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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Preludes and Knick-Knacks'' (short story)}}{{Short Story
  | title1=''Preludes and Knick-Knacks''
  | image1= Preludes and Knick-Knacks - Title.png
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  | hero(es)=[[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]]<br>[[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]]
  | featuring=[[Jenny_Everywhere_(Parallax_Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Octo-Brianna]]<br>[[Lord Thymon]]<br><small>([[Thymon Plushy|stuffed toy]])</small><br>[[Herbie Popnecker]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
  | setting=[[Parallax Universe]]
  | length= 
  | writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]]
  | artist(s)= [[Aristide Twain]]
  | dates= October 6th, 2023
  | original_link= [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/55823.html]
| seriesnav = [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]]
| previous = ''[[Employee Training (short story)|Employee Training]]''
| next = ''[[Just Dropping In (short_story)|Just Dropping In]]''
| seriesnav2 = ''[[The Sophiad (series)|The Sophiad]]''
| previous2 = ''[[How_Jenny_First_Met%E2%80%A6_(short_story)#How_Sophie_First_Met_Professor_Awesome|How Jenny First Met...]]''
| next2 = ''[[The Doll’s Source (short story)|The Doll’s Source]]''
}}'''''Preludes and Knick-Knacks''''', or '''''Preludes and Knick-Nacks''''', was a story by [[Scott Sanford]]. It served to open the ''[[The Sophiad (series)|Sophiad]]'' arc in which [[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]] and [[Professor Awesome]] got together again after their first brief encounter with each other. A preexisting illustration of Professor Awesome by [[Aristide Twain]] was used to illustrate it.

== Contents ==
=== Plot ===
Some time after encountering [[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]], [[Professor Awesome]] is at home when he encounters his neighbor [[Jenny_Everywhere_(Parallax_Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] with an [[Octo-Brianna|octopus]] on her shoulder. Jenny explains that she's [[shift]]ing over to another universe briefly because ‘Brianna’ needs her for her “amazing superpowers of breathing air and walking on land”. As the odd pair shift out, they drop something which turns out to be an explosive.

As Eric lies on the ground, badly hurt, Sophie appears beside him. She is briefly distressed at his injuries, but then a second Sophie shifts in with future knowledge and magical lollipops of the kind [[Herbie Popnecker]] consumes. The other Sophie brings the first up to speed and shifts out, leaving the remaining Sophie to unwrap a lollipop for Eric.

When he wakes up, the boy finds himself uninjured. They talk briefly and Sophie informs him that she doesn't think she should techncally be visiting [[Parallax Universe|his universe]] “yet”, and that she will be back later. She gives him a [[Thymon Plushy|strange plush toy]] to remember her by, and [[Shift|shifts]] away. Eric examines the plushy, puzzled, but finds himself happy that she will eventually return.

=== Worldbuilding ===
==== Jenny Everywhere ====
* The [[Jenny_Everywhere_(Parallax_Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] who appears here is the one native to this universe and has been in many other stories.

==== Octobriana ====
* The [[Octo-Brianna|octopus named Brianna]] is never explicitly described as an incarnation of [[Octobriana]], with the reader being left to infer the pun.

==== Professor Awesome ====
* The story features the [[Parallax Universe]]'s standard [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]], who begins the story at home, in the parking lot of his apartment building.

==== Sophie Everytime ====
* This story features the ‘primary’, [[38167th Universe]] version of [[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]], who has [[How Jenny First Met… (short story)|visited this universe at least once before]]. 

==== Universe ====
* The events of this story occur in [[Parallax Universe|Eric's home universe]].

=== Continuity ===
* [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] and [[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie]] had met in passing earlier. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How_Jenny_First_Met%E2%80%A6_(short_story)#How_Sophie_First_Met_Professor_Awesome|How Jenny First Met...]]'')
* [[Thymon Plushy|Plushies of the type described]] have been seen before in other stories, debuting in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]''.
* The “burger place next door” to the [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|“Parallax” Jenny]]'s apartment building has never been seen but would also be mentioned again in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Delusional Visions (short story)|Delusional Visions]]''.

== Behind the scenes ==
===Read online===
The story is [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/55823.html available] on the author's website. 

[[Category:Stories]]
[[Category:Prose Stories]]
[[Category:Short Stories]]
[[Category:Surviving Stories]]
[[Category:Written by Scott Sanford]]
[[Category:Drawn by Aristide Twain]]
[[Category:Released in 2023]]
[[Category:Featuring Jenny Everywhere]]
[[Category:Featuring Octobriana]]
[[Category:Multi-Shifter Stories]]
[[Category:Featuring Professor Awesome]]
[[Category:Featuring Sophie Everytime]]