Live triple threat!

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Who: Cosmo, Marnie, the Grand Master of Ceremonies Ligrev, and you!
Where: the lobby
When: Day 244 noon

[It’s the lobby, there’s like, not much special going on, but Vergil is in a big robe and pointy hat and false beard obscuring himself as much as possible. The massive size of the beard helps muffle his voice a bit too. Marnie is just hanging out nursing a drink, basically. Cosmo has set up a table of drinks.]

Good morning/afternoon/evening, please set all cellular devices to silent during the ceremony or they will be confiscated. ...Good enough? [HE IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE the disguise was not enough.]

Marriage! Fuckin' cute, right? Choosing someone to be bound to for life! Ain't nothin' more romantic, if you're into it! And if you're not, well, we're just fuckin' around, so no worries there. But we've got a theme to pander to, so let's have some fun!

[What we have here is actually a man who is terrible at monologuing. Does he get points for effort?]

[Cosmo raises a glass of champagne in a toast.]

Thank you Ligrev, Grand Master of Ceremonies! Thank you Marnie! We should work on a title for you shouldn’t we.

And with all that said, anyone who comes by now can marry one of these three eligible* bachelors**! Just point at your choice and the other two will see the wedding done… Somehow or other. Personally I recommend Ligrev, a serious older gentleman with a distinguished aura. Then again, if eye-candy is your thing you can’t beat Marnie. Naturally I, Cosmo, am a catch.

Of course you can bring your own bride or groom if you like, too.

Well, who will come get married?

*Citation needed
**Citation needed

[Ligrev starts to back away from the scene the moment they’re all offered as possibly eligible possibly bachelors. Hopefully no one will notice if they’re distracted. This was not part of the deal.]

((Zreal, Baritones, and Taisho get host bonus, all participants get theme bonus + 3 host bonus, come bully Vergil or get hitched what happens in hell stays in hell))

Comments

[gigadevilbreaker]

And his taste for nicknames is even worse than yours.....

[selfpreservationist]

Well, now you know where I get it from.

[gigadevilbreaker]

Really glad there's someone we can both blame for all our personality defects.

[selfpreservationist]

How convenient for us.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[More quietly, so they can't be overheard,]

...Still haven't told him?

[selfpreservationist]

... I haven't. I'm... debating whether or not to tell him now.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[That takes him aback]

Why now of all times?

[selfpreservationist]

It seems like he's settled in... you don't think so?

[gigadevilbreaker]

Well.



Specifically, why at a Live where he's dressed as a dumpy wizard.

[selfpreservationist]

That part... hadn't factored in.

You think it's a bad idea.

[gigadevilbreaker]

I guess I'm... kinda torn.

[selfpreservationist]

[... glances away]

I'll wait until the timing is better, then.

[gigadevilbreaker]

I mean-- it's up to you. Really. You oughta do what you feel's right.

I just don't want him t'start treating you weird.

[selfpreservationist]

That's... inevitable, really. At some point he was going to realize what I am, and see either me or himself in a different light. As anyone would.

[gigadevilbreaker]

But you're so different already. You're you, not his reject reflection.

[selfpreservationist]

... is that how you see me, Nero? Someone different?

[gigadevilbreaker]

[He scratches his face, a little sheepish]

I think... neither of us are free of being 'like him'. Maybe I didn't happen magically, but sometimes I see us acting the same, feeling the same... apparently I look the same.

I know it's not like your situation at all, but I don't think it's that weird to look at someone you-- came from and to realize how much of you is just... someone else.

There's things that made you that're totally yours. You picked your own name. You want to live. I think... there's a lot I didn't realize until you and Vergil were side by side, but. He's not you and I don't want him to be.

[selfpreservationist]

What do you want me to be, Nero?

[gigadevilbreaker]

I... I don't know.

But you don't deserve t'be saddled with Vergil's-- guilt.

[selfpreservationist]

What makes you so sure of that?

[gigadevilbreaker]

Because I don't want you to be.

[selfpreservationist]

It's... not as if I want to carry his burdens... but if I don't... if I am not Vergil, if I'm not part of Vergil, what does that make me? I would just be... a stranger to you.

I can't accept that.

[gigadevilbreaker]

You're not.

[He takes Raven's hand in his right, clasping it with purpose.]

C'mon, Raven. You're still my family. Not just that - you're the only one in this dumb family I like. Probably the only one I've ever fought alongside...

Even if there's not a word for it-- there doesn't have to be, right? The only important thing is what we feel.

/2

[selfpreservationist]

[for a moment he just--stares at nero, his expression deeply, deeply vulnerable, like someone about to start crying]

[selfpreservationist]

[he looks down at their joined hands]

... and what is it... that you feel? What would make you want me... to be a part of your family?