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"> (the hours of folly are measur'd)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-02-01 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
["her"... oh.]

Do you know that for certain? You have every right to see her--no, far more right to see her than I do.

[he holds his hand out]

Come with me, Vergil.
auguryofinnocence: (And a first Age passed over)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-02-01 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't want to hope that he could and be disappointed. But of course he wants to see her, he just wants to be with his mother. So even though he's silent, and hesitates a long while, eventually he takes your hand.
selfpreservationist: (as i guard o'er the fold.")

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-02-01 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[gently, raven squeezes his hand, and heads back to the cave]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-02-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Vergil manages to still be there with you, and it's different. The Hell Gate still has a few thin veins attached to it, but when you enter the cave, the seal covering it shatters into a thousand pieces and vanishes. When it disappears, the centre of the gate seems to as well, replaced only with a void, glowing and swirling with emerald green.
selfpreservationist: TIME FOR A SHITTON OF ICONS I STOLE FROM BOX (what is now proved)

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[personal profile] selfpreservationist 2021-02-01 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[curiously, raven approaches, and reaches out a hand to touch the void]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-02-01 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's warm and inviting, something sweet... And it pulls you right in.

Vergil holds tight to your hand, desperate to be pulled along too.

But he isn't there.