One sentence description:

If you're curious as to whomst I'm picturing as each character, please refer to the 'cover pic' of their story. I'm shit at giving vivid physical descriptions -but I swear I'm trying to get better, I really am- so the cover photo being the OC in question (and maybe their pairing partner if I can figure out the finer points of graphic design just enough to slap a cover together) is what made most sense for me to do.

Ages & Backstory may have been toyed with here to make things fit and flow as cohesively as humanly possible. Sorry up front if this bothers anyone. *It should be noted that Jenny Martin is a 'crossover' character. She's the daughter of Tad Martin and Krystal Carey-Martin from All My Children. This is just my own little take on a potential story for her. Also, Jenny has been aged way up (to 25) and Michael has been kept at age 25.*

General

Full Name: Jennifer Colby Carey-Martin

Reason for name: She was named after her late aunt Jennifer Gardner.

Nickname: Jenny, Jen.

Reason for nickname: Shortened versions of her first name.

Age: 25

Gender:Female

Place of Birth: Pine Valley, Pennsylvania

Birthday: April 11

Currently living in: Port Charles, NY

Species/Race:Human

Ethnicity: N/A

Blood Type: N/A

Occupation:

Sexual Orientation:Straight

Social Status:N/A

Relationship Status: Single

Status: N/A

Appearance

Body Build: Athletic

Height: 5'2

Weight: N/A

Skin colour: Fair with pink undertones

Hair style: Jenny's hair goes all the way down her back and the texture is wavy. When she's working, she typically braids it in loose and messy braids or piles it in a messy bun on top of her head. She has wispy bangs that frame her face and hit at just below cheekbone level.

Hair colour: Red

Eye colour: Brown

Distinguishing Features: Her hair is definitely an attention grabber.

Preferred Clothing: Casual. She's kind of a throw it on and go kind of girl. Jeans, tee shirts, sneakers, the occasional baseball cap.

Accessories: Her phone and Apple watch. Reading glasses. A gold locket that Tad gave her for her 16th birthday. Tattoos on her right inner wrist, the back of her ear and her left shoulder. A small gold stud in her right nostril as well as a septum piercing. Multiple ear piercings. She keeps the jewelry in all of these piercings on the smaller side, tbh.

Health

General health: Good aside from migraines and allergies, to be honest.

Posture: Slouchy. So slouchy.

Any physical illnesses?: Nope.

Any mental illnesses?: Nope.

Take drugs?: Never has, never has wanted to, either.

Smoke?: Cigarettes and only when she's been drinking a lot. She smoked as a teenager, but she quit when she started college.

Mental/Emotional State

Archetype: N/A

Mental age: 20's. She is her age mentally. Maybe a little older on occasion.

Act before thinking/Think before acting?: Depends on the situation. Most of the time, it's act before thinking. She is learning to go with her gut before anything/anyone else. If her gut tells her to act on something, she acts. Or she's starting to, at least.

Emotion-wise, generally:N/A

Conversation

Way of speaking: Clear and well spoken. Softer tone to her voice that's been mistaken as flirtatious on more than one occasion.

Common conversation starter: A random question like "What time is it?" or "Do you know where X thing/place/person is?". She's not a big talker, tbh.

Swears?: When she's angry, panicked, irritated or tense and worried.

Made-up words?: She's been known to forget a word and make up another one on the fly, lmao.

Made-up language?: Nope.

Likes/Dislikes

Likes:

Chocolate chip pancakes

Coffee

Procedural crime dramas

True Crime documentaries

Spending time with family and friends

Volleyball

Soccer

Hockey

Being outdoors

Long car rides

Rollercoasters

Reading

Listening to music

Dislikes:

Cruelty of any kind

Lying to get your own way

Long lines

People who beat around the bush and don't just get right down to what they want.

Mud between her toes

Losing track of her keys, wallet, phone or glasses.

Waking up late

Pink in any shade.

People who push their own beliefs or agenda

Not having the last word in an argument.

Arguing with her father and mother. She loves them way too much but it does happen and she hates it when it does.

Extreme cold.

Hobbies

Lazy weekends in bed with whatever true crime documentary or podcast she can find. She's learning how to cook but she already knows how to barbecue. Going on early morning jogs. Working out at the gym. Going to the gun range. Reading, especially if it's a mystery or suspense and action type book. Watching movies. Playing pool and darts down at The Floating Rib. Going to sporting events. Playing cards.

Habits

N/A.

Strengths/Weaknesses

Strengths:

Calm and clear-headed

Intelligent

Detail oriented

Family oriented

Reliable

Nurturing

Protective

Compassionate

Strong sense of what she feels is right and wrong.

