Andersen's Absolute Absolution

• NVL-style Kinetic Novel
• Edited photo backgrounds, minimalist UI
• The simple doodlely Venuxian art you've grown to sublimate into your heart!
• 190k words 
• Inspired by the works and life of Hans Christian Andersen 
• Gnostically blessed by the Memories of the Mermaids 
• A Mystery Baptized  by the Depths of Leviathan...
• Transfiguration of the Scarred Ojou-sama 
• The Death of the Body
• The Angels will Emerge
• Heaven beyond the sparkles of the moonlit ocean... 
• Absolution
• And yuri!

Content Warnings (vague spoilers):

Being rather long, this is a pretty heavy work with a lot going on! So while I can't give a comprehensive overview of things, be sure to expect what's common course in my existing works (being part of the mystery genre, this includes but is not limited to textual descriptions of macabre deaths/traumas and photographic imagery that symbolically portray potentially discomforting concepts like mutilations and bodily disfigurement, the latter of which is a major theme of this story! Body dysphoria is heavily prevalent as is dissociation and religious trauma (so its another Venux Crucifix work). There are several instances where images may portray uncomfortable stimuli and grating textures especially to those with trypophobia, Character art is rendered in an wildly imaginative style, but there are instances of nonsexual nudity and potentially suggestive scenarios. And while nothing is visually graphic per say, a prominent character's appearance may be a bit visually overstimulating due to aforementioned themes... The Lamia Girl in the game page and cover is a pretty good indication of what I mean for example! The content of A3 is rather difficult to talk about whether its in a warning capacity or not nonetheless so if you're easily made uncomfortable or disturbed don't hesitate to put it off. 

"Before you go on to say that I’m like a child for liking fairytales, the process of reading through a fairytale is a rather reconstructive one. Most of them are told or written within the context of their time, so a lot of the symbols and narrative threads they use are not simply sparks of inspirations that the authors had at the moment, but are symptoms of a long running tradition of such concepts being frequently used… In a way, it’s kind of like an economy of semiotics… Although, of course, to the people of the present such as us, that context is lost, so we can’t help but analyze such things as merely being ‘fantastical wonders’ with no greater reason than to be spectacles to entertain, but I assure you that if they really were as vapid as that, they wouldn’t have the longstanding legacy they do now. For every fairytale princess you’ve heard of, there are surely countless others that have died within the deep unconsciousness of our collective humanity for being incapable of adequately reflecting the essential truths that inspire us to live our lives gracefully. It could be said that fairytales are precisely the window through which the self and subconscious are best understood. Anthropologists have always found it rather curious how so many stories from across different cultures and eras could still possess similarities to them…and this wonder naturally leads itself to the rather idealistic interpretation that we’re all reciting an essential aspect of reality itself through narrative… We call those similarities ‘archetypes’, and they live within each of us in their own ways… Though, if you were to ask me what my opinion on the validity of such theories is, I feel they over complicate what’s effectively a rather simple experience. If fairytales were of such complexity that they need the introspection of esoteric scripture to fully understand, then children wouldn’t be able to so immediately be enthralled by them… Though, perhaps it is them who are closest to the ‘truth’ in a sense… We may have lost a certain aspect of ourselves in our growth that made us inherit the wonders of such fantasy… However, just because we’ve lost it doesn’t mean we can’t get it back… I want to believe that there’s a way to reconnect with our past selves like that…not just in the sense of who we were in our childhood, but of who we were in these ancient wondrous stories… Because, surely, they must feel so familiar for they’re myriad reflections of lives that we’ve once gone through… If samsara is the law that governs all life, then whose to say it doesn’t also apply for those fantastical forms with bodies of illusions and dreams?"

As always, this is another solo work by the Venux of the Cross, though vastly supplemented by the efforts of those who contribute their spirit to the Creative Commons! The background images and textures are all sourced from Wikimedia Commons, and were either under public domain or a CC0 license. Music  is from Peritune and Dova-Syndrome! (you might recognize some tracks from my prior vns wink wink) Any sound effects are also from PD/CC0 uploads to Freesound.