#wahoo pizza man

[stickynotelovers-art]

I haven't truly emphasized on here how much I absolutely adore the Devil May Cry series! It is, and has been for years, one of my top 3 games series to play. I feel so pumped after seeing the trailer and I am really glad to see my wonderful Wahoo Pizza Man getting some much deserved attention! There were so many references and visual clues to several parts of the franchise! I'm very excited to see where they go with the show!

I am still working on my asks and other Turtle stuff, but this is just kind of my way of saying that there will probably be DMC related art happening! 🥰🥰🥰

[thealatvs]

no more mirrors (the beginning of dante’s nightmares)

[soloverse]

would yall believ me if i said dante is not my fav character 🗿🗿🗿

(it’s V LMAO)

[lycanloc]

Jackpot!

Despite playing and beating all 5 numbered games, I still haven't drawn Dante until now. It's so sad even a Devil May Cry...

[mishkakagehishka]

I still remember E3 2018 so fondly. It feels as if only yesterday I saw that Devil May Cry title card and shat bricks. <3

[eileenthecrow]

dmc3 dante is so funny omg

[rcdhotnight]

"Could take ya' down a scenic route with less noise?

"pretty loud tonight.."

[soloverse]

im almost finished dumping all my dante painting practices

[nevertheless-moving]

But Peter Parker (no not that one, the other — yeah that guy) does actually have an OnlyAdmirer’s account though.

He doesn’t remember exactly when he started it — sometime after losing the job at the pizza place and before picking up the tutoring hours; he remembered he was short for one of Aunt May’s prescriptions that month, but isn’t sure anymore which one it was. Sometime during college.

Low ebb on crime that week, which meant he wasn’t making much from the Bugle, but he did have some extra time, enough to take a deep breathand set up the encyptions on his account (he should probably go this hard for all his spiderman stuff too, but eh, it had been fine so far).

He wears a mask (no not that one, though he did consider it because, you know, it would be freaking hilarious).

He pulls...a grand, whopping total of.... $100 a month. Wahoo.

Ok, maybe a little more on average; and sometimes its up to $200! It’s just worth the fees and the time, and after a while he has to admit it’s less stressful than any of his other gigs.

At first he’s paranoid about someone finding out, both in his personal life and his superheroics (he has, like, 10 self righteous rants prepared about the moral neutrality, nay the moral Good of sex work).

(He’s a little disappointed that it never comes up.} Eventually he doesn't think about it, especially not on patrol, not any more than he thinks about the taco shop, or the GrubHob gig, or any of the bazillion odd jobs that come with working class heroics. Eventually he doesn’t think not to mention it, and the set-up was perfect for him to — ok— sue him, he might have been trying to sound cool in front of an X-Man who was laughing at his jokes— He, uh. May have forgotten. How much X-Men gossip. It’s not like it would have been a big deal had the press event not happened two days later, and— why do other people always get a laugh when they repeat his jokes anyway!

Plus! He was on maybe two hours sleep when the tabloid asked him point blank and for a moment he was so wrapped in the euphoria of a non-Bugle rag interviewing him, and also not yelling at him for damages or anything serious, that he forgot he lived in a world where sex-work was stigmatized so— yeah. Good news! His secret identities are still fine, no-one’s even figured out which OnlyAccount is his. Bad news! Because his secret identity’s still intact, and noone’s figured out which twink is spiderpowered, he’s still only going to make $134 this month, which is barely more than minimum wage when you include prep time.

Other good news! Most fun he’s ever had explaining something from the internet to Jonah.

[flockoff-featherface]

i just. sometimes i think back about devil may cry again. and. damn. like dante and vergil barely got to be actual children, vergil's obsession with power comes from his insecurity about being supposedly unable to save his mum and dante and. they were so young, they should've been able to play around as kids and enjoy their childhood. the fact that both of them just. lost their parents so quickly and had to find their ways in this godforsaken world alone.

it's so interesting to me how dante uses his taunts to like. lower his anxiety. he runs through fights making jokes because he's always scared. and i'd go as far as saying that on the other hand, vergil is just scared for his brother. the whole "im better than you" thing? it's always read (to me) as "i gotta make you strong enough but also i gotta unlock all my power so i can protect everything i love" but just gone too far. like he's taken it really to an extreme, obviously, but i do think it started out as genuine fear that he wasn't enough. these men for real just need therapy. all of them need therapy someone get the dmc gang THERAPY.

OH. AND ANOTHER THING. THAT FINAL FUCKING FIGHT IN DMC3 BETWEEN VERGIL AND DANTE. i like to think it's always been dante trying to bring vergil back from "POWER". like the "we are the sons of sparda" part is very much a "fucking wake up and look around you can do so much better" and vergil is so far gone that genuinely his response is "our souls are at opposites, brother. i need more power." which is such a personality defining statement from him. But the part that hurts most? When Vergil cuts Dante's hand on his way down to hell. He reaches out for his brother.

