idolpro | 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.

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Hi, Shrike.

[he's checking the voicemail, because he's that kind of nosy bastard.]

...............is he dead.

Probably not.

Thaaaaaat looks like a Yamato-shaped wound to me, though.

[ she's currently prying a second amulet out of Dante's hand. ]

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.

[ 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.

... 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.

Oh? How was I looking at you?

But that does sound like the correct course of action, yes.

Anything else you wanna look at, smartass?

[ 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...?

Bookmark from you.

...oh, it's what I got him for Christmas!

Well, seems he liked it enough.

Well, I'm glad he even thinks he'd keep it this far into the future.

...you'd probably like that one too, actually. Though, that's more of an aside. Is there anywhere else to go from here?

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When she shows you the pendants - you suddenly remember Vergil's name and face for real this time. Permanent.

[well, good!!!]

There's a pause, the line doesn't seem to be good, plenty of crackling, but after a moment a message starts to play. A familiar voice to those who know Nero, "Hey, you two killed each other yet? I don't wanna have to come pick up any bodies so keep it together, dumbasses. Anyway we got Glory and Raven here right now so I was thinking you guys should come by too. Dad's gotta meet the grandkids sometime. Quit trying to avoid it, old man. Neither of you got an excuse for not visiting with Yamato."

[hm.]

Interesting fantasy.

[time to look at the other out of place thing-- going to that couch to examine what the state looks like, and why it'd be clean while the rest isn't]

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.

[honestly, he's going to look at the Autobiography of Red.

photo album can come later.]

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.

[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]

Well, for a moment you remember it, anyway.

As soon as you look away from the book it's gone again. Weird.

It's full, a little too full, some of the photos don't have a sleeve to go in so they're just loose in the centre. It's Nero and his family, both Kyrie and the kids as well as Shrike (no Jason, all my friends hate Jason), and then there's Glory and Raven, there's a few candid shots of the twins both fighting like petulant children and just casually sitting around in the motor home laying on each other. All combination of Spardas together, even Pistol makes a few appearances with everyone.

But that's just half the album, the other half is Five, Alexander and Cosmo, with guest appearances from other Baritones, Hargreeves, and Levity. Some look like they were taken in another world entirely, everything is very different, and the people there all wear masks like Cosmo's, and robes.

[well, he'll just hand that over to Shrike, because you can't hurt him with this little NO JASONS ALLOWED stunt.

he'll just find other ways to make his life miserable, nbd]

Rude! Jason free zone.