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[series]: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[character]: Jenny Calendar // Janna of the Kalderash clan
[character history / background]: Wiki knows all
[character abilities]: Jenny has crazy computer skills...well, for the 90's. Perhaps less dated is her knowledge of magic. She identifies as a techno-pagan -- she doesn't have the magical strength to qualify as a witch, but she can cast bones, read portents, and cast certain spells with the help of others.
[character personality]:
I know our ways are strange to you, but soon you will join us in the twentieth century, with three whole years to spare.
Jenny is your typical Whedon woman: strong, intelligent, and more than a little bit sassy. She has a bold, brassy attitude and doesn't hesitate to speak her mind, frequently lecturing Giles on his technophobia and outright calling him a "snob" for disdaining computers. She comes on a little strong sometimes, especially with the Watcher. Snark is how she flirts. While Giles is flustered by their heated debates in "I Robot, You Jane," Jenny thrives on them. (In typical Giles manner, he doesn't even realize she's flirting until the very end where she finally makes a blatantly sexual comment. "Well, you really are an old-fashioned boy, aren't you?" "Well, I-I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear." "That's not where I dangle it.") Even when they start going out, she masks her interest in snarky comments. ("Is this a normal strategy for a first date? Dissing my country's national pastime?" "...did you just say...date?" "You noticed that, huh?") She's outgoing and a little bit wild; she spent the summer between season 1 and season 2 at the Burning Man and Black Rock festival, with "drum rituals, mobile sculptures, raves, naked dances," and she is absolutely crazy about sports. She is kind and caring, looking out for Buffy and nurturing Willow, but she is not gentle and sweet. And if you give her attitude, she will give it back tenfold.
Wrong and wrong, snobby. You think the realm of the mystical is limited to ancient texts and relics? That bad old science made the magic go away? The divine exists in cyberspace same as out here.
Jenny is as passionate about technology as Giles is about books. But she is also well-versed in magic and magical lore, and she does not see magic and technology as mutually exclusive. In fact, as a techno-pagan, she sees computers and other forms of modern technology as part of the advancement of magic. She is a member of a cyber-coven, which helps her banish the demon Maloch from the internet, and after Angel loses his soul, she designs a program to translate the book that holds the spell to get it back.
You thought what? You thought you are Jenny Calendar now? You are still Janna of the Kalderash people. A gypsy.
Jenny was not born Jenny Calendar. She was born Janna, a member of the gypsy clan that cursed Angel with the return of his soul. The elders of her tribe sent her to Sunnydale to watch him and ensure that he suffered eternal torment. She is somewhat remiss in this task, in part because the elders did not tell her what the consequence of Angel's happiness would be, and in part because she is more modern than her tribe. Her uncle describes vengeance as a living thing, a master that they must serve, and she does not understand. She tries to reason with him, to prove that Angel can be useful, but her uncle says that they do not serve justice. He is unconcerned with the innocent lives that are lost as a result of the nature of the curse, and that angers Jenny. She is clannish enough to abide by her uncle's commands, but her worldview is broader than theirs.
The Scooby gang believes that Jenny's betrayal is the reason Angel lost his soul, and that they are the ones she betrayed, and she believes it as well. But who Jenny really betrayed -- with the best of intentions -- were her people. It is her compassion for Angel and Buffy, her unwillingness to break Buffy's heart for the sake of her clan's vengeance, that keeps her from fulfilling her promise to make sure that Angel suffers eternally, which leads to the moment of happiness that costs him his soul.
After that, despite the fact that she is now an outcast from the Scooby gang, she works on her own to find a way to return Angel's soul to him. Not so that he can suffer eternal torment for what he did to her clan, but to protect Buffy and Giles and even Angel himself. She wants to spare them the pain of killing him. But Angelus murders her just as she manages to translate the necessary spell.
She is buried as Jennifer Calendar, not Janna, which is fitting. Once Angel lost his soul, she stopped being Janna, a slave to Kalderash vengeance. She dies Jennifer Calendar, a friend to Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Cordelia, and a woman who loves Giles very, very much.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Season 2, episode 17, "Passion," after Angelus kills her.
