idolpro | 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.

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Back it goes, absorbed into the statue...

Violin A name was written on the back in black marker, but it's been scratched out. Even though this is clearly a high quality, expensive instrument. It's hard to shake the feeling of annoyance that comes with it. ...Well, the name was scratched out, but now "Vergil" has been written again over the scratches.
Flowers You're terrified. Or is this just how it feels being deeply in love? Maybe both. It might be difficult not to cry for a moment. But it's kind of lame to just give yourself a bouquet, sure you paid for it but are you just going to keep it for yourself?
Monocle You don't feel any different. Except maybe a little silly for even thinking about wearing a monocle, who the heck does that? Although there is a sort of aftertaste of needing to prove yourself...

Two more that feel right. You have 400 red robs remaining.

The ground rumbles beneath you, not enough to throw you off balance or disrupt anything around you, but it is distinct. Vergil looks over at everything and frowns. "You're not too good at this, huh. But I guess it was enough."

If they're not meant to be taken, why are they options?

... did that open the gate?

[also, can he put the monocle on]

You put on the monocle! Maybe you can be as cool as Sparda now? Or maybe it's just good Zrael aesthetic.

"Probably just to throw you off from what's actually important." He shrugs. "That did feel like the gate though, yeah."

[raven... ... ... will wear the monocle now.]

Are you ready to go, then?

"...I can't. It's only for you."

It's your heart too, isn't it?

"That doesn't mean I can go there. I never get to go home, or see her again, so...it's not going to let me."

["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.

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.

[gently, raven squeezes his hand, and heads back to the cave]

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.

[curiously, raven approaches, and reaches out a hand to touch the void]

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.

Vergil's heart game r3

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