Nests

L Corp.'s former Nest in District 12.

A Nest (둥지, dungji) is the segregated areas of a Wing's district which act as the antithesis to the Backstreets — being desirable, urban residences supported by the Wings.

While acting as the home of their workers, or 'feathers' — such inhabitants are ultimately still expendables, as a Nest's true purpose is to protect their "eggs", their Singularity.

Overview

Each district is physically split into a Nest and the Backstreets, with the Backstreets being incredibly dangerous and poverty-ridden, and the Nests being generally peaceful and much more preferable. The Nests are run by lofty taxes and the money each Wing makes via their Singularity. There are said to be 26 districts and therefore 26 Nests, however, no map of the City has ever depicted district 26, leaving its existence ambiguous.

Residents of a Nest are most frequently of the upper-class. The Backstreets exist to motivate its citizens so that they might one day move out of the Backstreets and into a Nest, and Nest citizens are motivated to work hard so that they may continue to live in a Nest and not get dumped into the Backstreets; as a result, many Nest-dwellers are also hard workers, actively aware of all that is at stake. Most who live in the Nests work at the Wings. Furthermore, each Nest is different from one another, and have their own distinct culture.

Collapse of a Nest

The poor state of L Corp.'s Nest during the latter half of the Library's reign of the territory.

Though a district's Backstreets can collapse or be devastated without much of a fuss, the same does not go for the Nests. A Nest will end up falling if its Wing does, and will subsequently degrade into a ghetto not dissimilar from the Backstreets, occupying all kinds of desperate folks. Library of Ruina features a main setting located right in the middle of the fallen L Corp.'s Nest. As of Limbus Company, Lobotomy Corporation has yet to be replaced, leaving the entirety of the district as a rabid slum-equivalent.

Known Nests

Nest J

A district with an overall emphasis on gambling, with its Nest acting as the center of it all. Vergilius describes it as "a nest of hedonism where you can drown in money or be drained of everything you have". J Corp. is home to the wishpower technology, which processes luck, and is commonly used by anyone living in the district as a temporary luck-boosting tattoo.

Nest K

Considered one of the more decent Nests, the Singularity powering it is known as HP bullets. There are heavy security measures and long lines at its checkpoint separating it from the Backstreets.

K Corp.'s Nest, visited by the LCB in Canto III: The Unconfronting.

The Nest itself is very futuristic looking, with high buildings aligned with colorful lights and countless windows. It is described as having an "emerald glow."

In K Corp.'s Nest lies the town of Calw, known as "The Holy Site of Nest K's Prosthetic Industry", which also happens to be Sinclair's hometown. It has since been transformed by the N Corp. Inquisition, turned into a twisted center of prosthetic corpses strung up like Christmas decorations amidst a variety of burning fires.

K Corp.'s Nest is also home to Bodhisattva Chicken and Eunbong's Bar & Fryers, which saw the Papa Bongy Distortion incident.

Nest L

Previously a normal Nest home to Lobotomy Corporation, it had changed into a dangerous, foggy region as a result of the great White Nights and Dark Days. Following this event, the Library took its place, and occupied the heart of the Nest. The Library would slowly grow to be more powerful and famous overtime. The fog would disappear, and a group known as the Reverberation Ensemble would camp outside of it, prohibiting access and causing chaos.

At the end of Library of Ruina, at least six months prior to the start of Limbus Company, Nest L in its entirety was exiled to the Outskirts by agents of the Head, leaving the massive, unclaimed expanse that is now District 12. The district has yet to establish a new L Corp. and properly rebuild a Nest.

Nest N

The pure-white Nest home to Meursault, and the district that dispatched Kromer and her group to K. Corp's Nest.

Nest V

V Corp.'s Nest is where the infamous Crying Children incident occurred, an event which killed 80,000 people.

External Links

• Nest (둥지) - Korean page (Namuwiki)