#penny sylvester

[privellie]

LOCATION: Brody's car.

DATE & TIME: 12/16, afternoon.

OPEN TO: Brody Weston (@privmaxie).

WARNING: While we're skating around the word in the actual content, abortion tw.

It was done. Physically, Penny was uncomfortable, but the relief she felt in knowing it was done, that the thing she'd been so fearful of was no longer growing inside of her, outweighed the discomfort. All of that paled in comparison, however, to how uncomfortable she knew Brody felt, and while the love she'd once felt for him had changed over the years, she still cared about him, she still hated knowing she was ripping out his heart like this. Neither of them had spoken a word since leaving the clinic, and they'd been driving a while already, Penny staring out of the window so as not to have to look at her husband. Eventually, however, the tension in the vehicle became too thick for her to ignore, and she turned toward the driver's side, her heart shattering all over again at the sight of him. "I'm sorry," she finally whispered, because what else was there to say? What was left for them now?

[privellie]

PENNY: My color-coded, alphabetized, divided into sections and fully organized folder? Like I'll ever get rid of that. PENNY: Are you asking me to break it out again? Because, yes! Unless Delilah has her own ideas?

TEXTS 📲 TOMMY & PENNY

TOMMY: Hey! You still got any of your wedding planning stuff left over?

@privellie

[blckbarbree]

📲 BRENNY

BREE: are you still alive? i haven't heard from you in what feels like a decade and now i'm concerned you're dead or kidnapped and if your kidnappers are reading this, don't make me liam neeson your asses @pennysylvester

[privellie]

PENNY: That's my favorite reminder. I love you too. PENNY: Of course you can. You never have to ask permission.

TEXT || JONI + PENNY

JONI: Just here to remind you that I love you. JONI: Can I come and hug you? @privellie

[drlissadangelo]

I need more coffee than I know what to do with and whatever tea you have, because the internet is trying to consume me and your drama is more interesting. @pennysylvester

[rambosjester]

I know I keep saying this but I officially made an oc

Her name is Penny and she’s my first blood oc. She works at the diner in Hope and she takes in John when he comes walking into town. She’s a nice lady 🥹

I feel like she’s very motherly towards him of course and she might be a love interest idk

What ya’ll think??

[westonmedic]

How many times have you been in love?

Just the once, and I married her so it worked out pretty well!! @pennysylvester

[rowrowrowyourmotta]

Mhm. What can I say, I'm a very good read of character... why do you want to try and prove me wrong? Because I happen to be a lover of deep dark secrets...

That's...well. Certainly the assessment. That's the vibe I give off?

[privellie]

📲 PENNY & DANNY

PENNY: Is it too soon for me to try to re-woo Emmy? PENNY: I feel like it's not, right? Brody and I ended, like...a month ago. [...] PENNY: Please validate me. @privlou

[blckbarbree]

closed dash chat for @pennysylvester

Two questions for you. One, does your husband make house calls, no I'm not going to explain it to you because it's embarrassing and I need the firefighter random citizen confidentiality thingy. Question number two, is you place okay after the earthquake? I'd ask if Logan is okay but given his job it would be potentially embarrassing if he wasn't.

[readingwithwrin]

Beard Science by Penny Reid | Book Review

Title: Beard Science Author: Penny Reid Publisher: Cipher-Naught Published Date: July 2021 Genre: Contemporary, Romance Source: Library Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Goodreads Summary: Make a deal with the devil and you might get what you want, but will it be what you need? Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee’s reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual…

[averydunn]

I imagine most animals could be considered wilder than a dog, but okay. You ever seen what a tortoise can do to a wall?

I don't know if animals come wilder than our dog, so thank you for solidifying the idea that I never want to get a pet goat. The destruction of a beagle is nightmare fuel enough.

[privellie]

📲 PENNY & EMMY

PENNY: Hey! I have a proposition for you. PENNY: Well, actually, what are you doing this weekend? @privdana

[ramblings-from-the-ether]

Prohibition AU | Character Profile: Giovanni

The Roaring Twenties is a time of conflict, crime, and chaos—but chaos is opportunity, and the inexplicably salmon-haired Giovanni Potage is a professional agent of it. Currently under Naven’s employ after falling out with a much larger gang, he leads the majority of Bliss Ocean’s soldiers with little other than a vandalised baseball bat, a cooking pot of tricks, and a reckless confidence only matched by his sheer dumb luck and unconventional faculties.

Background.

Giovanni Potage was born to a small immediate family of two mothers in the Chinese diaspora of the US, and close relatives to the legendary crime family known as the Roughhouses. His upbringing was largely informed by honoured family traditions and festive gatherings, the ripples of the Great War overseas, and the growing cultural obsessions of baseball and motorsports in the States. The values of respect, diligence, and unity were deeply instilled in him since childhood, just as much as his taste for brazen rebellion and troublesome aptitude for making a weapon out of anything he could pick up.

Hungry for excitement, surrounded by an extended family versed in crime, and perpetually cruising for a bruising, Giovanni was soon enveloped by a strange aspiration: To become the greatest criminal name in the United States of America. He quickly found himself in a notorious, nationwide criminal group known as the Banzai Blasters, where his natural charisma and unusual, uncanny instincts would soon earn him a small company of deathly-loyal soldiers and an early promotion to captain (and help him to survive the job, at that!)

Giovanni first met Naven by proxy of Molly, who he had befriended early into the Prohibition during an operation gone-awry, and who he proceeded to protect from the chaos of said operation. When the organisational fallout of that night’s events revealed to him the true penny-pinching, dog-eat-dog mentality that suffused the Banzai Blasters’ ranks, Giovanni swiftly left the gang, bringing along his loyal crew of “boys” and a gang-spanning grudge with him. Naven quickly saw the unique assets and potential of the young rogue, and would soon approach him with a new, once-in-a-lifetime job offer. And what kind of aspiring criminal legend could refuse?

Relations.

Though he serves Naven and Bliss Ocean with diligence, Giovanni’s loyalties lie ultimately with his own “boys”. Notable among them is his younger cousin Trixie, of the Roughhouse crime family; as well as the resident foundling, Molly Blyndeff, who he has developed a remarkable compassion for, even serving as a sort of surrogate guardian towards her in her family’s absence. By proxy of the two, he also maintains a somewhat rivalrous acquaintance with Phoenica Fleecity and Dr. Sylvester Ashling.

Within the family’s inner rankings, Giovanni’s almost aggressive amiability—and frankly, his utter lack of social awareness—have also earned him the friendship of the equally-eccentric Rick Shades, the ever-friendly Indus Tarbella, and even a somewhat-amused Zora Salazar. As a largely-amateur criminal, he also admires and is close acquaintances with one Ramsey Murdoch, who has (resignedly) taken to mentoring Giovanni and “making sure the kid doesn’t get himself killed”.

Bliss Ocean Report.

In a business where saying or doing the wrong thing can cost you immeasurably, secrecy and anonymity tend to be valued luxuries; which I suppose is why my colleagues in the underworld find so perplexing my decision to place the notoriously loud, painfully unsubtle Giovanni Potage under my employ. But I do have my reasons, and he does have his traits that set him apart from the common gangster.

Given the young villain’s penchant for making general mayhem, it’s easy to miss just how excellent Giovanni is at making targeted mayhem when he wants to, especially when working in tandem with a team (or a teammate, failing that). Though not necessarily a gifted strategist, Giovanni is a remarkable improviser with seemingly no bounds to his creativity in combat, capable of fashioning life-saving plans out of the most ridiculous of circumstances. His talent with his favourite baseball bat especially is not to be underestimated…although his choice of embellishments for the signature weapon (knives??) can certainly be questionable.

Giovanni also appears to possess some stranger attributes which admittedly interest me somewhat, on top of simply being quite useful. Catastrophe seems to tail the teen wherever he’s directed to create chaos, but no matter the destruction that inevitably befalls the crime scene, he’s never been dragged away with more than a dozen or so scrapes and bruises (and the occasional concussion or dislocated shoulder). Ramsey pins the blame for the damage done on his “lucky” number, 13, which the otherwise-chronically dyscalculic Giovanni keeps count of with a strange obsession. Given his uncanny survivability and tendency to inflict the most devastating attacks at nigh-miraculous moments, I’d argue the accursed number is what’s keeping him alive.

Then there is the matter of…Giovanni’s soup. His soup, which is not only the strongest and spiciest I have ever smelled and tasted of a meal (and seasoned to perfection as far as anyone can attest), but also capable of spontaneous resuscitation, temporary adrenaline production, and sometimes even a minor increase to natural healing. Giovanni has attempted to explain this away as the work of a ‘family recipe’, which explains…well, nothing, and the effects aren’t even always consistent or guaranteed. Nonetheless, he’s never seen without a cooking pot full of it on hand, and he swears it has been a major boon in those missions that come to bullets and blows. I still dare not challenge this claim.

But Giovanni’s greatest asset to us, by far, is his charisma and his compassion. Just during his time working for the Banzai Blasters alone, he’s managed to earn the veritably undying loyalty of six of his peers, largely simply by being true to himself and kind to those around him. He has also taken it upon himself to care for our goddaughter Molly, who I think could benefit from his guidance and infectious confidence more than anyone…despite his criminal aspirations. Giovanni Potage is a chaotic, contradictory character indeed, a wild card to be sure; and personally, I’m almost as eager as I am nervous to see what becomes of his career in Bliss Ocean.

- Naven