Misconceptions about Vergil from Visions of V
Alright, so, I have to break the news to you that Vergil isnāt such an idiot like some of you prefer him to be, there have been some misconceptions about him for a while and one is due to a mistranslation in Visions of V and the other is because some really didnāt take into consideration how another line that V said in one chapter can have another interpretation, because it was so much easy to embrace what made him sound like a doofus.
Regarding the mistranslation, which was in chapter 12.2 because of it, many think that Vergil doesnāt know about money, and Iām like for real? No one questioned that it was inconsistent with what he said before in the previous chapter, that he needed money to hire Dante?
In chapter 12.2, when V and the gang beat up some thugs and took their money, Griffon had his line mistranslated as āWhatās the point of collecting those paper scraps anyway?ā, which it didnāt made sense because it was established previously that money was required.
The actual translation of that line was āHow many of those paper scraps should ya collect?ā, which is a different meaning and this happened because the translator back then misread a kanji.
Griffonās line in Japanese: ćććććć®ē“åććä½ęéććććććć ?
The kanji that I bolded were mistaken for ä½ę
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ä½ę (nan mai) means āhow many sheetsā ę (mai) is a counter for flat objects.
ä½ę
(naze) means āwhyā, āhowā.
It was never corrected and because Vās reply was āNo ideaā (which is correct or the alternative āI donāt knowā), apparently, so many have understood that V didnāt know what he was doing, that he didnāt knew whatās the deal with these pieces of paper that humans carry with them but they seemed important, so he should have them because they might come in handy! I couldnāt believe how many chose to ignore just what was established and make Vergil be a dumbass to whom money was a foreign concept to him and from what was that obvious, that he really didnāt know?Ā
Oh because he rejects humanity thus he had no idea what the concept of money is? For real? You know he lived in human society, right? And the other misconception was from chapter 13 when V get to eat a burger and has been called an idiot again because apparently a burger was also foreign to him that he didnāt know how to eat it.
The case about this wasnāt that he didnāt knew how to eat it, by now we have seen him eat demon meat so why wouldnāt he have known how to eat a piece of meat and other stuff between two pieces of bread?
The idea was that he didnāt knew how to eat it without getting his hands messy from the sauce, which he said that he doesnāt like. V asked the question āHow should I eat this?/how it would be best to eat this? Do you know?ā, he asked the beaten thugs lol, but he was asking how to eat it but without getting sauce on his hands (he wiped his hands on one of the thugās shirt xD).
That was the idea people. Gosh, Iāve seen so many infantilize Vergil so much and embracing these facts that were never true to begin with.
I havenāt translated VoV in the beginning and if you know my scanlations, I also provide notes and I would have written things if I had done those chapters, now thereās nothing that can be done about them, they canāt be corrected and thus I sometimes bring up these notes I made on Twitter and I wanted to make them known here as well because I like Vergil and he is being made a fool in memes based on these āfactsā that were not true in the first place, donāt add them on the wiki and say they are canon.Ā