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Penelope Gorgon || Twenty Seven Debt Collector || Non Magical She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes. "Don't make me laugh, I'll choke"

[penelope-gorgon]

sophisticatedgrce‌:

Anna laughed, mentally smacking herself for doing that. Way to make things more awkward. “I uh..Did you paint it yourself? It looks handmade! Which is the cutest!” She wasn’t sure how to stop herself at this point and she wanted to apologize for it, but she knew that would start a completely new ramble. “Someone like me? A mess of a girl? I dunno, you were probably better off with a normal person or something like that! I mean I am totally normal but not 100% normal so I guess that’s a downside…..I’m gonna stop.” She held out the phone. “Please take it.”

“Oh, yeah. I did.” Penelope looked down at her feet, trying to hide the blush of embarrassment on her face. People weren’t supposed to actually look at the stuff she did. She had just been bored and that’s how her phone case ended up the way it did. “I don’t know if it’s really that cute, but thanks?” Why was it so hard for her to accept a compliment? Well at least she thought it was a compliment. She reached out and carefully took the phone from the girl, checking to make sure she hadn’t broken it when she must have dropped it. Luckily for her, it was functioning. A broken phone was not an excuse for not getting back to Hades. “No, no. Trust me, you’re fine. I mean you seem fine? You’re not... not normal? Ugh.” Penelope pressed her palm against her forehead. “You could be way more of a mess. I’m sure, I’m living proof.”

[penelope-gorgon]

findingnolan‌:

Nolan’s smile grew bigger once Penelope recognized who he was. “No need to be sorry. Life happens,” he said with a shrug. “My day’s alright. Just left work but I’m out of a car so I’m stuck walking or finding other ways to get to and back.” He let out a sigh. “It’s a bit of a pain somedays. You said you lost your phone though? Do you remember where you last had it?”

“I guess. Life just… isn’t kind sometimes is it?” She laughed again but it was a bit sadder, only for a second. “Oh, no. That sucks. I remember that when I was younger. Though I like to walk places just for the fresh air or for something to do. Maybe it’ll be good for you in the long run? Just be sure to protect yourself.” Penelope pulled her lip between her teeth, worrying it for second before replying. “A few blocks back I checked it for a text but other than back at my apartment, that was the last time.”

[penelope-gorgon]

sophisticatedgrce‌:

Anna liked to think she great at finding lost things. They seemed to just show up in her person somehow, as if by magic, and she took that a sign for something good. Like she was supposed to make a new friend today. So when a phone appeared near her bag as she was sitting down for a moment to gather her things, she knew she had to find the person it belonged to right away. it could easily be the person for her and she wanted to make a good impression. But as she tried to figure out who’s phone it was, she spotted a very stressed out looking woman and knew what she had to do. “Hey. Sorry. Anna, here…wait…you don’t know that. Anyways, I was doing nothing and saw this phone and I thought wow it is stylish, must be yours?”

“...What?” Penelope was taken off guard and pulled back as the woman approached her but quickly let the tension bleed out of her shoulders. It didn’t look like she would hurt her and as she looked closer she recognized the sunflowers and roses on the phone case. “Yes. Uh thank you. It’s my phone. I’ve been looking all over for it.” She sighed.”I don’t know anything about being stylish though. I guess I got lucky someone like you found it.”

[penelope-gorgon]

findingnolan‌:

Nolan’s smile grew bigger once Penelope recognized who he was. “No need to be sorry. Life happens,” he said with a shrug. “My day’s alright. Just left work but I’m out of a car so I’m stuck walking or finding other ways to get to and back.” He let out a sigh. “It’s a bit of a pain somedays. You said you lost your phone though? Do you remember where you last had it?”

“I guess. Life just... isn’t kind sometimes is it?” She laughed again but it was a bit sadder, only for a second. “Oh, no. That sucks. I remember that when I was younger. Though I like to walk places just for the fresh air or for something to do. Maybe it’ll be good for you in the long run? Just be sure to protect yourself.” Penelope pulled her lip between her teeth, worrying it for second before replying. “A few blocks back I checked it for a text but other than back at my apartment, that was the last time.”

[penelope-gorgon]

findingnolan‌:

Nolan hadn’t expected to see anyone he knew on his way home. He was a bit tired and just wanted to go take a nap. And he was sick of not having a car. The mechanic had said something about some part that blew out and it would be better just to buy a new car than get one fixed. So, he was stuck with walking, public transport, or Ubers. He’d mostly been walking if the distance was short enough but come summer he knew he wouldn’t be able to take the heat. So he was doing his best to save up. He was about to say hello to Penelope until he realized she was frustrated about something. “Lose something?” he asks, offering a friendly smile. “Long time no see.”

