● EIGHTY ONE ● SHIFTER ● FEMALE ● PODCASTER ●
“The beauty of podcasting is that it allows you to share your voice and your message with a global audience.”
Originally from Oklahoma, Penelope was born to a young woman who disappeared from the hospital almost immediately after the baby was born, it was the 40's and times were tough. Despite trying to find her mother, Penelope's mom was long gone, and the medical staff had no choice but to put the little girl up for adoption. When one of the doctors heard what was going to happen, instead of allowing her to go to a group home, he took the baby home to his young wife who had been having a hard time trying to conceive.
Despite Penelope not being her biological baby, the doctor and his wife loved and raised Penelope, they had the perfect family, all until Penelope started to go through puberty. As a doctor, her father explained that she would be going through some changes, and Penelope heeded that until the first time she went through a full moon. While not a werewolf, the call of the full moon pulls weres and shifters alike, and she shifted for the first time in her young life. Her parents were stunned, as was Penelope when she came home the next morning and collapsed on the front porch, naked. Her father found her and wrapped her up in a blanket and took her inside. When she woke up he took her to work with him at the hospital and began to do studies and tests on the confused and scared Penelope.
Another doctor in the hospital was a shifter and he could tell what was going on, recognizing the energy of another shifter, and the signs of a new shifter who had just had their first shift. He sat the family down and explained what had happened to Penelope, and explained that this was something that would happen to her again. Every month she would have to shift, but soon she would be able to control the shift and she could do it whenever. He explained that she would have one animal that she preferred to shift into, but that eventually she'd be able to shift into anything so long as she knew what it looked like.
Over the years, Penelope kept her secret, it was something she and her parents didn't discuss, and she worked as a freelance reporter, she would write articles and answer questions as a columnist but she wanted more. Eventually times began to change, and Penelope fell into podcasting. She found true crime podcasting, and she fell in love with it. Since the Great Reveal, she has focused on Supernatural related stories, she was the first to cover the case of Francis Rowland the supernatural cannibal, and when she heard he'd moved to Saintes, she followed so she could continue to cover his case from a closer distance. Plus it wouldn't hurt to be able to meet new people who were her own kind.
Penelope is an open character, if you think she looks right for you, feel free to fill out the application and submit it here!