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the way ryan dupree tells it, penny sprung from his forehead, fully formed and fully successful.
that is not what actually happened. he was gang pressed into marrying helene peterson years back, and had five boys before penny came along squalling into the world. and for a good deal of his life, he didn't pay too much attention to penny. she was, in a word, unremarkable. got along with her brothers, did almost everything she was asked to do, and was more of a wallflower than anything else.
that was unfortunately not how her teenage years went. her mother increasingly found that she couldn't push penny into being a more active person. she couldn't make penny go out for sports or become a cheerleader or take interest in boys. the real friction came when penny started refusing to go to church with her after a disastrous lake baptism when penny was thirteen.
ryan dupree decided that something had to be done. his mother entered the picture, took one look at the situation, and demanded that penny stay with her for a summer.
in that summer, as far as ryan knew, penny developed into a more outgoing person. that was when she started to bloom, become more and more like him.
that's where ryan dupree centers his narrative on his daughter.
for penny, however, the feelings of discontent started when she was a child; penny always had her own inner world to contend with, her own feelings and concerns that other people didn't seem to have. while her father was a writer who interviewed people, who painstakingly tracked down stories, penny made up her own books. she wrote her own stories--and found herself too shy to share with others.
particularly because her stories weren't like the ones in books she could find. in her books, she could explore her own feelings of love for others. other girls, in fact, being the mainstay. as she grew older, those feelings expanded: boys, girls, and even people who didn't seem to be either.
her mother found one of the books penny usually hid one day. not only was she angry by the displays of magical fancy, but the fact that it wasn't just heterosexuality being displayed in those books made her angry. even more infuriating, she found out that penny had even submitted some of her stories to publications, and had won money for them, substantial amounts that her mother had no access to. that was what dragged penny into a baptism and almost broke her spirit entirely. after all; how could her mother know that children at school seemed to have picked up on penny's “oddness” despite her efforts to hide it.
when she showed up to her grandmother adelaide's house, deep in louisiana over a hot summer, she expected more punishments, more river baptisms, maybe even an exorcism.
what penny got instead was the woman's grace, and her love. where her parents didn't understand stand her or didn't make the effort to understand her in the slightest, adelaide dupree was warm, inviting, and most of all, gave penny the attentino she needed. she didn't push to read what penny wrote; just let penny discover the large house she had, full of odds and ends, from both her life asa married woman and of a woman happy to have affairs with anyone she wanted to. some of it was deeply scandalous, and much of it life affirming for penny.
penny never straight forwardly came out to her grandmother. instead there were talks between them, penny reaching out to her grandmother to find a kinship she never knew she could have.
going back home was painful. penny felt drained to go back with her mother, and retreated back into herself as soon as possible. only the summers were times where she could truly be free. in an act of defiance, and need, she applied to tulane university at seventeen--and upon acceptance, all but ran to her grandmother. she stayed with her as she made her way through the offered programs, slowly trying to discover her own sexuality, with varying results that ultimately drove penny in and out of the closet.
what changed was when an injury drove her father to come back ohme and take stock of his children, and his marriage. he and penny reluctantly reconnected. he came down to see her, and casually mentioned that he had found some of penny's old stories in an old hiding place. penny expected him to criticize her; instead, he asked her if she were interested in becoming a published author, something adelaide had been quietly pushing at penny for. nervously, penny said no. after some deal of thought, and a wrestling with her nerves, however, she changed her mind, and offered her father one of her manuscripts, that was tamer and more conforming than the rest.
her first novels were published as she finished up her last year in college, as she took classes every summer, at the maximum hours she could take. as free as she felt in her grandmother's house, penny found herself folding back into her own little world. dating was very little for her, and there were other worries. her grandmother seemed to get sicker more often, and despite tests, nothing was initially found. penny graduated in the top of her class, and dedicated the next few years to teaching and writing.
she wished the writing went smoothly; unfortunately, her editors insisted on a particular view of her works. penny, feeling young, pressured, and a little unsteady, allowed her books to be white washed into a more heterosexual version of her vision. she pushed and tugged, but tried to content herself with what she had. and then adelaide started to change. her health started to fail, and worried, penny took her to the doctor herself after adelaide kept refusing. after repeated visits, late onset Multiple Sclerosis was revealed to be the culprit. no one was able to care for her grandmother, and penny took it upon herself to put her fledgling career on hold to care for her.
it was a long hard fight to keep adelaide alive. she didn't have much faith in modern medicine, and penny spent a heartbreaking amount of time trying to convince her to take more modern treatments. she struggled and struggled, but in 2004, adelaide passed. her money, which was rather significant despite her general lifestyle, was significatn but no balm to penny who believed that she could have lived longer if she had pushed harder. penny sank into a malaise, attempting to both exvcavate her grandmother's house and put herself back together to write in a way she enjoyed again. in the meantime, she sold the rights of her books for adaptions, and slowly tried to get her head above water again.
