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 |featuring     = [[Jenny Everywhere (Third Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Bibendum]]<br>[[Puff Tremayne]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere C (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Willy McDuff]]<br>[[Simon (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Simon]]<br>[[Wonkidoodle (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Wonkidoodle]]<br>[[The Unknown]]<br>[[Courtesy (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Courtesy]]<br>[[Janine (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Janine]]<br>[[Karen Gillan]]<br>[[Council of Frogs]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Charlie Bucket|Boy from a film]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere's granny (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere's granny]] <small>(flashback)</small><br>[[Charles III|The King]] <small>(photograph)</small><br>[[Hyperspace Tyrant (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Insane Hyperspace Tyrant]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[God]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Walter White|Walter]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jesse Pinkman|Jesse]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Donald Trump]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
 |setting       = [[Snowy planet (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Snowy planet]], [[Third Universe]]<br>[[Glasgow]], [[Universe C (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Universe C]], [[24 February]] [[2024]]
-|length        = 5480 words
+|length        = 5,480 words
 |writer(s)     = [[Xavier Llewellyn]]
-|dates         = [[March 31 (releases)|March 31]], [[2024 (releases)|2024]]<ref name="cheshire">{{cite web
+|dates         = [[31 March (releases)|31 March]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]]<ref name="cheshire">{{cite web
 |url=https://twitter.com/Realms_of_Ink/status/1774472339897389193
 |title=''It is with great pleasure I can announce the release of A World of Pure Unimagination, the first instalment of Everywhere's Extraordinary Escapes.''
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 == Contents ==
 === Plot ===
-Despite being apprehensive about travelling there, [[Jenny Everywhere A (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere]] has [[shift]]ed into the [[Third Universe]] after [[the Unravel]], a catastrophe which had caused [[Meta-time|meta-historical]]. On [[snowy planet (A World of Pure Unimagination)|a snowy planet]], Jenny rescues two stranded [[Pinguis]], [[Bibendum]] and [[Puff Tremayne]]; in doing so, Jenny develops a craving for [[chocolate]], as their appearance reminds her of large [[marshmallow]]s, an ingredient in [[smore]]s.
+Despite being apprehensive about travelling there, [[Jenny Everywhere A (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere]] has [[shift]]ed into [[Jenny Everywhere (Third Universe)|the Jenny]] native to the [[Third Universe]] following the catastrophic [[the Unravel|Unravel]]. On [[snowy planet (A World of Pure Unimagination)|a snowy planet]], Jenny rescues two stranded [[Pinguis]], [[Bibendum]] and [[Puff Tremayne]]; in doing so, seeing their [[marshmallow]]-like appearance, Jenny develops a craving for [[chocolate]].
-''more to be added''
+Deciding to "indulge after a job well done", she [[shift]]s to [[Universe C (A World of Pure Unimagination)|a universe]], with merely a "vague idea" of its appearance — hopefully resembling [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|a film she watched as a child]]. She reminisces about [[Jenny Everywhere's granny (A World of Pure Unimagination)|her granny]] criticising the film's lack of diversity and her crush on [[Charlie Bucket|the young protagonist]] that lasted up until [[Jenny Everywhere's high school|high school]]. She enters this universe by possessing [[Jenny Everywhere C (A World of Pure Unimagination)|another Jenny's stylish body]].
+However, the universe is not quite as she wished for: she is in [[Glasgow]], on [[24 February]] [[2024]], according to a local newspaper she read in [[Newsagent's (A World of Pure Unimagination)|a newsagent's]] she had taken refuge inside during a downpour. Said newspaper also informs her of the opening of a "[[Willy McDuff's chocolate factory|chocolate factory]]" belonging to one [[Willy McDuff]] — but suspiciously, no photograph of the factory is attached. Wanting fresh chocolate, Jenny leaves the shop after the rain dies down and walks to the factory, being merely streets away.
+To her surprise, the factory appears to be merely a werehouse instead of a magical manufacturing plant. Hoping the inside would be more spectacular than the outside, she finds that, for once, appearances ''aren't'' deceiving; the pitiful attempts at decoration do little to mask the industrial space. She buys a ticket from [[Simon (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Simon]] — a diminutive and fairly rude [[Wonkidoodle]] — and sits next the other waiting families. Soon, the gates open and what Jenny assumes is another Wonkidoodle, wearing a Ringmaster outfit, approaches them: she chokes back a laugh when he introduces himself as [[Willy McDuff]], averting eye contact as he looks at her.
