I want Penny and Oscar to bond over their weird parallel identity situations
Penny: Part of your soul is an old man?
Oscar: Uh, well, it’s kind of complicated, but pretty much, I guess.
Penny: Me too! We have SO much in common!
Oscar: Well, it isn’t really “my soul” technically? It was kind of passed onto me as part of some ancient magic lineage.
Penny: Oh, I have that, too!
Oscar: You have the soul of a magic old man?
Penny: Well, my father gave me a part of his aura to build me, and now part of the Winter Maiden lives on inside of me. But it is still my soul. Does that make sense?
Oscar: Huh... yeah. Yeah, I think it does. How... how did you get to be so confident about that? Do you ever worry you’re not... you?
Penny: I used to. It is hard trying to be a normal girl when you know you are not. But even so, I am not my father, and I am not Ms. Fria. They are part of me, just like all of my friends are! My soul and my aura were given to me, but I have learned that that does not matter.
Oscar: Your soul is your own. Wherever it came from, it comes from you now.
Penny: Exactly! You too, Oscar. Your soul is just as much your own as mine, or Ruby’s, or anyone else’s! Just because our souls are a bit abnormal doesn’t make us any less real.
Oscar: Penny, you have no idea how much I needed to hear that.