Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story (novel)
Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story was a short Jenny Everywhere webnovel. The work of King Francis Petty, it was released for Jenny Everywhere Day in 2021.
Contents
Plot
Jenny Everywhere arrives in one universe only to immediately feel that she cannot shift out of it. Her surroundings resemble an idealised 1950s suburb, and she can see no villainous force responsible for her predicament. Realising she cannot remember anything about other worlds than this one (although she does remember that she should do so), she meets up with Jimmy Wherever, who is in the same situation, does not remember how he arrived in this world, and has apparently been here for a week.
After she kisses and comforts him, he informs her that he spotted versions of her parents who have also been brought to this universe, apparently coming from a different timeline to theirs. Though happy to “see her again” and to meet her boyfriend, the two, after inviting Jenny inside, confess that they too are aware that this world is “wrong”, and don't trust it. This is met with agreement from Jenny Anywhere, who has apparently been here for two weeks and hates it with a passion. Anywhere explains that a version of each of Jenny's associates is here (including not just friends, but also Jenny Nowhere. Indeed, Jenny Somewhere suddenly materialises in the middle of the living room, upset that her shifting powers are going even wronger than usual, resulting in her just teleporting to various locations in the neighbourhood but naturally not managing to leave the universe.
Later, Jenny Everywhere finally finds Nowhere. Though Nowhere beings to launch into one of her typical villainous monologues, Everywhere brutally cuts her off and pins her to the ground, shouting at her that trapping her and her family in “this sick Stepford sh¨t” is crossing a line even by Nowhere's standards. Nowhere then reiterates her declaration of love for Everywhere, who dodges by distracting Nowhere with a lie about their being related long enough to run away from her.
Later still, Jenny Anywhere and Jimmy Anytime dance by a fire, sharing a romantic moment, until they are intruded upon by Nowhere, who literally throws Jenny Somewhere at them, irate at apparently having been tricked by her into thinking that Somewhere was a proper incarnation of Jenny Everywhere. Everywhere finally decides to stop running from Nowhere and faces her, with all her other friends surrounding her. Intimidated at last, and accepting that she won't get what she wants from Everywhere today, a snarling Nowhere reluctantly activates a device which returns their memories and powers to all the shifters present. Hand in hand, Jenny Everywhere and Jimmy Wherever shift onwards to some other adventure…
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- Jenny Everywhere appears as the incarnation previously seen in COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You.
- Jenny across her incarnations is described as “a hero and an adventurer”; she is “an upbeat, confident, adventurous girl who enjoys sex”. She is explicitly described as pansexual and polyamorous.
Jenny Anywhere
- Jenny Anywhere is described as a pale girl with dark, dyed hair, wearing a sun or sunflower hairpin, a red trenchcoat, comfortable clothes and a scarf. She is said to have the ability to share knowledge with her other selves, but in “a more limited way” than Everywhere. Described as “maybe bisexual”, she is in a relationship with, and loves, Jimmy Anytime, but also has crushes on Jenny Somewhere and Jenny Everywhere herself.
Jenny Nowhere
- Jenny Nowhere appears as the incarnation previously seen in COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You. She is described as “probably pansexual”. It is pointed out that she wears a skull hair-pin.
Jenny Somewhere
- A clone of Jenny Everywhere, Jenny Somewhere is described as wearing a leaf-shaped pin as well as a scarf and goggles. She is described as being able to share memories with her other selves, although she cannot aim this any more than her physical shifting, making this power less useful than it is to Everywhere.
Jimmy Wherever
- Jimmy Wherever appears as “a muscular, young Canadian man with blonde hair and blue eyes” who wears a shirt with a red maple leaf design as well as dark trousered. He explicitly has no powers of his own. The description adds that “he’s a little basic but ultimately a hero, adventurer, and good boy”.
Jimmy Anytime
- Jimmy Anytime is described as “a muscular, young Canadian man with blond hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark T-shirt with a white maple leaf and black pants. He and Jenny are currently dating, although he also confesses that he's had feelings for Jimmy Wherever. He is described as “edgy and not at all upbeat (sometimes)”.
Universes
- The story takes place in a universe with an overly-perfect 1950s American suburb for the trapped shifters to live in, located either on Earth or on an Earth-like planet.
- Jenny theorised that the versions of her parents in the prison-universe came from a universe where they actually died while the local Jenny was fairly young.
Continuity
- This story's versions of Jenny Nowhere and Jenny Everywhere previously appeared in COMIC: That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You and Jenny Nowhere Dooming Herself To Be With Her Enemy., two Twitter comics also created by King Francis Petty.
- Jenny suggests that the Devil is one entity who could theoretically prevent her from using her powers if she had entered one of his realms. In COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Vs Hell, Jenny found herself unable to shift out of Hell.
- Everywhere and Nowhere discuss the fact that they are not sisters in these incarnations, and do not know of any universes in which they are related by blood. However, PROSE: Memories of Nowhere and other stories depicted the two shifters as sisters.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story was formerly available for purchase through Amazon. It can be read online here.
