Jennifer Daniels (Earth-30)

**Friends**
Jinx
Elektra
Night Surfer
Hendrix Shays
Citizen V
Nosferatu
The Alchemist

The head of the Daniels Family, **Jennifer Daniels** is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and an incredible investigator. Born in Walnut, California, Jennifer would make the move to Vegas after high school to enroll into UNLV for journalism. It was during this time that Jennifer would accidentally encounter **Dakari Onasi** and **Connor Carter** who was there to present an award. The three would have a brief interaction and thereafter, Jennifer would meet Dakari's partner, Dr. Daniels. Seeing a chemistry, Dakari orchestrated dinner plans with all of them but Connor and Dakari backed out at the last second to allow for their friend to have a chance at love. The two would marry after Jennifer graduated with Connor being Dr. Daniels' best man. Jennifer would begin to work at the local Las Vegas newspaper, Las Vegas Sun and transform it from being a rag to a respectable newspaper. However, Jennifer would become pregnant, forcing her to step down from her journalist position. Sadly, Dr. Daniels would disappear the day her son, **Shay Daniels** was born and she was forced to raise him by herself.

Later, however, Jennifer would meet a detective on one of her cases, **Patrick Knight**, and the two would fall in love a few years later. When Shay turned sixteen, Jennifer was present to see the giant spider and was horrified that her ex-husbands work was revealed to be real but she refused to talk about it to anyone. Though, it was this choice that led to her believing that it was her fault that Patrick died as he was investigating the night the Zinchari Spider occurred. At this point, she would begin to work at **Dawn FM** as an investigative journalist. However, a year later, Jennifer would come to blame Shay for Patrick's death after she discovered that he was Tarantula and this completely estranged their relationship and forcing her to return to Las Vegas Sun, becoming the Editor-in-Chief.

Recently, Jennifer would find herself embroiled with the Superhuman Extinction Bill that **SHIELD** had been trying to pass. She would write a story that detailed out her life as the mother of Tarantula but refused to publish it after being visited by Dakari who asked as a personal favor. Still resenting Shay, Jennifer reluctantly agreed and deleted the story. However, she would discover later that things had changed as her life became more confusing with the return of **Jane Harper**. Determined to figure out what was happening in her son's life, Jennifer would begin to investigate Shay, not as a mother but as a reporter. Estranging their relationship to the point of beyond repair.

## **Attributes**

### **Abilities**

* **Investigative Journalism**: Jennifer is a highly skillful, sought-out journalist that is often considered to be one of the best in the field. She has shown to be able to write up entire front pages in a few hours and discover facts that are even the most hidden. She discovered that Connor Carter was Citizen V after she learned of both Shay and Ren's abilities, then was able to deduce who was **Jane's father** after she returned to their lives, even going so far to create a theory that linked Jane to the **urban myths** in Manhattan. After discovering her son's secret, Jennifer began to track all of the villains Shay had ever fought, gaining profiles on them as she was interested into why they were villains and why they were attacking Vegas. She even went so far as to create a file on Shay, keeping track of his movements. While Ren claims that it might be because she loves him still, Jennifer has stated that she did it because Shay is news. However, these files don't stop at villains or Shay either, she has files on most superhumans in Vegas with the notable exception being Hendrix as there is nothing about him in this time period (her present, his past).

### **Weaknesses**

* **Alcohol Addition**: Jennifer used to be a casual drinker, but after the death of her **Patrick Knight**, she developed an alcohol use disorder to the point that she was often belligerent behind closed doors. Her drinking led to her kicking out Shay and straining her relationship with him and Jordan Knight. She drinks constantly and heavily, often finishing numerous bottles a day. Her drinking was the sole cause of her outrage when she discovered that Shay had powers. Whereas under any other circumstance, Jennifer would've reacted rationally and been proud of her son, her grief and drunken stupor led to her becoming hateful and lashing out at Shay for her rage at the world rather than her actual son.

## **Trivia**

* It is hard to state if Jennifer still loves Shay. While on the surface, Shay is her son and she will always love him but it goes deeper than that. First, Shay lied to her for two years about his abilities. Second, Shay could have saved Patrick but refused to use his powers which led to him being too slow to save Patrick. Third, Shay didn't stop being Tarantula after she begged him too. While the previous statement is true about how she will always love him, Jennifer has also stated that their relationship is beyond fixing and that she doesn't see Shay as her son fully anymore.
* Her relationship with Shay has bled over into her relationship with Jordan as Jordan actively defends Shay and his actions while Jennifer condemns them. This led to an argument where Jordan moved away from Las Vegas, ending up in Phoenix because of her treatment of Shay and also for other factors.

## **References**

1. ↑ Torment
2. ↑ And On The Day You Were Born...
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mythos
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Birds
5. ↑ Operation: Zero Tolerance
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 I Might Be Wrong