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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Lord Thymon]] | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Lord Thymon]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]]<br>[[Lava Drake|The Lava Drake]] | | villain(s)= [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]]<br>[[Lava Drake|The Lava Drake]] | ||
| featuring= [[Juliet-178]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Romeo-1020]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Joybuzzer]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emperor Steer]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Interdimensional Toymaker]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]]<br>[[Jenny Somewhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Elsewhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Illumination]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Anywhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Lady Spatium]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Molly Everton]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Clytemnestra Everton]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Sophie Stropcliffe]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Comet Theta]]<br>[[Squire Psykha]]<br>[[Pixie Pristine]]<br>[[Jimmy Wherever (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Wherever]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jimmy Anytime (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Anytime]]<br>[[Frog (Family Business)|Unnamed frog]]<br>[[Laura Drake (38167th Universe)|Laura Drake]]<br>[[Jenny Over-There]]<br>[[Professor Helvetius]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Man in Grey]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Rapunzel]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Local boy (Family Business)|Unnamed “local boy"]]<br>[[Julie Jacobs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jordan Jacobs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Tiny Thymon]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cupida Hartnell|The Creator]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Lurigadawne of Tipperary|Unnamed Leprechaun]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | | featuring= [[Juliet-178]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Romeo-1020]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Joybuzzer]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emperor Steer]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Interdimensional Toymaker]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Sophie Everytime (38167th Universe)|Sophie Everytime]]<br>[[Jenny Somewhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Elsewhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Illumination]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Anywhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Lady Spatium]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Molly Everton]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Clytemnestra Everton]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Sophie Stropcliffe]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Comet Theta]]<br>[[Squire Psykha]]<br>[[Pixie Pristine]]<br>[[Jimmy Wherever (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Wherever]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jimmy Anytime (38167th Universe)|Jimmy Anytime]]<br>[[Frog (Family Business)|Unnamed frog]]<br>[[Laura Drake (38167th Universe)|Laura Drake]]<br>[[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]<br>[[Professor Helvetius]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Man in Grey]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Rapunzel]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Local boy (Family Business)|Unnamed “local boy"]]<br>[[Julie Jacobs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jordan Jacobs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Tiny Thymon]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cupida Hartnell|The Creator]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Lurigadawne of Tipperary|Unnamed Leprechaun]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= June 17th, 2022<br>[[Nowhere Island]], [[9768761143th Universe]]<br>& alt. | | setting= June 17th, 2022<br>[[Nowhere Island]], [[9768761143th Universe]]<br>& alt. | ||
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}}'''''Family Business''''' was a novella-length prose story in the ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' series, created by [[Aristide Twain]] for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] [[Jenny Everywhere Day#2022|2022]]. | }}'''''Family Business''''' was a novella-length prose story in the ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' series, created by [[Aristide Twain]] for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] [[Jenny Everywhere Day#2022|2022]]. | ||
It featured a number of characters from the Jenny Everywhere recurring cast, with [[Lord Thymon]] the only major character in the plot to be peculiar to the ''Cupids'' series. It also featured the first use of [[Jenny Over-There]] outside of [[Callum Phillpott|her creator]]'s ''[[Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe (series)|Nine-Two-Five Universe]]'' series, the first known use of the unrelated open-source character [[Pixie Pristine]] in the Jenny Everywhere mythos, and, most notably, introduced a new character in the form of [[Sophie Everytime]], Jenny Everywhere's daughter. | It featured a number of characters from the Jenny Everywhere recurring cast, with [[Lord Thymon]] the only major character in the plot to be peculiar to the ''Cupids'' series. It also featured the first use of [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] outside of [[Callum Phillpott|her creator]]'s ''[[Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe (series)|Nine-Two-Five Universe]]'' series, the first known use of the unrelated open-source character [[Pixie Pristine]] in the Jenny Everywhere mythos, and, most notably, introduced a new character in the form of [[Sophie Everytime]], Jenny Everywhere's daughter. | ||
