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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Madeline!
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: stutterbird @ lj.
IM: stutterbird (AIM).
PLURK: dinozord.
E-MAIL: miserati@live.com.
RETURNING: I have one other character (Angelica/thegooddoctor).
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jennifer Emily Quantum (sometimes Quarx), Spirit of the 21st Century.
SERIES: The Authority (Wildstorm comics).
CHRONOLOGY: The Authority: Revolution, at the end of Issue #7, right before eight-year-old Jenny forces herself to become fourteen in order to face Authority villain Henry Bendix.
CLASS: Hero.
BACKGROUND:
The Authority is a superhero team built from the remains of Stormwatch, a covert operations group that was led by Weatherman Henry Bendix. Except Henry Bendix was really more of the crazy, experimenting-on-people type of world-dominating psychopath. After Bendix was deposed, Stormwatch disbanded, and a handful of the former members formed the Authority, a team that would do whatever it took to build "a finer world." The Authority's original roster included Apollo and Midnighter-- superhumans created by Bendix's experiments-- Swift, The Engineer, the shaman known as the Doctor, Jack Hawksmoor, King of Cities. Their first leader was the Spirit of the 20th Century, Jenny Sparks-- the predecessor of Jenny Quantum.
Like all of her kind, Jenny Sparks would live a hundred years, a guardian of her century, and at midnight, on New Years of January 1, 2000, Jenny Sparks died as the century ended. Her death would mean the occurrence of two very important events for the Authority. First, with the death of their leader, Jack Hawksmoor stepped up to be the new head of the Authority, and under his leadership, the Authority became much more political in its focus in an attempt to destroy evil and corruption at its roots. They worked to prevent genocides, remove oppressive leaders, and shelter those who needed political asylum. However, their methods continued to violent and heavy-handed.
The second influential event would be the birth of a child. At the exact same moment Jenny Sparks died, her reincarnation was born somewhere in Singapore as the new Spirit of the 21st Century. Jenny Quantum's powers far surpassed those of her predecessor, and she displayed post-human abilities before her first teeth even came in. As a century baby, she and the progress of the century were entwined, there were many who were interested in capturing her in order to shape the future or killing her in an attempt to preserve "the good times."
Dr. Krigstein, an evil scientist, was one of them. Under his instruction, a team of cruel, brutish American superpowered beings went to Singapore to eliminate Jenny. However, the Authority's Doctor, Jeroen Thornedike, reached her first, managing to escape with her until the Americans caught up with him. Luckily, although they initially blocked his powers, Jenny's defense mechanism allowed Jeroen to telepathically alert the rest of the Authority members, who arrived to confront the enemy forces. The result was a massive conflict between the two teams-- but despite their efforts, Dr. Krigstein's minions ultimately captured and escaped to their headquarters with Jenny. The conflict with Dr. Krigstein's army of superhumans escalated until it became global, with hundreds of civilian casualties.
Finally, the Authority finally decided the only solution was to recruit Krigstein, and they sent Swift to talk with him. Although he was incredulous at first, the doctor agreed to work creating things to make the world better instead of attempting to destroy it. He surrendered baby Jenny to the Authority. Later, Authority members Apollo and Midnighter would marry and adopt baby Jenny as their daughter.
During the "Fractured World" arc, a woman claiming to be Jenny's birth mother convinced the Authority to let her meet her child aboard their spaceship, the Carrier. Her visit was marked by a mysterious series of fractures in reality across the globe when suddenly, the woman calling herself Jenny's mother lost her temper, raging about how the Authority had left her to die when the hospital Jenny had been taken from collapsed. She reveals that Jenny's real mother is dead, and that in actuality, she is Jenny's twin sister, Jenny Fractal.
Jenny Fractal was raised by the Chinese government, who wanted to take her powers-- powers with the same potential as Jenny Quantum's-- and turn her into a weapon. They tortured her, exposed her to the cruelties of the world, and taught her how to kill in every way possible. Because of this, she went crazy, killed her handlers, and planned to destroy the world. Her training made her powers seemed more developed and "grown up" than Jenny Quantum's, allowing her to deflect Jenny Quantum's energy blasts. Although Apollo and Midnighter arrived to aid their daughter, because her twin sister was also a century baby, she was much too strong. Even Jenny Quantum's ability to manipulate reality wouldn't allow her to permanently uncreate her twin-- and eventually, in a final clash, Jenny Fractal killed Jenny Quantum.