[character]: Jenny Calendar // Janna of the Kalderash clan
[character history / background]: Wiki knows all
[character abilities]: Jenny has crazy computer skills...well, for the 90's. Perhaps less dated is her knowledge of magic. She identifies as a techno-pagan -- she doesn't have the magical strength to qualify as a witch, but she can cast bones, read portents, and cast certain spells with the help of others.
[character personality]:
I know our ways are strange to you, but soon you will join us in the twentieth century, with three whole years to spare.
Jenny is your typical Whedon woman: strong, intelligent, and more than a little bit sassy. She has a bold, brassy attitude and doesn't hesitate to speak her mind, frequently lecturing Giles on his technophobia and outright calling him a "snob" for disdaining computers. She comes on a little strong sometimes, especially with the Watcher. Snark is how she flirts. While Giles is flustered by their heated debates in "I Robot, You Jane," Jenny thrives on them. (In typical Giles manner, he doesn't even realize she's flirting until the very end where she finally makes a blatantly sexual comment. "Well, you really are an old-fashioned boy, aren't you?" "Well, I-I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear." "That's not where I dangle it.") Even when they start going out, she masks her interest in snarky comments. ("Is this a normal strategy for a first date? Dissing my country's national pastime?" "...did you just say...date?" "You noticed that, huh?") She's outgoing and a little bit wild; she spent the summer between season 1 and season 2 at the Burning Man and Black Rock festival, with "drum rituals, mobile sculptures, raves, naked dances," and she is absolutely crazy about sports. She is kind and caring, looking out for Buffy and nurturing Willow, but she is not gentle and sweet. And if you give her attitude, she will give it back tenfold.
Wrong and wrong, snobby. You think the realm of the mystical is limited to ancient texts and relics? That bad old science made the magic go away? The divine exists in cyberspace same as out here.
Jenny is as passionate about technology as Giles is about books. But she is also well-versed in magic and magical lore, and she does not see magic and technology as mutually exclusive. In fact, as a techno-pagan, she sees computers and other forms of modern technology as part of the advancement of magic. She is a member of a cyber-coven, which helps her banish the demon Maloch from the internet, and after Angel loses his soul, she designs a program to translate the book that holds the spell to get it back.
You thought what? You thought you are Jenny Calendar now? You are still Janna of the Kalderash people. A gypsy.
Jenny was not born Jenny Calendar. She was born Janna, a member of the gypsy clan that cursed Angel with the return of his soul. The elders of her tribe sent her to Sunnydale to watch him and ensure that he suffered eternal torment. She is somewhat remiss in this task, in part because the elders did not tell her what the consequence of Angel's happiness would be, and in part because she is more modern than her tribe. Her uncle describes vengeance as a living thing, a master that they must serve, and she does not understand. She tries to reason with him, to prove that Angel can be useful, but her uncle says that they do not serve justice. He is unconcerned with the innocent lives that are lost as a result of the nature of the curse, and that angers Jenny. She is clannish enough to abide by her uncle's commands, but her worldview is broader than theirs.
The Scooby gang believes that Jenny's betrayal is the reason Angel lost his soul, and that they are the ones she betrayed, and she believes it as well. But who Jenny really betrayed -- with the best of intentions -- were her people. It is her compassion for Angel and Buffy, her unwillingness to break Buffy's heart for the sake of her clan's vengeance, that keeps her from fulfilling her promise to make sure that Angel suffers eternally, which leads to the moment of happiness that costs him his soul.
After that, despite the fact that she is now an outcast from the Scooby gang, she works on her own to find a way to return Angel's soul to him. Not so that he can suffer eternal torment for what he did to her clan, but to protect Buffy and Giles and even Angel himself. She wants to spare them the pain of killing him. But Angelus murders her just as she manages to translate the necessary spell.
She is buried as Jennifer Calendar, not Janna, which is fitting. Once Angel lost his soul, she stopped being Janna, a slave to Kalderash vengeance. She dies Jennifer Calendar, a friend to Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Cordelia, and a woman who loves Giles very, very much.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Season 2, episode 17, "Passion," after Angelus kills her.