Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)
The version of Jenny Over-There from the 925th Universe, sometimes known as the Finder, was a woman from one universe who accidentally gained the ability to know where any item or person in the Multiverse was located. Discovered by the Man in Grey, she became the original employee of his “Multidimensional Finders Service”.
Description
Physical appearance
Jenny was frequently described as having an “under-described” face; (PROSE: Open Sourcing) one account stated that “her hair was a scruffy brownish-reddish mangle” and “her face was… [add description later]." (PROSE: Lovie Dovie Stuff) By one source, she appeared as “a skinny woman wearing dark trousers and a red cardigan”. (PROSE: Family Business)
Personality
Jenny Over-There was not very happy with her lot in life, often dreaming of the simpler life she might have had if she'd never gained her powers. She found her rather mundane workdays stifling and held little fondness for the Man in Grey. She seemed to share Jenny Everywhere's taste for toast. (PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There) Even before she got her powers, she had been planning to set the SatNav factory she worked at on fire out of frustration. (PROSE: Open Sourcing) She was proudly aromantic and asexual. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events)
Powers & abilities
Because SatNavs sometimes pick up information from other universes, “which is why SatNavs sometimes tell you to drive off the road”, Jenny somehow gained a similar ability after her accident. She had merely to concentrate on the subject of search to get a mental image of it and its current surroundings, as well as abstract knowledge of where they were located. When she was awake, her brain more generally “buzzed with coordinates for anything and everything”. (PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There) At the M.F.S. office, she had access to an easily-used, portable teleportation ray. (PROSE: Open Sourcing) She had some degree of Fourth Wall Awareness. (PROSE: Family Business)
Biography
Early life
Jenny once noted that she “wasn't the best student in school”. (PROSE: 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 bad paper mâché plant”. However, a fourteen-years-old Marietta got drawn into occultism and, making contact with Nyarlathotep, was convinced by him to sacrifice Jenny's cat Grober in a ritual to summon 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”. (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas)
Gaining her powers
Jenny originally worked at a SatNav factory. Frustrated with her bosses, she had made up her mind to set fire to the factory when it exploded of its own accord. Bizarrely, the accident (PROSE: Open Sourcing) conferred upon her an “inhuman sense of direction”, her brain now able to instinctively know the location of any given item or person in the Multiverse — although, at first, she did not realise she could also tap into universes and merely thought she knew where everything in her world was. Soon after, she was approached by the Man in Grey, who asked if she’d like to participate in a study of her powers. After realising her powers were multidimensional in nature, he offered her a job which paid £5000, as the sole employee of the Multidimensional Finders Service. (PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)
As sole employee of the M.F.S.
As the key employee of the M.F.S., Jenny's task was to take calls on the Red Interdimensional Telephone for a whole work day, telling callers from across the Multiverse (and across all walks of life) how to find whatever they wanted found. She was not supposed to refuse any requests, save for demands to know the location of Jenny Everywhere, due to such a question being inherently meaningless.
One otherwise-typical day saw her, in-between calls, getting a personal visit from Doctor Omega, who dismantled her toaster to “borrow its thermal reactor. Jenny Over-There ordered a replacement toaster at Kablamazon and was surprised when, near the end of the work-day, it was delivered by a version of Jenny Everywhere, who had briefly called her earlier in the day with “Jenny O.” realising who she was talking to. Just before going home, “Jenny O.” decided to leave a call about Jenny Everywhere unanswered even though she was now able to answer it. (PROSE: The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)
New hires
One day, Jenny reported to the M.F.S. office only to find the Red Interdimensional Telephone disconnected and her desk gone. The Man in Grey explained that he wanted her help screening new applicants as the Great Higher-Ups wished for the Multidimensional Finders Service to hire more people than just her. After harrowingly narrowing down the list of 193 applicants to just four — Talbot Molossus, the Hydrant, 0000-8888888, and Doctor Know-It-All — Jenny was crushed to learn that they were to staff a new M.F.S. office in Scotland, rather than join her in Wales. However, the Man in Grey then also asked her opinion on the possibility of hiring an intern to help run the Welsh office. She enthusiastically agreed and ended up recommending hapless failed superhero Dynamite Thor for the post, feeling sorry for him after he had made multiple bungled attempts to get hired for the new positions throughout the day. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
Pride Month with Peter
When the Man in Grey set up a Pride Month campaign, Jenny was initially irritated by the Man's inane proposal that the M.F.S. would, for the duration of Pride, allow callers to ask to know arbitrary people's sexualities. When the Man in Grey tasked Dynamite Thor with decorating the M.F.S. office, she gladly took the opportunity to get out of the office to help him shop for decorations. The two discovered Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop, where they found a great number of flags and other decorations. When they brought them back to the office, however, they found the Man in Grey waiting for them, put in a very bad mood by his dismissal from the Interdimensional Pride Council over having tried to sell out to a number of unethical sponsors. He forbade Thor and Jenny from decorating the office at all, greatly distressing Thor.