After her death, Jenny Quantum's soul was guided to the Garden of Ancestral Memory, the resting place for the spirit of previous Doctors, by a woman in white-- her predecessor, Jenny Sparks. It was here that the current Doctor, Jeroen, came to tell her that he was able to save her spirit and consciousness, even though her body was destroyed. He told her that there was a way to bring her back to life, with her help, and that she would have to "want it more than anything." He had sent Midnighter back in time on a mission: to kill baby Jenny Fractal. Though he struggled, Midnighter was able to kill Jenny Fractal in the past, allowing Jenny Quantum to transfer her spirit and mind into Jenny Fractal's present body in the instant of her death. In the aftermath, regretting what they had allowed the world to do to Jenny Fractal, Apollo and Midnighter decide to take their daughter to see all the good things in the world.
In the following storylines, the Authority eventually becomes the ruling authority in the United States after they overthrow the corrupt administration, whose attempt to use a special engine to exploit other worlds results in disaster and brings Earth to the brink of inter-dimensional war. Jack Hawksmoor becomes President of the United States. However, although their intention is still to make a better world, there are many American citizens who are discontent with being governed by the Authority, and these malcontents are rallied by a group of old patriotic-themed superheroes from decades past who call themselves the Sons of Liberty. These superheroes and their mob attempt to take back the country through violence. When the Authority comes to confront them, the result is a difficult defeat in which Swift is seriously injured.
When Midnighter uses to the Carrier's "door" to teleport to aid his teammates, he finds himself in an alternate future, where a much older Apollo tells him that if he does not break up the Authority, in the future, the Authority will rule as tyrants, with a brain-damaged future Midnighter at the helm. When Midnighter returns to the present, he does not tell the others what he saw, conflicted. In the meantime, the rest of the Authority attempt to solve the problem of the Sons of Liberty, who should have been elderly and powerless, but have somehow been restored to their prime, thus enabling them to stage this revolt against the Authority's administration. They are also able to travel through "doors"-- something the Authority thought unique to them and the Carrier. There is the implication of someone pulling the strings behind the scenes, but no one is able to determine who this is. Tension increases between team members.
As the adult members of the Authority continue to try and fight the Sons of Liberty, Jenny Quantum remains aboard the Carrier, where she asks to fight but is told she is far too young. As she wanders the ship, she is contacted by a girl who seems to be a future version of herself. This future Jenny Quantum tells Jenny: "You've got to do something. You can still stop it all. You can still stop it, Jenny... like I failed to do." Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Sons of Liberty abruptly revert to their true bodies, old and weak. As a result, one of the members of the Sons of Liberty, Fallout, whose powers involve radioactivity, explodes like an atomic bomb, killing innocent civilians. Although Jenny's warning from her future self allows her to come in time to save the Authority, she is to late to save everyone else. The resulting devastation solidifies Midnighter's resolve, and he leaves the Authority, despite his daughter's pleas.
Three years later, Apollo is raising eight-year-old Jenny Quantum as a single father in San Francisco. The Authority has given up their political power and disbanded. Jack and the Engineer stay aboard the Carrier, traveling the multiverse. Swift retires to a monastery in Tibet, where she spends her days in meditation. Midnighter continues to fight small-scale crime as a vigilante. And tragically, Jeroen, the Doctor, died of an apparent drug overdose. Jenny plans to visit Jeroen's grave with Apollo for the anniversary of his death, disappointed when the other Authoritarians decline to come with her. While at his grave, Jenny realizes that her ability to travel to the Garden of Ancestral Memory would allow her to visit any deceased Doctor, and she does so-- only to find that the previous Doctor has not seen Jeroen's spirit and was not even aware he was dead. Disturbed and upset, Jenny returns to report this news to her father.
Later, at her annual examination, after being poked and prodded at by physicians who frustrate her by talking to her like a child, Jenny senses someone spying on her, using her powers to reveal a tall, bald man in the room who disappears a moment after she sees him. Unsure of what this means, Jenny keeps it to herself. When they return home, Jenny sulks over her inability to help her friends, feeling restricted by her age and her body. It's then that she is approached again by her future self, who takes her through the dimensions to a place called the Infinite City-- apparently a creation of Jenny's own mind. It is here that she meets all the previous Jennys-- Jenny Stone, Jenny Fire, Jenny Ra, Jenny Crusade, Jenny Inquisition, Jenny Revolution, Jenny Steam, and of course, Jenny Sparks. It is Jenny Sparks who tells her the identity of the man spying on her-- the same man who has been pulling the strings resulting in the disbandment of the Authority: Henry Bendix, former Weatherman.
