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}}'''David Lowe''', nicknamed '''David al-Hajar''' by [[Haroun the Thrice Cursed]], was a man who lived in the same apartment building as [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]] and [[Kim (Parallax)|Kim]], and apparently a friend of the latter, in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. Like Kim, he insisted with intentionally comical stringency that he was a perfectly normal human being despite some evidence to the contrary. | }}'''David Lowe''', nicknamed '''David al-Hajar''' by [[Haroun the Thrice Cursed]], was a man who lived in the same apartment building as [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]] and [[Kim (Parallax)|Kim]], and apparently a friend of the latter, in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. Like Kim, he insisted with intentionally comical stringency that he was a perfectly normal human being despite some evidence to the contrary. | ||
== Description == | |||
=== Physical appearance === | |||
David was outwardly ordinary-looking. He wore a sweater. However, underneath the latter, he apparently had “a surprising amount of chest-hair”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
=== Personality === | |||
David was a quiet, ever-unfazed man, who reacted with equanimity and mild amusement to the improbable adventures that came of being [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]]'s neighbour. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') He had a philosophical bent, once muttering when a mortal child pressed him to “do something” about an apparent emergency: “Something, it’s always something. Easy to do something, harder to do the right thing”. He seemed to also have an understated nostalgia for the old world, able to function in the modern world but finding it all a little too much for him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
=== Powers & abilities === | |||
In addition to his apparent immortality, David also seemed to be unnaturally resilient, able to take multiple blows from a feral [[Kim]] without flinching. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
== Biography == | |||
=== Origins === | |||
David once made a comment to [[Professor Awesome#Kim and Jenny's neighbour|Eric]] suggesting that he was unnaturally old. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'') [[Haroun the Thrice Cursed]] considered him worth paying his respects to, and seemed to know of his true nature, whatever it was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') | |||
=== In the 21st century === | |||
In the early 21st century, David lived in an apartment in the same building as that shared by [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]] and the [[vampire]]-by-any-other-name [[Kim]]. He worked from home as a {{w|sofer|sofer}}. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
When she suffered from [[shifter hangover]], Jenny dropped in on David to warn him that things might become especially strange around her in the immediate future — with David reacting with wry amusement at the idea that Jenny's life could get any stranger than it already was. She also gave him Haroun's regards. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') | When she suffered from [[shifter hangover]], Jenny dropped in on David to warn him that things might become especially strange around her in the immediate future — with David reacting with wry amusement at the idea that Jenny's life could get any stranger than it already was. She also gave him Haroun's regards. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') | ||
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Kim once told Eric that David had a story he could tell Eric that would serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of building a girlfriend for oneself, something Kim was afraid the budding mad scientist might try to do. She noted that Eric had better wait until he was older to ask David for the story, and also that it wasn't Kim's story to share. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | Kim once told Eric that David had a story he could tell Eric that would serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of building a girlfriend for oneself, something Kim was afraid the budding mad scientist might try to do. She noted that Eric had better wait until he was older to ask David for the story, and also that it wasn't Kim's story to share. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | ||
One day, after Jenny mysteriously disappeared, a worried Eric broke into Kim and Jenny's apartment with the help of the [[Robot Toaster]]. Finding an unmoving, unresponsive Kim on the bed, he panicked and called David for help. Being aware of Kim's nature, David was not worried about Kim's apparent catatonia himself, but he agreed that Jenny's disappearance was concerning enough to warrant waking her up in the daytime. Recalling what she'd told him about the bottle of Jenny's blood, David located the hideaway and dribbled some of the precious liquid into Kim's mouth. She woke up with a start, lashing out like a wounded animal at David, with her claws out, until her higher brain functions came back online and she calmed down. | |||
She was worried when David told her what blood he'd made her drink, as she couldn't actually feel Jenny's presence as she should have — not “her” Jenny, and not any of the other infinite Jennies in the Multiverse either. Before long, however, she felt their presences all returning, and her roommate reappeared with a “Pop” in the middle of the room. Jenny explained that she was never in any danger: ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'') her and all her other selves' temporary disappearance was something that occasionally happened to Jenny, serving to resynchronise the mental connection between them all. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'', ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
