vim / vigor.

               >> 🔥 <<    THE RUMBLE FROM THE AVIAN DEMON IS MIRRORED BY DANTE HIMSELF,   a little louder like it was some   challenge   or something   ;   his mood already was sour and ready to rumble with the bird but   . .   it was likely not to be.   shoulders raise fast upon griffon’s sudden perch upon his head,  a smaller growl leaving out of his chest but it ceases quickly when he gives up.  fingers pinch at the bridge of his nose while strands of hair flow into his face  ;  the rest of it becoming a mess.  he can feel claws of the avian pressed against his skull and it was a   HARD   to trust he’d walk out of this without blood running down his face.

but the bird wasn’t being an utter nightmare as he continued to talk,  squinting at him but relaxed a little bit as to why   —  explanations helped.     ❝   figured . .  though i think verge would find it amusin’  t’ some degree.  not that’m givin’ ya the go ahead at all.    ❞  

         griffon’s posture shifts atop dante’s head, becoming more as though he is roosting there as he eyes remain on the cambion. a quiet guilt plucked at him. memory surfacing like tides against a shoreline, pulling away in turn just as easily. when he had forced dante’s hand ; pressured and egged the sparda on? he had not expected to be brought back, he expected to blow away with his siblings like ash after a fire’s gone out... and now everything felt so changed, so different... --- almost hopeful, in some ways, for a conceivably better path for them all to take. was it a trap? was it fruitless? the avian demon was uncertain, he would cross that bridge once it was reached.

          a rumble of displeasure settles in griffon’s throat as he flaps about ; circling around the devil hunter almost as though a vulture. his multifaceted gaze narrows in on dante before he pointedly perches on the cambion’s head with a rather dramatic huff. there is fleeting unease to this decision of positioning, an underlying mistrust... but both v and nero had told him he was not allowed to see out vengeance upon current company. and so --- he remains civil, or at least as civil as he can manage.

*INTERNALLY SCREAMING*