“My phone? I must have dropped it as I was walking.” Penelope paused. The voice made her stop searching and turn to face them, not recognizing their voice in the moment. Though it was clear who he was as soon as she saw his face. Laughing a bit, in spite of herself, she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. “Hi Nolan. It’s been a while hasn’t it. Sorry about that.” Really it was for his own good. But she wouldn’t say that out loud. She dug the tip of her shoe into the sidewalk beneath her. “How’s your day been going? Better than mine I’d guess.”

[penelope-gorgon]

Of course she would drop it. That was just her luck really. Penelope pushed her palm against her forehead and tried to will herself to relax. Hopefully it hadn’t been missing for too long. It would be easy to find. Right? Or maybe not so much. She had been walking down the sidewalk when she thought to double check her shopping list for what she needed, making sure she hadn’t forgotten anything which was just a nervous habit of hers, when she realized that her phone was no longer in her pocket. So that was what had lead her to retracing her steps thoroughly to, hopefully, find it. “Okay, it’s not that hard. It should just be sitting out. Unless someone took it. Oh, I’m not gonna be able to find it.”

[penelope-gorgon]

wideoceanspaces‌:

Ariel hummed for a moment in thought, staring back at the fish as they swam around. “Well, yeah… How cool would that be though if we could? I wonder what they do think about.” She smiled at the girl. “I don’t know, just a thought. Maybe one day we’ll find out.”

“I’ve never really thought about that? Do they actually have short memories? Hmmm. There’s a lot of good things that could come with being able to know what they think about... maybe.” Penelope shrugged. It would be a really interesting thing but she wasn’t sure she’d want to have that kind of power. Especially if it was magic. No way. “Possibly, though it could open a pandora’s box as well.”

[penelope-gorgon]

vivacissimos‌:

“Oh,” Magda says, smiling, “is there a usual title? Do you usually read The Bard or is there another genre altogether?” She checks the state of the book, turning it over and finding no flaws with the spine, binding, or pages, and casual marks the book in her own and sets it on the cart. “It’s funny. Sometimes I’ll see a patron walk in and I can tell the moment they set foot in the building which book they want. Sort of… like regulars at a coffee shop? Except, a different kind of consumption. Words, this time. I like it. It’s quaint, but in a calm way.” 

“Not particularly, though I do like his works quite a lot. They make me think quite a bit more than others. I’m not the best at old English but I manage.” Penelope sighs in relief, seeing that the book seemed to be fine and not really damaged in any way. “Oh? I’ve never really been good at reading people. I can tell when people have… not the best intentions. But other than that, I’ve never been a people person. But I assume that’s a very handy kind of skill to have.”

[penelope-gorgon]

wideoceanspaces‌:

Ariel stared at the fish as they swam through the tank. She always thought they were quite cute, even though they weren’t as cuddly as a dog she found their little fins to be adorable. Being as social as she always was she spoke to the person standing beside her. “Do you think all that about fish forgetting what the front of their tank looks like by the time they swim back around is true?”

Penelope’s heart almost jumped out of her chest at the sound of the red head’s voice. She hadn’t even noticed that she was standing there. “Uh, I don’t know? I don’t know a whole lot about fish. I mean, their thoughts and stuff.” She coughed to clear her throat a bit. “I had someone who used to tell me all about fish. I don’t think he ever mentioned that fact though. Sorry.” She shrugged her shoulder with a small smile.

[penelope-gorgon]

vivacissimos‌:

“The first rule of the library? Don’t shove books back haphazard, thank you very much.” Magdalene stands by the library cart, in the process of checking books back into the stacks and holding one of those old fashioned books for bookkeeping and cataloguing. Her voice isn’t angry, or even upset. Rather, she sounds good-humoured about it. Magda’s used to it by now. Or rather, Mona is. Even though she’s got the name printed on a small name tag, it still might take a time or two for her to answer to it. She holds out her hand, “I’ll take it if you’re done with it. Name of the book, please?”

The voice startles Penelope, so caught up in her own thoughts that she hadn’t realized someone was approaching. She jumped a little, pulling the book close to her chest out of reflex. “Oh- I’m sorry. I didn’t even realize I was being too forceful.” Her arms uncrossed with the book in on hand, delicately handing it over. She could tell the voice wasn’t angry which tamped down her anxiety. It was unusually low because the library was quiet and she was stuck in her own mind. Well she was until this very moment. “It’s A Midsummer Night's Dream. I decided on a different title.”

