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Jenny was very fond of the ''[[Sherlock Holmes (925th Universe)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' books as a child. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[The Birthday Toaster (short story)|The Birthday Toaster]]'') She once noted that she “wasn't the best student in school”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'') | Jenny was very fond of the ''[[Sherlock Holmes (925th Universe)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' books as a child. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[The Birthday Toaster (short story)|The Birthday Toaster]]'') She once noted that she “wasn't the best student in school”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'') | ||
As they grew up, she and her cousin [[Marietta Over-There]] were the best of friends. Highlights of their interactions included “playing tag, talking about boys in a way that made it very clear that neither of [them] felt any attraction towards them despite feigning it due to societal norms”, and watching “scary movies” such as ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'', “[not] even the good one” but the one “with the [[Audrey Junior|bad paper mâché plant]]”. | As they grew up, she and her cousin [[Marietta Over-There]] were the best of friends. Highlights of their interactions included “playing tag, talking about boys in a way that made it very clear that neither of [them] felt any attraction towards them despite feigning it due to societal norms”, and watching “scary movies” such as ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'', “[not] even the good one” but the one “with the [[Audrey Junior|bad paper mâché plant]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'') By another telling, the two were kinder to the film, with Marietta simply describing it as not even being “the scary one”, prompting Jenny to comment that really, neither of the films had been meant to be scary. Despite its relative unscariness, the young Marietta was very frightened of [[Audrey Junior|the nasal-voiced plant]] and had recurring nightmares about it. At any rate, the other two girls also amused themselves by “looking at all those goofy pictures in the [[John Dee (925th Universe)|John Dee]] translation of the ''[[Necronomicon]]''”. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|''A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas'' (2024 reedit)]]) | ||
At any rate, a fourteen-years-old Marietta got drawn deeper into occultism and, making contact with [[Nyarlathotep (925th Universe)|Nyarlathotep]], was convinced by him to sacrifice Jenny's cat [[Grober]] in a ritual to summon [[Yog-Sothoth (925th Universe)|Yog-Sothoth]]. Heartbroken and horrified, Jenny ceased all contacts with Marietta for ten years, during which Marietta, brought to her senses by her cousin's reaction, sought to atone for her mistake by using her magic for good as the heroic “[[Lady Satan (925th Universe)|Lady Satan]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'') | |||
Jenny once took a culinary arts class, but ended up failing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[The Birthday Toaster (short story)|The Birthday Toaster]]'') | Jenny once took a culinary arts class, but ended up failing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[The Birthday Toaster (short story)|The Birthday Toaster]]'') | ||