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}}'''Kim''' was [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]]'s roommate, and one of her closest friends, in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. | }}'''Kim''' was [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]]'s roommate, and one of her closest friends, in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. Although she never referred to herself as one, she appeared to be a [[vampire]]. | ||
== Description == | == Description == | ||
=== Physical appearance === | |||
[[David Lowe]] described Kim as “pretty”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | |||
=== Personality === | === Personality === | ||
Kim was willful, proactive, and practical — as well as a loyal friend to [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]], whose life she saved on several occasions; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') she was matter-of-fact, perhaps even blasé, about the strange happenings which resulted from Jenny's multi-dimensional nature and in which she often found herself involved, including encounters with different incarnations of Jenny than the oen she was used to. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') She had a disparaging view of men, and would make joke at their expense even if they happened to be friends of hers. Despite her evident [[vampire|vampirism]], she seemingly refused to refer to herself as one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') Her practicality helped Jenny focus on an unexpected dimensional visitor rather than the location of a traveling friend. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | Kim was willful, proactive, and practical — as well as a loyal friend to [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]], whose life she saved on several occasions; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') she was matter-of-fact, perhaps even blasé, about the strange happenings which resulted from Jenny's multi-dimensional nature and in which she often found herself involved, including encounters with different incarnations of Jenny than the oen she was used to. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') She had a disparaging view of men, and would make joke at their expense even if they happened to be friends of hers. Despite her evident [[vampire|vampirism]], she seemingly refused to refer to herself as one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') Her practicality helped Jenny focus on an unexpected dimensional visitor rather than the location of a traveling friend. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | ||
=== Powers & abilities === | === Powers & abilities === | ||
Kim was used to bare-handed fighting. Although she never called herself one, she had abilities consistent with being a [[vampire]], including immunity to ordinary tranquiliser drugs, superhuman physical strength (sufficient to kill a dinosaur bare-handed), and even such powers as the ability to levitate ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') and to turn into a swarm of bats. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'') In trade-off, she had a weakness to sunlight; if exposed to direct, stark sunlight her skin would begin to burn within seconds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | Kim was used to bare-handed fighting. Although she never called herself one, she had abilities consistent with being a [[vampire]], including immunity to ordinary tranquiliser drugs, superhuman physical strength (sufficient to kill a dinosaur bare-handed), and even such powers as the ability to levitate ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') and to turn into a swarm of bats. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'') In trade-off, she had a weakness to sunlight; if exposed to direct, stark sunlight her skin would begin to burn within seconds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Origins === | |||
When [[David Lowe|David]] informed her that 50-year-old [[Morrie Greenberg]] had a romantic interest in her, Kim answered that he was “too young” for her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | |||
=== Meeting Jenny Nowhere === | === Meeting Jenny Nowhere === | ||
Kim once went out to a bar alongside [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]] and some of their friends. After Jenny began feeling nauseous, she accompanied Jenny to the bathroom, where they were confronted by [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by a dinosaur|Jenny Nowhere]], whom this Jenny had never encountered in any form, and who was the one who'd slipped something in Jenny's beer. She revealed herself as originally a version of Jenny Everywhere who had become disconnected from the wider telepathic network. To Everywhere's horror, she viewed it as a liberation which she planned to “share” with her, willing or not. | Kim once went out to a bar alongside [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]] and some of their friends. After Jenny began feeling nauseous, she accompanied Jenny to the bathroom, where they were confronted by [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by a dinosaur|Jenny Nowhere]], whom this Jenny had never encountered in any form, and who was the one who'd slipped something in Jenny's beer. She revealed herself as originally a version of Jenny Everywhere who had become disconnected from the wider telepathic network. To Everywhere's horror, she viewed it as a liberation which she planned to “share” with her, willing or not. | ||
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However, Nowhere did not keep the upper hand for long; foolishly choosing to pursue Everywhere in turn to the cool jungle she had chosen as the place to take Kim, she realised too late that it was a ''prehistoric'' jungle and was mauled to death by a dinosaur. Kim later examined her body, finding the surgical scar above her left ear which revealed she was ''not'' the original Jenny Nowhere. Shaken by these revelations, Jenny Everywhere and Kim agreed to go back home for another drink — with no music. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | However, Nowhere did not keep the upper hand for long; foolishly choosing to pursue Everywhere in turn to the cool jungle she had chosen as the place to take Kim, she realised too late that it was a ''prehistoric'' jungle and was mauled to death by a dinosaur. Kim later examined her body, finding the surgical scar above her left ear which revealed she was ''not'' the original Jenny Nowhere. Shaken by these revelations, Jenny Everywhere and Kim agreed to go back home for another drink — with no music. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | ||
=== Helping Ulysses Dumas === | === Helping Ulysses Dumas === | ||
The year after they'd foiled [[the Vampire King]] together, Jenny and Kim received a call from [[Ulysses Dumas]], a musician they'd saved from the King's dungeon; it transpired that he had ended up turning into a [[vampire]] himself following his ordeal, and he was worried about how this would impact his career, given that some types of camera could no longer pick him up. Jenny went to the first meeting alone, but set a second appointment with Dumas where she brought Kim, who suggested he wear full-body make-up as part of his stage persona. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'') | The year after they'd foiled [[the Vampire King]] together, Jenny and Kim received a call from [[Ulysses Dumas]], a musician they'd saved from the King's dungeon; it transpired that he had ended up turning into a [[vampire]] himself following his ordeal, and he was worried about how this would impact his career, given that some types of camera could no longer pick him up. Jenny went to the first meeting alone, but set a second appointment with Dumas where she brought Kim, who suggested he wear full-body make-up as part of his stage persona. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'') | ||
=== With Princess Genevieve === | === With Princess Genevieve === | ||
When [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] visited Jenny and Kim's apartment, it was Kim who answered the door, as her Jenny was taking a shower at the time. Unimpressed with the medieval, magical “Jenny”, she approached the situation with curt practicality, translating the Princess's talk of “waylaid dream spinners” into the realisation that she had left her interdimensional vehicle unattended in the nearby parking lot. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | When [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] visited Jenny and Kim's apartment, it was Kim who answered the door, as her Jenny was taking a shower at the time. Unimpressed with the medieval, magical “Jenny”, she approached the situation with curt practicality, translating the Princess's talk of “waylaid dream spinners” into the realisation that she had left her interdimensional vehicle unattended in the nearby parking lot. Kim helped [[Professor Awesome]] repair the device, and, after Genevieve repaid him with a large gold coin, she offered to help Eric translate that gold into modern money and to take him to the hardware store so that he could spend these “wages” on new equipment and parts. She explained that she was already all set to sell some gold, as she had to make something of a chest of pirate gold Jenny had brought back from a recent adventure. Before they could do so, an [[Angel]] appeared with much fracas in the very same parking lot, heralding yet another crazy adventure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
The implications in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'' point to Kim being some form of [[vampire]], but this is purposefully left ambiguous. On the topic of Kim's potential vampirism, Sanford later commented on the Jenny Everywhere Discord: | The implications in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'' point to Kim being some form of [[vampire]], but this is purposefully left ambiguous. On the topic of Kim's potential vampirism, Sanford later commented on the Jenny Everywhere Discord: | ||
