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.
softlyfalling: (my little sister can't be this cute.)

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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh

hm. can she steal a sword before she tries to wake dante up ]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
There's swords, guns, daggers, gauntlets, a mace, some sort of extendable polearm... Most are highly ornamented with distinct motifs. You get a sword! Either from the case behind the desk or lodged in the demon decor. Either way.

When you get close to Dante, it's immediately apparent that he isn't asleep. There's blood all around his chair, flowing down from the wound through his back. It's a thin and short mark, but based on how much blood there is, it clearly goes all the way through his heart and back out his chest. One of his hands is clutching something, while an amulet lays face up in the puddle of blood.

There's a flashing voicemail indicator by the telephone, and, you guessed it, more garbage strewn about. A pizza box that's still mostly full and not yet cold. There's uh, a lot of olives on this. There's also a framed photo of a blonde woman, smiling softly.
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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ yeah uhhhhh that's. that's alarming. is that, perhaps, a yamato-sized wound,

that said, she's going to try and pry open his hand for whatever's in it. ]

...sorry, Mr. Dante, sir.
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
That wound would be the perfect size for a katana. You have one guess as to what happened.

It certainly takes some prying, but his hand opens, revealing a second pendant. This is nearly identical to the other, but in silver, with Dante's name carved on the back.
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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ hm.

does the other amulet say "Vergil"? ]
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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.
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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??? ]
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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. ]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
There's a pillow and blanket folded up to one side 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.
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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ waaaah he liked it

I think Jason's showing her the photos. ]

...well, I'm glad he likes me, at least.
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-29 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
He might not like Jason, but he likes you. You're good for Nero, you're not a Vergil. Right? Right. Sure.

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[personal profile] softlyfalling 2021-01-29 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ nah, she was just raised by one, ]