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• Nuts and Bolts by StarsSystems

  Fandoms: RWBY  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  23 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Penny Polendina & Ruby Rose
  • Penny Polendina
  • Pietro Polendina
  • James Ironwood
  • Original RWBY Character(s)
  • Ciel Soleil
  • Beacon Staff (RWBY)
  • Team RWBY
  • Team JNPR
  • Team CFVY
  • Arthur Watts
  • Transhumanism
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Queer Themes
  • robots as a metaphor for so many things
  • Penny has a rough time but its all worth it i promise
  • mildly eldritch Penny
  • only a little bit
  • no beta we die like Grimm
  • Slow Burn
  • Worldbuilding
  • like excessive amounts of worldbuilding
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • Discrimination
  • More tags to be added
  • Fluff and Angst

  Summary

  There are only a few things that Penny really wants. She wants her father happy, to make Winter proud, and to maybe, just maybe, make a friend.

  Unfortunately, Penny is a classified military project with no legal identity, expected to be the perfect weapon against the armies of Grimm that besiege the civilizations of Remnant.

  (A re-imagining of Penny, looking at what her childhood could have been like, her treatment under the command of Ironwood, and how one friend can change everything)

  Series

  • Part 1 of Souls and Circuitry

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,446

  Chapters:

  4/31

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  Kudos:

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