ペナンス- 可愛すぎる by feather_pen113 [Twitter/X]
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Penance getting a wine aunt shitfaced by the staircase alt costume is great because it stays in line with Penance literally just being someone, everyone else in Siracusano is some sort of power player mk ultra super assassin messenger of the wilderness gods, fully embroiled in a bloodline-defining, family tree-etching shadow war that decides the continued fate of the entire slab of land in which it takes place, vehemence setting the pace and subterfuge playing the melody, cloak & dagger being an essential every day skill, uninvolved people dying to the crossfire so often it doesn’t really matter, Sargonian Agent 47 is there, and in the middle of the highest echelons of this conflict, one can find Lavinia “Let Me Solo Her” Falcone, whose special powers include:
Went to law school
Being a pleasant but firm woman
Harnesses an enigmatic power known as “empathy”, in which the user puts themselves in the shoes of others, an Art unknown to even the brightest minds at Leithenien’s ivory spires.
Kinda doesn’t like it when things aren’t fair.
Penance probably worked retail. She has the unrelenting perseverance and counter-based damage often found in survivors of getting asked to see the manager, and the burst damage windows commonly seen in those who were the manager. Penance played futbol and was probably just a step above dogshit at it. Penance can make extremely good calzones. Penance had zero supernatural ties to the forces that be that she knew of. Penance can forget to hold back and kill a wilderness god in a single wicked strike with her hammer. Penance is nobody. Penance is everyone. Penance is drunk by the staircase. Penance smells of booze and gives good hugs. You like Penance. It’s true.
Fascinated with this Penance skin where I suppose IRIS was given the direction to make a sexy Penance Christmas skin along the direction of Erato's christmas skin but ended up with:
1. Her lying on the stairs
2. Her face completely flushed
3. With a drink in her hand
4. Fully clothed
So instead of 'sexy anime girl pose' it's giving 'drunk aunt passed out at the family Christmas party'