#have a goth vergil

[storytellering]

Happy Valentines 🖤

[ariseur]

i cant get over the fact that capcom made him so beautiful just to merge him back with urizen

[dankovskaya]

vergil megalomaniac fancam

[thermodynamic-comedian]

you might not know this, but every dmc 5 character is a lesbian. every single one

[death-rebirth-senshi]

My knowledge of devil may cry is so low I don't have an inkling of what devil may cry final bosses are like.

[fractempyreal]

❛ You think you stand a chance against me ? ❜ 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 , gaze sweeping aside towards the human ( human— but not quite ) . Thumb grazes over the hilt of his sword , before it swipes upwards in one fluid motion , cold steel catching the pale light of the moon before blade slips into the scabbard . A soft 'click' filling the air to announce that it's been housed . ❛ Return to the safety of your kind , lest they find you here in pieces . ❜ @biskael sought out the devil

[2nd-drop-me-safely-in-this-hell]

It's easy to wonder what people see in Vergil, but it's important to remember that he's actually four boyfriends in one. You get:

Prime boyfriend. Coolest 43-year-old who listens to Linkin Park. Unironically owns a katana. His voice is an acquired taste. So is his face. Had sex once when he was 18, then never again.

Shimmering, ghostly boyfriend. Really just an extension of the prime boyfriend's will, but more willing to be silly.

Goth boyfriend. Animal lover. His entire personality is one poet's work. Has a very deep voice. Twink, but hopefully gains some weight now that he isn't literally dying. Could have been a girlfriend instead if these games weren't made by cowards.

Tree boyfriend. Giant. Tentacles. Teef. Even deeper voice, but doesn't talk much. Lazy. Plant lover. So many eyes and they're all on you.

[devilmaymetalgear]

Sparda boys with a goth g/n S.O. pls how would they react djdhshsh

dante sparda x reader // vergil sparda x reader

gn reader // hcs with a goth s/o

a/n: just realized I don't have anonymous asks turned on lmao, also, I am working on the step kid request with vergil and Dante, I just tend to write like 5 things at once lmao

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- thinks it's so cool, he always marveling at your outfits and just overall vibe. Very supportive. Loves how I extra and dramatic it is.

- would def wanna match with you, while he does find your contrasting outfits super fun, he also would love to match with you

- constantly giving you pieces of clothes he 'finds' that he thinks matches. And you have no idea at all where he gets them from. But with his income he probably didn't pay for them

Unrelated but I think Dante would like Lowkey fuck with corpse paint

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- he's all for flair, I mean look at him, so he definitely approves of your fit. While it wouldn't be something he might wear himself, he admires it from afar. Thinks you're stunning.

- he's constantly analyzing every single piece of clothing you wear, from the craftsmanship to the quality to the intricate detailing.

- he's always eager to listen to you talk about music to literature, uses it as inspo for what he should get into next. That way if you ever happen to ask him if he's familiar with something he can say yes and then pretend like he had no idea you'd asked him about it before

Requests are open, characters listed on my request rules. And anonymous asks have been turned on :3

[icycoldninja]

hello! my birthday is tomorrow and i was thinking requesting the dmc boys x goth autistic reader who can go on and on about their favorite horror movies (my personal favorite is saw or coraline) or bands (type o negative or london after midnight, i feel like v would potentially like type o alot :3 )? bonus points if you can maybe work in that reader usually wears long skirts/sleeves but maybe one particularly hot day they wear shorts which is out of their comfort zone but the boys reassure them!

Hey, sorry this might be too late, but happy belated birthday! Please enjoy!

Sparda boys + V x Goth!Autistic!Reader headcannons

¤ Dante ¤

-He thinks your style is really cool, kinda like what a vampire would wear if one was alive today.

-He could listen to you ramble on for hours, even if he doesn't have a clue as to what you're talking about.

-He ends up spending a lot of time watching horror movies with you and can now be called an expert on this field.

-Your taste in music is alright in his eyes, but he still prefers his stuff (and his own playing).

-When it's too hot out and you're forced to wear shorts, Dante's there to hype you up.

-Your legs do not look like skinny pencils to him, they're beautiful, and he insists you show them off.

■ Vergil ■

-Vergil thinks you're very beautiful, and admires your clothes.

-He doesn't mind that you like yammering on about your interests because he would honestly do the same if he weren't so closed off.

-Pretends to not care about your favorite bands, saying he prefers classical, but he secretly listens to it when you're not around.

-Has a lot of fun staying up till 4 watching horror movies with you, even if he's never scared by it.

-Feels your frustration regarding the heat, because he too is forced to wear lighter clothes, which he hates.

