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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

- Master Post of DMC fics by Rubixa Seraph -

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Series: Reignite the Flame

[Mostly canon-compliant series, with my take on who Nero’s mother is, and why she disappeared. At the same time, it looks like Dante had a daughter he didn’t know about, and she very much wishes to meet him.]

Hell Froze Over, and We Shall Reignite It - [Multi-chapter, ongoing]  Post DMC5, where Vergil, Dante, and Nero collectively find that their family is bigger than they thought. They find Nero’s mother down in Hell, and Nero finds a cousin. Yes, Dante, you do not have the high ground regarding the whole “you have a kid and didn’t know it??”

Could Have Been a Fever Dream - [One Shot, NSFW 🌶️] A little background on how Vergil met Sera, and that one spicy night they had together.

Edge of Infinity With You - [One Shot, NSFW 🌶️] A little background on how Dante met Kassy, and the whole night of fun they had.

FANART: Seraphina Valkyrie Character Design

Series: Fortune Favors the Bold

[Eva lives, and the twins grew up in Fortuna and are Holy Knights AU.]

Sons of Fortune - [Multi-chapter, ongoing] An AU where Eva, Vergil, and Dante collectively survived the attack from Mundus, and moved to Fortuna, where Vergil and Dante grow up in a more stable environment. The twins will get to have a place to call home, and even more people to love and make family with. Lots of family fluff, and I think this qualifies as a kid-fic. 

Practical Birthday Gifts -  [One Shot, NSFW 🌶️] “And there was only one bed!” trope. Dante x OC (Kassy) and a spicy night. Of course, this was indulgent smut. 

FANART: Holy Knight Vergil and Dante Sparda Plushie for Nero

Series:  This is Not an Office Rom-Com

[Office AU, no supernatural things, everyone is human. Slow burn drabbles of reader!insert working at the office and will slowly find themselves in a three-way relationship with Vergil and Dante.]

Crayon Rainbows After Rain - [One Shot] “Prequel” to the start of the series, as a bit of background to the AU and family setup of our cast.

I Owe You Lunch - [One Shot] Reader spills two whole lunch containers, that had a sticky note on it saying it belonged to Dante. Little did you know, just buying him lunch wasn’t the end of the scenario...

Espresso Sized Facts - [One Shot] Reader teaches Nero (who is on summer break and visiting the office) how to use the company’s espresso machine. You learn a bit more about drink and dessert preferences of the Sparda family. And you still don’t know who Nero’s and Vitale’s dad is.

Other Works and Series:

Scales, Feathers, and Eggshells -  [Multi-chapter, ongoing] 1k (roughly) word per chapter challenge! AU where Nero is 1/4 human, 3/4 devil, and 100% cute! The story of Vergil and his devilish mate raising a little hatchling.

Shattered Mirrors Repaired With Gold - [Series, WIP] This is the “What if Dante and Vergil’s positions were switched?” AU. Except I haven’t finished writing that part yet. Instead, you have two stories about Credo and Noel right now. Who is Noel? Not-actually-Nero... Dante’s daughter left in Fortuna. Yep.

The Danger of Doppelgängers - [Two-shot, WIP] The Noir AU DMC zine may not have made it to production stage, but I still have something to show for it. This was my piece, and I have a follow-up in due time.

Through the Lens of the Beholder -  [Multi-chapter, ongoing] Photographer!Reader, slight canon divergence (for reader's existence), following your photo-filled journey with the cast through DMC5. You will ogle all of the cast. All of them.

Kaleidoscope Worlds - Prompt Fills  All of my tumblr prompt requests go here. The first chapter has a table of contents detailing what prompts, with general tag-summaries. 

Checkmate Fate - [Series] Some indulgent canon-divergence, of what if Vergil and Nero’s mother reunited between the events of DMC3 and DMC1. Various flavors of family reunion fics. 

Blessings of Family - [Series] A “what-if” AU to my Reignite series, where Dante does get to know about Snow’s existence, and does his best to raise a happy family. A drabble-esque series outlining how much his family would mean to him, and how it affects how he welcomes Vergil back, post DMC5, among more family fluff.

Full Course - [Series, NSFW 🌶️] Don’t ask how we got here. Just know that this is where we are: Reader and Vergil acts on the idea of giving Nero a sibling. Nero has to process this news. Dadgil plus Spicy stuff. I blame tumblr for this one.

Hierarchy of Kings -  [Multi-chapter, ongoing]  I am prone to falling into multi-verse hell. This is an AU with Vergil meeting Roy King, an OC of mine. It’s a different flavor of world from Reignite, and is supposed to be all fluff-indulgent. Vergil needs a friend to have heart-to-hearts with, and if that friend becomes boyfriend, why not? 

Two Undergrads and a Cat - [One-Shot, 2020 Secret Santa Gift] A Reader x V “before established relationship” College AU fic. 

How to Ensure Survival When You Are Caught By the Most Dangerous Devils From Topside -  [One-Shot, NSFW 🌶️] A devil!reader insert story of getting some feral love in your favorite two devils’ nest. Absolute kink-fill. Please check tags for more details.

A Perfect Love is Not Picky and To Catch a Fleeting Presence - [One-Shots, NSFW 🌶️] My spicy contributions to the digital “after dark” Jackpot Dante zine!

DMCWeek 2020 - This links to a post of all 7 fics with their titles, themes, and summaries.

Headcannon Posts:

[I don’t do these often.]

🌶️ NSFW Alphabet J and V

🌶️ NSFW Alphabet X, D, and K

‘Useless’ Talent head canons

Sera and Vergil gift-giving thoughts

Kassy and Dante on hand-holding and declarations of love

[blackened-angel]

I was wondering if you could comment on something in the "Before the Nightmare" translation. When Dante is fighting Urizen on page 249 of the version on Divinity Hub, it says that he's "sick of turning into something else". Is this accurate to the original?

