Penelope de la Rosa (Original Universe)
- Primary work
- JORGE JOESTAR
- Version
- Original Universe
- Stand
- Cube House | Arrow Cross House | U-Boat (DISC) (Temporary)↗
- Occupation
- Star Mark Trading Office Worker | Tutor↗
Penelope de la Rosa (ペネロペ・デ・ラ・ロサ, Penerope de ra Rosa) is a primary ally featured in the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. She is from the Canary Islands and helps Jorge Joestar catch Javier Cortes, the mastermind behind fifteen locked room murders, after almost becoming one of Javier's victims. Forced to leave her home, Erina Joestar allows Penelope to live with them and Penelope starts working in the La Palma office of Erina's trading company, Star Mark Trading. While living with the Joestars, she acts as an elder sister to Jorge and tutors him.
She has a Wound ability that allows her to create locked rooms and hang whoever is trapped within. Although she is unaware of it, Penelope is also a Stand user, with the autonomous Stand Cube House which temporarily evolves into Arrow Cross House.

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02Appearance
Penelope is a slim woman of average height with youthful facial features. She has short wavy light hair kept up to her neck with side swept bangs. Her hair appears to grow longer when she is distressed or using her Wound ability.↗
She wears a striped sundress and Jorge says that she would sometimes also wear a light shawl over her shoulders. According to Jorge, she is quite beautiful.↗↗
03Personality
Penelope has a worrisome, insecure attitude and is emotionally unstable. She initially has an extreme pathological fear of clowns. When seeing Javier Cortes appear in her dreams as a clown, she would become covered in a cold sweat, her heart would rapidly beat, her breath would grow shallow, and she would be barely conscious enough to think. Sometimes her eyes would even roll back into her head and she would faint, while still asleep and dreaming. She worries about harming other people with her ability and shuts herself in her room. Penelope was loyal to her abusive boyfriend, Edvard Noriega.↗
Penelope slowly starts becoming more confident and braver after living with the Joestar family. However, she is also very violent, aggressive, and can go berserk. Seeing her boyfriend Edvard again enrages her to the point where veins bulge on her forehead, her lips curl back, she bares her teeth, and her nose starts bleeding. She becomes willing to actually kill someone when she is in this state.↗↗
When they move to England, Jorge describes her as seeming full of life and fun. She is protective of Jorge and treats him like a little brother. Furious that he is still being bullied in England, Penelope threatens to summon her locked room clown ability on them.↗↗
04Abilities
Wound
Penelope's Wound ability awakens due to her constant fear of Javier Cortes appearing in her dreams dressed as a clown, attempting to manipulate her into creating locked rooms so she can kill her mother.↗
Coulrophobia
Penelope's Wound activates when she is enraged, distressed, or afraid, causing the creation of locked rooms that entrap anyone in the surrounding area.↗
At first, Penelope could not control the ability and just standing in front of a door would cause all the doors and windows of that room to slam shut, becoming a locked room. A clown made of the threads of Penelope's clothes lurks inside the room. It is short and fat, with big white hair, white makeup, puffy white clothes, a round nose, and a hat. Inside its sclerae are stars instead of irises. It appears hollow and initially also has a thread hanging from its hip as well as a few cracks on its body with frayed edges. The clown takes any object inside the room such as a large table and wedges it under the doorknob so the door remains shut.↗
As Penelope initially did not want to kill anybody, her Wound would also create a doll out of the threads of her clothes, and the doll would be hanged instead. The doll appears with no clothes, a shapeless face with white circles as eyes, and a wide open mouth stitched on. Somehow, the doll would also have blood streaming out of its mouth after being hanged. The doll could easily unravel with one tug of a loose thread hanging from its hip.↗
Six months later, Penelope overcomes her fears with the help of Jorge, and upgrades her ability into a frightening weapon. She is capable of transforming anything in her environment into a locked room. For example, if Penelope is outside, dirt and grass could rise up into four walls to entrap someone. She can even make the walls out of zombies. The walls have no doors or windows, making it more difficult to either break in or out. The ability also no longer requires using her clothes, as the clown is formed from her environment. The walls are living and can recover itself to fill up any gaps or holes.↗↗↗
Cube House
Penelope's Stand subconsciously manifested in the far future, thirty-six universes later, as a way to search for Jorge Joestar after his body disappeared in 1920. Cube House is a tesseract made of eight square rooms that allows its occupant to move indefinitely in any direction. Falling vertically through four doors in the center of Cube House allows one to travel through time. The Stand has its own personality with its main body appearing as a young girl named Reimi Sugimoto, who controls the house's walls.↗