Hard working

Good sense of humor

Friendly

Affectionate

Weakness:

Impatient

Sarcastic

Spontaneous, acts/speaks before she thinks.

Blunt

In the past, she tended to ignore her gut. It's a flaw she's working on.

Easily annoyed

Reckless when she feels she has to be

Strong willed

Petty

Skills/Abilities

Gun proficiency. Intelligent. Maternal.

Education/Intelligence

Education: College graduate, certified in Crime Scene is working on becoming a Medical Examiner but this is going to take quite a bit more time to complete. Has a degree in Forensic Science. Completed police academy.

IQ: N/A

EQ: N/A

Secrets

Has met Michael before. While Michael and Kristina were on the run, they passed through Pine Valley briefly. Jenny actually hustled Michael in a game of pool at her mother's diner. She kind of lowkey got herself a little crush on the guy, but she kind of shoved it to the backburner because he was just passing through. She just doesn't bring it up now because she assumes that Michael's pretty much forgotten all about the few days they hung out as teenagers.

Fears

Black water.

Small spaces

Spiders

Clowns

Jump scares

Being trapped in a burning house with no way out.

Dreams/Goals

She's already living her dream, tbh. She's just always wanted to be a CSI, so that's what she did.

Views/Opinions on...

Government: It's an annoying and never-ending power struggle. The sooner they pass laws to get some of the 'old heads' in charge out of the way, the better off we'll all be.

Religion: Lapsed. She believes, but she's not shoving her beliefs down anyone's throat and she knows that she's pretty far from a good example.

Economy: It's totally fucked. It's a good reason she hasn't given being a mother too much thought.

Technology: Must have it. If she didn't have her phone, she'd never remember anything because she literally stores every important date, grocery lists, etc, on her phone.

Favourites

Food: Double cheeseburger with bacon, loaded. Chili cheese fries. Funnel cake. Caramel apples. Apple rings.

Colour: Black or Red.

Animal: All

Number: N/A

Holiday: Christmas

Season: Winter

Time of day: Sunset

Thing to watch: N/A

Movie: Die Hard series, Rambo series, Mission Impossible series, The Bourne series, Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor

Show: Procedural crime dramas (think CSI, NCIS, Law & Order) or true crime documentaries / podcasts

Type of art: All

Genre of music: Classic rock, grunge

Genre of literature: Suspense / Drama

Genre of shows: Procedural or true crime

Genre of movies: Action and Suspense

History

Jenny Martin was born on April 11th to Krystal Carey, who believed at the time that Jenny was the biological daughter of Adam Chandler. At first, Krystal was doing the single mom thing, raising Jenny all by herself while fighting a nasty custody battle with Adam until it was proven that Tad Martin, a former lover, was biologically Jenny's father. Tad and Krystal got back together and shortly after, got married.

Jenny was always a curious kid, she enjoyed puzzles and mysteries. She loved going into the office with her father whenever he'd be working on a case for someone. From an early age she's just always sort of known that she wanted to work in law enforcement. It hasn't ever really wavered at any point in her life. Outgoing, Jenny made friends easily and her best friend became Leora Heyward, the daughter of her mother's ex husband, David. The two were like night and day but it didn't matter at all. More often than not, if you found one girl, you found the other. Jenny's interest in science and sports did make her a bit of a target among some of the more stuck up girls in her grade, but it always just seemed to roll off her back for the most part. Now, if someone were to mess with her uncle A or Leora or anyone else she cared about, they were quick to learn that her hands were rated E for everyone. Krystal had to go down to the school and pick up Jenny on more than one occasion because a verbal confrontation turned physical, but Jenny never actually started any of the fights. She had no problem finishing them, though. As a teenager, Jenny took an after school job as a waitress at her mother's re-opened diner, The Comeback. The locals liked to come in and banter back and forth with her and briefly, she toyed with the idea of taking over when her mom was old. But she knew in her heart that she wanted to work in Forensics.

