full name: penny noelle owen-evans
sexuality: bisexual/biromantic
date of birth: april 20th, 1998
hometown: nashville, tennessee
lives with: sam evans (husband)
occupation: rn; on-campus nurse
label: the philanthropist
relationship with mother: distant
relationship with father: n/a
siblings: jacob owen (33), elliott owen (31), amy owen (25), wendy owen (20)
birth order: middle of five
family financial status: moderate
marital status: married to sam evans
the third illegitimate child of susan owen, but the first girl, penny has always felt something of a responsibility to mother her siblings—whether they're older than her or not. susan was never really around, often working undisclosed jobs or hanging out with whichever guy drew her attention that month, so the self-appointed responsibility fell to penny. with a kind, caring but take-no-BS nature, she was the perfect person for the job—and the perfect candidate for what would go on to be her actual job, too.
determined not to take after her mother and never to have to rely on the attention of a man, marrying her high school sweetheart at the tender age of nineteen was certainly not in penny's life plan, but it happened. in hindsight, the marriage part happened way too soon, wedding planning and navigating life as someone's wife rather than their girlfriend serving as a distraction from school, where penny was studying to become a nurse. at first, she really wasn't a very good one, and dropped out for a while to make money and contribute to a life for her and sam. a headstrong person with firm morals already, penny got very deeply into activism during this time, something she has held onto ever since.
following sam around while he tried to figure out his life made going back to nursing school difficult, but eventually she put her foot down and expressed that she needed to qualify, and her second attempt at nursing school was far more successful. her marriage, however, less so... it wasn't that anything necessarily happened; they'd just married young and the spark wasn't quite there anymore.
it didn't help that while sam wanted children at some point, penny could think of nothing she wanted less. she'd essentially parented her siblings her entire life, she didn't want actual children to parent. she never told sam that, though—rather, she would just avoid the subject or indicate it was something they could look into later on. of course, "later on" keeps being pushed further and further back, and it has been clear for a while now that the two want very different things. still, penny is attempting to work at their marriage while working her first year at nyada as the on-campus nurse. working at the same place her husband studies is a little weird, but she's making the best of it regardless.
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