#Vergil/Lady

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╰┈➤ Verlady Week 2024 Day 2: Misc Promp

A Headcanon about Verlady:

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I can't help myself but to think of Dante as the "Fairy Godmother" in this relationship. I even have this clear image in my mind of him wearing a shirt with "Verlady's #1 Fan" printed on it.

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@verladyweek

[unlucky-leek]

Lady is struggling with insomnia and discovers that Vergil's bed is the only place she can sleep peacefully - without him in it, of course. Things take a somewhat melancholic turn, however, when she finally asks him where he's been going at night.

@verladyweek Day Six!

Prompt - Sharing A Bed

This took me far too long to write, and I don't even know why... It ended up being longer than I'd planned, and I've been spending days trying to cut it down and make it more streamlined lol. Despite my best efforts I was still working on it today, even though I started it weeks ago.

But! I still have half an hour(ish) to go until midnight in the UK so technically I made it in time! XD

♡ Ko-Fi ♡

[muse-write]

Verlady Week Day 2

Prompt: Bridal Carry

He’d seen the demon approach her out of the corner of his eye, but he’d been focused on his own battle, and anyway, Lady didn’t get hurt. She wasn’t supposed to get hurt.

She was too careful and crafty for that, even when she was surrounded by demons and firing her guns and artfully dodging hits and proving that all her gymnast training as a high schooler hadn’t gone to waste as an adult decades older.

Vergil didn’t worry about Lady, as a rule. But as he saw the Blade’s edged arms cleaving a gash into her side and drawing back for a final blow she had no hope of dodging—not like this, not hunched over the gaping wound in her ribs and, for a second, reeling with pain and shock—he knew that he would remember this in every moment of every future mission.

This time, there were just the two of them. There would be no legendary devil hunter rushing in with a cocksure laugh to swing the Blade into the air. There would be no angry, kindhearted boy to catch Lady as she fell.

There was just Vergil, on the other side of the street, with his hands covered in demon guts and the lust for blood roiling in his stomach and a poor human’s meager life in his hands, which was, historically, not a safe place to be. And yet he made his decision in a second—less than that. He unsheathed the Yamato, tricked across the street, beheaded the Blade with one fatally precise slice, and then caught the stunned, bleeding woman in his arms just as she began to tumble to the ground.

He lifted her, entirely too aware of the warm stickiness of her bloodied skin against his, the brush of her fingers as she struggled against him for a moment, the sudden tension in her body and the billow of her breath against his neck as she gasped in pain and seemed to finally realize the extent of her wound. Vergil stood in a street in Red Grave City, surrounded by dusting demon corpses, a Devil Arm at his side and a human woman in his arms, and knew with a certain pragmatic dispassion that he had made the right choice (one of the few he had ever made), and that he would keep on making it, for as long as she—Lady, Mary, this human—was in danger.

@verladyweek

[verladyweek]

DAY SEVEN: All things end, Dante. Even Verlady Week.

Verlady Nation, I am so happy to be a part of you and to have been a small part of this amazing event week. While the day is not quite over yet, it's getting late in my part of the world, and I want to take the opportunity to say a few things before we all give ourselves and each other a well-deserved pat on the back and say farewell to Verlady Week 2024.

First of all: Thank. You. To all of you. To each and everyone who left a like, shared a post, saw a post and forwarded it to their one (1) friend who they thought could maybe get a kick out of it. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time out of their day to hop over to AO3 and leave a kudos or even a comment on one of the (so far) EIGHTEEN! (pardon my excitement, but that number necessitates all-caps) wonderfully intriguing short stories that have been created for this week - and I know that there are still some stories in the works that are not quite done editing yet. To put this number into perspective, there are - as of the moment of me writing this post - 131 stories in the Lady/Vergil tag on AO3. Which means that almost 14% of all VL stories on AO3 were created in the span of this event week.

Like. You guys. Are beasts. And I say that with awe and adoration.

Thank you to everyone who shared a song - I made a Spotify playlist out of the suggestions and will share it in the masterpost I will compile sometime in the next week.

Thank you for sharing your headcanons and your personal thoughts regarding the intricacies of how you view Verlady's dynamic.

Thank you for all the funny memes! For the photo manipulations! For the renders! Thank you for sharing how Verlady has influenced your real life in small ways, like tiny heart/cheeks on your fingernail.

