I know boxing/swordfighting is a popular choice for Penelope's potential moveset, but... I want to go in a different direction with her.
Sly has his cane. Bentley has his wheelchair. Murray can clobber foes into next week with nothing more than his fists. Carmelita has her shock pistol.
We can't have two fist fighters on the team. Let's do something fun for our favorite mouse girl. She's a genius, right? Let's capitalize on that aspect...
What if Penelope dual-wielded a pair of morphing wrenches that can turn into, say, a giant hammer or a shield?
With the wrenches, she can quite easily defend herself and break stuff.
With the hammer, she could knock out guards. It'd be slow, but effective. And obviously noisy.
With the shield... well, that's obvious enough.
I even want her to inherit Bentley's old pickpocketing magnet.
If she ever does come back to the side of good, I want her classified as The Wild Card.
And if any enemies even think about looking at Bentley wrong... let's just say they'll have an extremely rabid mouse up their ass with an arsenal of weaponry at her command.
The possibilities are endless. Think about it.
“I feel like we tend to forget that even if the persona was fake, Penelope-as-the-Baron was still totally able to fight Sly on the side of a moving airplane without much effort and punch hard enough to throw him back. How the heck did she get kidnapped? I feel like she could have coldcocked Lefwee in three seconds, looted his wallet, and bailed.“
Confessed by: Anonymous
“Perhaps my favorite character development over the course of the Sly Cooper games was how Bentley went from a stuttering, fragile nerd to a devious, bomb-toting mad genius. His probably has the biggest ego of anyone on the team, and I love him to bits for it!“
Confessed by: mad42hatter
I ain’t no dumb blonde, I ain’t no stupid barbie doll!!
I just felt like drawing Bentley&Penelope’s scenes from the third game
Da Gang
Sly4 AU where Penelope really was hypnotized and Bentley doesn't lose her.
Sly 3 Comic: “A Girl in the Safe House”
Did you ever wonder how the Sly Gang adjusted to having a girl in their Man Cave for the first time ever? Well, now you know! I can totally see Murray going over the top to try and be welcoming/friendly to her, Bentley being all awkward in trying to court her, and Sly being the poor schmuck caught in the middle.
Was Penelope serious about having ten years of martial training? Like, how old was she when she started?
…For that matter, how old was she when she started the whole Black Baron thing? I mean, we know it was because of the age requirement so she probably wasn’t 18 yet. And it sounds like ACES has been going for probably over five years (at the bare minimum), and if Penelope and the main trio are currently about 21-ish…
Yeesh, she must’ve gotten into it really young, huh?
Update of my Sly Cooper shipping chart now that 2019 is on the verge of ending!
There's a little change, and I fitted all thd lines in this time instead of making all the shipping tallies last filled.
So if you're confused as to who goes to who, all the lines match up to the tallies on the right.
Also I find that some of my ships have changed while some remain. This chart below was my earlier shipping chart:
Here’s your intermittent reminder that Penelope the mouse
is introduced as explicitly a better RC specialist than Bentley
a top-tier engineer and mechanic
so good at dogfighting than when she became a combat pilot “at a young age” she was instantly elevated to celebrity status
very convincing at pretending to be a different age and gender???
apparently wasn’t lying about being a trained boxer
can hack pretty good
easily matches and contends with Bentley’s intellect and could, therefore, plan heists pretty good
just fuckin picked up a sword and used it to murder a guy who had dedicated his life to being an old-timey pirate captain, and, by extension, swordfighting.
Penelope could kick the ass of the collective Cooper Gang at any point and the only reason she doesn’t is to be polite