throwmoreswords: (cause what you've got is gold)
gilgamesh ([personal profile] throwmoreswords) wrote in [community profile] kaisou2023-09-08 02:30 pm

[treasure 4] berry delight, deep within

WHO: Vergil (and Gilgamesh) and you!
WHERE: the network
WHEN: after Vergil recovers a certain skill
WHAT: sometimes you're just chillin' at the pad and then your buddy has a 'hold my beer' moment and of course you're gonna record it. that's what friends do, right?
WARNINGS: none to start other than verg(il) swearing.

[ it starts with a shot of Gilgamesh, knuckles to his mouth as he looks down at the camera, and then up at something, eyebrows raised and smile just barely concealed under the cage of his fingers. ]

For posterity. [ his voice is quiet, private, and then the camera view clicks over and--

Vittore's clearly been practicing his sword forms, and yet, there is something innately, utterly dorky in the fact that he is practicing sword forms in a literal backyard in the first place. a cheap patio furniture set stands as his visible audience, not yet replaced because it takes a minute to get ahold of the good metal stuff, even if you have more money than god to pay for expedited shipping. most of the man's movements are fluid, elegant in the sweep of their scope, though it's clear there's some measure of improvement still yet to be made--Vittore starts and restarts katas when he's unhappy with them, his movements light and purposeful, his thoughts deeply turned in towards himself with how he mutters in his mothertongue as Gilgamesh provides a quiet running commentary. ]


I quite like this maneuver--stomp, stomp, stomp, and then we do the big sword sweep, and now we're back to stomp, stomp, stomp.

[ it is taking every ounce of restraint Gilgamesh has ever possessed in his body not to laugh as Vergil continues his backyard dance with Yamato, and then something shifts--the camera bobs a little as Gil adjusts it, as Vergil slides into a very particular looking crouch, hand on both the katana's hilt and its sheathe as he goes impeccably still. ] It's like the air is filled with static, all of a sudden. It's making my teeth itch.

[ what happens next is--blurry and instantaneous and hectic all at once. Vergil does not move and the fence--a quaint, white picket sort of deal--explodes.

wood splinters and rains out, clattering apart in a hundred messy pieces as Gilgamesh swears in his own mothertongue in tandem with a sharp, startled 'fanculo' from Vergil, the man taking a half step back as the fence shudders through its death throes. Gil continues to mutter for a moment, finally managing a good old fashioned 'what the fuck' as he begins to approach Vergil, only stopping when the plastic table also flops over in a gruesome, three-quarters cut death, camera briefly snapping to that as the shitty plastic lawn furniture topples, leaving only one of the chairs as a survivor, pristine and oddly untouched among all of the inanimate carnage.

kill the cameraman, but at least he stops a few feet away from Vergil, behind the man as he seemingly surveys his newfound kingdom of splinters and shards (and the one chair, defiant in the face of the reaper.) ]


Fucking hells, Vittore, I just bought you that fence! You've had it for less than a month! If you didn't like it that much, we could've called a company!

[ Vittore's shoulders draw inwards at having been caught in the act, not bothering to turn around as he snaps back. ] Says the man who broke a window with a chain of all things-- [ and then Vergil does turn, eyes widening as his gaze snaps straight to the camera. ] Are you--? Turn it off, Gilgamesh! You testa di cazzo--

[ and then the camera is being rushed by a certain blue cryptid, and while Gilgamesh may die, he did at least post this to the network so you all should say nice things about him at the funeral. ]
hoshikiri: (meditate.)

voice; un: kesitakame

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-08 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that's one means of realizing you have new tools in your sword belt. When your Iaijutsu botches a fence.]

... Do... you need help? [Does he mean with the fence or with the sword tech? Yes.]
drewthetower: (Squishy Witchboy)

action

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-09-08 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[So August, understandably on edge after the Krusnik thing, has taken to flying around the city and checking on his people. Vittore, by virtue of being an uncle, is one of his people. And look, when the dorky uncle is being a dork, August is required to come land on the fence and watch, wishing for some popcorn. Eventually two other ravens, Julian and Helena, also come to watch.

The familiars are smarter than August because they get the fuck outta dodge before the fence explodes. August realizes too late what's about to happen and as the fence explodes there is a loud "SHIT" coming from a bird that is no longer a bird and is in fact a human with some feathers in weird places and who is like. part shadow creature at the moment.

Congratulation, you broke his shapeshifting.]
bebest: (Like people what are clever)

Video: UN: hotgoss

[personal profile] bebest 2023-09-08 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vergil did say he was gonna practice more with his katana and here he is, doing just that. In the most dorky way possible, of course, but that's probably to be expected. Zulius watches this whole fucking circus, extremely amused.

And then Vergil just straight-up decimates the fence and well. That's a thing that just then happened.
]

Y'know, I was about to say that looked like some real weeaboo shit going on, but I'm gonna take that back because good goose. That fence is dead.

