Jenny Everywhere: Difference between revisions

===Geometron Jenny===

She appears in the game [[Cupid Chaos: Remastered!]], as one of the Geometrons that the player may romanticize.

While the chased Jenny collapsed to the floor of the Infinite right there and then, falling asleep almost instantly, [[Jenny Everywhere#Half-angel half-demon Jenny Everywhere|another Jenny]] who's been holding off Nowhere allowed her to fully enter the Infinite. The magician Jenny played around with Nowhere for a while, playing magical tricks on her, before “handing her over” to [[Jenny Everywhere#Bunny Jenny|Bunny Jenny]], and on and on. Nowhere, surrounded by Everywheres running literal rings around her, seemed to finally lose her mind completely to the “Nowhere Spiral”, her rational mind entirely consumed by her self-contradictory obsession with Jenny Everywhere. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral]]'')

[[File:Human Jenny in Johann-Octavius Gans's 2021 Jenny Everywhere Day comic.png|thumb|right|210px|The human Jenny complimenting her other self's fashion choices. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Untitled (Johann-Octavius Gans's 2021 Jenny Everywhere Day comic)|Untitled]]'')]]One incarnation of Jenny had the standard human appearance. She wore green sand-shoes, high yellow socks, safari shorts, a yellow [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]] and a green crop-top; the lenses of her goggles were also green, and she even had green eyeliner. She had a mechanical-looking bracelet of uncertain function and carried a purple umbrella. This Jenny once received a visit from an [[#Underwater Jenny|underwater Jenny]] who looked like a hybrid between her and an octopus. The marine Jenny was also carrying an umbrella, albeit an octopus-themed one, which the human Jenny congratulated her on. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Untitled (Johann-Octavius Gans's 2021 Jenny Everywhere Day comic)|Untitled]]'')

[[File:Jenny Everywhere as a Crewmate.png|thumb|right|200px|Jenny Everywhere as a Crewmate. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor! (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!]]'')]]In [[Universe (Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!)|one universe]], Jenny Everywhere was a Crewmate in a futuristic, spacesuit-wearing crew; her spacesuit was purple, with a flower motif. Also in the crew [[Jenny Somewhere#As a Crewmate|Jenny Somewhere]] and [[Jenny Nowhere#As an Impostor|Jenny Nowhere]]. Unbeknownst to Everywhere and Somewhere, however, Nowhere was actually a murderous Impostor. After a body was found near some vents, the two real Crewmates began investigating, deducing that the Impostor must be someone from electric; however, returning to the scene of the crime, they seemed unaware that Nowhere was lurking in the shadows in person, dagger in hand. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor! (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!]]'')

One version of Jenny Everywhere was native to [[Universe (Psychopomp)|the world]] of [[the Endless]]. Like all other native beings of this universe, she faced [[Death#Death of the Endless|Death of the Endless]] upon dying. [[#Helping Death of the Endless|Another Jenny]], who had a different physical appearance, later felt this Jenny's memories in the back of her mind when she met Death of the Endless, though she did not fully tap into them, wanting to make her acquaintance on her own. The native Jenny had found this Death to be likable, unlike most other Deaths in the Multiverse — a judgment with which the second Jenny came to agree. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'')

At some point, a version of Jenny who had good control on her powers let herself [[shift]] at random and ended up in [[Universe (Psychopomp)|a universe]] that seemed dead and empty. However, she found one last survivor, [[Death#Death of the Endless|Death]], left to wait out eternity alone after reaping the last sentient being, [[Destiny#Destiny of the Endless|Destiny]]. Though initially confusing this Death with a version of [[Jenny Nowhere]] (due to their shared fashion sense and eerie white skin), Jenny soon struck up a friendship with Death and convinced her not to simply sit around, nor seek to end her own existence, but rather to “retire” to do what she always really enjoyed: watching living beings and interacting with them. Taking Death with her as she shifted out of the dead universe in a flash of life, Jenny pledged to help Death become a Shifter in her own right. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'')

