Gladia
A downloadable tale for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A kinetic visual novel following a divine sword and a knight who can’t pull her from the stone.
A short toxic-cozy fantasy romance story about bonds, fate, entitlement, and feeling weird about attraction.
Contains about 4.4k words with 9 bite-sized chapters plus a prologue. Takes around 20-30 minutes to read through!
Art, writing, and programming by Cinnamatsu
Music sourced from DOVA Syndrome (tracks below)
- Fantasy Forest: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/16482
- Cathedral of Silence: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/23475
- Fragrance of Mixolydian: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/13861
- If I could be kind: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/23612
- The Glow of the Lamp: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/23501
- Unbelievable Dream: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/23266
- Melancholy Autumn Rainy Day: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/22737
- Abysstic Melancholia: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/23523
- Lose Sight Of: https://dova-s.jp/en/bgm/detail/23170
Content Warnings
- Toxic attachment, blood, and death.
- Contains foul language and sexual innuendo, but there is no explicit sexual content.
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finally... REAL living weapon trans fiction !! this absolutely rocked i thought i was just in for a funny satire at first but then somehow i found myself actually emotionally invested in the relationship between an entitled chuuni type knight and a sarcastic talking sword. i still laughed at the sexual innuendos though. what an incredibly delightful and stylistically polished tale thank you for telling it
unbelievably charming, i just adore the monochrome palette. it's used beautifully and really adds to the fairytale charm. great great great work!
screaming at the heavens, "whyyyy did it end up like this?" (entitlement, and bad communication!)
streamed this with a friend the other day. hope u like our take on the character's voices! we uploaded the vod on internet archive
this kicks ass,good job!
https://archive.org/details/toxic-yuri-jam-2026-gladia
So good and tragic! I can't believe how quickly you got me to really care about the relationship between a knight and a magical talking sword. The ending is just so heartbreaking... It's kind of fascinating how who draws the sword (thus dooming everything) seems to be out of everyone's control. Is it God's fault? Gladias? Hildegard's? Was it just dumb luck, or was it always fated to end this way?
Beautiful presentation also! I all the little flourishes like the scroll speech bubbles and the rotating halo effects. Hildy is adorable.
Wow, I loved those final few lines. And appreciated the repetition of the opening line, which I also had really enjoyed to start things off. In general, the prose of this work was top notch, and the art took it to the next level. Just a truly excellent tragedy, thank you for making it!
Quite good! Really cute and funny, then unexpectedly melancholic and bitter, then bittersweet. I guess I'm just a sucker for fabled, prophetic stories like this. The presentation is really good too, very bouncy and alive, responsive and intentional. Good work!!
if i had a nickel for every tyvnj2 entry with two antithetical magical talking swords and the mention of a slaying of a hydra, i'd have 10 cents, which isn't a lot, but—
That was pretty sick, really good dialogue and ending
Thanks!! Appreciate it!
So good!!! I was hooked the entire time 💗 the ending was great.
Aw, it means a lot, thank you!
This was good fun! You use assets very efficiently and get a lot out of things like the pattern elements in the background. I like the mostly-greyscale presentation and the care visible in how and where text appears. Thank you for making it!
Thank you for playing it!
this is so fire... big big fan of the ending. that was so good. so satisfying. good lorts ...
Tysm! I think the ending was my favorite scene to draw lol.
really enjoyed the juxtaposition of expectation, i thought the characters were really cute and fun to learn about. i enjoyed the humor mixed with the themes and tone shifts.
TY for playing, appreciate it!
short, sweet, and bittersweet. i loved this!
Aw, thanks for playing!!