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Currently reading “Lucien” by J.R. Thornthon
I can’t be the only one part of the non-existent fandom.
So far the read has been thrilling and fun! I haven’t felt this way since a long time ago. It’s been 4 years since my reading slump started but now I truly enjoy it again.
Atlas feels like a mirror to me, his thoughts, fears and the way he looks down on himself, even though he’s a prodigy, are all familiar to me.
Lucien reads as this confident, cocky yet genuine person, he has lots of empathy which I personally didn’t expect from him at the beginning which is surprising and refreshing. Usually this types of characters have cold souls.
My friend whom I love picked up this book randomly during a heat wave she went out to buy some ventilators and came back with a bag full of books. She told me that she initially picked up a Nana manga yet the red caught her eyes and so did the title and before she knew it she brought it home and gave it to me. As I received it and turned it around to read its summary I was surprised to see how this book got described as:
“The Secret History meets Saltburn.”
I couldn’t help but wonder did she pick it up knowing how much I relish The secret History or was it the red cover to blame.
Dona tart had left quite an imprint on me with her writing, in the literal sense. After finishing the secret History I was left in such a daze and eeriness that I didn’t even notice a car crashing onto me.
Truthfully speaking, as I am still in the fifth chapter, this book seems a tiny tiny predictable but I’m enjoying it either way
What a wiggly strawberry macaroon !
Devil May Cry
The Contaminated Self: Trauma, Integration, and Developmental Identity in Netflix's Devil May Cry
The most common complaint about Netflix's Devil May Cry is that its Dante doesn't feel like Dante. He tolerates mistreatment, struggles to access his power, and carries an emotional openness that sits awkwardly against the franchise's iconic image of effortless cool. These complaints, however, share a common premise: that the show's Dante should be read against the finished version, the stable endpoint, as though any deviation from that image is a failure of characterization. What the show is actually doing is more interesting and more demanding — it is constructing, piece by piece, the psychological conditions that eventually produce that endpoint. To watch Netflix's Devil May Cry critically is to read it developmentally rather than statically, and once that frame is in place, the characterization stops looking like a departure and starts looking like an origin.
The foundation of that origin is a specific psychological bind. Dante's relationship to his demonic power is not a simple conflict between human and monster — the show is careful to establish that demonic energy is not inherently evil. What it is, however, is affectively contaminated. Dante accesses his Devil Trigger primarily through states of overwhelming rage, grief, hatred, and emotional rupture. From his subjective perspective, this means that demonicity becomes psychologically entangled with the most unbearable parts of his inner life. The power itself may be neutral, but his route to it runs directly through everything he has learned to fear about himself. His own words make this explicit: turning demon showed him "what his power truly is," and forced him to "feel the rage and hatred that feeds it." Power and pain share the same access route, and Dante, predictably, responds by compartmentalizing both.
This is why he describes DT activation as "a thought that's always there in the back of my mind until suddenly I'm living inside it" — a formulation that suggests not a skill but an intrusion, something that bypasses rather than responds to conscious control. His mother's scene in episode seven frames the stakes precisely: his hurt, she tells him, is not "some monster that he can fight" but something he has to accept as part of him. This potentially destabilizes his entire interpretive framework, because if his emotional intensity is not evidence of monstrosity but evidence of humanity, then the contamination runs the other direction — it is not that the demonic poisons the human, but that the human, for Dante, has never been experienced as purely human at all. Every intensely human experience — grief, rage, fear, loneliness, attachment — arrives already entangled with destructive potential and instability. His humanity itself becomes the site of contamination. That is a genuinely painful bind: he cannot cleanly separate the thing that makes him feel human from the thing that makes him feel inhuman.
This internal bind does not exist in isolation. It actively shapes the world around Dante. As his awareness of his demonic heritage deepens — as the compartments crack and the denial gives way to confrontation — the tone and texture of the story itself darken in response. Season 1 presents a lighter, more episodic feel while Dante is still hiding and compartmentalizing. By Season 2, with his brother revealed as alive and aligned with Mundus, with panic attacks, brutal confrontations, and fresh losses, the series shifts into a heavier, more melancholic register. The world doesn’t merely backdrop Dante’s development; it reflects and amplifies it. This is not accidental escalation but a structural choice: Dante’s psyche functions as the engine that modulates the story’s aesthetic climate.
From this foundation, the show constructs its second major argument: a developmental trajectory explaining how this Dante becomes the more emotionally guarded version familiar from the games. The key is that the construction is not announced — the puzzle pieces are distributed across scenes, behavioral tendencies, and relational dynamics that have to be held in suspension before they converge into a coherent picture.
Consider the Lady dynamic, which has attracted the most criticism. Dante tolerates asymmetrical treatment, minimizes retaliation, and attaches quickly despite ongoing relational imbalance. Read statically, this looks like passivity or poor writing. Read developmentally, it looks like the behavior of someone whose attachment history has produced scarcity — someone for whom rare moments of mutual recognition override the usual signals of self-protection. The conditioning is explicit in the show: his mother's lesson that he should never use his full strength against those weaker than him, because it wouldn't be fair, gets recycled into a framework that lets him absorb Lady's behavior without retaliation. He rationalizes it the same way: she's not superpowered, he is. He should make it a fair game. The fairness logic is doing real psychological work, but it's covering something simpler — he has almost no one, and the few people who were with him are dead, and so he latches onto small moments of being understood even when the larger relational structure is imbalanced.
What the show appears to be building toward is a crystallization event. Losing both Lady and Vergil — the two primary attachment figures whose loss the show has been carefully preparing — would constitute precisely the kind of repeated attachment rupture that produces what Dante eventually becomes: emotionally distanced, self-protectively isolated, performing lightness as a way of not having to access the underlying affect. The tragic continuity the show is constructing is this: the very openness that makes this younger Dante more emotionally available eventually contributes to the formation of the more closed-off Dante of the games. His desire for connection is not incidental to his later guardedness — it is its cause.
What makes this adaptation genuinely compelling, then, is not that it simplifies the tension between Dante's human and demonic sides into something more psychologically legible. It is that it refuses to mechanically contrast them at all. Instead, the two become entangled through lived experience — through the specific conditions under which Dante learned to access power, through the losses that taught him what openness costs, through the bind of a humanity he can never experience as uncomplicated. The show is not asking whether Dante is more human or more demon. It is asking what psychological process produces a person who, by the time the games begin, has already learned to treat that question as unanswerable — and has chosen performance over exposure as his permanent settlement with it.
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Just some personal observations on the netflix adaptation 😁 I enjoy the games too and wrote some fics about it. You can find me under the username Pucchanchan on Ao3!
He's cool. I've always known that, ever since DMC3. 4 & 5 just confirm it. It's nice that the AU NDMC also intentionally emphasize his coolness- he's effective in combat and still remains a joker/fun guy, as if all these feints come to him without any effort. Dante, you deserve more popularity, your story deserves to be revealed and flourish.
Listen. LISTEN. I had to do it before the show came out. I had to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah—I know Netflix adaptation..... Am I ashamed? I am not ashamed
Will i be crucified if I admit I like the Netflix Devil May Cry show as a fan of the games and the 2007 anime? It's its own thing and some ideas from it are decent. The soundtrack rules and I will die on that hill tho.
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Here we go again
Young Sacred Ancestor hehe
Just started Disventure Camp a few days ago. It's so good! Literally one of my favorite shows of all time. Tom, Jake, and Aiden are some of my favorite characters!
And I really like the hosts, too! Especially Derek and Trevor.