Kim (Parallax Universe)

Kim
Character Information
Species	Vampire (?)
Gender	Female
Residence	Unnamed universe
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: Parallax
Also seen in	PROSE: Camera Shy
Copyright	Scott Sanford (?)

Kim was Jenny Everywhere's roommate, and one of her closest friends, in one universe.

Description

Personality

Kim was willful, proactive, and practical — as well as a loyal friend to Jenny, whose life she saved on several occasions She had a disparaging view of men, and would make joke at their expense even if they happened to be friends of hers. Despite her evident vampirism, she seemingly refused to refer to herself as one. (PROSE: Parallax)

Powers & abilities

Kim was used to bare-handed fighting. Although she never called herself one, she had abilities consistent with being a vampire, including immunity to ordinary tranquiliser drugs, superhuman physical strength (sufficient to kill a dinosaur bare-handed), and even such powers as the ability to levitate (PROSE: Parallax) and to turn into a swarm of bats. (PROSE: Camera Shy) In trade-off, she had a weakness to sunlight; if exposed to direct, stark sunlight her skin would begin to burn within seconds. (PROSE: Parallax)

Biography

Kim once went out to a bar alongside Jenny and three of their male friends. After Jenny began feeling nauseous, she accompanied Jenny to the bathroom, where they were confronted by Jenny Nowhere, whom this Jenny had never encountered in any form, and who was the one who'd slipped something in Jenny's beer. She revealed herself as originally a version of Jenny Everywhere who had become disconnected from the wider telepathic network. To Everywhere's horror, she viewed it as a liberation which she planned to “share” with her, willing or not.

However, Nowhere had not counted with Kim's special abilities, which meant her tranquiliser drug had no effect on Jenny's friend. Forced to flee through shifting, Nowhere was pursued by Everywhere through several landscapes (including in the air above a forest, in which location Kim's levitation abilities proved lucky). Realising sunlight was Kim's weakness and Kim was Jenny's, Nowhere shifted to the Giza desert at high noon, forcing Everywhere to shift Kim somewhere shady instead of continuing to try to capture Nowhere.

However, Nowhere did not keep the upper hand for long; foolishly choosing to pursue Everywhere in turn to the cool jungle she had chosen as the place to take Kim, she realised too late that it was a prehistoric jungle and was mauled to death by a dinosaur. Kim later examined her body, finding the surgical scar above her left ear which revealed she was not the original Jenny Nowhere. Shaken by these revelations, Jenny Everywhere and Kim agreed to go back home for another drink — with no music. (PROSE: Parallax)

The year after they'd foiled the Vampire King together, Jenny and Kim received a call from Ulysses Dumas, a musician they'd saved from the King's dungeon; it transpired that he had ended up turning into a vampire himself following his ordeal, and he was worried about how this would impact his career, given that some types of camera could no longer pick him up. Jenny went to the first meeting alone, but set a second appointment with Dumas where she brought Kim, who suggested he wear full-body make-up as part of his stage persona. (PROSE: Camera Shy)

Behind the scenes

The implications in Parallax and Camera Shy point to Kim being some form of vampire, but this is purposefully left ambiguous. On the topic of Kim's potential vampirism, Sanford later commented on the Jenny Everywhere Discord:

And yet she never says the V word. No doubt there's a story there. [But] I think Kim is over-exposed in Jenny's circle of friends and shouldn't be front & center in anything else for a while. A quote did come to me a while back, which she may never say in a story: “I lived a very conventional life once. Then I had an appointment in Samara and realized I could take the scenic route home.” Or if she was feeling more blunt, “a rare condition; symptoms include nocturnal insomnia, changes in appetite, and a propensity to Cotard’s Delusion”.

—Scott Sanford