Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-01-23 12:12 am
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Vergil's heart game r4

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.

Unless you're Glory, in which case the rest is the same, but you wake in a library.
rollplayinghouse: (BaseSprite_4)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[looks a little uncertain, but]

...Alright. Come find me if you get in any trouble.
send_noods: (chat n5)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He's not sure why, but hearing the boy speak surprises him more than it probably should]

Why not?

[he stops walking toward the door, though]
rollplayinghouse: (ca143-2)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
I can see that.

[obviously]

Are you researching something in particular, or just here for fun?
auguryofinnocence: (And a state of dismal woe.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"...It's not that weird, don't worry about it. Sometimes it's hard to remember. It's not like...it matters. How could anyone remember."
send_noods: (smile 2a)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Lookin' out for me, huh?
softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
But you remember me, though...

...what are you reading?
auguryofinnocence: (Default)

Re: PETRIFIED FIELD

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
You just manage to escape its grasp, to fight your way out of the field, though it still reaches out after you until you're well out of its reach. Are you dragging that portrait with you?
rollplayinghouse: (BaseSprite_3_2)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[huff]

Of course. It's dangerous here, and I probably know it better than most people.
auguryofinnocence: (Settled a lake bright & shining clear:)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Do Vergils speak? "...That's the throne room, it'll be dangerous. You should find the Fallen Ones."
auguryofinnocence: (Forgetfulness dumbness necessity!)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't do anything for fun, of course it's research. ...To get stronger."

He thinks about it for a moment, but he shows her what he's currently reading.

The world was born of darkness. Unending darkness, a crucible of chaos. But even to that primordial existence there came a ray of light. The world was eventually separated into two. The darkness became the realm of demons, and the light became the domain of mortals. The two coexisted for what seemed an eternity.

However the lord of the dark world said, "These realms were once united, so let us rule them as one." From that day forward the dark fought to control the light, and the light struggled to escape the dark.

But the nature of man is weak and fragile. They had no hope to oppose the demonic powers of those from the world of darkness. So light was devoured by the depths of darkness. But at the very moment humanity was about to be extinguished, he appeared.

Sparda, though an inhabitant of the demon world he was one with a proud soul. Having no loyalty to his kind, he took up arms on behalf of the world of light. Wielding his sword for the sake of the weak, that sword destroyed even the demon king. Without its king the darkness lost its power.

Sparda feared for the return of darkness and so he sealed that world along with his own despicable dark powers and the wicked humans who sided with the demons. The survivors worshipped him as a hero who saved the human world, and began calling him The Legendary Dark Knight. He quietly reigned over the human world and continued to preserve harmony until he eventually disappeared.

But the nature of man is weak, their memories fleeting as morning mist. The hero who purchased their freedom with his own blood became but a legend and over time, the legend became nothing but a fairytale.
auguryofinnocence: (In chains of the mind locked up)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Obviously I remember you, people know you exist right? So no one's going to forget."

He pauses for a moment, looking at his book, before showing her. "You know about my father, right? It's research."

The world was born of darkness. Unending darkness, a crucible of chaos. But even to that primordial existence there came a ray of light. The world was eventually separated into two. The darkness became the realm of demons, and the light became the domain of mortals. The two coexisted for what seemed an eternity.

However the lord of the dark world said, "These realms were once united, so let us rule them as one." From that day forward the dark fought to control the light, and the light struggled to escape the dark.

But the nature of man is weak and fragile. They had no hope to oppose the demonic powers of those from the world of darkness. So light was devoured by the depths of darkness. But at the very moment humanity was about to be extinguished, he appeared.

Sparda, though an inhabitant of the demon world he was one with a proud soul. Having no loyalty to his kind, he took up arms on behalf of the world of light. Wielding his sword for the sake of the weak, that sword destroyed even the demon king. Without its king the darkness lost its power.

Sparda feared for the return of darkness and so he sealed that world along with his own despicable dark powers and the wicked humans who sided with the demons. The survivors worshipped him as a hero who saved the human world, and began calling him The Legendary Dark Knight. He quietly reigned over the human world and continued to preserve harmony until he eventually disappeared.

But the nature of man is weak, their memories fleeting as morning mist. The hero who purchased their freedom with his own blood became but a legend and over time, the legend became nothing but a fairytale.
send_noods: (chat n0)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
And the Fallen Ones aren't?

[wow those also sound dangerous]
softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
...mm.

That's the Sparda that was worshiped in the city Nero grew up in, right? He sounds like, well—

...a bit like the heroes my people forgot, as well.
auguryofinnocence: (In an orb his fountain of thought.)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Everything's dangerous in Hell. But no they can't really do anything, so they're way safer than that. You don't have to go there, but if you're going to go in the throne room...you want a weapon."
rollplayinghouse: (ca142)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[She reads over it quickly.]

...That sure isn't very flattering to humans. They're so fragile they couldn't hope to win, but if they sided with the demons, they're wicked? Appreciating Sparda as a hero is worshipping him, but forgetting him is weak? What exactly were they supposed to do?
auguryofinnocence: (In chains of the mind locked up)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"There's only one Sparda, of course it's the same one." That makes him think though. "...Do people just forget everyone? Even heroes like him, or yours?"
send_noods: (TAT beach)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Point. And I do like weapons.

[gestures to the tunnel North]

How about I head that way.

You comin' with?
auguryofinnocence: (Eddies of wrath ceaseless round & round)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know, bring it up with them. But if someone saved your whole world, they're at least worth remembering, right?"
softlyfalling: (pic#14304664)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well—

...over time, I guess, it depends on what histories get passed on. Who makes an impression. What people think is important... what gets deliberately hidden away.

In our case, it was a matter of—well, history being written by the victors.
auguryofinnocence: (And the sulphureous foam surgeing thick)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
He nods. "That's fine, you could go there, that's probably how you'll get to them really. ...Do you want me to come with you?"
rollplayinghouse: (ca2-017-1)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure no one decided he wasn't worth remembering. It was thousands of years, right? People naturally aren't going to believe something passed down that far is totally true. Or, the people who would otherwise pass it down could die, or disasters could destroy records... Nothing is permanent. The fact that his memory lasted that long even as a fairy tale is impressive.

Who's "them"?

[looking for an author on the book]
Edited 2021-01-29 02:02 (UTC)
auguryofinnocence: (Eddies of wrath ceaseless round & round)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"...Yeah. Whoever wins is the hero, whether they did something that's actually good or bad doesn't matter. They get to act like anyone else didn't exist. ...Or was evil and had to be defeated."
softlyfalling: (pic#13352230)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
...something like that, probably.

But you... shouldn't be forgotten.
auguryofinnocence: (And heated his furnaces & pour'd)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh. Yeah. Maybe."

The writer is inconsequential, it does seem like an average human sort of name though. He shrugs. "I don't know anything about the person who wrote this. I guess they weren't important enough to remember either."
send_noods: (TAT arms crossed)

Re: LIBRARY

[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[shrugs] Wouldn't have asked if I didn't.

It's cool if you wanna stay. Libraries are always my top choice... although this one needs a bit of cleanup.

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