Coming Home from a Dream

[helluvaboss]

Hell has a habit of sucking in hapless, tortured souls... including those from other worlds, it seems, when helped along by portalling magic concocted by Stolas of the Ars Goetia. Hell, in fact, is very receptive to the devised spell, sucking in those that portal from the land of dreams, songerein.

Residents of hell walking through the portal find themselves startled awake where they were, but newcomers? Their forms become physical, tangible, changing them into the creatures they dream themselves to be - for the best and most certainly for the monstrous. It is Hell, after all.

Welcome home, I.M.P. : D.M.C.!

Comments

[strawberryredgrave]

"It'd be a lot less fun if I wasn't. And at that point, you'd imagine my brother. And you never wanna go full Vergil. Trust me on that."

It might help if he actually knew anything about your brother besides 'you but less fun', Dante.

[herewardbound]

"Dante and Vergil. You know, the irony of a man named Dante making a journey into Hell is a little on-the-nose. Should I be worried your brother might try to follow and cause problems?"

[strawberryredgrave]

"Left on his own long enough, he might. Not...actually sure if the me here now is me me or the dream me. One of those means I'm still keeping an eye on my brother. And the other...we'll hear about it, if he comes along."

Dante, that is the opposite of reassuring.

"He's not subtle."

That doesn't help, either.

[herewardbound]

"'Preaching to the choir', is the phrase that comes to mind. You're you. Whether that lines up with other people who share your name and face doesn't really matter."

[strawberryredgrave]

"That's exactly right. And exactly why I'm not thinking too hard about it. I've seen what happens when you do. Met a guy a few years back named Deadpool. Nutcase, mercenary, barrel of laughs, he's fun. Makes a lot of jokes about the 'Fourth Wall' and this subject gets a little too close to that."

One could argue that Dante's antics are a sign of him hitting that event horizon already, to which he shrugs.

"Either way, neither of us should worry about it. Like you said: we're us, we're here. That's all we need."