sick of being forced to uproot herself and opted to stay in Hoenn. She did however urge Penny to stay with her father. Despite his distant and pragmatic nature, she was worried he wouldn't know what to do without someone around. So Penelope promised she would stay with him.[break][break]

Sinnoh

True to her word, Penny moved to Sinnoh with her father. Three years worth of relationships left behind in Hoenn. She's kept up with her passion and has done to her best to keep in contact with her old friends as she assists her father in his continued research into the questions of evolution, spending the last year or so tending to Pokemon and running errands for him. She's a made a few friends who have intoduced her to the idea of of a better "chill" world. Where everyone can just get along, and that idea has appealed enough to her to peak her interest.