Seeing how much his first official Pride Month meant to her new friend (who explained that he had only recently come out as asexual, even to himself), she clarified to him that she was herself aroace, and suggested that they use the stock of decorations to throw their own party, which they spent a week planning, using Helvetius's interdimensional, bigger-on-the-inside shop as a venue. The party lived up to Thor's hopes and he had a great time, as did Jenny Over-There, who spent most of it hanging around one of the multiple versions of Jenny Everywhere in attendance, (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events) the 38167th Universe's Jenny. (PROSE: Family Business)
Abducted by Jenny Nowhere
On or slightly before June 17th, 2022, Jenny received a phone call on the Red Interdimensional Telephone from a mysterious woman who was actually the 38167th Universe's Jenny Nowhere, who asked her for the location of Pixie Pristine's crystal ball in order to steal it. After Jenny guilelessly gave it to her, Nowhere appeared in the M.F.S. office and kidnapped Over-There, taking her to Nowhere Island and dispassionately tying her to a tree for Jenny Everywhere and friends to find as, in turn, they made their way through the Island. After they untied her, Over-There was able to direct them to the Castle of Nowhere in the middle of the island, and to confirm Sophie Everytime's presence inside. After they made their way there and were captured by Nowhere, Over-There interrupted Nowhere's evil monologue, demanding explanations about the history she was alluding to, which Nowhere agreed to provide. After Nowhere was defeated, the heroes rowed out to sea from the Island to get out of the shift-cancelling era, and Jenny Everywhere then shifted everyone back home. (PROSE: Family Business)
Reappearing in the darkened M.F.S. office, Jenny was pleased to note that it was now 2 a.m. and she had missed an afternoon at work. After noticing absently that she had mistakenly brought Pixie Pristine's crystal ball with her, she almost literally tripped over Dynamite Thor and then was confronted with the Man in Grey, thus discovering in short succession that both of them had no other home than the M.F.S. office and stayed there at night. While Thor was distraught to have hissed his chance to rescue his friend as a damse-in-distress, and insisted on giving her one of his “Thor Signallers” (modified grenades), the Man in Grey half-heartedly scolded her before sending her home, insisting that she needed to be on her best behaviour the next day as the M.F.S. would be getting a visit from the Repairer of Reputations. (PROSE: Workplace Reunion)
Christmas 2022
On Christmas Eve 2022, Jenny took her leave from the M.F.S. office and drove back to the Over-There family home. There, though happy to see her parents, she was upset to find Marietta, whom she had not forgiven for killing Grober. She briefly tried making conversation but Marietta's seemingly overly casual attitude about the event soon caused her to storm upstairs to her room, where she listlessly switched on the television. However, after a while, Marietta came up to join her and explained that she had in fact regretted the deed bitterly for these ten years, and it had driven her to start using her powers for good. She further revealed that she had, at last, found a safe way to magically bring Grober back to life, gifting Jenny a magical coin which would allow the both of them to visit the Underworld to bring Grober back.
After Jenny forgave her, Marietta noticed reports on the televised news about an ongoing crisis at the Dibbsy Store in America, and abruptly asked Jenny for its exact address, which Jenny gave; Jenny was surprised, though only mildly so, when she then learned the truth about her cousin by seeing the news broadcast continue by reporting on the sudden appearance at the scene of the magic-wielding superhero Lady Satan. Afterwards, she went down to have Christmas dinner with her family, pleased to see that Marietta had already returned and would share in the meal. (PROSE: A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas)
Later events
One day, while on his way out to get some lunch for himself and Jenny, Dynamite Thor found himself face-to-face with a visitor, something the M.F.S. got excessively few of. He was the Man in Gray, a counterpart of the Man in Grey from a nearby universe who wanted to discuss the Man in Grey's lack of a Talisman of Restriction with him. Thor was oblivious to the difference between them, unlike Jenny, who informed the visitor that the Man in Grey was out. Telling her to inform the Man in Grey that he would return, the Man in Gray left with no further fuss. (PROSE: Fragment: A & E)
At one point, in the 775th Universe, Laura Drake received a question from an interdimensional observer inquiring as to the name of the universe in which this Laura resided. Before Laura could answer, the Interdimensional Ham Radio she was using spontaneously put her through to the Multidimensional Finders Service, and a bored-looking Jenny Over-There informed her that her universe was “Reality #775” before hanging up. (COMIC: The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A)
Behind the scenes
Genesis
Jenny Over-There was introduced in 2022 in The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There, an April Fools' Day story by Callum Phillpott. Phillpott's rendition of “the Paragraph” released Jenny Over-There as an open-source character in her own right under similar conditions to Jenny Everywhere and other recurring characters.[1]
| The characters of Jenny Everywhere, Jenny Nowhere, Jenny Somewhere, and now Jenny Over-There are available for use by anyone, with only one condition. This paragraph must be included in any publication involving Jenny Over-There, in order that others may use this property as they wish. All rights reversed. |
| —Callum Phillpott |
Notes & References
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