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* OrganTheft: Pan suspects that Amy still has Nikki's dead body in her basement, and just moved his vital organs into Pan's robot body.
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* OrganTheft: Pan suspects that Amy still has Nikki's dead body in her basement, and just moved his her vital organs into Pan's robot body.
* PronounTrouble: Pan initially doesn't know what pronouns to use for Nikki, her previous identity. She defaults to"she" "he" at first, but gradually switches to using "he" "she" instead.
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* TransTribulations: Pan thinks that Nikki might have agreed to Amy putting him into a more feminine robot body to alleviate his gender dysphoria. However, Pan begins experiencing dysphoria in her ''robot'' body, finding that she longs for the stronger and more capable body of Nikki.
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* TransTribulations: Pan thinks that Nikki might have agreed to Amy putting him her into a more feminine robot body to alleviate his her gender dysphoria. However, Pan begins experiencing dysphoria in her ''robot'' body, finding that she longs for the stronger and more capable body of Nikki.
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* HopeSpot: Pan still believes that Amy can fix her problems as her condition deteriorates, but Pan's quick fixes only make things worse. In particular, the life support purse that she creates to let Pan explore the outside world -- it leads to one of Pan's happiest days in a long time, but only serves to reinforce the nightmare that living at home is, and she never gets another chance to leave her house.
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* GraveRobbing: Amy graduates from OrganTheft to grave robbing when it's revealed that she has dozens of bodies kept in her lab, all for the sake of making Amy a more human-like body.
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* DestructiveRomance: Pan and Amy's relationship is entirely unequal; Amy only cares about Pan enough to mold her into her plaything, while Amy's obsessive dedication with pleasing Amy comes at the expense of her own identity and mental health.
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* CasualKink: A major part of Pan and Amy's relationship is that kink plays a large part of it, both in terms of casual sex and in Pan's submissive role to Amy in other aspects. Pan is the idealized petite, frail doll who is innocent enough to treat like a child (to the extent that she eats nothing but sweets) but adult enough to have sex and take care of Amy's cooking and cleaning -- meanwhile, Amy asserts the role of parent (being the literal creator of Pan), sexual partner (having sex whenever she feels like it), and owner (asserting total control over Pan's schedule and meals). The unhealthy balance between casual life and kink gradually spirals out of hand.
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* TransTribulations: Pan thinks that, back when she was Nikki, she agreed to have Amy put him into a more feminine robot body to alleviate his gender dysphoria. However, Pan begins experiencing dysphoria in her ''robot'' body, finding that she longs for the stronger and more capable body of Nikki.
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* CasualKink: A major part of Pan and Amy's relationship is that kink plays a large part of it, both in terms of casual sex and in Pan's submissive role to Amy in other aspects. Pan is the idealized petite, frail doll who is innocent enough to treat like a child (to the extent that she eats nothing but sweets) but adult enough to have sex and take care of Amy's cooking and cleaning -- meanwhile, Amy asserts the role of both parent (being the literal creator of Amy), sexual partner, and owner (asserting total control over Amy's schedule and meals). The unhealthy balance between casual life and kink gradually spirals out of hand.
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* CasualKink: A major part of Pan and Amy's relationship is that kink plays a large part of it, both in terms of casual sex and in Pan's submissive role to Amy in other aspects. Pan is the idealized petite, frail doll who is innocent enough to treat like a child (to the extent that she eats nothing but sweets) but adult enough to have sex and take care of Amy's cooking and cleaning -- meanwhile, Amy asserts the role of both parent (being the literal creator of Amy), Pan), sexual partner, partner (having sex whenever she feels like it), and owner (asserting total control over Amy's Pan's schedule and meals). The unhealthy balance between casual life and kink gradually spirals out of hand.
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* AllForNothing: Pan distracts herself from her struggles by focusing on the garden, which she prides herself upon, but all of her work is rendered useless when a storm passes through and destroys it. She becomes distraught and doesn't even attempt to fix the mess, adding another issue to her worsening condition.
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''Absolutely Perfect Specimen'' is a visual novel created by Chambersoft (chamberlilium and ruinedpowers) for the 2023 Visual Novel Cup.
In a broad sense, the novel covers themes of gender dysphoria and unhealthy codependent relationships, examining them through the eyes of a robot maid named Pan and her creator, a scientist named Nikki. Over the course of half a year, Pan begins struggling with memories of her previous life and her dependence on Amy, which puts a strain on their relationship.
The novel can be downloaded from itch.io at [[https://chambersoft.itch.io/absolutely-perfect-specimen this link.]] It covers heavy themes and contains graphic and sexual imagery; lists of content warnings are available on the download page. Due to its short length (it takes about an hour to read), '''all spoilers are unmarked.'''
