Genesis of the Naveliser (short story)
Genesis of the Naveliser, also stylised Genesis of the NavL-iser (though the less futuristic spelling was consistently employed in the text itself), was a NSFW prose story illustrated with CGI renders, created by DeviantArt user throwaway19682 in 2022. The story featured unlicensed elements from DC Comics as well as Jenny Everywhere.
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Plot
In a secret laboratory, a malevolent scientist shows off her new invention, the Naveliser, to a pair of stern-looking “investors” — an intrigued man and a more sceptical woman. The device is a “new form of metahuman analysis and power duplication”, which the scientist demonstrates on unwilling test subject Poison Ivy, a supervillainess sourced from Arkham Asylum. After an hour-long demonstration of the torturous process whereby which the device accesses the nervous system of its victim (“accessing the base of the spine of the subject via the cluster of nerves in her umbiculus”), the man remains interested, but the woman denounces the invention as barbaric, promising that she will have a long discussion with the rest of the board about this. Though she remains polite as she bids the investors goodbye, the scientist seethes at her as she watches her leave.
A short time later, the female investor finds herself abducted by the scientist on her way to a night out with a friend, waking up back in the lab and strapped to the Naveliser herself. Before the device can skewer her through the navel, the terrified woman, who turns out to be the actual CEO of the company, breaks down and answers the scientist's questions, confessing to various sexual fetishes. Satisfied, the scientist threatens to make this information public unless she changes course and agrees not only to back the Naveliser project, but also to “support the creation of an AI network for connecting the Navelisers together”. The CEO agrees, and the scientist uses another setting of the Naveliser to knock her out, bringing the interrogation to an end.
Some time later, Jenny Everywhere shifts into Gotham City, only to be immediately kidnapped by the villainous scientist, who explains that she knows who she is, and wants her invention to copy Jenny's powers. After it does so, however, the Naveliser uses its newly-acquired shiting ability to teleport the scientist onto the binding frame itself. There, it uses its mind-reading feature to steal the details of its own design from the scientist's mind; then, “utilising Jenny Everywhere's reality and time manipulation powers”, it “send[s] the data back in time as a subliminal thought for the bound scientist, and any others unlucky enough to stumble across them”, also embedding it in “webpages and content across the internet”, all of it “ensuring its inevitable paradoxical existence”.
Exploiting minute flaws in her creation, the scientist manages to free herself from the hard light straps and destroy the original Naveliser, but this is only a temporary victory as the damage is done, the A.I. hive mind of Navelisers spreading its villainous power-seeking tendrils throughout the Multiverse.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- This story features an incarnation of Jenny who is not confirmed to be native to the universe in which it takes place, as she is abducted by the scientist immediately after “materialising in Gotham”. This Jenny resembles her Reality Z-25 31-H counterpart, with a black tank top, unobtrusive goggles worn on her forehead, a green scarf, tight jeans held up by a black belt, and the typical appearance of a fairly lean, dark-skinned, short-haired Asian young woman.
Universes
- This story takes place in a universe in which versions of elements from DC Comics exist, such as Gotham City and its denizens.
Other
- This Poison Ivy's original civilian name was Pamela Eisley. The scientist describes her as “formerly” Doctor Pamela Eisley, suggesting she has rejected this name.
Behind the scenes
Read online
Genesis of the Naveliser was originally released for free on DeviantArt, starting here, with each illustration being a different post with a fragment of the prose story given in the description field. It is now unavailable, but can be downloaded here.
