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Laura Drake was created by [[Jeanne McClure]], a prolific author of short ''[[Jenny Everywhere]]''-themed short fiction on Tumblr and Ficly in the early 2010s. She was originally intended to be one member of a wider recurring cast for a never-materialised long-form Jenny project, and designed as more of a viewpoint character who would act as a contrast or "straight woman" to Jenny's antics, only for the concept to evolve into something more.<ref>https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/post/58290948110/laura-in-waiting-jenny-everywhere-day-2013-story</ref> | Laura Drake was created by [[Jeanne McClure]], a prolific author of short ''[[Jenny Everywhere]]''-themed short fiction on Tumblr and Ficly in the early 2010s. She was originally intended to be one member of a wider recurring cast for a never-materialised long-form Jenny project, and designed as more of a viewpoint character who would act as a contrast or "straight woman" to Jenny's antics, only for the concept to evolve into something more.<ref>https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/post/58290948110/laura-in-waiting-jenny-everywhere-day-2013-story</ref> | ||
After the basic idea of a character with whom Jenny had a wide variety of relationships across universes was introduced in ''[[Somewhere (short story)|Somewhere]]'', the named character of Laura debuted quietly in the short story ''[[The First Voyage (short story)|The First Voyage]]'' on June the 5th, 2012, whereupon she was released in the public domain by McClure. However, it was only on August the 28th, 2013 that they [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/post/59650190377/so-laurashe-was-the-first-and-currently-most expounded] on the conceit behind the character: | |||
{{quotebox|So Laura – she was the first and currently most developed of the supporting cast for JE I’ve been thinking up. She started out as being more of a straightforward companion character but her concept wound up being “What if Luthor had stayed Superman’s friend?” | {{quotebox|So Laura – she was the first and currently most developed of the supporting cast for JE I’ve been thinking up. She started out as being more of a straightforward companion character but her concept wound up being “What if Luthor had stayed Superman’s friend?” | ||