One such occasion occurred as she was fighting a [[giant scorpion]] to save some kids it was threatening. Death chided her for the “unfairness” of her ability to extend her lifespan indefinitely, which she brushed past. Instead, she noted that, since they kept seeing each other, it might be nice for them to try to properly be friends, extending an offer to Death to drop in on her on a purely social basis at some point, much to Death's confusion. After Death told her to hurry up and get back to the land of the living, as the scorpion was due to die in less than two minutes (suggesting she needed to come back there and defeat it), she shifted back to the mortal plane with a final “See you later!”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pratfall (short story)|Pratfall]]'')

At some point before the [[Collapsed Cosmos|collapse]] of the Multiverse, Jenny was part of the [[League of Liberation]] in the 1960s, together with [[Glendalf#With the League of Liberation]], [[Octobriana#With the League of Liberation|Octobriana]], the [[Magician from Mars#With the League of Liberation|Magician from mars]], [[Ace Harlem]], [[Butterfly]], [[Trashman]] and [[Madam Fatal]]. The League was part of a wider secret organisation known as the [[Sixth International]] and opposed the [[Sixth Column]], a villainous cult worshipping [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]. This venture ended badly, however, with the tragic death of Trashman. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

After the [[Multiverse]] collapsed for unknown reasons, Jenny Everywhere managed to recentre a relatively stable reality around her perspective, creating the [[Collapsed Cosmos]]. In this new universe, the singular “collapsed” Jenny temporarily forgot her true nature, believing that her dim childhood memories of having adventures across dimensions had simply been childish daydreams. She lived in an apartment with [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]. Going out to the local [[library]] on a whim (so as to check out a book of [[Emily Dickinson]] poetry to use for divination purposes), Jenny heard a cryptic prophecy from a [[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|masked librarian]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

She then fell victim to one of the accidents of reality which sometimes happened in the patchwork Collapsed Cosmos, particularly in libraries: unable to run out of the library quickly enough when the “chaos alarm” sounded, she found her life merging with elements of some of the books near her. Finding herself back at her apartment, she received a visit from the wizard [[Glendalf]] who had brought twelve [[Orc]]s in tow, intent on having an adventure with her. Upon being confronted with Glendalf, she began to remember herself, through flashes of various adventures she'd had with him before; Glendalf also fully remembered the old order of reality and tried to remind her of who she was supposed to be.

Before going home, a despondent Jenny visited the park and sat down on a bench, bemoaning that she saw no obvious target for revolution, the way she would normally fix a broken cosmos. Typhaon, en entity who was simultaneously [[Chaos]] and [[the Fallen One]], sat down next to her and began gloating and proposing to fight her climactically, but Jenny declined, noting that it “just [wasn't] the same” with reality being what it was. Surprisingly enough, the entity concurred and left, leaving Jenny to rouse herself and head home. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

Jenny decided to try to find [[Glendalf]] again, and reasoned that if he and the [[Orc]]s made it out of the billionaire's mansion, they probably followed up on their plan for a side-quest in [[Faerie]]. Using the power of an old English ballad rather than something more conspicuous to [[ARCHONET]]'s sensors, she translated herself back to the eerie woodland of Faerie.  

They emerged, after long trawling through the dark tunnels, in a [[Limbo realm]] where they found an unoccupied cabin in which they took refuge and recuperated. Jenny, who was really sleeping for the first time since the Collapse, had a dream where she was “running around corridors and looking for something that was always out of reach”, which she was unable to remember clearly upon waking. In the morning, she played a mournful song on the [[theriamen]] which helped soothe her, Glendalf and Octobriana's brittle emotional states. Glendalf then excused himself, leaving Jenny and Octobriana their privacy; before long, they kissed and indeed slept together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

In [[Universe (Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic)|one universe]], Jenny led a parallel life as a superhero under the name of “the Shifter”. She was aware of her interdimensional nature and powers, able to access the memories of her other selves.

