Who is Penance?
Penance was originally Monet. Confused? When Emplate approached Monet and asked her to try to take over the world with him and got rejected, Emplate became angry and transformed Monet into a mute, diamond-hard, razor-sharp skinned creature he called “Penance”. As mentioned, the Penance body had razor-sharp, diamond-hard skin throughout her body, and she had long, extremely sharp claws as hands. Penance was extremely agile, and dangerous. As Penance, Monet was a captive of Emplate for what seems to be years, where she acted as Emplate’s “meal”, having her genetic marrow supped upon. It was Gateway who rescued Penance from Emplate, and brought her to Generation X. Upon arriving there, however, Penance was confused and out of touch with the world, and she acted more like an animal than a human. She stayed this way for quite some time, until Nicole and Claudette learned from Emplate that she was really Monet. When the twins learned this, they merged bodies to become Monet, and then switche
