Jenny was originally designed to be a shape-shifting superhero; her “pigtails” are rocket thrusters, and her entire body can morph and shift to create weapons. Given her standard appearance is more to look like a humanoid girl, it seems reasonable that that’s an appearance she chose, rather than her default, especially because we know she can modify her appearance however she likes, albeit restricted to her two base colors unless she gets a new paint-job.
Though her mother learns to be more supportive of her later on, Jenny was originally confined to house arrest save for doing her job, supposedly because the world around her wouldn’t accept her.
She is canonically six-foot-six, which is rather tall, though it seems the average height of humanity has also gone up. So it’s not too uncommon for other men to be taller than her, but she’s also taller than most people. She has so far only dated other men who are taller than her.
She gains two different disguises for looking human. The first one doesn’t pass at all, while the second passing one convinces her to behave like a normal human girl, whispering into her ear to not only look, but behave like a “normal” girl, even if it’s not in her best interests.
It’s evidently quite common for androids to be made from different base personality points- Kenny, a boy she dated for a little while, was a re-purposed dog robot, and still carried over some of his dog traits.
The two most popular girls in school specifically have it out for her, because she’s a robot “pretending” to be a girl.
Jenny is allowed to play in her high school’s male football team.
Don’t forget this scene:
I’d suspected Jenny was trans coded for a long time, but this scene was what had me 100% convinced.
Prior to this episode Jenny had always treated Ms. Wakeman as her mother, always referring to her as “mom/mother”; which caused Wakeman to be mocked by her peers. Ms. Wakeman was typically cold towards Jenny, always referring to her as XJ9 (essentially Jenny’s deadname) and usually treating her as nothing more than a defence droid. But in this scene Ms. Wakeman is actually seeing Jenny in danger and rushes to protect her, finally calling her “my daughter” for the first time. As soon as she does, the pure joy and amazement in Jenny’s voice just makes my heart swell.
This show is so incredible and SO ahead of it’s time.
Worth noting that the creator of the show acknowledged this, basically saying “We didn’t intend for Jenny to be trans coded, but we’re ecstatic that trans people are finding comfort in her. Just because we didn’t intend the subtext doesn’t mean it’s not there.”
Very cool and way the hell better than Hartman handles shit like this.
they’ve been playing a LOT of 2000’s pop at work lately. I just heard Cupid’s Chokehold by Gym Class Heroes ft. Patrick Stump. I’m vibing but I’m terrified for our economy
Trying to inflict psychic damage to a tumblr user is like trying to irradiate a cockroach, like it can be done, but the lethal dose is not safe for humans either
Besides the point, but you could always try physical damage?
actually now that i’m on season 4 of voyager and watching them essentially unmake seven of nine, severing her contact to the borg and taking away her implants i kinda can’t help but draw parallels to how jadzia reacted when dax was removed from her body and how she panicked from her mind being so quiet. and the way these are treated so differently within each story is so jarring. it’s seen as a stripping of identity when dax is taken from jadzia but when the link to the collective is taken for seven it’s seen as restoring her identity… and yeah the borg are dangerous but having that plurality taken away is painful. for both of them!
what i’m trying to say is a trill would’ve been able to empathize with her better than any other human could and it feels like a missed opportunity for storytelling to not have one on board voyager
just having a trill sit down with seven and explain everything they know about what it must feel like to have company with them all the time, someone or something to confide in and then having it taken away only to have her head filled with silence, missing memories and skills, feeling like a part of you is gone forever… it would’ve been a better approach than janeway’s initial anger and forcefulness even if it didn’t work that’s for certain
imagine how good it must feel to press a gun to your temple after a bad day and just hold it there with your eyes closed for a few minutes before sighing and putting it away
everything american conservatives claim to believe in is a poorly thought out cover for cruelty and eugenics, whether they fully understand that or not. the scariest part is that it seems that this new generation outright embraces it.