-He comforts you when you're embarrassed by patting you on the shoulder and/or back.

□ Nero □

-Nero thought you were pretty damn weird at first, then realized you were just an autistic dork like his dad.

-He thinks it's cute whenever you start nerding out about your favorite interests and such.

-Watches horror movies all the time with you, but is never scared. After killing devils his whole life, nothing scares Nero anymore.

-He's actually now very interested in goth music despite originally thinking he wouldn't like it.

-He's pretty indifferent to the heat, but knew that you and your thick clothes would suffer.

-It's unfortunate you have to step outside your comfort zone during this time, but you must, or you'll overheat. To remedy this, Nero tries setting up fans and air conditioner, but ultimately, you'll still need to wear lighter clothes.

● V ●

-V admires you and your unique clothing.

-He also enjoys your taste in music to such a degree, he might now be more of a fan than you are.

-He loves to watch movies with you, not just horror movies; he'll watch any genre.

-Loves chatting with you about your favorite horror movies and will listen to you talk until the end of eternity. It's never boring.

-While he cannot relate to your pain during summer, he does understand it. He doesn't like wearing shorts either.

-He will comfort you however he can, either by turning on all the fans or by simply patting you on the back and saying some encouraging words.

[werewolfnarrative]

V SLANDER POST

V is one of my favorite DMC characters, along with Nero. (In fact, my current icon is V's face). And that is why it saddens me to see some parts of the fandom misunderstanding him so badly.

V is the human part of Vergil. That means that his motivation, adaptability and ruthlessness are in this part too.

Getting rid of your demonic part doesn't mean you have no more evil or flaws in you. In fact, I would argue that Vergil is such a complicated character BECAUSE he doesnt come to terms with his humanity until Devil May Cry 5.

That doesnt mean you need to stop saying that "V is my baby" or "he has never done anything wrong in his life" since I do that too, but it's also important to respect the source material when talking of canon lore.

Also he is always treated as weak but many forget to mention he is a menace?? Bro was walking around completely naked, robbed a man and stole his posessions, bathed IN A FOUNTAIN, kept robbing people to get enough money and doesn't explain anything.

He is the classy goth poetry man, but he is ALSO a smelly rat and will bite people. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[storytellering]

felt the need to make a matching verge for that last goth dante....

[deus-and-the-machina]

you know the contrast between how Vergil is presented vs thinking too hard about Vergil’s story is pretty funny. Man’s reputation is this iconic badass, the pinnacle of what video game rivalries can be, the coolest guy to play as, the guy who breaks every game he’s added to,

and then you go to the story and like. man’s lost his free will and autonomy at 19 and then came back a fractured man half of which was a lovecraftian eye beast the other half of which was a chronically ill goth man. and then he reunites and hes in like his 40s now I believe but legit the last time he was actually in a game where he wasn’t being mind controlled when he was 19 which is both sad but also thinking about how this guy who’s considered one of the top badasses of gaming has never really lived life outside of being a teenager.

Anyways this is the secret comedic potential of post DMC5 for Vergil because not only has the human world probably changed a fair bit in terms of technology, if he’s sticking around Dante he’s gonna actually have to learn in depth how taxes and grocery shopping work. Amazing.

[nekrosdolly]

on my dmc bullshit so here's a few hcs for the boys + lady

dante listens to death metal (chelsea grin, suicide silence, infant annihilator), 80's metal (acdc, motley crue, ozzy osbourne), and perhaps some 2000's emo (early fall out boy, early panic!, maybe some asking alexandria) as a way to relive his twenties (the ones that other people without demon fathers and genocidal brothers have)

vergil listens to dark synthwave (depeche mode), "trad" goth artists (siouxsie sioux, the cure, bauhaus, the smiths), very little dreampop (the cocteau twins) and various classical composers.

lady listens to numetal (korn, early slipknot, limp bizkit, kittie, deftones) and infected dante with the limp bizkit liker disease. she also listens to solo female artists (fiona apple, mazzy star, mitski), female-lead alternative bands (flyleaf, icon for hire, spiritbox) and shares those interests with trish.

nero likes a variety of alternative bands (linkin park, nine inch nails, system of a down) and mostly 2000's emo (early fall out boy, early paramore, of mice and men, bring me the horizon, my chemical romance, pierce the veil.) he also indulges dante and occasionally puts on some dio or chelsea grin, though he can't stand the kind of screaming chelsea grin has.

