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}}'''Jenny Everywhere''', also known as '''the Shifter''' and by a variety of other titles and aliases, was an anomaly in the [[Multiverse]]: versions of her existed in every universe and she had the ability to [[Shifting|shift]] her consciousness or her physical self from one universe to another.

When enough of the Shifter's mental network got “worn out”, over millennia, a significant number of her incarnations automatically “zapped off to”, in Jenny's own words, a “[[secret realm beyond Time]]”, where they remained for a few weeks, during which their [[shift]]ing powers were rejuvenated and their mental link resynched. After returning to the [[Multiverse]], even Jenny herself did not actually remember the experience in any detail. As she once explained, “some elements of me are secret even to, well, me!”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

[[File:Baby Jenny in The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere.png|thumb|right|210px|A baby Jenny as depicted in the comic book ''[[Jenny Everywhere: Secret Origins]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere]]'')]]Although it was shrouded in mystery, several accounts indicated that Jenny Everywhere had a singular origin story, and had notably had an “original” [[Jenny Everywhere's mother|mother]], prior to being splintered across the [[multiverse]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Late Shift (comic story)|The Late Shift]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Memories of Nowhere (short story)|Memories of Nowhere]]'') However, according to one account, none of the Jennies in a telepathic conversation with [[#Pondering her origins|a young incarnation of Jenny]] knew how they had originally, collectively come to be. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Where Is Everywhere (short story)|Where Is Everywhere]]'') When asked whether she had parents, one Jenny replied: “Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I know, sometimes I don't.”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[SCP-JEv (short story)|SCP-JEv]]'')

At some point, one version of Jenny Everywhere suffered a freak, one-in-a-billion accident which caused her a minor brain injury altering Broca's area. When she came to, she was startled to find that she had lost all connection to the network of other Jennies; she could no longer read their minds and they could no longer read hers. Viewing it as a liberation, she renamed herself [[Jenny Nowhere#Divergent Everywheres|Jenny Nowhere]] and began travelling the [[Multiverse]] to find her other selves and “liberate” them through a surgical operation replicating the effect. She succeeded at “creating” an unknown number of additional Jenny Nowheres in this manner, including [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by a dinosaur|one]] who was encountered by [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|“Kim's friend”]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'')

[[File:Builder Jenny in Makeshift Multiverse.png|thumb|left|The “builder” Jenny greeting the new recruit. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Makeshift Multiverse (comic story)|Makeshift Multiverse]]'')]]One incarnation of Jenny, who wore a purple jumpsuit with a “JE” insignia emblazoned on her chest, had a vision while she was meditating of threats to the [[Multiverse]] that moved through [[5D Space]]. To combat them, she designed, built and operated an advanced ship called the ''[[Lotus Prime]]'', recruiting five other incarnations of herself to help power and man the craft. Although one of her original recruits was killed during one encounter between the ''Lotus Prime'' and [[the Entity]], they nevertheless emerged victorious thanks to the help of a [[#Joining the crew of the Lotus Prime|new fifth Jenny]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Makeshift Multiverse (comic story)|Makeshift Multiverse]]'')

[[File:Elvish Defence Jenny in Governing Council.png|thumb|right|190px|The “Defence Jenny” making her opening argument. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Governing Council (comic story)|Governing Council]]'')]]One Jenny served as the defence when the [[Governing Council]] held trials for other incarnations. She was an [[elf]] with long hair. Her goggles were glass held in a complex metal headpiece, and her scarf was almost transparent. She wore a short-lived shirt and a skirt. In the trial of the [[#Evil Jenny|“evil Jenny”]], she argued that it made no sense to attempt to stop this particular murder when there was necessarily a reality somewhere in the [[Multiverse]] where the Council had been helpless to stop the same event from happening: with infinity came the fact that every possibility, including dark ones, must exist whether one liked it or not. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Governing Council (comic story)|Governing Council]]'')

[[File:Jenny of the Wilson.png|thumb|right|200px|Jenny as she appeared aboard the ''Wilson'' shortly after meeting [[the Illumination]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles (comic story)|The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles]]'')]]Jenny, who habitually dyed a lock of her hair bright red, became the primary nemesis of [[Chaos]], a malicious and destructive being ravaging the [[Multiverse]]. Jenny began recruiting companions and allies, often past [[Anchor]]s of her, to help her in the fight against Chaos and his disciple, using a [[Void Ship|ship]] called the ''[[Wilson]]'' as a base. At some point after she'd met [[Raleigh]], Jenny met [[Michael Wherever#Onboard the Wilson|a version]] of [[Michael Wherever]] whom she initially made into an Anchor, and who soon became her best friend and staunchest ally. In those days, she dyed one lock of her hair red.  