As Jenny, she began dating her world's [[Laura Drake#An alias quickly pierced|Laura Drake]], going as far as kissing her, shortly before Laura unveiled her supervillainous identity “Doctor Draconic” to “the Shifter”, already aware, for her part, that the Shifter and Jenny were one and the same. As they had their first face-off on a rooftop, Jenny readily recognised “Doctor Draconic” as Laura, leading to a moment of awkwardness between them that ended when the embarrassed Laura urged Jenny to get on with defeating her already. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic (short story)|Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic]]'')

One version of Jenny organised a birthday party at “this place [she] made”, to which she had invited “a few hundred friends” and “a few hundred of [herself]”. It was crashed by [[Jenny Nowhere#Crashing Everywhere's birthday party|a version of Jenny Nowhere]], who “had big plan again” as well as “some new tricks”. However, Jenny's friends fought back, including ones who are far from ordinary — “warriors. [[Wizard]]s. [[Kaiju]]. Mad scientists. Superheroes. Gods and things beyond gods” — and Nowhere predictably failed. Jenny was left reflecting on why Nowhere kept trying even though she must know she was going to keep failing, however many times they repeated this. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Nowhere Plan (short story)|Fragment: Nowhere Plan]]'')

One incarnation of Jenny had a red scarf, orange-tinted goggles, and “a face of genuine happiness”. She once got a job undercover at an “evil” company called [[Kablamazon]] as part of a plan to make them go bankrupt. In the course of this job, she delivered a package, which happened to be a new [[toaster]], to [[Jenny Over-There]] at the [[M.F.S. office]] in [[Universe (The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There)|one universe]]. The two exchanged a few words, as Jenny O. had recognised her namesake, before she accepted the toaster and Everywhere went on her way. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There (short story)|The Tribulations of Jenny Over-There]]'')

One version of Jenny was active as a superhero in [[New York City#Attacked by a battle mech|New York City]] in [[Universe (Truth in Labeling)|a universe]] where superheroes and supervillains were commonplace. As “the Shifter”, she wore a black and red spandex costume. She was friends with, and appeared to be developing a crush on, a version of [[Laura Drake]] whose full name was [[Laura Drake#Lauren Ipsum Drake|Lauren Ipsum Drake]], who was actually a [[Dragon]] in human form. On one occasion, the Shifter failed to defeat a [[Robot (Truth in Labeling)|robot]] who was attacking the city centre, as it was warded against teleportation. She attempted to convince Laura to help, though the other woman was reluctant because she was in civilian dress — ill-suited to an impromptu transformation back into her true form — and because she was counting on having lunch with Jenny half an hour later. However, Jenny successfully convinced Laura, who made short work of the robot, allowing them to carry on with their date. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Truth in Labeling (short story)|Truth in Labeling]]'')

In [[Universe (Fragment: Lunchtime in the Old West)|one universe]], a version of Jenny Everywhere was part of [[Cody's Wild West Show]]. She was once accosted by a patronising [[Man (Fragment: Lunchtime in the Old West)|man]] dressed “like an eastern dandy”, who blithely asked her if she knew how to shoot, even though she was visibly holding [[Jenny Everywhere's Winchester|a rifle]]. Keeping a perfect pokerface, Jenny answersed that she considers herself “no better than the next woman”, tricking him into thinking her a harmless opponent — despite having spoken the exact truth: the woman sitting next to Jenny, whom the man had failed to recognise, was in fact [[Annie Oakley]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Lunchtime in the Old West (short story)|Fragment: Lunchtime in the Old West]]'')

The 2022 iteration of the [[Interdimensional Pride Council]], which would oversee the [[Multi-Reality Pride Festival]], including the [[Interdimensional Pride Parade]], included several incarnations of Jenny Everywhere in its roster, brought on late after someone realised that the Council skewed too heavily male. Around a week after the Council first gathered, these Jennies also attended the party organised at [[Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop]] by [[Jenny Over-There]]. This caused no end of confusion, especially as they were joined by even more Jennies such as [[#In Reality 18|the one]] travelling with [[Grandmother Ginger]], as well as at least one [[Jenny Anywhere]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'')

In [[Reality B-89 54-Z]], Jenny was the niece and ward of the [[witch]] [[Grandmother Ginger]], growing up in a candy-themed magical land known as [[Sucria]]. She was born a few weeks prior to the last battle of the [[Great Marsh Mallow War]]. Her mother was one of the [[witch]]es who died in those final weeks of the War, and she ended up being raised by Ginger. She was plagued throughout her childhood by nightmares about [[the Old Man of the Marshmallow]] himself, even though his spirit was supposed to be safely imprisoned below the [[Marsh Mallow|Marsh]]. Eventually, twenty years after the end of the War, the Old Man escaped. He ended up encountering the 20-year-old Jenny and killing her.

