Cream Machine

Cream Machine is the femslash ship between Neopolitan and Penny Polendina from the RWBY fandom.

Canon
Neopolitan and Penny Polendina have very little canon interactions with each other in the RWBY series but there is a moment between both characters in Volume 8.

Although there haven't been any romantic moments between these two considering both characters are enemies, but in Volume 8 Chapter 5, the fight between Penny Polendina and Cinder Fall while also the fight between Neopolitan and Maria Calavera.

Cinder attacked Penny causing Penny to fall to the ground, Penny then saw Neo about to end off Maria, once seeing that Penny quickly got back up to prevent Neo from doing so by blasting her.

Fanon
Cream Machine is a rarepair within the RWBY fandom. Due to the lack of interactions between Neo and Penny and the unlikeliness of them even becoming friends in the series, this ship is also considered a crack ship but even with all that there are still a few fans who like Cream Machine among the RWBY fandom.

The ship was mostly popular around Volume 2 - Volume 3, but lost popularity at the end of Volume 3 due to Penny being disassembled in the Volume. Although when she returned in Volume 7 few people began finding out about the ship and the pair increased in popularity, though not that much there were still a growth in the ship's popularity.

Some fans still hope for them to become at least friends in the RWBY series. While the ship's title has inspired a few fans to draw them sharing some ice cream with one another. People also tend to point out and gush about their height difference.

Cream Machine as of currently has 6 fanfics on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * "Cream Machine" derives from Neo's design and name being based off of Neapolitan Ice cream and Penny being a robot, robots being machines.

Variations

 * Short and Sweet — refers to the ship between Penny Polendina, Neo Politan, Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee
 * Strawberry Cream Machine — refers to the ship between Penny Polendina, Neo Politan and Ruby Rose