Its Been A Couple Of Months Since Ive Been Here But I Never Said Anything. I Stayed Completely Silent.

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve been here but I never said anything. I stayed completely silent. Not even a comment or repost.

So hello I guess

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Upon their re-arrival in Redgrave City from their time spent taking apart the Qliphoth tree, there as a very large, apparent issue that rises in Vergil's mind—

He has done nothing but preform acts of villainy in his quest for power and attempt to heal and protect that he no longer knows how to atone for, leaving him more vulnerable than he once was before.

Since he was a child, he had been killing demons, and eventually, humans, be it under Mundus' manipulation or is own hand in a desperate act to keep himself sane and alive, to protect what little he had left.

Surely, now that V is gone, he has nothing worth fighting to forgive, because it was always him committing atrocities - and how does one in their forties possibly hope to gain the acceptance and forgiveness of those he has hardly known?

He has only just met his son of flesh and blood, his friend (could they call them friends, now?) Nico, and he knows that Lady's glare holes something even the flames of hell wishes they could aspire to be.

Trish has been the only one to even listen to his pleas in an all too human moment (cast aside, wishing for atonement) - was he a fool for revealing these desires, too?

Dante, who has only just begun to see him for who he is - and it terrifies him, the way his brother can read him so easily and yet be so ignorant of the humanity that was sheltered behind the grim resting face of a half demon forsworn.

The choice to go back to Hell is the easiest decision he has ever made by far; for only a demon could be accepted in his position - there was no repent for his sins other than what he drew to himself, there would be no recompense for the things he had done.

How was he to be human when he had leaned so far into his demonic half that he tumbled into Hell and remained there for nearly 20 years?

There was no support for his humanity besides the little that Dante would cast aside in moments of vulnerability, the fact he would in itself a threat to his own walls that shook from the force of the pitying gazes he would be given.

No - he was the Demon King, rightfully so in his pestilence, the apple settling in him as infection, hot and aching as it spread to his head.

And what a heavy, broken crown it was that sat atop his temple, a shattered eclipse of a halo.

DMC6: Sparda is resurrected and bonds with his grandson

(clip from a dmc panel around 2011)

dan giving us a demonstration of vergil's flirting skills (sound on)