Jennifer Carmichael was a girl that was never meant to be - she was the unborn daughter of Warren Carmichael in the prime reality, who died when Alpha Cheryl, while fighting a Ridarium, crushed the woman he loved while she was pregnant with Jennifer. However, when the multiverse was recreated, an accident occurred when a Reality Jumping Light Engine was tested, and Jennifer was ripped from a reality in which she did survive. Unable to go back home, Jennifer set up a life in the heroes' reality, attempting to adjust to a father who had never raised her.
Desiring to enter the military, like her father, Jennifer has constantly pushed herself in her studies and academics. After Warren died, and General Gordon Paladin took over, he allowed her to work on base to get academic credits for the military. So far Jennifer has struggled with achieving her goal, and with the current multiverse crisis, she has decided her place is fighting for every reality out there. She has so far suffered injuries, including having her hand torn off by the monster Legion at one point.
After the death of her father, an agent known only as Natalie, or codenamed SPoC, agreed to be her Guardian and help raise her until she was old enough to be in the military. This relationship ended when Ben was kidnapped by the forces who took the Prime Reality's crystal, Jennifer, acting on a personal promise to her brother, chose to go to other realities to find him. They parted ways, Jennifer heading off to new realities while SPoC chose to stay behind. She took up training with John McCormick, a relationship which went awry when they became lovers and then eventually split apart, culminating in Jennifer's failure to place her life on the line when John needed her the most.
Jennifer spent a large amount of time on the reality team struggling with her own internal demons and vices. Eventually needing a Philosopher's stone to escape death by the Spear of Loginus, Jennifer suffered from rapid de-aging during the mission and was taken to the enemy reality by Ben, fully grown and working for the opposite team. There, Jennifer made the worst of decisions in hopes of a better result, betraying the team after she was aged to 23 years and given a new Philosopher Stone. Her betrayal cost her dearly, only spared from the team's wrath by Christopher Kane, his motivations not entirely clear, but his relationship to her being the only other survivor of their reality. Jennifer now seeks to make herself into a better person, to work past her emotional scars and to make up for her mistakes with every day she lives on.
During the Book of Revelations incident, Jennifer was kidnapped along with Athena by the Legacy forces, as an experiment she was impregnated by an undead Scar, and forced through a rapid pregnancy and birthing, only to have the child killed in order to provide a cure to the zombie infestation and to cure those of the team that had become infected. Jennifer has taken the events hard, but she has in response thrown herself headlong into her work as well as taking a large interest in genetics as her specialization for practice.
With the end of their tentative term, Carter was made head of medical over Jennifer. Given the choice to either return to Cheryl's unit as the team doctor at a steady payrate or to remain under Carter's command at a lower pay, but within the living space of Athena, whom she considers a sister, Jennifer made a choice. That choice was to remain with Athena and the PAX team, giving up her chance to return for the new family she had built up. Jennifer has broken out of her shell, devoting much of her time to supporting the work that Athena started, including her idol efforts and the school, as well as running a clinic for poor children in her spare time.
Jennifer spends her day as Athena's toy and a doctor. |