Penelope Blossom

Penelope Blossom the mastermind behind the Black Hood and the Gargoyle King`

She is the mother of Cheryl and the late Jason Blossom, as well as the wife of the deceased Clifford Blossom. She is also the grandmother of Jason and Polly's twin babies, Juniper and Dagwood.

She suffered severe third-degree burns when running back into Thornhill to save the family portrait after Cheryl set fire to the house in an effort to "start over" with a clean slate. This gave Cheryl the opportunity to control her mother the same way she controlled and abused Cheryl.

She is also a serial killer who poisons men who she claims are the real "poison", having taken the lives of her late husband Clifford Blossom, his brother Claudius, Darryl Doiley, Felix Featherhead, and Hal Cooper.

Early Life
Penelope was born an orphan and grew up at the Sisters of Quiet Mercy until she was eight years old and adopted by the Blossom family, due to her red hair. The Blossoms raised her in Riverdale to one day become her adoptive brother Clifford's wife. Penelope attended the local high school, where she was a "teacher's pet" and frequently at odds with Alice Smith and Hermione Gomez, often leading the girls to physical altercations. Penelope would forge a rivalry with Hermione and to this day, the two ladies are still bitter rivals. During Penelope's junior year, she, Hermione, Alice, Fred Andrews, FP Jones, Sierra Samuels, Hiram Lodge, Tom Keller, Darryl Doiley, and Marty Mantle played Gryphons and Gargoyles. Penelope later sends everyone invitations for ascension night, and while everyone was high on Fizzle Rocks, Penelope disguised herself as the Gargoyle King and poisoned Felix Featherhead.

n adulthood, Penelope and Cliff Blossom had a set of twins, named Cheryl and Jason. Throughout the young years of Cheryl and Jason's lives, Penelope sought to protect her children from her husband's illegal business, specifically supplying drugs. She did this by turning an all-too-real monster into a bedtime story, a child's Bogeyman, and sent them to their rooms whenever "The Sugarman", Clifford's drug associate, came to Thornhill. She would later come to learn of Clifford's plans for Jason, to groom him to take his place after him. Despite her efforts, Clifford's actions set in motion the events that ultimately lead to Jason's death as well as Clifford's.