#what is [nero] doing?

[flockoff]

In a another world, Peak of Combat has a plot that involves Time Travel Shenanigans which puts V in one of the Funniest Situations.

[nerogore]

i genuinely don’t understand people who see V as a seperate character, and actively make the choice to ignore the fact that he is literally vergil. like what. are you fucking serious. yes, V is independent, but he exists because of his whole self. fragmented, yes, but a core piece nonetheless.

it makes zero sense to me considering it’s drilled into us that he is vergil. that is a key part of vergil. same goes for urizen, but that’s a different context.

“i see him as a seperate character.” that’s literally destroying a massive part of dmc lore you cannot be serious. maybe it’s just me or i’m being dramatic but honest to god, i actually cannot fathom it. every time someone says this i recommend they read Visions of V and they always just. refuse to. the dmc fandom is SO confusing to me, actually. it makes me beyond frustrated.

also—the people who say that V is seperate from Vergil just so they can ship him with Nero and pretend the ship isn’t incest are SO funny. if ur gonna ship NeroV, at least fucking own it. don’t be a pussy. so funny when they refuse to tag spardacest when that’s literally what it is.

*disclaimer that this is NOT me criticising harmless AUs and people’s art/fanfiction, it’s more so the people who choose to ignore what is literally canon and shoved in our faces.

*ALSO (omg i cant shut up) the belief that V is somehow a ‘gentleman’ and is ‘kind’ astounds me. we’re talking about the same guy who tormented a child in VoV and blatantly lacks empathy. the same guy who knew he was related to nero and had no problem using him for his goals. that’s what makes him a good character, let him be evil thanks. and YES i am fully aware that V learns to see things differently, but that doesn’t change his actions and words.

[chronologiical]

Curtain fall

[mariyekos]

I like to imagine Dante's able to use some basic magic beyond just typical demonic stuff. In the opening of DMC1, a magic circle appears below Trish when Dante shoots the motorcycle back at her, so I like to think Dante knows some basic spells, wards, and the like. For the most part he uses it for little things like making a special lock for his Devil Arm vault, maybe heating up soup or a drink that's gone cold, and so on, rather than any combat things. Dante's spells are not at all refined and he doesn't have a natural talent for it, per se, but he has a lot of power he can put into things so he often ends up brute forcing whatever it is. It's not necessarily efficient, but it works, and that's all he cares about. He's not really interested in most precise or specific things.

Vergil on the other hand has a lot more control and a much greater interest in magic in general. A post DMC5 Vergil (and pre DMC3) would use magic a lot more often, and without as much prep. He spent a lot of time learning different charms etc. to use in daily life, and he's a lot more elegant about it. Some he learned when on the run and trying to hide from demons, while others he learned when trying to track down Sparda, and others still he learned for purely convenience reasons. Post DMC5 he gets a lot more into it than he did pre DMC3 when it was more a thing of survival, even if it had the convenience aspect back then too. He's the kind of person who would learn spells for the sake of knowing them, and while he prefers using demonic abilities in combat, he might try to learn a magical combat spell or two just to see what it's like. He mostly sticks to practical things though (which sit on the border of practicality, but he considers them practical, uses them often, and makes Dante's magic look like child's play).

On the magical third (regrown!) hand, Nero's absolutely horrible at magic, to the point of not being able to do basically anything. He's got the magical reserves, but unlike Vergil who can cast precise spells with relatively little effort, or Dante who gets through spells by basically overloading them until they work, Nero just can't get magic to work for him at all. Lessons with Vergil end with him stomping out when he gets fed up with Vergil commenting on how easy it should be, while attempts to get Dante to explain how he casts magic end in frustration when Dante's explanations basically start and end at "I dunno, it, it just works." Sure Nero can memorize and draw a warding sigil perfectly, but any and all attempts to get it to actually do anything end in failure.

Kyrie, in a reveal that surprises everyone, most of all herself, is apparently extremely talented at magic, which she does not know until she sees Nero trying and failing to activate a warding sigil Vergil taught him, puts a finger on it so she can trace over it as she reviews Nero's work in case he messed something up, and inadvertently activates it. After that they end up doing some testing and discover Kyrie is a natural when it comes to magic. The only problem is that while casting spells, activating sigils, and the like come easily to her, her magical reserves are rather small, limiting what she's able to do. When she first activates the sigil Nero had drawn, she ends up unable to get up and Nero has to carry her to bed (which she insists he doesn't have to do, because she just needs a minute to catch her breath, but he insists on)

Nico is stoked to hear about this and ends up figuring out a way to essentially fit Kyrie and Nero with a magic converter that allows Kyrie to draw on the magical reserves Nero can't utilize so that she can use them for whatever she wants to. While Kyrie isn't someone who really cares to use magic for things in her daily life like Dante and Vergil, she does use it to make little charms for the kids, and to establish wards around the house to protect them from demon attacks and other small misfortunes. She and Vergil end up bonding a little bit as he teaches her the spells and other bits of magic Nero was never able to pick up on.

