Penny

Penny is a character introduced in Lies as the quaternary antagonist. She has the power to create illusions drawn from the mind of the person being subjected to her illusions. The illusions she creates are effectively impossible for the subject not to believe as being genuine reality. She later becomes insane as a result of her traumatic childhood and immense pain endured from her fall at the end of Lies, and becomes a more significant antagonist.

Description
Penny is a twelve-year-old Chinese Coates student who might have once been pretty, with freckles, a small nose and surprised eyebrows. However, first starvation and then her shattered legs ruined this. She is malicious, sadistic, and insane as a result of very few people caring for her during her childhood.

Power and abilities
Penny has the power to create illusions in the minds of others. The illusions she creates can be effectively anything and are drawn from both her mind and the mind of the person being subjected to the illusions. It is impossible for the person to resist her illusions as she is able to affect their subconsciousness as well.

Her power cannot be resisted or blocked in any way with the only known exception being Lana. As a result of endured trauma and exposure to the Gaiaphage, Lana can identify when she is being subjected to the illusions and thus effectively negate them. Penny can also target herself.

Appearances

 * Before the FAYZ

Before she went to Coates, Penny had a hard life. She has two other pretty sisters and was the middle child. She described herself as "plain old Penny." Her father used to take inappropriate pictures of his oldest daughter Dahlia, and put them on the internet. He stopped when Dahlia began to go through puberty. Penny thought she was next in line, but instead her father skipped to her younger sister Rose. Penny was jealous of the attention her sisters had received and brought her dad's laptop to school to show other kids. The school teachers saw and call the police. Her father was put in jail and her mother's alcoholism got worse as a result. Penny, Dahlia and Rose were sent to live with their Uncle Steve and Aunt Connie, where Dahlia and Rose got all the attention. Penny was again forgotten. Penny then put bleach into Rose's cereal "just to see how pretty she would be with her throat burned out". Penny then got shipped off to Coates Academy. Meanwhile, her father hung himself in the jail cell after being beaten by other inmates. Penny never heard from her sisters or uncle and aunt again. Later on, her mother wrote her one self-pitying Christmas card.

At the start of Lies, she helps Bug retrieve Panda’s dead body after he commits suicide so the Coates kids can eat it. She goes to San Francisco de Sales Island along with the other kids, but is dropped from above a cliff by Caine after he chose to save Diana over her. She survives but both of her legs are shattered which leaves her unable to walk and in excruciating pain. Her loyalty to Cain crumbles, she becomes unstable which evolves into insanity.
 * Lies

In Plague she was cared for by Diana, returning to Perdido Beach with Caine when they are brought back by Quinn.
 * Plague

Penny's legs were healed by Lana. During Caine's rule, she was used to give severe punishment to those who needed to be punished if Caine decided. When Cigar is accused of murder, he is punished by being subjected to Penny's illusions for an entire day. She made him see terrible visions so profound he claws his own eyes out. Before the day is over, Quinn interrupts and then threatens to break Penny's neck if she doesn't stop. Quinn and his fishermen later go on strike demanding that she be exiled from Perdido Beach for her cruel treatment of Cigar. Later she drugs Caine and "plasters" him (a punishment he inflicted on mutants at Coates during Gone) and stapled a tin foil crown on his head (mocking his title "King Caine"). After her public display of Caine backfires, she is banished by Lana. Drake finds Penny while he was bringing Diana to the Gaiaphage. She also made Brianna deliver Diana's baby to the Gaiaphage with her power. Caine later smashes her skull with a slab of cement in revenge. Penny's body is cremated by Sam shortly thereafter.
 * Fear

Relationships
Before her injury, Penny had a crush on Caine. When he let her fall in favor of Diana, her pained and twisted mind turned her feelings into pure hatred. Penny is jealous of Diana because Caine loves her, even though she is constantly insulting him and never useful.
 * Caine Soren

Originally, Penny thought Drake was "just a jerk". In Fear, Penny mentions that, in retrospect, she found Drake more attractive than Caine, who she had grown to resent at this point. Diana comments that, in the mineshaft, Penny was jealous because 'he hadn't introduced her' to the Gaiaphage.
 * Drake Merwin

Penny made herself look like Diana in order to please Turk, and get him to drug Caine.
 * Turk

According to Penny, Howard had his 'own little fantasies'. Sometimes, Howard would help her out, and in return she would make a beautiful vision for him. However, she stops herself before revealing to Turk what she actually does with Howard.
 * Howard Bassem