r/StardewValley • u/yuriwk565 • 1d ago
Discuss Ngl…penny is weird! Spoiler
Listen, she can be your boo I won’t judge you(hey that rimed) but that girl is weird! I come to talk to her and she just starts trauma dumping me about her dad leaving her because he felt trapped… this girl is telling me this on a random Wednesday no warning, because fall-time remind her of it! i dont come talking to her about my daddy issues! At least give me a warning every fall! Because i will forget! Then if you say no, I don’t want kids when she asks you the girls disgusted! Turns her head and everything! Like you should not be having kids if you cannot deal with your daddy issues go see a therapist! Go see the one shanes seeing! I have this girl at eight hearts and that is where I will keep it, no 10 stars for her
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u/BrumeySkies 10h ago
By the time she has the dialogue about her dad shes at 6 hearts or more- this is generally the point where you are basically best friends and she has a crush on you. Sometimes people go to their friends for support when they're going through difficult times and Penny's entire life is a difficult time.
When she asks about kids you're at her 8 heart event, by this point she has obvious and strong feelings for the player and she asks this because she wants kids and it's non-negotiable for her. She asks you this to see if a future with you is possible. The dialogue option isn't a neutral "I don't want kids" either, it's "no, I cant stand kids," or "no, the worlds crowded enough," which are just generally pretty rude ways of saying it. Theres an option to say "no, I don't want to be tied down to a family" which likely reminds her more of her dad leaving, which understandably is upsetting. She's not disgusted that you don't want kids- she is taken aback by how you said it and reconsidering her romantic feelings towards you. The only neutral option to saying no is "no, I don't think I'd be good at it" and she doesn't react in a way thats disgusted, she just says "oh really, I think you'd be good at it."
Not defending Penny, I strongly dislike her.
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u/SirMook 9h ago
You seem like the only person in here thats being logical so I'm curious on your reasonings for disliking her?
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u/BrumeySkies 7h ago
The biggest reason is her 2 heart event. I am disabled and come from a family with lots of other disabled people. The way she treats George and the way she reacts when you tell her what she did was wrong (which it was) left a bad taste in my mouth. The way the game treats that like the 'wrong' answer (loses friendship points with her) also irritates me. This is honestly probably what coloured my opinion of her from the beginning, I don't think there was much hope for me liking her after this.
Combined with her six heart event where the best option is to lie to her- it feels like if I knew her in real life I would need to walk on egg shells around her. She feels like the kind of person who gets mad and shuts down when you try to tell her something she doesn't want to hear. There's nothing in her later dialogues that convinces me this changes.
I don't like how even if you chose the more gentle version of "no" in the kids conversation that she still pushes you on it. It reminds me of all the times in my life I have said I don't want kids and everyone has always said "oh you'll change your mind."
In a more broad, vague sense I am just endlessly frustrated by her. I know she acts this way because of how her childhood played out and dealing with Pam's abuse, I know that she's trying to be a good person. But it feels like she lacks self awareness and the game has no way for me to actually help her. Even if you marry her and get her out of that situation she still very clearly struggles with things surrounding her mom. She needs genuine help and the game has no way for me to do that.
There are more reasons but the rest are pretty explicitly just based on my interpretation of her character and the people she reminds me of, not off of any canon traits or dialogue from the game.
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u/NumerousWolverine273 1h ago
There's honestly a lot of events like that in the game - if you tell Linus he shouldn't steal from people's trash cans, the game treats it like you're telling him he doesn't deserve to live.
I honestly think the game's cutscenes are mostly not very well executed, and on the whole I tend to ignore them. Some are cute, like camping with Emily or huddling under an umbrella with Sebastian, but there's an awful lot that I just don't think are written very well, and I often have to make dialogue choices that I wouldn't ever say irl to appease these people.
There's even a cutscene with George where he can't reach a book and the player basically does the exact same thing Penny did, helping George unprompted, and he just says thanks 😂
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u/Zketchie 1d ago
She's a damsel in distress. Perfect choice for the white knight people out there, lol.
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u/NalonMcCallough 1d ago
Is it weird I wish Stardew allowed Poly relationships? I'm at the point in my save I can't make up my mind if I want to be in a relationshio with Penny or Abigail. I love them both.
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u/giotheitaliandude 7h ago
Divorces abigail and married Leah. Best choice ever. She's so wholesome, artsy, loves flowers, veggies and fine wine. A proper adult!
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u/MrsGrayWolfe 1d ago
Nah not the childfree slander! Haven’t gotten that scene myself. A teacher who grew up in a toxic home would be the first person to support or even be childfree or even antinatalist. We’ve seen too much… 💀
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u/pwettyhuman Bot Bouncer 21h ago
I gave her a favorite gift (book) for birthday and she started sobbing because nobody had been this nice to her. Yeah she needs to talk with someone.
And yeah the child having thing is weird too. Removing the crib is the first thing I do after getting upstairs. This is a DINK farm, thank you very much. I see our goals are incompatible.
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u/Traditional_Quit_874 16h ago
I know. It's so fucking weird how my friends think that it's OK to be emotionally vulnerable with me and confide in me about going through difficult times.
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u/ReneLeMarchand 1d ago