Jenny Lumen

Geneviève Lumen, Jenny, to her friends, is a transfer student from one of LLA's associate schools and Setsu-chan's best friend. A long distance runner of regional acclaim, Jenny also reports for the school's paper. Her gossip column has gotten quite popular.

Endlessly helpful and supportive, she’s absolutely behind Setsu’s new interest in all these extracurriculars. She’s helped pick out some handsaws for Setsu’s new woodshop set-up, alongside a pick and rope that are really going to help with uprooting that old tree. Setsu’s a real DIY-er! She just feels so bad that she failed to notice how sleep deprived Setsu was, hopefully those sleeping pills she volunteered to pick up help with her insomnia.

## Extra Info

### Relatives

Henrich Lumen (father)Louise-Marguerite Lumen, née Blanc (mother)

## Appearance

Jenny is a willowy, blue-eyed tree of a girl, with long, blonde hair kept in twin-drills when she's not running late. Due to her frequent lateness, she's often rushing out the door with only one drill intact. There's also this little piece of hair that never stays down no matter what she does.

While technically staying within the bounds of uniform code, Jenny is noticeable on campus due to both her stature and her ramshackle manner of dress. Her stockings are mismatched more often than not and, after years of losing one of her bows, has resolved to tying her hair up with a shoelace. She never quite looks the same two days in a row.

## Personality

A golden retriever in human form. Initially rather shy, recent engagement with her hobbies and Setsu have been drawing her out of her shell. Clumsy mostly due to the world being built for people a foot shorter than she. Smarter than she lets on, it’s served her well working on the school paper, but chooses to see the best in people. She has a very specific blind spot about the size of La Belle France when it comes to Setsu.

She loves running since it's the only time she really feels graceful. Of course, Setsu always cheering her on certainly doesn't hurt.

## Story

An Introverted exchange student de-facto adopted by the extroverted Setsu, Jenny was a bit of a loner and rather unpopular when she came to the school due to her intimidating height. Setsu was the first one to reach out and befriend her and has helped her come out of her shell.

#### NEWSPAPER

Jenny is an 'investigative reporter' for the school's newspaper club. While that amounts to little more than gathering as much gossip as possible and sorting through what might be relevant to the club's current theory, she is incredibly proud of finding a place for herself in the school community.

Honestly, Jenny calling up Setsu to chat about her day, and all the gossip that she’s heard about at school. And Setsu’s so attentive, and always so sincerely interested in what she has to say! Jenny’s glad to answer all of her questions, and if she doesn’t know the answer, she’s dang ready to try to find out! Setsu would do the same for her, she’s sure of it. Heck, Setsu’s a great source for some prime gossip about certain people. And it’s just the type of news she can spread around the grapevine in no time! Honestly, with what Setsu can come up with, maybe the paper should hire them.

#### SWEETHEART

Setsu-chan and Jenny used to be best friends, but after Setsu got her crush she seems to be drifting away. But that's okay! She knows Setsu-chan doesn't mean too! She knows Setsu just cares about her crush a lot! It's okay if she's knocked off. It's okay...it's fine. It's not like she wanted to go shopping. Or look at the animals..It's okay. : )

I really do like her best friend dynamic tho jenny being jealous over sweetheart could add so much drama But I do love the idea of her being so over protective over her best friend aaaaa

Jenny keeps on losing her student ID. Then Setsu-chan can take her Student ID and when she kills a girl leave the ID to frame her

##### (possible outcomes?)

When you get too suspicious, Jenny goes to confront you and its a choice between killing her to protect your image and keep going or letting her tell the truth

What if Jenny helped get info on people, kinda like info chan, but she plays a bigger role.

That would have to go into manipulating to. First convincing her what shes doing isnt wrong and then convincing her to join in on the killing.

If/when Jen finds out, she probably won’t handle it well, and Setsu may find herself suddenly saddle with being friends with “Crazy Jenny” who mutters to herself and draws away from other people than Setsu (can’t trust herself not to accidentally say something that would risk Setsu) and Setsu can decide if the social hit is worth keeping Jenny around.

What if there's a slight chance that you could get enough good reputation in school so that no one believes in what Jenny says so you don't have to kill her? Of course, that would drastically decrease your reputation

So you have to look after your own sanity while making sure jenny wont snap as well

like if the player isn't careful enough then characters might catch on and suspect jenny is behind everything

Jenny just wants to help you fight back against the darkness eating away at you, but eventually decides she has to keep you from getting caught, for both of your sakes. And that eventually becomes more hands on, as Jenny decides “if Setsu gets with Darling, she’ll stop."

One of the outcomes of the ‘talk Jenny out of it’ path ends with her being convinced that you’re uncomfortable with her liking Darling because you have feelings for her. Shenanigans ensue

#### TRIAL

In the case that Setsu gets caught: Those days during the trial where Setsu is not admitting to anything, and Jenny’s convinced it’s a frame-job, because Setsu has so much good in her life right now, she has hobbies, she’s far too busy to do any of this horrible stuff she’s been accused of! And she’s pretty sure she was with Setsu on the day of a few of the murders, see, it’s right there on her calendar. What do you mean does Setsu have access to her phone? Of course silly, She's her best friend, hell, Setsu helped her set the password and helps keep her schedule up to date.

