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Penny

Last up, taking the overall #1 spot, and finally freeing me from this topic and needing to do more write ups, we have Penny! Penny is one of the nicest, most affectionate, and most selfless spouse options in the game. She is one of the younger marriage candidates but she's also one of the most mature. She isn't as initially friendly as someone like Sam, but she isn't mean like Shane either. Penny is shy and awkward at first -- often being in a position where she says very little because she isn't sure what to say.

Penny is good with kids and is shown to be very family positive. Some of the spouse options don't really seem like they'd be into having kids, but then it happens anyway because I guess they're video game characters and they have to. It's nice to get the sense that Penny actually wants to start a family with me.

Her default home life and living situation really suck, easily being the worst of any marriage candidate. Possibly any character in the game. I guess you could make an argument for Linus but he is homeless by his own choice and seems to be happy with his situation. Penny is stuck living in a broken home, forced to mature in order to take care of the mistakes left by her irresponsible parent(s) -- the people who are supposed to be taking care of her. She works, but her money goes toward supporting Pam. Probably the best thing I can say for Penny's life in the trailer is that she actually has her own room.

I used to feel like Penny was the only character whose life would absolutely suck if the Farmer never married them, while everyone else would be varying degrees of just fine. This is actually why in my second playthrough I started dating Maru but then ended up marrying Penny again anyway. She's the only person I've married twice. Whoops. Though I wouldn't say this is the only reason I married her or anything. Penny is definitely my favorite female character in the game, it's just this additional information makes it harder to resist getting together with her. I feel less certain about this now, anyway. Maybe Penny does just fine as a teacher, while someone like Sam, Sebastian, and Shane end up having a pretty trash life. There's no way of really knowing.



I really don't have any complaints about Penny, and I think she is probably one of the least flawed characters in the game. I guess, for that, you could say she is a little boring -- but I never found her to be boring either because of her unique home life and backstory that you don't really see in too many video games. I guess I can think about the things other people might say about her.

Bad in laws -- Yeah, technically if you marry Penny this means that Pam has to be your mother in law, which does indeed suck. However, Stardew Valley has an extreme case of marriage blindness where no one in the game seems to be able to tell who you are married to... so ultimately it doesn't matter too much.

Her favorite flower is Poppy, therefore it's "basically confirmed" that Penny is a hardcore drug addict. As we all know, the Stardew Valley community loves their "basically confirmed" theories. Anyway I always figured maybe she just likes flowers. Or maybe she is using the seeds to make muffins, or bagels. Or maybe she -is- getting high. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Sebastian almost certainly gets high, you could make a good case for speculating that Abigail, Sam, Leah, and maybe Emily and Shane also do. Shane is at least an alcoholic with self destructive tendencies. I think if Penny is getting high off of a flower that I can effortlessly grow an infinite supply of for her, and she's fully functioning and our marriage is great otherwise, it's not a giant problem for me. And that's assuming the "basically confirmed" theory for which there is no supporting evidence.

Unlike someone like Leah, Penny will definitely not chase after you. She barely flirts and will generally wait for the Farmer to make most of the moves in the relationship. Much later on she will drop some hints, that's about it. Although it's worth noting that she is the one who sends the invitation for the hot springs date. Penny's method seems to be waiting to make sure it's real, and confirming that you are interested in her first, before she has the confidence to attempt anything. After that it's all sweet talk and cute moments. You just need to make her come out of her shell first.



Overall I found Penny to be a character I had a lot of affinity for. I think she has the most attractive personality out of any of the marriage candidates, possibly of any character in the game (she'd be competing directly against Caroline here). Most of the characters I didn't feel like I had that much in common with, but Penny's crappy life isn't that much different from how my crappy childhood was -- and the fact that she was forced to mature isn't too different from how I was forced to mature. The major difference is that Penny is a much more vibrant and positive person than I am, so I guess she represents a sort of idealized version of "getting over it" instead of settling into the role of being jaded. She was the first character that I went after in Stardew Valley, and hasn't stopped being my favorite. I guess that's all it takes to receive the #1 ranking.


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