Flipverse seemed like an okay brane in the beginning, especially once people
realized that they could commune with their deceased loved ones. There was no
inherently nefarious reason that they could do this. The people who set up the
system didn’t do so as part of some grand plan to harm humanity, and they
weren’t as evil as some others of their kind, but they weren’t particularly
fond of humans either. They were Maramon from a universe called Ansutah, and
were only in Flipverse when The Crossover suffered a cataclysmic failure.
Stranded, they created the afterlife world for reasons I’m not able to detect,
but everything bad that happened as a result of it was because of human error,
or unforeseen consequences. Things took a turn for the worse near the
beginning of the 21st century, when a dark organization rose from the shadows,
and decided it was time they took over the United States. Their power was
fleeting, but their impact was everlasting, and profound. This was how the
universe earned its name. From there on out, those in power found that they
could only ever hold onto it for a short period of time, until another
appeared to take their place. Each new faction formed in response to the last,
and promised that things would be better under their rule, but it was actually
just different. A hunger for power and control pervaded everything in this
universe, starkly contrasting the period of peace that preceded this age, and
making everyone’s lives more complicated by the year. Everything was about
some sort of dichotomy, from the living world versus the underworld, to the
wealthy versus the wanting. Even the most popular reality show contest was
about pitting two groups against each other that were distinct for reasons
unrelated to the competition itself. This wasn’t only about two sides
literally fighting against each other, but a society that was no longer
capable of allowing two opposing forces to co-exist. There had to be conflict,
and there weren’t many people left who wanted to see things return to normal,
or reach some form of enlightenment. The interesting lesson from this story is
not that civilization kept falling, but that it kept getting back up. They
kept trying and trying, and even when things grew worse, most people involved
only intended to do what they felt was best. It is for this reason that
Flipverse ended up becoming a vastly important strategic position in the
Darning Wars.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Microstory 1603: The Dichotomy of it All
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