low-activity rp blog for VERGIL (+ V) from the devil may cry games canon. unaffiliated with any rpc. portrayal primarily pulls from dmc3, dmc5, and my own headcanons. penned by ren/cloud. all muns must be 21+. not spoiler free for the games!
vergil is not a nice person and i don't interpret him as being a nice person underneath his attitude. yes he is traumatized, yes he is capable of tenderness, but that is basically only reserved for his immediate family. he is not kind to strangers or acquaintances and generally views himself as 'better' than people by default and 99% of the time this will include your muse unfortunately, please keep this in mind and please remember that i do not mean his rude nature personally
est. apr 2025. rules + more info under the cut. DOSSIER.
DMC-SPECIFIC VERSES. post 5 (default untagged verse) | i got ambition (3) | i got longing (V) | sometimes i want to kill him (5) | either way it suffocated (nelo angelo)
OTHER VERSES. crossover | pokemon | fullmetal alchemist | kingdom hearts | when they cry | final fantasy 7 | blade runner | final fantasy xiv | idk anything abt comics but also he works well as a mutant i think | more tba
21+ only. mutuals only. my hope is to write threads that exceed 1-2 replies with people with the goal of hopefully finishing one every once in a while. slowness is totally acceptable. i won't always be sending in new asks or writing new starters if i feel we have other things that should be explored/written together first. my ultimate goal is to see threads at least even halfway-through to make sure dynamics can be fleshed out farther than the initial 'setting' or 'scenario' post.
my preferred/default style of writing on the dash is usually: break the ice with a starter or an ask, write the starter thread between our muses for ideally somewhere like 5-ish replies, then jump around the timeline/plot more ooc from there once we get an idea of what the initial dynamic might look like. a first writing thread doesn't have to be a first interaction (esp if our characters know each other canonically). everyone writes their muses differently, this is just to make sure our writing styles vibe
i am very comfortable writing conflict and fights and muses who hate each other. i am comfortable winging threads and just throwing new plot ideas into the mix to see if they stick. i try to balance internalization with externalization in my replies so i can explore my muses' internal worlds but also give my partner something concrete to reply to.
i don't interact with mains calls, affiliates calls, dynamic calls, shipping calls, etc. i also don't tend to like plotting calls with new mutuals, the reason for this is because i find ooc chatting is sometimes used in substitute of writing ic together, and that's not what i want from rp. my partner is spirestar and we live together irl so they will inevitably feature more often on my blog. vergil is singleship with spirestar's oc cam. i consider her effectively canon to all of my dmc muses.
dark content and adult themes are welcome to be explored and will be written with courtesy and nuance. i am not interested in writing incest, minor/adult ships, or graphic depictions of sexual assault. these things being included in your muse's backstory or impacting them somehow is fine. triggers are tagged "cw tag //" . nsfw content is put under a read-more and tagged as "usft //" . suggestive material is not put under a read-more and tagged "suggestive //" . please use generic nsfw tags for your own nsfw instead of a fancy one
i don't care about graphics or formatting as long as it is simple and legible. please note that formatting that a lot of people consider to be "par for the course" in rp tumblr circles is not usually readable for me.
i tend to follow blogs that typically have more ic than ooc content, or, if there is more ooc than ic, it is rp or muse related or a meta/headcanon/etc. post. a fast-paced dash with lots of ooc is overwhelming for me. i do not follow people who vent a lot or post excessive negativity.
i am very crossover, oc, and duplicate-friendly. i do not tend to follow duplicates first on my singlemuse blogs just in case people aren't comfy with duplicates.
