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|romantic_partner(s)= '''''[[:Category:Sexual and romantic partners of Jenny Everywhere|See list]]''''' | |romantic_partner(s)= '''''[[:Category:Sexual and romantic partners of Jenny Everywhere|See list]]''''' | ||
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|parents= [[Jenny Everywhere's mother| | |parents= [[Jenny Everywhere's mother|At east one mother]]<br><small>([[Amelia Midnight]];</small><br><small>[[Princess Katerina Corwin]];</small><br><small>[[Amelia Earhart]])</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere's father|A father]] <small>(potentially)</small> | ||
|siblings= [[Jenny Nowhere]] | |siblings= [[Jenny Nowhere]] | ||
|first_seen_in= [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' | ||
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
According to one account, Jenny somehow existed as "the Defender," a godlike being who opposed [[the Destroyer]] at the beginning of everything, fighting over the fate of the embryonic [[proto-multiverse]]. She succeeded in banishing the Destroyer into the [[Void|nothingness beyond reality]], but the damage it had dealt to the proto-multiverse was too serious for any of the universes to “blossom”, for lack of energy. Thus, the Defender sacrificed herself; letting go, she let “the personality pattern which formed her armor and her weapons and her self” flow into the “the gaps in the pattern of everything”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Where Is Everywhere (short story)|Where Is Everywhere]]'') | |||
[[Shiva]] once put forward a more prosaic theory: that Jenny Everywhere was actually a “dying child” living out her last days in a delusional, fractured fantasy of a million different, entertaining lives. He meant to unsettle Jenny with this possibility, but [[#Captured by Shiva|she]] retorted that if that were the case, it would mean she was in fact, functionally, the omnipotent God of the multiverse she inhabited; she thus found the notion empowering rather than dismaying, though she didn't seem to put much stock in it. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Soulless Mate (comic story)|Soulless Mate]]'') | |||
[[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]]'') | [[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]]'') | ||
The comic book ''[[Jenny Everywhere: Secret Origins]]'' claimed that Jenny was born to [[Jenny Everywhere's father|a scientist]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's mother|his wife]] on "the oldest and most advanced parallel [[Earth]]", located in [[Universe A (The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere)|a universe]] located at the [[Edge of the Multiverse]]. When she was still a baby, her father discovered that a [[Living Black Hole]] from another universe was about to destroy their universe. Jenny's parents thus built [[the Pod]], a machine designed to allow their daughter to survive the destruction of the universe. The machine worked, but splintered the child into an infinity of incarnations instead of sending her to a single place; thus, the [[Shift]]er was born. | The comic book ''[[Jenny Everywhere: Secret Origins]]'' claimed that the original Jenny was born to [[Jenny Everywhere's father|a scientist]] and [[Jenny Everywhere's mother|his wife]] on "the oldest and most advanced parallel [[Earth]]", located in [[Universe A (The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere)|a universe]] located at the [[Edge of the Multiverse]]. When she was still a baby, her father discovered that a [[Living Black Hole]] from another universe was about to destroy their universe. Jenny's parents thus built [[the Pod]], a machine designed to allow their daughter to survive the destruction of the universe. The machine worked, but splintered the child into an infinity of incarnations instead of sending her to a single place; thus, the [[Shift]]er was born. | ||
When asked by [[Retro]] if this story had really happened, [[#Hanging out with Retro|one incarnation]] of Jenny replied with a shrug: "Eh, kinda". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere]]'') Indeed, other accounts contradicted the details of the ''Secret Origins'' story. [[#Nostalgia|One Jenny]] was able to visit her childhood home, showing it had not been destroyed; she remembered growing up there with her mother at least until the age of six, and having an older sister, who was cruel to her but whose love and approval Jenny nevertheless yearned for; this sister would eventually become [[Jenny Nowhere]]. It was at the age of six, in her mother's kitchen, that Jenny tasted her first piece of toast, a taste she would come to love, and associate with her mother ever after. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Memories of Nowhere (short story)|Memories of Nowhere]]'') | When asked by [[Retro]] if this story had really happened, [[#Hanging out with Retro|one incarnation]] of Jenny replied with a shrug: "Eh, kinda". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere]]'') Indeed, other accounts contradicted the details of the ''Secret Origins'' story. [[#Nostalgia|One Jenny]] was able to visit her childhood home, showing it had not been destroyed; she remembered growing up there with her mother at least until the age of six, and having an older sister, who was cruel to her but whose love and approval Jenny nevertheless yearned for; this sister would eventually become [[Jenny Nowhere]]. It was at the age of six, in her mother's kitchen, that Jenny tasted her first piece of toast, a taste she would come to love, and associate with her mother ever after. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Memories of Nowhere (short story)|Memories of Nowhere]]'') | ||
A number of continua had as Jenny's origins a variation of a single familiar story. In these universes, she was the (sometimes adopted) daughter of [[Amelia Midnight|Captain Amelia Midnight]], a famous inter-dimensional adventurer in her own right, captain of the [[hypership]] ''[[Zephyrus]]''. | |||
Having a number of enemies, Captain Midnight would then hide Jenny away on the interdimensional isle of [[Island of Barbelo|Barbelo]], to be raised by [[Princess Katerina Corwin]], Amelia's primary love interest. Jenny would grow up hearing about her mother's adventures, and eventually be driven to run away to explore the outside world on her own. Usually, she simply ran way from home, spurred by the appearance on Barbelo of another girl her age (sometimes [[Laura Drake#On the Island of Barbelo|Laura Drake]], sometimes [[Jenny Anywhere#On the Island of Barbelo|Penny Anywhere]]) who already had some experience with interdimensional travel. In other cases, she was the last survivor after the destruction of the Island by an enemy of her mother's. | |||
[[ | In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], this origin seemed dominant for the [[#In the Collapsed Cosmos|“collapsed” Jenny]], who recognised a [[Amelia Midnight#In the Collapsed Cosmos|version of Amelia Midnight]] who had retired at the [[End of Time]] (and who was an amalgamation of all of Amelia's selves) as her mother. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
===Becoming Jenny Nowhere=== | ===Becoming Jenny Nowhere=== | ||
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#Kim's friend|“Kim's friend”]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | 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#Kim's friend|“Kim's friend”]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | ||
