#idk why half my posts have been about 🧂🍭 recently 😭

[apollos-boyfriend]

on a slightly more serious note the fact that so much of chapter 1 is reliant on dante’s sexuality + his relationship with verge haunntsssss me

dante is seen as a womanizer by the church (funny) likely due to how often he hangs at brothels. he’s given a reason to do what he does in chapter 1, but as we see him do it again later on, we’re believe that despite his reasonings, he had at least some selfish motivations, and got lucky in being able to use the demon sighting to get away with his behavior. EXCEPT ☝️☝️ it’s then heavily implied that the only reason he hangs out at brothels is because they’re the only links he has to verge. it’s always just been about verge since the very beginning.

and then!! he’s completely unaffected by asmodeus’ charm. and asmodeus chalks it up to him being more experienced with women and being less effected by nudity (especially contrasted with priest’s age + sheltering + repression), likely having also assumed him to be a womanizer who spends most of his time at brothels. of course she wouldn’t do that much to him if he’s already surrounded by that 24/7. but no. he’s literally just gay.

mtefil has such good moments of recontextualization with dante and verge specifically in which a single chapter literally rewrote how we view 90% of their scenes (both separate and individual) and it drives me so crazy insane 🫶

these panels made so much funnier with the knowledge that dante’s gay. like yeah he was purposefully playing it up but he still Did Not need to do all that