(Vergil himself feels a mixture of pride at how quickly she picks up on things with his instruction, and jealousy when he sees how good she is at things first or second try when he knows it took him a good five or ten attempts to get it down when he was first learning. Kyrie notices and tells him that he's still much better than her in the long run since he's able to use magic without needing a separate "battery" to power him, but Nero absolutely digs into Vergil about it when Kyrie isn't there. Dante meanwhile finds it all hilarious. But he and Nero are pretty proud of Kyrie too.)

[bl00dm0n37]

i think they should add kyrie to fortnite

[storytellering]

It's that time of the year again ✨

[washichan]

I'm reading DMC4 Deadly Fortune right now and holy fck. What do you meant by that (Will contain spoilers in the tags)

[plastikstarz]

Final fight

[azuremoonss]

For the record Sylus can carry me like that all day every day if he wishes, holy fuck I have never been more down bad

[potato-jem]

i know it's been said, but the one thing i need from the pjo show is poker face playing in the lotus casino. without it, it would be like remaking twilight without supermassive black hole playing over the baseball scene

[constantlyfeelsick]

I feel like I've mentioned this a billion times, but I think I've brought it up only once.

Obviously, the Order was a deeply integral part of Kyrie's life. It affected everything from her morals, worldview, down to the people she associated with (Agnus mentions in "Before the Nightmare" that Alyssa couldn't join the order because she wasn't already a believer so I assume that all of Kyrie's circle were just other believers, excluding Nero). But once the Order broke down, a major component of her life was gone, and her life as she knew it was completely destroyed.

It's never mentioned by Capcom, but how would she cope with it? Would it still heavily impact her even during DMC5? I know that girl has deeply repressed interests and desires that she is aware of but doesn't want to acknowledge unless someone else acts upon it (eg, her feelings for Nero. Ik theres nothing for her, but I dont think she really hinted anything towards Nero until he brought it up), do you think she would learn the courage to act on those post DMC4? (Weird girl Kyrie, my love)

[nerogore]

i don’t think we as a community recognise nero’s freakiness and sexual shamelessness enough.

he is an S-tier freak and this should be acknowledged. and praised. give him a clap on the back! or clap those cheeks! i’m sure he’d enjoy it either way

thank you to @r4diumgirlz for inspiring this post…

[whatthe-lads-aredoing]

3:26 AM - I cannot begin to describe what those walls of text are in Nero's computer

[bugwolfsstuff]

You ever think of Hera preventing Zeus from saving his son Sarpedon from his fated death and Zeus mourning by sending blood rain in the Iliad

and then in ToA

Zeus preventing everyone from saving his son and Hera/Juno's champion, Jason Grace from his fated death and Hera mourning by wearing a veil and scolding Zeus

@thel1ghtningthief @smileyalater @unubinary @bodeyeen2132

[devilsparda]

—

[corruptedbunny-multimuse]

Nahobino, walking into his dorm: Hello, person who does not live here. Demi-fiend: Hi. Nahobino: I gave you a key in case of an emergency! Demi-fiend: I ran out of chips.

~~~

Demi-fiend: Rats! Nahobino: Hey, I'm upset too, but let's watch the fucking language.

~~~

Demon: We have your child, Sparda. Dante: Which one? Demon: ...the one with tattoos and black hair. Dante: Ohh, you've got Demi. Nah, you don't have him, he has you. Tell the kid I'm orderin' pizza for dinner! (He hangs up as the Demi-fiend pounces on the demon)

~~~

Civilian, angry at Demi-fiend: I want to speak to your boss! Demi-fiend: Oh, my boss? Demi-fiend, pulling his phone out and calling Dante right in front of the civilian: Hey dad, some bitch wants to talk to you.

~~~

(Demi-fiend and Nero burst into Devil May Cry and slam the door shut behind them.) Trish: What did you do. Nero: Nobody died. Trish: What kind of an answer is that?!

~~~

Someone: Would you slap your best friend for a million Macca? Demi-fiend: I'd slap the Nahobino for free. Nahobino, tearing up: I'm your best friend??

~~~

Aogami: Let's not jump to conclusions. Nahobino, summoning his sword: I'm jumping. Demi-fiend, ready to cast Freikugel: I've jumped. Raidou, pulling out his katana: I've landed.