Jenny, realizing Setsu-chan never cared for her at all when getting convicted

## Relationships

#### Setsuna Haichi:

One of Jenny's first and and only friends at LLA, Setsu-chan has proven herself supportive and reliable despite Jenny's shyness and, at the time, status as a social outcast. That, along with a burgeoning Big Gay Crush™, has earned Setsu a energetic, if consistently tardy, best friend. Setsu’s just so thoughtful, she keeps bandages and extra shoelace on hand for whenever Jen has a bad day with her uniform or whatever. For Jenny, everything is serious and Setsuna is the one person she can take a break around, who she can trust implicitly, and who she can vibe with on the journey. One thing they've bonded over is crime dramas and murder mysteries. There's nothing quite like sitting in a tree making death plans and rioting with your bestie. Jenny assumes all of Setsu’s questions are, like, hypotheticals or testing her knowledge when they debate about what’s possible. Sometimes she makes points and Jenny just has to believe her.

Setsuna often takes advantage of Jenny's endless support of her new trend of 'hobbies', using Jenny's ability to provide a half decent alibi or to spread gossip for her own ends in pursuing her Sweetheart.

Jenny would follow Setsu to the ends of the earth. Should she find out about Setsu's crimes, she still can't bring herself to hate her, instead trying to get her help and control her darker instincts.

## Quotes

* "Oh, you’re into carpentry now? Along with human anatomy and crime documentaries? Awww you’re so multi-talented! Just be sure to get some sleep and stay hydrated!"
* "Hey, Setsu-chan! I got the shovel you were asking for! I can't believe you're doing landscaping by yourself... You sure you don't want my help? ...No? All right, I'll see you at school!"
* “Oh, did you finally finish working on that garden? I’m so proud of you, Setsu! What’s that? You’re right! You really should look into getting some grubby clothes that you can ruin, want to go shopping later? Of course we can pick up some bleach, I know how much of a clean freak you are.”
* [if Setsuna tries to pin the blame on her] “I don’t think I did... but Setsu wouldn’t lie about something silly like that.”
* [if blamed for something more serious] “Setsuna, if you wanted my help, you have it. What’s actually going on? Oh, you need a little space? Well, I can help cover for you if you need to be alone for a bit. Just let me know and I’ll say you’re with me.”
* “Oh, that’s fine Setsu! I know you’re busy, but since you asked so nicely, sure you can borrow my press pass. Just be sure to send me a copy of your notes.”
* "Setsu’s used to my being late, but she’s so patient. She’s even lent me one of her knives to keep at school for my bread! She’s so thoughtful.”
* [if Setsuna says they'll change their ways] “You just have to work at it Setsu, and I know you can deal with this darkness in you. I’ll be your lighthouse! But not constantly spinning, I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it... Say, what did you say this tea was again?”
* [regarding her Big Gay Crush™] “Well, Setsu clearly knows about it, but she’s so gracious, and never bring’s it up. I’m sure she just doesn’t want me to feel bad, she’s even offered to help find me a date to the upcoming dance! She’s really good at writing notes, she even offered to write one for me if I’m too nervous, I just don’t know how she got so good at copying my handwriting.”
* “Gosh, and she’s a good cook, offering to bake cupcakes for the newspaper's new members. And she even offered to bake me something else just so I don’t feel bad about *not eating the cupcakes no matter what*. What a dear.”
* [about Setsuna's extensive knowledge of true crime content] “Setsu has a certain Je ne sais quoi whenever she’s passionate about something like this.”
* “Sweetheart is always so patient with me! I think I really like them. Maybe even *like-like* them..."
* "I have a perfect internal clock, I'm just struggling with winding it."

## Trivia

* Owns a pet lizard, which serves as her most trusted confidant, as well as a stuffed lizard. She sometimes confuses the two but loves them both dearly. Often abruptly takes off in the middle of a conversation/class because she forgot to feed it with Setsu-chan tagging along (how nice!)
* Carries around a milk crate in case Setsu-chan ever needs a height boost.
* Loves the colour blue.
* Her hair-bow was a gift from Setsuna.
* Doesn't believe in Giraffes.
* Wears a size 13, mens shoe.
* Has a distant claim to the Orléanist throne.
* She's the game’s measurement for how screwed you are. If she notices you are actually a criminal, you are destined for a gameover.
* LL Crack, vol 7: Jenny has in fact been dead for twenty years, after taking a shot-put to the head at a track meet. however, she never noticed, and death hasn’t been able to bring itself tell her, amazed at how she still manages to oversleep even after death.
* She's the type to just bring the loaf of bread, not enough time for toast.
* LL DLC: Jenny route- It's just Setsuna trying to impress Jenny and Jenny being so confused but happily supporting her without realizing she's trying to flirt.
* Never learned to double knot her shoelaces so her shoes are always untied. Setsuna happens to be very skilled with knots, but the lessons never stuck so she just ties her shoes for her.
* Has a little garden of Rosary peas she planted with Setsuna. Really expanding her horizons... the fact that the seeds are incredibly poisonous is beside the point.
* Despite living in Japan for months, she still hasn't quite adjusted to the 7 hour time difference between France and Japan.

## **Credits**

Red Velvet, character concept.

Piette, Character art.

AMiRiTE?, Compilation and editing.