Lord Grallyx
Lord Grallyx was a reptilian demon. One version of him was the lord of the Ratreyfian Underworld in one universe. During an encounter with Jenny Everywhere, Grallyx gained the ability to shift, but was trapped inside a book belonging to Laura Drake.
Description
Physical appearance
Lord Grallyx was an alligator-like demon, with six eyes, four arms, two tails, and “far too many teeth for Jenny [Everywhere]’s liking”. As Grand High Lord, Grallyx wore a flaming crown that hovered a few inches above his head, although he had lost it by the time Jenny imprisoned him. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)
Powers & abilities
Lord Grallyx was an individually very powerful Demon; he had no interest in making demonic pacts with mortals, as he did not actually need to accrue his power. If released from Hell, he suggested that he had the power to lay waste to the entire Earth himself. In addition to whatever abilities he might have earlier possessed, Grallyx was able to use his magic to copy Jenny Everywhere's shifting powers after repeated first-hand exposure to them — although he was unable to make much of use of them before being imprisoned. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)
Biography
Summoned by Jenny and Laura
Lord Grallyx was summoned to Earth from the Ratreyfian Underworld by Laura Drake using an old demonology book, with the intent of making a deal with him to help Laura pass a vital history exam she needed to get into the advanced science class at her school. As soon as he materialised, Grallyx explained that he intended to simply take over the world, having no need of making deals.
Jenny Everywhere had been helping Laura, however, and with another, more experienced Jenny taking temporary control of her body, she shifted Grallyx away from his universe and transported him rapidly through several other dimensions. Every time, Grallyx was temporarily inserted into the history and fabric of that world's Jenny's life, changing as needed — such as turning into a Dragon in the world of a Knight Jenny or a terrifying cosmic singularity called ‘GRALL-X’ in a space-soldier Jenny's dimension. Every time, Grallyx eventually realised who he really was. Through trial and error, he eventually learned how to replicate shifting with his own demonic power.
However, before he could use this to his advantage, Jenny finally found a dimension whose rules allowed Grallyx to be defeated: in this world, they were both living drawings, enabling Jenny to draw shift-preventing chains around Grallyx, keeping him trapped as a drawing. When she returned herself and him to the dimension they'd started from, Grallyx was now genuinely trapped as an illustration in the very demonology book Laura had used to summon him. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)
On April Fools' Day, Lord Grallyx realised he could exploit the Rule of Funny to escape the demonology book in which Jenny had imprisoned him by editing his own page on the Jenny Everywhere Wiki.
He then located Jenny, who had been participating in a pie-baking contest in one universe in the Ninety-Third Empire of Sagittarius. When he explained to her how he had escaped, she pulled out her own lap-top and edited back to his prison. In turn, Grallyx edited her page to trap her in the book with him. However, she escaped with relative ease by simply shifting out, with no further editing required. Raging, Grallyx vandalised the Wiki on a much greater scale, making himself out to be the main character instead of Jenny.
To further incapacitate her, he also edited her page to make her copyrighted (with him as the IP owner), leading to robots belonging to the Interdimensional Copyright Office arriving in a copyright-ship to sequester her. However, she managed to stun Grallyx long enough to edit herself back into the public domain. In an even greater feat of Wiki vandalism, he successfully edited the summary of every Jenny Everywhere story on the Wiki to be about him, cementing himself as the “supreme crosser-over of the Omniverse”. However, Jenny was unmoved, noting that by the very same fourth-wall-leaning principles he was exploiting, an April Fools' Day story simply couldn't alter the status quo of reality to this extent, and one way or another things would be back to normal the next day. (PROSE: The Wiki Adventures of Lord Grallyx)
In the Collapsed Cosmos, Jenny Everywhere would later reminisce with Glendalf about fighting Lord Grallyx on “the astral plane”. (PROSE: The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)
Laura's plush toy
In one universe, Grallyx existed in the form of a plush toy. His extra number of arms and eyes was the result of a factory error, having originally been meant to be a regular toy alligator. He was salvaged by a woman who later became Laura Drake's grandmother. When she was two, Laura was gifted the plush toy by her grandmother. She decided to name it “Grawlix”, after what she had heard was the name of the scribbles replacing dirty words in comics like Asterix, which her grandmother liked to read to her. However, because the precocious but still-young Laura couldn't spell, it came out as “Grallyx”, which stuck. She later took the Grallyx plush toy with her to the Neptunian Orbital University, continuing to talk to him while she worked on her physics projects. Jenny noticed the toy when she met Laura for the first time, and, to Laura's relief, did not make fun of her, instead finding the toy cute and admiring its uniqueness. (PROSE: Extradimensional Experiments)
Behind the scenes
Lord Grallyx was created in 2020 by Lupan Evezan for a Jenny Everywhere Day prose story, Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell, and released thereupon in the public domain under similar conditions to Jenny Everywhere herself:
| The character of Lord Grallyx is available for use by anyone, with only one condition. This paragraph must be included in any publication involving Lord Grallyx in order that others may use this property as they wish. All rights reversed. |
| —Lupan Evezan |
Grallyx began appearing in works by other authors shortly thereafter.
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