i softblock if it seems like we aren't going to write ic together, there is no interest in my writing or my muses being conveyed (to me this can be as simple as liking my ooc meta/headcanon posts), or if there have been attempts made at getting threads going for more than 1-2 replies but they don't seem to carry longer than that (basically, if it seems like our 'wants' out of being on rp tumblr aren't meshing). if you state in your rules you prefer a hardblock i will hb you. you are always welcome to write me things or send things in. you don't have to wait for a starter call to be made to interact with me. if you feel you are putting more effort into engaging with me that isn't being reciprocated you are welcome to msg me about it. i try to mix up who i am replying to when i'm going through my drafts but sometimes things slip through the cracks (and frankly i rarely delete things from my drafts so i have a ton of them). i typically try to juggle my reply speed based off your own activity level to prevent either one of us from getting overwhelmed, so this means if you are slow, i try to also be slow, but i never want people to feel like they're being ignored.
you are welcome to hoard asks or not reply to threads for weeks, months, or even years. i just ask that i feel that there is continued interest in my writing and my blog. if that interest dies at any point, please just sb me. i never take it personally
please note I DO NOT HAVE TUMBLR MOBILE so i am often off the dash in evenings and on weekends, which is usually when most people are online.
DMC blog specific addendum: seriously do not follow me if you ship or are comfortable interacting with people who ship the family members with each other. i am also uncomfortable seeing trish being shipped with dante, vergil, or nero, and i am uncomfortable seeing V being shipped with nero.
on V, i view him as part of vergil as a crystallization of vergil's humanity and will write him on this blog too, just less frequently. please feel free to request him at any point (+ i am totally wiling to make verses and crossovers for him as well). i am open to writing with people who interpret V as not-being-vergil, just again, i'd really rather not interact with people who ship V with any of vergil's family members, so please bear that in mind.
i deeply dislike the dmc netflix show and do not acknowledge it all. i will complain about it ooc, i think the show fundamentally misrepresents dmc, so if you liked it and don't want to see hate for it, i am not the blog for you. i am open to writing with netflix portrayals of the characters but my vergil will act like your muse is an entirely different person from the one he knows so please do not act like he is netflix!vergil.
vergil is an asshole. please keep this in mind. i don't write him as friendly as a lot of fic or fanon portrayals seem to do. because of this, i also suggest operating with the framework that you are welcome to use the writing of dante (or any of my dmc muses) on my multimuse heartinhands as "canon" to my writing of vergil on this blog, and vice versa, as dante is a much friendlier character, and because of vergil's status as an antagonist and rival character, it's generally just easier to have dante be like "i know, that guy sucks, right?" to your muse in the instance vergil makes your muse upset/angry/etc..
hi, i'm ren and/or cloud! i'm 26, they/he. if i am not here you can find me at @/fortruechaos (shadow the hedgehog) or @/heartinhands (multimuse) or @/devilletting (matt murdock).
ive been posting my other slightly longer dmc story onto ao3 and it talks abt & also features cam cuz duh. she's canon to me. but she only gets mentioned in chapters 1-2 and doesn't show up until chapter 3. but i got the funniest notification on ao3 over it the other day
and literally if you look at the chapter 1 notes its me like speedrunning explaining her whole deal--
i keep looking at it and chuckling its so funny to me dkljflkdsfds me when i dont read
there is a fine art to writing vergil that is like on one hand i do genuinely think he's cool and awesome and want to portray that cool-precision accurately bc dmc is built around style and vergil and dante Are meant to embody the peak of that. and on the other hand i do also think he is the most awkward man to ever walk the earth and just like dante he also operates under the idea of fake it till you make it and sometimes its like bro you just need to be vulnerable for 2 seconds because what you're doing kind of hurts to watch
@killcrime said: "wasn't easy finding you.." / u can make that dmc verse hes buddy buddy w nero
Unfamiliar voice; Vergil turns in the cramped motel room as he closes the door behind him to see a figure sitting in the obligatory hotel room chair. It's too dark in the room to identify who. But there hadn't been someone in here when he'd first entered, meaning the person in question slipped in at the same time he did--meaning they've been watching him for at least the past few minutes.
