Laura Drake: Difference between revisions

===Personality===

In most of her lives, Laura Drake was a largely solitary individual but for her close association (whether it be friendship or romance) with [[Jenny Everywhere]]. She was driven, but prone to panicking in a crisis and jumping to conclusions. Her confidence in the superiority of her own goals and strategies made her largely heedless of the law and of the potential consequences of breaking it, even to a fault. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

===Powers & abilities===

Laura did not possess any innate [[shift]]ing abilities. However, in many of her incarnations, she proved a genius inventor, capable of inventing devices that allowed her to match Jenny's dimension-travelling abilities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'') She was also capable of using [[Laura Drake's sword|a sword]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

===On the Island of Barbelo===

In a number of realities, Laura Drake actually began travelling across dimensions before [[Jenny Everywhere#Origins|Jenny Everywhere]], and found her way to the [[Island of Barbelo]], where Jenny was being raised in secret to hide her from [[Amelia Midnight|her mother]]'s enemies. She would then inspire Jenny Everywhere to become curious about the outside world and run away from home to explore. In other variations of this story across the continua, [[Jenny Anywhere#On the Island of Barbelo|Penny Anywhere]] held this role in place of Anywhere. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

===Shifting with Jenny for the first time===

In [[Universe A (Somewhere)|one universe]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Proving herself to Laura|Jenny Everywhere]] had long told her best friend and potential love interest that she could [[shift]], but the latter had never believed her. She finally proved she had been telling the truth by taking her friend along with her on a trip to [[Universe B (Somewhere)|another universe]]. After a moment of confusion, she was delighted and laughed with Jenny. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Somewhere (short story)|Somewhere]]'')

===Family life===

In [[Universe C (Somewhere)|one universe]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Family life|Jenny Everywhere]] and “her love” founded a family. They had at least two daughters. Jenny once played tag with the youngest, running through the trees, fondly looked upon by her spouse, who thought this behaviour a bit childish, if charming. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Somewhere (short story)|Somewhere]]'')

===Loving another===

In [[Universe D (Somewhere)|one universe]], [[Jenny Everywhere#A broken heart|Jenny Everywhere]] lost “her love” to [[Laura Drake's lover (Somewhere)|another woman]]. Jenny forced herself to be happy for her, despite her grief, as she watched the two kiss in the moonlight from afar. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Somewhere (short story)|Somewhere]]'')

===The tragic death of a villain===

In [[Universe E (Somewhere)|one universe]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Defeating Drake|Jenny Everywhere]] was forced to bring down a version of “her love interest” who had become a world-threatening supervillain. This ended with the latter lying at Jenny's feet as the sky burned, with a shattered Jenny still wishing there had been another way. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Somewhere (short story)|Somewhere]]'')

===Meeting Jenny at a party===

In [[Universe F (Somewhere)|one universe]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Meeting Laura at a party|Jenny Everywhere]] had a social obligation to attend a dreary party. She soon caught sight of “someone else” in the crowd who “looked as uncomfortable as she was”. Though hit with a series of flashes of how her relationships with other versions of this person in other universes had gone (good and bad), Jenny decided to push it all aside, and ducked through the crowd to go and meet her, flashing her a charming smile. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Somewhere (short story)|Somewhere]]'')

While Laura had taken refuge in a bathroom, wishing the interminable party would end so she and Jenny could go back home and rest, a drunken Jenny stumbled in and tried once more to tell Laura about her other selves. When Laura seemed skeptical, Jenny decided to prove herself by [[shift]]ing both herself and Laura, for just a few moments, to [[Universe B (The First Voyage)|a universe]] with two moons. She quickly shifted them back again, having given herself a headache by trying to shift while inebriated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The First Voyage (short story)|The First Voyage]]'')

===Living with the Shifter===

In [[Universe (Origin of the Shifter!)|one world]], Laura and [[Jenny Everywhere#Living with Laura|Jenny Everywhere]] were in a serious enough relationship that they eventually started living together. They seemed happy, although some time into their shared home-life, Laura had still not gotten used to how much Jenny tossed and turned in her sleep, which hindered Laura's own capacity to fall sleep. When she called her girlfriend out on it only for Jenny to joke in response that she ''was'', after all, "the Shifter", Laura playfully threw a pillow at Jenny. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Origin of the Shifter! (short story)|Origin of the Shifter!]]'')

===Summoning Lord Grallyx===

In [[Universe B (Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)|one universe]], a particularly impulsive Laura studied with [[Jenny Everywhere#Summoning Lord Grallyx|Jenny]], and appeared to be unaware of her multi-dimensional nature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]'') Jenny was her best friend, defending her from bullies in grade school. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'') She hoped to make it into an advanced science class, but was afraid of failing her final history exam. Finding an old book of demonology, she enlisted Jenny's help to summon the demon [[Lord Grallyx]], intent on making a deal with him to ensure her success at the exam.  

She once invented a [[Heat Ray]] which she planned to give to Jenny as a present, so that she could use it to toast bread “on the go”. One day, before Laura had gotten the chance to give her the Ray, Jenny disappeared without warning (as, that week, all of her incarnations across the [[Multiverse]] had been zapped off to a [[secret realm beyond Time]] for their own good). Panicking, Laura built an interdimensional portal to try and find her (using “borrowed” Altern resources). After catching glimpses of hundreds of Jenny's other incarnations' past exploits, she came to a halt in [[the Void]] where she joined forces with [[Jenny Anywhere#Looking for Everywhere|Jenny Anywhere]], [[Hakhe#Looking for Everywhere|Hakhe]] and [[Jenny Somewhere#Shifting into the Infinite|Jenny Somewhere]] to enter [[the Infinite]]. After they did not find any trace of Jenny Everywhere even there, they made their way to the seaside town to “mourn” Jenny, beginning to accept that she may be gone for good. There, they were attacked by [[the Fallen One]] but managed to defeat it on their own, just in time for Jenny to triumphantly return to reality, leading to celebrations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

=== In the Collapsed Cosmos ===

After the [[Multiverse]] collapsed into a single [[Collapsed Cosmos]], Laura was, at first, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]]'s friend and roommate in a 21st-century city. She studied quantum computing, and told Jenny to find her a book about [[time-crystal]]s at the [[library]]. After returning with the book following a reality accident, Jenny began flirting with Laura and almost slept with her, but they were interrupted by [[Glendalf]] coming to recruit Jenny on an adventure. Due to the instability of reality, as Jenny became focused on the visitor and his [[Orc]] assistants, Laura vanished.

She resurfaced at a later point in Jenny's adventure, now appearing as “a woman in a sort of deep blue Napoleonic military uniform with a white cape, holding [[Laura Drake's sword|a sword]] at her side”. She beat Jenny, Glendalf and the Orcs to the manor of [[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|the billionaire]] who held the [[Legendary Time Crystal]] in her vault. Sneaking in disguised as one of the billionaire's robot servants, Laura killed her and made her way to the vault, where she took the Crystal. She intended to use it to build the Multiverse anew, but not as it was — bringing forth a new order bowed to her, so as to ensure that nothing like the collapse would happen again. Jenny, who wanted to use the Crystal to ''properly'' restore infinity, dueled Laura for the crystal; their fighting caused reality to become even more unstable, with their surroundings flashing between all the places Jenny and Laura had fought before across the Multiverse; finally, the current narrative shattered entirely, with Jenny waking up in a different time and place with not a trace of Laura. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

==Behind the scenes==

===Genesis===