+McDuff begins explaining how the [[Garden of Enchantment]] is alive. Jenny, having keen observation skills, quickly notices that it is not infact alive and just decorated with some old [[Christmas]] decorations, as well as none of the environment or McDuff's explanation thereof having anything to do with chocolate or even sweets. McDuff continues talking as the group enters the Garden, now accompanied by [[Wonkidoodle (A World of Pure Unimagination)|a Wonkidoodle]]. The so-called chocolatier continues exaggerating the wonder of the setting around them and Jenny is surprised that he is actually good with children. The Wonkidoodle feigns tripping over a patch of flowers, sending marbles flying, which McDuff pretends were the flowers tripping his companion up to steal his sweets. McDuff then tells the children to compliment the tulips, and the Wonkidoodle thanks them in a high pitched voice out of the corner of his mouth, a puppeteer to his ventriloquist dummy.
+As the tour progresses, Jenny remains an onlooker, silently questioning if McDuff is a "paid actor acting out some kind of unauthorised tie-in" or if she had stumbled into a world that genuinely matched such fictions. She also wonders if McDuff actually knew anything about chocolate. After a while of more of the same shoddy set pieces, the novelty begins to wear off and she considers leaving. Yet, something interesting — finally — happens.
+A woman steps out from behind a mirror. She wears a dark, hooded robe, with a mess of brown hair visible from beneath her iron mask. McDuff does the honour of introducing her to the crowd: she is [[the Unknown]], and, as her name implies, McDuff knows nothing about her, except that she's an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls. Jenny does a double take, entirely taken aback by the character, who certainly didn't exist in any version of the source material she recognised. The Unknown freezes McDuff in place with a gloved hand, before offering the children an opportunity to help her steal McDuff's recipes and run the company together. Of course, the children and Jenny shout "no". Despite her gut telling her that the Unknown was just some underpaid actor in a cheap [[Halloween]] mask, Jenny ran to tackle her to the ground, but the Unknown unfreezed McDuff and disappeared in a moment.
 === Worldbuilding ===
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 * The [[Third Universe]] is infamous among [[multiverse|multiversal]] hitchhikers for its temporal mutability. To put it another way, the universe was had "unfathomably baffling" paradoxes, a result of time being continually rewritten by "careless" time travellers.
 * The Third Universe is named as such in the [[Council of Frogs]]'s [[Council of Frogs' nomenclature|nomenclature]].
+* Upon recognising the Pinguis appearance as resembling marshmallows, she thinks to herself "it [takes] all sorts to make an [[omniverse]]".
 * [[Jenny Everywhere A (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere]] originated from [[Universe B (A World of Pure Unimagination)|an unnamed universe]]. She had [[Jenny Everywhere's granny (A World of Pure Unimagination)|her granny]] and bullies in her life growing up.
 * An [[Hyperspace Tyrant (A World of Pure Unimagination)|insane Hyperspace Tyrant]] once ran a tour of his [[Hyperspace Tyrant's whimsical factory|whimsical factory]] in [[dimension (A World of Pure Unimagination)|one dimension]], which Jenny blundered into.
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 ==== The Unravel ====
 * As [[the Shifter|a shifter]], Jenny is uniquely qualified to help after the Unravel.
-* The Unravel didn't just affect the [[Third Universe]], but many.
+* The Unravel didn't just affect the [[Third Universe]], but many other universes too.
+* The Unravel caused [[Meta-time|meta-historical]] fallout.
 ==== Species ====
-* The Pinguis scientific name is ''[[Pinguicorpus homo]]''.
+* The scientific name for [[Pingui]]s is ''[[Pinguicorpus homo]]''.
 * There name may evoke that of [[penguin|the species of flightless birds]], but they are unrelated.
+* She gives the two Pinguis a [[device (A World of Pure Unimagination)|device]] to escape the planet.
 ==== Locations ====
+* [[Glasgow (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Glasgow]] has [[High Street, Glasgow|a high street]]. One end is near the [[River Clyde]], and [[South Street]] runs parallel to it.
+** South Street primarily is home to lots of warehouses.
 * There is [[Charles III|a King]] of [[England]] in Jenny’s native universe and the one with Willy McDuff's chocolate factory. In the latter, his face is printed on plastic banknotes.
+===== Willy McDuff's "chocolate factory" =====
+* The factory houses a "less than enchanting" area separated from the rest by plastic gates with bold letters above desperately stating "factory". This area is filled with rows of wooden benches, which families sit on, waiting.
+* Simon sits behind a plastic folding table, where Jenny buys her £35 ticket of admission from. She has to cough to get his attention, as he is engrossed in his smartphone.
