#capcom i beg for a happy ending for vergil PLEASE

[mountainshroom]

my only wish in life is to get this old man back to his fam

[devilish-miasma]

I somewhat crave for more dadte content. Might do a hc where Dante finding out he had a son from his past relationship with his s/o back at dmc1? The kid not as near old as Nero. Maybe in his teen age. Will his kid trying to beat him up like his nephew? Will he reunite with his s/o and son? I'll leave that to you. Family fluff plss tysm you're amazing!!✨

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

Dante Having a Son He Didn't Know About

Dante was, what, twenty-eight in the first game? So, if I’m doing my math correctly (please fact check me on this I cannot math), his son would be around fourteen or fifteen.

The relationship with his s/o was probably short lived. Dante’s son was born without his knowledge, and his s/o raised him alone. His son met Dante after his other parent died; demon attack. Dying, they told their son to find Devil May Cry, and find Dante. He’s his father.

It was scary, traveling to Devil May Cry alone with only the clothes on his back. He didn’t sleep, afraid of the sound of howling demons behind him. It took him days to reach Devil May Cry.

He felt instantly safe once he found the shop. He almost cried, seeing Dante, yet remained strong, knowing his parent wanted him to stay strong. But he knew this man was his father; they looked far too alike. They were the only ones there with hair white as snow and blue eyes.

The absolute shock on Dante’s face when he sees this kid stumble into the shop. You see, demons can sense kinship, as exhibited by Dante in the fourth game when he met Nero. So obviously, when he meets his kid, he would sense a stronger kinship with him then he did with Nero.

The meeting, unfortunately, abruptly ends when his son collapses. He faints right then and there in the middle of Devil May Cry.

He wakes up on the couch with a blanket over him. His head is pounding, he feels weak. Groaning, he turns his head and sees Dante—his father, sitting in a chair next to him reading a magazine.

Dante’s not a complete idiot. He knows this kid is weak, exhausted. So after getting some food into him, (probably pizza, let's be honest) he gets the full story.

Dante learns about the kid’s other parent, remembering their relationship. He feels incredibly guilty, leaving them alone, unprotected. If they had him none of this would have happened. Dante listens to his entire story, a sick, twisted feeling in the pit of his stomach tells him he knows who did this.

After learning about his son’s—jeez, it was going to take some time getting used to that— past, Dante knows what he needs to do. He promises to protect him, to raise him as best as he can, and to teach him how to control his abilities. (I think that, if Dante actually had a child, he would take full responsibility. We joke about him being an idiot/irresponsible/stupid or whatever, but he would use his brain here. He’d know what he needs to do if he was actually in this type of situation. Is this a hot take?)

It takes Dante’s son a while to warm up and get used to him. Which is normal; after being raised as a human and under the impression that his father was dead, now being told who his father is and what his father is, and that he’s a quarter demon, it would take some time.

Oh man, is the crew shocked when they learn Dante has a kid. Lady and Trish probably remark about who in their right mind would lay with Dante, but they’d like his son. They become his eccentric Lesbian wine aunts who spoil him, much to his embarrassment.

Dante’s son gets along with Nero quite well despite the initial shock. They bond over having fathers they never knew about, and being quarter demons. Nero definitely offers whatever emotional support or coping strategies he can give, knowing it's difficult finding acceptance over your heritage. Best cousins.

He’s scared of Vergil. Terrified of him. When Dante’s son first met Vergil he ran behind his father, shaking like a leaf. The whole shop exploded and poor Vergil didn’t know what he did wrong. (Yes you do.)

If it wasn’t already obvious, Dante’s son is quiet, reserved, and shy, absolute nothing like his father. Dante tries his best to get him out of his shell but really has no idea how. So what does he do? Tell jokes. Lots and lots of jokes, dad jokes included.

“Why are piggy banks wise? They have common cents.”

“When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent.”

“What does a vegetarian zombie eat? GRAINS!”

Sometimes it works, but other times Dante’s son sits there begging someone to help him. Oh god these are so terrible what the fuck.

Dante’s son will eventually warm up to Vergil, but it takes a while. Longer than what it took to get used to Dante. When the groundbreaking moment where he finally talked to Vergil happened, Dante has never felt more happy. He watched his kid, hood of his hoodie up, sit next to Vergil, who was reading, and initiated the conversation.

“Hey, uncle?... What were you and dad like when you were kids?”

Yes, Vergil actually spoke and told a few stories. It was incredible.

Dante’s son is literally his whole world. He loves that kid more than anything, and he makes sure to tell him that. The first time Dante told his son that he loved him, he cried, and Dante just hugged him tight and promised he wouldn’t leave him. He wouldn’t be without a family ever again.

