Image Credits: Lethe

Name: Jenny Johnson
Gender: Female, straight
Age: ~7, appears 18
Origin: Eden's Gate clone facility, near Blackstone Weyr
Rank: Green
Family: clone of Jennifer Johnson, with Jenie and Jen clone sisters
Other Relations: as a bartender and occasional videographer around town and the weyrs, Jenny takes her pick among the handsome young riders or hold inhabitants - she has no children, it's possible that she might be able to bear them, but as a clone it's not a sure thing
Height: 5'7"
Build: slender, curves in the right places, stronger than she looks
Hair: bright silvery white afro that's been straightened, the coloration is due to being a clone, but her Prime's hair also went silver pretty early
Eyes: dark brown, under concerned and expressive brows
Appearance: dark skin, a slender neck and wasp waist, she is considered remarkably pretty with thick lips and flirty posing; her voice is strong and can be quite loud, not too deep but not very high
Genetic Oddities: as a clone she has been aged artificially, she was brought out from a clone vat appearing to be about 12, and allowed to grow into adulthood at a normal pace; she seems to have a very strong amount of empathic sense, and can seemingly tell a troublemaker out of a crowd with just a glance

Standing At: (alt)Benden
Dragon: Green Nirroth
Creation Date/Updated: Originally created 2002 as a group character with her clone sisters and prime, only one of them impressed so here's a new page, recreated July 2021

History and Events - as the second of three clones, Jenny has never 'suffered' from middle-child syndrome. She revels in it, acting as a mediator or shoulder to cry on in equal turns. She was created by Woody in a lab that lapses between dimensions (after all, Pern doesn't have this technology any more, and Alskyr didn't either until the big wobbly Kshau Protectorate move...), it's a process that copies not just the physical traits of someone, but then an overlay of brain chemistry and synapses. So she has the same memories as her Prime, to a point, and then becomes her own person on leaving the clone vat. There has never been any problem with her sense of self-worth - Jenny knows she was made because family is important, and ... well, also because Jennifer is vain? The more of her around town the better!

Working on her journalistic path got her in trouble a number of times, asking the wrong person the right questions. But never close enough to being exiled or Outcast from Dawnlight, always just on the side of exposing corruption or getting justice served. Her prime also has powerful friends, H'lis and Shard among them, so no one really dares mess with Jennifer or any of her clones. That's not saying that Jenny didn't have her share of rough times. Moving between worlds for instance, everyone knew that the Protectorate was 'somewhere else', but most folks never even realized the significance of that. Sometimes Jenny would dig around in people's histories, finding who might be on the run or who conveniently was left behind on the Old World. Sometimes... They would dig into her history. That is to say, "why don't you have one".

She has sisters, not clones, in that case. When people don't seem to 'get it', she just lets them believe that they're all one big happy family - which they are.

Now, though... After a lengthy and a bit weird stay at a place up in the mountains on Not Alskyr Either, Jenny was brought back to Blackstone. She didn't cry much, but she did give a bit of a sob at the thought that she'd...

"You were never forgotten," H'lis asserted. "Finding you, on the other hand, that was the hard part. Those that were on scattered worlds or realms when we moved have been... a little tough to reassign."

"Re... re-assign, you mean," her dark eyes brightened with her mood, "you mean I can still stand?"

"Well you and your... sisters," H'lis drew the word out with a grin on his pale lips, "were all rider material when we were checking, so yeah of course. Jenie and her--"

"Jenie impressed?" There was a mixture of elation and confusion in her mind. H'lis picked all of that up because he among the riders of the Protectorate was a very strong empath.

"We want you to wait to go see your family," Shard said, from the corner of the darkened cavern where they'd finally brought her from... well, from wherever it was before, she was almost able to forget its name now, "until you have all impressed or bonded."

That got a little bit of disappointment from her, but still, Jenny straightened, wiped the dampness from her face on her long green sleeve. "I understand, sir. Is there... a new place? Oh I hope there is."

H'lis nodded and smiled more privately, "yes, there certainly is. A well-attended location, with a large queen's clutch. Brimming with eggs, and more, there are a couple others from our ranks that are already waiting there." He didn't mention that they were the children of people who she'd only known before they themselves were riders... Time had a way of acting a little strange in this confusing era. But it would work out.

***

"I didn't realize we'd be back on the Old World?" Jenny said as they landed. The place was... huge. Though the Protectorate rested on a mountainous island off the coast of Paniya, filling it and spilling over onto the mainland, this was something else entirely. A real Weyr, with magnificent dragons flying overhead.

She corrected herself quickly, thinking that all dragons were magnificent! But these were indeed a treat. She'd never seen any like them, and the Protectorate was filled with a variety already!

Jenny missed the strangely silent conversation that was going on between Shard and H'lis, when they entered Benden's candidate hall. They would smooth it all over, make sure that she stood along side Zeek and the others, even if there was a nearly-twenty-year gap in her presence on the world they'd be returning to. Shard gave a curt nod, and headed back outside to his absurdly large blue Jeremoth, while the equally absurdly large Synesth would remain. Hidden, though - because this was one of those time-flipping ventures. Only they would know that this time gap had existed for Jenny (and her clone sisters, come to think of it, and Jennifer, ... and maybe even others...), and beyond their minds, it would be wiped or 'softened'. It was a trick that Etan would use, one which H'lis wasn't proud of picking up on from that despicable man.

For the moment though, Jenny would stand with the rest of the candidates here at Benden, and hopefully soon be reunited with her family - and ride into the skies back at the Protectorate's island!