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| also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'' | | also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'' | ||
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=== 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 | 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 one she was used to. Her practicality could help Jenny focus. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') | ||
Despite her evident [[vampire|vampirism]], she seemingly refused to refer to herself as one. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | |||
Kim made comments to [[Professor Awesome|Eric]] implying that she was gay; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') indeed, she took a disparaging view of men, and would make joke at their expense even if they happened to be friends of hers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'') | |||
=== 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]]'') | ||
She had some knowledge of mathematics, feeling confident that he could help [[Professor Awesome|Eric]] learn “how to do exponents on the log scale”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Origins === | === 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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
At some point, a “long time ago”, Kim lived together with many other women. She attempted to flirt with many of them, progressively learning that taboo aside, not all women were actually sexually interested in other women, in contrast to what she'd previously assumed. She learned to deal with rejection “gracefully”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | |||
=== Meeting Jenny Nowhere === | === Meeting Jenny Nowhere === | ||
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=== 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. 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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
=== Advising Professor Awesome === | |||
One day, after [[Professor Awesome|Eric]] came home from school, he dropped in on Kim and [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]], feeling down about a row he'd had with a girl in his class, [[Judy (Misunderstandings)|Judy]], which his mother was “being weird” about. Coming to the incorrect conclusion that Eric had taken a romantic interest in Judy and been disappointed, she tried to give him a rambling collection of dating advice, helped by Jenny. Eventually, the misunderstanding became clear, and a somewhat mortified Kim offered to move on to helping Eric with his homework. Eric was mildly reluctant to put in the work for his math homework, not seeing what the point of learning to use a side-rule was when he had four calculator apps on his phone, but he eventually agreed, especially asking Kim to help him understand “how to do exponents on the log scale”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
