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Minette is a deeply traumatized individual with no hopes for her future.

Vermelia thinks she can change her mind.

NEUROCHIMERISM is a visual novel about a desperate woman-thing and her strange relationship with the only person in the world who wants to help her. No options are off limits, nothing is too much. Even if it means changing her from the inside. Even if it means 'Minette' is no longer Minette. 

Fun Fact: Miette means crumb in French.

Features:

17,000+ words with about 1-2 hours of gameplay depending on reading speed.

1 current ending with plans for bonus story in the future.

A CG Gallery featuring hand-painted gouache visuals

+ Art Pack in the future 

This game contains sensitive content not suitable for those under the age of 18.  This game contains blood, forced cannibalism, medical malpractice, surgery, and more. A full list of CWs can be viewed by scene in the game's README.txt file.

There is no on-screen explicit sexual content.

(This is my first VN!! I hope you enjoy! This VN was made as a submission for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2!)

Credits:

Original Music by Ruky

NEUROCHIMERISM logo by Unusacies

BGs by Astra

Writing, Art, etc by Emil (that's me!)

(the rest of the free resources used can be found in the about screen of the game)

CHARACTERS

Minette "Miette" (Last Name Withheld) 

Domestic Chimera (Unknown Combination , Chimaera domesticus. Suspected Sorex araneus and Pachyuromys duprasi traits inherited)

Age: 29

An unfortunate shut-in with no living relatives. She feels like she hasn't done anything with her life and thinks she never will. Running on fumes. Doesn't remember much of her childhood, but had a relatively good relationship with her parents.

Fun fact: Her whiskers twitch while she eats.

Vermelia Isengrim 

Greater Unicorn (Monoceros inauratus)

Age: 40 (Approximate, exact age withheld)

A mysterious woman who has seemingly been everywhere and done everything, yet lives in solitude amongst her accumulated wealth. Fond of microbiology. 

Fun fact: She possesses a revoked medical license.


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Played to goon, and finished crying. Amazing art, I loved the character designs. The characterization was great and the story was even greater .It really made me reflect at myself.

I hope you can make more with success.

You got automodded I'm SO sorry I just saw this now but this made me laugh really hard </3  Sorry I made you cry... the next game and afterstory hopefully involve less crying. (though there's still going to be my signature angst) Thank you for your encouragement!! 

I'm a liar I'm so sorry I cried 3 times writing the next game today.

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kudos for how committed u were to weaving sadistic love with medical content. was a thread i was too meek to pursue this indulgently. pardon that narrowness of my praise, but I'm obsessed with the texture of both the BGs and CGs. I'm not sure what filters Astra used to transform assumedly stock photos into stills straight out of my dreams, but I love it. Also adore your art on how (correct me if I'm wrong) it seems to be a fusion of physical and digital art techniques? Are they edited scans, and if not, how did you get such fantastic digital brushes?

Thank you so much!! I actually got so into writing the surgery scene that at one point I guess I viewed a medical chart website too much and they IP banned me… and yes I don’t know what kind of magic Astra used on them but they’re fantastic!!

Also, yaaay yes!!! It’s all gouache! The sprites and CGs are all painted on cold press paper and then lined with colored pencil. Then I scan them and throw them into clip studio to make em transparent and mess with the colors a little. I’m so happy when people ask me about this stuff because it’s my absolute favorite part 💖💖💖

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This was sleazy in a really cool and weirdly almost sweet kind of way. The way we as readers live in Minette's head for the most part I think works really well, as do the bits where it zooms out because she's dissociating or in an awkward state in relation to herself; as narrators go, she's a very good one! Vermelia makes for a fascinating character because, on the one hand, it's relatively easy to clock what her 'deal' is and how far she's willing to take it but, on the other hand, as her background is teased near the end, it makes her rather mysterious. Thinking of her as a kind of vampire-like existence was unavoidable to me. The backgrounds were lavish and so good they had me thinking about how to approach creating them in my own work and the soundtrack was simple but effective at underscoring the points when things exploded or seethed. Your art, both for the sprites and for the CGs, was lavish. It was a treat to look at, well-composed, and there was a surprising amount of it. 

The afterstory you're apparently considering I think does go some ways towards addressing the feeling I had that things ended before I really got to process what Vermelia had done to Minette or before anything really came out of that horrific moment. I don't think it's a flaw exactly though. The last section zoomed in so close and so clinically to the process that it crawled under my skin and lived there that, in some ways, the pay off of what was done and how it seems to work played with the tension I felt in such a way that I honestly can't tell what my takeaway is from it all emotionally other than the unspeakable wrongness of it all. Perhaps it's for the better, all things considered. 


All in all, I'd have to say this was a really good jam entry! Great work! It scratched a yuri itch I didn't quite know I had.

