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Character Name: Penny Robinson
Series: Lost in Space
Timeline: Season 1, Episode 9
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Character History:
"I, in fact, happen to have some of the best books ever written."
It's the year 2046 and Earth is slowly dying as a result of a meteor impact, dubbed the Christmas Star (aptly named since it struck earth on Christmas night). It was an impact that seemingly took the world by surprise, but with all the technological advances of that age, it shouldn't have, a point made by Penny Robinson's rocket scientist mother, Maureen Robinson. Though Penny is unaware of the broader conspiracy that her own mother begins to suspect and slowly unravel, the angsty teenager is reluctant to leave Earth. They have no choice, not really, with the reality being that their home planet is slowly dying, but Penny isn't behind the idea of leaving home. Regardless, her family is chosen as part of the 24th mission - an elite honor requiring that every member of the family pass rigorous testing to be deemed fit for space travel - to colonize Alpha Centauri, a veritable utopia in space where the human race can start anew.
Penny Robinson is the middle child, with an older sister, Judy Robinson, and a younger brother, Will Robinson. Her parents are on the verge of collapse, her mother having petitioned for divorce, and her father rarely around anymore, ever since the meteor impact (the reason being that he works with the military). While her sister Judy seems to be more cynical towards their father, Penny continues to harbor some hope that he might eventually be more present in their lives. It's a miracle that their mother Maureen allows their father to join them on their mission to colonize Alpha Centauri, but it seems that finally, after a long time apart, the family is back together.
Despite her overall snarkiness about their situation, 16-year-old Penny Robinson is resourceful and useful, traits that prove to serve her entire family well when their ship is attacked and they're forced to escape, crash-landing on an unknown planet far from their intended trajectory. The Robinson family is immediately met with danger and it seems that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. When her older sister becomes trapped in ice and her mother is badly wounded, Penny's father and brother set off for resources to try and help both of them, leaving Penny alone with her dying sister, Judy Robinson, and ailing mother. She cloaks her fear in banter and jokes with her sister until she chides her older sister for talking too much and wasting her oxygen. In the face of uncertainty and the possibility that she might lose her sister in a matter of hours, Penny Robinson takes up the torch and does what needs to be done. She reads to her sister to ease her mind, she performs a complicated medical procedure on her mother to save her leg (with the guidance of her sister), and she never wavers in her determination.
When they ultimately save Judy and Maureen heals from her injuries, the next big task to tackle is escaping from the ice enshrouding their spacecraft. Penny has a lot of work to do, delegated out by both of her parents so they can ensure their craft is fit to fly. However, on top of everything else going on, the Robinson children have to deal with a contentious relationship between their parents. This means that while their parents are at odds and doling out conflicting instructions to Penny, she's trying to do what each of them wants, which frustrates her but she goes along with it. She's not timid, though, and she speaks her mind, but in a joking and sarcastic way by saying, "So which one of you do I need to listen to?"
"This is your daughter. The one who really doesn't want to drive the Chariot off of a cliff right now so if you're there, please come in. [...] Just like bumper cars. Where everybody dies."
Penny's determination remains unwavering as another potentially tragic event looms when her mother, father, and Will are out exploring and it's Penny who sees a bad storm approaching them in the valley. Unable to hail them over their comm devices, she tries to convince Judy that they need to go rescue them together, but Judy - still traumatized over her near death experience in the ice - refuses, assuring Penny that they'll be fine. Penny knows they won't be, and despite not having her license or any experience driving a Chariot vehicle, she takes charge. Armed with only rudimentary driving skills, sheer stubbornness, and a package of Oreos, Penny takes the wheel and sets out into unknown terrain to rescue her family.
As their family eventually escapes the ice and finally meets up with a large group of more survivors, Penny continues to be the down-to-earth one of her family, helping to balance the seriousness of their situation with a sardonic approach, joking oftentimes but never just letting things happen to her. Penny always wants to be part of the action, wants to be doing something, and though she knows she's more ordinary compared to her genius older sister, her prodigy younger brother, and her scientist mother, Penny is the heart of the family. Her family continues to face one bad day after another but Penny handles it in stride, with confidence and self-assurance.
