Chapter 2: The Origin of Nivaan
Before All Fragments. Before the Multiverse. There was only choice.
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The Final Hour
He was nobody special.
Not a hero. Not a villain. Just another soul wandering Earth—disillusioned, empty, forgotten.
The sun rose that day brighter than ever. Too bright.
People screamed. The skies cracked open with waves of gamma radiation. The Earth's magnetic field—humanity's ancient shield—collapsed like a paper wall. Everything decayed in moments: skin, machines, memories, love.
And in the silence of that extinction, one man stood still.
Alone. Watching the skies dissolve.
> "So this is how it ends," he murmured. "Not with a war... but with light."
His eyes closed. He didn't run.
He let the fire take him.
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The Space Between Worlds
Darkness didn't follow death. Nor did peace.
Instead, there was awareness.
Not in a body—but floating. Seeing without eyes. Existing without flesh. The space around him wasn't black—it was pure white, so bright it hurt even his soul.
A figure hovered there. Indescribable. Not male. Not female. Not even human.
Just presence. Memory. Shape shifting thought.
> Being: "So slow. I expected you eons ago."
> Man (confused): "Where... am I?"
> Being: "In the fracture between what was and what could be."
> Man: "...Am I dead?"
> Being: "You are... unmade. Not quite gone, not quite born."
> Man: "Then... who are you?"
The being smiled—not with lips, but with gravity. The entire void curved gently, like space itself bowed.
> Being: "I am what you desired without knowing. The question that haunted you. The path you refused to take."
> Man: "Why me?"
> Being: "Because you asked the universe to let you matter. And the universe listened."
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The Wish That Broke the Soul
The void began to hum, each vibration a question.
He thought of everything he'd ever wondered. About purpose. About gender. About identity beyond flesh.
He thought of pain—endless, numbing pain.
And he said:
> Man: "I don't want to be a man. Or a woman. Or a machine. I want to be... everything. Timeless. Endless. Unbound."
The being whispered:
> Being: "You want freedom. True freedom. To be a godlike soul that neither fits nor breaks."
> Man: "I want to understand the multiverse. Not control it. To exist in every possibility. Learn who I am... through infinite mirrors."
> Being: "Then you will be broken, willingly."
The being raised a hand—and with it, his soul erupted.
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The Shattering
Glass? Stars? Memories? He couldn't tell.
His soul splintered into thousands of glowing shards. Each fragment felt like a limb torn away—yet none brought pain. Just transformation.
Each shard pulsed with a different future.
> A boy raised in a world of heroes.
A girl born into a cosmic academy.
A femboy rebelling against an empire.
A goddess in a shattered galaxy.
A child of war. A scholar of magic. A silent hunter of souls.
> Being: "These are all you. All truths. All lies. All paths."
The core fragment—glowing pure white—remained untouched.
> Being: "That is your center. The timeless 'you' who remembers all. The only one who cannot die."
> Man: "What do I call myself?"
> Being: "Nivaan. The Ever-Born. The Soul Beyond Form."
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The Becoming
Time didn't matter anymore.
The fragments soared into every world, every timeline. Born in wombs. Birthed from stars. Raised in dungeons. Awoken in laboratories.
But one fragment stayed in the void—the Core. Neither awake nor asleep. Just watching. Gathering.
And the being, now fading, whispered:
> Being: "Live. Lose. Love. Fall. Rise again. You are not meant to rule these worlds... but to learn from them."
The void began to close.
> Being: "When you are ready... your fragments will find each other. Not to become one—"
> "—but to understand why they ever split."
And then silence.
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Now...
In a chamber of nothingness, a figure sat. No breath. No heartbeat. Just light wrapped in human shape. Neither man nor woman. Neither alive nor dead.
The Core.
Nivaan.
And as the stars realigned to greet their new traveler...
A voice echoed across the multiverse.
> "Begin."
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End of Chapter 2 – The Origin of Nivaan