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}}'''Kim''' was [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]'s roommate, and one of her closest friends, in at least [[Parallax Universe|one universe]]. Although she never referred to herself as one, she appeared to be a [[vampire]].  

[[David Lowe]] described Kim as “pretty”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|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 (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Eye of Argon]]'')

Kim was willful, proactive, and practical — as well as a loyal friend to [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]], whose life she saved on several occasions; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|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 (novel)|Pit Stop]]'')  

Kim made comments to [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] implying that she was gay; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|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 (short story)|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 [[shift]]ing 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 (short story)|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 Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] did not fully understand; she confirmed to Jenny, at any rate, that it was not in any way comparable to Jenny's [[Shift|“dimensional shenanigans”]], suggesting it was probably not mere teleportation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: The Summoning (short story)|Fragment: The Summoning]]'')

Kim had some knowledge of mathematics, feeling confident that he could help [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] learn “how to do exponents on the log scale” of a slide rule. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|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 {{w|Aleph number|aleph-null}}. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'')

The most commonly-documented version of Kim shared an apartment in the early 21st century with [[Parallax Universe|her home universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]] and the apparently immortal [[David Lowe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Absquatulation of Jenny Everywhere]]'', etc.)

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 (Parallax Universe)|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]]'') She had lived through the era of {{w|Macaroni (fashion)|macaroni}} fashion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'')

At some point, Kim met and befriended [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|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.

Kim participated in a raid on the lair of [[the Vampire King]] after he “came to town”, alongside her friends [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] and [[Fiona]]. After Fiona, a [[werewolf]], defeated the King's two [[revenant]] guards, she engaged in one-on-one combat with the King, trying to get him with a wooden stake. However, they were too evenly-matched and the killing blow was ultimately delivered by Jenny using wooden bullets. After the dust literally cleared, Fiona played one last part in the day's adventures by informing her that she still smelled one live vampiric presence in the dungeon, allowing Jenny and Kim to locate the captive [[Ulysses Dumas]]; Kim ripped the steel door out of its hinges to get to him, once again impressing Jenny with her strength. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'')

After [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] suffered from a bout of [[shifter hangover]], [[David Lowe]] dropped in to talk to Kim about what he'd learned about Jenny from her mutterings about her other lives, asking Kim if she'd ever met [[Jenny Everywhere's father]]. Their conversation awoke a napping Jenny, who told them a few more surprising anecdotes about other lives of hers, ending with a full ''a cappella'' performance of a song from a disco equivalent of ''{{w|Jesus Christ Superstar|Jesus Christ Superstar}}'' that [[Jenny Everywhere#1970s Jenny|a 1970s Jenny]] was apparently very into. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'')

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 (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] came home from school, he dropped in on Kim and [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|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 (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] mysteriously disappeared, a worried [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|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.  

[[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] had a bad habit of indiscriminately stuffing items brought back from interdimensional jaunts into the apartment's closet. When one of the items within it — a [[mammoth]]-fur coat — got wet and began to stink up the apartment, Kim finally browbeat Jenny into helping her to go through the closet's contents to sort them out. The many strange items they unearthed, most of them Jenny's, included an [[amnesia orb]] which caused them quite a bit of trouble as it kept erasing itself from their memories and getting lost again, until Kim finally thought to wrap it inside an old shirt and stuff it into a box before they let it out of their sights again. Eventually, they located the mammoth-fur coat and, “with great relief”, consigned it to the dry cleaner. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cleaning Day (short story)|Cleaning Day]]'')

On one occasion, [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] exchanged a few words with Kim about a story starring [[Jenny Everywhere#Visiting the Heroines Guild|another of her incarnations]] that she's just read through. Kim was amused, upon her summary of the tale (where Jenny ended up riding off with a partially-undressed girl tied to her saddle), to hear that it was “one of those stories”, needling Jenny about her pronounced longing to have a little of that kind of fun of late, and the two shared some surreal banter on the subject of whether some pretty boys would be allowed as pets by the terms of their apartment lease. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Fanfic Critique (short story)|Fragment: Fanfic Critique]]'')

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