==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
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In the [[Castle of Nowhere]] at the centre of [[Nowhere Island|the island]], Jenny Nowhere herself is still observing all this through [[Pixie Pristine's crystal ball|a crystal ball]], raging at the idea that she was “made” and adds that she “cannot be ''un''made”, cryptically adding that Sophie will find out the same soon enough. | In the [[Castle of Nowhere]] at the centre of [[Nowhere Island|the island]], Jenny Nowhere herself is still observing all this through [[Pixie Pristine's crystal ball|a crystal ball]], raging at the idea that she was “made” and adds that she “cannot be ''un''made”, cryptically adding that Sophie will find out the same soon enough. | ||
Setting off once again, the now-four friends are startled by the appearance of a sign right in front of them, reading simply ‘OVER THERE’. After overthinking the riddle for a while, they realise it's literally pointed at someone in the distance who's been tied up and left hanging from a tree. Jenny Everywhere identifies her as [[Jenny Over-There]] of the [[Multidimensional Finders Service]], who has the power to know where anything is. Over-There recounts that she got a call from a mysterious woman on the [[Red Interdimensional Telephone]], asking for the location of [[Pixie Pristine's crystal ball]] before materialising herself through the phone connection and kidnapping Over-There. Jenny Over-There's powers are also blocked insofar as she can't perceive anything outside the island, but she can still feel the locations of everything and everyone ''on'' it, which allows her to inform the others that Sophie is in the Castle and to point them in the right direction. | Setting off once again, the now-four friends are startled by the appearance of a sign right in front of them, reading simply ‘OVER THERE’. After overthinking the riddle for a while, they realise it's literally pointed at someone in the distance who's been tied up and left hanging from a tree. Jenny Everywhere identifies her as [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] of the [[Multidimensional Finders Service]], who has the power to know where anything is. Over-There recounts that she got a call from a mysterious woman on the [[Red Interdimensional Telephone]], asking for the location of [[Pixie Pristine's crystal ball]] before materialising herself through the phone connection and kidnapping Over-There. Jenny Over-There's powers are also blocked insofar as she can't perceive anything outside the island, but she can still feel the locations of everything and everyone ''on'' it, which allows her to inform the others that Sophie is in the Castle and to point them in the right direction. | ||
A few hours later, they reach the Castle, which is made of silver and stands atop a black peak rising out of the gray clay. Over-There is able to confirm that Nowhere is inside, gathering a large amount of [[Prism|curious gems]]. After considering their options, they decide to side-step the matter of ascending it altogether; instead, Thymon uses his time-powers to accelerate the rock on which the Castle stands, eroding it to dust in a matter of minutes and thus bringing the castle down to ground level. Nowhere opens the gates, looking not so much wrathful as ''stroppy'' that all her work shifting a mountain in from another universe has gone to waste. She leads them into the Great Hall, where she has set up rows upon rows of Prisms. Before they rescuers can do anything to help Sophie, she uses her shifting abilities to make chains appear around them, and captures Thymon in a Prism. | A few hours later, they reach the Castle, which is made of silver and stands atop a black peak rising out of the gray clay. Over-There is able to confirm that Nowhere is inside, gathering a large amount of [[Prism|curious gems]]. After considering their options, they decide to side-step the matter of ascending it altogether; instead, Thymon uses his time-powers to accelerate the rock on which the Castle stands, eroding it to dust in a matter of minutes and thus bringing the castle down to ground level. Nowhere opens the gates, looking not so much wrathful as ''stroppy'' that all her work shifting a mountain in from another universe has gone to waste. She leads them into the Great Hall, where she has set up rows upon rows of Prisms. Before they rescuers can do anything to help Sophie, she uses her shifting abilities to make chains appear around them, and captures Thymon in a Prism. | ||
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====Jenny Over-There==== | ====Jenny Over-There==== | ||
* This story features [[Jenny Over-There]] as seen in [[Callum Phillpott]]'s ''[[Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe (series)|Nine-Two-Five Universe]]'' series. She is described as “a very irritated-looking, skinny woman wearing dark trousers and a red cardigan”. She mentions that she “wasn’t the best student in school”. [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]] refers to her as “[[the Finder]]”. | * This story features [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] as seen in [[Callum Phillpott]]'s ''[[Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe (series)|Nine-Two-Five Universe]]'' series. She is described as “a very irritated-looking, skinny woman wearing dark trousers and a red cardigan”. She mentions that she “wasn’t the best student in school”. [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]] refers to her as “[[the Finder]]”. | ||
