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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[Jenny Nowhere#Divergent Everywheres|Jenny Nowhere]] | | villain(s)= [[Jenny Nowhere#Divergent Everywheres|Jenny Nowhere]] | ||
| featuring= [[Kim | | featuring= [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] | ||
| setting= [[Universe | | setting= [[Parallax Universe]] | ||
| length= 2782 words | | length= 2782 words | ||
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | | writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | ||
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| previous = ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'' | | previous = ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'' | ||
| next = ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'' | | next = ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'' | ||
}}'''''Parallax''''', subtitled '''''A Jenny Nowhere story''''', was the second [[Jenny Everywhere]] short story created by [[Scott Sanford]], in 2008. It introduced a [[Jenny Everywhere | }}'''''Parallax''''', subtitled '''''A Jenny Nowhere story''''', was the second [[Jenny Everywhere]] short story created by [[Scott Sanford]], in 2008. It introduced a [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|version of Jenny]] Sanford would continue to use in later stories, as well as an attempted reimagining of [[Jenny Nowhere#Divergent Everywheres|Jenny Nowhere]]. | ||
== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
===Plot === | ===Plot === | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] has been drinking in a bar with some friends. When she begins to throw nauseus, her friend [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] helps her to the bathroom, where Kim is abruptly hit by a tranquiliser dart from a new arrival: a woman who looks exactly like Jenny Everywhere, clad in a tight leather outfit. She begins to mockingly excuse herself to Jenny for knocking Kim out when she realises that Kim is not in fact out, apparently being immune to the drug she used. The intruder shoots another dart at her, to no avail, and gives up in annoyance, also revealing that she was the one who messed with Jenny's beer. Kim lunges at the intruder, who insists that she is not here to hurt her or Jenny and [[shift]]s away. | ||
In a split-second decision, Jenny Everywhere follows the intruder “through” the trail of gleaming energy left behind in the few seconds after she has begun teleporting away. With Jenny having taken Kim along, they find themselves in a brick-walled alley where they corner the intruder again. With Jenny and Kim needling her about her identity, how she knows how to shift and how she knows so much about Jenny Everywhere, she reveals that she used to be an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere herself, until she suffered a freak, one-in-a-billion brain injury which cut off her connection to the Jenny Everywhere psychic network completely, even on a subconscious level. Finding herself an individual, commensurate being for the first time in her life, with a free will that was truly her own, she renamed herself [[Jenny Nowhere#Divergent Everywheres|Jenny Nowhere]]. | In a split-second decision, Jenny Everywhere follows the intruder “through” the trail of gleaming energy left behind in the few seconds after she has begun teleporting away. With Jenny having taken Kim along, they find themselves in a brick-walled alley where they corner the intruder again. With Jenny and Kim needling her about her identity, how she knows how to shift and how she knows so much about Jenny Everywhere, she reveals that she used to be an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere herself, until she suffered a freak, one-in-a-billion brain injury which cut off her connection to the Jenny Everywhere psychic network completely, even on a subconscious level. Finding herself an individual, commensurate being for the first time in her life, with a free will that was truly her own, she renamed herself [[Jenny Nowhere#Divergent Everywheres|Jenny Nowhere]]. | ||
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===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | ====Jenny Everywhere==== | ||
* [[Jenny Everywhere | * [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|The Jenny]] featured in this story looks “maybe Chinese, maybe Native American, maybe not”, with hair which “is short and needs professional attention”. She wears the requisite scarf and goggles, as well as a long coat. | ||
* Jenny Nowhere describes Jenny Everywhere as “an infinite hyper-dimensional entity”. | * Jenny Nowhere describes Jenny Everywhere as “an infinite hyper-dimensional entity”. | ||
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====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
* The story begins in a [[Universe | * The story begins in a [[Parallax Universe|largely mundane universe]], in an intentionally unnamed city. Kim and the two Jennies then shift to a number of locations, although it is not clear if they are simply travelling in space and time, or changing universe every time. | ||
====Other==== | ====Other==== | ||
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Nowhere did say, “I should have expected anyone Jenny Everywhere hung out with would be special. I remember that from when I was Everywhere.”|Scott Sanford}} | Nowhere did say, “I should have expected anyone Jenny Everywhere hung out with would be special. I remember that from when I was Everywhere.”|Scott Sanford}} | ||
The implications in ''Parallax'' point to [[Kim | The implications in ''Parallax'' point to [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] being some form of [[vampire]], but this is purposefully left ambiguous. On the topic of Kim's potential vampirism, Sanford later commented on the Jenny Everywhere Discord: | ||
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And yet she never says the V word. No doubt there's a story there. [But] I think Kim is over-exposed in Jenny's circle of friends and shouldn't be front & center in anything else for a while.<br> A quote did come to me a while back, which she may never say in a story: “I lived a very conventional life once. Then I had an appointment in Samara and realized I could take the scenic route home.” Or if she was feeling more blunt, “a rare condition; symptoms include nocturnal insomnia, changes in appetite, and a propensity to Cotard’s Delusion”.|Scott Sanford}} | And yet she never says the V word. No doubt there's a story there. [But] I think Kim is over-exposed in Jenny's circle of friends and shouldn't be front & center in anything else for a while.<br> A quote did come to me a while back, which she may never say in a story: “I lived a very conventional life once. Then I had an appointment in Samara and realized I could take the scenic route home.” Or if she was feeling more blunt, “a rare condition; symptoms include nocturnal insomnia, changes in appetite, and a propensity to Cotard’s Delusion”.|Scott Sanford}} | ||
