Vergil, in a cycle of fracture and repair.
[loop i. separately] — to begin with, I must break myself of the arrogance that broke me
[loop ii. separately] — again, with percision to heal this old fracture and let it grow correct and forgiving myself
[complete] — I must break myself again with percision to heal this old fracture and let it grow correct and forgiving (myself) of the arrogance that broke me to begin with,
I've been obsessed with the idea of how Vergil can be the embodiment of ouroboros. He breaks himself into two, into V and Urizen, and reabsorbs himself in a cycle of fracture and repair. Like a broken bone that healed wrong and has to be broken again to set correctly.
I broke my brain trying to write this. Could it have been much easier to compose if I used a snake looping once instead of twice? Yes. Did I have to make the two loops readable separately and together? No, but damn it I just had to write two different lines with the word 'myself' being the crux that linked it all. I couldn't resist. It's agony for me but perfect for Vergil!
See below the cut my utterly messy attempts at trying to connect the two lines into something that loops:
