Do You Remember Love? - 1

Author's Notes: oc x harem fic chapter one woohoo. i dont really have anything to add... other than i hope to get back to writing this again soon in the new year (2024). also i havent watched macross im sorry

It was a compulsion.

That was the best way to describe Maxmillion Morgan’s—Call him Max, everyone calls him Max—addiction to this silly game. Crush Crush. An idle dating sim with clicker elements that currently had fifty-five unique characters to romance. To say Max was a fan might have been an understatement. It wasn’t a terribly deep game. It was incredibly grindy and encouraged pay-to-win elements. Still, something compelled Max to keep playing. The moment he realized you could boost your timers within the game by doing a ‘soft reset’ was a frustrating one.

He had romanced the main cast of nineteen women without boosting once.

Still, he did it.

The next playthrough was with a merciful boost. His stats steadily increased as did his cash. With each character that was romanced, his diamonds—the in-game currency—increased. It also helped that the Limited Time Events and quests gave him diamonds when he needed them. Eventually, it wasn’t enough. He loved this game and all it’s little quirks. He wanted to support it. So, he bought a couple of diamonds and purchased a few new characters.

Then he plugged in a couple more dollars to up his reset boosts and timers.

Each time he did so, the love goddess, Q-Pernikiss, in her chibi form would thank him and call him the best. His heart panged each time she showed up. It was silly but he adored her character, as brief as her time as a full-fledged character was. There was just something about her teal eyes and heart-shaped pupils that sucked him in. He couldn’t help but reset her Phone Fling over and over again just to get more of her. He might have also bought a few more diamonds just to see Q-Piddy call him the best again.

Soon, Crush Crush wasn’t a grind anymore.

Within minutes, he could get the main girls to Lover rank with just a few clicks. The same went for some of the DLC girls. It took less time to list what girls he didn’t max out; Lake, Brie, Lotus, Babybelle, Nova, Yuki, Marybelle, and Amelia. The latter had just been released so that was his excuse. (One day, Honey and Caitlin would win Vote-a-Fling. One day. He just had to believe.)

And yet...

Max continued to play.

How many times did Max complete the main story? He wasn’t sure. There were so many girls in the game that he couldn’t keep track. Not to mention, he had soft resetted so often for the bonus that it all blended together.

Something compelled him to play to ‘completion’ today. Even if it meant having to push back his plans of finishing certain girls as his money would reset to zero. Whatever. It’d all add up eventually. He’d be a quintillionaire within four days or something. He didn’t really keep track of that sort of thing.

That’d be weird and pathetic.

He was already weird and pathetic enough as is considering all the money it plugged into this silly game.

Max bit his lip. Whatever. It wasn’t like he was hurting anybody or something with this. He had a job and did his dues. What was wrong with spending all this time and money on this game anyway? His eyebrows furrowed as his mouse cursor hovered over The Dark One’s silhouette on the sidebar.

Images of a ‘dark’ version—an emo-scene girl from 2006, really—of Mio flashed across his screen. He rolled his eyes. There was something so non-genuine about the character. He would have preferred it if they played it straight and didn’t hide behind a veneer of “this is totally a dumb joke” and “total laziness” like The Dark One said in her introduction. As neat as it would have been to see a new character in Dark Mio’s place or maybe even a Dark Cassie, them claiming she was ‘taking the form of someone the player trusted’ would have been fine.

He shook the thought from his head.

Clearly, he needed a break from this game if he was getting stupidly salty about this dating sim and its quirks. Thanks to Catara’s bonus, he was able to breeze through The Dark One’s gift and date requirements with a single click.

He yawned.

It was getting pretty late. He should probably call it for the night soon.

Mindlessly, he clicked a few more times until the emo-scene eldritch abomination was successfully wooed and laid. The familiar CG threw itself up onto Max’s screen.

There lay The Dark One, supine and with one hand on her heavy pierced breast and the other between her legs. Her fingers pulled away from her slick mound and yet were still connected by strings of slick quim. He imagined an animated version of the scene. One where her fingers would tantalizingly push and pull between her slick folds and the strings of arousal would threaten to snap between her flesh. Her heaving tits would rise and fall with each laboured breath that fogged up his screen.

Okay, so, maybe The Dark One was alright in the end.

He clicked next and the other familiar CG played out. The Dark One lay on her side with her hand propping up her head as she looked at the viewer. The lower half of her body faded away into the ether as the text box below read the words ‘Not bad, I guess’—

“I’ll get you next time. I swear.”

He blinked.

“The fuck? Alright then,” he muttered to himself. Tiredness washed across his body. It was time for bed. He had a shift in the morning. As he dragged his cursor towards the ‘x’ button in the corner, the image of Q-Pernikiss appearing in the sidebar caught his eye.

He swallowed.

Eh, what was another five-ten minutes?

The cursor flicked across the screen and clicked on the blonde fairy. The sequence played out as it normally did. The little fairy appearing in front of the player character and thanking them for a job well done before going to sacrifice herself.

“HAH! SUCK IT, Q-PIDDY~!”

Here came Pamu, the resident avatar of LOL RANDOM chaos, to ruin the love fairy’s initial plans. A beam of light shot from the blue-haired woman’s wand and zapped the tiny blonde. Max clicked next. Q-Piddy was now a tall, shapely woman with the teal-pink eyes that drove him mad. He swallowed. He had seen this scene dozens of times. It was embarrassing that he was still as excited to see her as ever.

The next moment was full of clicking. Every single line of dialogue needed to be seen by Max before he moved onto the next level through dates and gifts. It was silly. It was silly to try to draw out this brief moment he had with one of his favourite characters. He knew that deep down. Still, he did it.

However, all things had to come to an end.

“Your love has restored me. I’m ready. Please embrace me for one last time before I face the portal as we will not share another moment together again. Goodbye, my love. I will miss you.”

The sex scene soon followed. The scenes in this game were always simple but this one always made Max feel a certain way. Maybe it was because he liked the fairy’s design that much or because of his crush on her, he wasn’t entirely sure. This time felt... different.

Q-Pernikiss kisses you. Every inch of your body is covered with kisses. Your lips, your cheeks, your neck, eyelids, and down to your fingertips... They’re all decorated by her lips. Heat licks at your skin and burns inside your body as her fingers trail across your body. Pure, unfiltered emotion pulses through your chest with each kiss and touch. Finally, she pulls you in close. The sensation of her full breasts against your chest makes both your heart and cock throb.

That was new.

Definitely new.

The game wasn’t normally this descriptive. It also went out of its way to make it as gender-neutral as possible. The sex scenes were definitely written with a cis man in mind.

What was going on?

“Ah, you feel... so big and hot,” she whispers against your neck. The sensation of her warm breath against the sensitive flesh makes your hair stick up on its end. Trails of goosebumps raise along your flesh. “I’ll tend to you, my love. Please... Please let me take care of you.”

Her hand slips into your pants and wraps around your cock. Each stroke feels utterly divine. Pleasure courses through your veins. Kisses continue to pepper themselves along your pulse. It’s enough to make your breath hitch as moans bubble up inside your throat. Pre dribbles from the tip of your cock as Q-Pernikiss strokes you off. “Do you feel good, beloved?”

“Yes,” Max muttered to himself as he palmed his erection. He didn’t know what was going on but it was definitely doing something to him. “Please keep going, Q.”

“Alright. Anything for you,” she replies. “I love you so much.”

Once more, Q-Pernikiss kisses your lips.

“Please make love to me.”

What little clothing she has is quickly torn from her perfect body. Her eyes glitter in the twilight. Her kissable lips curl into an ‘o’ as the open air caresses her body. You watch as a flush stains her skin a pretty shade of pink that compliments her rosy gold hair. Arousal pumps itself through your bodies as you slide between her shapely thighs. Your cock twitches at the sight of her pussy. You can’t help but stare at her for a long moment. She pants. Her hands reach out for you as tears prick at her gemstone-like eyes. “Please. Please don’t keep me waiting.”

Your lips twitch before curling into a smile at her request. Her hand slides down between her legs. The pad of her finger brushes against her swollen clit and forces a gasp from her. Then, you finally line yourself up with her dripping entrance and push inside.

White-hot pleasure racks your bodies as you sink further into her tight cunt. Delightful warmth envelops your cock. She’s so tight. She’s so wet. She’s so perfect. You’ve never felt like this before. She has never felt like this before. This would be the first and last time the two of you get to experience this...

At that thought, your thrusts grow more erratic. All you want is more. More, more, more. She gives you everything and you greedily drink it all up. Everything isn’t enough. You need this again and again. She needs it too.

Her moans ring across the cosmos as her walls twitch and pulse around you. The wet smacks of flesh against flesh almost seem to echo. Sweat drips down your bodies. She glitters under you like starlight. Her back arches as her hips buck and squirm. She’s so tight. You swear you can feel the beating of her heart from inside her. Her eyes roll into the back of her head as her twin buns come undone from the rigorous sex.

“Beloved! I-I...” she begins, only to be cut off by a squeal of delight. Her voice cracks as it jumps an octave. Your hands grip onto her shapely hips and pull her forward. Your cock grinds against her white-hot insides as you feel your own release coming. Your balls tighten. Your breath gets heavier.

Then, everything is white.

Cum splattered across Max’s desk as he thrust one last time into his grip. He gasped as his head rolled back against his neck rest. Milky white dribbled across his fingers. The world spun around him. Things were never that intense before. What the hell was going on? As he slowly came back down to earth, his brown eyes flickered towards the screen to see that the CG changed to Q-Pernikiss’ lovers screen.

“Thank you...” she gasps out. “Thank you for everything. For your love, persistence, and devotion... I never want this moment to end...”

Max blinked.

In the glowing luminescence of your love, Q-Pernikiss is restored. Power and love courses through her veins as her emerald wings begin to flap. She floats into the air as love shines in her eyes. Still, her hands hold onto yours as the portal above you two crackles with dark energy. Tears roll down her cheeks as a sad smile splits across her face.

“My love... Only a being of True Love can close the portal... by sacrificing myself. Before I fell in love, I was ready to sacrifice myself for the greater good. I was so ready to give up everything for the world. Now that I experienced what it was like to blush, to have my heart race and my stomach flutter... To experience a crush, no, true love myself... Well. I’m glad. Thank you. Please embrace me one last time!”

Without a single thought, Max reached for his mouse and clicked on the ‘sacrifice yourself’ option in the game.

Love is what’s needed to close The Dark Portal. Love is what drives you to reach for Q-Pernikiss’ hand and pull her back before you charge forward. As the love fairy’s voice once again rings throughout the cosmos, you feel yourself being pulled into the incredible force of the portal.

[Nailing the Perfect Heroic Death – CRUSHED!]

“No!” Q-Pernikiss screeches out as you sink further into the portal. “Not again!”

She reaches for you...

Suddenly, a hand thrust itself through Max’s screen. Pure instinct took over as he jumped from his seat. Pure panic pulsed through his veins as he watched the hand reach further and further out.

“Please!” a familiar voice echoed across his room. “Grab my hand, beloved!”

It was a compulsion.

Max swallowed as he reached for the hand and enveloped his fingers with it.

Then, he was pulled into the screen and left this world.