Knowing they were colonizing a new planet and tasked with ensuring the survival of the human race, the soulful Penny Robinson - who's a poet and writer at heart - downloaded all the most lauded written works throughout the history of humanity, from Shakespeare to Hemingway and beyond. When out exploring with her brother and sister, they'd happened upon a cave, and Penny didn't miss an opportunity to make her mark, to ensure that anyone coming after them knew they were there. So, she wrote, "The Robinsons were here." At her sister's questioning about why it mattered, Penny says, "We might be tiny, infinitesimal blips in the universe, but we made it here." In the chaos around them everyday, Penny keeps bringing her family back down to earth, so to speak, by reminding them in those quiet, brief moments that they can still control something, they can still find some good in any crappy situation. In dangerous situations, she may make dark jokes, but she perseveres because she believes that they'll make it, that they'll survive.
Penny is also the most sociable from her family, easily talking to and making friends with other survivors. Her fearlessness in speaking to others means she's also not afraid to speak her mind when she feels that she needs to, or that others need to hear what she has to say. When her father was uncertain how to speak to his son about something that was troubling him, Penny encourages him, albeit teasingly, "Dad, you can talk to him. Just be yourself. Okay, no be yourself but maybe like, 20% nicer." In turn, her father appreciates her candor in most situations, telling one of the other survivors about her and saying, "I love Penny ‘cause she gives me lip, but… she tries harder than anyone will ever give her credit for."
When her mother discovers that they can no longer remain on the planet they had all crash-landed on, all of the survivors have to work quickly to find a way off the planet. Penny jokes around about how they might die, but again - as with all other dire situations - she makes herself useful and doesn't want to just sit around, even when her parents would prefer that she not stick her nose into things. As the adults work together to figure out a way off the planet, Penny's father, John Robinson, and another survivor, Don West, pilot a small craft to get off the planet, to then in turn, get everyone else off the planet. However, the craft they're in seemingly explodes and they assume their father is dead. At the same time, their mother is kidnapped by one of the other survivors, Dr. Smith, and so the Robinson kids are currently on their own. They have two immediate goals: find their mother and save her, and figure out a way off the planet because they're nearly out of time.
In the midst of all this, Will accidentally figures out that a rock he'd grabbed from the cave they'd explored isn't a rock, it's actually "petrified super poop," essentially animal waste. They figure out that they'll be able to convert this waste into energy and use it to power their crafts off the planet. While Judy hatches a plan to save their mother, Penny and Will join a group of survivors to explore the cave and collect enough waste needed for fuel. As they explore the cave, Penny proclaims, "We are literally full of shit," and as they turn a corner, that's when she'll arrive in Wonderland.
Abilities/Special Powers: Penny is just an ordinary (but badass) human with no special powers.
Third-Person Sample:
Being in Wonderland means that she's literally lost, again, but this time completely displaced from her family. She's had periods of time when she's been separated from her family, sure, especially since crash-landing on that doomed planet, but never like this, never for so long, and never without a single shred of hope to cling to. But Penny Robinson doesn't give up that easily, oh no. She might be stuck in some bizarro place with people from different times and different worlds, but if she could get pulled here for no reason out all without any explanation, then it's just as reasonable to assume that her family could end up here, too. So, she's resolved to look at this whole situation as a sort of pioneering adventure. She's the first of her family to be here but she won't be the last.
After a little pep talk to herself, she even begins to think of this as a unique opportunity. This is uncharted territory because she's never really been the first of her family to do anything. So, after she settles into a room, she really embraces making the space her own. God, it's been a while since she got to do this and you know what? She's gonna enjoy it. A room all to herself with a lot of space (compared to a small room on a ship with cramped quarters), a closet that gives her almost anything she wants? This isn't as bad as it could be. It's not great that she's here, that she can't be with her family and help them, but she'll make the most of it at least. Her thoughts wander to her dad a lot, mostly because as far as she knew, he was dead. He would have been suspicious of this place, and so would her mom and Judy. Will probably would have been excited to explore, and honestly all of them would have been grateful for more space, for a place to rest for a little while that wasn't about to kill them. Well. Not entirely true, from what she hears. But at this point in her mind, anything is better than constant danger.
After settling into her room, Penny can't wait to explore the library. She's a total bookworm and an aspiring author, so this is her happy place. Honestly, she never thought she'd see a library again at all. When she's old enough, she'd love to build her own library on Alpha Centauri, maybe. But who knows where they'll really end up now. It's hard to think about that right now, all the what-ifs and unknowns on the horizon. So right now, in a small corner of the library, she doesn't think. She shuts out everything else and curls up with a good book for a few hours.
