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Jenny Over-There 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 sole employee of his “Multidimensional Finders Service”.
Description
Physical appearance
Jenny had an “under-described” face. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
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)
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)
Biography
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)
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
| Open-source elements making up the core Jenny Everywhere mythos | ||||||||||||
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