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!!''Absolutely Perfect Specimen'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear how Nikki became Pan, since Pan herself hardly remembers her previous life outside of flashbacks. It's suggested that Amy turned Nikki into Pan as a way to cure her gender dysphoria, but ended up using this to enforce her own desires on Pan's body.
* AllForNothing: All of Pan's work on the garden, which she prides herself upon, is rendered useless when a storm passes through and destroys it. Pan becomes distraught and doesn't even attempt to fix the mess, adding another issue to her worsening condition.
* AnArmAndALeg: Pan's arm falls off when she slaps Amy after finally having enough of her verbal abuse. Amy creates a temporary replacement until she can switch bodies.
* BittersweetEnding: Though Amy is dead and Pan is heading toward the same fate, Pan ends the story having finally escaped her abusive relationship, essentially dying as herself.
* CartoonCreature: Maggot, a dog-like creature stitched together from different animals, looks more like the disembodied head of a teddy bear than anything.
* CasualKink: A major part of Pan and Amy's relationship is that kink plays a large part of it, both in terms of casual sex and in Pan's submissive role to Amy in other aspects. Pan is the idealized petite, frail doll who is innocent enough to treat like a child (to the extent that she eats nothing but sweets) but adult enough to have sex and take care of Amy's cooking and cleaning -- meanwhile, Amy asserts the role of both parent (being the literal creator of Amy), sexual partner, and owner (asserting total control over Amy's schedule and meals). The unhealthy balance between casual life and kink gradually spirals out of hand.
* ContentWarnings: The download page contains two levels of content warnings, one more general and one more specific, to prevent potential spoilers from learning the specific details of certain plot events.
* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Absolutely Perfect Specimen'' deconstructs the dominant/submissive power fantasy of master and maid, by starting as an idealized and lighthearted depiction of such a relationship and gradually showing how unhealthy and toxic it can become.
* DestructiveRomance: Pan and Amy's relationship is entirely unequal; Amy only cares about Pan enough to mold her into her plaything, while Amy's obsessive dedication with pleasing Amy comes at the expense of her own identity and mental health.
* DopeSlap: Pan slaps Amy in a fit of rage as Amy's chewing her out. Her arm falls off in the process.
* FanDisservice:
** On a broader scale, the whole novel is meant to turn a common sexual fantasy on its head -- a RobotGirl {{meido}} who simply obeys their master's orders while having little free will or independent thought -- by examining the unhealthy thought process rooted behind it. Pan is deeply dysphoric and unhappy in her position, knowing that something is wrong with her even if she can't fully articulate it, while Amy is abusive, micromanaging Pan's life and gaslighting her into submission.
** For a more specific example, the sex scenes gradually start out as idealized and fluffy, and gradually becoming nauseatingly realistic, culminating in a point where Pan vomits when she can't take the unpleasant sensations anymore.
* EyeScream: Pan kills Amy by repeatedly stabbing her in the eye with a screwdriver.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** It's pointed out early on that Pan and Amy live next to a massive graveyard. As it turns out, Amy harvests dead bodies to sustain Pan...
** When Pan is cooking, special emphasis is given to her gutting a pumpkin and wanting to drink the juices that comes out when she's cutting a steak. Both of these foreshadow Pan eventually cutting Amy open and eating her guts.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Heavily implied. While Amy tells Pan that she can't survive at all if her life support cable is removed, Pan discovers that she can, though she's unsure of how long. When she removes it for the last time, she ends up dying shortly afterward, though this is just as likely to be due to sustained injuries and fatigue as it is her cable being removed.
* {{Gorn}}: The novel becomes notably gory by the end, with Pan's body literally falling apart, and then her killing Amy and eating her guts while drenched in blood, all presented to disquieting effect.
* GraveRobbing: Amy graduates from OrganTheft to grave robbing when it's revealed that she has dozens of bodies kept in her lab, all for the sake of making Amy a more human-like body.
* HopeSpot: Pan still believes that Amy can fix her problems as her condition deteriorates, but Pan's quick fixes only make things worse. In particular, the life support purse that she creates to let Pan explore the outside world -- it leads to one of Pan's happiest days in a long time, but only serves to reinforce the nightmare that living at home is, and she never gets another chance to leave her house.
* ImAHumanitarian: In the climax of the game, after stabbing Amy to death with her own screwdriver, Pan's hunger is so overwhelming that she begins eating Amy's insides, finally getting real sustenance she was waiting for.
* LethalChef: Pan notes that, though she's a skilled chef now, she was averse to cooking as Nikki and generally relied on instant noodles. As her condition worsens, her cooking skills deteriorate, until she's only able to create a haphazard stew.
