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[ As Nero already knows, due to them being in the same team, Peter's been participating in the scavenger hunt. The problem is, he has just touched a picture frame that disappeared in his hand and got cursed by accident.
While most of the curses aren't malicious per se, Peter finds that they cause really awkward and inconvenient urges. This time he feels compelled to leave a voicemail on Nero's account with a song from one of his favorite groups: Fleetwood Mac. He's even tapping on a table to the song's rhythm to offer something in terms of instrumentals.
Nope, no more explanation than the song. Enjoy, man. ]
While most of the curses aren't malicious per se, Peter finds that they cause really awkward and inconvenient urges. This time he feels compelled to leave a voicemail on Nero's account with a song from one of his favorite groups: Fleetwood Mac. He's even tapping on a table to the song's rhythm to offer something in terms of instrumentals.
Nope, no more explanation than the song. Enjoy, man. ]
[For starters, he wasn't expecting the serenading- but that doesn't stop him from listening, either. A hand goes to reach for what looks like a seashell in one of the halls of Odin, only it disappears, and he stares at it for a long goddamn second before he tunes back to Peter.]
Wait a minute-
[Nero's tastes in music in the last five years have grown exponentially, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten his rock roots at heart. Peter actually gets a clap or two, along with some laughter, when he finishes.]
Fleetwood Mac. I haven't heard that in ages, not since my foster parents died.
[HAHA, WELP, SOMEONE ELSE IS CURSED. Nero immediately lets out a noise that very clearly admits he did not want to blurt that out. THANKS ASGARD, YOU SUCK.]
Wait a minute-
[Nero's tastes in music in the last five years have grown exponentially, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten his rock roots at heart. Peter actually gets a clap or two, along with some laughter, when he finishes.]
Fleetwood Mac. I haven't heard that in ages, not since my foster parents died.
[HAHA, WELP, SOMEONE ELSE IS CURSED. Nero immediately lets out a noise that very clearly admits he did not want to blurt that out. THANKS ASGARD, YOU SUCK.]
[ He's not taking Dante's advice. He's not. And he hasn't spent a great deal of time thinking about his words. That's absurd. His brother is a buffoon. What could he possibly know about parenthood?
Granted, it's not like Vergil has any idea, either, but the point stands.
Still. For the first time in a long time, he considers their family — and despite himself, he's begun thinking about what he would have done if he'd had another chance to speak with Sparda before his death.
The whole concept sits poorly with him. But... He supposes Nero's situation isn't dissimilar.
That means he has to talk to the boy, doesn't it? How does that even work? So he goes about it the only way he knows how. ]
Nero.
Let's spar.
Granted, it's not like Vergil has any idea, either, but the point stands.
Still. For the first time in a long time, he considers their family — and despite himself, he's begun thinking about what he would have done if he'd had another chance to speak with Sparda before his death.
The whole concept sits poorly with him. But... He supposes Nero's situation isn't dissimilar.
That means he has to talk to the boy, doesn't it? How does that even work? So he goes about it the only way he knows how. ]
Nero.
Let's spar.
[ It's silly but he really likes music so Peter can't be too mad about the curse. He even mutters a 'Thank, I'll be here all night' at the brief applause. ]
Ey, you recognized it! That's a first, I always had to explain my team who were the singers of each song I played. And uhm...I'm not all sure why I did this.
[ The confession comes so unexpectedly at the end that it almost gives Peter whiplash. He goes silent for some long seconds and then turns his replies to video. ]
I'm sorry, Nero. It must have been really hard. [ Peter can relate, to this day it still hurts to think about Yondu. ] Were you very young?
Ey, you recognized it! That's a first, I always had to explain my team who were the singers of each song I played. And uhm...I'm not all sure why I did this.
[ The confession comes so unexpectedly at the end that it almost gives Peter whiplash. He goes silent for some long seconds and then turns his replies to video. ]
I'm sorry, Nero. It must have been really hard. [ Peter can relate, to this day it still hurts to think about Yondu. ] Were you very young?
[The thing about family is that Nero has had a relatively normal experience of it since his upbringing. Sure, being called the "bastard child of a prostitute" by all the children his age wasn't really a great memory to have (nor was being shunned by most of the adults), but he made his own family with the ones that adopted him, and took to them like a fish in water. Kyrie and Credo were his lifeblood during the hard times- and they stuck together through thick and thin. Even when their parents died suddenly, they still remained a family. It taught Nero that family wasn't simply by blood, it was by who you found and who you knew you could trust, regardless of what lay ahead or what happened before.