Arrow Cross House
Arrow Cross House is created around Cube House when Reimi accidentally pierces herself with the Arrow, developing its own Wound ability. Arrow Cross House appears as four arrows surrounding the north, south, east, and west walls of Cube House.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Penelope's parents divorced in 1900 and her mother Isabella had full custody of her. Penelope blames her mother for taking away her father and their relationship becomes strained.↗
Later on, Penelope would date a thug named Edvard Noriega. Edvard abused Penelope and sold her valuables while threatening to completely ruin her if Isabella interfered. Afraid to lose her daughter, Isabella gave up on Penelope, leaving her alone by herself. Because of this, clowns started appearing in Penelope's dreams which caused her pathological fear of them to grow. Despite of this, no one believed her stories, not even Edvard nor her mother.↗↗
1904-1905
Following the disappearance of Tsukumojuku, Jorge occupies himself by reading science novels in the house and his mother, Erina Pendleton, suggests hiring a tutor. The first person that comes into Jorge's mind is Penelope. When he gives her a visit, the sight of Jorge triggers Penelope's memories from his previous case with Javier Cortes and dismisses him immediately.↗
In Jorge's home, while Erina narrates her stories about Dio Brando to Jorge and Lisa Lisa, Penelope is told about about a recent mass hysteria involving seventy people inscribing drawings of the Mothman on the walls of the now-burned down church. They go to the church to investigate the site on the next morning. Deducing that these incidents happened because of their presence on the island, Erina decides that she and Jorge must move to England with Penelope.↗↗
1907
Over the next two years, Penelope spends her days investigating Kenton's murder and finding her real killer. Jorge graduates from school but remains under suspicion. One day, Darlington visits him to inform him that two witnesses' testimonies have been used as concrete evidences against him. Penelope overhears them and becomes furious at the sight of the Motorize sibling, thinking that she wanted Jorge to plead guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence.↗
1915
While Penelope and Erina are at work, they receive a phone call from Jorge. Worried for their safety after fighting several zombie pilots, Jorge tells Erina and Penelope to hurry back home and hide. Erina also informs him that she just saw several English planes fly off. Penelope and Erina take Jorge's advice and go back home.↗↗
1918-1920
Jorge and Lisa Lisa head back home after World War I concludes and announce their engagement, while also planning for their wedding. Jorge is relieved to see how happy Penelope is since she and Lisa Lisa disliked each other when they were younger. Penelope insists that if it was anyone else she would be jealous, but she's glad that Jorge is marrying Lisa Lisa. After hearing that Lisa Lisa is pregnant, Erina, Penelope, and Speedwagon, are extremely happy.↗
Lisa Lisa tearfully kills Antonio Torres and the body of William Cardinal he was possessing. Furious at Jorge's supposed death, Penelope accidentally creates a locked room made from the 920,000 Antonio zombies and torn up bits of them. The giant locked room surrounds the whole world, swallowing everything up. At this point, Penelope also awakens her Stand, Cube House. It manifests in the 37th universe where Jorge had disappeared to, trying to find him and bring him back.↗↗↗
Final Battle
The 37th universe's Jorge Joestar arrives in the original universe along with Narancia Ghirga, Kars, and Enrico Pucci. They head to the Joestar mansion after seeing a sign for Jorge and Lisa Lisa's wedding. They are greeted by Penelope's clown once they arrive, which imprisons Jorge in a locked room. The clown declares that if he isn't Penelope's friend, then he'll have to hang himself.↗
With the battle over and Erina reunited with Jonathan, Penelope decides it's time for her to leave the Joestars and moves to Japan in the 37th universe so she could meet her Stand. Two years later, she marries Jorge's father, Jonda Joestar. A year later in 2015, they have a daughter named Joeko Joestar.↗↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Abilities / Coulrophobia
The clown's noose drops down from the ceiling, wrapping the necks of the victims trapped inside the room and hanging them to death.↗
Abilities / Arrow Cross House
Reimi could manipulate its walls and seal people beneath the building in a state between life and death for either her own safety or their protection.↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Alive (JORGE JOESTAR)↗
07Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Isabella | Mother | ↗ |
| Jonda Joestar | Husband | ↗ |
| Jorge Joestar | Adopted Son | ↗ |
| Joeko Joestar | Daughter | ↗ |
08Sources & attribution
- Penelope de la Rosa
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