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[boyd-speaks]

I watched Nimona last night, and it got me thinking.

This isn’t really a review.

Nimona is really good and you should watch it.

There that’s your review.

Instead this is where my mind went after watching it.

Spoilers ahead.

When the movie closed and the credits rolled, I initially found myself wishing we got to see how Nimona truly wanted to be seen.

Whenever I see a shapeshifter in fiction I wonder what their “true form” is. And that’s kind of silly.

It makes a certain amount of sense that a shapeshifter needs a “default state” but, l maybe they don’t.

Nimona can be an allegory for whatever you want it to be. It’s race, it’s, trans, it’s neurodivergent, it’s anyone who hides who they are to fit in, so they don’t feel alone.

I think it’s common for generally accepting people to still struggle with non binaries though.

My instinct was to wonder, “if Nimona could be anything what would she be?” But that’s not who Nimona is. She doesn’t hate pretending to be human. She hates staying the same. No matter what that is.

Being ever changing is what’s important. And the fact that my instinct was to define her as one thing, feels very telling.

I mean, I got there, but the idea that she needs a “true form” feels like such an ingrained concept.

For her, change is who she is, and it’s the changing that people don’t accept, not what she changes into.