It's... really honestly hard to apply that same logic to Vergil, on the other hand. The man may be his father, but Nero knows next to nothing about him, save that he's Dante's twin. He knows they feel they have to fight each other all the time, and that one of them has to win and the other lose- it's not one he agrees with in the slightest, but V said that was how things were. More than anything else, he wants to know Vergil; but at the same time, he feels hesitant to even ask. There's no middle ground here and Nero hates it, hates how he feels like he's being tugged at times towards something that may be more familial, even if he knows it probably won't be. It's complicated.
So to receive this out of the blue, well. He has to stare at it for a long time, almost unsure if he should even reply. On the one hand, it rouses the memories of their fight here, and how Vergil was convinced Nero wasn't real. Does his father want to finish what he started, or test him further? If that's the case, then no thanks, he'll pass. He rather not have to deal with nearly killing his own family just to survive. But then again, Vergil contacted him. Vergil contacted him. Not only that, but the man who is very bad at socializing and actually talking to people without judging them contacted him first. Usually Nero has to instigate something in order to get his father to talk to him.
Huh. This is fucking weird.
Nero is typing...]
sure
name the time and the place
[At the end of the day, even with a different outlook on life, Nero is still a Sparda. Fighting is in his blood, and he won't ever deny that.]
It's... really honestly hard to apply that same logic to Vergil, on the other hand. The man may be his father, but Nero knows next to nothing about him, save that he's Dante's twin. He knows they feel they have to fight each other all the time, and that one of them has to win and the other lose- it's not one he agrees with in the slightest, but V said that was how things were. More than anything else, he wants to know Vergil; but at the same time, he feels hesitant to even ask. There's no middle ground here and Nero hates it, hates how he feels like he's being tugged at times towards something that may be more familial, even if he knows it probably won't be. It's complicated.
So to receive this out of the blue, well. He has to stare at it for a long time, almost unsure if he should even reply. On the one hand, it rouses the memories of their fight here, and how Vergil was convinced Nero wasn't real. Does his father want to finish what he started, or test him further? If that's the case, then no thanks, he'll pass. He rather not have to deal with nearly killing his own family just to survive. But then again, Vergil contacted him. Vergil contacted him. Not only that, but the man who is very bad at socializing and actually talking to people without judging them contacted him first. Usually Nero has to instigate something in order to get his father to talk to him.
Huh. This is fucking weird.
Nero is typing...]
sure
name the time and the place
[At the end of the day, even with a different outlook on life, Nero is still a Sparda. Fighting is in his blood, and he won't ever deny that.]
[That gets a snort, and a bit of a chuckle.]
Look, I may not know all the classics, but I know a lot. Helps to pass the time when you're in boring sermons that lasted half a day or more. All that preaching and barely any breaks for anything.
[Nero doesn't even mind it when it swaps to video, and it shows him in a corner of Frigg's district, slowly working away at the engine of his van. He exhales, not wanting to talk about it, but the curse still having other plans.]
Sort of? I was adopted pretty early, when I was four. [Lips go thin at that, Nero frustrated that he's simply spewing all this out with no restraint.] Got raised by Kyrie and Credo's family till I was about twelve. [A pause, and he twirls the wrench in his hand, thinking how to word himself.] Then one day, I came home to find Credo comforting Kyrie, and he told me the news. Their parents were just... gone. Killed by demons in an attack that day.
[Nero was a believer and had good faith as a child- only for that faith to be broken by Fortuna's treatment of him, his never knowing of his true parents, and the death of his foster ones. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak, and turned him into a non-believer on an island full of worshippers to a legend he didn't think ever existed.
The news of his foster parent's death was hard, but he'd believed it as a boy. He hadn't known the secrets of the Order, back then. But even now, he's certain it wasn't a demon attack at all. To this day it still weighs heavy on his heart.]
Look, I may not know all the classics, but I know a lot. Helps to pass the time when you're in boring sermons that lasted half a day or more. All that preaching and barely any breaks for anything.
[Nero doesn't even mind it when it swaps to video, and it shows him in a corner of Frigg's district, slowly working away at the engine of his van. He exhales, not wanting to talk about it, but the curse still having other plans.]
