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"Vergil's search for power was motivated by his trauma of being helpless/motherless as a child" and "Vergil did not care about the people around him in search for this power" are two sentences that can and should exist together. It doesn't negate those two ideas.

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Alright the Visions of V manga broke me. I'll own it. I'm a Vergil stan now.

The climax of the entire thing being Vergil getting to have a conversation with his younger self about his trauma. Admitting that he's been running from his trauma for his whole life, and while he thought that made him strong it actually made it so he could never move on. Acknowledging that was a terrified boy who grew into a terrified man and the only thing he ever wanted was for someone to save him. Realizing that he threw away all the scraps of all the happiness he could have salvaged in the aftermath. The final moment before he re-converges essentially being him confessing that he loves his brother. The fucking smile Dante does as Vergil turns to look at him (he's so happy to have his big bro back tooooooooooo)

I can't. I'm having too many feelings. I'm gonna go sit in the dark for a few hours and cry

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the not doing very well at the moment trio

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Y'all having a rough day? May I interest you in my supportive Vergil images?

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He was forced to eat cement when he was 2 days old

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I feel like we do not appreciate V's dedication to not giving a fuck even when his literal life is at stake.

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small angry wet cat rkgk bc of artblock

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Another fight or dead situation…

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for me, it's always like this

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Thinking again about Trish exploring self-expression through clothes. She may have Eva's body, but it's her decision when it comes to how she dresses/presents it, and that's what she wants to focus on.

When people catcall her because they like her body, she ignores them. They don't care about her. About Trish. They're complimenting an object. The creation of another. A "gift" she did not ask for, but retains anyway.

But when someone compliments her style? When they gush over her outfit? When they say they like her makeup? When they compliment her over how she does her hair? Then she's flattered. Because she put effort into that, her own choices went into that, and as a being who was created by another in the image of another to specifically manipulate another, none of which she ever asked for or wanted for herself, it feels good when her own decisions are praised and appreciated. When someone says something nice about her style, it feels like they're admiring her, Trish, and it feels wonderful.

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I too look like that when I experience the horrors

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Look, Vergil is my favorite character of all time, but to excuse his actions just cuz you like him is genuinely dumb.

The creator of the netflix dmc show (Adi Shankar) is on twitter making posts about “Vergil was right” “hes too powerful to care about child support” or my least favorite thing he’s said:

THE FUCK YOU MEAN PROTECTING THE UNIVERSE FROM COLLAPSE??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WAS THINKING ABOUT “reuniting the Sparda bloodline” HE WAS NOT THINKING ABOUT THAT AT ALL!!!!

Vergils flaws are what make him an interesting character, his main flaw is that he’s so motivated by fear that he can’t think about anything else. He can’t move past what happened to him when he was eight.

Vergil caused mass deaths of innocent life in both 3 and 5. He was too focused on gaining power to consider or care the amount of people that would die in the crossfire. It’s not like he went out of his way to kill people he just didn’t care if people did die.

The entire reason Dante wants to fight Vergil at the end of 3 and in 5 is because he wants to stop him. “My soul… is telling me to stop you!” Y’all glance over this quote from 3 too much. “Soul” in the context of dmc3 clearly refers to the characters goals and morals, clearly. So Dante saying his soul wants to stop Vergil is clearly because of his character development in 3 and learning to care about humanity, he doesn’t want Vergil doing these things that cause human death.

Vergil doesn’t just cause the deaths of a few people here and there you do realize that right??? When he raised the temen ni gru in 3 and when he grew the qliphoth tree, A LOT OF PEOPLE DIED. Way more in 5 than in 3, in 5 we get to actually see civilians get murdered too.

Vergil is NOT a good person. He does NOT care about protecting innocent people he doesn’t know. Vergil only thinks about his own fears and trauma since he is so blinded by it. He’s never been a good person. Also, just because someone is super powerful doesn’t mean their better than others, that’s the most dudebro power-scaling bullshit I’ve heard in my life.

Also a reminder that Vergil had no idea that Nero existed, but considering he’s “abandonment” as a child and being forced to learn to protect himself and having the quote of “Without power you cannot protect anything.” I think it’s safe to assume that of he did know Nero existed he would both protect him and teach him to protect himself, he wouldn’t willingly abandon his own child unless he thought Nero would be better off that way. I don’t know how anyone could see that differently.