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Oh my god sleazy/gross in a sweet/cute kind of way was EXACTLY what I wanted!! Yay yay thank you! I'm really glad Verm turned into an almost supernatural presence... hehe... I hope that will continue in the future because it suits her VERY well! Everyone did such an awesome job with music and bgs I couldn't have been as motivated to paint without them!! I also love that it left people a little conflicted... I was, too! And I'm, like, the guy that made them! Thank you soo much for your super nice words I am keeping them close to my weird little heart <3

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Man this RULED. Deliciously indulgent. The dynamic of the sad little meow-meow that is Minette with sadistic, powerful Vermelia is so awful and terrible and hot. The art style throughout is wonderful, distinctive, and suits the story very well. I want to pet both of them.

This was the first VN of significant length I chose to play from the Toxic Yuri VN jam, and I'm so happy that I did. Amazing work!

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Surgery scene was excruciating and beautiful at the same time, I found myself saying "oh, the author KNOWS things about surgery!!" out loud during it lol. Also physically squirming. As someone who does not know much about surgery, it seemed extremely detailed and thought-out and knowledgable. Morbidly fascinating to read. Probably will read it again.

Also the fantasy of wanting to just feel good forever is so fucking real. Despite how fucked up the procedure was, and how unhealthy Vermelias control over Minette is, I found myself a little jealous. Which is perfect for this kind of story, I think. You can see Vermelia's vision. 


Anyway, amazing job creating this VN to be perfectly indulgent and delicious for this niche, fucked-up audience!!I included the page of sketchy notes I made while playing. So much good prose, and very good quotes.

I replied in the fluxer but the rest of this review IS SO NICE TOO WHAT!? THANK YOU!! I actually did so much research for the surgery scene that I got IP banned off a medical charts website. Probably bc I was visiting it so much or something? Or they could tell I was a pervert... I also asked one of my med student friends how believable it was and he said it was so YAY!! I'm glad it was worth it!

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OMG that's so iconic honestly... and even med student verified, amazing. You did an incredible job with it!! 

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The ending tickled my brain in specific ways that it's never been touched before. The wounds and the constricting of Minette's mind until she can never think a bad thought about herself ever again had me panting and squirming in real life. Thank you for making this and I will be following your career with great interest.

THANK YOU!! I love having a mix of characters who think they're helping but we as the audience know it isn't really right... I'm glad I could introduce you to my... my mind palace? My pervert world? Welcome To My Twisted Mind. 

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amazing art and writing, in particular the switching perspectives later in the story. and, god, the visceral detail in the last sequence made my neurons fire in the best way, absolutely choice writing. i loved it! extremely looking forward to the afterstory!

Hehe... thank you! I'm really enjoying the mixed bag of reactions to the last scenes. It depends on the wiring of your brain and that's fun to see in real time. I'm looking forward to showing everyone more, too!

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i do appreciate niche pervertism, and this, to me, is indeed that. the art is dripping with a gorgeous style, and tbh i've been excited to read this since i first saw the doodles of your little unicorn. she is as wonderful as i imagined. i do wish the ending carried out a little further, but i do like the abruptness, too.

thank you for creating <3

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Thank you!! I was kind of sad about the ending too (shhh it's a secret) because I had to cut stuff for time (out of state for a week and half and no computer) T__T but the afterstory I'm working on takes place right after the ending so... yay!!

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Incredibly well done, you did a beautiful job with establishing the characters and structuring the narrative. Your prose was nearly flawless I would say, and your art style is lovely.

I did find the section that started using a lot of technical, anatomical terms difficult to follow. At first I thought you were just overzealous in your accuracy, but your comments suggest that you were actually writing for a very specific demographic. That is interesting.

So do you think she's better off?

Thank you!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it that much! That’s a really big compliment! And haha, yeah, that part is definitely for those who already kind of have an interest in surgery and anatomy lol. Welcome to the weird world of medical freaks…!

As for if she’s better off… there’s going to be a little bit of afterstory about that soon >:)

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absolutely Gorgeous art in this!! i really love the like full cgs.. the watercolour style plus the fantastic compositions was *chefs kiss* and of course the freak pervert shit Ruled. really awesome vn 🙏🙏🙏

Eee thank you so much!! Gouache and watercolor are similar and I love them both... I used to do watercolor before this too! Thank you for appreciating both the pervert shit and the artsy shit...

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this hit my radar because I heard it was for surgery perverts and ohhhhhh yesss this is the good shit 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

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YEAAAAH THANK YOU!!!💖 Surgery perverts of the world unite...

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Chimeras are awesome. pretty game and well written!! excellent first VN!

Thank you!! And thank you for your feedback in the fluxer! I am definitely gonna make more VNs and now I know how to pace things better! 🎉💖

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Splendid art this was really good! I quite liked reading this.

thank you!! It was a challenge to finish so many paintings in time so I’m glad ppl like them! 💖

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YES!!!! This was EXCELLENT! Big fan of how viscerally and detailed many of the scenes here were written, I found them VERY enjoyable!! Also some very lovely afterthoughts. Thank you for sharing! ! ! !

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eek thank you so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed!! 💖