The summer she turned 17, she was working at the diner as usual. Leora was occupying her usual corner booth, sprawled across it's red leather seat with a strawberry milkshake in her hand and an open Cosmopolitan in front of her when the teenagers from out of town wandered in. This is the day that Jenny Martin officially met Michael Corinthos III of Port Charles, New York as well as his sister Kristina. Jenny led the two to a booth and grabbed them some menus. From the back, Krystal eyed the pair in the booth and when Jenny wandered over to give her mother their order, Krystal asked if she or Leora knew them. When Jenny said she'd never met the guy before in her life, Krystal teased her daughter gently, "He's doin' an awful lot of starin', baby girl." A flustered Jenny returns to their table ten minutes later with the food that Michael and Kristina had ordered. She's about to drop something but Michael jumps up and helps her steady the tray she'd been balancing. They kind of stare at each other. Kristina leaves to go to the bathroom and while she's gone, Michael tells Jenny to sit and rest. Tells her that he's seen her working her ass off, she desrves a break. Jenny kind of laughs it off and nods to the sports car parked outside, asks if it's his. He gives a vague answer about it and Jenny kind of side-eyes him. Michael and Kristina wind up spending a few days in Pine Valley due to weather, and during these few days, Michael seems to seek Jenny out, even going bowling and to the arcade with Jenny and Leora. Michael becomes Jenny's first actual 'crush' and when he leaves town at the end of the week when the weather's better, Jenny kind of catches him as he's packing up the convertible and climbs him like a tree to kiss him. After he leaves, Jenny just kind of pushes the whole thing to the back of her mind, because it's silly. Who gets that hung up on someone they only know for a few days anyway.

Time marches on and Jenny graduates from high school with Leora the next year. This is where Leora and Jenny go their separate ways, with Jenny off to college and police academy and Leora heading off to take a gap year, backpacking and traveling. Jenny buckles down and despite both parents pleading with her not to do it, she graduates from college and goes straight into police academy. She and Leora keep in touch frequently and visit as often as they can. By now, Leora is going to cosmetology school, even though her father David is pushing for her to go to medical school or something more stable. Leora winds up getting hired as a makeup and special effects artist on some indie horror movie series and this launches her career, so whenever Jenny and Leora do talk now, it's a little farther in between. Jenny's settling into life, she gets herself an apartment and takes herself a job at Pine Valley Police Department. Jenny begins dating former bad boy of her graduating class, Jeremy Carver (Cole Sprouse for visuals) when they reconnect during a night out with mutual friends. The two click from the word go and it's definitely against both Tad and Krystal's wishes. Jeremy seems to have changed from the way he'd been during high school (from outward appearances) so Jenny insists that he's not a bad guy. And she keeps insisting this until she gets called to a scene and she runs prints and they come back belonging to him. Faced with the conflict of what she did with what she knew, she decided ultimately that she wasn't willing to risk her career to save his ass. She turns over the prints and Jeremy is arrested for the murder of his dealer, Devon. After this, Jenny pretty much decides that maybe her radar for men isn't the best and she doesn't try dating again, she just buries herself in her job and spending time with her family.

Leora calls her and invites her to come up to Port Charles, telling her that "she needs a break". Jenny has a week of vacation that she has to use, so she decides on a whim to go visit her best friend in Port Charles. And who does she run into but Michael Quartermaine? Except he doesn't seem to remember her (He does, he's just assuming she'd never remember him), so Jenny doesn't really let on that they've met before. They reconnect as friends, which of course, makes his present girlfriend Nelle angrier than hell and start doing whatever she can to interfere with the friendship. As Jenny's leaving to return to Pine Valley, Michael gets her number and she gets his number, even though she firmly believes that she's not likely to hear from him given the fact that he's engaged with a kid on the way.

Jenny gets involved with a guy named Billy McTavish ( for visuals, picture Aaron Taylor Johnson) and at first, things seem to be going great. They decide to move into their own little apartment in Pine Valley and there's even talk of marriage in the future. Billy wants her to give up her work at the station. Jenny does it, even though she doesn't want to and the decision feels all wrong somehow. She and Billy move to Benson Hurst when Billy gets offered a chance to take over a garage that belonged to his uncle Ray. They settle into life together and everything seems to be going well.

And then, suddenly, it isn't. Billy starts to slip, bits of his true colors peeking through. Jenny begins to question her decision to uproot and give up her job. She's just not getting a good feeling at all. Billy's behavior starts to worsen, they're fighting all the time and Billy's spending everything he makes but refuses to say where. Jenny threatens to leave and either return to Pine Valley or move in with her best friend Leora who lives in nearby Port Charles. Billy's infuriated by this and the altercation that follows is one that's scary enough that Jenny does leave town for a few days, spending it with Leora in Port Charles. Billy shows up apologetic and he's saying and doing all the right things and Jenny ignores her gut feeling a second time and lets him talk her into returning to Benson Hurst with him.

