Jennifer Galloway

Registry of the Evolved Database

File #24 Sep 2008 05:42

Summary

Name Jennifer Galloway Aliases None Status Registered Evolved (Tier 0) Ability Molecular Duplication Gender Female Race/Eth. Caucasian Birthdate 12/16/1988 Age 19 Height 5'4" Build Slim Eyes Blue Hair Brown Residence Unknown Employment Unemployed Parents Mark Galloway Rachel Galloway Siblings Unknown Marital Status Single Children None First Seen Our Blessed Lady Of Neverending Ammo Last Seen Unknown Profile

portrayed by Anna Popplewell

Background

Jennifer's early life really weren't that different from anyone else. She's the only child of Mark and Rachel Galloway, born and raised in New York City. Her mother is an artist (a painter), and her father is a graphic designer; visual arts were very much a household constant. Which in the classic children-rebelling-against-their-parents vein means that she went a different way. In her choice, she went through performing arts. Originally it was through singing…even as a young girl, she was fascinated with the tween singers, and her parents (thankfully) encouraged her with voice lessons after school.

Of course, living in New York led to some interesting moments. There was 9/11, during which she was only 12. Thankfully, her home is in the outlying suburbs, but needless to say, it instilled an early fear of terrorists, and a worry about…civil disruption. As she went through high school, she got interested in drama and theater, and no better place on the world for it than New York. She got into her school's drama activities, and then moreso than even that; she started working as a performer in the New York Renaissance Festival over the summer…unpaid at first, and then paid later.

Life continued apace. She was a good student, but she retained her societal worries. The northeastern U.S. blackout, which ended up being a normal issue, but was feared originally to be terrorist activity. She buried her worries in her entertainment, in her performances and schoolwork. And then one summer…things got complicated.

She was at the Faire, examining things, including some jewelry that while she loved it, was SO not in her budget. And then, in her hand…it seemed to ripple and then there were two of the bracelets in her hand where there had been one. She investigated it further over the following days. And it was incredible. What she focused on, she could duplicate, twinning what she was focused on.

That was the summer of the eclipse. She kept it as quiet as she could, though she -did- use it to give her budget a boost. And then there was the bomb. The center of New York, gone in an instant. And in the aftermath, the government said it was people like her who did it. Not even just that, but that people like her were dangerous. They were the terrorists.

Except she WASN'T a terrorist. She didn't want to hurt people. But she didn't want to be singled out, either. When the Act was passed, she refused to register; she'd never told her parents about her powers, and now wasn't the time to do so, that was certain. Instead she started looking for alternatives. In time, she found word. A place that people could go to get out.

She didn't want to run. But she found them anyway…and she offered to help. She's still in New York, now in college, majoring in theater…but she's also working with the Ferrymen, using her powers on their behalf, and getting people to safety.

Psych Profile

For the most part, Jennifer is an an average college student who happens to be fascinated by media and theater. As such, she's a little bit of a drama queen, and there's more than a bit of "woe is me" about her situation. Honestly, in many respects, she's similar to Claire Bennet in a lot of respects.

She does have a deep-seated concern about the government and "the terrorists", which gives her even more concern about dealing with the Ferrymen. Still, she thinks that the good she's doing outweighs the whole "breaking the law" thing. She's glad to have her powers, but they do raise a lot of questions, and she's concerned about the implications.

Evolved Ability

Jennifer's ability is molecular duplication. She has the ability to duplicate objects by physical contact. This duplication occurs nearly instantaneously once she focuses on the copying process, though she has to be fairly focused on the process…not quite as much as S1 Hiro, but close.

Both the size and the complexity of the object make a factor in the duplication…a solid brick of gold, or an ID card (really just a piece of colored plastic) are both far easier to copy than a laptop computer. Weight is irrelevant to the calculation…volume is what matters. Jennifer is limited to duplicating no more than 1 cubic foot of material. The more complicated a duplication, the more time it takes, as well as the more draining to her…it's a lot easier to duplicate a brick than it is a sophisticated laptop computer. The cubic foot is a total volume, and doesn't need to be a cube…any dimensions adding up to the total volume suffice.

Jennifer can also exceed these dimensions by as much as 50% if she is willing to push her own biological limits. Exceeding the volume by up to 15% will cause nosebleeds, aches and pains from internal cell damage. Exceeding up to 25% will leave her exhausted and injured for up to a day. The full 50% excess will leave her comatose and in critical condition once done.

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Relationships

Family

Ygraine FitzRoy
The most important person in Relationships, at least to Jennifer. Jennifer met Ygraine when she was still solely with the Ferrymen, and they became friends, having several long talks. But no one was more surprised than Jennifer when Ygraine actually asked her out. As in, on a date. Jen had never dated a girl before, and while she didn't consider herself homophobic, she'd never given any thought to girls in a romantic sense before. Caught by surprise and awkwardness, she agreed…and found out that she actually enjoyed the evening.