+* McDuff asks the children, whom he calls "adventurers", if they've prepared by bringing a spare pair of socks in case if their current ones are blown off.
 ==== Individuals ====
+* [[Simon (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Simon]] is short, has green hair and ruddy skin (instead of thr expected orange).
 * Jenny thinks "for [[God (individual)|God]]'s sake" when remembering the [[Hyperspace Tyrant (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Hyperspace Tyrant]] she previously met.
+* [[The Unknown]] resembles the "antagonist of the next breakout [[Japan]]ese horror picture."
 * [[Walter White|Walter]] and [[Jesse Pinkman|Jesse]] are partners in crime who run a crystal meth lab. Jenny is reminded of them upon seeing the duo of Wonkidoodles, [[Janine (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Janine]] and [[Courtesy (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Courtesy]], working at their table with laboratory equipment.
 * Wonkidoodles resemble the "love-children" of [[Donald Trump]] and a [[Hobbit]].
+===== Jenny Everywhere =====
+* Jenny is able to [[Time sensitivity|sense]] alterations to time.
+* Achron is a male aviator pilot from the [[1930s]].
+* Jenny watched [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|a film]] about [[Willy Wonka's chocolate factory|a magical factory]] as a child with [[Jenny Everywhere's granny (A World of Pure Unimagination)|her granny]].
+* As a child, Jenny often formed emotional attachments to characters behind television screens, a part of her feeling that she could meet them someday, if only she knew how.
+* Jenny’s discovery of her [[multiverse|multiversal powers]] is a story left untold.
+* Jenny’s crush lasted up until [[Jenny Everywhere's high school|high school]], where she separated herself from her childhood in a futile attempt to make the bullying stop. A silving lining did come from this, as Jenny learnt a lot about people and this shaped who she became.
+* Jenny experiences a moment of dizziness after shifting.
+* The Jenny Jenny shifts into is "stylish", with a leather jacket. Her outfit is mostly studded with metal, with small amounts of colour to add variety, and spikey, intimidating boots.
+* The Jenny she shifted into is slightly paler than herself. She's happy she isn't in a white version of herself, as she finds the experience to be "off".
+* When Jenny sets off to find shelter, she decides the ego of the Jenny she is inside could take a hit, running like a child.
+* As Jenny prefers to mentally shift, she doesn't have to worry about appearing in a dangerous environment. For example, if she shifted deep into an ocean, she'd shift into the body of a [[mermaid]] or a squid.
+* Jenny once had an adventure with deceitful plastic signs. She was also familiar with [[Time Lord|magic men]] whose residences were [[TARDIS|more impressive on the inside]].
 ==== Fiction ====
 * A "[[Charlie Bucket|sweet little boy]]" is the protagonist of [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|a book]] and [[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator|its sequel]], as well as [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|its film adaption]].
 ** The plot of the first book and its film adaption involve five white children, four of which are also spoiled and greedy, visiting a [[Willy Wonka's chocolate factory|magical chocolate factory]].
+** The film is set in an [[Town (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)|ambiguously Germanic town]].
+* [[Jenny Everywhere's granny (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere's granny]] criticises the film due to how, despite children being chosen from across the [[Earth A (A World of Pure Unimagination)|world]], all the children were white. While Jenny understands that the children werent chosen but had lucked, bought and earned their ways in, she doesn't argue. She is a little resentful that nobody like her — a [[America|Native American]] — got to experience the magic.
 ** Jenny knows that the sequel to the book had many "weird things in it", but even then couldn't be blamed for a character such as [[the Unknown]].
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 * The Pinguis resemble "sugar-bag-sized" [[marshmallow]]s, which reminds her of [[smore]]s. This sparks her craving for [[chocolate]].
 * [[Newsagent's (A World of Pure Unimagination)|The newsagent's]] in Glasgow stocks wrapped chocolate.
+* Chocolate is made by grinding and roasting [[cocoa bean|beans]], then sweetening and moulding them into blocks.
 * The table Janine and Courtesy work at has a clutter of vials and flasks containing [[jelly bean]]s (also called [[sugar bean]]s), and polystyrene cups with just the smallest splash of [[Gevity]] in them, in a futule attempt to imply they were the concoctions of their "wacky chemistry".
 ** Courtesy had been instructed by McDuff to only give the children a ''single'' jelly bean, and not only did she consider this to be unfair, she also found it poor that she couldn't even give out chocolate.
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 == External links ==
-* '''[https://tardis.wiki/wiki/A_World_of_Pure_Unimagination_(short_story) ''A World of Pure Unimagination'']''' at [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki Tardis Wiki]
+{{TardisWiki}}
 == Notes & References ==