Penance was one of my favourite Gen Xers along with Chamber and Mondo. The entire team had such cool and unique powers.
My head canon is that there's a real Yugoslavian mutant that had Penance's powers and was fed on by Emplate. She escaped him and he later turned Monet into a replica of her.
...and my fave Gen X cover...
Awesome.
Remember that one panel where she started to “soften” and become more human looking ?
We never got to know what happened to Emplate’s other victims either. (Vincente, Murmur, others).