Jenny Anywhere
Jenny Anywhere, or Penny Anywhere, was a shifter similar to Jenny Everywhere, although she did not exist in every reality of the Multiverse, but “merely” in an indefinitely large number of them. Though less idealistic than the other Jenny, Jenny Anywhere was also an agent of good, and the two were generally friends when they met.
According to one account, there were many Anywheres with various names and agenda across the Multiverse, who all adopted names of the form "[First Name] Anywhere" and were characterised by their reckless but creative attempts to increase the size and complexity of the Multiverse ever further by branching off new, artificial timelines from existing universes. What relationship, if any, any given incarnation of Jenny Anywhere bore to this group was exceedingly unclear.
Description
Physical appearance
Jenny Anywhere was a tall pale-skinned woman with long straight hair she died a variety of colours. In her clothing she seemed to favour the colour red, with a burgundy trenchcoat as her most recognisable article of clothing. She also wore a scarf like Jenny Everywhere, but no goggles. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere and Friends)
Personality
Jenny Anywhere strove to be a heroic figure, much like Jenny Everywhere. Indeed, she had patterned her public persona on the other Jenny's and was desperate for the real deal's approval. However, there were marked differences between them; rather than a happy-go-lucky wanderer, Anywhere was driven and practical, and occasionally let anger or frustration get the better of her. She was sometimes ruthless in pursuit of the greater good, in ways Jenny Everywhere would have disapproved of. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)
Powers & abilities
Jenny Anywhere was a powerful shifter, able to teleport across universes with accuracy, like Jenny Everywhere. However, her various counterparts did not share a mental link. Not having any connection to Everywhere but a superficial one, Anywhere was also unable to shift to the Infinite.
At least in some incarnations, Jenny Anywhere was also a skilled physical fighter, capable of getting the best of the likes of Jenny Nowhere in a scuffle. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)
Biography
On the Island of Barbelo
In a number of realities, “Penny Anywhere” actually began a shifter before Jenny Everywhere, and found her way to the Island of Barbelo, where Jenny was being raised in secret to hide her from her mother's enemies. She would then inspire Jenny Everywhere to become curious about the outside world and run away from home to explore. In other variations of this story across the continua, Laura Drake held this role in place of Anywhere. (PROSE: The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)
In Reality Z-25 31-H
In Reality Z-25 31-H, Jimmy once joined Jenny Everywhere and Jimy Wherever on an adventure a few days before Jenny's birthday. Holding Jenny's hand, she raced with the Shifter and her boyfriend through an unidentified cosmic landscape. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere and Friends)
Looking for Everywhere
One universe's Jenny Anywhere, who wore the classic red trench-coat, often hung out with Jenny Everywhere on one particular bench in one particular “rain-soaked city”; they always seemed to instinctively know when the other would be sitting there and manage to join her.
After Jenny Everywhere disappeared across the entire Multiverse, Anywhere grew increasingly desperate to get her back, first beating up and interrogating an incarnation of Jenny Nowhere then beginning to simply ask random villains such as a serpentine abomination who'd never even heard of Jenny Everywhere. Hakhe eventually crossed paths with Anywhere and managed to get her to calm down and consider the situation more rationally. On Hakhe's advice, Anywhere joined forces with her and Jenny Somewhere to attempt to shift into the Infinite, which they eventually managed with the additional help of Laura Drake. Even there, they did not find any version of Jenny, though they did meet up with Michael Wherever and the Illumination, who'd had the same idea.
