The Minix

The Minix (real name Minnie Minix) is a non-member penguin who is a full-time architect. She is currently living in Eastsheild, with many measuring tapes, blueprints and scattered pencils. In her family, she earns the most and along with one of her sisters Beatrice Minix (who is an artist), she has the most creative job. As she really admires art (modern especially), she is known for designing spiral-shaped staircases, chimneys that look as if they would fall down and in her free time she designs modern art and Dada sculptures. She is also the youngest of her 4 sisters and 2 brothers, and is also the youngest to have an extremely well-paid job.

In her spare time, she sometimes sketches really artistic clothes, usually covered in extremely chaotic (not to mention, bright) colours and repeated patterns made chaotic, usually spirals and leaves. She also has a musical sense, and if she could find the time she would go to music school, and would probably learn the piano. This is what she aims for, every holiday she can get. Her best friends are (obviously) her sister Beatrice and Richard Rambler, a part-time author, poet and cloth trader.

Early Life
Minnie hatched from her egg in 1993 one day later after Beatrice, two years later after one of her brothers Dickin, three years after Sallie and Ben, five years after Helen and ten years after Ernestine to a Dorkugese-Tropicalian mother named Jemimah, and a Club Penguinian father named Walker in Antarctica. She was the youngest of her six other siblings, and because of this she was usually the chick that gained the most attention. Along with Beatrice, as a chick, she admired art and often said to her family that she would be an artist when she would grow up, causing them to be homeschooled. Because Beatrice had the same passion, they became close and would spend many a morning building sculptures with clay. Over time, their passion for becoming artists grew stronger, and on Beatrice's second birthday Minix gifted her with a sculpture of her favourite character at the time, Penguin Man. Soon afterwards, Dickin joined them and soon the trio were often seen together.

In 1997, when Minnie and Beatrice were 4, the family went camping for the first time. Ernestine needed to return to university around this time, and because her parents figured out that their current Antarctican university was "too easy for her", they decided to change her to Club Penguin University, resulting to a move to Club Penguin. Jemimah and Walker, confident that Helen and Ben would be good at taking care of them, both got a 12-hour job and planned to homeschool the rest of their offspring whenever they came back. Helen and Ben, however, was at the "rebellious adolescent" at this time and would let their younger companions do anything they wished while their parents were out. This didn't involve dangerous games luckily, however, and while Helen and Ben did their homework (or joined their two comrades), everybody else in the house would do anything they wished. Fortunately, Beatrice and Minnie were concentrating more on their art, they never joined their naughtier siblings and would spend hours in either Beatrice's or Minnie's room, drawing or making a clay sculpture.

Some six years later, their parents invited their friend Agnes Penguinpuff to their igloo to introduce her to their chicks. Agnes realized Minnie's and Beatrice's creative potential, and advised their parents to encourage their creativity to the ten-year-old sisters. Sure enough, by the time they were eleven, they were able to sketch an accurate building and paint a still-life.

Later Life
Nothing happened for five more years, until Minnie and Beatrice went into university (where they were often bullied for having a passion for art), where she met her best friend Richard Rambler in the following incident - a gang of bullies chased them into a corner to pick on them and break their expensive art equipment, when a penguin ran up to the leader and pushed him over, meaning that they got into a fight and eventually diverted the bullies' attention onto him. After the incident, Minnie and Beatrice expressed their thanks, and began a friendship that would last into adulthood.

Involvement
Minix's involvement is small, yet large. She designs many buildings in the world (usually pretty houses or large hospitals, the good creature she is), and thus has a large impact as an architect, but, in the "small" sense, she doesn't do very much apart from that, being somewhat eccentric (by "eccentric", read "recluse") and not wanting to get herself involved in politics; but she does have to, sometimes, because she might have to be in a war-stricken country to build a hospital, or something of the sort.

Description
The Minix is a yellow-feathered penguin of medium height, with a beak larger than other penguins and brown eyes (others say they "sparkle", but Minix isn't convinced). She has feet 7 inches long, and tends to carry around a measuring tape. Whilst inspecting a construction job, she wears a yellow miner's hat for protection, but if she is cooperating on it, she wears a safety vest and glasses for protection. She has a modest personality, which she can sometimes use for her own benefit, and likes to be kind to other penguins (a reason why she is so often tasked to design houses or hospitals).

Abilities and Weaknesses
Her abilities are -


 * Fast Worker - Due to her liking her job and wanting to be kind to other penguins as soon as possible, she can finish designing a building in record time, leaving her with plenty of spare time.


 * Modest - Being modest, she can use this for her own petty benefits. For example, if a strange noise is heard outside the door and somebody declares that someone has to open it, she will consider herself as nobody due to this modesty, and allow somebody else to perform the task.

Her weaknesses are -


 * Too Generous/Naïve for her Own Good - Unfortunately, she is far too modest/generous/naïve sometimes, causing other penguins to be able to manipulate her for their own use.


 * Work - Unlike most others, she loves work so much that she would do anything for more work. This means that any other penguin can use this as a benefit for themselves, due to her being easier to be sent off.

Quotes

 * "Niet!" - Minix's reaction when she refuses to do something.


 * "What can I design for you today?"


 * "What do you think about my latest artistic clothes design?" - Minix asking the opinion of others, whenever she can get a chance.


 * "Work?!? Is there more work I can do?!?"

Trivia

 * She is a close(ish) friend of Penguinpuffdude's mother, Agnes Penguinpuff.
 * She owns a Norfolk Terrier.