SUMMARY: After starting a small fire to cook the demon meat, V, Griphon, and Shadow eat the remains. V complains about how awful it tastes, and chides Griphon and Shadow for making noise. Griphon grabs V's coat, prompting V to lose his balance and fall back into the fountain. Griphon laughs at him, and tells him to take a bath since he smells from being covered in demon ichor. V sullenly agrees, and strips his clothes off. While Griphon and Shadow try to wring the water out, V submerges himself and gets introspective.
During his existence as V, he's focused so much on how he's "weak", and the things he's had to do because of it. But while he's struggled to understand why he lost (as Vergil, to Dante) he admits to himself that the solution hasn't been to just "obtain more power". It lies elsewhere, and V thinks he's figured it out; and it took him losing all of his power to understand. The truth was always there, he just needed to face it.
Griphon interrupts V's inner monologue by pulling him out of the water, squawking at him for almost drowning. He gets out of the fountain and dresses in his soggy clothing, and he sits by the fire with Shadow curled up behind him to dry off. Griphon suggests he take the opportunity to sleep; V responds with a poem--"The Fly", by William Blake, and asks Griphon and Shadow if they'll continue to fight beside him. Griphon admits that despite everything, they like V, and they agree. And then he makes V go to sleep by sitting on his face, which is very funny.
V dreams. He stands before Urizen, and declares that he finally understands what his purpose is. The feelings he's been saddled with, namely fear, are what Urizen lacks--and thus, is Urizen's weakness.
V: I will not run away from my nightmares. I'll fear them honestly and then I will look at them directly in the eye. I'm shamefully scared. However, make no mistake. You need me.
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selfpreservationist) wrote2020-03-01 07:12 pm
MEMORY TWENTY-FOUR - "I finally came to understand what my purpose is." Visions of V, Ch. 24
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SUMMARY: After starting a small fire to cook the demon meat, V, Griphon, and Shadow eat the remains. V complains about how awful it tastes, and chides Griphon and Shadow for making noise. Griphon grabs V's coat, prompting V to lose his balance and fall back into the fountain. Griphon laughs at him, and tells him to take a bath since he smells from being covered in demon ichor. V sullenly agrees, and strips his clothes off. While Griphon and Shadow try to wring the water out, V submerges himself and gets introspective.
During his existence as V, he's focused so much on how he's "weak", and the things he's had to do because of it. But while he's struggled to understand why he lost (as Vergil, to Dante) he admits to himself that the solution hasn't been to just "obtain more power". It lies elsewhere, and V thinks he's figured it out; and it took him losing all of his power to understand. The truth was always there, he just needed to face it.
Griphon interrupts V's inner monologue by pulling him out of the water, squawking at him for almost drowning. He gets out of the fountain and dresses in his soggy clothing, and he sits by the fire with Shadow curled up behind him to dry off. Griphon suggests he take the opportunity to sleep; V responds with a poem--"The Fly", by William Blake, and asks Griphon and Shadow if they'll continue to fight beside him. Griphon admits that despite everything, they like V, and they agree. And then he makes V go to sleep by sitting on his face, which is very funny.
V dreams. He stands before Urizen, and declares that he finally understands what his purpose is. The feelings he's been saddled with, namely fear, are what Urizen lacks--and thus, is Urizen's weakness.
V: I will not run away from my nightmares. I'll fear them honestly and then I will look at them directly in the eye. I'm shamefully scared. However, make no mistake. You need me.