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“The Infinite” was an interdimensional place located between universes which, typically, only Jenny Everywhere was able to access through shifting
Description
The Infinite was a “bridge-reality” or “bridge-universe”, (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere) a “place between realities” which served as “sort of a home” for Jenny Everywhere (COMIC: The Mind of Jenny Everywhere) with an endless starry night sky and a simple, smooth, black floor. (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles, etc.) Each star represented a universe. (COMIC: The Mind of Jenny Everywhere) It also had a Moon, whose significance was unclear. (COMIC: Rail Shift) It was possible to observe specific events unfold in other universes from within the Infinite. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere in: The Unofficial and Now Just Plainly Annoyingly Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Even More Annoyingly-Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Rather Annoyingly Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Very Short Story""")
It had a connection to Jenny Everywhere's shifting powers; one way for her to shift was to pass through the Infinite, (COMIC: The Beginner's Guide to Multiversal Theory, The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles) which she would usually find filled with a crowd of her other selves. Most were only passing through, but some resided there permanently, performing “various tasks”; (COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles) indeed, there existed an entire “culture” of Jennies within the Infinite. (COMIC: The Mind of Jenny Everywhere) Jenny could also mentally tap into the Infinite to view potential events, without physically going there. (COMIC: Governing Council) To shift to the Infinite, Jenny needed simply to concentrate on “the thought of the stars of the Infinite” and “the beckoning minds of her other selves calling her to them”. (PROSE: The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)
Only Jenny Everywhere could travel to the Infinite; it was normally impossible for other shifters to enter it. However, while desperately looking for Jenny after she disappeared from all of reality without explanation, Jenny Anywhere and Hakhe combined their skill at modulating shifting with Laura Drake's bond with Jenny and Jenny Somewhere's genetic kinship with Jenny, and managed to force a shift into the Infinite. Michael Wherever and the Illumination also managed to fly the Wilson into the Infinite by “connect[ing him]self, a cache of Jenny’s genetic makeup, and a ludicrous amount of power to the ship’s computers”. (PROSE: The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere) Peter Griffin was also able to travel the Infinite by instigating a cutaway gag. (COMIC: Peter's Pursuit)
History
A version of Jenny was once seen shifting through the Infinite as an example used by Doctor Sigma during a talk on common methods of Multiversal travel. (COMIC: The Beginner's Guide to Multiversal Theory)
After opening a Christmas present from Peter Griffin, which contained a note telling her to stop living at 31 Spooner Street, (COMIC: Jenny's Christmas Surprise) Lois Griffin managed to get Peter to see his error and to apologise to Jenny, he used a cutaway gag to travel to where Jenny was ― the Infinite.
While considering where to shift to next, (COMIC: Peter's Pursuit) she turned in surprise to Peter, as nobody but a Jenny Everywhere should be able to travel there. Jenny told Peter she was heeding his words and Peter didn't try to convince her to return, merely wanting to apologise. She stood in shock as Peter returned to his universe. At this time, another Jenny Everywhere was walking through the Infinite. (COMIC: A Not-Too-Fond Farewell)
In one universe, on 24 February 2024, after Jenny Everywhere discovered that the Illuminati were behind Willy McDuff's "chocolate factory" and her subsequent evacuatation of the families from inside, Jenny hacked into NASA to broadcast a SOS. She hoped it would hit a multiversal nexus and find its way to the Infinite, as she wasn't sure if the Illuminati she was dealing with were exclusive to the universe or were interdimensional. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination)
In the Infinite, one Jenny drank a mango smoothie on a deckchair whilst laughing at (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere in: The Unofficial and Now Just Plainly Annoyingly Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Even More Annoyingly-Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Rather Annoyingly Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Very Short Story""") a universe named Miranda imploding to prevent a series of increasingly meta-fictional adventures shared by Jenny Everywhere and the Narrator in Grey from continuing. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Even More Annoyingly-Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Rather Annoyingly Titled Sequel to "Jenny Everywhere and the Very Short Story"")
Behind the scenes
According to its creator Benj Christensen, the Infinite made its first appearance in PROSE: Story Round 3: Jenny Everywhere, a round-robin story written by the members of the PencilJack forums which is not currently known to be extant, in which it was introduced by Christensen and picked up by later writers adding to the story. Due to the story's missing status, the first currently-available story to feature the Infinite is COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles, following a mention in COMIC: Governing Council.
As he noted in the VIDEO: Jenny Everywhere Presentation at Geek Kon 2011, Benj Christensen did not initially plan for the Infinite to be an open-source concept. However, he was surprised but happy to see other people start to use it, seemingly under the assumption that it was part of the Jenny Everywhere “package”, and eventually released it into the public domain to join Jenny herself.
Christensen later clarified his thoughts on the Jenny Everywhere Discord server, posting the following on April 25, 2024:
| Yes I didn’t originally plan for the Infinite to be a thing. Not in a “it’s mine, all mine” kinda way, but it was just something I did for the Penciljack writing jam that added some flavor to her shifting.
I then formally used it in the Jenny Everywhere Chronicles, which then inspired another person to use it in their work. I didn’t know/expect anyone would use it. I think a lot of us were just throwing stuff out there and sometimes some of it stuck and became a part of the lore. |
| —Benj Christensen |
Christensen also provided a description of the Infinite in COMIC: The Mind of Jenny Everywhere:
| The Infinite: A place between realities; Perpetual night; Sort of a home for Jenny; The stars are different universes; A culture of Jennys live there. |
| —Benj Christensen |