AND OOH. BEFORE I FORGET. lady saying to nero (not an exact quote bc i cannoooooot remember it) "you'll never be able to recover from killing your dad don't do it" isn't just a "no dont do it nero". DMC3. SHE'S SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE. she knows what it's like to be in neros place on dmc5, and. i just feel like sometimes we look over lady and her past. she went through so much too, like imagine being like 16/17 (?) and having your dad be like "yeah holup lemme go open the gate to hell come here daughter lemme k word you so i can open the gate to hell" and have to actually go out and stop him. and like i guess even with dante and vergil there's an element of "oh they're half demon they. kinda. expect this shit in their lives" LADY ISN'T. she's 100% human and has been through so much.

and like when that's put in perspective, it really makes me enjoy the games more. like, growing up playing the games it was all "wahoo haha pizza haha motivated haha gun-trick-sword-trick-gun-trick" and now it's all "man. more of my favourite characters are just. traumatised people who have really gone through the worst shit ever."

anyway. ro lore dumps about devil may cry again. maybe if i get time mid coursework i'll add more lmao we'll see 😔

But yeah. Sometimes even a Devil May Cry. Ouch.

[tianhai03]

You've mentioned before that Dante is uncomfortable with his demonic heritage, do you want to talk about that?

should probably start off by showing where exactly we see his feelings abt being half demon, so here's where i got that from (this is from pg 249 of before the nightmare, the dmc5 prequel novel. you can find a pdf of it here):

there are other instances in the series where we get hints of him being uncomfortable abt his own demonic heritage, but afaik this is the most In Your Face one. it literally says right there. "he was sick of turning into something else."

it took dante a long, LONG time to get comfortable with his own powers. he probably didnt feel comfortable with it until he got his SDT in dmc5, because this was from his first encounter with urizen. he's been living with his demonic blood that gave him powers, the same power that saved his and many other people's lives, ever since he was born, and yet he was never comfortable with it. i think a lot of people forget abt that very often.

people only see dante when hes the wacky wahoo pizza man, because he rarely ever lets others see the real him; the dante who is probably so sick of the demonic blood running through his own veins he hated seeing himself, let alone his demonic form. i'm sure throughout his life he wished he was just some normal guy very often. it's exhausting having to constantly try to hide yourself from everyone else.

but hey! everything's fine and good now because he found his family again in 5, he finally learned how to accept both his human AND demonic blood as parts of himself (and got a cool new demon form out of it), and he's now on his way to kicking more demon ass with his brother while they fix their relationship. life's finally starting to look good for dante and i'm sure he's happier now :)

[skullzvstheworld]

[sailorsenshishitposter]

I can't get over how their faces resemble Dennis and Dee who are also twins.

Also remember when I said the pants don't fit Dante? I took a picture this time.

He's too thicc

[trashqueen3]

Wacky wahoo pizza man found dead.

(Messy comic version of this post.)

Edit: GODDAMN TYPO

[onestepbackwards]

Okay but real talk… I feel like every piece of art for Dante I see is either Enthusiastic Slut Energy or Depressed Slut Energy. No in between. I don’t know if I’m wording this right but it keeps sending me into hysterics. Does this say something about me or the people I follow. Is it just who he is. Do I need sleep.

No worries! Both are correct.

He definitely radiates both Enthusiastic Slut Energy™ and Depressed Slut Energy™.

Canonically, he unfortunately is horribly depressed, despite how he acts like the Wacky Wahoo Pizza Man we know and love. He's lost so many people, and struggles being social despite how carefree he acts.

He lost his parents, lost his twin (recently finally getting him back after assuming him dead for most of his life), became a hunter even though he has a dislike for his father. He can't fully integrate with humans or demons. One of his best friends is a carbon copy of his dead mother-

Dante was put through the ringer-

A part of his silliness is also partially an act as well. He can genuinely be silly and a jokester, but he also does it to wear a mask while he hunts or is around others so they won't worry about him.

Dante is such a lovely, complex character if you really look into it. I love him, and he deserves a lot of sweets and hugs.

[mildmayfoxe]

ok i finished my taxes. i did owe money. wahoo!!! a real business!!!! it was less than a thousand bucks even with the fucking.... $155 i had to pay just to file which is nice but not even by that much, which means it's only going to get worse in the future. lol. it's so fucking crazy how much money i spend on this shit as like?? a hobby?? what the fuck am i doing dog!!! but at least it's done. too bad i missed the deadline for the april market i usually do bc that would've made up a good chunk of what i just had to pay but like whatever man. probably oughtta scope out some summer stuff coming up other places. i'm tempted to buy a pizza as a reward but considering i just shelled out almost one thousand dollars to the irs it's probably not a good idea. but like whats $40 in the face of that tbh. anyway great time to hit up my anniversary sale so i can pay taxes on the money you give me now next year