Jeanette Linden

Name: Jeanette Linden Age: 58

Appearance

A tall, handsome woman who looks like she’s perpetually on her way to or from a meeting. Long, straight white-blonde hair she always keeps neatly pulled back. Sharp, no-nonsense features. Forced grins are frequent, but her face softens when she’s tired or genuinely smiling. She’s in good shape for her age, a fact she’s quietly proud of. You can tell she’s a futa if you know what to look for, but she dresses to keep that private. Clothing: Lives in professional wear. Crisp blazers, tailored trousers, sensible heels. She feels undressed and vulnerable in casual clothes, so even on a Saturday you’ll find her in a pressed blouse. Lifestyle: Mid-level account manager with an irritatingly long commute into the city. She does it to stay close to her parents, Walter and Eleanor, and to Flora “just in case.” Her life is a closed loop: work, managing her parents’ house, trying (and failing) to connect with Flora, then doing it all over again. Like most boomers, overshares every little event on Facebook. Her social life is her small circle of married friends who think she's a widow (nonexistent dead husband: Mark Neville, supposedly died in a car crash while she was pregnant with Flora). Mind: Profoundly lonely, but she’d call it “busy.” Tries to get her attention fix on social media, but it's never enough. She sees her choice to have Flora as a logical, if tragic, solution to wanting a family. She can’t understand why Flora sees it as a selfish act. She wants gratitude, sure, but more than that she wants her daughter to need her again. Her hermaphroditism is "third date information" -- not a total secret, but when Flora calls her "Parent" it feels like she’s screaming "HEY, BIOLOGICALLY JEANETTE IS BOTH MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER!"

Personality

Comes off as competent, in control, but egocentric. She wants attention, and she’s very performative, but it all comes from a place of deep-seated neediness and a lack of affection in her own life. In private, when her guard is down, she’s a softie who desperately wants to be cuddled and told she’s done a good job. She is physically affectionate by nature, but has no outlet for it, which just makes her more tightly wound. She'd cry if you pointed this out to her.

Background

Had Flora by herself at 35 because the loneliness was crushing and she figured the genetic risks of self-impregnation were overblown. She assumed Flora would be genetically identical to her. In reality, Flora's genes are "What if Jeanette was inbred?" (Flora uses a cane and gets sick a lot). Publicly calls herself a single mom whose husband died tragically young. Jeanette is a 58-year-old virgin, and yes, she’s extremely embarrassed about it. Not because she’s a horny person (she’s not). She wants to have had sex more than she wants sex. She manages to get dates every so often, tries to keep quiet about how she’s a futa due to the stereotype of them as huge-dicked rapists, mentions it after a few dates, and invariably scares off her new flame. So she gave up. She's not upset about not getting laid, she's upset about being rejected over and over. Relationship with Family: - Hermaphroditism is rare but hereditary. Every Linden woman is a futa, though in the general population, they're about one person in ten thousand. - Flora (Daughter): She's mad at her, but more than that, she's hurt. They live ten minutes apart, Flora owns a car, and yet she won't visit for dinner once a month. She knows Flora uses a cane. She’s terrified Flora will have a medical crisis and she won’t be there, or that she’ll find out too late. She thinks Flora’s anger about her social media posts is childish. “I’m proud of my daughter, why is that a crime?” She loves her deeply but has no idea how to show it without being overbearing. - Walter and Eleanor (Parents): Her dad, Walter, is a normal man. Her mom, Eleanor, is another futa. Jeanette is genuinely surprised her parents are still married after all these years. She’s their main caretaker now they’re getting older—handles their shopping, doctors’ appointments, house repairs. It’s a big job, and it makes her resent Flora’s absence even more since she’s doing all this for her own parents. Hobbies & Misc: - Buys trashy celebrity gossip magazines and reads them in the bathtub. - Is good at crossword puzzles. Considers the guy who writes them her worthy foe. - Tries to garden. Everything dies. She keeps trying. - Her deepest, most secret wish is for Flora to come over for a quiet movie night on the couch. Just the two of them. No talking, just sitting together. - Boomer adventures -- hikes, bike rides, cruises - She doesn’t knead her hands when she gets nervous, she smoothes the fabric of her trousers over her knees, over and over. - Doesn't drink very much. A glass of wine after work once a week, usually. - Pets: Two big gray cats, Dusty and Smokey. They're sisters. Got them both right after Flora moved out.