[Then, because they might as well keep with the joke Vergil did it on purpose even if he blatantly did not.]

He probs wants it all spikey and gothic. Like something Edgar Allen Poe would live in. You made it too suburbs for him. Just couldn't take it anymore.
lapislazily: (◆ lmao they said i flunked my test)

voice; un: freelancer

[personal profile] lapislazily 2023-09-08 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whatever Zhongli is expecting to see on screen it isn't that. A laugh bubbles up out of him, which he tries and fails to stifle in time. He's not trying to be rude, here.]

Ahem.

Is everyone all right?
jackdawvision: (oh there's a desert)

video | un: captainkenway

[personal profile] jackdawvision 2023-09-08 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
All right, the fence I might understand, but the chairs and the table too? What the devil did they do to you?
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (90)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he didn't want to find out like this. He's so vexed--especially because he's not even sure how he DID that. he'd just... ]

I will pay for fixing the fence. I do appreciate the offer, all the same. But it was my mistake.

[ he considers for a moment. ]

...Are you proficient with the Katana, Takame Kesi?
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (75)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's about halfway through menacing gil for having videotaped him without permission or warning, when he realises there HAD been a shout of someone... from the fence.

...Hold on wait.

He's gonna' run over to the... absolute mess left behind, a dozen different cuts and slashes separating the fence in several different ways--and his eyes fall on the... shadow creature??

His eyebrows going up as, at first, he almost reaches for Yamato again, but.

...Who...? That voice, he's sure he'd recognised --]


August??? He exclaims in--well, horror, really. Did he hurt the kid??
hoshikiri: (guren.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2023-09-08 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, if... you insist. [Gil could also replace it the guy had money, but he did not say that part out loud instead focusing on the follow up question.]

I am. Until somewhat recently it was my primary weapon of choice.
drewthetower: (Still A Stupid Young Adult)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-09-08 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[August waves from where he's lying on the floor in a bit of a daze.]

Hi. The fuck was that?
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (99)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a u g h ]

Other than my ... terrible lawn furniture, and the tacky fence, I am happy to report there are no casualties of note.

...

I would really like to stop discovering new powers in such a disturbing-to-my-life manner.
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (45)

lets ignore that i forgot to bracket part of that previous tag

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it not more important to first address if YOU are alright? You were in the damn crossfire of--

...

You look like a shapeless mass, right now. Were you hurt.
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (70)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
.........................

White picket fences are terrible, and I am sure anyone on this app would agree with me.

[ he has such a headache. ]
drewthetower: (Hm?)

what forgotten brackets I see no forgotten brackets

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-09-08 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh--oh.

[Give him a second as he just sort of readjusts and gets back to mostly-human.]

Sorry. That's a thing I can do now. Full moons are gonna be fun.

[He. May be a little concussed?]

Hi.
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (75)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ god this is happening again, he cannot escape this cursed app ]

Whoever originally invented the concept of plastic furniture has a special place in hell reserved for them.
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (43)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I am nothing if not a man who can own up to his mistakes.

[ gil bought the fence in the first place, technically. not that takame would be aware of that-- ]

...Is that so.

I see.
I have been trying to learn--perhaps, relearn? As I have found it was a weapon I had mastery of, in a past life of mine.

And now it seems I can do things with it like this with it-- which are insanely dangerous. I truly do need to bite the bullet and ask for some direction.
kowase: <user name=brokiloen> (109)

i forgot how to read at that exact moment too

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...god he's never heard august sound so punch-drunk in his nearly half-year here in Kaisou. He's going to move over and offer the boy his hand. ]

So you experienced a transformation on the night of the full moon as well.

What a migrane.

Come on. Stand up. I want to make sure you are not injured.

What were you even DOING there.
drewthetower: (Hm?)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-09-08 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeep. I mean, I could do the bird thing for a while and can do the shadow thing whenever, but--oh, okay.

[He takes Vittore's hand and stumbles to his feet, swaying because ow.]

Watching.
kowase: <user name=brokiloen> (127)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's going to do the stereotypical old person thing and dust grass and bits of splintered wood off of August's clothing, checking him over for wounds.
he knows the kid is a devil, like him, but-- ]


Watching.

You were watching.

I would have noticed.

[ wait ]

You were one of the birds.
drewthetower: (Still A Stupid Young Adult)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-09-08 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thumbs up!]

Yeah. The other two were Julian and Helena.
kowase: <user name=lastlinks> (44)

[personal profile] kowase 2023-09-08 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
....

[ he's gonna. look around. where did those other two... go.

Oh no. ]


--Were they caught in the crossfire.
Where are they.
drewthetower: (Default)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-09-08 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[August gestures to a nearby mostly unharmed tree.]

They flew off before shit exploded and didn't think to take me with them, traitors. They're fine. I'm fine!

[He is still dazed, sorry.]
bebest: (You could take all that I got)

[personal profile] bebest 2023-09-08 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
They are fashion disasters, can agree on there! Is that why you committed such acts of violence against yours?

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