No, he doesn't say that and I tried to explain what it says in the Japanese version.

I haven't bothered with that translation since I could read the novel in Japanese. Since I had to look trough it so I can answer your question, just by reading the paragraph with that sentence, I could tell that most likely the novel was machine translated and there was barely any proofreading, because I looked over a few lines and they sound awkward.

Like I said before, Dante doesn't say that and there's other lines that are not present in the original...I assume the translation was made by inexperienced people and if it was machine translated, to make up for the fact that they perhaps don't know Japanese...they made up stuff?

That line for example, although you might like it because you believe it fits Dante, that still doesn't justify the fact that it's not a translation.

The job of a translator is to convey the words of the author, not insert their opinions.

Here is the paragraph from the original where I give my translations and compare with the other ones. I'll use DS from Divinity Statue.

それは、幼い頃には扱い切れなかった「力」。一度、死を迎え、 それによって目覚めた「力」。体に流れる半分の悪魔の血がもたら す「力」である.

My TL: "It was the power that he couldn't control as a child. The power that awakened within him after he once faced death.

A power that came from the half-demonic blood that flowed trough him." DS: The same force he couldn’t control in childhood and which showed itself when Dante was on the brink of death.

The strength that was given to him by the blood of a demon flowing in the veins of the heir to Sparda.

Yeah..so, you can see that the last part was made up. If the author had wanted to describe Dante as the heir of Sparda, I believe he would have done so.

瞬時に、ダンテの肉体が細胞レベルで変化していく。 人から、悪魔へ。 それこそが、普段は人間として日々を送るダンテの、真の姿であ った。 余程の事がない限り、ダンテがその「力」を使う事はない。自分 は人間だという思いが、ダンテに悪魔の姿を取る事を躊躇わせるのだ。 だが「魔王」には、その力を使わねば勝つ事などできはしないだ ろう。

My TL: Instantly, Dante's body began to transform at a cellular level, from human into demon.

That was Dante's true nature, though he normally lived as a human.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he wouldn't resort to using that power.

His belief in his own humanity made him hesitate to take on his demonic form.

However, he likely wouldn't stand a chance against the "Demon King" without using that very strength."

DS: Dante had transformed from a man into a demon. And that was his true form.

He remembered this power only in exceptional cases, because he stubbornly considered himself a human, not a demon. He was sick of turning into something else. But without this power, the demon emperor cannot be defeated.

それこそが、普段は人間として日々を送るダンテの、真の姿であ った。

In my translation, I tried to convey that "true nature" refers to Dante's half human/demon heritage. while the DS version implies that Dante's true form, as in his physical appearance is the demon one. Like I said, it was most likely google translated...

As I mentioned previously, the line "He was sick of turning into something else" isn't a translation. In the Japanese version it merely says that Dante, who mostly believes himself as human, hesitates to use his demonic form unless it's absolutely necessary.

So yeah, hopefully, this was helpful! Like I mentioned in the beginning, I didn't care for the translation of the novel and based on the paragraph I looked into, the whole translation must be pretty bad.

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ah i didn't mean reblog trigun vashwood to this blog (usually it just goes to my misc. blog) but hey glad some of you liked seeing it.

...someday i'll write that crossover for DMC and Trigun.

[pepper-arts]

and then nothing bad ever happened to them again. the end 😌

[permetscore]

dont forget ur sunscreen

[biancalattei]

quality time with son

[ashesfordayz]

Training day

Also an excuse to draw more Dante LOL

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Here's a little update for "Scales, Feathers, and Eggshells"~

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Seeing posts of scenes of the the PGR and DMC crossover and seeing the little chibi stuff with the furniture makes me want to see Dante and Vergil toss pillows at each other like the gremlins they are.

[carpediemiarts]

I see. I know what you are. Don't worry, I'll be gentle.

[koroart]

Dadgil doodle I did last night — I was gonna color it but myeh

[r4diumgirlz]

you kiss your mother with that mouth?

[skelesass]

VERY quick sketch of vergil

[chapioca]

for the shirtless vergil trend on twitter 🫣

[monkiinart]

Wore Nico at Dokomi this weekend, so much fun! She's one of my favorite characters of all time, glad I finally got to cosplay her. 🚬

[androwolf]

"degenerate" "gooner" "perv" shut up. shut the fuck up. listen to yourself. you sound ridiculous. human sexuality is HEALTHY and NORMAL. don't get caught up in this wave of puritanistic ideals that try to convince you your sexuality is immoral and unhealthy.

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Oh it's not Sunday anymore, oh well.

But here's a little snippet from my drafts for the next chapter of "Hell Froze Over, and We Shall Reignite It".

Whenever a conversation is followed by a moment of silence, the empty moment would inevitably be filled by something that lurks in the corner of minds: anxiety and doubt. 

Vergil found that in that brief moment of silence, he felt the weight of his hypocrisy settle in. Having told Snow that Dante might be worried about disappointing her, he had to wonder if he had any right to make such an assessment, or act like he knew anything about being a supportive family member.

Thankfully, Snow seemed just as reluctant as he was to let the silence drag out. She made sure her face was dried of all her tears and wrung her hands for a moment before gently bringing herself down from the wall she had been sitting on. Nervously twisting the thin braid at the side of her face, she said: “I need to decide on the next course of action, but maybe after I’ve gathered the eggs. Would that be okay, before we return to the others?”

Vergil didn’t feel like he had the right to protest that. “You’re fine to finish what you’ve started.”