Armed with this information, Jenny returns home. However, upon her arrival, she realizes she has unconsciously made one huge change to herself: She is now several years older and that much stronger. This is the point from which I'll be taking Jenny!
PERSONALITY:
Jenny is in some ways a very typical eight-year-old and very atypical in others. She is definitely childish in nature-- she likes drawing with crayons, her room is pink and purple, anything related to sex grosses her out, she is excitable, and she sulks like a child (often). However, her experiences growing up with the Authority and the fact that she is the Spirit of the 21st Century makes her different from all the other eight-year-old girls. Besides her unusually foul mouth, Jenny is at times a difficult child because of her powers, and she has no friends her age. Apollo confides in his former teammates that Jenny's habit is to teleport away without any notice, acting very independently and doing as she pleases even though she really understands very little about the full extent of her powers. As her future self tells her: "Boy, you don't understand anything, do you?"
Above all, Jenny hates to be treated like a child. Any time someone talks down to her "like some little kid," she sulks, even though she confesses: "I am a little kid, I know. I just don't like being treated like one much..." Even as a five-year-old, Jenny wanted to fight along side her fathers (her very protective fathers, both of whom she loves very much), and she is constantly frustrated by the restrictions of being an eight-year-old girl, even though she is told constantly to enjoy being young while it lasts.
POWER:
Because Jenny is only eight years old, her powers are neither fully developed nor completely defined. Even as a baby, Jenny was able to automatically generate forcefields, and as an infant, she was able to alter reality and create energy blasts.
In general, her powers can basically be categorized into two overarching abilities: reality manipulation and those powers which are linked to 21st century physics. Since the 21st century has yet to completely unfold, these powers are the ones that are still developing in Jenny, but up to these points, the related abilities have been shown to be: flight, teleportation, energy blasts, and forcefields. Her teleportation allows her to move anywhere on Earth and also between dimensions. For the purposes of the game, her teleportation will not, of course, allow her to leave this universe.
As a child, although she has the ability to manipulate reality, Jenny is still very much unaware of what she's fully capable of and therefore does not utilize her powers nearly as much as older versions of herself. And while she is supposed to have a one hundred year lifespan due to being the spirit of the century, she can be killed. Ultimately, though her powers are extensive, they are also contained in the context of an eight-year-old girl.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
(VIDEO.)
[ there's a little curious turning, this way and that, before the handler must decide the camera is properly on and sets the communicator down in their lap. the feed shows a young girl in a pink jumper with an ice cream cone in her hand (slightly melting).
she can't be more than eight or nine, but she seems unfazed by her new surroundings. ]
I thought I got lost in the multiverse or something, but then the machine lady said she brought me here on purpose.
[ she pauses to tilt her hand, licking away some of that melting ice cream-- and when that fails to be effective, she switches hands so she can wipe it on the hem of her dress. ]
It's about time someone decided to let me fight.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It was just like Jenny to wander off. She was the sort of little girl that would let go of her father's hand while he was distracted and slip off to find an adventure for herself. And for any eight-year-old girl, superpowered or not, a toy store definitely qualified as an appropriate adventure. The shelves seemed to go up towards the ceiling for miles, stuffed to bursting with shiny plastic and plush animals. It was a trademarked wonderland.
But it was missing a little something.
Jenny knew just what to do.
She arched her feet, standing up on her tippytoes and reaching her arms up as high as they would go, fingers spread. She could feel reality tingle at her fingertips. It was pliant to her, the energy like a warmth that spread from her toes until it became a brilliant blue light, bursting from her and touching the toys, breathing life into them. Bears, soldiers, dolls, jumping down from the shelves to dance with the Spirit of the 21st Century.
NAME: Madeline!
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: stutterbird @ lj.
IM: stutterbird (AIM).
PLURK: dinozord.
E-MAIL: miserati@live.com.
RETURNING: I have one other character (Angelica/
thegooddoctor).[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jennifer Emily Quantum (sometimes Quarx), Spirit of the 21st Century.
SERIES: The Authority (Wildstorm comics).
CHRONOLOGY: The Authority: Revolution, at the end of Issue #7, right before eight-year-old Jenny forces herself to become fourteen in order to face Authority villain Henry Bendix.
