Needifer

"People found it hard to believe that a babe like Jennifer would associate with a dork like me. Sandbox love never dies."

- Needy, while staring at Jennifer.

Needifer is the femslash ship between Needy Lesnicki and Jennifer Check from the Jennifer's Body fandom.

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Needy and Jennifer are childhood best friends who go to the same school. Their importance to one another is shown early in the film when Needy is seen gazing adoringly at Jennifer in slow-motion as she is waving a flag around. Needy’s voiceover says that people are surprised that a "babe like Jennifer" would ever be friends with a girl like her, who is a "dork". And as Jennifer grins and affectionately waves at her, Needy affirms that “sandbox love never dies"; referring to the times at the sandbox they would spend together when they were little. Throughout all the time Jennifer and Needy stare at each other, the lyrics "you are the girl that I've been dreaming of, ever since I was a little girl", from the song "I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" by the band Black Kids is heard in the background of the scene. Suddenly, the moment between the two gets interrupted when a fellow student calls Needy "lesbi-gay" as she sees her staring at Jennifer, to which Neddy replies "what? She's my best friend."

Later, Jennifer invites Needy to go out with her to a local bar to see the band Low Shoulder perform there. And when Jennifer comes to pick Needy up, Needy's boyfriend's jealousy of Jennifer and Needy's relationship gets shown for the first time. Chip, Needy's boyfriend, gets annoyed at the fact Needy is always willing to blow off her boyfriend to spend time with Jennifer (she spends more time deciding what to wear for her dates with Jennifer than her dates with Chip) and he tells Needy that she's always doing what Jennifer wants, which Needy denies. Jennifer seems to resent Chip’s entire existence, and he resents her as well for “kidnapping (his) girlfriend” all the time, as he himself lets Jennifer know when she comes to pick Needy up before the performance.

As soon as they arrive at the bar, creepy men start approaching the two of them. And after saying hi to the band, Needy overhears them talking about Jennifer and wondering if she is a "virgin" or not. Needy abruptly cuts their conversation letting them know that Jennifer is a virgin, but that she won't be sleeping with any of them. As the band performs, Jennifer reaches out and grabs Needy’s hand. Needy, unsmiling and disdainful until this point, immediately breaks out into a wide, genuine smile. She glances over at Jennifer, her gaze lingering in her profile, until she realizes that Jennifer is giving the lead singer the same infatuated glance. So her smile fades and she disengages her hand after seeing this. Right after this, the bar they are on caughts on fire and Needy manages to save the both of them as they escape through a window. However, she's unable to stop Jennifer from being taken by the band in their van, terrified by what could happen to her.

After this, the band brutally assaults and murders Jennifer. But she becomes possessed by a demon and the first person she goes to after her attack and transformation is Needy. When Needy reaches for her phone as Jennifer appears covered in blood and spewing a weird black liquid from her mouth, Jennifer pins her against the wall, but quickly stops herself from hurting Needy, despite her overwhelming hunger, choosing to reserve her violence instead for the teenage boys at their school, especially the boys Jennifer notices Needy having an interest in.

The night that Needy and Chip have sex for the first time, Needy's can't stop thinking about Jennifer, and she's not even present in the moment. After she starts feeling strange and almost runs Jennifer over with her car (after Jennifer had recently killed Colin, the guy Needy said was "nice"), she quickly goes to her room to lie down, but gets shocked to find Jennifer was already in her bed next to her. When Needy tells her to get out, Jennifer attempts to use her sex appeal to calm Needy down, so they start making out in Needy's bed. The kiss is hesitant at first as Needy tries to decide how far she is willing to take her desires, but it grows increasingly passionate as Needy gives in. After this, Jennifer opens up about what really happened to her the night Needy saw her being taken by the band, letting her know everything, including the fact she's now a succubus. And then, Jennifer says “Needy, let me stay the night. We can play boyfriend and girlfriend like we used to,” making reference to past sexual experimentation between them.

Needy doesn't see Jennifer again after the night they kissed, until the night of the school dance. During the night, Needy can't stop thinking about Jennifer, touching her lips while remembering their kiss, and seeing her in every dark haired girl at the school dance.

After Jennifer kills Chip, Needy goes to Jennifer's house to kill her. When Needy uses a box cutter to attack Jennifer, Jennifer sneeringly asks her “Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot? You’re such a butch", which is one of the many terms commonly used by lesbians to refer to other lesbians. As they start attacking each other, Jennifer starts levitating. And while they are in the air, Needy takes the matching heart locket that she and Jennifer have always used, out of Jennifer's neck, throwing it into the ground. As soon as she does this, Jennifer freezes and starts descending into the bed. At this moment, Needy falls on top of her, stabbing her in the heart and ultimately killing her.

After Jennifer's death, Needy is sent to a mental health unit for criminals. But since she was bitten by Jennifer and survived, she obtained some of Jennifer's supernatural abilities. So she uses them to escape and to go to the hotel where the band that assaulted Jennifer is staying at, where she slaughters them all.

Fanon
Jennifer and Needy are extremely popular among femslash fans, specifically femslash horror fans. A lot of the shipping came after the films initial release, and the film gained a cult following.

On AO3, Needifer is the most written ship for both Jennifer and Needy. It is also the most written ship in the Jennifer's Body (2009) tag.

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