And I know that was already a very long section of "first of all", but I just wanted to add one last thing:

Thank you so much for every single person who has started a project inspired by this event, regardless of whether you actually finished and shared it or not! All I ever hoped for, was that people would find ways to enjoy this ship and maybe even engage with each other, and I am so happy to say that you have literally made my whole week, I am completely blown away by all of your hard work and the love and support you show each other.

You can still share any works you have not finished yet, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now, it doesn't matter, I got you. Just yell at me give me a ping and I'll reblog your post and add you to the masterlist!

If I have - for whatever reason - NOT reblogged a post you made for this event, please reach out to me! I am so sorry. I promise it was a genuine mistake on my part. I check the event tag regularly, but I might have missed a post or two by accident.

Now, second of all: some of you have already expressed that they would like to see this event return, and I absolutely 100% agree. Next Verlady Week will run from September 8th to September 14th 2025 - and if you happen to have the time or energy for a side hustle, there's always VXLENTINE'S DAY 2025 on February 14th.

Before I go into more detail about the latter, I want to talk about the former for just one more second: I will post a link to a Google form sometime next week, allowing you to anonymously suggest prompts that you'd like to explore or see others explore for Verlady Week 2025. I actually have this huge mountain of unused prompts leftover from brainstorming this year's event, but if any of you have any unfinished WIPs and you think that "oh well, maybe participating in next year's event is that final push of Motivation(TM) I need to finally finish this", then please, toss a fitting suggestion my way and I will do my best to include it. Or if there is any concept you've always wanted to explore with Vergil and Lady, just yell at me over on Google Forms, or in my DMs (@verladyweek or @kintsugicore) or just write a frenzied post here on Tumblr one morning, explaining in excruciating detail how you are haunted by visions of Vergil accidentally becoming a stripper and Lady running into him on her friend's bachelorette party and I will probably nod in agreement and mutter "I bet that is all just one of Dante's elaborate ploys to do the And Now Kiss(TM) with them" and add something like Striptease to the prompt sheet.

There will not be any prompt voting because VXLENTINE'S taught me that there are certain limitations to how well I can restructure my RL to allow me pockets of time to organize forms and polls and put together necessary graphics, etc. But as of now, I don't think voting is necessary. Verlady nation is tiny, and if any of you want to suggest any prompts (would love ideas for any misc. prompts, tbh!), I think it will be easy to fit at least one suggested prompt per person into next year's prompt sheet!

Now. VXLENTINE'S! I am so so sorry that I didn't manage to put together a poll or a prompt post yet. To simplify the process of choosing the next prompt, I have decided to show you the suggestions I received and explain which suggestion I chose to use and why.

Now, different first meeting is the one person who left empty-handed, but I have decided to carry that prompt over to Verlady Week 2025 instead (so, there's your first prompt, ha!)

VXLENTINE'S DAY 2025 will have the prompt "Sweet Surprise" because I felt it checked the most boxes for prompts suggested. It can be made to fit for a gift, but also for a blind date or first date or any of the other things person #2 suggested, really. Technically, depending on how you envision that Different First Meeting, it could probably work for that one, too.

I will make a proper announcement post for next year's VXLENTINE'S DAY when the dust has settled for a bit and we've all had time to read through everyone's wonderful contributions to Verlady Week and the stress we may have experienced the past few days no longer feels as draining. (And again, you were all so amazing! You did so well! You've put the D in Dedication.)

To close out this already very long post: Verlady Nation is probably among the tiniest little fringe existences in this fandom. It was so nice to be a little louder than we usually are. Thank you again, so much. I hope to see you again in February, and maybe September 2025!

Godspeed and keep on shipping!

[lmae98]

I need them to be more than friends 👀

This interaction in DMC5 has a catch, a deeper meaning like the scene in the library in DMC3.

i am once again thinking about this development. pls be friends.

[evilwvergil]

"Demon hunting goes best with Rollin’." DEVIL MAY CRY -opening credits- (April 3. 2025)

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[pikynosabedibujar]

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[liibrra]

Real hot girl sh!t

[cigardoesart]

more of the DMC drawings, they're gonna be a charm set for MCM this october hopefully!