First-Person Sample:
[ The last thing she remembers is being with Will, exploring the shit cave. No, really, actual shit. So, being here at all makes no sense, she has no memory of how she got here, why she's here, who or what brought her here. All of these people are total strangers. It makes literally no sense that she's here at all. This has to be some kind of crazy hallucination, right? She spends a few hours laying low, scoping the place out, exploring and trying to figure out what she can on her own. So many are just...going about their lives like nothing is wrong at all. There's a kitchen, a diner, an actual pool?? Objectively, it's a normal-ish place, which means, this is all very, very wrong. At least if her family was here, they could...figure this out together.
For a moment, there's a pang because her family doesn't include her dad now. Or does it? Will had been so hopeful, but both she and Judy were more pragmatic. Was there a chance?
Right now, though, she has to deal with where she currently is, which is stuck in some weird place. ]
So, hey, I was wondering how long it usually takes for someone's family to show up here with them?
[ Totally chill. Calm. She's really worried about her family, but admitting that out loud on the device would mean it's potentially being recorded and she can't betray her cool exterior completely. ]
There's five of us altogether. [ Dammit. Again. ] Four of us. Sort of. We were on a ship and we- [ She stops herself abruptly. ] You know what, not important right now, right? I'm trapped here and here is apparently some weird pocket dimension between time and space, am I on the right track?
Random shout-out to whoever kidnapped us, though: I'm digging the closets. Unlimited Oreos? Totally cool. Also laced with something to brainwash me probably but at least I'm going down happy.
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Other Characters:
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startingpointCharacter Name: Penny Robinson
Series: Lost in Space
Timeline: Season 1, Episode 9
Canon Resource Link: LINK
Character History:
It's the year 2046 and Earth is slowly dying as a result of a meteor impact, dubbed the Christmas Star (aptly named since it struck earth on Christmas night). It was an impact that seemingly took the world by surprise, but with all the technological advances of that age, it shouldn't have, a point made by Penny Robinson's rocket scientist mother, Maureen Robinson. Though Penny is unaware of the broader conspiracy that her own mother begins to suspect and slowly unravel, the angsty teenager is reluctant to leave Earth. They have no choice, not really, with the reality being that their home planet is slowly dying, but Penny isn't behind the idea of leaving home. Regardless, her family is chosen as part of the 24th mission - an elite honor requiring that every member of the family pass rigorous testing to be deemed fit for space travel - to colonize Alpha Centauri, a veritable utopia in space where the human race can start anew.
Penny Robinson is the middle child, with an older sister, Judy Robinson, and a younger brother, Will Robinson. Her parents are on the verge of collapse, her mother having petitioned for divorce, and her father rarely around anymore, ever since the meteor impact (the reason being that he works with the military). While her sister Judy seems to be more cynical towards their father, Penny continues to harbor some hope that he might eventually be more present in their lives. It's a miracle that their mother Maureen allows their father to join them on their mission to colonize Alpha Centauri, but it seems that finally, after a long time apart, the family is back together.
Despite her overall snarkiness about their situation, 16-year-old Penny Robinson is resourceful and useful, traits that prove to serve her entire family well when their ship is attacked and they're forced to escape, crash-landing on an unknown planet far from their intended trajectory. The Robinson family is immediately met with danger and it seems that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. When her older sister becomes trapped in ice and her mother is badly wounded, Penny's father and brother set off for resources to try and help both of them, leaving Penny alone with her dying sister, Judy Robinson, and ailing mother. She cloaks her fear in banter and jokes with her sister until she chides her older sister for talking too much and wasting her oxygen. In the face of uncertainty and the possibility that she might lose her sister in a matter of hours, Penny Robinson takes up the torch and does what needs to be done. She reads to her sister to ease her mind, she performs a complicated medical procedure on her mother to save her leg (with the guidance of her sister), and she never wavers in her determination.
When they ultimately save Judy and Maureen heals from her injuries, the next big task to tackle is escaping from the ice enshrouding their spacecraft. Penny has a lot of work to do, delegated out by both of her parents so they can ensure their craft is fit to fly. However, on top of everything else going on, the Robinson children have to deal with a contentious relationship between their parents. This means that while their parents are at odds and doling out conflicting instructions to Penny, she's trying to do what each of them wants, which frustrates her but she goes along with it. She's not timid, though, and she speaks her mind, but in a joking and sarcastic way by saying, "So which one of you do I need to listen to?"
Penny's determination remains unwavering as another potentially tragic event looms when her mother, father, and Will are out exploring and it's Penny who sees a bad storm approaching them in the valley. Unable to hail them over their comm devices, she tries to convince Judy that they need to go rescue them together, but Judy - still traumatized over her near death experience in the ice - refuses, assuring Penny that they'll be fine. Penny knows they won't be, and despite not having her license or any experience driving a Chariot vehicle, she takes charge. Armed with only rudimentary driving skills, sheer stubbornness, and a package of Oreos, Penny takes the wheel and sets out into unknown terrain to rescue her family.
