Lit
The Illumination, also nicknamed “Ill” or “Lit”, was one of the Abstracts. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Description
Physical appearance
The Illumination had the appearance of a human man, clean-shaven, with pitch-blank hair but pure white eyebrows. Visible eyebags emphasised his anxious disposition. He usually wore a large collar around his neck that kept his powers in check; if he took it off and returned to full power, he was enveloped in a blinding halo of white light, as bright a a newborn star. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Personality
The Illumination was quiet and even somewhat shy. He was concerned about the effects of his powers on lesser beings, hence intentionally limiting himself by wearing the collar. He wasn't much for self-introspection, having never really thought about what he'd like to be called. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Powers and abilities
As an Abstract, the Illumination was basically invulnerable, (GAME: The Jenny Everywhere Roleplaying Game) having once displayed the ability to move unprotected in the void of space. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Biography
Origins
Like the other Abstracts, the Illumination was not always the powerful and transcendental being he was later known as; the Abstracts were created. None of the Abstracts remembered their creation or what their lives had been beforehand, however, (GAME: The Jenny Everywhere Roleplaying Game) although the Illumination stated definitively that he had not chosen the name of “the Illumination” for himself, but simply been given it. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Travels
Before either of them met Jenny Everywhere, the Illumination travelled with one version of Michael Wherever for a number of years. Michael nicknamed him “Ill”, which the Illumination did not take offence to, despite Jenny's later mockeries. However, they had parted ways by the time Michael joined forces with Jenny aboard the Wilson.
However, some time later, the Illumination crossed paths with Jenny while she was taking a space walk outside the Wilson. He told her he was an Abstract and one-time companion of Michael's; though she did not doubt the latter, she asked him to briefly take off his collar to prove the former. Despite Chuck being worried about the energy levels he'd detected, Jenny allowed the Illumination to come onboard.
They began making small talk, with Jenny noting that the name of “the Illumination” was pretentious and settling on “Lit” as what she would call him — which he rather liked. Before long, however, they were interrupted by an alarm signaling the presence of another, much more dangerous Abstract on the Earth of Universe Juliet-Two-Two-Six: Odious. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles)
Behind the scenes
In The Jenny Everywhere Rolepaying Game, another Abstract with a similar designation — “Rae, Abstract of Luminance” — is featured. It is likely that Rae was intended as a replacement for the Illumination at a later stage in the development of the lore of the Abstracts, although the link has never been drawn in-universe and The Jenny Everywhere Rolepaying Game does not actively deny the separate existence of an Abstract of Illumination.
