PENELOPE "PENNSYLVANIA" HARRIS

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Nickname/Alias: Penny, Pennie
Gender: Female
Character Type: (State)
Country or Country of Origin: America
Canon or Original: Original
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[/color]:[/b] Reddish
Hair: Green
Height and Weight: 5'7 145
Other Distinguishing Features: Green hair is fairly distinguishing

Overall Appearance: Penny is a five foot seven girl with short, wavy green hair. Her eyes are a reddish color while her skin is a bit on the pale side. She is typically seen in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt of some sort that shows that she has a figure. The state almost always smiles and generally looks happy with a few changes depending on what she is actually feeling. The girl also usually has leaves in her hair from running and rolling around in the forest.

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[li]Coffee
[/li][li]The Outdoors
[/li][li]Camping
[/li][li]Fishing
[/li][li]Video Games
[/li][li]Climbing trees
Dislikes:
[/li][li]Bees
[/li][li]Getting involved in Wars
[/li][li]Horror Movies
[/li][li]Poison Ivy/Oak/Sumac
[/li][li]Gettysburg
[/li][li]Being stuck indoors
Strengths:
[/li][li]Dependable
[/li][li]Adventurous
[/li][li]Knowledge of Nature
Weaknesses:
[/li][li]Gettysburg - If she goes here it sets her off to the point of a mental time bomb. The death toll she faced here messed her up pretty bad
[/li][li]Bees - She fell out of a tree onto a hive of them once.
[/li][li]Horror Movies - She tries to pretend she isn't scared and watch them anyway.
[/li][li]Caffeine - She is addicted to it and eventually crashes hard.
Fears:
[/li][li]Angry Bees
[/li][li]Her Darker Side
[/li][li]Gettysburg
Secrets:
[/li][li]She keeps her darker self a secret
[/li][li]She tries to keep the Horror Movie thing a secret
Any Quirks/Habits:
[/li][li]Jumps in all piles of leaves/puddles
[/li][li]Collects Pressed Flowers
[/li][li]Bounces when Caffeinated
Overall Personality: Penny is a generally happy state and is always smiling. The smile changes slightly depending on what she is actually feeling, but not too much. She does her best to push other emotions away and lock them inside. In order to have fun she tends to jump into piles of leaves and puddles not caring whether she gets dirty or not because it's more important to have fun. Which gives her a slightly childish nature, but she wasn't really a child ever so she's living it out now. She had to grow up fast to end up in several wars after all.

When she bottles up her emotions it is like a ticking time bomb. It isn't exactly easy to set her off, but if it happens watch out. She tends to get relatively violent and sadistic. The stain of what happened at the Battle of Gettysburg warped her fairly bad. The amount of bloodshed she had to cause and witness left a permanent mark on her and her sanity. So there are times when her smile will seem a little off and it's a pretty good sign something hit her crazy button. It's relatively dangerous to be around her at this point too.

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Penelope was technically founded when William Penn bought the land, but the Indians had been there before that. The only difference was that he bought it as a large area of land, and they weren't unified troops of Indians. When she was made a providence she came to be. She was given a frame of government, and became a governed land. After that immigrants started flooding to the land to avoid wars, religious prosecution, or other reasons. The first war she was in was the Colonial Wars. She was fairly defenseless at the time, so France had no problem taking over half of her for a time, and after a massacre of a battle and then a few others she was completely reclaimed by England.

The peace didn't last too long though, because not too long after the Revolution started. At this point she was definitely old enough to pass for a soldier and dressed as a boy to do so. She wanted to help fight for the freedom they sought. The girl even held the capital at the time, and thus was around somewhere when they were signing the Declaration of Independence and creating the Articles of Confederation. The state took part in as many battles as she could during the Revolution to do her part, but also got quite a few injuries between battles and raids from the British and Indians. Despite this, she still fought her hardest. During this PA had it's own revolution and redid it's form of government to function better. Then the Articles were scrapped and they were back in Philadelphia to write a better form of government. She watched, but didn't really do anything.

Soon after the Civil War started, and she was quite involved in this one too. She helped defend some of the northern states and her economic strength at the time definitely helped. Thus she once again pretended to be a man to fight for the freedom of people. Unfortunately for her, she ended up in the Battle of Gettysburg. The death tool she created and saw warped her. She had no idea what to even do about it though, and so she just pushed it down and kept fighting. Such thing did not help in the slightest as it turned her into a bit of a ticking time bomb. All she wants to do is forget, but she will never be able to because such a thing just never goes away. She didn't discover the true effect doing this had on her until World War Two.

One in every seven soldiers was from Pennsylvania, and so she had gone over to fight too. What she realized though, was that her bottled emotions were released and she became violent. Horribly violent with no mercy and a vaguely sadistic side. It, scared her slightly to be honest and so she pushed it back down. It wasn't healthy to do so, but at this point what could she do? The damage had been done, and probably no amount of therapy would be able to fix her. That battle had made her insane, and she stopped talking about it and instead turned her attention to other things.

After world war two she didn't participate as much in other battles. She didn't want to set herself off and end up needlessly inflicting pain on those that did not deserve it. Instead she worked on what she portrayed on the outside, and did her best to become happier. She started acting more like a child rather than the adult she technically was. The girl didn't have much of a childhood, and so now uses it to appear as happy as can be. She's gotten to the point where she can pass as relatively normal if not a little hyper when she drinks too much coffee.

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