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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[Jenny Nowhere | | villain(s)= [[Jenny Nowhere 1 (Parallax)|Jenny Nowhere]] | ||
| featuring= [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] | | featuring= [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]]<br>[[Jenny Nowhere 2 (Parallax)|Jenny Nowhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= [[Parallax Universe]] | | setting= [[Parallax Universe]] | ||
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| 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 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]]. | }}'''''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 (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. | [[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 [[Jenny Nowhere 1 (Parallax)|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]]. | ||
With Kim realising that “Nowhere” can replicate the accident artificially and is trying to “liberate” this Jenny, the two shifts begin a shift-chase across dangerous landscapes, where Kim's own special abilities (including levitation) allow Everywhere to keep one step ahead of the “lone Jenny”. However, Nowhere finally checkmates Everywhere by shifting to the middle of the desert near [[Giza]] at high noon; Kim cannot bear the sunlight for long, and Everywhere is forced to shift ''her'' to safety instead of continuing to chase Nowhere. They find themselves in a tropical jungle where the shade allows Kim to recuperate. Before long, they make the startling discovery that Nowhere followed her there — only to be killed by a dinosaur. Examining the body, Kim discovers that the scar over Nowhere's left ear looked surgical, meaning she was not actually the ''first'', accidental Jenny Nowhere, and the original may have created an unknown number of other Nowheres elsewhere in the [[Multiverse]]. | With Kim realising that “Nowhere” can replicate the accident artificially and is trying to “liberate” this Jenny, the two shifts begin a shift-chase across dangerous landscapes, where Kim's own special abilities (including levitation) allow Everywhere to keep one step ahead of the “lone Jenny”. However, Nowhere finally checkmates Everywhere by shifting to the middle of the desert near [[Giza]] at high noon; Kim cannot bear the sunlight for long, and Everywhere is forced to shift ''her'' to safety instead of continuing to chase Nowhere. They find themselves in a tropical jungle where the shade allows Kim to recuperate. Before long, they make the startling discovery that Nowhere followed her there — only to be killed by a dinosaur. Examining the body, Kim discovers that the scar over Nowhere's left ear looked surgical, meaning she was not actually [[Jenny Nowhere 2 (Parallax)|the ''first'', accidental Jenny Nowhere]], and the original may have created an unknown number of other Nowheres elsewhere in the [[Multiverse]]. | ||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
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====Jenny Nowhere==== | ====Jenny Nowhere==== | ||
* [[Jenny Nowhere | * [[Jenny Nowhere 1 (Parallax)|Jenny Nowhere]] appears as an incarnation of [[Jenny Everywhere]] identical to the story's main Jenny, but wearing tight leather clothing instead of the scarf and goggles. It is revealed that the [[Jenny Nowhere 2 (Parallax)|“original” Jenny Nowhere]] was a Jenny who gained individuality after she was cut off from the Jenny psychic network by a freak accident. She adopted a new name and set about “freeing” other incarnations of Jenny, each in turn becoming a new Jenny Nowhere. | ||
====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
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===Continuity=== | ===Continuity=== | ||
* This story's Jenny went on to become the “default” Jenny of [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]]. In his multi-part serial [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'', [[Cha Ni]] specifically reminded Jenny of her first confrontation with “her mirror self”. | * This story's Jenny went on to become the “default” Jenny of [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]]. In his multi-part serial [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'', [[Cha Ni]] specifically reminded Jenny of her first confrontation with “her mirror self”. Jenny would also recall her encounter with Nowhere in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Puritan Streaker (short story)|Return of the Puritan Streaker]]''. | ||
* This Jenny also mentioned her encounter with Nowhere in [[PROSE]]: ''[[So You're Jenny Everywhere (short story)|So You're Jenny Everywhere]]''. | * This Jenny also mentioned her encounter with Nowhere in [[PROSE]]: ''[[So You're Jenny Everywhere (short story)|So You're Jenny Everywhere]]''. | ||
