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}}The “first” incarnation of '''[[Sophie Everytime]]''' was the daughter of [[Lord Thymon]] and of the [[38167th Universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|version of Jenny Everywhere]]. She was a time-shifter.

Sophie had “warm brown skin (…) the same colour as Jenny’s”. Her “long, thick locks of navy-blue hair” resembled [[Lord Thymon|her father]]'s tentacles and may in fact have been prehensile; they matched her eyes, which “weren’t quite glowing, but (…) were a blue that eyes should not be. Not sea-blue or steel-blue or sky-blue, but the bluest blue, an intense, darkly electric hue; [[Fremen]] blue”.  

As a child of six or seven, she wore a “slightly-oversized green sweater”, blue-jean shorts that exposed lightly-scraped knees, and “simple, sturdy sandals”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

Sophie was kind, adventurous and fun-loving like [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|her mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

In a combination of her [[Lord Thymon|father]] and [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|mother]]'s powers, Sophie was a “time-[[shift]]er” capable of teleporting herself through time as well as universes. She also had more refined temporal abilities, including locally freezing time by drawing blue, glowing runes in the air and travelling through [[meta-time]] (although, as a child, she needed [[Tiny Thymon]]'s help to achieve this). She had also inherited Thymon's eldritch voice, making her words have a particular resonance with reality; unable to properly control her ability to speak things into existence, the child version of Sophie mostly communicated in sign language, but, with an effort of concentration, she was occasionally able to speak aloud without causing any supenatural events, or while focusing the power well enough to actually leverage this power for a useful purpose. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

Sophie was conceived by [[Lord Thymon]] and [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] in [[Lord Thymon's house]] in the [[Cupid Homeworld]]. The two became aware of Jenny's pregnancy the following morning, when they were confronted by a time-shifted version of Sophie from [[#Back to 2022|a few years into the future]]. Her presence prompted them to choose the name they would give to her once she was properly born, taking “Everytime” from a mash-up of their names (“Everywhere” and “Thymon”), and “Sophie” from Jenny's maternal grandmother [[Sophie Stropcliffe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

Over the first six years of her life or so, Sophie got to know many of her parents' friends, partners and relatives. She was particularly fond of “[[Aunt Pixie]]” ([[Pixie Pristine]]), in part because the [[fairy]] gave Sophie bubblegum every time she visited. She also had a good relationship with her “[[Cousin Tiny]]”, [[Lord Thymon]]'s nephew and successor [[Tiny Thymon]]. She also got to know [[Jenny Nowhere (38167th Universe)|“Auntie Nowhere”]], whom she deemed her least favourite aunt.  

At some point, having been told by [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny]] and Thymon that she would need that knowledge someday, she shifted back in [[meta-time]] in the [[38167th Universe]] with Tiny's help to before Jenny's sister became Jenny Nowhere, thus finding out Nowhere's original name. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

Eventually, a six- or seven-year-old Sophie shifted back in time to June 17th, 2022, appearing in the kitchen of [[Lord Thymon's house]]. [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|Jenny]] and [[Lord Thymon|Thymon]] quickly figured out who she was, and, dipping into [[the Infinite]] for a few minutes to talk privately, they agreed on a name and settled on a plan to take opportunity of this event to introduce the time-shifted child to their respective loved ones in advance.  

During her time in the Nowhere psychic network, Sophie had realised the reason that none of the adults' powers were working right on the Island: Nowhere Island was itself an incarnation of Jenny Nowhere, despite not really being sentient in a conventional sense, and her aura was cancelling out theirs. Thus, they realised that they simply had to build a boat and row out far enough from the shores. After dropping Over-There, Jimmy and Laura home, Jenny and Thymon finally returned to the Cupid Homeworld with Sophie. Upset to have missed a day at the office, Thymon was shifted back in time to the morning by Sophie, who then hugged Jenny one more time before returning to her own time-zone. Jenny only dwelled on her bittersweetness at having to wait nine more months to see her again briefly, before her mind settled on a new adventure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

As a teenager “a few years” older than [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How Jenny First Met… (short story)|How Jenny First Met…]]'') who was around thirteen, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'') Sophie went on a trip across [[the Multiverse]] seeking various people who knew incarnations of [[Jenny Everywhere|her mother]] and asking them to tell her about their first meetings with their respective Jennies. She started with the [[Laura Drake (The Folly of Men)|Laura Drake]] of [[Jenny Cornelius]]'s [[Universe (The Folly of Men)|universe]], before visiting a [[Lord Grallyx (How Jenny First Met…)|Lord Grallyx]] who'd been imprisoned in [[the Wrong Rock|an asteroid]] in [[Universe (How Jenny First Met…)|a universe]] where “[[the Everywhere]]” won an interstellar war against him, getting him to talk to her by using her powers to reduce his waiting time to be released by one hundred years (though she simply achieved this by speeding time up from his subjective perspective, meaning he would get out no earlier from the perspective of the wider universe).