He's way too comfortable around you…
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It's always been like this, just existing around you, it affects him in such specific ways that it annoys him how easily he can point out what you do to him now.
Vergil Sparda should've known he was finished when he caught himself looking at you for just a second too long. When he caught himself waiting for you where he knew you'd be. When he let you under his armored skin he swears is impregnable.
Let alone now, sleeping in your shared bed.
'Sleeping' is a loaded term, though, Vergil hardly finds himself capable of sleeping, he doesn't need it really. Maybe a few hours here and there, but being so entwined with the world of devils he's not sure he'll ever really need to sleep like that ever again for rest. That doesn't stop him from cuddling right behind you, wrapping strong arms and calloused hands around your middle. Holding you so tight to him like he's convinced you'll disappear otherwise.
Probably because he actually thinks that. He still can't begin to understand why you deal with him, how you do it so easily, how you unravel all of the pain and unease he's been building up for years.
His tense shoulders soften whenever you enter a room, he likes it when you look at him, when you smile at him, his teeth losing their gripping clench every time you do. And now, when he has you here so close, these moments where he can just hold you for hours without interruption… For someone so annoyed with how comfortable you make him feel, he sure does love bedtime.
He's tuned into your routine like a pet, a cat that hates when it's even slightly off. You'll shower first, especially in the winter, because you like trapping all the steam inside to keep you warm,
(Even if Vergil here has insisted multiple times he can provide that warmth for you…)
Then you'll brush your teeth—flossing, mouthwash—the whole nine. THEN it's skincare, even if that only entails a rag and a wash of your face. Then you open the door, drying your hair while Vergil does what he needs to do, which by the way, isn't nearly as much as you do, his business in there involves a mirroring of your dental care, sometimes a shower if he hasn't already, and watching you finish up with your hair. Seriously, he just leans against the doorway and watches you. Get used to it. FINALLY you're in bed, and his favorite part of the night begins…
Listening to you breath and watching you sleep for the next however many hours.
He sleeps… Sometimes. Again, he doesn't really need it, he only manages to get sleepy enough sometimes because your routine and your presence lulls him. The constant, simple, domestic nature of your activities, he would say, is so utterly boring that it brings him to sleep. We all know though that that's a lie, especially coming from a grown devil-hybrid that has maybe known calm once before, when he was a child.
He spends the night studying you, seeing how his hand measures to yours, dragging his fingertips across random plains of your body—your back right at your shoulder blades, your legs, even your face gets an appraisal—cannot stress enough that he's so not used to humans and how they look, how they behave, you're the blueprint for these studies, for humans in general in his mind.
The way you breath, the constant tic of your heartbeat, how delicate you are as the being of mortal flesh and bone you are…
He thinks that maybe if he studies you enough, he can finally understand why you make him feel the way he does. Comfortable is one word to use, but perhaps loved is a much more fitting one.
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A/N: I just made some BULLLSHIIIIITTTTTTT!!! Are we fucking with the format??? Do lmk, I figured that I should give smaller fun blurbs like this a try because part of my issue with posting is I write for too long and I focus too much on details and I start overthinking and WHOOPS now I look like I'm ignoring people and late to every party! Uggghhhhh perfectionism and fear of my writing being ass barf. Anyways! I'd like to do more posts like these because they're kinda stress free I wrote this in like an hour when I should've been sleeping!!! I remembered that this cutie @high-speed-r asked for Vergil a while ago (I'm gonna be so embarassed if that's the wrong person) along with Nero stuff and ALTHOUGH I have a headcanon post loaded up for Vergie dear I figured that I should give a little, maybe messy and not proofread, blurb on him because why not! I'm gonna do Nero too, and hell Dante as well, and Nico, Lady—I'm so incredibly fixated on DMC rn that I'll f around and retheme my profile for it because GOD I NEED NEW CONTENT FAAAHHHHHH—I'm yapping, I'll stop, I love you ciao <333
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