CLASS: Hero.
BACKGROUND:
The Authority is a superhero team built from the remains of Stormwatch, a covert operations group that was led by Weatherman Henry Bendix. Except Henry Bendix was really more of the crazy, experimenting-on-people type of world-dominating psychopath. After Bendix was deposed, Stormwatch disbanded, and a handful of the former members formed the Authority, a team that would do whatever it took to build "a finer world." The Authority's original roster included Apollo and Midnighter-- superhumans created by Bendix's experiments-- Swift, The Engineer, the shaman known as the Doctor, Jack Hawksmoor, King of Cities. Their first leader was the Spirit of the 20th Century, Jenny Sparks-- the predecessor of Jenny Quantum.
Like all of her kind, Jenny Sparks would live a hundred years, a guardian of her century, and at midnight, on New Years of January 1, 2000, Jenny Sparks died as the century ended. Her death would mean the occurrence of two very important events for the Authority. First, with the death of their leader, Jack Hawksmoor stepped up to be the new head of the Authority, and under his leadership, the Authority became much more political in its focus in an attempt to destroy evil and corruption at its roots. They worked to prevent genocides, remove oppressive leaders, and shelter those who needed political asylum. However, their methods continued to violent and heavy-handed.
The second influential event would be the birth of a child. At the exact same moment Jenny Sparks died, her reincarnation was born somewhere in Singapore as the new Spirit of the 21st Century. Jenny Quantum's powers far surpassed those of her predecessor, and she displayed post-human abilities before her first teeth even came in. As a century baby, she and the progress of the century were entwined, there were many who were interested in capturing her in order to shape the future or killing her in an attempt to preserve "the good times."
Dr. Krigstein, an evil scientist, was one of them. Under his instruction, a team of cruel, brutish American superpowered beings went to Singapore to eliminate Jenny. However, the Authority's Doctor, Jeroen Thornedike, reached her first, managing to escape with her until the Americans caught up with him. Luckily, although they initially blocked his powers, Jenny's defense mechanism allowed Jeroen to telepathically alert the rest of the Authority members, who arrived to confront the enemy forces. The result was a massive conflict between the two teams-- but despite their efforts, Dr. Krigstein's minions ultimately captured and escaped to their headquarters with Jenny. The conflict with Dr. Krigstein's army of superhumans escalated until it became global, with hundreds of civilian casualties.
Finally, the Authority finally decided the only solution was to recruit Krigstein, and they sent Swift to talk with him. Although he was incredulous at first, the doctor agreed to work creating things to make the world better instead of attempting to destroy it. He surrendered baby Jenny to the Authority. Later, Authority members Apollo and Midnighter would marry and adopt baby Jenny as their daughter.
During the "Fractured World" arc, a woman claiming to be Jenny's birth mother convinced the Authority to let her meet her child aboard their spaceship, the Carrier. Her visit was marked by a mysterious series of fractures in reality across the globe when suddenly, the woman calling herself Jenny's mother lost her temper, raging about how the Authority had left her to die when the hospital Jenny had been taken from collapsed. She reveals that Jenny's real mother is dead, and that in actuality, she is Jenny's twin sister, Jenny Fractal.
Jenny Fractal was raised by the Chinese government, who wanted to take her powers-- powers with the same potential as Jenny Quantum's-- and turn her into a weapon. They tortured her, exposed her to the cruelties of the world, and taught her how to kill in every way possible. Because of this, she went crazy, killed her handlers, and planned to destroy the world. Her training made her powers seemed more developed and "grown up" than Jenny Quantum's, allowing her to deflect Jenny Quantum's energy blasts. Although Apollo and Midnighter arrived to aid their daughter, because her twin sister was also a century baby, she was much too strong. Even Jenny Quantum's ability to manipulate reality wouldn't allow her to permanently uncreate her twin-- and eventually, in a final clash, Jenny Fractal killed Jenny Quantum.
After her death, Jenny Quantum's soul was guided to the Garden of Ancestral Memory, the resting place for the spirit of previous Doctors, by a woman in white-- her predecessor, Jenny Sparks. It was here that the current Doctor, Jeroen, came to tell her that he was able to save her spirit and consciousness, even though her body was destroyed. He told her that there was a way to bring her back to life, with her help, and that she would have to "want it more than anything." He had sent Midnighter back in time on a mission: to kill baby Jenny Fractal. Though he struggled, Midnighter was able to kill Jenny Fractal in the past, allowing Jenny Quantum to transfer her spirit and mind into Jenny Fractal's present body in the instant of her death. In the aftermath, regretting what they had allowed the world to do to Jenny Fractal, Apollo and Midnighter decide to take their daughter to see all the good things in the world.