Subsequent dates went well, and somewhere along the way, she found that apparently, yes, she could be into girls. Or at least this girl. Their relationship moved to a new phase when Ygraine asked her to move out of the dorms and in with her, a request Jennifer acceded to, and has even handled the induction of Ygraine as a full-scale Phoenix operative as well. It's moved even further along, with Ygraine proposing that they should fly back to England and actually tie the knot in a civil ceremony. That last caused Jennifer to freeze up some; while she hasn't said no, she's found excuses to stall. It isn't so much that she's worried about "marrying" Ygraine as she is "marrying" at all. The holidays saw them spend time with each other's families, and the notion was brought up then to them.

Phoenix

Alexander Knight
Alexander is part of Phoenix's leadership, and truth be told, Jennifer wishes he wasn't. She's had few enough direct interactions with the telekinetic, but the ones that she has had have caused her to develop a picture of Alexander as an angry, confrontational kind of person. There's less of the intimidation factor with Alexander, oddly enough, despite the anger and the scary powers; Jennifer's good enough at going immediately into confrontational mode. She doesn't like him though, which is really a bit sad, considering that she really doesn't know him well enough to make calls about him. But, she's opinionated.

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Brian Fulk
Jennifer's met Brian a few times, especially as he serves so many roles for Phoenix. She had the vague sense that he either was or is attracted to her, which is something she finds awkward; on the one hand, she's spoken for, and on the other, he's not really her type even if she wasn't spoken for. She ran into him during his depressive state at his duplicate's death, and they made a favor-for-a-favor swap; Jennifer duplicated him up about ten thousand dollars in cash, and he went off to go pitch the whole "Recruiting Ygraine" reminder at Helena. (Why didn't she do it herself? Check her entry on Helena.) She considers herself his friend, as well as teammate, despite the vague awkwardness.

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Catherine Chesterfield
Cat is one of the people that Jennifer is closer to in Phoenix; there's this whole Cat/Ygraine/Jennifer friendship circle (that used to include Dani, too, before her death). Much like Helena, Cat intimidates the heck out of Jennifer; she's still quite young, and very accomplished to be so. She finds Cat to have a cool composure that she wishes she could emulate. She'd like to be better friends with the other woman, but first off, there's that intimidation factor, and secondly, there's the fact that they just move on two different tiers; to Cat, a pleasant evening is wine and music, to Jennifer it's pizza and party.

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Diego Smith
Well, in theory, there was going to be training. In practice, it never really materialized. Jennifer's not sure what to make of Diego. He seems competent enough at what he does, and the negative points he earned by ignoring her the first time they met were mostly offset by positive ones from actually offering to teach her. Unfortunately, due to events, about all he actually taught her was the beginnings of how to properly stand for fighting. Honestly, she feels gypped. And a little ignored, as she often does with the groups she's in.

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Elvis Shepherd
Yet another person within the organization that Jennifer is intimidated by (noticing a trend?), Jennifer's only actually run into Elvis on a couple of occasions. The brief snapshot encounters have left her with a few facts for her little mental file: A) Elvis is fighty. B) Elvis is angry and confrontational. C) Elvis is competent at being fighty. The three mean that Jen's intimidated around Elvis, and unlike with Helena or Cat, this one is the scary kind of intimidated. Elvis scares her.

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Helena Dean
Jennifer is fairly in awe of the Phoenix leaderette. For one, she controls the weather itself, which strikes her as too cool for words. For another, she's all Sarah-Conner-y and leading the resistance at an age no more than that of Jennifer itself. Jennifer likes Helena a lot, and would love to become better friends with her, but right now she's intimidated by the other woman. Not in the "scary" way, but in the "I'm not worthy" kind of way. She's convinced herself on some level that Helena has lots better things to do with her time than bother with her.

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Norton Trask
Instead of being intimidated, Jennifer is very, very unimpressed by "Sergei". She's met him only on a couple occasions, and on them, he's managed to make an impression as a colossal jerk to her. He's in the same organization as she is, and she'll back him up the same as she would any other Phoenix member…but she doesn't like him, and she certainly isn't going to spend more time around him than she needs to.

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Teodoro Laudani
He's our leader? Or one of them? Really? Does he have to be? Of all the decisions Helena has made regarding Phoenix, the one to place Teo as her co-leader is the one Jennifer questions most. While he might have skills, he strikes Jennifer as being almost completely UN-leaderly. A leader should inspire, and rally, and have a charisma about them that makes others want to follow them. She wouldn't follow Teodoro to the grocery store. Part of this has been a lack of interaction, but as much or more is a self-perpetuating cycle. She didn't like him much, so when Helena picked him, that made Jennifer dislike him more. Since she dislikes him more, she gets even less inclined to give him a fair shake. It's possible this might be resolved, but the co-leader hasn't seem inclined to give her the time of day, despite the important role she plays in Phoenix's overall supply effort. It annoys her.

Ferrymen

Eve
Grace
Hana
Noah

Friends

Colette

Acquaintances

Abby
Claude
Daniel
Kent
Maria

Enemies

Ethan
Mallory