As their family eventually escapes the ice and finally meets up with a large group of more survivors, Penny continues to be the down-to-earth one of her family, helping to balance the seriousness of their situation with a sardonic approach, joking oftentimes but never just letting things happen to her. Penny always wants to be part of the action, wants to be doing something, and though she knows she's more ordinary compared to her genius older sister, her prodigy younger brother, and her scientist mother, Penny is the heart of the family. Her family continues to face one bad day after another but Penny handles it in stride, with confidence and self-assurance.
Knowing they were colonizing a new planet and tasked with ensuring the survival of the human race, the soulful Penny Robinson - who's a poet and writer at heart - downloaded all the most lauded written works throughout the history of humanity, from Shakespeare to Hemingway and beyond. When out exploring with her brother and sister, they'd happened upon a cave, and Penny didn't miss an opportunity to make her mark, to ensure that anyone coming after them knew they were there. So, she wrote, "The Robinsons were here." At her sister's questioning about why it mattered, Penny says, "We might be tiny, infinitesimal blips in the universe, but we made it here." In the chaos around them everyday, Penny keeps bringing her family back down to earth, so to speak, by reminding them in those quiet, brief moments that they can still control something, they can still find some good in any crappy situation. In dangerous situations, she may make dark jokes, but she perseveres because she believes that they'll make it, that they'll survive.
Penny is also the most sociable from her family, easily talking to and making friends with other survivors. Her fearlessness in speaking to others means she's also not afraid to speak her mind when she feels that she needs to, or that others need to hear what she has to say. When her father was uncertain how to speak to his son about something that was troubling him, Penny encourages him, albeit teasingly, "Dad, you can talk to him. Just be yourself. Okay, no be yourself but maybe like, 20% nicer." In turn, her father appreciates her candor in most situations, telling one of the other survivors about her and saying, "I love Penny ‘cause she gives me lip, but… she tries harder than anyone will ever give her credit for."
When her mother discovers that they can no longer remain on the planet they had all crash-landed on, all of the survivors have to work quickly to find a way off the planet. Penny jokes around about how they might die, but again - as with all other dire situations - she makes herself useful and doesn't want to just sit around, even when her parents would prefer that she not stick her nose into things. As the adults work together to figure out a way off the planet, Penny's father, John Robinson, and another survivor, Don West, pilot a small craft to get off the planet, to then in turn, get everyone else off the planet. However, the craft they're in seemingly explodes and they assume their father is dead. At the same time, their mother is kidnapped by one of the other survivors, Dr. Smith, and so the Robinson kids are currently on their own. They have two immediate goals: find their mother and save her, and figure out a way off the planet because they're nearly out of time.
In the midst of all this, Will accidentally figures out that a rock he'd grabbed from the cave they'd explored isn't a rock, it's actually "petrified super poop," essentially animal waste. They figure out that they'll be able to convert this waste into energy and use it to power their crafts off the planet. While Judy hatches a plan to save their mother, Penny and Will join a group of survivors to explore the cave and collect enough waste needed for fuel. As they explore the cave, Penny proclaims, "We are literally full of shit," and as they turn a corner, that's when she'll arrive in Wonderland.
Abilities/Special Powers: Penny is just an ordinary (but badass) human with no special powers.
Third-Person Sample:
Being in Wonderland means that she's literally lost, again, but this time completely displaced from her family. She's had periods of time when she's been separated from her family, sure, especially since crash-landing on that doomed planet, but never like this, never for so long, and never without a single shred of hope to cling to. But Penny Robinson doesn't give up that easily, oh no. She might be stuck in some bizarro place with people from different times and different worlds, but if she could get pulled here for no reason out all without any explanation, then it's just as reasonable to assume that her family could end up here, too. So, she's resolved to look at this whole situation as a sort of pioneering adventure. She's the first of her family to be here but she won't be the last.
After a little pep talk to herself, she even begins to think of this as a unique opportunity. This is uncharted territory because she's never really been the first of her family to do anything. So, after she settles into a room, she really embraces making the space her own. God, it's been a while since she got to do this and you know what? She's gonna enjoy it. A room all to herself with a lot of space (compared to a small room on a ship with cramped quarters), a closet that gives her almost anything she wants? This isn't as bad as it could be. It's not great that she's here, that she can't be with her family and help them, but she'll make the most of it at least. Her thoughts wander to her dad a lot, mostly because as far as she knew, he was dead. He would have been suspicious of this place, and so would her mom and Judy. Will probably would have been excited to explore, and honestly all of them would have been grateful for more space, for a place to rest for a little while that wasn't about to kill them. Well. Not entirely true, from what she hears. But at this point in her mind, anything is better than constant danger.
