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FULL NAME: Penelope Mae Lime
AGE: 30
PLACE OF BIRTH: Northampton, MA, USA
NATIONALITY: American
GENDER: Female
PARENTS: Susan Lime and Alex Lee of Huntington, Massachusetts, both twenty-one at the time of Penelope's birth struggled as young, inexperienced parents do. Alex's upbringing was far rougher than Susan's, who's own family took her and Penelope in without question and helped raise her through the years. Her grandfather, Henry 'Chick' Lime, provided a secure, loving father figure and was always open to helping Alex reconnect and do better, as well.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Penelope has natural blond hair (though she admits using lemon juice for 'highlights' and 'upkeep') and prefers to have it up in pigtails/buns; she has green eyes and stands at 5'6". Regular runs/exercise gives her a good toned physique.
PERSONALITY: Penelope feels and thinks deeply, and is very honest about herself and what she represents. If she takes a job or position within a group she's come to know as 'her people', she will make sure her work represents exactly what was asked for, well past the standard mark to meet.
She sometimes has to recognize problems she herself creates when she becomes too passionate and intense over something others may think isn't that big of a deal. In the end, she simply wants to be understood, while also acknowledging that she can be a 'bit much' at times. Being a natural scientist at heart, she can always come back down to Earth and to her support group she's found in The Real Business.
CHILDHOOD: Grandfather Henry found himself reliving his father-role with Penelope, as he had with her mother Susan. It was something he'd embraced whole-heartedly, giving Penelope a view of what a good, hard-working and loving man looked like. Though he and his wife Helen were technically wealthy, their living a small town life in the Berkshire Hilltowns running the attached barn-business antique shop 'Chick's Curio' their family was seen as 'just like everyone else'. They lived humbly, everyone knowing everyone; the entire town watched Penelope grow up, she and her overalls-wearing grandfather and their wagon full of tools (pickaxes, magnet-lines, etc.) being pulled behind them one of the most common sights to come across. Penelope proved to be an asset for Henry, who discovered that his hyper, always-curious and adventurous granddaughter had a keen scavenger sense, always finding the most interesting of natural treasures. But it'd been the hot summer morning when she'd called her grandfather over to the spot she'd strangely insisted on digging into, coming up with an 1898 silver dollar from nowhere that earned her the title 'Scrapper' at four-years old.
YOUTH: Penelope's main social group was her neighborhood, which was comprised of mostly boys in her age group. Their school provided education to children in the entire county, making for early morning wake-ups to catch the bus she'd ride for over an hour each day.
She'd find herself staring through the bus windows and go trance-like, letting her imagination run wild to pass the time. She created secret cities the bus would suddenly be driving through, the streets full of people from all over the world gathering there for mysterious reasons.
Though she'd start the school day strong and had a few close girlfriends, the distances between them all prevented get-togethers most kids in bigger cities and towns had access to.
When finally home however, she'd find herself with the neighborhood boys (and one little sister of one of them) exploring trails in the woods, or recreating fight scenes from Bruce Lee movies (Penelope's favorite action star). The boys treated her as an equal, especially since she was good at fighting. Growing up, she considered boxing as a hobby, but lost interest quickly when the only possibility of school hosting a girls' team fell flat. She continued practicing, however, enjoying the art of 'Pugilism', where one prefers fighting hands-on, instead of with weapons. After high school, Penelope chose to help with the antique business instead of continuing her education.
Her father Alex had started coming around more during this time, and though Susan struggled with their having the history they did, she welcomed him to the home for Penelope's sake. Penelope didn't find it much of a struggle, understanding that his mistakes had 'nuttin' at all to do with me.'
Though the initial dreams she'd had coming into the city changed drastically (and depressingly. having the man she'd come in with leave her in one night, engagement ring left on her shelf), her people were too many reasons she had to keep going. Being around likeminded, hardworking and adventurous people in The Real Business has allowed her to get expressive, loud and inventive in ways former places lived saw as 'too much' and 'weird'.
She'd had a great impression of Ds from the get, seeing him as immediately interesting, complex and goal-oriented as he was. She hadn't even realized that a good friend she'd made, Marcus Winther, had also been in TRB, creating another tie she had with this wild, wonderful grouping. After getting to know a number of others and joining along with business ideas, she had no other choice than to get into the entire jar of mixed nuts and show them what she had to offer, and hasn't regretted her choices in how she herself feels when around people who seem to really honestly and truly value her.