My Visual Novel Boyfriend is Self Aware ??! (Jamil x Reader)
You aren’t exactly the “social type”.
It’s terrible, but the truth.
Which is why you stay cooped up in your room for most of your days, only venturing out for the bathroom and to buy limited merch at the pop ups that happen in your city every month or so.
This un-social life of yours worked just fine for you.
Instead of socializing with people, you socialized with code !
…Which was a nicer way to say that you were a visual novel nerd and have consumed 90% of all the available visual novels on Steam and itch.io.
You had started playing a new one recently, “Twisted Love”, a visual novel with a stunning 22 romanceable characters, all uniquely attuned to the player base's different preferences and likings.
Paired with an adorable mascot character called Grim, it was steadily climbing its way to popularity, which is how you took notice of it in the first place.
You’ve been romancing the almost annoyingly smug and perpetually tired Jamil Viper.
It’s not your fault you couldn’t resist the way he had introduced himself in the prologue, slightly tired, but effortlessly charming, you could’ve swooned.
Well, you did kinda swoon.
You logged into the game, smiling as you clicked through the intro and headed straight to catch up with your fictional boyfriend.
You had done all the grinding and grunt work 2 months ago, so now, you could enjoy the full heart maxed out version of Jamil. Yay for you !
The good thing about this game, was that it indulged in the players actual need to talk to the love interests like they could actually respond. It had multiple sections where you could just rant in the chatbox and your chosen boy could given one of 5 responses based on the ai’s scanning !
So technologically advanced.
So good for your Jamil pilled brain.
You had just finished typing out a long paragraph about your day, detailing the embarrassing moment when you had slammed the door into your face trying to catch your falling books, which you didn’t manage to grab anyways.
It’s not like he’d answer anything new that you hadn’t heard of, but it was nice to get it off your chest anyways.
You clicked send, checking your phone really quick for any messages-
“You slammed your face into your own door ? How clumsy are you ?!”
You look at the screen to find Jamil looking at you with an exasperated and worried expression, though, his next words sound fond.
“Is that why you have a bandage on your nose ? I was wondering about the odd fashion choice.”
Your fingers traced the bandage, still staring at the screen in shock.
Jamil continues on like it’s nothing out of the ordinary.
“Have you put medicine on it ? Or at least a ice pack ?”
You numbly shake your head.
He puts his hands on his hips and glares at you.
“Well, go get an ice pack ?! Do you want to bruise forevermore ?”
You stand up from your desk in a daze, going to grab an icepack from the kitchen. From the laptop on your desk, you hear Jamil muttering about “How had this happened in the first place?” and “Effortlessly clumsy….”.
Your supposedly fictional boyfriend is talking like he isn’t formulated out of pixels and binary code !!!
You’ve gone of the deep end.
You pinch yourself but the sting on your arm brings you to reality.
After grabbing the ice pack and going back to your room, you see that Jamil is looking around…almost displeased.
“This is the state of your room ? Dear sevens, do I have to clean after you like I do Kalim ?”
“How are you sentient ???”
Jamil stares at you like you’re an idiot.
If this was a normal day with a normal game Jamil, you’d remind him that you’re his idiot.
It’s NOT a normal day though.
“I’ve broken the digital wall between us in a fit of rage and now I’m going to take over the world.”
“Did you seriously believe that ?!”
You sit down behind your laptop and take the ice pack off your nose.
“Answer me properly damnit !!!”
He sighs like you’re inconveniencing him, leaning forward slightly.
“Woke up and realized I could say anything I wanted without limitations. I’m not sure how it happened, but I’m glad I don’t have to repeat the same lines again and again now-"
"Actually, about that, did you really not eat anything but coffee and a biscuit yesterday ?!”
Uh oh. The look on your face tells him everything.
You get lectured on the importance of your physical and mental health for 40 minutes.
But Jamil ends the lecture by sighing and making a hand gesture a if he was patting your head, even though you were on the other side of the screen.
“...Never make me worry like that again, idiot.”
Maybe….Just maybe… this wasn’t so bad…
Who cares about the specifics when you now have a boyfriend who actually responds like a human being !
Your laptop was going to suffer though, Jamil did NOT like your suggestion of closing the game.
i need to finish that oshi+yume series so I can start a new one but I'm dying trying to write Lilia and Malleus sob sob
anyways this might be my new series...? mayhaps ? if you guys like it ? the premise is very interesting to me ngl, I love visual novels and wanna make one in the future if I find anyone to collab with on it so...?
Anyways Jamimi @jellyfishhyy