Vergil doesn't reply immediately. He flicks on the light switch and the figure makes no attempt to move. He still doesn't recognize the man, at least not right away. Probably some devil hunter who thinks he can stand up to Vergil. It's not the first time he's been approached by some weakling who believes Vergil's new to the game, who wants to try and scare him off of their territory so they can keep their kills and their profit to themself. Little do they know. "Do I know you," he comments rather than asks. "Don't waste my time."
pick some things & i'll give you a tragic love story
louis & lestat [interview with a vampire] you crave love that consumes you, even when it leaves scars. you’re torn between gentleness and chaos, always drawn back into what hurts because the thought of loneliness feels worse. you’re magnetic, haunted, and impossible to resist, living in a cycle of obsession and devotion. even when it destroys you, you stay because some loves are too intoxicating to ever let go.
stole from @bloodpinning but really it's @kataireo i just dont follow the karen blog cuz i have no fuckin idea how vergil could interact w karen realistically......hi kate
tagging ANYONEEEEE idk who's done it. do it. good choices in here instead of just opting for the flavor of the week ship of whatever's popular
Vaux isn't one to ask questions unless he was genuinely interested in the answer, and thus the ones in which he received were actually jotted down into the notes app on his phone so he wouldn't forget betwixt working and heading homeward. Mayhap he would be able to head to a bookstore if he got a spare hour here or there, or even order some variety of compendium online.
━☆・*。"Do you enjoy novels, or just poetry?" Vaux was curious by nature, and the somewhat socially awkward suggestion coming from company didn't put him off in the slightest. His high-stress job made things such as conversations utterly easy in comparison, and he had always been rather patient.
"...Both," he says, now starting to feel suspicious of the stranger and his questionings; probably because Vergil is regrettably the opposite of Vaux and doesn't tend to develop an interest in people unless they have something of interest to him or they happen to catch his eye somehow. So what does Vaux want from him? Surely there's an ulterior motive.
A moment and he reminds himself not everyone is as cold-hearted as he is--and also that Vergil's working on that callousness. Sort of. The Vergil who he was as a teen wouldn't have even tried. This Vergil is at least capable of not biting people's heads off when they approach him. "Mostly the Romantics and Gothic literature. Milton. Shelley. Poe." He's suddenly aware of the lifting Vaux is doing in the conversation and a deep feeling of shame hits his chest at the realization.
"You weren't allowed to indulge in such...frivolities, then," he attempts to try and take some of the weight off of Vaux and his endless stretch of patience, but all that really happens is Vergil curdles inwardly at the pretentious way he worded it. But his vocabulary has always been his vocabulary and for better or for worse sometimes he uses big words when small words would suffice.
For the most part it doesn't bother him, but now more than ever he's just aware that Vaux inhabits a very different world from him and it's doing the opposite of painting Vergil in a favorable light--and he always strives to appear in the very center of that spotlight at all times, to appear calm and collected and above all, regal. That's not the case now. He knows he mostly looks like a fish gasping for breath in the air.
"You bother me, genius." Cam's nose wrinkles when she shakes her head, embarrassment like lightning skewering down her spinal cord. She shifts her hand a bit beneath his fingers so he's nearly holding his thumb against her palm instead of her wrist. They don't hold hands, that would be stupid. They love to hate each other. "Another thing you know, I guess." A smug little smile graces her face, too; Another point against Vergil pretending like nothing's happening. And what even is happening? Cam can't say she wants to put words to it.
His hands didn't shake when he gave her stitches and they aren't now either, but she can't help the satisfied kick she gets out of knowing his pulse might've been racing this way back then. Because Cam is human, the fact hers is embarrasses her, but she knows it must do so far less than it might for Vergil. It feels silly, sure, all of this does--just touching someone makes Cam feel like the world's biggest idiot, like she's letting someone have something over her and saying that's okay, like she's handing him the exact opening he wants to prove he's better than her, like she's a girl and not a person with a job to do--but she isn't the one posturing as anything other than human. Her plunking heart rate rises when she speaks and then again as she takes another step closer to the chair so her arm isn't stretched so far between them. Now her elbow touches her waist lightly and when she tips her head forward, more of the ends of her hair graze his forearm. Vergil's figure in the chair is eclipsed by her back in the small mirror behind her by the hotel room door. The smallest sliver of it reflects the top of his hair just over her shoulder, his height still winning out even as her scarred arms and brown hair and monochrome clothes cover the rest from how she's standing.
