Vergil's heart game r4

[idolpro]

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.

Comments

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

...Yeah.

[she's still tense at the touch, but she relaxes a little after a moment]

I'm glad... for whatever amount I can help.

Re: MANOR

[auguryofinnocence]

"You do a lot to help every day, you know. Just being around."

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

...Vergil helps me a lot that way, too. It's... comforting. Being able to talk to him, but also... he's just easy to be around. A familiar presence, even though there's no reason for us to be familiar... well, there is now, obviously, but... you know what I mean.

He probably thinks he doesn't do much, still. But that's important to me.

Re: MANOR

[auguryofinnocence]

She laughs softly, placing a hand on your cheek. "No, he doesn't tend to see what's in front of him. But you may have helped with that too."

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

[Glory's cheek warms slightly under her hand as she blushes, flustered and not sure what to do with the touch]

...If I have, then... I'm really happy about that.

Re: MANOR

[auguryofinnocence]

She laughs a little. "You don't need to be so shy, are you not my daughter?"

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

[she ducks her head a little more, automatically]

A-Am I?

Re: MANOR

[auguryofinnocence]

"If you are my sons' sister, then it only stands to reason, right? I would say you are, yes. I would like you to be."

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

I'm also your grandson's sister. It's not really a... reasonable thing.

But—if you want it to be like that... then...

Re: MANOR

[auguryofinnocence]

"Then would you rather be my sister?" Welcome to gentle mom teasing, Glory.

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

[what is gentle mom teasing!! what is any kind of mom anything!]

N-No, I think that would be weird. Daughter is fine.

I just... haven't been a daughter before. And I... wouldn't want to assume.

Re: MANOR

[auguryofinnocence]

"You don't need to assume anything, Glory. Of course you are."

Were you ready for another hug? Either way of course you need another one now.

Re: MANOR

[rollplayinghouse]

...Okay.

[it still takes Glory a moment to return the hug, but when she does it's more firm, and some of the tension in her body drains]

Thank you.