Fatherhood would actually suit Dante quite well. Damn you Capcom.

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[scalproie]

dee em cee 5 anon here! or maybe not just 5 anymore bc i branched out and finally finished 3 today. im- im emotional. it was a struggle (keyboard gang and being lost all the time) but the kind that felt super rewarding, i have a soft spot a mile wide for the graphics (polygons my beloved), and some environments are legitimately jaw dropping (when you walk across the air where the bridge collapsed. the indescribable feeling when i realized its what i have to do and that i Can do it. the glowy gears in the room before you fight lady in the library. the stairs and the path assembling in front of you in m19!!!). and oh, the game lets me fight side by side with vergil? i really get to do that? my heart is filled with joy and love and happiness?? and then right after, after completely flattening me for the thousandth time, he does *that*. and the game ends like that. and i have to live with it. cruel cruel cruel *sniffles*

HEYY NICE THAT YOU DECIDED TO PLAY DMC3

I feel you on the being lost part, like I had my map opened a lot because "did I went through that door or did I went through the other one?" but you're right because it does feel rewarding when you move on to the next mission.

I have an immense soft spot for the polygons as well, there's a lot of stuff in this game that I think works better in those stylized graphics than if they were to put it in, say, today's unreal engine, it works well for nostalgia too because this is a 2000's game alright!

Also for the final parts of the game, dont worry because in regards to the V-man, what dmc3 breaks, dmc5 fix. (Character in universe-wise i mean, theres nothing plot-related that need fixing in dmc3) and hopefully, that vergil co-op could maybe go on longer in future installments. (like dmc6 capcom im begging please)

[praeuro]

So, this is the long ass post with my thoughts and generally blabing about DMC5. I will cut it so that people don’t have to suffer through my screams but yeah...

So first thing’s first I just wanna get out of the way the styles I used with Dante and give them a sort of ranking and comment about them for this game around. Last time I went full into Swordmaster and just cleaned faces off the screen. This’ll be an ordered list 1-4 in order of my favourite to least favourite, with consideration to all devil arms and guns.

1. Gunsilger

I wanted to have a crack at gunslinger style again since it destroyed my hands in 3 and I never really went back as much but this time around it was really enjoyable and didn’t drive my hands into a craze. Eb & Iv were fun to use with this stance though I could see them getting lack luster by the end, I just wasn’t hitting as hard which is understandable. I only used Cyote-A to get myself out of crowds, or to occasionally push back. Kalina Ann I actually loved this time around because of it’s functionality with you know what...I can’t believe gunslinger could turn Dante into a fucking Ghostbuster. Nah I loved using both Kalina Ann, and it’s second counterpart. God throughout the game after I found that I just wanted Dante to show lady I found her old gun, but no Dante had to be a fucking pest and-FUCK I JUST REALISED THE BITCH STILL HAS IT POOR LADY—FUCK...*sigh* okay Dante you owe Lady big time (does this mean she gets a third iteration????). What were the other ones....? OH RIGHT Dr. Faust. I didn’t want to touch that one, it was a double edged sword and it was fun for a time but I felt like I was just going to use it all up and suffer with it. After I got KA2 I just abused the gunslinger stage 3 mechanics and blew shit up with my LASER lol

2. Swordmaster

It’s really hard not to fall for the one thing Dante is good at. It just boosts his Devil Arm’s power by so much. I loved the swords, I LOVED USING BALROG man that was a good devil arm, nice throwback to the ifrit, and I guess the gilgamesh. CAVILIERE WAS PRETTY DAMN NICE although I’m an average to high speed weapon user so slowing down that much was pretty painful for me (I didn’t use it for long), though I did like it’s swordmaster ability—that came in handy to break so many blocks. Oh and now I welcome the throwbacks and go _**AHH **_because of Cerberus, or now it’s King Cerberus I guess. VERY NICE UPGRADE THOUGH. But yeah sword master was nice in the end...as usual.

3. Trickster

Gonna be honest here and say that I only ever used this as either an evasion mechanic, or when platforming was involved. I just never use trickster offensively.

4. Royalguard

Sorry but I hardly touched this. I still have troubles with the timing, and idk why. It’s just not my style...heh. However it was nice to use occasionally to block certain horrible things. I’m not a tank, but eventually I’ll learn once I do another playthrough.