[polarisbibliotheque]

Hii!! so i just want to say first that i love love the way you write dmc fanfics. The way you just understand them, makes all their action seem like something they'd do. And well, if it doesn't bother you, may I ask a few advices on how to write Vergil, young and current? I'm trying to write a story and I think your input would be very helpful since you're probably the most accurate Vergil writer there is. Thank you andI just want to say that your fics helped me out a lot mentally. Thank you for bringing the characters to life 🫶

You just left me floored, loved to death, giggling like a 7 year old in public, and I thank you wholeheartedly for that 🖤🖤

First of all, thank you SO much for your words - and wow, I am absurdly flattered that you think so highly of me as a writer, really! I mean, I'm just writing my crazy shenanigans here, I don't expect much hahahaha words like yours make my day and, honestly, you made my whole week!

I am SO happy what I write helped you mentally. I do write to help myself in that regard too, and seeing I was able to have an impact on someone else, it makes everything worth it. That's what Dante would have wanted :')

Asking me for advice doesn't bother me AT ALL! Feel free to ask anytime you want it - by all means I see myself as someone so good as to give advice, but I've gained some experience and it's always good to share! Maybe I'll say something that makes sense to you!

So, without further ado, a few advices on writing Vergil - young and current - down the cut 'cause I haven't written it yet, but knowing myself, I know it's gonna be big :)

(spoiler: it's huge *puts on fool hat and jingles away*)

I sprinkled some things here and there about Dante and Vergil on this blog, but I think it'll be nice putting it all together in one place!

I recently got an ask about which MBTI personality I think it's Dante and Vergil, and there's a LOT on BOTH of their characters in there. You can find it here.

(I won't repeat the things I wrote there, 'cause oh boy this one's got bigger than I expected)

But oh, Verge, this little emotionally constipated goth man *sighs* he's Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. I'm not even joking.

But all of that aside, I do keep a few things in mind when writing him. I've said before I have many similar personality traits with him and I think it makes it easier for me to write this little bitch (affectionate).

Vergil is pretty much shaped by his trauma. You could argue Dante is as well, but differently from his twin brother, Vergil never really found acceptance. Yes, the twins lived through the same thing but the fact that Eva managed to save Dante and not Vergil is crucial to both characters.

Dante has survivor's guilt and depression from all that happened. He can't keep a deep connection to save his life, 'cause he keeps everyone at bay - he thinks his demonic blood is a curse and he is the reason everyone perishes. So it's best if people keep away from him.

But even with that, Dante loves being around people. It's what makes him so fond of his human part and, in my opinion, it's what made Dante healthier than Vergil. He seeks connection and humanity, he wants to use his strength to protect the weak - like Eva once used hers and sacrificed herself to protect and save him. That is crucial to Dante's character.

Vergil, in the other hand, believed for a LONG time he was left for dead. That his mother chose to save his brother because she loved Dante more and Vergil was left to die. He was left all alone in the cold, in a cemetery filled with demons who slaughtered him in quite a gruesome manner. If he hadn't find the rage, strength and power inside of himself that day, he wouldn't have survived.

Vergil learned he is on his own, his own family didn't love him (even if he was wrong, that's the impression he had for a LONG time) and the only one he could count on was himself. That made him withdraw completely: be wary of people and their intentions, shut himself to the world, allow only strength and power to come through his personality and keep his vulnerabilities and feelings shut down in the darkest and most protected place of himself because if he didn't, that could be his death.

Vergil didn't learn to protect the weak, because he wasn't protected when he was weak. He learned to survive, because when he needed the most, no one was there and his own will was the only thing that could save him. If he had given up, he would've died - no one would come, no knight in shiny armor, no powerful protecting demon, no sacrificing loving human mother.

✨That's why he's an asshole✨

Hahahaha jokes aside, that's why he's so laser focused on power, I think. When he was younger (around DMC 3), he finds Dante again and there's a hatred for his brother because he believed he was left to die and wasn't loved as much as Dante (as always, our red devil being a clueless himbo who just got lucky to be around Eva, poor guy). He wants to prove he is better than Dante, that he was worth something, that he too was worth saving - even more than his brother.

To some extent, up until that moment in DMC 3, Vergil is better than Dante (regarding power). He's got a lot of knowledge and control over his demonic heritage, things Dante didn't even know he could do. But Vergil is so blinded by his hurt and in so much pain he can only deem himself worthy if he beats Dante down, if he wins, if he gets all the power in the world.

I don't think he ever wanted to kill Dante - he just wanted to win. Like a kid, going "see, mom, dad, I win, I'm worth as much as Dante!!" - quite tragic, really.

