An overdue update on all my creative endeavors [May 5th 2026]
Hi everyone!! It's been a while since I wrote out an actual post, sorry about that. ^_^" But, I've been really wanting to write about my future plans for my different projects... especially concerning Hemotropic Friendship Virus, since I know that's what almost all of you originally came here for. That being said, I'll talk about it first.
I gotta be honest with you all. I'm kind of done writing teenagers. lol. But, I still have a LOT of ideas left over in my brain regarding the story of HFV. Soooo... Instead of just dropping it forever immediately, I want to create a "grand finale" of sorts to see off the project, since it was so important to me for so many years. With this "grand finale", I am going to gather up what I believe were all of my very best ideas and concepts for the series into one larger VN. I think will just call it "Hemotropic Friendship Virus", as I ideally want it to be the final and "complete" version of the story. But, of course, as mentioned on the website, the canon has always been all over the place, so this isn't intended to "invalidate" any of the other works... (is that even possible when each one kind of exists in its own version of the canon anyways? lmao)
I plan for this to be around 30-40k words in length. Essentially, the plot will be sort of like a deluxe version of Occultation, focusing on how Adair and Ximun's relationship develops over a longer period of time. I have already started concepting the story a little bit, but I am not going to start seriously working on it until the base game of Night of Eternal Night is fully released. So, unfortunately, it'll probably be around two years before it's ever released. But, once it IS released, I will also share some details about what ultimately got excluded from it, so that everyone who's interested can get even more extra insight into how expansive the world of HFV truly had become in the background.
Dude. Even if I am taking a break from working on the game itself right now, NOEN is still front-and-center in my mind. I'm still coming up with new ideas to add in when I get back to working on it. So, when will that be? In a few months or so, because...
I have decided to use my NOEN break to finally pursue my nearly decade-long dream of making an RPGMaker game one day. I am keeping the scope of this game VERY small though. I want to try to finish it within just a couple of months. I will be putting it up on Steam as well as itch.io, and it will probably cost $4.99 USD. The game will have actual combat, not being entirely limited to exploration. Although, despite the common tradition of RPGMaker games having multiple endings, I've been designing the story to be very linear like I usually do, so I think I'm just going to leave it with only one ending. (But, there will absolutely be some secrets to find...)
The story takes place in a sci-fi fantasy dystopia sort of setting, particularly in a fictional country that's been stuck in a state of anarcho-capitalism for many years. The two main characters are two young adult girls, named Enzo Knightley and Meteor Vershalle, and the story switches between their perspectives (although, as the title implies, Enzo's perspective is the primary one.)
One day, Enzo was suddenly murdered at only sixteen years old, and Meteor was forced to watch. Meteor's always understood this event as having been a bizarre and meaningless act of cruelty; and, she's been too busy helping her mother Contra's efforts to spearhead the development of a new organized government to ever be able to move on from it. However, thanks to the Vershalle family empire's own technology, Enzo secretly ended up surviving, waking up from an artificially-induced coma five years after her "death". And, now, in order to reunite with Meteor, Enzo will have to take Contra down by revealing her true nature to the public... including the fact that it was Contra herself who organized for Enzo's assassination. BUT HOW WILL SHE DO THAT......?!??!?!! You'll have to play andFIND OUT............ Heh. (and yes. Of course Enzo and Meteor are madly in love with each other. This is yuri. This is very yuri.)
...Anyway, that's about it for now. Thank you so much for reading! I hit 100 followers back on itch.io recently... it's still crazy to me to think about how that many people (and now more) are interested in seeing what I have to say. I am truly so grateful for everyone's support.