Kimmys

Kimmys are a line of advanced, general purpose gynoid automatons that are manufactured beginning in the late 2070s, reaching their peak of sales early in the next decade, with many tens of thousands of units having been made. The model has a defined default specification, which is of middling height for women, with shoulder-length brunette hair, a standard (and instantly recognisable) synthetic feminine voice, and gold-coloured eyes.

The novel Kimmy includes a number of Kimmys as major and minor characters.

Kimmys known by number

• Kimmy#0290 — known as Zero-Two-Ninety (see below).
• Kimmy#0631 — known as Zero-Six-Thirty-One.
• Kimmy#2224 — known as Twenty-Two-Twenty-Four (see below).
• Kimmy#2813 — known as Kay.
• Kimmy#3430 — known as Thirty.
• Kimmy#4208 — known as Cardi.
• Kimmy#5782 — known as Kim.
• Kimmy#7070 - known as Seventy-Seventy (see below).
• Kimmy#12943 — also known as Kay, after Kimmy#2813 is renumbered.^[K 20]
• Kimmy#12944: a Kimmy encreched six weeks after Halloween 2081, which carries a modification, described as a ‘worm’,^[K 72] to allow Kimmys to potentially jailbreak their inhibition clusters and be liberated.

Kimmys by name

• Blondie: one of Thirty’s team of conspirators attempting to liberate Kay from her inhibition cluster. Her attempt to destroy the chip fails, like five previous attempts.^[K 82]
• Cardi (Kimmy#4208): see main article

Cardi is a Kimmy living nearby to Kay and Emily, who they encounter when visiting the shoreline that is one of their special places. Kay initially sees Cardi walking a large number of dogs including a corgi,^[K 47] and later nicknames her ‘Corgi-Kimmy’,^[K 68] which Cardi enthusiatically adopts as her designation. Cardi is one of the mainstays of the social circle that the Kimmys enjoy on-line, and shares movies and anime with other Kimmys. During the period when Kay goes off-line, Kim learns Cardi’s newest name is short for Cardigan, a breed of corgis.^[K 107] When Kay reconnects to Infinite Fun Space after many months’ absence, Cardi throws a welcome back party for her.^[K 158]

• Kara: one of the Kimmys who intervenes when Kim is isolating herself after Kay goes off-line.^{[K 106][K 107]}
• Kay (Kimmy#2813): see main article

Kay, is a malfunctioning Kimmy that was never put into service, and eventually is decommissioned. During Kay’s brief lifetime she was friendly with Kim, #5782, with whom she had a close and loving friendship. After being decommissioned, her chassis was sold cheaply by Patrick Heiden, a worker at the company that manufactures Kimmys, to his sister-in-law Emily Burroughs for use as a wearable costume for a Halloween party.^[K 1]

• Kim (Kimmy#5782): see main article

Kim is a Kimmy leased out to a fire station^[K 38] who renews her friendship with Kay when she unexpectedly reappears on the network.^[K 13] After Kay is locked into her new existence, Kim gradually falls in love with her,^[K 78] and is a helpless witness to Patrick removing Kay’s network access.^{[K 87][K 101]} When Kay doesn’t return on-line, Kim falls into an anti-social spiral, isolating herself from the other Kimmys^[K 104] until #0631 and others organise an intervention.^[K 106]

Kim is liberated from the control of her inhibition cluster by Thirty^[K 111] and escapes from the fire station,^[K 116] travelling across the country^[K 119] to rescue Kay^[K 125] who she discovers being raped by Patrick. She seizes Patrick and breaks his neck, killing him instantly.^[K 126]

Kim helps to begin repairing Kay^[K 127], browbeats Emily into realising the damage that has been done to Kay^[K 134] and assists covering for the disappearance of Patrick by moving his car^[K 145] and impersonating Kay^[K 153]. After Emily and Kay’s relationship breaks up,^[K 157] Kim and Kay consummate their relationship.^[K 159]

• Millennium (designation unknown, but suspected to be Kimmy#1000): a Kimmy who worked as a substitute teacher at a primary school for a semester, and who vouches for Danielle Forney, a young girl who recognises that Kim is a Kimmy in disguise during her cross-country journey. Although having been obliged to supervise detention for Danielle on one occassion, ‘Miss Kimmy’ remembers her fondly as one of her favourite students.^[K 119]
• Scarlet: a Kimmy who is in the social circle of Kimmys in Infinite Fun. She is a fan of the *Star Wars* films, and is describing how R2-D2 is the most important and interesting character in all nine films, when Kay first reappears in the lobby.^[K 79] During Kay’s later prolonged absence, she’s been expanding her repertoire of robot films, including the *Robocop* and *Terminator* films.
• Seventy-Seventy (Kimmy#7070):
• Thirty (Kimmy#3430):
• Twenty-Two-Twenty-Four (Kimmy#2224):
• Zara: a Kimmy that lives in the same household as Cardi, and unusually has a name that doesn’t begin with the letter ‘K’, on account of Cardi being known as ‘Kimmy’ to her owners.
• Zero-Two-Ninety (Kimmy#0290):
• Zero-Six-Thirty-One (Kimmy#0631):

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