Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2021-01-23 12:13 am
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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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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh no

reaches for his hand, giving it a little squeeze ]

... It's okay.
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 06:15 am (UTC)(link)



"If you say so."

He's just going to hold it for a while, okay? Okay.
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
... Come here?

[ doesn't tug him but does gesture a little with her free hand, come a little closer ]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ 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. ]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ 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?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
"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??

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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ 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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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not a little kid, I don't want to read a story."

He holds on so, so tight. He doesn't let you move at all, nothing that would take you from him for a single second.

And it just gets tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter until you can't breathe at all and your bones creak. He's far too strong for a child or even an adult, but, well he is a demon.

He squeezes the life right out of you, and it does feel for a moment, as if he's pulled you from your body and into his. Kept safe in his core. Where nothing can hurt you, he'll protect you no matter what, and you'll never leave him or forget him or stop loving him... Isn't it comforting to feel that in your last moment?

You wake up in the cave again, cradled in the spindly, steel arms of half a dozen hooded, faceless, wraith-like creatures. Or so they appear. There's no life in them, no more than a statue holding you upon its lap not unlike the Pietà.

It sloughs away into nothing the moment you stand.
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ being hugged to death but in a nice way is

alarming. she isn't certain how to feel about it - no, it's more that unsettled is the way that she feels. that sort of sentiment is normal, isn't it? and she's the one who's strange, for not having the same impulse? but it's different from just killing, isn't it - if she was able to do something like that, if she was able to keep people safe through that sort of means -

. . . well, there's no dwelling on it.

but she stays there for a while doing just that before excising the thought completely. standing up, she takes another moment to look around.

which way can she go? ]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
There's the gate. You could go east, or south to come back here. And when you look around, you notice another possibility too.

The roots seem to start from the heart, and most connect to the gate. One particularly large one breaks through the ground, then pops back up near a wall on the west side of the cave, twisting along the ceiling until another hole that it's broken through there.

It looks like a root, but considering it sprouts from the heart, maybe it's better to call it a vein or artery. When you get close, the blood rushing through it becomes apparent, not only to see but to hear. It's also plain to see an opening from its outer shell where it winds back up along the wall. If you don't mind a squeeze and being submerged in blood, you could ride the flow.

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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well

There are other things that she should be doing, but that -

If she makes it brief, it should be fine, she thinks. Heading south to go back to the library, looking for the kid. ]
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
He's just standing there reading again. Though this time he seems much more at ease, a small smile while he reads his book, at peace.
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
That - ...

[ it's said softly, a tremble in her voice that she doesn't think to suppress ]

Why did you -

[ no, hold on ]

. . . Why did that happen...?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Hm? What do you mean?"

He looks up, definitely a bit concerned about the way you sound.
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Don't you think -

[ h

hhh ]

. . . Mn, no - it isn't your fault ... I'm sorry.

[ it's not, so she needs to cut this shit out already, she thinks. instead, she smiles - brittle, but genuine ]

What are you reading...?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
He just looks at you like, okay??? What are you talking about, Aradia!

But he's pretty excited to show you the book! "You like magic, right?"

There's all sorts of spells here, most seem to make use of arcane runes and magic circles. Diagrams depict ritual sacrifice, or simply collecting vast amounts of blood, or extracting human souls. Most of it is written in a dead language, or maybe just one that doesn't exist where you come from.

There is one section you can understand the words of, though. It's on methods of turning a human into a demon. One passage describes the process of gibbeting as a form of execution, and how such tortures can allow human souls to transcend themselves through overwhelming desire for revenge. Such as the Finis caste of demons which all come into existence this way.

Another suggests binding human souls to demon forged weapons.

Another is simply a spell. It seems pretty simple, some runes and such to write in blood on the subject, they already provide the soul to power the magic, so in theory even the human in question could do it to themself. Which means you could do this, if that's what you're into.
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Um - well . . .

[ approaching, but a little more carefully despite herself ]

More than liking or disliking it, it's something that I do - I'm a witch ...

[ and, scanning the page, ]

Is that the sort of thing that you're interested in...?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I think it's really interesting. And if I'm going to be stronger than my father, then it's important to learn, too. Mostly I just like learning, though, really." Look at him, he seems so happy now?
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ that's. good.

really, that's the important part. listening to him, she actually seems to relax a bit. ]

Is that so...? Then what have you learned so far...?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, a lot? I'm pretty sure there's no one else who knows more about demons or demonic magic than me now. - The real me you know, I mean."
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[personal profile] constellationprize 2021-01-30 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Do you want to talk about it...? With -

[ not the gibbeting. ]

That forgery method, there... It still seems easy, but in comparison to the others it would be a little more difficult, wouldn't it...?
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[personal profile] auguryofinnocence 2021-01-30 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Hm, I think the torture method is easiest, but it sounds unreliable. Plus it would take a long time too. The spell also doesn't work that well, since the soul has to be strong enough to handle it. Forging it with a Devil Arm probably stabilises it though, so it takes the other problems out. But that's not really something just anyone can do like the others. You would have to be powerful to manage it."