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Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of Avulsion is out!! In it:

- witness Marco’s nose getting broken in 4 different ways,

- scenes for romanced Jewel, Laurent, and Reed + variations for if you picked someone else to leave with in chapter 3

- extra romanced Reed content if you picked the crush option AND kissed him (chapter 3 of his branch)

- failed and succeeded stat checks (no dead ends this time, no worries) 

- single or ??? (Joran) routes (Joran's not locked yet, you'll get an option to pick him or not later, but you need to unlock his first [dream] scene to enter his mini branch)

- added an on-screen ‘skip’ and ‘rollback’ buttons for mobile and PC. Remember that you can also use TAB button and your mouse wheel for the same purposes respectively if you’re playing on PC.

Download: [here] 

More content: [Ko-Fi] [Patreon]

Demo/teaser (in a form of a Visual Novel): [here]

Other games: [here]

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— Nikita Gill

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on love arriving unannounced

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Wishlist "Darling, Darling... Devious!" on Steam

Now you can wishlist the spicy NSFW standalone extra "Darling, Darling… Devious!" on Steam [here]!

It will release on Monday, April 14th, 2025 🎉

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [YouTube]

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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so soft it hurts

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Hey,Rook! I hope you have a good day so far! 🤗 I found a question on another tumblr account and I thought to ask it here if it's ok. So,what would each RO do to comfort/apologize to MC if they thought MC was upset with them for some reason? e.g. explain themselves, tease them, take them somewhere nice, etc

Thank you for creating such a good game! 💖

Ofc it’s ok! Let’s see, I’m not sure which game you meant, so I’ll do both.

PFM:

Jewel and Reed: would apologize before they even knew what they did lol Jewel’s anxiety would eat here alive and she has to ask and know right now this instant, and Reed just hates when MC is mad at him (bc no hugs/kissies)

Laurent: 2 AM call to Flavio be like ‘I think MC hates me now, their frown was 1.2mm deeper than usual... What do you mean if I asked? What’s there to ask about, I have eyes don’t I??’ + he’s the type who’d /think/ MC is mad at him and habitually apologize for his imaginary faults, so he has a general reflex of making sure MC is NOT mad from time to time

Nino: usually doesn’t care about ppl’s hurt feelings or any feelings in general, but with MC she’d try not to be thoughtless and mean on purpose. She could still slip up, though, and not realize that. It would take her a while to realize what’s going on, and depending on how MC goes about it, her response and behaviors would differ. Generally, tho she’d ask MC directly what she could do to comfort them, and do just that

Flavio: would probably know what he did or at last that he /did/ upset or anger MC, especially given that he spent the first like months of their acquaintanceship deliberately pissing them off. He’d apologize right away, bc he doesn’t like to be in a conflict with ppl he cares about, and esp after Reed he does his best to resolve everything plainly and quickly to not let things fester 

Alan: fights the innate urge to fix problems with money to actually apologize and have a conversation, ah what love does to a mofo

FMO:

Mirren: firm believer of ‘letting MC come to him/her’ and ‘giving MC space’ until taught otherwise 🤡 he/she would be leaving gifts for MC and doing this for them, but generally try not to show them his/her face

Rez: “you are mad? no, *I* am mad!” Storms out, then crawls back into MC’s bed in the middle of the night, all bloodied up and muddy, “Don’t be mad, I brought you a gift/snack/severed head. Also, let’s kiss.” 🥴 nobody taught a weapon how to say ‘sorry,’ go figure

Lotár: puts on airs but crumbles like a wet tissue if MC as much as frowns, refuses to apologize but never does it again, resorts to bribes or blames it on someone else, has 233242 excuses as to why he/she did what he/she did, not sorry that they did it, but sorry that MC was hurt

Malitiose: would apologize regardless if he/she feels guilty or not, if MC is weak to him/her crying, would cry, if not would try to act cute, if that’s not it either, then try being apologetic, tries not to do it again where MC could see it

Saltire: would genuinely feel wretched, fumble around and prepare 10 pages essay before confronting MC abt it, bonus points if he/she ends up apologizing for the wrong thing lol

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forgive the domesticity of this ask,,,how would ROs react if during the crushing stage they mentioned they like a certain type of cake / other baked goods and then MC started baking it for them every week and just casually giving it to them like 'oh yeah made this for you' and leaves a little too fast before ROs can ask any questions ahaha

Bet it still wouldn’t click for Laurent, not at all, he'd be a mess at work tho, all lovesick, carrying the untouched cake around like it's his newborn

Flavio: are you trying to bribe me haha I’ll have to fine you ;) wait I didn't mean you should stop!