Ginger then tried to use the [[Key of Enecloog]] to visit the other Jenny's mind and recover her niece. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

[[File:Jenny Everywhere in The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere.png|thumb|right|A depiction of this Jenny. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere]]'')]]A version of Jenny was native to [[Reality 18]]. She was a young woman. She had a round face and had light-brown skin and full lips. She wore a red scarf and red-tinted goggles. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

This version of Jenny once traveled to [[Sucria]] in [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] in search of the [[witch]] [[Grandmother Ginger]]. She did so impulsively, on the faith of an echo of [[#In Reality 89-B 54-Z|another life]] that had come to her in a dream — leaving her loved ones with little in the way of explanation, something she subsequently felt quilty about. Although she had a map of the [[Candy Forest]] where Ginger was said to reside, and could also rely on the knowledge of her other selves, she didn't know Ginger's exact location. On the outskirts of the Forest, she found a shack whose current owner turned out to be another with who was engaged in a feud with Ginger, known as [[Old Mother Westwind]]. Although Westwind had no more detailed knowledge of Ginger's current location than Jenny, she agreed to join her expedition as the two wandered deeper into the Forest.  

As they both regained their cool, the “world-of-Jenny” faded around them and they found themselves back in the clearing, where night had already fallen. Jenny surprised the weeping Ginger by telling her that she thought rescuing her niece might in fact be possible, and that she was willing to help, even if the Enecloog plan wasn't the way to do it.  Remembering that, according to legend, the souls of the dead literally flew up into Outer Space upon death, Jenny and Ginger soon realised that they needed to go there if they wanted to retrieve the dead Jenny's [[soul]] to resurrect her. Westwind, overhearing them, quickly used her powers to create a giant [[flying broomstick]] to take them there, which she dubbed the ''[[Wisp]]''. However, just as they were about to leave, Ginger cried out that she had forgotten something at home, and ended up staying there. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

The ''[[Wisp]]'' went down while Jenny and [[Old Mother Westwind]] were flying over the [[Fall Sea]], crashing directly into a reef on which a wrecked sailing ship was also speared. Jenny tried to swim away, but quickly lost strength and had to be fished out of the water by the captain of the wrecked ship, [[Captain Agatha]], a strange sunglasses-wearing older woman. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

This version of Jenny and [[Grandmother Ginger]] were among the guests at a [[Pride Month]] celebration organised by [[Jenny Over-There]] and [[Dynamite Thor]] at [[Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop]]. Some of the guests noticed a “slightly robotic” aspect to both women's behaviour. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'')

[[File:Barbelith Baristas - Illustration.jpg|thumb|left|Jenny is photographed outside of the ''[[Barbelith Baristas]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Barbelith Baristas (short story)|Barbelith Baristas]]'')]]Strangely enough, while they were familiar with the existence of many versions of [[Neeta]], [[Octobriana]] and [[Rabiahona]], the authorities of [[Interstitial City]] only had vague knowledge of Jenny Everywhere. It was limited to a single incarnation, who they believed also went by the name of “Mary”, with them assuming “Jenny Everywhere” to be some sort of stage name. She had slightly yellowish skin, green eyes, and light brown hair. She wore a gray jacket and a light-cyan scarf, and her long nails were painted to match the latter.  

This version of Jenny was once photographed enjoying a “take-away [[Raktajino]]” outside the ''[[Barbelith Baristas]]'' bar in the [[Bohemian District]]. While other people visible in the background of the photo, including versions of Octobriana, Neeta and Rabiahona as well as [[Professor Cabbage]], were photographed candidly, Jenny was in the foreground and looked directly into the camera as the picture was taken. The picture would go on to be used in a tourist brochure to illustrate the Bohemian District. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Barbelith Baristas (short story)|Barbelith Baristas]]'')

In [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|one fantasy universe]], “Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere” was an adventurer taking part in the [[Grand Battle of Knights and Sorcerers]]. She wielded a sword named [[Worldbridger]] which she'd received as a child, and which she believed to be responsible for her ability to [[shift]], although this may have been an erroneous assumption. In addition, she wore “an adventurer’s cloak, a hand-woven scarf, and a pair of wooden goggles”. Her arch-nemesis was [[the Draconic Sorceress]], with whom she had a romantically-charged sort of rivalry, reveling the chance for “intimate swordplay” that the other woman always provided at the end of their bouts by banishing the monsters she summoned before they could do Jenny any real harm if they seemed to be winning.

