#verlady

[dmc-questions-anon]

@verladyweek

[tiri5459]

[verladyweek]

DAY ONE: Start!

Verlady nation, this is not a drill, the time has come! This week, we’re celebrating one of the most intriguing and intense pairings in the Devil May Cry universe: Vergil and Lady - two strongly independent characters with a fierce drive and a deep history. Let us all celebrate as they come together in ways that spark both conflict and chemistry.

Whether you’re drawn to their dramatic encounters or the moments of unexpected connection, this week is all about exploring the many facets of their relationship, both romantic and platonic.

Today's lineup of exciting prompts that will dive deep into what makes this pairing so compelling is: Rainy Rendezvous, Huddling for Warmth, "Nothing about this is soft, but we pretend."

Additionally, you are invited to either share a song or a playlist that reminds you of their dynamic! Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to the ship, gear up and get ready to be very, very normal about Vergil and Lady. Vergil needs more power, but we need more Verlady! Let’s make this week smokin' sexy stylish!

To make sure your contributions are seen by this event blog, please feel free to use the event tag #verladyweek or tag the event blog directly, @verladyweek

Happy shipping!

[lmae98]

╰┈➤ 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

[draymon-r0]

«Interesting sparring style, dear Lady..»

[unlucky-leek]

@verladyweek

Day Four - Confession

So I didn't actually have anything planned for Day Four originally, but this suddenly came to me out of nowhere and I've decided to post it now before I lose my nerve. It's not even anything scandalous, I'm just embarrassed by it for some reason 🤭

It's 1am where I am, and I'm busy for most of tomorrow, so hopefully this is OK! It's *technically* Day Four right?

Too short for AO3, text below the cut!

He gasped as their lips separated briefly.

💙

Lady's intense reaction hadn't been a part of Vergil's plan. One minute they'd been sitting on Dante’s sofa, discussing their feelings, and the next, Vergil was pinned against the sticky red leather as Lady frantically ran her hands through his hair.

“Say it again,” Lady demanded.

“Which part?”

Lady pulled him into another deep kiss. “You know which part.”

Vergil craned his neck to look down at her. “It won't mean as much if I say it on command.”

“I've been waiting for you to say it for years. It doesn't matter how many times you say it – I'll still be blown away.” She laid her head on his chest. “Please? I just want to make sure I didn't imagine it.”

“And what if you did?”

“Then I guess I've finally snapped,” Lady mumbled. She sat up again, straddling him. “And I should probably get off you before I end up full of holes.”

Vergil sighed. “Fine,” he conceded. “But only once more. For now.” He cupped her face in his hands and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead, then stared into her eyes. He took a deep breath, enjoying watching her squirm impatiently. “Lady…” He smiled faintly. “I love you.”

💙

[venera-787]

that meme

[rarepair-competition]

Round 1, Matchup 6

[xxlucyxlolaxx]

Vergil and Lady!

What type of fire had she started now? She didn't need to do that for him. To listen was to understand, and she understood him so very deeply now.

....

This is based on a scene in this fanficion: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16232060/chapters/37944386

[kintsugicore]

Vergil thrived on simplicity: erect walls, fortify them, remain untouchable. It was a principle he had lived and breathed and survived by. Enforce it, and he stayed safe. Restore it, and he remained sane. But somehow, nothing ever stayed simple around her . The mission had been straightforward enough: enter, eliminate, leave. Clean, precise—just as he preferred it. However, what should have been a task either of them could have taken in their sleep had first devolved into bickering, then escalated into an argument, and finally culminated into the constant thrum of a headache she had been fueling for the past ten minutes. "We could’ve finished by now if you’d shown some restraint,” he bit out, frustration barely contained as he made his way through crumbling debris and settling dust. “If you had the patience to wait for me to clear the path—" Lady, casually rifling through her bag for another grenade as she stepped over the still-smouldering rubble, glanced back at him, her mismatched eyes gleaming with that distinct, simmering annoyance Vergil had long since learned she reserved for only two things in life: people who didn’t use turn signals, and him.

[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

[dmc-questions-anon]

[ladynamida]

Submission for Day 2 of @verladyweek has been released into the wild!

Summary:

Time slowed, stopped... and then burst.

Before Lady could blink Vergil lunged toward her in his Sin Devil Trigger form; all rage, blue fire, chitin armour and violence. She was going to die.

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This one is inspired by the quote prompt for the day:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet."

[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]

╰┈➤ Verlady Week 2024 Day 1: Misc Promp

Note: Here in my city it's already september 9th, so, I want to share this right now. I'll have a busy day but I'm excited for this week!

Happy start of Verlady Week! ❤️

@verladyweek

Song that I associate with Vergil and Lady:

▶ Cirice - Ghost

「 ᴠᴏʟᴜᴍᴇ : ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ 」

I relate these two a lot to this song because for me, Vergil and Lady have that potential to be able to understand each other much more than they could with Dante. And, taking away the obvious context in which Ghost unfolds, I basically interpret the song as an unspoken understanding, a deep connection between two individuals.

To begin with, the first two verses of the song:

❝I feel your presence amongst us/ You cannot hide in the darkness❞

I can't help but think directly of DMC3, specifically the fact that Vergil was aware of Lady from the moment she stepped on the Temen-ni-gru. He knew every move, even when Arkham supposedly "took over" the unwanted guest.

Then there are these two verses that are key to me:

❝I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart/ I can see through the scars inside you❞

Canonically they didn't interact much, but in that fleeting exchange of words I always seemed to perceive that Vergil somehow saw through Lady, like an open book.

They have some things in common in my opinion, such as that eagerness to be tough in front of others, even in heartbreaking moments. Maybe we didn't see it on stage with Vergil, but we see Lady break down twice during DMC3 and both are when no one is watching her (of course, when Arkham is "dying" she allows it because she thinks he's innocent and didn't count on her father deserving an Oscar for such a good performance).

What more can I say?

Oh, right.

These lines:

❝A candle casting a faint glow/ You and I see eye to eye❞

I can't help but see that in them, especially in this moment:

And finally this:

❝I know your soul is not tainted/ Even though you've been told so❞

More than anything I see a description of Lady in these words. In DMC3 I see many of Lady's actions – having a hard and cold attitude in front of everyone she comes across – as a way to protect herself and cope with everything she lost, behind all that anger and hunger for revenge. She has that attitude of "I've already lost everything... what else can happen to me? What else can I lose?" then she, in her belief, perceives in herself a premature adulthood; Mary, the "pure and innocent" girl, died with her mother.

And it turns out that she doesn't. The good, pure girl showed a sign of life when she forgave Arkham that last time and called him "father" again, in that naïve, but well-intentioned idea of doing justice to Arkham, because she believed that Vergil orchestrated everything.

That's why, half-dismissively, Vergil calls her "foolish girl." But I feel like there's something in his gaze, beyond his lousy insult intent, if it gets to that level. Calling her "girl" has that hidden meaning for me. Beyond deciphering her, he understands her, he's been in that position before.

And with that I conclude my crazy ideas.

I would say "yes, it's cinema", but I'm the only one who see it that way.

Maybe the others would say, "They missed a lunatic from Arkham Asylum."

[draymon-r0]

— Guess who came back from Hell?