Okay so with that out of the way I just wanna throw out there that god this was refreshing to have. I do find it weird that this time we have a playthrough that’s intermingled instead of separate start to end. However it’s nice and lengthy still and blends quite nice. Although before I go further I fucking hate that I can’t read the mission descriptions in time before the level loads, even though it’s just a small recap of what happened before I STILL WANNA READ D:

Okay another thing I wanna bring up is Gold Orbs. They THREW them at me like no tomorrow. I used a few yeah but I always had like 8 on hand and I didn’t go looking for them actively. It feels like the kupo coin from KH3, too much power with too much convenience. I liked the blue and purple orb stands though, they were a nice touch instead of just throwing them on the floor or something.

I liked how the story went, though by the middle I picked up and gasped at a few things, and the throwbacks/callbacks holy crap they were nice to mention all the crap and people you know. Even fucking Patty and Kyrie got some nice kicks into this game damn, honestly wasn’t expecting patty. *SLAMS FACE INTO THE TABLE* GIVE. ME. MORE. SIDE. CHARACTER. CONTENT. Sad to not see either of them in person but oh well, maybe next time.

I wanna throw a shoutout to my best friend BlueSpiritFire1 for watching the DMC anime with me because I was a bitch who forgot that shit was a thing. Thank god because it came in handy so much.

Vergil actually fucking stopped being a stabby little bitch for once who’d of thought! I just wish while those two are together they’ll actually start acting mature with one another instead of bringing up the whole POWER and STAHP BEING A DORK thing. I do want Vergil to get an appropriate standing with Dante and Nero because he just needs to slow down and start cooling off. I would love it if they’d just talk for a bit you know, more time to chat.

Controlling V was nice because in other games I like the mage/summoner/support role. He was nice to use and I actually got heaps of Ss ranks on him which is great.

Nero’s new devil breaker arm took some getting used to especially when controlling his magazine and how you can’t gently detach the arm like a fucking normal person would. No instead Nero has to go “Sorry Nico!” *BIG ASS EXPLOSION*—*cocks next gun arm into slot* .Giving up so many arms to make room for new ones was painful but in some way fun. Although loosing a few certain arms when I didn’t have any copies in stock or in mag was sad. However the convenience of finding them out in the open was nice but story-wise...confusing. Especially with Nero saying “Oh, Nico must’ve left this here!” like *confused noises* how the fuck did she find time to throw arms everywhere!?

SPEAKING OF NICO—THOSE ARRIVAL CUTSCENES JESUS. And well that one Lady one where she sticks her head out to openly put out she’s still dangerous guys. Nico was pretty nice and boy was it weird to find out she was related to Mr. AHHHHHHHH. Like fucking hell, least she doesn’t have a stutter because idk that annoyed me on her dad and she really didn’t deserve to have a painful reminder of a deadbeat dad about her. Glad she DIDN’T CARE ABOUT DADDY because fuck that would’ve been awkward to explain, but glad that wasn’t an issue and she knows about it all.

Okay just a few words to open this paragraph up...The Hat Scene. I am so happy that Dante is still quirky as hell. He made Nico happy so I’m happy too. The hat and scarf is cool but gameplay wise still nervous using.

Not having a DT on Nero was fucking weird but I’m glad we got the new arms to compensate. Kinda weird looking back and thinking for a moment that his DT was kinda a pity DT until someone just had to lop his arm off. Ah well least it got resolved and my boy is a lizard. Speaking of DT’s now Dante and Vergil are both that fucking meme about the two hotdogs in terms of DT. Because now we have Devil Sin Trigger. Pretty neat but honestly I found the cheese mechanic in no time. Buy the gun mod for the DST and just hold down RT/R2 to unleash massive fucking damage.

I just need to scream because my tired ass didn’t realise griffon, shadow, and nightmare for what they truly were and in the back of my head I knew something was up but I just didn’t LISTEN. Honestly when the time came to verse nightmare I was crying the back of my head “please don’t return to your OG form I’m begging you, that shit was too painful” but once again the throwbacks were amazing.

Overall I’m happy with the game but I’m super upset that now I don’t have any more DMC to moogle over and I just hope to god they have DLC. I keep hearing that Bloody Palace will make a return so that’s nice, but I want other playable characters ya know, maybe something to fix that itch for more story. I wouldn’t be out of Itsuno’s power to give the fans what they want considering what Capcom did for him to make this game live. He HAS THE POWER!!!! I’m begging for a Vergil story for either a prequel, or a mini sequel. It would be interesting to hear about how he survived all...the mess? Because I think the last time chronologically we saw him was...Neo Angelo blowing up? God it’s been a while.

It’s late where I am and I’ve come back from work so splurging all of this has given me some relief to all the crazy information I wanna just blab about but I think I’m just coming up dry until I playthrough again. So for now idk what to extend this with but I think I’ve gone nuts with a few things that satisfy me enough for now. I’ll probably fan over it more later on in the tags or whatever.