In the following storylines, the Authority eventually becomes the ruling authority in the United States after they overthrow the corrupt administration, whose attempt to use a special engine to exploit other worlds results in disaster and brings Earth to the brink of inter-dimensional war. Jack Hawksmoor becomes President of the United States. However, although their intention is still to make a better world, there are many American citizens who are discontent with being governed by the Authority, and these malcontents are rallied by a group of old patriotic-themed superheroes from decades past who call themselves the Sons of Liberty. These superheroes and their mob attempt to take back the country through violence. When the Authority comes to confront them, the result is a difficult defeat in which Swift is seriously injured.
When Midnighter uses to the Carrier's "door" to teleport to aid his teammates, he finds himself in an alternate future, where a much older Apollo tells him that if he does not break up the Authority, in the future, the Authority will rule as tyrants, with a brain-damaged future Midnighter at the helm. When Midnighter returns to the present, he does not tell the others what he saw, conflicted. In the meantime, the rest of the Authority attempt to solve the problem of the Sons of Liberty, who should have been elderly and powerless, but have somehow been restored to their prime, thus enabling them to stage this revolt against the Authority's administration. They are also able to travel through "doors"-- something the Authority thought unique to them and the Carrier. There is the implication of someone pulling the strings behind the scenes, but no one is able to determine who this is. Tension increases between team members.
As the adult members of the Authority continue to try and fight the Sons of Liberty, Jenny Quantum remains aboard the Carrier, where she asks to fight but is told she is far too young. As she wanders the ship, she is contacted by a girl who seems to be a future version of herself. This future Jenny Quantum tells Jenny: "You've got to do something. You can still stop it all. You can still stop it, Jenny... like I failed to do." Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Sons of Liberty abruptly revert to their true bodies, old and weak. As a result, one of the members of the Sons of Liberty, Fallout, whose powers involve radioactivity, explodes like an atomic bomb, killing innocent civilians. Although Jenny's warning from her future self allows her to come in time to save the Authority, she is to late to save everyone else. The resulting devastation solidifies Midnighter's resolve, and he leaves the Authority, despite his daughter's pleas.
Three years later, Apollo is raising eight-year-old Jenny Quantum as a single father in San Francisco. The Authority has given up their political power and disbanded. Jack and the Engineer stay aboard the Carrier, traveling the multiverse. Swift retires to a monastery in Tibet, where she spends her days in meditation. Midnighter continues to fight small-scale crime as a vigilante. And tragically, Jeroen, the Doctor, died of an apparent drug overdose. Jenny plans to visit Jeroen's grave with Apollo for the anniversary of his death, disappointed when the other Authoritarians decline to come with her. While at his grave, Jenny realizes that her ability to travel to the Garden of Ancestral Memory would allow her to visit any deceased Doctor, and she does so-- only to find that the previous Doctor has not seen Jeroen's spirit and was not even aware he was dead. Disturbed and upset, Jenny returns to report this news to her father.
Later, at her annual examination, after being poked and prodded at by physicians who frustrate her by talking to her like a child, Jenny senses someone spying on her, using her powers to reveal a tall, bald man in the room who disappears a moment after she sees him. Unsure of what this means, Jenny keeps it to herself. When they return home, Jenny sulks over her inability to help her friends, feeling restricted by her age and her body. It's then that she is approached again by her future self, who takes her through the dimensions to a place called the Infinite City-- apparently a creation of Jenny's own mind. It is here that she meets all the previous Jennys-- Jenny Stone, Jenny Fire, Jenny Ra, Jenny Crusade, Jenny Inquisition, Jenny Revolution, Jenny Steam, and of course, Jenny Sparks. It is Jenny Sparks who tells her the identity of the man spying on her-- the same man who has been pulling the strings resulting in the disbandment of the Authority: Henry Bendix, former Weatherman.
Armed with this information, Jenny returns home. However, upon her arrival, she realizes she has unconsciously made one huge change to herself: She is now several years older and that much stronger. This is the point from which I'll be taking Jenny!
