#penia

Three more today! Almost to the end of Nyx's kids!

Penia: Child of Nyx, daimon of Poverty

Amekhania: Child of Nyx, daimon of Helplessness

Aporia: Child of Nyx, daimon of Wanting

Apparently there’s a God of Poverty from the first Kid Icarus game and I’m obsessed. We NEED to bring this character back for the sequel and/or try our own Uprising-style takes on him. He’s probably based on the Greek Goddess of Poverty named Penia, which is fine to me because we could always use more female characters!

Calling her Penia for now, if Pit encounters her while opening mystery vases in a treasure room, she’ll whisk away everything he’s found! The manual describes her as having a ‘grudge’, apparently. How might anyone Uprising take on Penia be characterized? Well, there is this which I found while skimming Wikipedia;

So what if Penia is a really obnoxious business major. What if she’s one of those annoying capitalist-libertarians who preaches about “If you give a man a fish” while ignoring that she’s depleting the fish supplies. She tells Pit that becoming poor is a good thing because it builds character actually and he can pull himself up by his bootstraps. Penia considers herself a “devil’s advocate” who represents the ugly truth nobody wants to acknowledge; In reality she’s just annoying.

She’s still a balding old ghost which is funny juxtaposition with how she’s using all this modern lingo and even bringing up cryptocurrency. Penia’s a scam artist in charge of casinos, she runs the credit card company that Pit can use to buy stuff, but watch out! Now every heart he finds is used to pay off his debt. Class disparity is a necessary function of society, Penia believes hierarchy is how it will always be. Her wealth comes from stealing from others in all her many ways, which is why Penia is the Goddess of Poverty; She creates the poor. She’s like an evil Hermes, and acts as a neutral party who may or may not profiteer from the wars of the gods.

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PORUS & PENIA

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