Kim (Parallax Universe): Difference between revisions

| copyright= [[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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== Description ==

== Biography ==

When [[David Lowe|David]] informed her that 50-year-old [[Morrie Greenberg]] had a romantic interest in her, Kim answered that he was “too young” for her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') David also pointed out to [[Professor Awesome#Kim and Jenny's neighbour|Eric]] that the secret bottle of Jenny's blood she kept in a hidden cupboard in her apartment was in an old, pre-modern style, sealed with wax by hand. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

At some point, a “long time ago”, Kim lived together with many other women. She attempted to flirt with many of them, progressively learning that taboo aside, not all women were actually sexually interested in other women, in contrast to what she'd previously assumed. She learned to deal with rejection “gracefully”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'')

At some point, Kim met and befriended [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|a version]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]]. Jenny trusted her enough to eventually give her a bottle of her blood for use in emergencies. Kim had cause to use it once, finding the experience extremely overwhelming; she was glad when her temporary Jenny powers subsided, and swore never to do it again, although she still kept the sealed bottle in a safe place in case of an emergency. She would go on to mention this contingency measure to [[David Lowe|David]]. Also in case of emergencies, Jenny told Kim about a few ways to leave the universe if it became necessary. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

Kim once went out to a bar alongside [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]] and some of their friends. After Jenny began feeling nauseous, she accompanied Jenny to the bathroom, where they were confronted by [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by a dinosaur|Jenny Nowhere]], whom this Jenny had never encountered in any form, and who was the one who'd slipped something in Jenny's beer. She revealed herself as originally a version of Jenny Everywhere who had become disconnected from the wider telepathic network. To Everywhere's horror, she viewed it as a liberation which she planned to “share” with her, willing or not.

However, Nowhere did not keep the upper hand for long; foolishly choosing to pursue Everywhere in turn to the cool jungle she had chosen as the place to take Kim, she realised too late that it was a ''prehistoric'' jungle and was mauled to death by a dinosaur. Kim later examined her body, finding the surgical scar above her left ear which revealed she was ''not'' the original Jenny Nowhere. Shaken by these revelations, Jenny Everywhere and Kim agreed to go back home for another drink — with no music. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'')

The year after they'd foiled [[the Vampire King]] together, Jenny and Kim received a call from [[Ulysses Dumas]], a musician they'd saved from the King's dungeon; it transpired that he had ended up turning into a [[vampire]] himself following his ordeal, and he was worried about how this would impact his career, given that some types of camera could no longer pick him up. Jenny went to the first meeting alone, but set a second appointment with Dumas where she brought Kim, who suggested he wear full-body make-up as part of his stage persona. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'')

When [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] visited Jenny and Kim's apartment, it was Kim who answered the door, as her Jenny was taking a shower at the time. Unimpressed with the medieval, magical “Jenny”, she approached the situation with curt practicality, translating the Princess's talk of “waylaid dream spinners” into the realisation that she had left her interdimensional vehicle unattended in the nearby parking lot. Kim helped [[Professor Awesome#Kim and Jenny's neighbour|Professor Awesome]] repair the device, and, after Genevieve repaid him with a large gold coin, she offered to help Eric translate that gold into modern money and to take him to the hardware store so that he could spend these “wages” on new equipment and parts. She explained that she was already all set to sell some gold, as she had to make something of a chest of pirate gold Jenny had brought back from a recent adventure. Before they could do so, an [[Angel]] appeared with much fracas in the very same parking lot, heralding yet another crazy adventure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'')

One day, after [[Professor Awesome#Kim and Jenny's neighbour|Eric]] came home from school, he dropped in on Kim and [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]], feeling down about a row he'd had with a girl in his class, [[Judy (Misunderstandings)|Judy]], which his mother was “being weird” about. Coming to the incorrect conclusion that Eric had taken a romantic interest in Judy and been disappointed, she tried to give him a rambling collection of dating advice, helped by Jenny. Eventually, the misunderstanding became clear, and a somewhat mortified Kim offered to move on to helping Eric with his homework. Eric was mildly reluctant to put in the work for his math homework, not seeing what the point of learning to use a side-rule was when he had four calculator apps on his phone, but he eventually agreed, especially asking Kim to help him understand “how to do exponents on the log scale”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'')

At some point, Kim greatly enjoyed some [[Mars|Martian]] bread brought home from [[Universe A (Jenny Everywhere and the Eye of Argon)|another universe]] by [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]]. A month later, when Jenny ran out of sourdough to make bread, Kim reminded her of this bread, spurring Jenny to attempt to [[shift]] back to that version of Mars to get some ingredients from there. However, Jenny ended up in the fantasy world of [[Ecord]] instead, and Kim saw her rematerialise a little while later in a skimpy barbarian outfit, holding out a sword. This prompted some casual banter between the two, with them getting on the subject of a shared wish to someday visit [[Barsoom]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Eye of Argon (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Eye of Argon]]'')

While trying to track down DVDs of Season 3 of an anime show about herself called ''[[Bugendai no Jenī no Itarutokoro]]'', [[Jenny Everywhere#KIm's friend|Jenny]] [[shift]]ed to a [[Universe (I Found Him On The Internet)|nearby universe]] to attend the [[Jiujinshan anime con]]. However, she found that it was “being held up by some industry A.I.s on strike wanting better working conditions”. Somewhere along the way, she picked up a new sidekick in the form of a [[Troll (I Found Him On The Internet)|literal Internet Troll]]. Bringing him back with her, she hopped back to her home universe and apartment in order to pick up the [[Robot Toaster]], intending to bring him back to the anime con, to have him infiltrate the A.I.s' cybernetic fortress, and then, once they accepted him, to have him act as a “spokes-robot” to permit fair negotiations between the A.I.s and humans. As she arrived, she and the Troll were greeted by a rather confused Kim, who watched as Jenny tapped into the computer skills of some of her close alternates and successfully tinkered with the Robot Toaster to bring it out of “pet” mode and into “cyber-intrusion” mode. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I Found Him On The Internet (short story)|I Found Him On The Internet]]'')

[[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]] once found flyers advertising a night-time ritual to “SUMMUN STAAN”. Despite the incompetence implied by the typo-ridden flyer, Jenny resolved to observe the meeting from afar to ensure they did not stumble into successfully summoning anything truly dangerous. While making her way to the disused comic shop where the cultists had made their lair, Jenny bumped into Kim, who asked to know what she was up to, and ended up helping her break in. All their worries proved to be for naught: although the cultists succeeded in summoning the object of their worship, it was not [[The Devil#Kim's universe|Satan]], as they'd mistakenly assumed, but the harmless [[Stan Lee|Stan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: The Summoning (short story)|Fragment: The Summoning]]'')

One day, after [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]] mysteriously disappeared, a worried [[Professor Awesome#Kim and Jenny's neighbour|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 Lowe]] 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]]'')

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