What Does She See in Him?: Penny has this viewpoint towards Katie's boyfriend Jake.Textile Work Is Feminine: Penny shows several classically feminine attributes, including sewing.Tell Me About My Father!: Doesn't actually happen, but Penny wishes her father would talk more about her dead mother because she never got the chance to know her.Super OCD: Possibly averted as Blake is described in his Tokyopop bio as only "borderline OCD".Slice of Life: The plot and setting have shades of this.Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The point of Penny's club.Porter, Penny's geology teacher, takes her subject very seriously, as the class learns on their first day. Satellite Love Interest: After publicly dumping Jake, Katie finds a new boyfriend, Tom, but he doesn't make any proper appearances or have any lines.Penny's dad takes time off to visit her sick grandmother in Wyoming. Put on a Bus: Katie moves to Kentucky after her dad was laid off.Not Good with People: Orion loves plants and animals but is cripplingly shy, so he's a mostly harmless type 1.No Name Given: There is a curious lack of last names in this series.Necktie Leash: Penny pulls Blake into a kiss this way.Missing Mom: Penny's mom died five years prior to the start of the series.Orion only manages to give him a small scrape before Penny breaks it up, but Blake curls into a ball and worries he might faint. Minor Injury Overreaction: Blake has one after Orion tries to start a fight with him.
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Love Triangle: Seeing as the series has pretty strong Shoujo influences, this was guaranteed to show up.Lonely Rich Kid: Hannah and Blake seem to be this.However, she admits to Katie that since she started the club, their classmates act more like her audience than true friends and she figures it's only a matter of time before they lose interest Lonely at the Top: By the end of Volume one, the social structure at Monarch Valley High has been completely turned around with Penny on top of the food chain.Left Hanging: With the third and final volume in limbo, the ending of Volume two counts as this.Known Only by Their Nickname: Chapter one reveals that Penny is short for Penelope, but she prefers to be called Penny.They travel often and the closest they make to an appearance is a recorded voicemail. Invisible Parents: Hannah and her brother Trevor have these.Girlish Pigtails: Penny wears her hair like this in Chapter one.First Kiss: Penny receives her first kiss from Orion.Later she speculates that Penny started her club to get the best guys all to herself. When one club member has photographed evidence of a prospective pyrite shoving another girl, Hannah says out loud that she must have done something to deserve it. Female Misogynist: Hannah makes half hearted attempts identifying pyrites.However it's clear that Penny doesn't follow fashion trends or dress to impress anybody but she wants to express herself in what she wears and she's making some money selling her creations to her classmates. Penny states early that she'd like to be a fashion designer when she grows up but some of her outfits come off as Rummage Sale Reject. When Penny continues to assume the worst of her despite her loyalty to the club, she decides to become the bad guy Penny insists on making her out to be. Establishing Character Moment: After being teased for her shoes, Penny gives her offender a snappy comeback and discretely slaps a sticker that reads "idiot" on the back of his shoulder.Education Mama: Penny's dad is a male example.Driven by Envy: While Hannah denies it, its implied that shes envious of Pennys growing popularity, and this motivates her antagonistic actions in Volume two.The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Penny lampshades this recollecting that her father is a doctor, but her mother died of pneumonia when he was out of town.Clingy Jealous Girl: Severely insecure Orion becomes a Clingy Jealous Boy once he and Penny start dating.Blinding Bangs: Orion has these until Penny gives him a haircut revealing blue eyes.