* MadScientist: Amy is skilled at creating artificial life, having produced Pan's body as well as a little chimera called Maggot, which she affectionately treats like a dog. True to form, she spends most of her time locked away in her laboratory, only rarely interacting with the outside world. Her obsessive nature leads to her exerting an unhealthy amount of control over Pan.
* OrganTheft: Pan suspects that Amy still has Nikki's dead body in her basement, and just moved his vital organs into Pan's robot body.
* PronounTrouble: Pan initially doesn't know what pronouns to use for Nikki, her previous identity. She defaults to "she" at first, but gradually switches to using "he" instead.
* SleepDeprivation: As her condition worsens, Pan has trouble sleeping -- her dreams just become nightmares of her previous life, and eventually her room becomes uninhabitable due to mold. It gets to a point where she can't even cook properly.
* SpitTake: When Pan makes Amy a truly horrible stew, Amy takes a sip without looking and spits it out immediately.
* SweetTooth: Enforced upon Pan, as her programming will ''only'' accept sweets to sustain her. Even when she gets sick of them, she can't bring herself to eat anything else, thus starving herself until she finally can't take it anymore and eats Amy's guts.
* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: Inverted; Pan becomes so depressed that she stops eating, as it makes her nauseous, even though her hunger becomes unbearable.
* TransTribulations: Pan thinks that, back when she was Nikki, she agreed to have Amy put him into a more feminine robot body to alleviate his gender dysphoria. However, Pan begins experiencing dysphoria in her ''robot'' body, finding that she longs for the stronger and more capable body of Nikki.
* UncannyValley: Pan herself is a cute, cartoony, doll-like robot who only skirts the uncanny valley occasionally, mainly when she notes that she's inhumanly frail and delicate. It's much more obvious with Pan's new body, which -- while never shown in full -- is said to be stitched from dozens of corpses like a Frankensteinian nightmare. Pan immediately realizes that she would rather die than live in that kind of body.
* VomitDiscretionShot: After a nauseating round of sex, Pan vomits. While it's described in detail, it isn't shown, though there's an unused image of it in the code.
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''Absolutely Perfect Specimen'' is a visual novel created by Chambersoft (chamberlilium and ruinedpowers) for the 2023 Visual Novel Cup.
In a broad sense, the novel covers themes of gender dysphoria and unhealthy codependent relationships, examining them through the eyes of a robot maid named Pan and her creator, a scientist named Nikki. Over the course of half a year, Pan begins struggling with memories of her previous life and her dependence on Amy, which puts a strain on their relationship.
The novel can be downloaded from itch.io at [[https://chambersoft.itch.io/absolutely-perfect-specimen this link.]] It covers heavy themes and contains graphic and sexual imagery; lists of content warnings are available on the download page. Due to its short length (it takes about an hour to read), '''all spoilers are unmarked.'''
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!!''Absolutely Perfect Specimen'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear how Nikki became Pan, since Pan herself hardly remembers her previous life outside of flashbacks. It's suggested that Amy turned Nikki into Pan as a way to cure her gender dysphoria, but ended up using this to enforce her own desires on Pan's body.
* AllForNothing: All of Pan's work on the garden, which she prides herself upon, is rendered useless when a storm passes through and destroys it. Pan becomes distraught and doesn't even attempt to fix the mess, adding another issue to her worsening condition.
* AnArmAndALeg: Pan's arm falls off when she slaps Amy after finally having enough of her verbal abuse. Amy creates a temporary replacement until she can switch bodies.
* BittersweetEnding: Though Amy is dead and Pan is heading toward the same fate, Pan ends the story having finally escaped her abusive relationship, essentially dying as herself.
* CartoonCreature: Maggot, a dog-like creature stitched together from different animals, looks more like the disembodied head of a teddy bear than anything.
* CasualKink: A major part of Pan and Amy's relationship is that kink plays a large part of it, both in terms of casual sex and in Pan's submissive role to Amy in other aspects. Pan is the idealized petite, frail doll who is innocent enough to treat like a child (to the extent that she eats nothing but sweets) but adult enough to have sex and take care of Amy's cooking and cleaning -- meanwhile, Amy asserts the role of both parent (being the literal creator of Amy), sexual partner, and owner (asserting total control over Amy's schedule and meals). The unhealthy balance between casual life and kink gradually spirals out of hand.
* ContentWarnings: The download page contains two levels of content warnings, one more general and one more specific, to prevent potential spoilers from learning the specific details of certain plot events.
* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Absolutely Perfect Specimen'' deconstructs the dominant/submissive power fantasy of master and maid, by starting as an idealized and lighthearted depiction of such a relationship and gradually showing how unhealthy and toxic it can become.
* DestructiveRomance: Pan and Amy's relationship is entirely unequal; Amy only cares about Pan enough to mold her into her plaything, while Amy's obsessive dedication with pleasing Amy comes at the expense of her own identity and mental health.
