Infopost Time!

[ashockingbitch]

Now comes the rambling.

Jenny Sparks is the Spirit of the Twentieth Century. That means she was born in London at midnight, January 1, 1900 and died at midnight, January 1, 2000, and in between she was inextricably tied to all the largest events of the twentieth century. Her parents died on the Titanic. Her godfather was Albert Einstein. She suggested a certain young Austrian artist she'd befriended give up the art and consider another career. Possibly in politics. You may have heard of him, name of Hitler? Yeah, in retrospect that wasn't one of her brightest ideas. It also means that she can control electricity--practically is electricity--and hasn't aged a day since she was nineteen years old, no matter what kind of hell she puts her body through. Up until the moment she died she was eternally young, eternally beautiful, and getting pretty sick of it.

In 1999, Jenny founded a superhero team known as The Authority, based on an interdimensional spaceship known as The Carrier, with the stated agenda of making a better world. They're perhaps most famous for having one of the first and most awesome openly gay couples in comics in Superman and Batman Apollo and the Midnighter (Their wedding, however, is a travesty. Disregard it.) The Authority was also not above gratuitous violence, abuse of illicit substances, or appearing on late-night talk shows.

To paraphrase Wikipedia, she's a pretty, foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, bisexual blonde who sleeps around and has done her best to pickle her organs in alcohol and various other substances. And she's an anarchist. What all this says about the twentieth century, I leave to you to interpret. She's also kind of cynical. She's been there and done this before, though in all fairness Fandom High is a huge step up on a Viennese girl's school.

So, if Jenny died in 2000, physically aged nineteen, what's she doing at Fandom High in 2007 in a fourteen-year-old body? The answer's simple. She doesn't know. One minute she was dying on the Carrier, having instructed her team to make a better world or she'd come back and kick their heads in, the next she was standing in the middle of Trafalgar Square seven years later and five years younger. So there went her chance to rest.

Jenny found out that her team had broken up and reformed with a new Doctor (no not that Doctor) and her successor, Jenny Quantum. That's her in the icon Yes, Jenny Quantum is seven years old. Jenny Quantum has magically and somewhat randomly turned herself into a teenager through the power of Mary Sue. Okay, so I'm a little bitter. Jenny Quantum is the new leader of the Authority, which Jenny thinks is an even worse idea than her leading a superhero team, and the pair of them had a series of catfights that culminated in the destruction of half of Abu Dhabi. So the Authority decided to separate Jenny S and Jenny Q, and since Jenny Q is the Midnighter and Apollo's adopted daughter and they don't want to be accused of being bad parents, they decided the best way to do this would be stashing Jenny S at boarding school. Jenny is, as you might imagine, less than thrilled, but they're keeping her placated with iPhones and a steady supply of nicotine.

What else do you need to know? Oh, yeah, Jenny's death immediately followed her executing God (actually a giant alien being responsible in an accidental manner for life starting on Earth and coming back to end it) via about a frillion volts to the brain. Her ex-husband is an evil alien from another dimension. She once shot herself in the head to prove a point. She holds the rank of Colonel in the British military. She refused to save a world that would vote Reagan into office. And the epitaph on her tombstone is, "Bugger this. I want a better world."

If you don't feel like reading all that...

Jenny Sparks is a bitter old woman in a fourteen-year-old's body. In appearance, she's tall, lean, pretty, blonde, and usually wearing the Union Jack in some fashion. She's almost always smoking. The minute she opens her mouth you can tell she's upper-crust English. She really desperately needs to cut loose and have fun and be silly for a change, so FH should be a nice change. Possibly even better than being dead, which she was actually kind of looking forward to. She was hoping it would be restful.

I've used words like 'bitter' and 'cynical' a lot in this post, so now's the time where I stress that Jenny's opinions are not mine. At all. I'm a pretty cheerful person, actually! If you ever have a problem with Jenny, feel free to contact me OOC and we'll work something out.

If she ever makes your character cry, well, she's probably made grown black ops superheros cry before, so I'm not sure what to tell you about that.

Questions? Comments? Pie Smokes?

Comments

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny frowns deeply at all the smoking Jenny does. That way lies coughing and lung cancer and losing your soul to Peter Fonda.

[ashockingbitch]

Judging from the fact that Jenny's been smoking for at least eighty-seven years now with no ill effects, I don't think she has too much to worry about in that category.

[imissmydolphin.livejournal.com]

She has lungs of STEEL.