Penink the Ink Pen - info
The embodiment of ART
A fountain pen isĀ a generally, high-quality writing instrument It's challenging to usedā¦but in the hands of someone skilled, it can create something truly beautiful with it unique strokes.
Family: Stationery Gender: (Fountain) Pen (it/its ā¦ but you can call it whatever you like) Blood type: Ink
Penink is a narcissistic perfectionist. Extremely sensitive. Prone to mood swings because it āfeedsā on those emotions to create art. Delusional at times, with impossibly high standards and a fragile ego. It wants its work to be both excellent and recognized.
It often falls into depressive moods (like how many artists do. When artists dwell in painful memories and emotions, they have to relive that negativity to capture it fully, to express it accurately.)
For Penink, ink is (the symbol of) emotion. The more emotion there is, the more it spills. Itās fuel. Ink can be used to write or to draw and it will flow out regardless. So Penink chooses to turn that overflow into art instead.
However, like a fountain pen, it is extremely sensitive to pressure. Push too hard and the nib cracks. Sometimes the ink simply leaks uncontrollably; sometimes the tip explodes entirely.
Ironically, it also pressures itself constantly. It demands perfection even though perfection in art is impossible, since beauty is subjective.
Penink is Sketchbookās younger sibling. In the Creative episode, it acts as a secondary teacher (at the off screen) ruining Yellowās drawing with ink...
Because it knows sketch is precise. Strict. Maybe thatās why she gets along so well with Tony.
(It secretly like "let get creative" Incident because it feels like expressing "vent art")
As the younger sibling, it tries to follow in Sketchbookās successful footsteps but can never quite become what it wants to be.
Sketch instilled perfectionist ideals into it, forcing it into rigid standards until it lost confidence in itself. It worries deeply about othersā opinions. Yet it has a high ego and hates criticism. If criticized, it will snap back first ā¦then cry alone afterward.
Because even if people say, āThere is no right or wrong in art,ā reality says, āIāll reject your work if itās not what the audience wants.ā That contradiction makes everything feel meaningless. And if itās worth nothing, why create at all? So it obeys the demand ...because it wants acceptance.
It believes imperfect things should be eliminated, not shown to an audience. Thatās why it often scribbles over and destroys works it deems not good enough. It produces a large amount of art but destroys just as much. So what the audience actually sees is only a fraction of what it has made.
Penink has a non-consensual āfriendshipā (coworkers!!!) with Briefcase (Job).
It hates Briefcase ā¦especially when he teams up with Tony (Time). Tony also act like he is it's strict parent with sketch and that's even worse because Penink works according to mood "Artistic temperament" so its time management is terrible. It constantly feels like itās dying under pressure. Deadlines are suffocating.
And yet, they must work together. Everything needs visuals. Everything needs art. So itās always overloaded.
It likes dark humor. It ābreaksā many times (and others blame it for "over reacting") but always returns when the story needs it.
With others, it generally mirrors how itās treated as long as the topic hasnāt shifted to work or art. Once it does, things get complicated.
About Art Episode [wip]
About "In the LOVE of ART" Penink x Shrignold relationship [wip]