This Jenny was among the ones who simultaneously disappeared from the [[Multiverse]] one day without explanation (as Jenny regenerated her mental and physical shifting powers in a [[secret realm beyond Time]]). In her absence, Michael and the Illumination flew the ''Wilson'' into [[the Infinite]] to look for her, to no avail. Eventually, all the Jennies returned to reality of their own accord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

Realising her true nature, Jenny began acting as the superhero “the Shifter”, protecting the city from the various extradimensional threats which somehow kept falling onto Westbrook specifically from other corners of the [[Multiverse]]. Her parents knew her secret, with her mother having worried sick on one occasion when Jenny was kidnapped, although Jenny's sisters remained in the dark. As "the Shifter", Jenny wore a red outfit which included a mask, but no goggles; an “S” resembling a stylised [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]] was emblazoned on her torso. Though putting on a brave face, Jenny found it hard to keep up with all the responsibilities and obligations she had to deal with, and secretly yearned for someone else who could take up her burden.

In a different variation of this kind of universe, Jenny ended up estranged from her parents for unknown reasons, but she kept ties with [[Julie Jacobs#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Julie]], eventually moving in with her in an apartment on [[North Wintle Street]]. The Westbrook and Julie of this universe were the ones which survived into the [[Collapsed Cosmos]] after the collapse of the [[Multiverse]], being snatched from oblivion by the [[Archon]]s to become part of [[the Redoubt]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

One incarnation of Jenny, who stated that she was not actually human (although she looked like it), was a [[Child of the Nexus]], one of a small number of beings born across the [[Multiverse]] with [[shift]]ing powers and tasked with guarding its structural integrity, managing such things as rifts between worlds. This Jenny believed herself to be unique, having no knowledge of or contact with her other selves. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Dark Bishop (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Dark Bishop]]'')

One incarnation of Jenny travelled the [[Multiverse]] alongside a group of friends including [[Rae]], the [[Abstract]] of Luminance, as well as [[Ace (The Jenny Everywhere Roleplaying Game)|Ace]], [[Ellison (The Jenny Everywhere Roleplaying Game)|Ellison]], [[Aitar]] and [[Krystal (The Jenny Everywhere Roleplaying Game)|Krystal]]. Their “home base” was a vast spaceship of unclear nature and purpose. This Jenny was heavier set than [[#Searching for Jordan|the one]] who travelled with [[Odious]]. She wore a leather aviator jacket and a long black scarf over some everyday clothing. Her brunette hair was long and tied into a ponytail.  

This Jenny was among the ones who simultaneously disappeared from the [[Multiverse]] one day without explanation (as Jenny regenerated her mental and physical shifting powers in a [[secret realm beyond Time]]). As she had previously always warned Laura before she left on long journeys, Laura panicked and tried to find her, travelling out into the Multiverse by herself using a portal she built for the occasion using “borrowed” Altern equipment. Eventually, all the Jennies returned to reality of their own accord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

This Everywhere and her aforementioned corresponding Anywhere had a treehouse on [[Jupiter]] in [[Universe A (Wherever at Anytime)|one universe]], the reason for which was allegedly a long story in itself. After discovering that all the [[Jimmy Anytime]]s and [[Jimmy Wherever]]s in the [[Multiverse]] had somehow lost their interdimensional connection, they met up in the treehouse to share notes, and came to the conclusion that this must be [[Jenny Nowhere#Romance with Everywhere|Nowhere]]'s doing, with Nowhere having somehow turned Anytime's time-travel powers against him to cancel out the two Jimmies' existence (as interdimensional beings) altogether. Jenny Everywhere shifted herself and Anywhere to Nowhere's [[Universe B (Wherever at Anytime)|current location]], where they discovered that she had managed to abduct the “original” Wherever and Anytime and regressed them to before Anytime realised he was not Jimmy Wherever. Anywhere managed to liberate them, however, and, after one of the two Jimmies attacked the other (outing himself as Anytime), she grabbed onto him and triggered his own time-travel powers to bring him and Wherever back in time to where they'd been taken from, fixing the timeline. Everywhere was left pondering what lengths Nowhere might go to next. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wherever at Anytime (novel)|Wherever at Anytime]]'')

In [[Universe A (The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)|one universe]], Jenny was a close friend of [[Jenny Anywhere#Looking for Everywhere|Jenny Anywhere]]'s. They often met up at a specific bench in a “rain-soaked city”, the one always seeming to instinctively know when the other had started waiting on said bench. This Jenny was among the ones who simultaneously disappeared from the [[Multiverse]] one day without explanation (as Jenny regenerated her mental and physical shifting powers in a [[secret realm beyond Time]]). Eventually, all the Jennies returned to reality of their own accord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance 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]]'')

After spending the night at the apartment (from which, due to the instability of reality, Laura had vanished), they headed to [[Scotland]] in Glendalf's airship, having decided to rob the mansion of a [[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|bigoted billionaire]] who, in addition to a large fortune, held the [[Legendary Time Crystal]] in her vault. Jenny believed that the Crystal could be used to restore the [[Multiverse]]. However, although the plan initially went well, Jenny, having headed into the basement with [[Agrzaan Lurgpin]] and fought off an [[East India Company mobile drone cannon]], found that the vault had already been emptied. The culprit was none other than [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura]], who intended to use the Crystal for her own purposes, wanting to rebuild the Multiverse with a new order bowing to her own will. The two dueled, Jenny with her [[Jenny Everywhere's staff|magical staff]], Laura with her [[Laura Drake's sword|sword]]; due to the transcendental nature of their rivalry, this act caused the reality tainted by the book to flicker out and disappear. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')