that turned into a strange monkey paw situation. while she slowly got back into writing again, one of her most popular novels was adapted to a show; but as the show wore on the publishers pushed for her to make her books more like the television show. penny outright refused to, hating that she had even ceded some creative control in her youger years. and so the publishers took her books from her, and hired a ghostwriter to complete it. the experience embittered her deeply, penny stubbornly finding any avenue possible to continue with her specific vision for her novels.
in 2013, penny moved to san francisco, having finally finished selling her grandmother's estate. she started to teach at Saint Mary's College of California in it's creative writing program. having everything together, she had more or less a more simple existence--until diana prince showed up in her life in november of 2018.
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wonder woman is an amazon warrior princess and one of the most powerful superheroes in the dc universe. the daughter of hippolyta, she was given power by the gods to fight against evil in all its forms. although she was raised entirely by women on the island of themyscira, she was sent as an ambassador to the man's world, spreading their idealistic message of strength and love. wonder woman fights crime and acts as a positive role model for women everywhere. her equipment includes the lasso of truth, magic gauntlets, and an invisible jet. in the secret identity she has adopted to become closer to humanity, she is diana prince, a government agent for the department of metahuman affairs. wonder woman is also a founding member of the justice league of america. she has also been a member of the star sapphire corps and the sinestro corps.wonder woman was created by william moulton marston and harry g. peter, and has a lengthy publication history. this history has sometimes included a sidekick wonder girl and many villains. since her debut she has become one of the most popular and recognizable dc comics characters, along with batman and superman. she first appeared in all-star comics #8. (1941) [...]
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wonder woman is pulled from many sources, mainly focusing on the classic wonder woman stories by william moulton marston, the dcau, new earth, wonder woman: year one and several other pieces of canon. little to nothing from the new 52/prime earth or the dceu is used in her characterization or incentives.memories
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costumes
the 1941 classic wonder woman costume costume seen in the classic marston stories, and throughout the 1940s version of wonder woman. has an era appropriate skirt, a higher point in her tiara, and boots that don't reach her knees. 
the golden era wonder woman costume costume from the sixties, with a modified take on the 1940s era look. has a skirt, ballet flats, different sized bracelets, and and overall more svelte look. 
the white mod era costume costume from the late sixties, early seventies, when diana was powerless and went on vastly different adventures than her amazonian ones of before. is an all white, of the time mod look that includes jewelry and some very high hair.
the classic wonder woman costume the modern "classic" version of wonder woman's costume, created after marston left the comics. has a higher boot, no skirt, a different tiara, and more gold plates. 
dc bombshells costume a revised take on the 1940s verson of wonder woman for the dc bombshells line with a different version of her bracelets, no tiara or gold plating, dhort boots, and a little more modern sensibility. 
the rebirth era wonder woman costume the new rebirth era costume introduced in the reboot helmed by greg rucka and nicola scott. intergrates previous elements of her costume into a new modern look that includes a skirt, different bracers, different breast plate and tiara.
the earth one wonder woman costume another, more simplistic take on the original wonder woman's costume, from aerth one. has a simpler design with a less amercan feel, a changed tiara, and lace up boots just shy of the knee. 
atlantiades' armor as the new god of love, atlantiades can bestow favors on their protégés, such as the powerful armor endowed with the strength of the erotes that they temporarily gave to diana. this armor bestows diana the blessings of atlantiades, similiar to a more enhanced version of divine empowerment. incentives
master combatant diana is the finest warrior ever born among the amazons of themyscira. she is a master of armed and unarmed combat, proficient with nearly every weapon ever made (especially the bow and the javelin) and the exotic martial arts styles of the amazons. batman once remarked that wonder woman is the best melee fighter in the world.
wisdom of athena granted by athena (goddess of wisdom). diana possesses great wisdom and intelligence. this includes, multilingualism, being a master tactician and strategist, knowledge of occultism, diplomacy, tactical analysis, and leadership.
resistance to magic wonder woman possess a higher resistance to magical attacks than others.
equestrianism diana is a great horse rider; her favorite mount is her mare Kachi.
weaponry wonder woman is proficient with nearly every weapon ever made, especially the bow, the sword and the javelin. this includes: archery, swordsmanship, throwing, lassoing, and amazonian combat.
magic when she was a child, diana was marked by the goddess hecate and bestowed with a fraction of her magical ability. this power lay dormant until it was activated by the upside-down man. zatanna remarked that wonder woman's magical power was unlike anything she had ever seen or felt, and diana possessed at least enough power to cast out the upside-down man, an immensely powerful demon, from the world. after the justice league dark defeated hecate, the witchmarked's power was taken from them and absorbed by circe.