* DopeSlap: Pan slaps Amy in a fit of rage as Amy's chewing her out. Her arm falls off in the process.
* FanDisservice:
** On a broader scale, the whole novel is meant to turn a common sexual fantasy on its head -- a RobotGirl {{meido}} who simply obeys their master's orders while having little free will or independent thought -- by examining the unhealthy thought process rooted behind it. Pan is deeply dysphoric and unhappy in her position, knowing that something is wrong with her even if she can't fully articulate it, while Amy is abusive, micromanaging Pan's life and gaslighting her into submission.
** For a more specific example, the sex scenes gradually start out as idealized and fluffy, and gradually becoming nauseatingly realistic, culminating in a point where Pan vomits when she can't take the unpleasant sensations anymore.
* EyeScream: Pan kills Amy by repeatedly stabbing her in the eye with a screwdriver.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** It's pointed out early on that Pan and Amy live next to a massive graveyard. As it turns out, Amy harvests dead bodies to sustain Pan...
** When Pan is cooking, special emphasis is given to her gutting a pumpkin and wanting to drink the juices that comes out when she's cutting a steak. Both of these foreshadow Pan eventually cutting Amy open and eating her guts.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Heavily implied. While Amy tells Pan that she can't survive at all if her life support cable is removed, Pan discovers that she can, though she's unsure of how long. When she removes it for the last time, she ends up dying shortly afterward, though this is just as likely to be due to sustained injuries and fatigue as it is her cable being removed.
* {{Gorn}}: The novel becomes notably gory by the end, with Pan's body literally falling apart, and then her killing Amy and eating her guts while drenched in blood, all presented to disquieting effect.
* GraveRobbing: Amy graduates from OrganTheft to grave robbing when it's revealed that she has dozens of bodies kept in her lab, all for the sake of making Amy a more human-like body.
* HopeSpot: Pan still believes that Amy can fix her problems as her condition deteriorates, but Pan's quick fixes only make things worse. In particular, the life support purse that she creates to let Pan explore the outside world -- it leads to one of Pan's happiest days in a long time, but only serves to reinforce the nightmare that living at home is, and she never gets another chance to leave her house.
* ImAHumanitarian: In the climax of the game, after stabbing Amy to death with her own screwdriver, Pan's hunger is so overwhelming that she begins eating Amy's insides, finally getting real sustenance she was waiting for.
* LethalChef: Pan notes that, though she's a skilled chef now, she was averse to cooking as Nikki and generally relied on instant noodles. As her condition worsens, her cooking skills deteriorate, until she's only able to create a haphazard stew.
* MadScientist: Amy is skilled at creating artificial life, having produced Pan's body as well as a little chimera called Maggot, which she affectionately treats like a dog. True to form, she spends most of her time locked away in her laboratory, only rarely interacting with the outside world. Her obsessive nature leads to her exerting an unhealthy amount of control over Pan.
* OrganTheft: Pan suspects that Amy still has Nikki's dead body in her basement, and just moved his vital organs into Pan's robot body.
* PronounTrouble: Pan initially doesn't know what pronouns to use for Nikki, her previous identity. She defaults to "she" at first, but gradually switches to using "he" instead.
* SleepDeprivation: As her condition worsens, Pan has trouble sleeping -- her dreams just become nightmares of her previous life, and eventually her room becomes uninhabitable due to mold. It gets to a point where she can't even cook properly.
* SpitTake: When Pan makes Amy a truly horrible stew, Amy takes a sip without looking and spits it out immediately.
* SweetTooth: Enforced upon Pan, as her programming will ''only'' accept sweets to sustain her. Even when she gets sick of them, she can't bring herself to eat anything else, thus starving herself until she finally can't take it anymore and eats Amy's guts.
* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: Inverted; Pan becomes so depressed that she stops eating, as it makes her nauseous, even though her hunger becomes unbearable.
* TransTribulations: Pan thinks that, back when she was Nikki, she agreed to have Amy put him into a more feminine robot body to alleviate his gender dysphoria. However, Pan begins experiencing dysphoria in her ''robot'' body, finding that she longs for the stronger and more capable body of Nikki.
* UncannyValley: Pan herself is a cute, cartoony, doll-like robot who only skirts the uncanny valley occasionally, mainly when she notes that she's inhumanly frail and delicate. It's much more obvious with Pan's new body, which -- while never shown in full -- is said to be stitched from dozens of corpses like a Frankensteinian nightmare. Pan immediately realizes that she would rather die than live in that kind of body.
* VomitDiscretionShot: After a nauseating round of sex, Pan vomits. While it's described in detail, it isn't shown, though there's an unused image of it in the code.
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