Jewel would clock MC so fast, two to three days later she'd have MC's fave to swap, then she'd ask them on a date, or to cook together, same thing

Reed:

Nino doesn’t know romance if it slapped her in the face + she brings snacks for Flavio because she knows his eating habits are shit, so she’d assume MC thinks she can’t feed herself (but she’ll bring it up in a convo with other ppl and they will explain to her what’s up ) 

Alan: I love the service so far, would you let me return the favor? How does a breakfast in bed sound?

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hiii who would the LIs have as their best man/woman/person if they got married to MC? Thank you 🥰🥰

Jewel: Rene, and she'd have her sister as a flower girl!

Reed: Flavio, otherwise they'd have another argument on their hands (the argument being crying Flavio)

Laurent: his boss, his dad, or, reluctantly, Flavio. A lot of ppl would want to, but he’s forever thinking he has no close ppl around him + he'd rather die than ask

Nino: if her old boss/mentor was alive, she'd as him, presently it'd be either Flavio or Wilson

Flavio: his merc friend Caelan, Nino, Laurent, or/and Reed, most likely all of them at once (bc why pick when you can have 'em all ;) )

Alan: his sister, Clara, and/or Colton, would jokingly propose Reed to be the flower boy (would actually do it too)

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hiiiiya Rook, I hope you are having a fantastic day!

I once asked you to assign polish songs to Perfumare RO's. Did Flirt with Me Once 🤪🤪 RO's also find their polish music?

Also I want to ask: will full FMO be available on Steam?

xoxo

Hiiii, thank you and uno reverse! 😘

Oh, duh! Thanks for making my day, I love music asks! I'll add the songs/links under the 'read more' below.

As for Steam, I don’t think any of my games will be anywhere but on itch, because of the 30% cut + extra 20/30% or whatnot if you’re a creator from outside of the USA, which after other fees and taxes would be close to a net negative for me unless I price the games higher than like 5-7usd which I don’t want to do, or find a publisher or smth, but that's another can of worms I am not ready to open 🥴

Now, the songs feat my shitty translation of my favorite parts:

Mirren:

An unfulfilled thought. I like you better that way. I don’t think I know any other. Unfinished you. Dreary, you and me. Maybe I would like to write an addendum, but I don’t know how to.

Rez:

Two steps forward, one backward. And you spite me every day. I'm trying to get away from this rhythm, but you push me right back here. I feel naïve. You say that I’m powerless. And I believe you, despite the fact that you are me. You are me. You are me. 

Lotár:

Tomorrow we could be gone. Look inside my fear, darling. But today. One more time. While we’re still here. Stupid me, stupid you. 

Saltire:

I'm afraid to go back to where I was before, to uncover my face, wash the silence off my lips. To hear a handful of incomprehensible words. To be an empty head among the fuller heads. I don’t know if I know anything, if I learned anything. I'm losing my strength, but do I deserve to take a breath?

Malitiose:

I reflect differently in your eyes. (...) I’m made up of bad habits and questions. And I squeeze it all inside me so no one can see it. (...) When you pierce me right through, I forget that I am a blank canvas, a white lie, a poor sketch made somewhere on a tracking paper, one of the illusions that you want to believe, anatomically, a map of absurdity and nonsense.

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i was wondering when is chapter 4 releasing? cause when i see in menu it says chapter 4 (full) and when i load my save and finish chapter 3 i will see tte start of chapter 4 then something else will show up like support us

Ohhh I knew I would fck something up, sorry for the confusion!

Chap 4 will be out next month tho 👌

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hi! hope you're having a good day :)

i have a question, when designing the characters of parfumare (the vn), did you take inspiration from any real people (celebrities, actors etc.)? it would be very interesting to know, thank you!

Hi hi hi, thank you and likewise!

I generally don’t take inspo from specific people if only because I craft the characters based on what I need in the story, so it’s plot first, characters later based on the setting etc.

That, and I’ve never been into celebs or movies in general, so I barely know anyone aside from authors and like musicians, and even that's very surface level. I do rely more so on tropes and experience, whether mine or secondhand.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEyMAbsitwr/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==

Made me think of FMO cause damn if I didn't get fooled several times

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Our entry for this year's [Amare Games Festival]: "The Fae King Is My Roommate" (FKR) Demo is now live on Itch!

Play [here]!

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [YouTube]

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Story Mode + Spicy DLC Announcement

Darling, Darling... Devious! is here! Get the spicy DLC from Itch: [here] A Steam version will be released with an announcement later. + A story mode has been added to the base game, read more in this devlog: [here]

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [YouTube]

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okay but imagine MC singing You Are The Moon by The Hush Sound to Laurent... ngl this song always has me in tears...

Oh please, Laurent with his head in MC’s lap while they sing to him would KO him so fast 👋