The major reason Dante and Vergil's rivalry works better than almost any other take on the trope is because the games are totally self aware about how dumb and immature the whole trope is and they lean way the hell into it. Like yeah, there's real stakes, turmoil and emotional wounds between them that drive their eternal conflict but at the same time it's pretty obvious that the real reason they fight all the time is because they're both just the biggest goddamn children on the planet.
It really is just playground bickering elevated to apocalyptic proportions by sheer virtue of them both being demigods.
Drives me insane when newcomers to fandom r like “how can you ship those two!! They hate each other!!” As if shipping rivals and enemies has not been one of the only constants throughout fandom history.
OK what the hell is this. No seriously. I can't stop laughing uncomfortably.
Do we get a date scene with Sephiroth or something? Where we fight-fuck? OK I know we've made a few Sephiroth Is Totally Gay For Cloud jokes, but... did they decide to just go for it or what?
Antis are so fucking bored and have literal no life that they make ×283838 blogs to harass people but then they have the nerve to call proshippers the problematic ones 💀, we aren't doing all of that hon
Like babe, I don't know how to tell you this, but we have better things to do, it's YOU that doesn't have a fucking life.
And also, not related at all, but ofc y'all don't care about irl children, y'all are so 'protective' and 'worried' about FICTIONAL children because you can control them in basically all ways, which you cannot do with irl children, bffr.
Get a fucking real life and get out of the internet lmao
But what they never show you are these images. You know, the ones that disprove their whole entire argument.
Right there. Juuuuust a little further down from the screenshot they love sharing around. So next time an anti shoves the first image in your face, well here y'all go.
as an SA victim i could really give less of a fuck about what people's kinks are. someone likes cnc? none of your business. they're into ddlg? so what? no one is being hurt. they ship something taboo? as long as they don't try to justify that in real life idc. please for the love of god focus on real predators out there and advocate for actual SA prevention instead of focusing on random people's kinks.
Antishippers if you can eat up content about fictional murderers and cannibals and simp for them but not support them in real life then please shut the actual fuck up about people liking fictional abusers and rapists before I lose my absolute shit