sunblade the sunblade was created by hephaestus for apollo at the dawn of human civilization, as one of the twelve weapons created for each member of the pantheon. like the other eleven, it was forged with the most powerful metal hephaestus had ever worked with, which he called the "eighth metal." if one follows its light, which is akin to that of the sun, they will go to where they need. according to wonder woman, humans are not supposed to know it, nor the other weapons of its kind, even exist, let along wield them.
kane milohai's sea shell granted as a boon to diana when she pledged loyalty to kane milohai in order to save her mother hippolyta, this sea shell floats in air and water, may grow in size to carry large numbers of passengers, and can travel between dimensions and even places that are otherwise mystically inaccessible.
purple ray the purple ray is a device invented by the amazons that can heal and rejuvenate the sick and injured. it must be attuned to the frequency of man's world in order to be used off of themyscira.
adamantium bracelets belonged to diana of themyscira of earth 9602. they are bracelts made of adamantium, that are indesctructible, gifted to her after serving the wakandan king.
bow of ra the bow of ra is a weapon created by ra as a gift to the champion of the amazons of bana-mighdall. when in use, the bow generates arrows that can be either solid or made of pure energy. the size, shape, design, and destructive power of each arrow is controlled by the wielder. upon contact with a target, an arrow can ignite the target, create an explosion, or pierce the target without destroying it. while this weapon's full power has yet to be seen, it is said to have the power to destroy stars.
aviation Wonder Woman pilots her invisible jet with expert proficiency.
the lasso of truth the lasso, also referred to as the golden perfect, is a sacred relic of the amazons and was given to them by the gods of olympus. it was bestowed to wonder woman when she embarked to man's world. the lasso's most known power is to force anyone ensnared by it to speak only the truth. it also possesses a number of other magical abilities. the lasso is capable of tethering the hearts and minds of the individuals holding it, creating a telepathic link between them, as well as allowing for language translation. it can also be used to bind and ensnare the souls of beings, including even gods, within it. diana can use the perfect to locate individuals who share an emotional connection to her. it can also be used to force a biophysical reset of those who have been corrupted by some external influence, such as poisons and toxins or mind control, who are bound by it. diana is highly proficient at using the lasso of truth as both a tool and a weapon, and is capable of easily binding people and objects using it.
amulet of harmonia a glowing talisman given to princess diana (wonder woman i) by harmonia, daughter of the olympian gods ares and aphrodite. originally, diana only got one half of it and had to search the world for the missing piece to make it whole. the powerful amulet has awesome power spawned by the warlord ares himself and is the only weapon that can defeat him. the power can also be utilized in various other manners – when diana first arrived in man's world, the amulet helped her understand and speak foreign languages such as english. it can also transfer knowledge and memories, and serve as a gateway between worlds. wonder woman normally uses it to reach the realm of olympus.
sandals of hermes the telaria are the sandals of the god hermes. this enchanted winged footwear gives its wearer flight and enhanced speed. often in the possession of wonder woman, they have been worn by several of her allies to give them access to those gifts. additonally, the sandals can be used to cross the dimensional impasse between Themyscira and the outside world.
lansinarian morphing disk wonder woman has at her disposal a small lightweight disc of lansinarian technology that, when triggered by her thoughts, transforms into a transparent version of whatever object or vehicle is appropriate for her needs. the device has been used for several purposes, including a communication device, but is most frequently used by wonder woman in the form of an invisible jet plane. [...]
star sapphire ring and battery diana first wielded the violet lantern ring when she served with the star sapphire corps during the blackest night. she was later recruited as temporary leader of the star sapphires during a crisis on zamaron and wore the ring once more. after the conflict, diana retired from the corps to continue her mission on earth.
mjolnir the enchanted hammer wielded by thor, the norse god of thunder. it grants a multitude of powers to it's wilder, including weather manipulation, flight, energy projection, energy sensing, energy absorption and redirection, teleportation, matter manipulation, nether world power, cosmic energy, electromagnetic spectrum manipulation, invisibility and intangibility, event recall, transmigration of souls, life force absorption, illusion detection, interdimensional messaging, transformation, immunity to other forces, and allspeak.
comicverse tie-ins
has inverted initials of p.d. to diana princelike diana, has had closer relationships with women and is bisexual.
has a close relationship with animals, like diana.
career information
her father's career is equivalent to skip hollandsworth, and her own is of l.j. smith, including all highs, lows, and adaptions. dates are a little more shifty, however.her publicist has begged her to, but penny, does not keep active social media accounts asides from her instagram. reinforced this after her old book titles were taken from her a few years ago. penny still feels deeply bitter about the loss of her work to others, and stubbornly continued her work unabated in other areas.
had a strong, out of the gate career, but slowed down her career to care for her grandmother in 1998. her grandmother passed in 2004, and has been slowly picking up her career ever since. has taught in the interim, and is stalled again due to the apperances of wonder woman.
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