Penink the Ink Pen - info
The embodiment of ART
A fountain pen is a generally, high-quality writing instrument It's challenging to used…but in the hands of someone skilled, it can create something truly beautiful with it unique strokes.
Family: Stationery Gender: (Fountain) Pen (it/its … but you can call it whatever you like) Blood type: Ink
Penink is a narcissistic perfectionist. Extremely sensitive. Prone to mood swings because it “feeds” on those emotions to create art. Delusional at times, with impossibly high standards and a fragile ego. It wants its work to be both excellent and recognized.
It often falls into depressive moods (like how many artists do. When artists dwell in painful memories and emotions, they have to relive that negativity to capture it fully, to express it accurately.)
For Penink, ink is (the symbol of) emotion. The more emotion there is, the more it spills. It’s fuel. Ink can be used to write or to draw and it will flow out regardless. So Penink chooses to turn that overflow into art instead.
However, like a fountain pen, it is extremely sensitive to pressure. Push too hard and the nib cracks. Sometimes the ink simply leaks uncontrollably; sometimes the tip explodes entirely.
Ironically, it also pressures itself constantly. It demands perfection even though perfection in art is impossible, since beauty is subjective.
Penink is Sketchbook’s younger sibling. In the Creative episode, it acts as a secondary teacher (at the off screen) ruining Yellow’s drawing with ink...
Because it knows sketch is precise. Strict. Maybe that’s why she gets along so well with Tony.
(It secretly like "let get creative" Incident because it feels like expressing "vent art")
As the younger sibling, it tries to follow in Sketchbook’s successful footsteps but can never quite become what it wants to be.
Sketch instilled perfectionist ideals into it, forcing it into rigid standards until it lost confidence in itself. It worries deeply about others’ opinions. Yet it has a high ego and hates criticism. If criticized, it will snap back first …then cry alone afterward.
Because even if people say, “There is no right or wrong in art,” reality says, “I’ll reject your work if it’s not what the audience wants.” That contradiction makes everything feel meaningless. And if it’s worth nothing, why create at all? So it obeys the demand ...because it wants acceptance.
It believes imperfect things should be eliminated, not shown to an audience. That’s why it often scribbles over and destroys works it deems not good enough. It produces a large amount of art but destroys just as much. So what the audience actually sees is only a fraction of what it has made.
Penink has a non-consensual “friendship” (coworkers!!!) with Briefcase (Job).
It hates Briefcase …especially when he teams up with Tony (Time). Tony also act like he is it's strict parent with sketch and that's even worse because Penink works according to mood "Artistic temperament" so its time management is terrible. It constantly feels like it’s dying under pressure. Deadlines are suffocating.
And yet, they must work together. Everything needs visuals. Everything needs art. So it’s always overloaded.
It likes dark humor. It “breaks” many times (and others blame it for "over reacting") but always returns when the story needs it.
With others, it generally mirrors how it’s treated as long as the topic hasn’t shifted to work or art. Once it does, things get complicated.
About Art Episode [wip]
About "In the LOVE of ART" Penink x Shrignold relationship [wip]
