[ he knows vergil, give the guy a giant library full of information about various things and he'll make camp there for the foreseeable future, give him the fabled library of alexandria and there will be no seeing him ever again. ordinarily dante wouldn't worry, he'd let vergil go have his fun without batting an eye, but something nero said to him some months ago sits uncomfortably at the forefront of his mind, unsettling him to his very core.
something about the library holding books detailing their lives, from birth to unfortunate end, and all the messy bits in between.
everything to do with sparda and eva isn't the worry, he hasn't been secretive with those details whenever they were brought up. but everything after? they talked about mundus, about what vergil suffered under the former king of the underworld's thumb, they talked about mallet island. but he hasn't spoken about how vergil ended up trapped in the underworld, he hasn't talked about temen-ni-gru or the qliphoth. he didn't see any reason to bring it up, to tell vergil about the destruction he wrought in his eternal quest for power. if vergil didn't remember it why would he talk about it? why bring up a subject that would shatter their hard-won happiness?
it's a bad feeling that has him entering the library today, a stone that sits heavily in his stomach and forces his feet to move. vergil's in here, he knows his brother has come to the library, that he's got his hands on something that he shouldn't have, that their fragile peace is going to be shattered once again by the uncaring press of reality. that feeling only grows as he continues further in, following the familiar pull of his brother's presence, the invisible thread that binds them to one another. when he finally does find vergil that stone in his stomach sinks even further, blue eyes fixing on the book in his head before flicking up to his twin's face.
well, shit...
he's too late, isn't he? too late to stop vergil from reading something he's better off never knowing, never remembering. ]
library
something about the library holding books detailing their lives, from birth to unfortunate end, and all the messy bits in between.
everything to do with sparda and eva isn't the worry, he hasn't been secretive with those details whenever they were brought up. but everything after? they talked about mundus, about what vergil suffered under the former king of the underworld's thumb, they talked about mallet island. but he hasn't spoken about how vergil ended up trapped in the underworld, he hasn't talked about temen-ni-gru or the qliphoth. he didn't see any reason to bring it up, to tell vergil about the destruction he wrought in his eternal quest for power. if vergil didn't remember it why would he talk about it? why bring up a subject that would shatter their hard-won happiness?
it's a bad feeling that has him entering the library today, a stone that sits heavily in his stomach and forces his feet to move. vergil's in here, he knows his brother has come to the library, that he's got his hands on something that he shouldn't have, that their fragile peace is going to be shattered once again by the uncaring press of reality. that feeling only grows as he continues further in, following the familiar pull of his brother's presence, the invisible thread that binds them to one another. when he finally does find vergil that stone in his stomach sinks even further, blue eyes fixing on the book in his head before flicking up to his twin's face.
well, shit...
he's too late, isn't he? too late to stop vergil from reading something he's better off never knowing, never remembering. ]
Doing some light reading, Verg?