====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
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* The characters visit [[Universe A (Family Business)|the universe]] where [[Pixie Pristine]] became a pop star, which is “a few universes over” from [[Universe B (Family Business)|her native one]], where she'd “gotten in some trouble with the faerie bigwigs”. | * The characters visit [[Universe A (Family Business)|the universe]] where [[Pixie Pristine]] became a pop star, which is “a few universes over” from [[Universe B (Family Business)|her native one]], where she'd “gotten in some trouble with the faerie bigwigs”. | ||
* Most of the plot unfolds on [[Nowhere Island]] in the [[9768761143th Universe]]. | * Most of the plot unfolds on [[Nowhere Island]] in the [[9768761143th Universe]]. | ||
* [[Jenny Over-There]] is identified as coming from the [[925th Universe]]. | * [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] is identified as coming from the [[925th Universe]]. | ||
* [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]] identifies these incarnations of the recurring cast as coming from the [[38167th Universe]]. | * [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Nowhere]] identifies these incarnations of the recurring cast as coming from the [[38167th Universe]]. | ||
* Jenny Everywhere is set back in mind of a “wily old [[leprechaun]] [she] met in [[Dimension 77]]”, and ends the story resolving to go find him again. | * Jenny Everywhere is set back in mind of a “wily old [[leprechaun]] [she] met in [[Dimension 77]]”, and ends the story resolving to go find him again. | ||
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* Lord Thymon jokes about the possibility Jimmy having been stabbed by the signpost “like a rotisserie [[glapfnorg]]”. | * Lord Thymon jokes about the possibility Jimmy having been stabbed by the signpost “like a rotisserie [[glapfnorg]]”. | ||
* Thymon displays the ability to make people levitate. He can fly, but as he explains, “an [[Embodiment]] in flight tends to invoke, uhm, a lot of… arcing lightning and things. Create some minor [[Rift]]s in its wake, even”. | * Thymon displays the ability to make people levitate. He can fly, but as he explains, “an [[Embodiment]] in flight tends to invoke, uhm, a lot of… arcing lightning and things. Create some minor [[Rift]]s in its wake, even”. | ||
* When she demands that Nowhere explain her backstory, [[Jenny Over-There]] claims that “worldbuilding allusions to a vast unseen backstory are all very well in moderation”. This prompts Nowhere to interrupt her with “Leave the [[Fourth Wall Awareness|Fourth Wall]] alone, Red. Now is not the time or the place to weaken the structure of reality just for the hell of it”. | * When she demands that Nowhere explain her backstory, [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] claims that “worldbuilding allusions to a vast unseen backstory are all very well in moderation”. This prompts Nowhere to interrupt her with “Leave the [[Fourth Wall Awareness|Fourth Wall]] alone, Red. Now is not the time or the place to weaken the structure of reality just for the hell of it”. | ||
===Continuity=== | ===Continuity=== | ||
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* Jenny Everywhere notes that her glimpses of her other selves' lives included other sisters who were not Jenny Nowhere, such as [[Julie Jacobs|Julie]] and [[Jordan Jacobs|Jordan]]. These two sisters were introduced in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles (comic story)|The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles]]'', with other stories later confirming the existence of multiple versions of them across the Multiverse. | * Jenny Everywhere notes that her glimpses of her other selves' lives included other sisters who were not Jenny Nowhere, such as [[Julie Jacobs|Julie]] and [[Jordan Jacobs|Jordan]]. These two sisters were introduced in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles (comic story)|The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles]]'', with other stories later confirming the existence of multiple versions of them across the Multiverse. | ||
* The story elaborates on the mention of the [[Department of Celestial Bodies]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'', explaining that “it had been the plan, early on, [for the [[Cupid Homeworld]] to have a day-night cycle], but the instructions [[the Creator]] had left on how to operate the [[Clockwork Sun]] and the [[Clockwork Moon]] had been unclear at best, mistakes were made, and the Department of Celestial Bodies had been looking for the Moon for thirty-two years now”. | * The story elaborates on the mention of the [[Department of Celestial Bodies]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'', explaining that “it had been the plan, early on, [for the [[Cupid Homeworld]] to have a day-night cycle], but the instructions [[the Creator]] had left on how to operate the [[Clockwork Sun]] and the [[Clockwork Moon]] had been unclear at best, mistakes were made, and the Department of Celestial Bodies had been looking for the Moon for thirty-two years now”. | ||
* The story's ending leads directly into [[PROSE]]: ''[[Workplace Reunion (short story)|Workplace Reunion]]'' for [[Jenny Over-There]], and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'' for [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]. | * The story's ending leads directly into [[PROSE]]: ''[[Workplace Reunion (short story)|Workplace Reunion]]'' for [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]], and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'' for [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]. | ||
==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
