maybe your memories will be... better...?

[softlyfalling]

Who: all y'all
Where: wheremstever you want to take memories
When: Day 354

[ decent odds your memories will be better than what's been going on around here, right ]

Comments

[selfpreservationist]

... is exactly how I was, when I entered the world. I didn't run, or fight. I laid there on the floor, cold and naked and weak, thinking, "I don't want to die." And I would have just been food for demons if Griphon hadn't grabbed me.

[...]

No one helped us, before. No one came for us. And yet... why...?

[auguryofinnocence]

Because I was always second. Because of Dante. Because I was too weak to save them.

[That sure isn't the answer Raven was looking for huh. But he should have known!]

[selfpreservationist]

[sure wasn't!

raven closes his eyes and glances away]

...

[auguryofinnocence]

[Sorry he messed this up. It was so close.]

...If there is something I lack that makes Dante better...perhaps you already had it then. To have been saved.

[selfpreservationist]

Then it isn't something you lack anymore. You just have to find it.

[auguryofinnocence]

Hm. And you.

[selfpreservationist]

... and me.








[places his hand over vergil's holding the flower]

[auguryofinnocence]

[His grip on it tightens a bit, but he allows that, just lost in thought for a bit.]

[selfpreservationist]

[raven stays silent, closing his eyes for a few moments and bowing his head as he holds vergil's hand]

[auguryofinnocence]

[Well guess they're just going to stand there not quite holding hands for a while.

Eventually Vergil takes his hand away, looks at Raven, and finds a button hole on Raven's coat or shirt to tuck the flower into.]

[selfpreservationist]

[raven blinks as he glances down at it. ... ... ... and turns very, very red]

[auguryofinnocence]

[suffer]

...Something wrong?

[selfpreservationist]

[clears his throat and looks away, trying to act nonchalant and unaffected when he is neither of those things]

... if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were a romantic at heart, Vergil.

1/2

[auguryofinnocence]

[Wow shut up, of course he isn't??]

[auguryofinnocence]

[.............People keep saying that and it's getting really hard to keep denying it huh.

Maybe. Maybe just a little.]

And what would that say about you.

[selfpreservationist]

I've never denied it. There is... an appeal to it, I will admit. Trusting someone enough to be vulnerable with them, to treat your heart with care... it's a good feeling.

[auguryofinnocence]

...Hm. I suppose. Is that what constitutes "romantic at heart"?

[selfpreservationist]

I also enjoy dancing, reciting poetry, candlelit dinners... long walks in the park...

[auguryofinnocence]

Hah, well that's just excessive, Raven.

[selfpreservationist]

Hmm, maybe you're not as romantic as I thought.

[auguryofinnocence]

Of course I'm not. You must have learnt all that on your own.

[Please ignore that he has enjoyed all of those things,]

[selfpreservationist]

[glances down at the flower tucked into his pocket

glances up at vergil

raises eyebrow]

[auguryofinnocence]

What, should I throw it on the ground after you've been so metaphorical about it?

[selfpreservationist]

[immediately covers it with his hand, petulant]

No, I'm keeping it. And that won't convince me you're not romantic, just that you're an ass. Which I already knew.

[auguryofinnocence]

[He laughs. That face really makes him want to bully Raven though??? He meant throwing it away rather than finding something to do with it like affix it to Raven, but...now he just can't help himself. He reaches out for it like he's going to try to take it.]