Things seem to get better for a while. Billy makes a concentrated effort to change. Jenny settles into her new life and Billy surprises her with an engagement ring on their anniversary. Jenny accepts his proposal and the two are happy and it seems as if their big scary fight was just a one time thing. The death of Billy's uncle Ray puts Billy in a position to take over the garage completely. Billy starts to 'always have extra money' and he's working crazier hours, Jenny puts it off to Billy's plans to expand his uncle's business, though Billy never specifically told her how he intended to go about doing so. They're even able to buy a house just outside of Benson-Hurst in a quiet little suburb. Even as all this is happening, something deep down inside Jenny is still nagging at her, telling her that it all feels too good to be true. The weekend before the engagement party, Jenny decides to return to Pine Valley, with the intention of telling her parents that Billy had proposed and she'd accepted. She sits her parents down, as well as her stepmother, and she explains it all to them. They seem okay with it, maybe a little concerned that she's so young and wants to do this when she's spent a lifetime planning on becoming a crime scene investigator and they try to point out to her that maybe she needs to slow down and actually give the decision some thought. Jenny tells them she's made up her mind and asks them if they're going to support her decision or not. Her parents agree, but as she's leaving, Krystal calls her into her room to talk and tells her that Leora called the night that Jenny and Billy had their confrontation and she went to go and stay with Leora. "She's worried about you, hun. So am I, truth be told. Something's always rubbed me all sorts of wrong about that guy. But you're my baby girl and I love you, so if this makes you happy…"

Jenny returns to Benson-Hurst. She's in the process of planning the wedding and as this is happening, the cops are closing in on Billy's car theft ring and chop shop operation. One day, Jenny's coming back to their house from an afternoon in Port Charles, visiting Leora and shopping for dresses and she's approached by Dante Falconeri, a man she recognizes from her infrequent trips to Port Charles to visit Leora. He takes her to a coffee shop and sits her down, explains in detail everything Billy's gotten himself caught up in and he then reveals that Billy was a suspect in the disappearance of his last girlfriend. None of this was anything Jenny was aware of previously and seeing it all there in front of her, in black and white, she's disgusted with herself. She feels betrayed. She's starting to realize there are reasons he always has money, pulls crazy hours and raises hell every single time she even breathes a word about returning to work. She also realizes that he may well have been love-bombing her this whole time to lull her into a false sense of security and that proposing to her may have been his way of making sure that even if she did ever learn the truth about him, she couldn't ever testify to it in court. Dante tells her that cops have already been inside the house and placed wire taps and bugs and he tries to appeal to her to get out of the situation while she still can. As she leaves the diner, the conversation with Detective Falconeri is weighing heavily on her mind and she's shell-shocked.

Billy's working in the home office two days later and he finds one of the wire taps. If Jenny thought she was scared before when they fought, it's ten times as bad this time around. He shows her an entirely new and truth be told, nastier side of himself, threatening that if she's the one who placed the wire there, he'll make her disappear. He kind of hints that he's done it before. Jenny's the kind who gets mouthy when she's freaking out, so she decides to throw everything she knows about him in his face. Billy's already paranoid so in his mind, this only cements the belief that Jenny had something to do with the wires. They fight, Jenny gets away and runs into their room to lock the door and grab her things so she can leave. When she tries to leave the room, Billy's got her trapped. She calls 911 dispatch and the operator informs her that officers are already en route. A few minutes later, just as the fire Billy set before leaving Jenny trapped in their bedroom starts to spread, the fire department and a few local police arrive and Jenny manages to kick the door and ram it enough that the door flies open and Jenny starts to work her way out of the burning house, a bandana over her mouth. Dante is with the locals making the arrest and he convinces her to get checked out by an EMT for smoke inhalation damage. As she passes by the cop car, she spots Billy sitting in the back. He mouths that he's going to get even with her, one way or another and she flips him off.

Jenny calls her parents and tells them everything, telling them they were right about Billy and she's glad everything came out before she actually went through with marrying the guy. When Tad asks her what she plans to do now, she remembers Leora's not so subtle hints from earlier in the week about another potential job opening at Port Charles Police Department and she tells them that she wants to come home for a week or two and then she's going to apply to work in the Forensics department at PCPD.

Presently, Jenny's just starting to settle into life in Port Charles. She's just started working at PCPD recently and she's kind of starting to build a solid friendship with Michael Quartermaine, who is still trying to work through similar bad luck in the love department on his end of things while raising his son Wiley as a single father.

Personality

N/A. Please refer to strengths and weaknesses. These sum her up so much better than I ever possibly could in a paragraph.

Relationships

Family: Tad Martin and Krystal Carey Martin, parents. Dixie Martin, Step mother. Damon Miller, Jamie Martin, Babe Carey and Marisa Tasker, Kathy Martin, half siblings.

Love interest: Michael Quartermaine

Friends/Allies: Leora Devane is her best and closest friend.

Enemies: If she doesn't like you, she doesn't waste the time to think about you, tbh.

Quotes

N/A

Trivia

N/A