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|caption1= First page of the story. | |caption1= First page of the story. | ||
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|hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere | |hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere 4 (The Late Shift)|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
|villain(s)=Firing squad<br>[[T-rex (The Late Shift)|T-rex]] | |villain(s)=Firing squad<br>[[T-rex (The Late Shift)|T-rex]] | ||
|featuring= [[Jenny Everywhere's mother]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] <small>(cameo)</small> | |featuring= [[Jenny Everywhere's mother]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] <small>(cameo)</small> | ||
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==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
===Plot=== | ===Plot=== | ||
While about to be executed by a firing squad, [[Jenny Everywhere | While about to be executed by a firing squad, [[Jenny Everywhere (Third Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] begins introducing herself, noting that her current predicament is nothing for her to worry about. She proves this by [[shift]]ing away from the burning, war-torn city in an instant. As she is dematerialising, she notes that "there are [[The Doctor (Third Universe)|many people]] who get in more trouble than [her]", as evidenced by the fact that [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Third Universe)|a blue box]] is even now materialising in front of the firing squad in her stead. | ||
Resurfacing in [[Jenny Everywhere | Resurfacing in [[Jenny Everywhere 2 (The Late Shift)|another body]], Jenny continues to expound on her nature and abilities. As she uses her scarf as a lasso to escape from the jaws of a [[T-rex (The Late Shift)|T-rex]], she mentions that her [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|goggles]] belonged to "[[Jenny Everywhere's mother|her mom]]", who was apparently a famous air-pilot before she disappeared. Mid-explanation, Jenny ends up in [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (The Late Shift)|a different body]], at the controls of a biplane herself, and in the middle of a dogfight at that — whereupon she laments that she does not actually know how to fly a plane herself. | ||
As she is coming down using a parachute, she realises that she is late for something, and hurries back into this particular consciousness's [[Jenny Everywhere | As she is coming down using a parachute, she realises that she is late for something, and hurries back into this particular consciousness's [[Jenny Everywhere 4 (The Late Shift)|original body]] — a retail worker who is late for her shift! Ironically, although she does not appear to notice, a few of the Jennies whose bodies she borrowed during her explanation appear to be waiting in the queue, too… | ||
===Worldbuilding=== | |||
====Jenny==== | === Worldbuilding === | ||
==== Jenny ==== | |||
* [[Jenny Everywhere]] speaks about her [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|goggles]], and about "[[Jenny Everywhere's mother|her mom]]", in a way which suggests they are constants across all versions of her. | * [[Jenny Everywhere]] speaks about her [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|goggles]], and about "[[Jenny Everywhere's mother|her mom]]", in a way which suggests they are constants across all versions of her. | ||
* She displays the ability to [[shift]] mentally to another Jenny in another dimension, all ''while'' causing the body she was previously inhabiting to disappear from wherever she was before. | * She displays the ability to [[shift]] mentally to another Jenny in another dimension, all ''while'' causing the body she was previously inhabiting to disappear from wherever she was before. | ||
* Jenny notes that she cannot actually fly a plane. | * Jenny notes that she cannot actually fly a plane. | ||
* Four different Jennies appear in body in this story. | * Four different Jennies appear in body in this story. | ||
**[[Jenny Everywhere | **[[Jenny Everywhere 4 (The Late Shift)|The one]] whose consciousness is focused on is a retail worker with the standard Asian look, short, straight black hair, and a checkered shirt. | ||
** A [[Jenny Everywhere | ** A [[Jenny Everywhere (Third Universe)|Jenny]] with Asian features but short pale hair, and wearing a tiger-stripes jacket is in the middle of an adventure in the [[Third Universe]]. | ||
** [[Jenny Everywhere | ** [[Jenny Everywhere 2 (The Late Shift)|A black-skinned Jenny with braids]] is having an adventure in a prehistoric Earth, meeting a dinosaur. | ||
** Finally, [[Jenny Everywhere | ** Finally, [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (The Late Shift)|one Jenny]] who has the standard look but wears square goggles is in the middle of a WWI-style biplane dogfight. | ||
====Universes==== | ==== Universes ==== | ||
* In this story, Jenny shifts between four universes: | * In this story, Jenny shifts between four universes: | ||
