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title: Nim Fanfic
credits: Gersande
contents:
- pic: nim.jpg
- July 2056, the Nim population has hit a point of stagnation.
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My name is 1, I am
a proud, yet worn out
nimizen of what has
been known as the
Nimation for now more
than five centuries.
- |-
Since our formation in
Europe in 1532
our population has
remained stable.
- |-
We remain a steady
and horrifyingly tiresome
sixteen individuals,
stuck in what is now a
seriously embarrassing
hierarchical structure:
the pyramid.
- "Our society used to be organised in the following structure:"
- pic: nim_1.jpg
- "We respond to a very simple set of rules:"
- |-
(i) Only one couple
is allowed at the time
in Nimation.
- (ii) Nimizens are only able to communicate with their immediate neighbour, i.e 1 and 7 can never be in touch.
- |-
(iii) Only Nims of an
identical position within
our pyramid structure
can navigate outside
of the pyramid together
at once.
- As you may imagine, the referral to multiple 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s was quite unsettling, arousing jealousies that could confuse outsiders.
- "The Nim Revolution of 1904 marked a turn in our history as new names were assigned to each nimizen:"
# do we need the numbers as text ? or just the pic is ok ?
- pic: nim_2.jpg
alt: "the new names after the Nim Revolution"
- Embracing each nimizen as individuals, through distinct names and physical features became the norm.
- |-
Our diversity had finally
become the trope for a
fair representation of
the self within a
co-dependent society.
- |-
The following year, 1905
the L-group composed
of 3, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16
and myself wanted to go
even further and
re-considered our
architectural ideologies.
- pic: nim_illustration_4.jpg
- "We wanted to implement a new set of rules:"
- (i) Nimation is opened to groups and individuals. It will no longer be a couple only experience.
- (ii) Nimizens are able to engage with any other nimizens, not just their immediate neighbour.
- "(iii) Identity and social stature are no longer limited to one's position in the pyramid."
- (iv) Nimizens are able to navigate outside the structure with any other nimizens not only with those of similar structural stature.
- (v) The traditional pyramid structure becomes a structure amongst others, not the default structure.
- "(vi) One's fate shouldn't be set in stone, one should have agency as to the path one chooses."
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(vii) Nimation should be
open to the growth of its
nimizens as well as its
annihilation, retirement
of its nimizens or
replacement of
its nimizens.
- Unable to convince the others of the necessity of the institutions rewriting our structure remained the same.
- pic: nim_illustration_1.jpg
- nw: "1: Psst."
se: "Silence."
- ne: "1: Pssst!"
sw: "2: What?!"
- "1: I'm not talking to you."
- nw: "2: 3."
se: "3: Hm?"
- nw: "2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you."
se: "3: What is it?"
- ne: "1: I'm lonely."
sw: "3: We already talked about this."
- |-
1: Well it still hasn't
been solved.
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3: Im sorry there is
nothing I can do about
it at the moment,
you could...
- "1: People assume because I'm at the top of the pyramid, everything is great for me!"
- |-
1: Ha, sure is a great
bore. Five centuries of
solitude, an omnipotent
perspective that has
no witness.
- "1: No one to share my point of view with."
- "1: To get any mundane experience across I need a waterfall of information, to slightly hope one will get some kind of input and they might never understand."
- nw: |-
3: I understand you! Or at least try too.
se: |-
2: Quiet you two,
I'm practising.
- ne: |-
1: And when I go,
I go alone.
sw: |-
3: Well at least you don't
have to suffer the
unreasonable ones
of this row.
- nw: |-
1: And when I fear,
I fear alone.
sw: "3: You talk to me, sometimes."
- ne: |-
7: Is 1 having a
moment again?
sw: "3: Yes, yes, we're trying to figure it out."
- nw: "2: Sssh."
se: "6: This again?"
- nw: "2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again."
se: "6: Let them be, they will be picked on soon enough again."
- sw: "2: Hmm."
nw: |-
1: And when I dream,
I dream alone.
- nw: |-
7: They got everyone
up again.
se: "3: Everyone's up now."
- nw: "1: Well not enough."
se: |-
3: Let's keep it quiet
for now.
- nw: "1: You know?"
se: "3: Tell me."
- nw: |-
1: In dreams...
I walk with you.
se: "3: Roy?"
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