reminds me of how when ASCII-oids were still a New species to their planet, they leeched off the blood of other creatures, including other ASCII-oids, however only one species of "ASCII-oid" does it today, the UTF-8-oid
Penelope was supposed to canonically be a vampire. I slowly altered her appearance and personality to hint at it, but plans changed halfway through her character development. I made it so she was sick instead with a virus and it spread across the beanoid planet infecting everyone. This virus made everyone molt so I could heavily redesign their biology. The concept of Penelope being a vampire was forgortten
