A passionate and impulsive woman.

[wellplayedpenny]

In my writing, I have no problem simply pretending she never existed I don't try to address canon events in my fic, except in an oblique way. I just proceed as if this show ended after S2, or I rewind and start fresh from S1 or earlier, and that way I don't have to deal with canon at all. I see no reason to acknowledge the later seasons or any recent canon events, in my fic. If other people are able to wrangle the current canon into something more manageable, more power to them; I'd rather wipe the slate clean and start again.

For me, I like all of the characters in their early incarnations so I tend to use all of them in my stories. However, with you in mind, I thought over my stories and realize that I never gave Bernadette much to do. She just isn't able to stand on her own. Maybe next time I can say there's been an accident at the university lab and that she's in quarantine so Penny needs to take over her shifts at the Cheesecake Factory.

I made the mistake of writing one story set in the later seasons and it took something like 18 chapters just to get Penny to the point where she was a capable human being again. Writing her life with Leonard based on canon was so *depressing* that I vowed that this was my first and last current season fic. That's why my last fic was a rewrite of the early episodes. Therapy for me.