After settling into her room, Penny can't wait to explore the library. She's a total bookworm and an aspiring author, so this is her happy place. Honestly, she never thought she'd see a library again at all. When she's old enough, she'd love to build her own library on Alpha Centauri, maybe. But who knows where they'll really end up now. It's hard to think about that right now, all the what-ifs and unknowns on the horizon. So right now, in a small corner of the library, she doesn't think. She shuts out everything else and curls up with a good book for a few hours.
First-Person Sample:
[ The last thing she remembers is being with Will, exploring the shit cave. No, really, actual shit. So, being here at all makes no sense, she has no memory of how she got here, why she's here, who or what brought her here. All of these people are total strangers. It makes literally no sense that she's here at all. This has to be some kind of crazy hallucination, right? She spends a few hours laying low, scoping the place out, exploring and trying to figure out what she can on her own. So many are just...going about their lives like nothing is wrong at all. There's a kitchen, a diner, an actual pool?? Objectively, it's a normal-ish place, which means, this is all very, very wrong. At least if her family was here, they could...figure this out together.
For a moment, there's a pang because her family doesn't include her dad now. Or does it? Will had been so hopeful, but both she and Judy were more pragmatic. Was there a chance?
Right now, though, she has to deal with where she currently is, which is stuck in some weird place. ]
So, hey, I was wondering how long it usually takes for someone's family to show up here with them?
[ Totally chill. Calm. She's really worried about her family, but admitting that out loud on the device would mean it's potentially being recorded and she can't betray her cool exterior completely. ]
There's five of us altogether. [ Dammit. Again. ] Four of us. Sort of. We were on a ship and we- [ She stops herself abruptly. ] You know what, not important right now, right? I'm trapped here and here is apparently some weird pocket dimension between time and space, am I on the right track?
Random shout-out to whoever kidnapped us, though: I'm digging the closets. Unlimited Oreos? Totally cool. Also laced with something to brainwash me probably but at least I'm going down happy.
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It's hard to believe it's Christmas and she's stuck here alone. Like, well and truly alone. There are lots of perks to this place, she has to admit, but on a purely stubborn level, she doesn't want to get too cozy. She doesn't know who or what really controls Wonderland, but she's sure they don't give a damn whether she's settling in or not, ultimately. It's more for her own satisfaction, sticking it to..."them," whoever they are. Don't get used to this place, don't like it, don't accept it.
And yet, it's nicer than being trapped in outer space. It's just - she misses her family, Judy and Will especially. Her parents, too, but she'd grown used to her dad not being around most years, typically called away for some military operation or another. And now he's probably dead. Even as she thinks that, her eyes close tightly, pushing back tears and taking a deep breath. No. No, no, no. While she's here, stuck in Wonderland, she can make up any story she wants to, and in her story, he's alive and safe and she'll see them all again.
And who knows, maybe Wonderland will grant her a Christmas miracle, maybe she'll get to see them all, even if just for a brief moment.
It's probably dumb, but she's got presents for all of them under the little tree she put up. She'd made some cookies, too, with lots of frosting and sprinkles, and now she settles in, drawing her knees up to her chest. She's shut the lights off so that the only glow in the room is the soft illumination from the Christmas tree. Taking a bite of her cookie, she lets out a little sigh, closes her eyes, and makes a wish.
Please let me see them again. Just one more time.
First-Person Sample
[ When the camera flickers on, Penny gives a little smile and wave at first, then pulls back so a small Christmas tree is visible in the background. ] Hey, Wonderland! So, Christmas is just a few weeks away. Or - I'm guessing a lot of people here celebrate things other than Christmas? If you do, what do you celebrate, if anything?
[ She grabs a cookie from a plate out of view of the camera, swallowing a small bite. ] This is my first year flying solo for the holidays, and I have to admit that I really have this decorating thing down. [ She pans the camera a little, showing off her tree and some garland and lights she's strung up. ] Also, because it's the holidays, I love the non-stop eggnog and cookies diet I've got going on. There are definite perks to not having your family around. [ She actually misses her family a lot, but she's trying not to really let herself feel that at all. ]
Also, does Wonderland do anything especially weird around this time of year, like a "hey let's send off this year with a real bang" kind of thing? Just so I know what to expect.