PERSONALITY:
Jenny is in some ways a very typical eight-year-old and very atypical in others. She is definitely childish in nature-- she likes drawing with crayons, her room is pink and purple, anything related to sex grosses her out, she is excitable, and she sulks like a child (often). However, her experiences growing up with the Authority and the fact that she is the Spirit of the 21st Century makes her different from all the other eight-year-old girls. Besides her unusually foul mouth, Jenny is at times a difficult child because of her powers, and she has no friends her age. Apollo confides in his former teammates that Jenny's habit is to teleport away without any notice, acting very independently and doing as she pleases even though she really understands very little about the full extent of her powers. As her future self tells her: "Boy, you don't understand anything, do you?"
Above all, Jenny hates to be treated like a child. Any time someone talks down to her "like some little kid," she sulks, even though she confesses: "I am a little kid, I know. I just don't like being treated like one much..." Even as a five-year-old, Jenny wanted to fight along side her fathers (her very protective fathers, both of whom she loves very much), and she is constantly frustrated by the restrictions of being an eight-year-old girl, even though she is told constantly to enjoy being young while it lasts.
POWER:
Because Jenny is only eight years old, her powers are neither fully developed nor completely defined. Even as a baby, Jenny was able to automatically generate forcefields, and as an infant, she was able to alter reality and create energy blasts.
In general, her powers can basically be categorized into two overarching abilities: reality manipulation and those powers which are linked to 21st century physics. Since the 21st century has yet to completely unfold, these powers are the ones that are still developing in Jenny, but up to these points, the related abilities have been shown to be: flight, teleportation, energy blasts, and forcefields. Her teleportation allows her to move anywhere on Earth and also between dimensions. For the purposes of the game, her teleportation will not, of course, allow her to leave this universe.
As a child, although she has the ability to manipulate reality, Jenny is still very much unaware of what she's fully capable of and therefore does not utilize her powers nearly as much as older versions of herself. And while she is supposed to have a one hundred year lifespan due to being the spirit of the century, she can be killed. Ultimately, though her powers are extensive, they are also contained in the context of an eight-year-old girl.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ there's a little curious turning, this way and that, before the handler must decide the camera is properly on and sets the communicator down in their lap. the feed shows a young girl in a pink jumper with an ice cream cone in her hand (slightly melting).
she can't be more than eight or nine, but she seems unfazed by her new surroundings. ]
I thought I got lost in the multiverse or something, but then the machine lady said she brought me here on purpose.
[ she pauses to tilt her hand, licking away some of that melting ice cream-- and when that fails to be effective, she switches hands so she can wipe it on the hem of her dress. ]
It's about time someone decided to let me fight.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It was just like Jenny to wander off. She was the sort of little girl that would let go of her father's hand while he was distracted and slip off to find an adventure for herself. And for any eight-year-old girl, superpowered or not, a toy store definitely qualified as an appropriate adventure. The shelves seemed to go up towards the ceiling for miles, stuffed to bursting with shiny plastic and plush animals. It was a trademarked wonderland.
But it was missing a little something.
Jenny knew just what to do.
She arched her feet, standing up on her tippytoes and reaching her arms up as high as they would go, fingers spread. She could feel reality tingle at her fingertips. It was pliant to her, the energy like a warmth that spread from her toes until it became a brilliant blue light, bursting from her and touching the toys, breathing life into them. Bears, soldiers, dolls, jumping down from the shelves to dance with the Spirit of the 21st Century.
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PERSONALITY:
Jenny is in some ways a very typical eight-year-old and very atypical in others. She is definitely childish in nature-- she likes drawing with crayons, her room is pink and purple, anything related to sex grosses her out, she is excitable, and she sulks like a child (often). However, her experiences growing up with the Authority and the fact that she is the Spirit of the 21st Century makes her different from all the other eight-year-old girls. Besides her unusually foul mouth, Jenny is at times a difficult child because of her powers, and she has no friends her age. Apollo confides in his former teammates that Jenny's habit is to teleport away without any notice, acting very independently and doing as she pleases even though she really understands very little about the full extent of her powers. As her future self tells her: "Boy, you don't understand anything, do you?"
