idolpro | Vergil's heart game r5

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.

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Hm? But -

... That isn't right, is it?

"I don't know, he's probably dead so how can anyone know. All that matters is he failed at what mattered, and people forgot him."

But the thing that you think mattered the most was protecting his family, right?

"..." Hey quit being smart and pointing out the flaws in his logic?? He huffs, pouting. "It should. More than just a bunch of humans who have nothing to do with him, anyway."

... Is it okay for me to ask you a question?

[ regardless, there's a pause before she continues, ]

Why do you think that he decided to have a family?

"...I don't know. He probably just wanted an heir. Someone to carry on his legacy and take care of all his messes when he died." One.

... Mm, but that isn't right either, is it...? Because -

If it were only that sort of thing - ... if that was all that it was, then it wouldn't matter that he wasn't able to protect him, would it?

Do you think that he should have loved his family?

"He can't have an heir if the heir just dies. ...But yeah. He should have. ...But he was a demon. So he couldn't."

[ gottem ]

... Did you say something?

"Don't worry about it. Don't you have things to do?" UHHHH CHANGE THE SUBJECT,

Even though strong demons "shouldn't have feelings," and that was the strongest demon that you've known - even so, you think that he should have had more of them, don't you?

".......

Shut up." There's no actual bite to it. Just the realisation she's got him cornered and he has no argument here besides digging his heels in.

... It's fine to hope for things like that, you know...?

He shakes his head. "No, I can't have it, so there's no point thinking about it."

... But it's something that you want, isn't it? Even if you're trying not to think about it ...

He presses his lips together...and reaches for your hand. "I don't want to be alone."

[ oh no

reaches for his hand, giving it a little squeeze ]

... It's okay.

"If you say so."

He's just going to hold it for a while, okay? Okay.

... Come here?

[ doesn't tug him but does gesture a little with her free hand, come a little closer ]

He looks for a moment...

And then he just goes ahead and takes a hug. Is that what you were going to offer? It's what he got out of that though so either way!

[ it is in fact what she was going to offer. she gives him a good squeeze before shifting her free hand to stroke at his hair a bit. ]

Obviously you give good hugs, how could you not. He will in fact keep holding on.

For a very long time.

Are you going to let go?

Because he is not going to let go. Maybe ever.

[ that's fine she's ok with comforting sad children forever ]

It's okay - you're a good boy, aren't you...?

Haven't you been doing your best?

"Yeah..." He nods, it's very comforting, it feels wonderful just to let himself have that. And now how could he possibly let it go.

His grip is too tight. Like he's trying to pull you right into his chest, as if you could turn into a phantom and be kept there forever...

Is it okay, Aradia? It can't be, right? But are you going to tell him he to stop and not provide care to him??

[ That's a little weird but also, she is the way she is and,

After a little though, she does shift against him, half-uncomfortable, half-aiming to sit herself down in the rubble ]

Here -

Why don't you put your head down...? Do you want to read a story...?

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