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In [[Universe A (Extradimensional Experiments)|one universe]], Laura was born in an era where [[human]]ity was expanding into the rest of the [[Solar System]], under the aegis of the ludicrously influential [[Altern Corporation]]. Laura was a precocious child, and, when she was two, her [[Laura Drake's grandmother (Extradimensional Experiments)|grandmother]] read her old comics like ''[[Asterix]]'', also teaching her the word “[[wiktionary:grawlix|grawlix]]”. She also gave Laura a plush alligator with a factory defect giving it extra eyes and arms, which the girl decided to name “Grawlix”, misspelling it as “[[Lord Grallyx#Laura's plush toy|Grallyx]]”. Her family also kept a pet [[SmartFerret]]. | In [[Universe A (Extradimensional Experiments)|one universe]], Laura was born in an era where [[human]]ity was expanding into the rest of the [[Solar System]], under the aegis of the ludicrously influential [[Altern Corporation]]. Laura was a precocious child, and, when she was two, her [[Laura Drake's grandmother (Extradimensional Experiments)|grandmother]] read her old comics like ''[[Asterix]]'', also teaching her the word “[[wiktionary:grawlix|grawlix]]”. She also gave Laura a plush alligator with a factory defect giving it extra eyes and arms, which the girl decided to name “Grawlix”, misspelling it as “[[Lord Grallyx#Laura's plush toy|Grallyx]]”. Her family also kept a pet [[SmartFerret]]. | ||
Eventually, Laura became a physics engineering major at the prestigious [[Neptunian Orbital University]]. She struggled with self-confidence issues, being unable to work to specifications and instead doing all her best works on eccentric side-projects like the [[cloud | Eventually, Laura became a physics engineering major at the prestigious [[Neptunian Orbital University]]. She struggled with self-confidence issues, being unable to work to specifications and instead doing all her best works on eccentric side-projects like the [[cloud solidifier]], the [[turbo-toasting ray]] and the [[photon phonograph]]. One day, while she was trying to get a [[photon-freezer]] to work, she was visited by a history major she barely knew (though they had [[neuroseismology]] together), [[Jenny Everywhere#Jennifer Everstar|Jennifer “Jenny” Everstar]]. Jenny quickly showed her that over the last few weeks, she'd developed the ability to spontaneously summon objects from other realities, and the two began investigating her gift in secret. When a failed attempt to scan Jenny instead gave increased power to her summonings, the two had to deal with [[the Creeping Shadow]], a monster from [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|another reality]], with the help of [[Jenny Everywhere#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|an alternative Jenny]]. Laura's “failed” photon-freezer, and the specific ways in which she'd built it “wrong”, proved key to defeating the monster, together with her Jenny's encouragements. After saying goodbye to the other Jenny, Laura and Jennifer stayed up looking at the stars, already bonding. It was then that Jenny discovered she also had the ability to teleport ''herself'' to other worlds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Extradimensional Experiments (short story)|Extradimensional Experiments]]'') | ||
=== Jenny Evans === | |||
In [[Universe (This Might Happen Someday)|one universe]], “Jenny Everywhere” existed as a fictional character from August 2001 onwards. By 3001, there also existed a woman named Jenny Evans. She was dark-skinned and wore a blue dress. She was a self-confessed adrenaline junkie, often going on adventures in virtual world with her friend [[Jenny Nowhere#Jennifer Nolan|Jennifer Nolan]] (with whom she shared a home “overlooking the rings of [[Saturn]]”) acting as her rival. She was, in addition to this, a fan of Jenny Everywhere fiction, and completed a 25-year effort to read or otherwise experience all surviving Jenny Everywhere fiction on August 13th, 3001, which was close to her birthday. Jennifer gifted her a pair of goggles and a scarf to mark the occasion. This prompted both girls to realise that they could, by this point, consider themselves the closest thing their world had to proper incarnations of Jenny Everywhere and [[Jenny Nowhere]], with knowledge of all Jenny Everywhere fiction acting as Jenny's way of tapping into her counterparts' experiences. Although neither took the idea wholly seriously, they soon departed for another virtual adventure and it may or may not have prompted Jenny to discover right there and then that she had ''real'' [[shift]]ing powers. ([[PROSE]]: '[[This Might Happen Someday (short story)|This Might Happen Someday]]'') | |||
=== Flirting with Death === | === Flirting with Death === | ||