Above all, Jenny hates to be treated like a child. Any time someone talks down to her "like some little kid," she sulks, even though she confesses: "I am a little kid, I know. I just don't like being treated like one much..." Even as a five-year-old, Jenny wanted to fight along side her fathers (her very protective fathers, both of whom she loves very much), and she is constantly frustrated by the restrictions of being an eight-year-old girl, even though she is told constantly to enjoy being young while it lasts. And even as she resists being treated like a child, she still very much is one, no matter how powerful she might be. For instance, she still likes to sleep with her dads, still uses coloring books, and was willing to lead the entire Authority against the alien bounty hunter Lobo because he killed Santa Claus.
Basically, much of her personality revolves around the paradox of her being the vessel for the incredible ancient power of the century spirits and also being very, very young at the same time. As an eight-year-old, she is hovering on the brink of forcefully aging herself forward with her powers, just nearly at the point where she becomes the leader of the Authority. It's a precarious place where, as much as she already understands much more than other girls her age-- as much as she's already willing to sacrifice her life, to commit to the ideal of a "finer world"-- she still has a childish wonder despite all the things she's seen, all the universes she's encountered, and many of her goals are still driven by simple motives, such as love for her family and friends and a desire to fight alongside them.
She essentially has all the potential to truly be Jenny Quantum, the Spirit of the 21st Century and the leader of the Authority, but at this point, she is still also very much Jenny Quantum, eight-year-old girl. And the beauty of this stage in her personality is that she is still malleable. There are countless possible universes where a version of Jenny has allowed herself to be corrupted, even with good intentions, even with her powers becoming god-like. She is really only beginning to understand herself and her capabilities, and despite what innocence she retains in her child state, growing up with the violence of the Authority has undoubtedly planted dark seeds. Jenny Quantum is as unpredictable as the 21st century itself is.
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
(VIDEO.)
[ there's a little curious turning, this way and that, before the handler must decide the camera is properly on and sets the communicator down in their lap. the feed shows a young girl in a pink jumper with an ice cream cone in her hand (slightly melting).
she can't be more than eight or nine, but she seems unfazed by her new surroundings. ]
I thought I got lost in the multiverse or something, but then the machine lady said she brought me here on purpose.
[ she pauses to tilt her hand, licking away some of that melting ice cream-- and when that fails to be effective, she switches hands so she can wipe it on the hem of her dress. ]
It's about time someone decided to let me fight. I mean, I'm basically the most powerful eight-year-old ever, so it's lame that nobody ever lets me do anything. Plus, this is way cooler than going to school.
[ a little laugh. ] I can't wait to tell my dads about this.
CANON UPDATE
Character: jenny quantum.
Series: the authority.
Type of adjustment: canon update.
Current canon point: the authority: revolution, at the end of issue #7.
Specifics:
I'd like to update Jenny to the end of The Authority: The Lost Year. Up to this point, Jenny has been struggling with being her eight-year-old self, feeling helpless and abandoned by the other members of the Authority since the team broke up. After visiting the Infinite City-- a dimension she created for previous Spirits of the Century, like herself--she receives information from Jenny Sparks, her predecessor, and realizes that the man she and her teammates are fighting is the previous leader of their old team, Stormwatch. A powerful psychopath, Henry Bendix is out to take the Authority down from the inside. Jenny realizes that she isn't strong enough to take him on as a child, so before she returns home, she uses her reality altering powers to age herself up to fourteen years old. She then calls the Authority back together under her leadership, and in the ensuing battle with Henry Bendix, she shows her capacity as a leader.
As a teenager, she is much more rebellious, more serious, and mature. Similar to Spirits of the Century before her, she becomes even more foul-mouthed and has picked up smoking. In a way, it symbolizes her loss of innocence. She is willing to torture and kill now, if it comes to that, and she has come to more fully bear the weight of her responsibilities. Having been told by Jenny Sparks that the fate of humanity rests with her and that she may be the very last Jenny if she cannot prevent their destruction against all odds, Jenny Q. carries the heavy burden of being aware of what she faces in order to be the savior mankind needs. But under the harder exterior, she really is in some ways still very young and while her cynicism reflects the century and its events, she's still capable of compassion, and the one thing that hasn't change is how much she loves her family.
Now, the events of The Lost Year. Basically what happens to the Authority during this arc is that their spaceship, the Carrier, becomes essentially "shipwrecked" in an alternate universe, and the Authority spends the next several issues going through various disjointed and unconnected universes trying to find their way home. The stories are largely one shots and have little effect on the overall plot of the Authority storyline-- some are purely for comedic relief-- but there are a few interesting things that happen. There is a little bit of fourth walling, when in a "low energy universe" (presumably our own), they find that there are no superheroes and instead, there are graphic novels, including one with themselves in it.
