Kim
Kim was Jenny Everywhere's roommate, and one of her closest friends, in at least one universe. Although she never referred to herself as one, she appeared to be a vampire.
Description
Physical appearance
David Lowe described the Parallax Universe's Kim as “pretty”. (PROSE: Pit Stop) Jenny once indicated that if the two of them visited Barsoom, Kim could pass for a Thern. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Eye of Argon)
Personality
Kim was willful, proactive, and practical — as well as a loyal friend to Jenny, whose life she saved on several occasions; (PROSE: Parallax) she was matter-of-fact, perhaps even blasé, about the strange happenings which resulted from Jenny's multi-dimensional nature and in which she often found herself involved, including encounters with different incarnations of Jenny than the one she was used to. Her practicality could help Jenny focus. (PROSE: Pit Stop)
Despite her evident vampirism, she seemingly refused to refer to herself as one. (PROSE: Parallax)
Kim made comments to Eric implying that she was gay; (PROSE: Misunderstandings) indeed, she took a disparaging view of men, and would make joke at their expense even if they happened to be friends of hers. (PROSE: Parallax)
Powers & abilities
Kim was used to bare-handed fighting. Although she never called herself one, she had abilities consistent with being a vampire, including immunity to ordinary tranquiliser drugs, superhuman physical strength (sufficient to kill a dinosaur bare-handed), and even such powers as the ability to levitate (PROSE: Parallax) and to turn into a swarm of bats. (PROSE: Camera Shy) She normally slept during the day, although she could be awakened from her catatonic sleep in case of an emergency by dribbling some blood into her mouth. (PROSE: The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere) She sometimes displayed a weakness to sunlight; if exposed to direct, stark sunlight her skin would begin to burn within seconds. (PROSE: Parallax)
Drinking the blood of a given individual would allow Kim to sense their location for a little while afterwards. Drinking Jenny Everywhere's blood gave her a temporary connection not just to the Jenny she'd drunk from, but all other Jennies in the Multiverse, and seemed to also temporarily give her shifting powers. Normally, she had none. However, Jenny did tell her about a few “backdoors out of the universe” just in case, (PROSE: The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere) and she possessed a mysterious ability to get through solid doors and to appear behind people without warnings, which Jenny did not fully understand; she confirmed to Jenny, at any rate, that it was not in any way comparable to Jenny's “dimensional shenanigans”, suggesting it was probably not mere teleportation. (PROSE: Fragment: The Summoning)
Kim had some knowledge of mathematics, feeling confident that he could help Eric learn “how to do exponents on the log scale” of a slide rule. (PROSE: Misunderstandings) She also had enough knowledge to “snicker” at the math-based April Fools' Day joke whereby the 10 on David Lowe's apartment door was replaced by an aleph-null. (PROSE: Morning After)
Biography
Jenny's roommate
- See main article: Kim (Parallax Universe)
The most commonly-documented version of Kim shared an apartment in the early 21st century with her home universe's version of Jenny Everywhere, who seemed to be her closest friend. Their apartment building was home to several other “eccentric” characters, including kid mad scientist Professor Awesome and the apparently immortal David Lowe. (PROSE: The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere, etc.)
Witness to the Everywhere-Nowhere rivalry
- See main article: Kim (Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)
A version of Kim existed in at least one other universe. She was part of Jenny Everywhere's friends group, alongside Jimmy Wherever and Michael Wherever. She appeared to also be vampiric, expressing concern about bursting into flames if she were caught in the daylight. This Kim witnessed a fight between Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Nowhere in an “alien flower field” in one universe, and was less blithely confident than her friends in Everywhere's victory. After Jenny Everywhere did nevertheless win, Jenny and friends left for another universe to celebrate. (PROSE: Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)
Behind the scenes
The implications in Parallax and Camera Shy point to Kim being some form of vampire, but this is purposefully left ambiguous. On the topic of Kim's potential vampirism, Sanford later commented on the Jenny Everywhere Discord on September 14, 2021:
| And yet she never says the V word. No doubt there's a story there. [But] I think Kim is over-exposed in Jenny's circle of friends and shouldn't be front & center in anything else for a while. A quote did come to me a while back, which she may never say in a story: “I lived a very conventional life once. Then I had an appointment in Samara and realized I could take the scenic route home.” Or if she was feeling more blunt, “a rare condition; symptoms include nocturnal insomnia, changes in appetite, and a propensity to Cotard’s Delusion”. |
| —Scott Sanford |
In 2022, Aristide Twain created a visualisation of Kim, which to date remains her only depiction in visual media. She was depicted with facial features based on 1970s horror actress Ingrid Pitt, best known for portraying lesbian vampire Carmilla in the 1970 Hammer film The Vampire Lovers.
Aristide Twain's artwork of Kim.
Notes & references
- ↑ (Scott Sanford quote from the Discord server: “I wouldn't object to Kim making guest appearances in other people's stories. Go right ahead, if you feel like it.”)
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