Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-01-23 12:11 am
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Vergil's heart game r3

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.
selfpreservationist: <user name="batshit"> (dip him in the river who loves water.)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[can't help but chuckle]

You have a long way to go before you reach those heights... but you'll make it eventually.
auguryofinnocence: (Ribs like a bending cavern)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm at least just as strong as him now. The real me."
selfpreservationist: <user name="batshit"> (the nakedness of woman)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Is that so? Are you sure?

[clearly in a teasing tone]
auguryofinnocence: (Over all his nerves of joy.)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
He huffs! "I'm sure!! Obviously I am!"
selfpreservationist: (once a dream did weave a shade)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[he laughs softly and winds his arm around the boy's shoulders]

Truth be told... I am, too. I never knew what Sparda was like at the height of his power... but you're the most powerful demon there is, now.
auguryofinnocence: (Los beat on his fetters of iron;)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"...You really think so? What about Dante? He always beats me, right, so..."
selfpreservationist: (for wash'd in life's river)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's true that Dante is strong. But he lacks the kind of resolve you have.
auguryofinnocence: (forging chains new & new)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Doesn't that just mean that he's naturally stronger, so I have to work harder just to catch up?"
selfpreservationist: (cast thy keys o rome)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps. But that just means you have a clear path to victory.
auguryofinnocence: (In an orb his fountain of thought.)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"...Well...I am going to keep working just as hard." And Dante's probably going to sit on his butt and not care unless Vergil does something evil he's got to stop, so...yeah, of course he's better!
selfpreservationist: (and his dark secret love)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Naturally.

[... pats vergil on the shoulder, and gets to his feet]

I should be going.
auguryofinnocence: (From the caverns of his jointed Spine)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Don't just spend all your time talking to me or you're going to break that promise without trying at all."

But, after a beat, he grins.
selfpreservationist: (shall shine like the gold)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
What a shame that would be.

... take care.

[he heads south]
auguryofinnocence: (Shooting out ten thousand branches)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
The boy rushes after to grab your wrist and pull the moment he realises that's where you're going. "You can't. Don't go in there, Raven. That's - you know." You know, right? How many things could make him panic like this?
selfpreservationist: <user name="oira"> (prudence is a rich ugly old maid)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[he stops]

... where else can I go? There has to be a way... I know Yamato is around here somewhere, but I don't know how to find her.
auguryofinnocence: (Forgetfulness dumbness necessity!)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
"You haven't been looking around at all, have you? You can be at least a little nosy. There's all kinds of things to help you, you know, you're making it harder than it has to be."

But that's a very Vergil kind of thing to do, huh.

"Yamato...is where I lost it. I think you can get there from the cave. In the blood."
selfpreservationist: (hold infinity in the palm of your hand)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
... I'll try the cave, then.

By the way, do you know where this goes?

[he holds up the painting]
auguryofinnocence: (In an orb his fountain of thought.)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Geez Raven, does he have to hold your hand through this?? "It goes where it's supposed to, obviously. ...At home. If you find Yamato, come back here, there's more but you're going to need Yamato for the combat adjudicator to get them."
selfpreservationist: (the fox provides for himself)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-01-28 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[puts the painting away]

Alright. I'll return shortly.

[heads back to the cave]
auguryofinnocence: (Default)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-28 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
He sighs as he watches you go. Bye Raven, remember to actually look around............