Perhaps the most significant thing that happens during The Lost Year is the time spent in one of the very last alternate universes before home. This is where the Authority realizes what they could be, if they grow careless with power and become too ambitious with their goal of a finer world. In this universe, the Authority has dispatched of all enemies, leaving themselves as the reigning power, under an alternate Jenny Quantum's rule. It grew quickly into a dictatorship, oppressive in the name of good. Eventually, each member of the Authority began to realize what they'd done-- but as soon as resistance began to rise, the alternate Jenny would crush it. When the alternate Midnighter resists, Jenny has him killed. The other Authority members eventually kill each other off-- or kill themselves, all with the lost Authority team trying to find a way to get home in the middle of everything. When the last Authority of that universe is killed, our original heroes finally find a way to break free and head back to their home, leaving behind the alternative Jenny Quantum alone. Without family or friends, having destroyed everything she ever loved, she says a line that reflects the dark godlike potential of Jenny's powers: "On the seventh day, I looked out upon my works, and it was good."
From this experience, our Jenny Quantum learns quickly what she's capable of, and as the Authority returns to their home world, she expresses doubt that heroes are what they actually are.
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POWER REVISION
What has changed is that she is more aware of what she can do now that she's manipulated her own reality, so to speak, by changing her age. She also doesn't have the mentality of a child anymore, so she's willing to use her powers for more violent and offensive purposes. She certainly hasn't reached her godlike potential (and actually never does in her timeline, though alternate universe Jenny Quantums do), but she is using her powers in a different capacity. So even though the degree of her powers hasn't changed-- she's always been as strong as she is-- her awareness and her intentions definitely changes the nature of her power usage.
That being said, her powers which are related to 21st century physics will remain the same, mostly because again, nobody really knows what 21st century physics will completely entail, so essentially that still only encompasses: flight, teleportation, energy blasts, and forcefields. In the City, her teleportation is still reduced so she can't travel between dimensions, only on the Earthly plane.
With her reality altering powers, the comics have shown that she's capable of greatly affecting the fabric of space-time and so forth, but the circumstances under which she uses them have always been under great duress or when fighting for the fate of the universe, basically. That being said, I would like to keep her ability to alter reality, for the completeness of her character as the Spirit of the Century, but with an OOC note that I have no intention to use it with any regularity and her reality altering powers will be predominantly used in major plots and never without moderator permission. Additionally, since this universe isn't technically her own, it may not be as malleable to her will, and therefore, her attempts to change it may very well not work, depending on what plots call for.
If that still leaves her too powerful, please let me know, and I'll be happy to make more adjustments.
PERSONALITY REVISION
She is, in many ways, inspired by her predecessor, Jenny Sparks, who also smoked and was equally foul-mouthed. As a teenager, she is much more prepared to do "what she has to," whether that encompasses torture, killing, or fighting-- whatever it takes to save her family, her friends, and humanity. She is capable of doing things her eight-year-old self simply wouldn't have even been able to imagine, simply because she was a child. She is also now capable of leading and takes charge of the Authority, as Jenny Sparks did before her.
As a teenager, she's very rebellious and tends to shrug off too much parenting-- a result, she claims, of adjusting to the abruptness of her new hormones and the fact that one of her fathers, Midnighter, had abandoned the team (and her) a few years back. She's rude at times, in the most casual and habitual way, and straight-forward to a fault, particularly willing to call out her loved ones on their failure to look after her as a child, among other flaws. She's quick with the insults, but in an almost mild way, and undoubtedly, her love for her family hasn't changed. She is still affectionate, under the tougher teenage exterior and leather jacket.
But she is willing to put her grudges aside for the bigger picture. That is one of the things that's come as a result of her maturing-- bigger goals, and true embracing of the previous Jenny's goal for "a finer world." Jenny Q. is fully aware of and fully carrying the burden of being possibly the last Spirit of the Century, and she knows that mankind's fate rests on her shoulders. Despite that, she has no illusions that she's heroic. She knows the Authority has blood on their hands and always will. She knows she's no holy Messiah. And she knows that if she allows it to happen, she can become like her alternate universe selves, some of whom have failed in their mission, lost their families, and become deluded tyrants. But she does consider herself a protector and will do what it takes to fulfill that role, even if it means ultimately sacrificing herself.