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: (ca2-110)

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[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
...

[she's going to pick up both the amulet Dante dropped and the one already on the floor]
softlyfalling: (I'm not surprised by what was said)

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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thaaaaaat looks like a Yamato-shaped wound to me, though.

[ she's currently prying a second amulet out of Dante's hand. ]
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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ hm.

does the other amulet say "Vergil"? ]
auguryofinnocence: (Default)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
This...? No, not in this moment, what drives you, what...gives you a reason to keep struggling.
mind_blown: (Better get to diggin)

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[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but this seems like some sort of twisted fantasy.

Voicemail's Nero talking about stuff back home. Mentions Glory and Raven specifically.

[he shrugs.]

So, by symbolism rules, this is a future where Vergil just goes batshit crazy and wrecks everything because he's a terrible guy and shouldn'tve even bothered.
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Don't mock him. It's just what they've talked about doing!!

There's a pillow and blanket folded up to one side of the couch together, like someone sleeps here. The shelf is full of books, and pretty well all of them are poetry, though the one currently sitting on top of the blanket with a bookmark in it is Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson.

There's also a small photo album, pocket size, set on top of the shelf.

Meanwhile everywhere else, besides the pizza boxes and bottles of alcohol, there's a lot of paper. Random notes and receipts, but especially from pawn shops. There are a few notes bearing a different signature from the others, though it's too difficult to make out. All of these seem to be contracts and records for devil hunting.
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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ god

looks at jason, looks at herself, thinks about vergil,

:T ]

...well, that sounds like the kind of fatalistic thinking I could see from Vergil.
auguryofinnocence: (Panting: Conglobing Trembling)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
The amulet has "Vergil" carved in the back. The moment you see that, his face also comes back to you, and something in the distance rumbles. It isn't always visible, but this is something he tends to wear daily, so chances are you've seen it on him.

And the Vergil with you seems to realise too. He looks up, over to you despite his dead brother. "Ah-"
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
It sure does. The moment you see that, his face also comes back to you, and something in the distance rumbles. It isn't always visible, but this is something he tends to wear daily, so chances are you've seen it on him.
mind_blown: (But I'm making myself drown)

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[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[honestly, he's going to look at the Autobiography of Red.

photo album can come later.]
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[personal profile] send_noods 2021-01-29 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[What. How did this become about him all of a sudden? But that's easy]

My friends. Family. People I care about.

I'll do whatever it takes to protect 'em.
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[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
... Don't look at me that way.

[he rolls his eyes.]

Probably means we need to figure out where "home" is in the future. This's work. So. Gotta find Nero.
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[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[She also saw the memory where they got the amulets so she's Familiar.

She glances over at Vergil, but for the moment attempts to put Dante's amulet back around his neck.]

...Don't be stupid. Dante wouldn't die this easily.
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
There's a small huff, but it sounds like amusement. Approval, maybe. Sometimes you need to gain a sword's soul's approval before you can have it.

The vision disappears as instantaneously as it formed, and you are left standing where you were, sword in hand. It makes you feel strong.

You've acquired Yamato and seem to inherently know how to use it. That is, a sense of how to go about fighting with a katana, and that it is made to cut through anything, even space, even a soul. There wasn't a way back, but you may have found one. Teleportation unlocked! You can go wherever you want in the heart now.
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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ well.

she's going to take both the amulets actually. that's probably good, though, right?

right??? ]
softlyfalling: (c:)

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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? How was I looking at you?

But that does sound like the correct course of action, yes.
mind_blown: (Things are looking up)

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[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Anything else you wanna look at, smartass?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
The bookmark is just a folded up piece of wrapping paper with a tag that reads, To: Vergil From: Shrike. Otherwise, well it's just the book he's reading at the moment, you could probably read way too far into the choice because it's about a monster boy, but.
mind_blown: (What's up danger?)

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[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[vergil.]

That was his name.

[he will not read too much into it. books are books. you like what you like, you weirdo.

but, he'll take a look at the photo album next]
auguryofinnocence: (And heated his furnaces & pour'd)

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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"...It doesn't matter. The mirror world warps things."

But he does gain some confidence. Yeah, in reality Dante wouldn't be dead just from being stabbed, and he knows it's the mirror world, so it definitely isn't real. "Take both the amulets, they're supposed to go together."
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[personal profile] rollplayinghouse 2021-01-29 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
...Alright.

[she relaxes slightly at the acknowledgment this isn't real, removes the amulet again and closes her hand over both of them together]

Vergil.

[just enjoying the feeling of his name for a moment, then]

...It'll be okay. You know that, right?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
It sure is! As soon as they're near one another, they seem to be magnetically pulled toward each other, and form a single pendant. When you look back at Dante's body...it's gone. Along with all the blood, any evidence there was a murder here.
softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh

huh.

well obviously she wants to look at his books. ]
softlyfalling: (pic#13854091)

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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, the amulets just sort of merged together in her hands to make one (1) pendant, and now dante's body and the blood is gone? ]

Any clues in the books over there...?
mind_blown: (Better get to diggin)

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[personal profile] mind_blown 2021-01-29 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Bookmark from you.

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