Penga

"earth"

- You better buy me some shoes to make up for this!

Penga was one of the first students of the Beifong Metalbending Academy.

History
Penga was born in Yu Dao in 92 ASC. Being the daughter of a noble and rich family, she grew up as a spoiled girl who used to go to marketplaces with the family's servants and spend all the money, especially on shoes. During one of her tantrums, she inadvertently moved Toph's space bracelet ever so slightly. The earthbending master thus recruited her for her academy, assuming she had the potential to become a metalbender. However, progress was slow as she was yet to move a single coin by the time that Sokka visited the academy.

When the Water Tribe warrior visited the school, she developed an immediate crush on him, claiming him to be her boyfriend. As Toph caught her pupils leaving the academy, they explained to her that the school had been taken over by firebender students of the Master Kunyo's Firebending Dojo, and Penga complained that they had not even let her pack her shoes. Having managed to buy the students three extra days to practice, Toph and Sokka tried many different methods to get Penga and the two other students to bend metal. During one of these attempts, Sokka figured that since the students had originally moved Toph's bracelet unintentionally while in extremely emotional states, all they needed to do was recreate that state. To achieve this, Sokka scared Penga with a big metal monster who had supposedly stolen and eaten all her shoes. However, instead of being able to metalbend Penga broke down in complete shock.

The evening prior to the battle, she and the other students were prepared to leave the academy when they overheard Toph saying to Sokka that she had been expecting them to be something they were not. Inspired by the fact that someone expected her to be something more than "a spoiled brat", she and the other students figured out the key to metalbending and were able to bend metal coins, thus defeating the rival firebending school. Afterwards, Penga declared that she was over Sokka and that Ho Tun was the one for her. She and her peers then returned to training.

Personality
Penga was both curious and clingy, and she was shown to be close to her parents, fearing they would be harmed in the riots during the Harmony Restoration Movement.

Abilities
Penga was an earthbender enrolled by her parents in Toph's new metalbending academy, although Toph believed she needed substantial practice in order to learn metalbending. She, like the other metalbending students, was chosen for the school because she made Toph's bracelet move when she was very emotional. She was eventually shown as the second metalbending pupil.

The Promise Trilogy

 * The Promise Part 1
 * The Promise Part 2

Trivia

 * In Norwegian, Penga's name means "money". Considering her fancy robes, this fitted the economic status of her wealthy family quite well.
 * Although she is an earthbender, Penga has an odd affinity for shoes.
 * At age nine, Penga was the youngest known earthbender to metalbend.