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[Shattered Dreamer]

Yeah I'd have to say I like Penelo. She sorta encapsulates what a good friends should be. Even though she is obviously scared by whats going on around her but because she is Vaan's friend she'll follow him to the edge of the world & back again! She reminded me of Selphie from FFVIII a bit sometimes too.

[PeneloRatsbane]

I like Penelo, she gets very hot in the end, i wish she had looked like that the whole way thru. I do love her quickenings but i rarely use her in battle.
I figured Penelo was just short for Penelope, which made me wonder if Fran was short for Francesca and how that is quite an un-veirary name, Surely it should have been "Frjn"? but i guess she's an un-verirary type of gal.

[Quin]

I like Penelo, but she's never in my main party. Main party is always Vaan, Basch and Fran.

However, she does have adorable Quickenings, and I swear to God she gets them more often. I've had repeated Penelo Quickenings for about 4 or 5 times before getting another person. It's ridiculous. She literally saved my ass - TWICE - when I went up against the White Mousse at level 20 or something. I knew I couldn't win that battle by hitting him to death, simply because I was too low a level. But everyone had all their Quickenings by level 20ish, so the whole battle was "15+ Quickening Chain, ethers and elixirs and revives, 15+ Quickening Chain". It was...it was beautiful.

So yeah, to sum up. Although I find Penelo's character a little annoying (ohmigod stop whining), I like the fact that she's not as naive as normal FF gals, and since she saved my scrawny ass I've never thought of her as a less powerful character.

[Aerisfanatic]

Lovely girl, the only character I like with pig-tails. Much better than that cow, oh whats her name? Oh ya, Ash.

[Wolf Kanno]

But Ashe is such a wonderful bitch How can you not love her!!??

[Crimson]

She's the female Vaan.


Vaan makes me want to punch babies.

Penelo makes me want to stuff some puppies in a bag, throw it around, then drown them until the last one stops squeeling in agony.




....Yeah I'm really not fond of Penelo.

[The Space Pope]

Penelo was completely irrelevant to the story. I know FF12 had lackluster character development, but she might has well been an NPC and switched her for Reddas. At least he had a bit of a backstory, however faint.

[Raistlin]

I agree with Space Pope. I didn't care about a lot of FF12 characters, and Penelo was no exception.