Paying It Forward (novel): Difference between revisions

* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|main Jenny]] is the version previously seen in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''.

* It is suggested that the oracle [[Cha Ni]] is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”.

* One of the other Jennies she meets is a [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|stunt pilot]] dressed in the classic 1920s aviatrix outfit, who flies an [[Everywhere Explorer]].

* [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s version of the Shifter is known as [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]. She is described as “a dark amazon”, taller and fitter than the story's main Jenny. She wears light clothing including “[[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|a headband with two round amulets]]”. Her [[shift]]ing powers are somewhat unique; she travels around huge distances along a beam of glowing, rainbow light which, once she has reached her destination, shrinks down, allowing her to drape it over her shoulders — thus making it her version of [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|the scarf]].

* In [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is [[Jenny Everywhere#Genie Everywhere|a genie]].

* In [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is a medieval princess called [[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve]] who styles herself the “Princess of Everywhere”. She occasionally has “prophetic dreams”, implicitly nuggets of information or messages from her other selves, but does not seem fully aware of her true nature.

* [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny]] wears “a jacket with a furrier collar than [the story's main Jenny would] choose”. She is friends with a [[Clea|“butch chick”]] and a [[Bradley|very tall man]]. (The implication is that this is the Jenny from ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''.)

* [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation at Elysium Park|Jenny]] lives in [[New Guernsey]] and is the one to call down retribution on the [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]].

* Present at the “scaring the sandy-haired man” free-for-all and at the afterparty are the [[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|“biker” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu Jenny]] who wears a short pink scarf, the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a ninja|“ninja” Jenny]], the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a barbarian|“barbarian” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Priest Jenny|“priest” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Silver jumpsuit Jenny|Jenny]] wearing “a silver jumpsuit with a blinking LED scarf”, and a handsome male incarnation called [[Jenny Everywhere#Jerry at the afterparty|Jerry]].

* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|main Jenny]] lives in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]], and the universes of the various Jennies mentioned in the previous section of this article.

* [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the [[Eye of Tripoli]] thing” and got banned from [[Shangri-La]] for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions.

* This Jenny lives in apartment 8 with the number on the door sideways, calling back to the door in [[COMIC]]: [[Infinity Apartment (comic story)|Infinity Apartment]].

* A Jenny with silver hair and a blindfold, thus fitting the description of [[Cha Ni]], previously appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'' as one of the patrons of “[[the Restaurant]]”, as did the “[[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|biker Jenny]]”.

* The [[Jenny Everywhere#As a ninja|“ninja” Jenny]] also appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'', after having first been mentioned, alongside the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a barbarian|“barbarian” Jenny]] (who also appears in ''Paying It Forward''), in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]''.

* [[Cha Ni]] reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by a dinosaur|mirror self]] to her death”, referring this Jenny's first encounter with a [[Jenny Nowhere]], in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'', as well as of her saving the Internet from the [[Eye of Tripoli]], something mentioned as a recent achievement of Jenny's in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'')

* One of the items sought after by [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place|Janni]] is “an owl made of lightning”, an allusion to ''[[Lightning Made of Owls (series)|Lightning Made of Owls]]'', a webcomic with which [[Jenny Everywhere]] previously crossed over in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls]]''.

* One of the universes visited by Jenny appears to be [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|the world]] of [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''. However, due to licensing issues, no proper names are used to identify the seaside town or the two friends of Jenny's seen (whose depictions match [[Bradley]] and [[Clea]]). Earlier in 2021, [[Lupan Evezan]]'s ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' had similarly given a “lawyer-friendly” cameo to Right-On By The Sea.

* One of the refreshments at the party in the last chapter were [[Stewardess® Fruit Pie|Stewardess® Fruit Pies]], which had previously been seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]''.

* [[Davar Smith]] is mentioned, in reference to [[COMIC]]: [[Say The Word (comic story)|Say the Word]].

* [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] later reappeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]''.

* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'' took place directly after the events of this story.