With his power thing, it's not a desire for power for it's own sake, but as an armor. Given everything that happened to him, that Vergil has this thing of "only I can protect myself and I can count only on myself to save my life", it's very understandable that his logic takes him to the path of "if I am the most powerful being in this world, I will never bleed and I will never hurt again".

So, even if he says on the outside he is power hungry because he wants to honor his demonic heritage and humans are weak, on the inside it's actually that he's trying to carve his heart out from himself so he won't feel nothing and stop hurting - as well as gain all the power he can so NO ONE can make him feel scared, vulnerable, weak and powerless like he did that night when no one appeared to help him.

Vergil hides his pain under a mask of cruelty and hubris - since being honest means being vulnerable to him and that is something he's got a deep aversion to.

Current Verge has dragged himself out of Hell in a crumbling body. If Dante hadn't "killed" him as Nelo Angelo, he probably would've never been free of his shackles with Mundus, but once again he was left for dead (even if not intentionally, I know Dante would have gone through all the layers of Hell to bring his brother back, but VERGIL doesn't know that). Once again, Vergil had to muster all his will, his power, his demonic heritage to drag himself out of that godforsaken place.

He didn't know Nero was his son, he just took Yamato back 'cause he didn't really had time to explain everything that was going on. Vergil was on the brink of death, it's not like he could think logically about everything he was doing and weight pros and cons. He needed to survive. That's what he does.

It's only when he separated his human and demon parts that he came to realize a bunch of things - because Vergil never really had time to do anything else other than surviving; and thinking too much, going over your feelings and past trauma, doesn't do anything good when you're stuck in survival mode (been there, done that).

After he gets both of his parts together and goes back to being Vergil, he knows a lot more than he did before, because V allowed his heart to feel and to process all that pain he didn't allow himself to process before - because if he did, he would probably break, like V himself was falling to pieces.

He knows his mother loved him. He knows it wasn't Dante's fault. He knows it was all a tragedy and no one is to blame - he knows he wasn't left there to die: Eva died trying to get to him. It honestly changes everything he's been thinking for the past 40 (if I'm not wrong...?) years.

That's why he wonders, if he was in Dante's place all those years ago, would that change something? And honestly, it probably would. Because everything Vergil did was from a wound he couldn't bring himself to heal from that fateful night.

Therefore, current Vergil is a lot more accepting to his feelings - but internally only, he won't let it show. He also understands his thing of wanting to surpass Dante wasn't his brother's fault and it's something he has to work on.

Not saying he won't be a little bitch sparring with Dante all the time and keeping score over stupid stuff, because that's EXACTLY how these two function - but now Vergil is fueled by healthy sibling rivalry and fun instead of inferiority complex and pain/hatred.

Vergil's path is a lot similar to Anakin from Star Wars: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to the Dark Side of the Force. If the Jedi Council had understood Anakin's upbringing as a slave, his deep love for his mother - and for all the beings on the Universe, I argue, because he did want to become a Jedi to free all slaves - his overflowing empathy, his deep feelings, his love for Padmé, etc., Anakin wouldn't find himself vulnerable to the grooming of an older man who saw all this and took the opportunity to twist it all to make him feel pain, fear, anger and hate.

If Qui-Gon Jin had trained Anakin he would've never turned to the Dark Side, I will DIE on this hill and fight EVERYONE, even if I love Obi-Wan

Star Wars ramblings aside, that's Vergil in a nutshell. And I think with him older, currently, he can finally see all of that, because he had a chance to be just demonic, as Urizen, and just human, as V - noticing how everything that happened to him shaped him to feel pain, fear, anger and hate, doing desperate things to protect himself and feel safe.

I argue Vergil hasn't felt safe for a single day in his whole lifetime, and that matters. Because in the end, that's how I write him: a wounded stray dog who knows only pain and hatred from the outside world.

If you try to approach him, he'll first bare his teeth, bark and try to bite you - not because he's mean, but because he's stuck in survival mode and that's his first response to ANYTHING. Just like a wounded stray, you have to approach carefully, offer kindness and show him you're not there to hurt him.

And just like a stray dog, he'll eventually melt and accept that kindness - he just has NO IDEA how that feels like.

✨What about Nero's mother, I hear you ask?✨

Hahahaha so that one I have some doubts myself. I often imagine two scenarios and I still haven't chose one of them to satisfy my heart HAHAHAHA

That might be me projecting, of course, but because of ALL THAT, I don't see Vergil as being open to relationships and one night stands - he takes things too seriously, and that's part of his character.

