Penguin

Oswald Cobblepot (Scenesys ID: 98)
Quote
"The rule of society is property. Somebody owns everything."
Profile
Full Name:	Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Theme:	DC (VFC)
Occupation:	Arms Dealer
Citizenship:	United Kingdom
Residence:	Gotham City
Education:	London School of Economics
Status:	Dropped
Groups:	Batman Family, Hench, Gotham-OOC
Other Information
Apparent Age:	46	Actual Age:	46
Date of Birth	28 May 1979	Actor:	Ian McNeice
Height:	161.4 cm	Weight:	120 kg
Hair Color:	Black	Eye Color:	Blue
Theme Song:	"Singapore" - Tom Waits

Profile

Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, known as the Penguin in Gotham City as an epithet for both his appearance, and his idea of proper criminal conduct, is the scion of a family of thieves, spies, and moguls. The Penguin represents nefarious business interests in Gotham City, an agent for various international crime syndicates, corporate bodies, and intelligence organizations that is tapped on a contractual basis whenever required. Operating as a mercenary with a strict code of manners, his business is primarily as an arms dealer, fence, and fixer, although that is merely a front for his true function as a network freelancer. The Penguin operates out of the Iceberg Lounge, a meeting place for socialite, business magnates, and criminals in Gotham City, his complex network of friends that he curries favor with allowing him to evade most criminal prosecution - including Batman, whom he acts as an occasional informant for.

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Description

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Penguin stands five feet and nine inches tall, an English gentleman of stately girth and proud bearing, his true pomp and splendor hidden beneath a humble posture and sneering submission to authority. His black hair is in a widow's peak, slicked back over his head and worn from a lifetime spent with tobacco. He has a monocle over his left eye, necessary to correct a visual deficit that springs from a dysfunction in the left side of his brain, but not on the right. To a psychologist, a number of variables might be present, but someone skilled in the wisdom of ages past would spot him immediately as severely self-centered man with a lack of concern as to the emotions of others. This genetic flaw is what makes the Cobblepots so fearsome throughout British history, as both thieves and spies. He has a long, narrow nose, that resembles a beak, and an underchin beneath his weak jaw. He often bears a cigarette holder between his teeth, an expensive British cigarette protruding from the tip, lit by a custom brass lighter resembling a Zippo, with six stars emblazoned upon one side, and an eye on the other. Traditionally, the eye is held inwards, unless Penguin is in the company of certain esteemed gentlemen.

He has round shoulders and a portly gut, with thick legs and stocky arms wrought with thick biceps and steel wrought forearms. His hands are of an unusually large disposition, a background in rugby present, his legs thick and his feet with the subtle ankles and toes of a professional fencer. He wears a gentleman's suit over his powerful but unassuming physique, a blue suit jacket with a pair of tails behind it, a pair of black leather gloves over his hands and a button-up shirt beneath his jacket, a broad black tie hanging down over the shirt. The shirt is tucked into a pair of blue pants with a narrow leather belt made to keep him mobile, the pants custom tailored for his frame to keep him capable of agile movement. A pair of black dress shoes are on his feet. He carries an umbrella with him at all times, fitted with a spiked tip and a launcher for various chemical toxins stored within the umbrella.

History

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The Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is a member of a large British crime family, one that is often used by various circles in Britain for various purposes. Suffering from a genetic deficit that displays itself with myopic vision in the right eye, perfect vision in the left, they are servants that understand power, and happily wield it for their masters, whichever they happen to pick with their combination of skills. Oswald, despite being from wealth and sophistication, had an overprotective mother and a war veteran father, bullied by other children and learning to compensate by entertaining others with his basic force of personality. Scrupulous and scheming, he came to present an image of magnamity and understanding, while secretly loathing all those that did not appreciate his presence. A planner, a socialite, and a crook, his genetic fault came with the traditional skill at mathematics and economic theory, but also an eccentric understand of psychology and management. He was sent to the London School of Economics by a rich patron he met while interning as a loan officer at the Bank of England, and was groomed for international finance operations. Since he was a Cobblepot, his skills were already known.

