of all lost characters penny might be the one I'm most willing to lie to myself about. sometimes I'll see posts talking about how her writing is very flat/she's just not interesting and I experience about 4 seconds of blind rage before I remember that the writers themselves simply were not interested in her as her own character beyond Love Interest and it actually is not invalid to find her a very flat/one-note character. but I will continue to make shit up about her anyways