** [[Third Universe|The first one seen]] is home to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. Only one location is seen, a city in flames where Jenny was facing a firing squad. | ** [[Third Universe|The first one seen]] is home to [[the Doctor's TARDIS (Third Universe)|the Doctor's TARDIS]]. Only one location is seen, a city in flames where Jenny was facing a firing squad. | ||
** In “[[Universe B (The Late Shift)|Universe B]]”, Jenny explores a prehistoric jungle where she meets [[T-rex (The Late Shift)|a T-rex]], although it's not clear if she is simply in that universe's past or if it is significantly different from “normal Earth” in its present. | ** In “[[Universe B (The Late Shift)|Universe B]]”, Jenny explores a prehistoric jungle where she meets [[T-rex (The Late Shift)|a T-rex]], although it's not clear if she is simply in that universe's past or if it is significantly different from “normal Earth” in its present. | ||
** Similarly, what is seen of “[[Universe C (The Late Shift)|Universe C]]” is a WWI-style biplane dogfight, but it is not clear if time-travel was involved or if it is a retrofuturistic world even in the 21st century. | ** Similarly, what is seen of “[[Universe C (The Late Shift)|Universe C]]” is a WWI-style biplane dogfight, but it is not clear if time-travel was involved or if it is a retrofuturistic world even in the 21st century. | ||
** In “[[Universe D (The Late Shift)|Universe D]]”, a seemingly non-supernatural world aside from Jennies' visits, Jenny is a retail worker in some sort of bookshop. | ** In “[[Universe D (The Late Shift)|Universe D]]”, a seemingly non-supernatural world aside from Jennies' visits, Jenny is a retail worker in some sort of bookshop. | ||
====Other==== | |||
==== Other ==== | |||
* [[Jenny Everywhere's mother]] was a famous pilot until she disappeared. | * [[Jenny Everywhere's mother]] was a famous pilot until she disappeared. | ||
===Continuity=== | === Continuity === | ||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Death of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Death of Jenny Everywhere]]'' alluded to [[Universe C (The Late Shift)|the biplane-pilot Jenny]], suggesting that she had died in the plane crash, although she appears to parachute to safety. | * [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Death of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Death of Jenny Everywhere]]'' alluded to [[Universe C (The Late Shift)|the biplane-pilot Jenny]], suggesting that she had died in the plane crash, although she appears to parachute to safety. | ||
* This story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Late for her "shift"|main Jenny]], as seen in the title illustration, was one of the incarnations glimpsed by [[the Nommo]] in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Say The Word (comic story)|Say The Word]]''. | * This story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Late for her "shift"|main Jenny]], as seen in the title illustration, was one of the incarnations glimpsed by [[the Nommo]] in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Say The Word (comic story)|Say The Word]]''. | ||
* While dazed and confused, [[Jenny Everywhere#Captured by Sizemore|Jenny Everywhere]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paperback Writer (short story)|Paperback Writer]]'' mentions “her bi-plane”. | * While dazed and confused, [[Jenny Everywhere#Captured by Sizemore|Jenny Everywhere]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paperback Writer (short story)|Paperback Writer]]'' mentions “her bi-plane”. | ||
* The idea that Jenny got her scarf and goggles from her mother was echoed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'', where the mother in question is however not [[Amelia Earhart]] was originally implied, but the dimensional traveller [[Amelia Midnight]]. | * The idea that Jenny got her scarf and goggles from her mother was echoed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'', where the mother in question is however not [[Amelia Earhart]] was originally implied, but the dimensional traveller [[Amelia Midnight]]. | ||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)|A World of Pure Unimagination]]'' | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)|A World of Pure Unimagination]]'' implies that the Jenny in this story, native to the [[Third Universe]], was rewritten by [[the Unravel]] to become "[[Achron Everywhere]]", a male incarnation. | ||
==Behind the scenes== | == Behind the scenes == | ||
===Read online=== | === Read online === | ||
''The Late Shift'' was originally available on JennyEverywhere.com, which is now offline. We thus reproduce the single page of ''The Late Shift'' below. | ''The Late Shift'' was originally available on JennyEverywhere.com, which is now offline. We thus reproduce the single page of ''The Late Shift'' below. | ||
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===Notes & References=== | ===Notes & References=== | ||
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[[Category:Stories]] | [[Category:Stories]] | ||
[[Category:Comic Stories]] | [[Category:Comic Stories]] | ||