[penelope-gorgon]

-- Penelope Gorgon, age Twenty-Seven, Non-Magical, working as a Debt Collector

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

Here’s some headcanons for my gloomy soft hearted girl!

-- Even though Penelope sees her life as a series of failures the biggest one in her mind is the fact that she never finished high school. That she never got to graduate. She’s not stupid by any means, she’s actually quite smart if she would only believe in herself a little more. She never takes anything for herself and this is the one thing that still eats away at her. There are online classes and things but she doesn’t know if she could handle the stress of it all.

-- Penelope has a love of literature both new and classical. She doesn’t really care what they are about, though she does have a preference to fiction. It’s a way to let her mind wander and not worry about the mess her life has become. Shakespeare is one of her favorites, especially in old English. It’s more of a challenge but she welcomes it.

-- She avoids almost all drugs. Even prescription ones. The most she takes is aspirin for a headache or medicine for an upset stomach. She knows it would be easy to get medication for her anxiety but she’s afraid of what could happen if she has a bad reaction to it. To her it’s a slippery slope in her mind and she would just rather avoid it all together.

-- For her own safety and to calm her nerves a bit, she’s taken classes in Krav Maga. She’s by no mean’s an expert or even well studied in it but she knows enough to protect herself when it comes down to it. It makes her feel just a small bit better. But if she wasn’t so nervous she would go back for more classes but for now she’s good with what she’s learned for now.

[penelope-gorgon]

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[waltgrovehq]

Penelope Gorgon || Twenty-Seven || Debt Collector || Non-Magical

🌹Biography:

TW: Drug abuse

Penelope grew up a lot quicker than most girls do. She had a younger half-sister that she had to take care of because their mother had a drug addiction. Neither Penelope or Priscilla knew who their fathers were and their mother likely didn’t know either. Their mom worked enough to pay rent and barely put groceries on the table but that was it. When Penelope was old enough she dropped out of school and got a job full time to support her sister. She worked as a waitress and used all the money she earned to help put food on the table and clothes on their back. Having a lot of cash on hand from tips also meant that her mother would steal from her a lot. It was a stressful situation but the minute she turned eighteen Penelope got her own apartment and took her sister with her. She wanted Priscilla to have a better life and go to college. She truly believed her sister had a chance in the world.

Then along came Hades. One of the two girls were bound to get caught up in trouble with a drug addict as a mother. Penelope was not prepared for the day that it came though. Priscilla had always been…sadistic. Penelope blew it off though. The younger of the two often got in fights at school and had been caught with a knife before too. Priscilla ended up working for the mortician and got herself in trouble. Hades was a deal maker and very manipulative. Priscilla had made a deal with him and when she got caught in a bind she went to Penelope. Penelope had a lot of anxiety growing up so this was not a good situation for her. She dealt with a lot of stress in her life but that didn’t mean she dealt with it well. Panic attacks were common for her. So, Penelope went to Hades and asked how she could get her sister out of a deal. Hades needed people he could trust and he knew these two sisters would not turn on him if it meant protecting the other.

Hades’ deal was Penelope would work for him. That meant doing anything he asked. It varied from mortician work to collecting debts from people that owed him. The things people owed Hades wasn’t always as simple as money. It was a lot more sinister. Penelope had no choice but to agree. She quickly learned how dark Arendelle could be. She was hanging with a lot of shady people and doing less than illegal things to keep her and her sister’s head off of a silver platter. In truth Penelope is terrified of Hades. She does whatever he says even if that means hurting people. She hates it but she does it for Priscilla. She’s concerned about her sister though. Her sister isn’t afraid of hurting people and Penelope thinks she enjoys it. She wants to get away from Hades one day but she’s afraid that her sister doesn’t and if that’s the truth she isn’t sure what she’s going to do.

🌹Opinions on Magic:

Penelope had never given it a thought until she saw Hades reanimate a dead body. Magic terrifies her and she wants no part of it.

🌹Connections:

Mason Marlin: Penelope met him at the aquarium. They ended up talking and walking around the whole place while he told her about all the fish. It was an unofficial first date. The two ended up dating for a while until Hades made her break things off. 

Hercules Vakalopoulos: Penelope and her sister have been instructed to help Meg with her assignment with Hercules. Penelope doesn’t understand what’s so bad about the guy or why Hades has it out for him but she just does what she’s told.

Dorlene Fischer: The woman is a ray of sunshine and is the ray of light Penelope needs in her life. She sometimes gets frustrated because Dory doesn’t always remember the things they talked about but it’s a small price to pay for a good friendship.

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