Character:Jenny

Jenny (a main Character in Peritia)

née Henry Jones (adopted Jenny at 13 years old, legally changed it at 18), born on 1991 (38 years old), pronouns she/her, cooking, art, of Australian-English background.
A Problem: insecurity
A Want: be loved and appreciated

A Need: intimacy

Jenny

Personality

• Insecure: about her appearance; lacks self confidence; lacks financial recognition; lacks constancy
• Impulsive: goes with the flow
• Clumsy: she's not aware of her strength and body size
• Contradictory: wants to be accepted for who she presents herself; needs to accept herself for who she is
• Vegetarian: has been for 10 years, but thinks she needs some animal products protein for her anaemia
• Temperamental: has ups and downs hormonally; feels apprehension towards group therapy
• Rebellious: she questions everything she has learnt to be true; believes strongly that everything we learn is a construction for economical interests

Struggles

• sometimes depressed
• cyclothymic
• reluctant to engage intimately
• not care for "family values"
• easily frustrated
• egocentric

Source of pain

• wants people to accept her, but fails to define her true self
• feels very strongly that gender is a construction, although she perceives herself as a woman
• she's afraid of discrimination, and being ridiculed
• overthinks

Needs

• ACCEPTANCE: of self, of circumstances, of reality
• FAITH: in oneself, in others, in the world, in God
• TRUST: in oneself, in others, in the unknown
• SELFLESSNESS: including sacrifice, altruism, heroism, and overcoming greed
• RESPONSIBILITY: including duty, standing up for a cause, accepting one’s destiny
• REDEMPTION: including atonement, accepting blame, remorse, and salvation

Wants

Wants to be loved and appreciated.

• wants to find someone to love her exactly for who she is
• wants to nurture, take care and teach kids about love and empathy, and self-worth
• wants recognition for her vocation
• wants to make fun, safe and playful ways to bond with kids and help them build up their self esteem

In pursuit of her goal (become a real child), she's been actively:

• she has been attending meditation classes to work on her impulsiveness
• she managed to get a group of 25 children on her cooking class
• she's also giving a sculpture workshop for young kids, to work on their perception of their own bodies

Roadblocks to achieving their goal:

• she's got the interest of a suitable man, but he doesn't know about her past
• she's a feminist, who questions the role of women, but feels strongly about motherhood
• her family rejected her, so she carries a lot of emotional weight

Desires

Being a mother.

Background

• born Henry Jones
• cooking teacher, sculpture teacher
• 38 years old (born the 9th of October 1991)
• she identified as a girl but her brothers and father were in denial
• in the summer of 2004 Henry caught Jenny wearing her mother's clothes, beat her up and threw her out of the house; her 3 older brothers couldn't even look at her dressed like that, so she went away without ever looking back
• she spent a couple of nights wandering the streets when she was found by her new mother (Cassandra) who fed and clothed her, and took her in; Jenny introduced herself to Cassandra with that name instead of Henry
• legally changed her name to Jenny Jones when she turned 18
• she was not able to finish high school, but started learning art instead, with her mother's friends and teachers; she eventually got an apartment in Darlinghurst that she could pay for while selling take-away dinners.
• in 2027 Cassandra passed away in a public hospital for a lung infection; Jenny believes she was neglected by the hospital staff, who discriminated her for being poor and transgender; after that event, Jenny decided to go off the grid: there was no one left for her in the city

Family

• from Australian (English) descent
• three older brothers
• her mother, Mia Wilson, was a homemaker who married young (19) and had 4 children before turning 30; she always wanted a daughter, and died while pregnant with Jenny (she was born premature at 5 months)
• her father, Henry Jones, a famous surgeon, never really recovered from Mia's death; Jenny would always ask her father about her, but he could not talk much about her without breaking down

Appearance

Sketches

Research

• Jones surname
• General details: Darlinghurst Mardi Gras