Sort of? I was adopted pretty early, when I was four. [Lips go thin at that, Nero frustrated that he's simply spewing all this out with no restraint.] Got raised by Kyrie and Credo's family till I was about twelve. [A pause, and he twirls the wrench in his hand, thinking how to word himself.] Then one day, I came home to find Credo comforting Kyrie, and he told me the news. Their parents were just... gone. Killed by demons in an attack that day.
[Nero was a believer and had good faith as a child- only for that faith to be broken by Fortuna's treatment of him, his never knowing of his true parents, and the death of his foster ones. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak, and turned him into a non-believer on an island full of worshippers to a legend he didn't think ever existed.
The news of his foster parent's death was hard, but he'd believed it as a boy. He hadn't known the secrets of the Order, back then. But even now, he's certain it wasn't a demon attack at all. To this day it still weighs heavy on his heart.]
[ Regret is a feeling a man like Vergil has no time for. The same can be said of doubt, and second-guessing oneself.
That being said, there had been a moment after he'd sent the message where he'd looked for a way to remove it, erase all trace that it had ever been sent and prevent Nero from getting a notification about it. Because it can probably be traced, obviously, and if Dante were to see this and know that Vergil had done something similar to what he'd suggested, he would never live it down. That's obviously the reason why. Not because he'd ever been unsure that Nero would turn down the invitation. That would be preposterous.
It is, therefore, gratifying when Nero accepts, some strange modicum of relief running through him. Good to know that, despite his being raised human, despite the almost literal chasm between the two of them, Nero still shares the instinct that makes it impossible to turn out a good fight. At least, it seems that way; if the truth is something different, he's yet to see proof of it.
That being said, even if they're human here, he's not so foolish as to forget that they are still forces to be reckoned with. ]
Near the forest outside of the city. That should prove sufficient.
Two hours.
[ Even if he has his own petty grievances against the forest here, there won't be any aimless humans wandering around and getting in their way that far from the city. And then, just because he's an ass: ]
That should be enough time for you. If you've nothing else, I'll expect you sooner.
[ Does that mean he's headed that way right now? Yes. But also, he'll allow Nero some time to collect himself and finish his matters. It's only polite, after all. ]
That being said, there had been a moment after he'd sent the message where he'd looked for a way to remove it, erase all trace that it had ever been sent and prevent Nero from getting a notification about it. Because it can probably be traced, obviously, and if Dante were to see this and know that Vergil had done something similar to what he'd suggested, he would never live it down. That's obviously the reason why. Not because he'd ever been unsure that Nero would turn down the invitation. That would be preposterous.
It is, therefore, gratifying when Nero accepts, some strange modicum of relief running through him. Good to know that, despite his being raised human, despite the almost literal chasm between the two of them, Nero still shares the instinct that makes it impossible to turn out a good fight. At least, it seems that way; if the truth is something different, he's yet to see proof of it.
That being said, even if they're human here, he's not so foolish as to forget that they are still forces to be reckoned with. ]
Near the forest outside of the city. That should prove sufficient.
Two hours.
[ Even if he has his own petty grievances against the forest here, there won't be any aimless humans wandering around and getting in their way that far from the city. And then, just because he's an ass: ]
That should be enough time for you. If you've nothing else, I'll expect you sooner.
[ Does that mean he's headed that way right now? Yes. But also, he'll allow Nero some time to collect himself and finish his matters. It's only polite, after all. ]
[ ooc: Omg I just found this reply buried in my inbox, I am so sorry. Also, I'd totally understand if you want to drop the thread;; ]
Sermons that lasted that long? God, what did you do to deserve that? You are that religious or it has to do with the whole 'I live in literal hell'? Do the sermons keep the demons at bay boring them to death?
[ It's really shitty that they have no brain to mouth filter right now. Damn the God's curses. Peter can't help but watch Nero's explanation with an increasing concerned face. He's at a loss about what to say to all that except that he's sorry. ]
That's awful, I wish you never had to go through that. Do you...do you want me to come over? talk in person or do something to distract ourselves?
Sermons that lasted that long? God, what did you do to deserve that? You are that religious or it has to do with the whole 'I live in literal hell'? Do the sermons keep the demons at bay boring them to death?
[ It's really shitty that they have no brain to mouth filter right now. Damn the God's curses. Peter can't help but watch Nero's explanation with an increasing concerned face. He's at a loss about what to say to all that except that he's sorry. ]
That's awful, I wish you never had to go through that. Do you...do you want me to come over? talk in person or do something to distract ourselves?