They then headed to a seaside town which had been a particularly favoured haunt of Jenny's to reflect and mourn her. The city was attacked by the Fallen One, a vengeful accumulation of foes Jenny had defeated over the years; the group of her friends managed to drive it back in Jenny's name, until finally Jenny herself returned to reality to finish the job, sheepishly explaining the entirely non-deadly reasons for her temporary absence. The Shifters partied in celebration. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)
Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world
One incarnation of Jenny Anywhere was friends with one Jenny Everywhere, and was dating Jimmy Anytime. By joining their powers, they could travel through time as well as across dimensions. Jenny Nowhere once managed to trap both of them in a conspicuously mundane universe from which it was impossible to shift, alongside several others among Jenny's allies, and, ultimately, Jenny herself. While they tried to figure out their situation, Anywhere and Anytime shared a romantic evening dancing at night under willow trees; each of the two confided to the other that they'd had feelings for other people (in Jenny's case, none other than Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Somewhere) but reaffirmed that it was one another that they truly loved. The two later stood with Jenny Everywhere against Nowhere, ultimately resulting in the shifters being allowed to leave. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)
Behind the scenes
Genesis
Jimmy Wherever was unveiled by Carter-Ethan Rankin in April 2013 on the Public Domain Super-Heroes Wiki, under a similar open-source license to Jenny Everywhere's, as part of an effort to create a recurring background cast for Jenny that could be used as freely as the Shifter herself. Rankin created Jimmy Wherever and Jimmy Anytime around the same period.
The public-domain blurb written by Rankin to introduce the character included many details which have yet to be translated into narrative media.
| Jenny Anywhere is a recently appeared wannabe of Jenny Everywhere. Although her intentions are good, she is not original by any means. Her power isn't even as good as Jenny Everywhere's, Jenny Anywhere can only shift between realities but, not through time.
In terms of looks and dress, she appears generally along the same lines as Jenny Everywhere, although a tad more modern fashion-wise and has abandoned the aviation goggles (if she ever had any to begin with). More recently, Jimmy Anytime, a genetically modified clone created from a tissue sample obtained from the real Jimmy Wherever, and accelerated to maturity artificially in an attempt to capture and subdue Jenny Anywhere has appeared. Though, who did this and why matters little, in terms of the characters themselves. Although originally rivals, Jimmy Anytime saw through his mental programming and joined sides with Jenny Anywhere. The two are now a couple. Jimmy Anytime has been created with time travelling abilities to coincide with Jenny Anywhere being able to shift to any other location and/or reality but, not forward or backward in time. They may join their powers together by simply holding hands, in order for both to travel through space and time. |
| —Carter-Ethan Rankin |
A short time later, Jeanne Morningstar criticised some aspects of the character as created by Rankin, suggesting various tweaks and additional features.[1]This included a proposal to rename the character to “Julie Anywhere” to prevent confusion, which was not used by subsequent stories (with The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles instead using the name of Julie for Jenny's sister). Morningstar would later push for “Penny Anywhere” as the new name for the character, namedropping her under this name in The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere.
| Hmm. I wasn’t fond of either of those concepts when I first came across them in the wiki–they seemed too limited and limiting–and I’ve already come up with a completely different supporting cast, but this is a neat piece of art. So here’s how I would handle handle them, since I’m sure everyone wanted to know. (…) Jenny Anywhere, on the other hand–I don’t think “Jenny” should be her name, as that makes things unnecessarily confusing. The first name that Barbelith came up for JE was “Julie,” so I’d go with that. Contrary to the original bio, she can shift through space and time but doesn’t connect to her counterparts. Anyway, if Jimmy, in a weird sort of of way, reflects Jimmy Olsen, than Julie would be Lois Lane. Someone who’s naturally cynical and hard-bitten and determined, but she looks up to Jenny, but also wants to challenge her. But their relationship isn’t romantic–it’s more of a legacy hero/mentor relationship. (Well, hardly ever.) To put it another way–if Jenny Everywhere is Two and (character I haven’t properly introduced yet) is Six, then Julie is Nine. Well, the coat makes me think of Nine. |
| —Jeanne Morningstar |
Some time later, artist "Lady Kraken" posted another interpretation of the character, alongside her own rendition thereof.
| Jenny Anywhere is also known as "The Makeshift Shifter", or just "Jen A" to her friends. She has limited "Shifter" abilities based off of a serum that was made from Jenny Everywhere's DNA. She can teleport through space and time, so long as she has a visual aid of where she's going, and she can "alter dimensional properties", but the altering only lasts for an hour before changing back to the original state. Shifting between realities also takes a physical toll on her. She's a public domain character who can be used by anyone, so long as you include this paragraph. |
| —Lady Kraken |
Notes & References
- ↑ Jeanne Morningstar on Tumblr (2014).