While fighting one of the Sorceress's minions, [[the Creeping Shadow]], Gwenivar found herself summoned by [[#Jennifer Everstar|another Jenny]] to another world. It turned out that Jenny had also accidentally summoned the Shadow a few moments earlier, and had subconsciously wished for helm, leading to Gwenivar's taking. She helped the other Jenny and [[Laura Drake#At the Neptunian Orbital University|the local Laura]] defeat the Creeping Shadow, and then returned home with the depowered Shadow in hand, intent on telling the Sorceress about the event over the familiar duel. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Extradimensional Experiments (short story)|Extradimensional Experiments]]'')

In [[Universe A (Extradimensional Experiments)|one universe]], Jenny was born under the name of “Jennifer Everstar” in an era where [[human]]ity was expanding into the rest of the [[Solar System]], under the aegis of the ludicrously influential [[Altern Corporation]]. She appeared as a “stout, dark-skinned young woman”; in addition to the typical red scarf and pair of aviator goggles, when she had to wear a [[thermal suit]], she favoured green ones. When she was young, she used to illegally liberate recalled [[Altern SmartPet]]s from Altern transport trucks before they could be reprogrammed.  

By the age of 19, Jenny had become a history major at the prestigious [[Neptunian Orbital University]]. One day, she discovered she had the ability to summon objects from thin air. After a few weeks of keeping it a secret, she decided to talk to a physics engineering major about it. Looking over some of the students' [[holonet]] portfolios, she selected [[Laura Drake#At the Neptunian Orbital University|Laura Drake]] because her designs had a spark of personality and eccentricity lacking in the more conventional creations of her classmates. Laura reluctantly agreed to help after Jenny proved she wasn't pranking her, but when a failed attempt to scan Jenny instead gave increased power to her summonings, the two had to deal with [[the Creeping Shadow]], a monster from [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|another reality]], with the help of [[#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|an alternative Jenny]]. Laura's “failed” photon-freezer, and the specific ways in which she'd built it “wrong”, proved key to defeating the monster, together with her Jenny's encouragements. After saying goodbye to the other Jenny, Laura and Jennifer stayed up looking at the stars, already bonding. It was then that Jenny discovered she also had the ability to teleport ''herself'' to other worlds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Extradimensional Experiments (short story)|Extradimensional Experiments]]'')

In [[Universe (This Might Happen Someday)|one universe]], “Jenny Everywhere” existed as a fictional character from August 2001 onwards. By 3001, there also existed a woman named Jenny Evans. She was dark-skinned and wore a blue dress. “Jenny Evans” may only have been a localisation to give an equivalent name by 21st century standards to how her actual, potentially more exotic-seeming name might have come across in her native society — such as “Jeni Johano”.  

Either way, she was a self-confessed adrenaline junkie, often going on adventures in virtual world with her friend [[Jenny Nowhere#Jennifer Nolan|Jennifer Nolan]] (with whom she shared a home “overlooking the rings of [[Saturn]]”) acting as her rival. She was, in addition to this, a fan of Jenny Everywhere fiction, and completed a 25-year effort to read or otherwise experience all surviving Jenny Everywhere fiction on August 13th, 3001, which was close to her birthday. Jennifer gifted her a pair of goggles and a scarf to mark the occasion. This prompted both girls to realise that they could, by this point, consider themselves the closest thing their world had to proper incarnations of Jenny Everywhere and [[Jenny Nowhere]], with knowledge of all Jenny Everywhere fiction acting as Jenny's way of tapping into her counterparts' experiences. Although neither took the idea wholly seriously, they soon departed for another virtual adventure and it may or may not have prompted Jenny to discover right there and then that she had ''real'' [[shift]]ing powers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[This Might Happen Someday (short story)|This Might Happen Someday]]'')

