#I wish I had screenshots of the menu screens from dmc5

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I've never played DMC but Dante always has given me Goofy Weird Uncle vibes and Vergil has always given Major Asshole, Condescending Bastard vibes.

Dante's vibes are: Would play Arcade games, would probably fall asleep on a couch with his hand in a bowl of cheeseballs, lazy badassery mixed with sarcasm and smirks

Vergil's have always seemed: Stuffy guy, probably labels people as "Peasant" or "Burdensome Idiot" in his inner monologue, looks down his nose at Lesser People TM.

As someone who has played dmc, would you say that the vibe assessment is accurate or is the vibe radar broken? *offers soapbox for the king's decree*

Oh my god *trips over the soapbox* Yes Dante is absolutely the goofy uncle who is full of dad jokes and one liners and yet is also somehow??? Just ????? Cool?????

But I think that’s a surface reading cuz below that he is a barely functioning person who is crushed with survivors guilt. I feel he’s a poster child of “using humour to deflect”. I wanna put a sticker on his forehead which reads “fuck it we ball”. He can also be surprisingly somber and serious and while I joke about his single brain cell the guy is smart, he just has brain damage from the colossal crushing weight of untreated depression

Vergil is an absolute snot and the idiot has some sort of a power and superiority kink. But I think he comes across as stiff and buttoned up is cuz he doesn’t know how to act as a person. His only points of reference for an ordinary human life are childhood and early adulthood. Beyond that it’s just being a puppet to a demon and then… whatever happened then

Considering that Vergil is the one that starts shit and Dante is the one that has to clean up after him, I think they’re both as stupid as the other. So while it’s difficult to imagine, yes Vergil is just as likely to pass face planting a bowl of cheeseballs as Dante

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