(old description - working on a shorter version)
sik and bimmy are two incredibly annoying young adults that lived in my head around january 2024. I was telling their story through journal entries, but I made the mistake of trying to do real-time daily entries instead of just updating it with random dates when I thought of something that actually advanced the plot. because of that, what little is actually written consists mostly of bimmy rambling about how her day at school was and sik whining about bimmy making him write. before I decided to use a notebook, the title of the story was "sik and bimmy take over the entire world." the idea was that they were two stupid codependent kids who'd had no one but each other for most of their lives. one day they had a talk and decided that they were gonna put an end to capitalism, but they didn't really know anything about what that meant. once they made it on paper, bimmy ended up being the super passionate one while sik was kind of just a doomer that hated everything, so it was mostly her plan.
after bimmy finally got sik on her side, their hijinx quickly escalated from tagging slogans on government buildings to building a following and making homemade bombs. it took a lot, but eventually sik got freaked out and they had a fight that resulted in bimmy kicking him out of her car (where he lived). they didn't speak for years. while sik went to college and tried to live a normal life, bimmy realized that she could get a lot more attention by pretending that her mission was a message from god. she started going by priestess lillith, and in a couple of years it was general knowledge that the government was trying to take down a cult with an international following.
one day, when sik was 24, he got a call from an unknown number. he recognized bimmy's voice immediately. she told him that this was it. either she was about to succeed, or it would be the last time that they spoke. I miss you, goodbye. and then she hung up. sik called the number all night, but she wouldn't respond. when he woke up the next morning he'd been texted an address, and instead of going to class he put it into his gps and started driving.
and that's kind of where I stopped. I don't know if bimmy ends up ending capitalism itself, but I kind of doubt it. what I do know is that sik dropped everything to help her, neither of them were stupid little kids anymore, and he knew that whatever she was doing had graduated from random destruction to an actual plan. that, and whatever bimmy couldn't convince him of he'd realized himself by trying to actually participate in the world for the first time. somehow, after almost four years without contact, they were still each other's only hope.
i really want to continue writing this someday, i miss these guys so much.