[Shhhhhhh you're in Asgard, lovely, there's no such thing as being late.]
Yeah, see, that's the thing about Fortuna. It's an island, isolated from the rest of the world and all that. We do trades mostly through sea and fishing. And almost everyone there is a big believer in the religion there, to the point where they'll be reluctant to talk or even help outsiders who visit. If you're not a believer, they'll know. So sermons and ceremonies could last anywhere from a few hours to the whole day.
[Nero goes to give his answer back quickly, to say that he's fine (and he is, honestly, he's gotten over this a long time ago), but the curse rears its head again and he says the exact opposite of what he plans to. Why does he even care about this?]
Yeah. I'm outside Frigg's home- big-ass frat house. You can't miss it. Look for a van from the 70's, she's got a neon sign on her that doesn't work.
Yeah, see, that's the thing about Fortuna. It's an island, isolated from the rest of the world and all that. We do trades mostly through sea and fishing. And almost everyone there is a big believer in the religion there, to the point where they'll be reluctant to talk or even help outsiders who visit. If you're not a believer, they'll know. So sermons and ceremonies could last anywhere from a few hours to the whole day.
[Nero goes to give his answer back quickly, to say that he's fine (and he is, honestly, he's gotten over this a long time ago), but the curse rears its head again and he says the exact opposite of what he plans to. Why does he even care about this?]
Yeah. I'm outside Frigg's home- big-ass frat house. You can't miss it. Look for a van from the 70's, she's got a neon sign on her that doesn't work.
[ Ah, so true. ♥♥♥ Thanks swetheart. ]
Ow, that sounds...[ 'Like a cult', he doesn't say because he doesn't want to offend Nero. ] A bit overwhelming. But I grew up around criminals so who I am to judge people's uprisings.
[ Maybe the curse can be helpful in the long run and these are things he needs to get out of his chest. ]
I remember your Van, it's really cool. I never visited Frigg's house but It won't be hard to find, I'm sure. I'll be there in a few minutes and bring Sandy with me. He's in a dog shape again, you could make those memes you wanted with her.
[ It's maybe a stupid proposal but he's trying to cheer up Nero. ]
Ow, that sounds...[ 'Like a cult', he doesn't say because he doesn't want to offend Nero. ] A bit overwhelming. But I grew up around criminals so who I am to judge people's uprisings.
[ Maybe the curse can be helpful in the long run and these are things he needs to get out of his chest. ]
I remember your Van, it's really cool. I never visited Frigg's house but It won't be hard to find, I'm sure. I'll be there in a few minutes and bring Sandy with me. He's in a dog shape again, you could make those memes you wanted with her.
[ It's maybe a stupid proposal but he's trying to cheer up Nero. ]
[ So. Dante is back. If anyone asks, he will not admit that he feels somewhat comforted by the fact. It does mean that he's slowly coming out of his self-imposed exile, though. ]
Nero. You've heard from him?
[ Not a question. Just a confirmation. ]
Nero. You've heard from him?
[ Not a question. Just a confirmation. ]
Edited 2019-11-06 06:05 (UTC)
I need to break something
[hi Nero how are you today lovely weather we’re having]
[hi Nero how are you today lovely weather we’re having]
Edited 2019-11-06 19:48 (UTC)
[GIT GUD OLD MAN]
no complaints here
im thankful
just dont be a dumbass okay
[Strikes = deleted.]
i dont want to lose you
just be careful
people care about you even if you dont think they do
and dont try to take whatever it is on your own
thats why were here
no complaints here
im thankful
just dont be a dumbass okay
[Strikes = deleted.]
just be careful
people care about you even if you dont think they do
and dont try to take whatever it is on your own
thats why were here
[ LISTEN HE'S OLD AND NEVER GOT TO EXPERIENCE THESE THINGS THE KIDS THESE DAYS ARE FLUENT IN LIKE CHATSPEAK LEAVE HIM ALONE ]
I was fairly certain the role of dumbass is taken. I'll pass the sentiment along.
[ And then he pauses. It's a few minutes before he adds: ]
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, but I'll take it into consideration.
It's
appreciated.
I was fairly certain the role of dumbass is taken. I'll pass the sentiment along.
[ And then he pauses. It's a few minutes before he adds: ]
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, but I'll take it into consideration.
appreciated.
Edited 2019-11-07 06:15 (UTC)
I don’t know what to do
How do you stop feeling like this
I hate it
How do you stop feeling like this
I hate it
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