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Vergil's heart game r2
You feel weak, your body won't move no matter how you try, and you are falling, away from everything you know and love. Away from everything you need to accomplish. If you could just reach out, maybe you could hold on to it, claw your way back. But it's a useless endeavour, you fall unconscious, and your mind goes blank except for poetry and a familiar voice.
O mother Enitharmon, wilt thou bring forth other sons?
To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found,
For I am faint with travail,
Like the dark cloud disburden'd in the day of dismal thunder.
My roots are brandish'd in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath
Surge, foam and labour into life, first born and first consum'd!
Consumed and consuming!
Then why shouldst thou, accursed mother, bring me into life?
You wake on the ground in a cave, cold, wet, and sticky. It smells of rotting flesh. Your objective is clear, but you can't recall a name or face. Nothing else about your memory of him is changed, but for some reason the name "Vergil" just won't come to you, and you couldn't describe how he looks if your life depended on it. But at least your body starts to respond to your will, slowly regaining enough strength to carry on.
To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found,
For I am faint with travail,
Like the dark cloud disburden'd in the day of dismal thunder.
My roots are brandish'd in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath
Surge, foam and labour into life, first born and first consum'd!
Consumed and consuming!
Then why shouldst thou, accursed mother, bring me into life?
You wake on the ground in a cave, cold, wet, and sticky. It smells of rotting flesh. Your objective is clear, but you can't recall a name or face. Nothing else about your memory of him is changed, but for some reason the name "Vergil" just won't come to you, and you couldn't describe how he looks if your life depended on it. But at least your body starts to respond to your will, slowly regaining enough strength to carry on.
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"...I have no lack of motivation or desire. My greed knows no bounds. This again you should know well."
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Yet confirming it for myself does reassure me.
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"You think me your lover. How many times must I tell you I am no one else?"
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You are not Vergil. Nor is he you. But you share the same soul. And as much as you are born from him, he is also born from you. I do not mistake you for him. But I would not deny that you are intertwined.
Why should I not acknowledge that connection? Here, especially.
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He lifts those paw pads just to float the bouquet back over to you.
"And your explanation for this?"
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Why not? You deserve appreciation as well after all.
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Well, I was hardly going to bring you a bundle of dead humans. Even could I find some.
[He snaps his fingers and the bouquet floats apart, weaving into a flower crown which he floats to Urizen's head.]
It may not be a demonic token of esteem but it is a token all the same.
Thank you for having existed. For existing here. Without you I would not have met him.
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"A means to an end. Who would be flattered by that."
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I will hardly lie and say it is you I wish to revive. I hope you are never needed in whole again.
[He presses his hand to Urizen's though.]
But I will not claim I have no appreciation for you. I see much of myself in you. A willingness to shed the unessential. The same endless drive and greed. Even the arrogance that is sure you are supreme.
Yet neither of us are entirely correct when left on our own. My end was more pathetic than yours, but we both paid for our hubris.
[He absently spins aether over Urizen's palm, creating a string of fire that does not burn, winding it pointlessly around his fingers.]
So yes, I would appreciate you, for what you were, and what you are--strength, but the kind that has been conquered for another purpose.
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"Yet I am greedy."
He watches that for a moment before lifting his hand again to wrap around you. Maybe you belong to a demon king now. His.
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Yes? As I said, I appreciate that. Your greed.
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"And that I would demand to possess you for myself?"
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Here in his heart, do you not already belong to me? What more would you like, Urizen? If that is the name you prefer.
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Is it impossible to take that power from him if he just doesn't have a name to start? Or is it actually his name officially now? Who knows. Maybe he just likes sounding Cool.
"I would not be possessed. Quite the opposite."
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[About the name or possessiveness? Both.]
Well, I am not denying your claim to me either.
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He sounds satisfied, his fingers curling a little tighter. Not so much as the roots did, this is just possessive. You belong to him, so why would he hurt you if you haven't betrayed him?
And those deep, endless, possessive, demanding feelings might start to seep through.
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If you do not wish to be alone, I will stay.
[Apparently he's just. Going to keep Urizen company now I guess. He had meant to go back to small Vergil, Five and Hades, but this works too.]
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"It was not up for debate. Nor a request for company. A belonging remains where it is held."
And he's just going to keep holding you in his hand.
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You are quite arrogant for such a youngster.
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"I have more than earned the right. Arrogance not unfounded."
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Are you sulking?
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