One outgoing version of Jenny, who had great control of her [[shift]]ing powers, able to make objects vanish with a snap of her fingers, ordinarily wore boots and “silly rainbow socks”. She once visited [[Universe A (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|a universe]] home to [[Death#Flirting with Jenny|a version]] of [[Death#Death of the Endless|Death of the Endless]]  who liked to walk amongst humans unnoticed, and sometimes went barefoot. Jenny casually accosted her, making it clear that she knew who she was. Death was surprised to meet someone who knew her for who she was but whom she herself didn't know — and even more surprised when Jenny, deciding to follow Death's example, made her own shoes [[Shift|vanish]] with a snap of her fingers. Jenny began literally flirting with Death, who seemed receptive. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

[[Universe B (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|One universe]]'s version of Jenny, an “Asian girl”, knew [[the Doctor#Fun with Clara and Jenny|the Doctor]] of old, casually addressing him as “[[w:c:tardis:Theta Sigma|Theta]]”. She once showed up in the control room of [[the Doctor's TARDIS#Clara and Jenny's fun|the Doctor's TARDIS]], intending to speak with him about something. However, he was out at the time, and she instead met Clara. The two struck up a conversation, and, when Jenny explained her own nature as a multidimensional being with an infinity of alternative selves, Clara jumped on the opportunity to mention that she was in more or less the same boat. When the Doctor returned, he was shocked to see that, with “one thing [leading] to another” Jenny had summoned matching numbers of her other selves and Clara's into the control room, and they were all engaging in various adult activities. After the prime Clara explained the situation to the Doctor (from a compromising position in-between a blue-haired Jenny and one of her own duplicates), the prime Jenny saucily asked him if he wanted to join the fun. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

A bespoke incarnation of Jenny existed within [[Universe C (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|one universe]]'s version of the [[Infinity Train]]. She developed a close bond with human passener [[Grace Monroe]] Eventually, Grace got her number down to just one, and realised that the only remaining step on her journey was to admit to herself that she was gay, and to Jenny that she was in fact in love with her. However, she was afraid to do so because it would mean going home ''without'' Jenny. Jenny encouraged Grace to take this step even so, knowing that although, as a Denizen, this particular incarnation of her was stuck on the Train, [[#Case worker|her incarnation on Grace's Earth]] could take care of Grace instead. After returning home, Grace was surprised and delighted to be assigned the Jenny in question as her case worker to regularise her situation after her years-long absence. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

The regular-universe incarnation of Jenny in [[Universe C (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|one universe]] ended up being the case-worker of [[Grace Monroe]] after she returned to the real world following years spent on the [[Infinity Train]], over the course of which she'd fallen in love with [[#Denizen of the Infinity Train|the Jenny who was a Denizen of the Train]]. The two Jennies had apparently communed their memories, allowing Grace to continue her relationship with the human Jenny. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

In [[Universe D (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|one universe]], Jenny crossed paths with the [[The Devil#Date with Jenny|local version of Lucifer]], who lived on Earth in a penthouse. He had the ability to make mortals reveal their deepest desire. When he met Jenny and tried the trick on her, however, he failed to get a meaningful answer because all the deepest desires of all Jennies came out at once. Intrigued, he proposed that they have dinner so he could get to know her in a more mundane fashion, and Jenny, equally intrigued by the stranger's ability to draw the infinite statement out of her, agreed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

In at least [[Universe E (Shippy Shifter Snippets)|one universe]], the [[djinn]] in [[Aladdin]]'s lamp was none other than a version of Jenny. While she was bound to the lamp, her golden scarf also served as a chain leashing her to the lamp. Eventually, Aladdin freed the [[genie]] from the lamp. Jenny, who had begun to develop crushes on Aladdin and Jasmine both, and wanted to keep hanging out with them as friends in any case, suggested that they come along on the travels throughout [[the Multiverse]] that she would now resume. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shippy Shifter Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'')

