One Thing I've Always Enjoyed About Vergil Is That The Games Make You Like Him And Root For Him As A

One thing I've always enjoyed about Vergil is that the games make you like him and root for him as a character... but not because he's right. It's not because he's noble. It's not even because he's traumatized. It's because he's Dante's brother.

Vergil is kind of terrible. He's done a lot of terrible things. The game doesn't even try to dispute that. You are not supposed to see Vergil as a heroic figure. Yet we still root for him because Dante, our PoV character, roots for him. Dante loves his brother. He wants his brother to succeed. We see how Vergil's absence crushes Dante. He never truly gets over it.

To Dante, Vergil is the person you love even though sometimes you just can't stand them, and maybe despite the fact that they've hurt you, because they're so important to you that you can't imagine life without them. He is the person you watch destroy themselves over and over, knowing there's nothing you can do to stop it, and you feel a piece of yourself break every single time the cycle repeats. Even if we, as players, may not see that or feel that for Vergil (at least, not right away), it's clear that Dante does.

And I can't emphasize enough how relatable and human that experience is. I think we've all been there in one way or another with someone in our lives. If we haven't, then I'm sure we've all watched a friend or family member go through that with someone they've loved.

He really doesn't need to be anything grander than that. He's not secretly right or noble. In fact, he's dead wrong about a lot. Yet we're still on Vergil's side because when he overcomes, when he finds his peace, when he becomes the person Dante hoped he could be, then Dante finds peace as well.

And we all want a world where the people we love can find their peace, and we can find our peace with them.

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1 month ago

I TRIED LOL RAAAAAAAHGGH

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1 month ago

The major reason Dante and Vergil's rivalry works better than almost any other take on the trope is because the games are totally self aware about how dumb and immature the whole trope is and they lean way the hell into it. Like yeah, there's real stakes, turmoil and emotional wounds between them that drive their eternal conflict but at the same time it's pretty obvious that the real reason they fight all the time is because they're both just the biggest goddamn children on the planet.

It really is just playground bickering elevated to apocalyptic proportions by sheer virtue of them both being demigods.

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2 weeks ago

save me boobilicious old man

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3 weeks ago

Nero actually has the most Brooding Love Interest In A YA Romance Novel vibes. he's surly and rude to everyone except his girl, who he idolizes. he's rebellious against your religion/cult, but in a way that manages to channel your god's best traits. he's a bad boy but doesn't smoke or drink or anything, just listens to his music really loud and swears. he keeps running into sexy lady demons but doesn't pay them any attention bc he loves you so much. he's part demon and really angsty about it and needs your tender reassurance.

i know there was a whole pack of highly repressed Fortuna church girls who had massive crushes on Nero, but Nero never realized because he was too in love with Kyrie.

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1 month ago

2021 tomfoolery in light of current events

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remembered the reason i didnt post my tears for fears shout trigun amv is because the file was too big for tumblr so i compressed her hopefully it's not too rough on her

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2 weeks ago

Been playing DMC 2 recently and i gotta say, this game is pretty fun actually!

Haven't started the Lucia route yet but i've been having a lot of fun playing as Dante so i don't really understand why people hate this game so much tbh

Yeah sure the enemies are kinda dumb but still the combat is pretty nice, dante looks cool as hell and you can double jump and run on walls and that's cool as hell (also Dante's design in this game is just incredible beautiful magnificent i love his outfit so much)