#sorry if the phrasing doesnt make sense im posting this at almost 3am after not rlly sleeping last night

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with less than 12 hours to the new episode (I think), I'm gonna say this:

I hope they dont go through with Penny being hacked, but it looks like that's what's going to happen, especially given the scene with Pietro showing that Penny can essentially be overridden

I hope they don't because Penny's whole character arc and... character in general, is this "real girl" message. that she is a robot but she is also a girl, and being a robot doesnt make her inauthentic and doesnt mean she isnt a person. if she gets hacked... that goes against everything her character has been built up to be? what message does that send, that her decisions are her own and she's just as much of a person as anyone else except she can still have her will entirely overridden so ultimately not really?

taking it from the angle of her getting manipulated into turning against RWBY—like Ironwood's been trying to do—would say a lot more about her being a person and making her own decisions rather than diminishing her back down to a robot that can be altered/physically manipulated by other people for their gain (which is what happened to her during the fall, and now is happening again after her character development? this is where I'm hoping that she won't be hacked, considering how this volume is looking to have a lot of parallels to V3 w the Fall of Beacon vs the potential fall of Atlas).

with how Penny's interactions have been going thus far this volume and last, I assume she's currently going through an arc about her making her own decisions, breaking away from what other people are trying to force her into but balancing that with not trying to put everything into her own hands... which her being hacked and literally controlled by someone else where she gets no chance to decide for herself isn't conducive to.