Centuries later [[Jenny_Everywhere#Kim's friend|another Jenny]] would free the [[Jenny_Everywhere#Genie_Everywhere|Djinn fi kuli makan]], the "genie in every place," from a bottle while on a spree to help alternative versions of herself; this may or may not have been the same genie. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'')

One version of Jenny, a Native American girl with short black hair and the usual goggles and scarf, once visited [[the Labyrinth]] in [[Universe (Labyrinth)|a universe]]. Her appearance at the gates of the Labyrinth was immediately detected by the [[Goblin King]] [[Jareth]], who flew over to meet her. He recognised her as Jenny Everywhere, having knowledge of the Shifter from various “myths, legends and odd tales”. He was surprised to hear that she was only here for adventure, and at the casual way in which she treated him, but agreed to grant her thirteen hours of “playtime” in his Labyrinth, provided she promised not to break anything. He warned her that, aside from ordering the [[Firey]]s not to attempt to steal her goggles and scarf, he did not guarantee her safety from the other residents of the Labyrinth, but allowed her to summon him if she needed his help on her journey. With no further ado, he disappeared, and Jenny headed into her adventure, smiling brightly. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Everywhere's The Thing! (short story)|Everywhere's The Thing!]]'')

After she studied records of the [[John F. Kennedy]] assassination in nearby realities, such as [[Abraham Zapruder]]'s film, one version of Jenny Everywhere changed history in [[Universe (Fragment: Guinevere and Mordred)|one universe]] by shooting [[Lee Harvey Oswald|the would-be assassin]] from a concealed position on the other side of [[Dealy Plaza]] before he could take his own shot. She then prepared to [[Shift|disappear]], idly wondering what conspiracy theories the mysterious shooting of the would-be assassin would spawn. Because Kennedy's presidency was known as “[[Camelot]]”, the assassin could be referred to as “[[Mordred]]”; this meant that from a certain point of view Jenny, or “[[Guinevere]]”, slotted right in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Guinevere and Mordred (short story)|Fragment: Guinevere and Mordred]]'')

[[File:Jenny Everywhere in The Demon and the Butterfly.png|thumb|left|235px|This Jenny as she appeared shortly before getting her powers. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')]]One version of Jenny was native to the politically-independent island of [[Mystepolia]] in [[Universe (Jenny and the Multiverse)|one universe]]. Like the other [[human]]s of this universe, she had four fingers on each hands. She appeared as a young, short, fairly skinny black woman with large, round ears. She wore goggles on her forehead with a large purple strap and brass frames. She usually wore a dark, sleeveless T-shirt and dark jeans, and had a tendency to go barefoot even in situations where this wasn't sociall acceptable. However, she was capable of dressing up if necessary, owning a blue jacket and a bowtie which seemed to change colours between red and blue. After she got her powers in circumstances which burnt out her bowtie and left its remains hanging from her neck like a scarf for her first adventure, she seemed to adopt the wearing of a genuine, striped blue scarf.  

This Jenny was not initially possessed of any particular powers, nor aware of her interdimensional nature. As a young woman, she dated [[Laura Drake#On Mystepolia|Laura Drake]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')

[[File:Jenny Everywhere and Laura Drake in The Demon and the Butterfly.png|thumb|right|310px|Jenny using her [[Shift|powers]] for the first time as [[Laura Drake#On Mystepolia|Laura]] looks on. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)|The Demon and the Butterfly]]'')]]As the endpoint of five years of research, the [[Laura Drake#On Mystepolia|Laura Drake]] this Jenny dated eventually completed the [[Triangular Bisector]]. It was intended to open a small portal to the heart of an alien sun in [[Universe (The Demon and the Butterfly)|another dimension]] and safely funnel powers from it. It wasn't designed to allow physical beings to travel between the dimensions. However, when Laura organised an official demo at the Museum, [[Lord Grallyx#Summoned to Mystepolia|Lord Grallyx]], a demonic being who had been imprisoned in the heart of the star Laura had selected, pushed his way through, damaging the Bisector in the process. Jenny quickly climbed onto the stage, helping to steady Laura, who was spiraling into irrational guilt. After calming her down, Jenny tried to use the Bisector again to summon the [[Disciples of Golden Light]] so they could trap Grallyx again, but it backfired and she received a blast of [[shifter energy]] which briefly knocked her out. However, she quickly woke up, newly-infused with the energy, which allowed her to start shifting objects from other universes into her grasp.  