Coming to Gotham, he became the protege of a Sicilian mobster, studying quietly and observing carefully, breaking down the business of crime to its fundamentals, then building upon them the principles he had discovered over the course of his life to that point. After doing a stretch in Blackgate for possession of stolen goods, a fall he took intentionally to network into the prison populace and build a reputation with broken bones, he went into business as an arms dealer, fence, and fixer, selling weapons, moving stolen material, and finding jobs, first using his international connections, then building up his own network of connections. He was nicknamed the Penguin for his appearance, and his adherence to seemingly religious social codes, actually rules of etiquette from British crime's upper echelons. Eventually, he earned the attention of Batman, and became a regular foe. Penguin decided to build the Iceberg Lounge as a legal front, to make himself more difficult to openly oppose by Batman, using his skill with people to make himself a public figure of esteem. Batman was forced to use Penguin as an informant and tolerate his activities to an extent, assuming Penguin never crosses a line Batman has set for him.

Personality

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Penguin considers himself a "gentleman of crime", completely capable of the worst brutality, but refraining for the purpose of fostering an image with the criminals of Gotham that he is trustworthy but not to be crossed. He is vengeful and dogged in extracting his due from those that betray him, even if it is a petty matter of disrespect through misunderstanding. He is sensitive about his appearance, but does not feel himself ugly, despite being shallow. He merely demands respect from others, in the manner of a prison ex-convict blended with a high ranking gangster. He prefers not to get his hands dirty, but will not hesitate to engage others in violence, either with his fists, or with trickery, using tricks like poison and toxins, corrosives or caustics, or mind altering substances. The worst revenge the Penguin can offer you is the slow death, punishment for humiliating in front of a female associate.

Penguin, despite everything about him, is a bon vivant with people, treating others as if they are a favored house guest, calculating their wants and needs, but only offering it to them when he has a use for them. Still, this use is not always purely concrete, and it is not always a direct use for them, Penguin with the intelligence of a head of state, merely lacking the empathy to move others into dying for him out of charisma. He is known to lie and cheat and steal, which is always a temptation to him, but it is through this temptation that he controls others. He never doublecrosses someone he has a contract with, but will also inform to Batman if he's under threat of losing his livelihood. But, there is a limit to the things he will do for money, just as there is a limit to how much he will let Batman bully him without resistance. Penguin despises a bully, and has a code of ethics based on pity, arrogant as it is.

Abilities

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ATYPICAL NEUROLOGY
Penguin has a genetic issue with his neuro-social function. He lacks empathy, but has an intense amount of logic when it comes to the social skills of others. Rather than those that fake this ability with years of classes and etiquette training, Penguin is a natural.

Skills

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APPRAISAL
Penguin knows appraisal of various goods, such as art, gems, drugs, weaponry, real estate, financial assets, or ventures.

BRAWLING
Penguin played rugby in high school and college, and has plenty of muscle and bulk, combined with his raw aggression from his lack of empathy. His only limitation is his smoking habit.

BUSINESS
Penguin knows the inner workings of economics, such as finance, mathematics, statistics, speculation, real estate, business law, tax codes, and communications. He can manipulate this legally, such as with an above ground business, or illegally, such as a shell company.

FENCING
Penguin is a classically trained fencer that has adapted to his family's trademark trick umbrella to fight, using a tip that can be laced, or a deployment device for various liquids, gasses, or aerosols.

GAMBLING
Penguin is a skilled gambler, playing with such a method that, if he loses his initial buy-in, has a mathematical formula to break even at other forms of entertainment. He banks his money, plays from a set pool, and uses mathematical partial risk formulas designed to reward him over long periods of time.

MANAGEMENT
Penguin understands various skillsets, personality types, and types of experience, and knows how to skillfully recruit, reward, and employ different personalities.

SMUGGLING
Penguin knows the intricacies of smuggling, such as moving people, items, or information.

Resources

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CONNECTIONS
Penguin is connected to criminal, financial, and social circles, in Gotham, on the east coast USA, and in Europe. He can get just about any resource associated with crime, from guns to criminals, and can also procure investment for jobs.

ICEBERG LOUNGE
Penguin's above ground front is the Iceberg Lounge, a high class restaurant in Gotham that takes advantage of the fact that Gotham's supervillains and mobsters have a mystique that makes them popular with the wealthy and rebellious.

REPUTATION
Besides his reputation in Gotham City as a highly competent arms merchant, fence, and fixer, Penguin is known internationally as the go-to man for various affairs in Gotham City, if one has the money and needs someone that has criminal connections. He also has the Cobblepot last name, legendary in Britain for centuries for spies and thieves and financiers.

