simon jeffes wrote:I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random.
this little coffee-colored penguin was (partially) inspired by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and its subsequent re-imagining, the Penguin Cafe. one of their more well-known pieces would be perpetuum mobile.
there's a lot of little details about the penguin cafe experiment that i love, but one thing i found especially touching was how the son of the original penguin cafe proprietor, also a musican himself, founded a similar project as a tribute and a way to remember his father.
i wanted to explore that idea with coffee penguin as well, so a big part of his background is that he inherited this coffee shop-slash-classical music cafe from his grandmother and now has literally no clue what to do with it - but he hopes that it'll provide him some sense of purpose (and maybe a little catharsis) in his life. doesn't help that the coffee shop seems to be haunted, too.
Name a character who runs a business.