He either decided to try it out empirically with a one night stand with someone who was kind to him and he wanted to understand that kind of experience to understand himself better and out of curiosity (look, I know this sounds crazy, but that's exactly what I did on my first kiss with a super random guy at a party and I was like "oh, well, that's not for me, I'm gonna stick to kissing people I love, this sucks" and it took a weight off my shoulders)

oooooor he was treated with kindness for the first time in his life and that broke him for a while, he melted under a soft touch and gentle words and couldn't resist trying out new experiences he only had by proxy from his books - and when he woke up next morning, he was reminded how broken he is, how powerless, how not worthy of love not even from his own mother, and left because that would lead to nowhere. Because of him. Because he wasn't worth it - she probably fell for his looks, his heritage, his outside, but when she knew his inside she would run in horror.

Again, Vergil has a lot of issues, the poor man.

When I'm writing Nemesis, we have young Vergil - laser focused on power, proud as fuck, stepping over anything and everything to get what he wants, because life favors the ones who survive. The weak ones should die, that's the law of the jungle and he won't waste his time saving those who can't do it for themselves like he did for himself. When he sees the reader struggling to keep fighting him to protect others, he sees not only Eva, but himself in a will of a survivor who will go through excruciating pain to save themselves. He values that and admires that - admiring the reader as an enemy and having utmost respect.

When he's older, he's trying. And he has a LOT to learn - but his partner has to understand he's the stray dog who knows nothing but harshness. Vergil is quiet, methodical and disciplined, knowing how to live only with himself as company. But now he has a family: he has his brother back, he has a son, he has the whole crew to live alongside him. That's new, harrowing and comforting at the same time.

So, when in doubt, think about how a wounded animal would react - and how you would have to act to be able to approach and help.

Vergil, differently from Dante, is forever stuck in survival mode and has forsaken his humanity so he could keep going. As a younger man, he's ruthless and won't spare efforts to get what he wants because he is desperately trying to not feel vulnerable and worthless as he usually feels. As an older man, he's trying - in his own stupid Mr. Darcy way - to recover, to understand himself better and finally heal that horrible wound in his heart.

But of course. He is still proud, observing, regal and prone to overkill here and there and showing off his skills. These are all inherent to his personality.

(Also. Vergil enjoys some dumb fun sometimes - he only lets it show a tiny little bit when competing with Dante over ANYTHING. If Dante says he can eat a cheeseburger in three bites, Vergil will go above and beyond to eat it in two. Everyone thinks he's just being stupidly competitive with Dante and wants to win against his brother no matter what, but that's just his way of being fun)

Phew! That's quite a lot on the blue devil! Hahaha it isn't everything I keep in mind - of course there are the other things like him being reserved, more on the quiet side, intellectual, methodical, a lover of beauty (like literature, philosophy, poems, etc.), stupidly independent... But I think those traits are more "worldwide" known.

If you take all his trauma and how it affected him into consideration, I think, his personality follows easily. You understand a lot better how he would react in certain situations - in the end, that's what being a writer is all about: creating characters and watching how all of them react to situations given their backgrounds and baggage!

I'm so sorry it's such a HUGE answer, but I do hope it helps. There's a lot to unpack and I didn't want to just "oi, he's a traumatized asshole, that's it" - because you miss the nuances if you just work with that perspective.

Thanks a lot for asking, though, I had fun writing this little essay on Vergil, the man, the myth, the legend HAHAHAHAHAHA

Hope you have a nice weekend and have fun writing!! If you need any advice, even on writing in general, you can always ask me again! As you can see, I'm happy to help and I do love sharing what I know xD

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: In 1989, Hob Gadling gets stood up. He waits. A story about meticulously constructing an inn with soft focus, 80's goths and Berlin, a folding chair, The Princess Bride, blondes, blood, fear, Fates, and what was always written. What will always be.

Author: @xx-vergil-xx

Note from submitter: No words I can write will fully encompass what is is like reading Hounds. It is a roller coaster of beauty. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll laugh through the tears, and cry through the laughter. You'll feel for the characters as they reach through the screen and bring you into their world. And you'll love every moment of it.

[realian]

I don't think the DMC anime is going to be a full adaptation of the DMC3 manga. I think it's going to be a new story that uses the DMC3 manga as inspiration and aims to "finish" the story seeing as how the manga was discontinued. like it borrows some characters and plot beats but ultimately goes in its own direction with it as its own story. the theory that people have about the Dante we see in the trailer being Nero in disguise is so stupid but the more I think about it, the more it seems to make sense. like what if Nero poses as Dante because he realizes that otherwise the demons might catch wind of Dante being in Hell and use it as an opportunity to attack the humans. yes it's dumb but this is also the series that had Vergil exist as a goth twink for nearly a whole game. it could happen.