UMBRELLAS
Penguin's family has a trademark of employing trick umbrellas, that they've used since their humble days as stewards of tailor shops in medieval London to defend their wares. He has quite the variety, and can use them to deploy a blade (sometimes from the tip, sometimes from the handle, sometimes both), as well as having various syringe injectors, explosive or smoke deployment mechanisms, spray functions for corrosive, caustic, or hallucinogenic compounds, smuggling compartments, self-destructing umbrellas, electronic or radio devices, poisonous or neurotoxin gas launchers, and flamethrowers.

Weaknesses

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ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
Penguin is a habitual smoker, drinker, and eater, and this effects his endurance in a protracted competition of physical endurance.

DARK KNIGHT
Penguin is an occasional informant for Batman, and knows Batman is breathing down his neck at all times. Penguin is in a peculiar position, on one hand having to devise means and methods to support his own interests, on the other hand having to ensure his survival for someone that has ethics of duty, rather than morality of system.

EMPATHY
Penguin has an extremely deficit regarding his personal empathy, meaning that he is only capable of logical discussion. The artistic is simply beyond him, other than mathematical calculation based on an extensive knowledge of correlating points instructed to him by his family, who have worked out metrics and rubrics over the course of time.

REVENGE
Penguin is exceptionally vengeful, never a cruel man unless in necessity of show of intimidation through revenge. Much in the way Batman cultivates an air of mystery, or Joker cultivates an air of unpredictability, Penguin demands shows of respect (at the very least, deference). He requires others to take him seriously for his business dealings to function properly, but this often leads to 'unfortunate' incidents that can give him a public profile in an improper manner.

VISIBILITY
Penguin is extremely visible in Gotham, on many levels. He has a corporate front, a criminal record, he has a particular brand to his crime (politely brutish movements), intelligence and criminal organizations have extensive knowledge of him, and necessity demands a social life.

Logs

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
City Fall: Black Mask	October 4th, 2019	The Question and Shadow interfere with a gang meeting in Gotham. They manage to disrupt the Shredder's plans, but it comes at a cost.
A Simple Purchase	November 19th, 2017	Summary needed
Dragon's Questions or Wrath	October 15th, 2017	Cyberdragon, with the assistance of SHIELD, tries to find out information about the person behind a bio-weapon
Donny Had To Work on the Docks	October 6th, 2017	The Penguin gets involved in an affair involving the war in Africa, and a case of industrial pollution for the sake of Europe's security against Boko Haram. What's one little medicine woman against the numbers of the banking affairs of the rich and powerful?
Seeing a Man About a Penguin	October 3rd, 2017	Iceberg Lounge, Gotham City... a palace of ice and excess; a place Norman finds himself, to seek answers and potential partnership from the information broker known as Oswald Cobblepot.
To Thwart A Penguin	September 21st, 2017	The Penguin orchestrated a crime that crossed the wouldbe jurisdiction of the Avengers, X-Men, and the Sorcerer Supreme. He draws quite a team of heroes to thwart him, yet somehow, cunningly wins the day unbeknownst to all.
Proposition for a Penguin	September 14th, 2017	Thursday enlists Penguin to supply her with a detailed blueprint of Wayne Tech Headquarters not accessible by the public or without duress
A Heart To Heart	September 12th, 2017	Summary needed
A Bat of a Different Breed	September 9th, 2017	Summary needed
Downtown, No Finer Place For Sure	August 29th, 2017	Summary needed
Hunted Between Worlds	August 17th, 2017	A Chinese military officer on the run from the People's Republic is a major token in the schemes of the old money of European alliance. Penguin's careful arrangement to move him into the hands of British paramilitary hands is foiled by Alice Gulliver, who takes him into her custody, outside the eyes of Hong Kong or Gotham City police. But still the man lusts for revenge against his homeland. And the Penguin is always one who understands humanity's darker ambitions, those that promise thanatos.
Birds of a Feather, Carouse Together	August 15th, 2017	Scarecrow, having just flown the coop of Arkham, finds Penguin, and they exchange pleasantries, before Crane offers Penguin a business proposition. A gambler's skill, in exchange for a physician's insight.

Cutscenes

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