[[File:Jenny Everywhere killed by Jackson.png|thumb|left|220px|One of the many Jennies murdered by [[Jackson Jones|the Hopper]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off]]'')]]Many incarnations of Jenny were killed by [[Jackson Jones]], “the Hopper”, an insane gun-wielding [[shift]]er who went on a murderous spree hopping rapidly through dimensions and killing every Jenny he came across. Naturally, he could only destroy a comparatively small number of Jenny's infinity of incarnations. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off]]'')

One incarnation of Jenny Everywhere lost her life when [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|her long scarf]] got caught in a ceiling fan, strangling her. Holding this to be one of her more awkward deaths, later incarnations of Jenny were embarrassed to recollect it. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off]]'')

[[File:Jenny Everywhere in Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off.png|thumb|right|The ‘final’ Jenny a few moments before her death. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off]]'')]]According to one account, one by one, Jenny Everywhere's incarnations all died, most of old age, others surviving until the final destruction of the very universe they inhabited. Finally, one Jenny, who had the standard “thin Asian woman with short, spiky hair” appearance, came to believe herself to be the last, as she could no longer detect any other Jennies in the Multiverse no matter how far she reached out with her mind. She was at peace with her imminent demise, although she thought there was in any case a chance she was mistaken, and had simply personally gotten cut off from the network, or that she was perhaps simply the last Jenny of a “pocket-[[Multiverse]]” with a finite number of worlds which had gotten separated from the mainstream Omniverse.  

==Behind the scenes==

Jenny Everywhere's creation was a collaborative effort which took place in 2001 and 2002 on the Barbelith Underground forum, where she was initially thought up under the  name of “the Shifter”. Her basic look was unveiled on August the 13th, 2001 by [[Steven Wintle]] in a pair of public-domain sketches. He spoke at some length about the origins of the character, whom he had originally conceived (under an earlier form) for a never-materialized comic project.  

{{quotebox|This is the Shifter. She has dimensional powers. To her associates, this means she can traverse say 4 or 5 dimensions, whatever taht means. The truth is, she can access all dimensions. Again, not sure exactly what that means (and now you can see why it was abandoned). The part I really liked about her was that she inhabited all dimensions at the same time. Or, to be more accurate, parallel universes. And yes, I was thinking Crisis on Infinite Earths. Basically, she's having an infinite number of adventures on an infinite number of planets. Our story involved her staying on one Earth, but that needn't be the case in this exercise.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060621205238/http://www.barbelith.com/topic.php?id=15206 Further discussion] served to crystallize the power-set and basic concept of Jenny as “the Shifter”, as there was initially some debate on the extent to which she'd be aware of her other selves' lives and the nature of her dimensional abilities.

Steven Wintle began working on a comic story entitled ''[[Cars (comic story)|Cars]]'', which was never completed — in fact, ''[[Tribute (comic story)|Tribute]]'', written for the 10th anniversary of Jenny's creation, would be the only full Jenny Everywhere story ever created by Wintle. Instead, the first comic project featuring Jenny to be completed and released was ''[[My Bloody Valentine (comic story)|My Bloody Valentine]]'', and the first to be released was ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]''. Data are difficult to find, but the [https://web.archive.org/web/20040603172530/http://www.queergranny.com:80/jennyeverywhere/comics.shtml original Jenny Everywhere website] gives the following official reading (and, likely, release) order for the thirteen earliest [[:Category:Barbelith Stories|“Barbelith stories"]]:

#''[[Mrs Zirma (comic story)|Mrs Zirma]]''

#[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)#Part 1|''Damn Fine Hostile Takeover'' <small>(Part 1)</small>]]

#''[[The Late Shift (comic story)|The Late Shift]]''

#''[[Holiday Pandemonium (comic story)|Holiday Pandemonium]]''

#''[[Makeshift Multiverse (comic story)|Makeshift Multiverse]]''

#''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]''

#''[[Soulless Mate (comic story)|Soulless Mate]]''

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