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Jimmy Anytime was an individual, versions of whom existed in Jenny Everywhere's friend circle in many universes. Although it was unclear whether there existed several Jimmies in the Multiverse all involved with Jenny, and whether these Jimmies had any contact or special relationship, Jimmy did not at any rate possess dimension-shifting abilities of his own, but did (at least in most universes) have the ability to travel in time.
Description
Physical appearance
Jimmy Anytime usually appeared as “a muscular, young, Canadian man with blond hair and blue eyes”, wearing a dark T-shirt with a white maple leaf design, and black trousers. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story, COMIC: Jenny Everywhere and Friends)
Personality
Although ultimately a hero, some versions of Jimmy Anytime were “edgier” and more cynical in their demeanour than Jimmy Wherever. However, Anytime also displayed a more poetic, romantic bent, and a great commitment to making his loving relationship with Anywhere work.
Anytime was not exclusively straight; in at least one universe he had some feelings for Jimmy Wherever. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)
Powers & abilities
Jimmy Anytime had an innate ability to travel through time. He could “meld” this ability with Jenny Anywhere's limited shifting by holding hands with her, allowing the pair of them to match Jenny Everywhere's own powers. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)
Biography
High-schooler in the 1980s
In one universe reminiscent of a clichéd 1980s high-school movie, Jimmy Anytime attended high school alongside Jenny Everywhere and Jimmy Wherever. This incarnation of Jimmy wore a green sweater. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)
Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world
One incarnation of Jimmy Anytime was friends with one Jenny Everywhere, and was dating Jenny Anywhere. 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 Anytime's case, none other than Jimmy Wherever) 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 Anytime 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 Jenny Anywhere and Jimmy Wherever 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.
| Jimmy Anytime is a genetically modified clone created from a tissue sample obtained from the real Jimmy Wherever, accelerated to maturity artificially in an attempt to capture and subdue the recently appeared wannabe of Jenny Everywhere, Jenny Anywhere. Though, who did this and why matters little, in terms of the character himself. Although originally rivals, Jimmy Anytime saw through his mental programming and joined sides with Jenny Anywhere. The two are now a couple.
In contrast to Jimmy Wherever having no powers, Jimmy Anytime has been created with time traveling 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, reality and time. He is Canadian with blond hair, blue eyes, and an athletic build. Where he came from or what his up-bringing was like is, as yet, unknown. Being a clone, he has developed Jimmy Wherever's excellent detective skills. |
| —Carter-Ethan Rankin |