[lmae98]

╰┈➤ Verlady Week 2024 Day 4: Misc Promp

Share a quote or poem you associate with Vergil and Lady.

"Love, wich absolves no one beloved from loving..." — Dante Alighieri (Inferno, Canto V, The Divine Comedy).

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Is not even the complete fragment, I know, but this simple line is enough to evoke multiple images and interpretations.

For me it means the fight of this pair of sttuborns against themselves, about this love's meaning and this unwanted but powerful force wich they believed could not reach them.

Both of them went through horrible experiences that led them to lose everything they once loved, and silently, they clung to the idea of never letting their guard down again. So, it's obvious that they resist when a feeling like that takes hold of them.

@verladyweek

[unlucky-leek]

When Lady is injured in battle, Vergil must act quickly to save her—even if it means crossing some boundaries.

Alright it’s happening - It’s @verladyweek !

I tried my best to have something for every day, but due to life commitments there may be some that I have to miss.

Day One’s prompts were Rainy Rendezvous / Huddling For Warmth. 

This story also incorporates the Day Four prompts - Scars & Stiches / Confession, so please accept this as my contribution for that day too!

Let me just say this now - I absolutely ADORE rainy stories. Can’t get enough of ‘em! The only problem is that I’ve ended up writing a lot of rainy stories already, so I decided to try something different and go for the Huddling For Warmth prompt! (Although rain still does feature in it a little hehe).

I hope you enjoy, and I can’t wait to see everyone else’s contributions today and for the rest of the week! 

For those interested, you can read some of my other stories featuring rain below the cut!

♡ Ko-Fi ♡

And of course...

(Yes it’s long, but there’s rain in there somewhere haha)

[muse-write]

Flufftober Day 30

Prompt: Forever @flufftober

Vergil felt her hand in his, her own strong and calloused from her pistols and her rocket launchers and all her other silly, powerful, so-very-human weapons. “H—“ He had to clear his throat to continue, and she pressed his hand reassuringly. “How long do you think this will continue, Mary?”

Lady leaned in, the scar on her nose wrinkling as her smirk grew into a true smile, the devilish look she’d had falling away into something softer. Something tender. “I guess I was thinking forever, Vergil,” she whispered, leaning her cheek against his.

His breath caught in his chest for a second. “F—forever? You think you can stand me that long?” He had trouble standing himself most of the time.

She met his gaze, her own copper and blue eyes teasing. “Hmm, that’s a good point.” Her hand rose to his hair and stroked back a strand that had fallen onto his brow. “But I think I can manage it. We’ve come a long way, you and I, haven’t we?”

He scanned her face for a long moment. Had anyone ever looked at him with such open affection? Dante came close, sometimes, in his soppier drunken moments, but Lady—Mary…she looked at him like she truly loved him and didn’t care if anyone knew it. More than that, she looked at him as though she enjoyed being with him. 25 years ago, she had screamed at him about manipulation and sunk to her knees in pain and grief and hopelessness, and Vergil had stabbed her in the thigh and, looking at her, had seen a weak human, all her drive and ambition lost.

And now she was sitting two inches away from him, her hand in his hair, seeming utterly careless of the blood on his hands and the demon blood in his veins and the knives that made up his tongue. And he looked at her now and saw a human woman—weaker than him physically, yes, but with more power than he had ever succeeded in achieving. Being split in two out of desperate ambition could not be considered power, not when a human woman such as Mary Arkham had seen her mother killed and finished off her father with her own hands and stuck by his brother’s side for over half her life and now sat here, smiling at him and saying she wanted to be beside him forever.

It was more than any of Blake’s poems had ever prepared him for.

“If you’re sure,” Vergil murmured, lowering his forehead to rest against hers, “then I would like it to last forever as well.”

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VXLENTINE'S DAY 2024: Masterlist

Fanart

Hand Holding Comic Strip by @hoba-kirk

Fanfiction

What A Pair by @ladynamida

Rubble Wall (English) by @lmae98

Rubble Wall (Spanish) by @lmae98

Like the Poets Say by @sonderlativ

Waiting For Cupid by @unlucky-leek

Misc

Image Edit (CIEN AÑOS BY PEDRO INFANTE) by @lmae98

[tarteggs]

bought dmc on a whim last month and then got a little too into it