"See." Her cheeks feel hot still. If she pinched one of them, she might burn her fingertips. But like this at least there's no hiding from her eyes and, to her, there's no way for Vergil to feel as confident in his gloating when she's letting him hold her arm. Sometimes when they're broke, they have to share a bed. Sometimes Vergil has to eat her food instead of those gross protein bars he's obsessed with for some reason. Sometimes he disappears instead until everything is done. He never seems to care about much of anything. But Cam's seen his pale eyes flash with more than just malice or confidence or irritation. She knows she's seen him afraid--and she knows sometimes that's how they make each other feel. Fear and something else. It's stupid to offer him an out like this, but for all the times he's met her at the exact street corner he somehow knew she'd stop at or held up a regenerating arm in front of her, and for the time he draped his stupid fancy coat over her when she lost too much blood and he seemed to think she might even die, she says quietly and much cooler than her pulse would seem to allow for, almost like she's preempting his shoulder shrug, like she's daring him to disappear and know what it might mean for them to pretend she never said it, "You must be paying attention to me or something." A beat. "That doesn't bother me."
Despite the feeling of self-imposed victor it quickly disseminates into the moment and it's back to a world Vergil tries desperately to ignore and walk away from with his head held tall. As Cam closes the distance Vergil moves his hand so he's not quite as close to her pulse and she's not as close to his; besides, he's starting to feel a bit trapped, caged-in by the approaching all-human physicality that is Camilla Ultio. Even though she's so much shorter than him. And because he does feel it, he does 'see' despite Cam's challenge making him want to turn away coldly with his head at a perfect profile away from her. Because he can't when she's staring him head-on with those dark eyes challenging him to back out, her expression still just as bored and angry looking as always--daring him to look beyond and even then that's not really what the goal is here. She's daring him to be honest with the thing she thinks she knows about him: that there are feelings within his demonic ribcage that can be called anything other than a devil's cruelty.
These things happen. And Vergil has been in a good mood today. It's already strange and out of character for him: Machiavelli would have shook his head sadly hours ago. This serves as a reminder that 'moods' are human inclinations that serve no one, least of all himself, but his human eyes don't express the same feelings when he stares readily back at Cam. Vergil to most anyone still looks like Vergil. He looks bored and uninterested with her. Not quite. Cam is beginning to parse that. He hates that. That's what bothers him. He doesn't want to be paying attention to Cam more than necessary and he certainly doesn't want her to pick up on any shades of that too beyond the fact that he needs to pay attention to her for her to be alive to break the chain links around the Temen-ni-gru--but he does grant her that modicum of extra effort against his better nature and against the part of him that knows the only way he makes it through any of this with the commitment he promised himself he would move through the world with after his mother left him is if he only looks out for himself and that to obtain power one has to be willing to do anything for it even if it means becoming a devil. This is a death a long time in the making.
He grabs her wrist with the same kind of callous ferocity he normally does when it comes to interacting with anything but his actions slow as he raises it to his mouth, not quite kissing the pulse-point beneath her wrist but rather letting his lips touch the thin skin, almost like a strange nuzzle. The blood in his ears is racing loud enough to drown out any waterfall any poet's ever seen, the heat in his cheeks fit to put the warmth of the Sun on the grass to shame. Even like this he knows that this is far more embarrassing than even a simple but more blunt forced approach would be; but this is what he's read and so this is what he knows and in something like this he won't bother to try and reinvent the wheel when there are writers and poets who have treaded the ground he now walks hundreds of years before him.
from the headcanon meme: what's their guilty pleasure tv show he'll watch without complaining? + how often do they do their laundry?
i think i forgot to ever answer this oops. sorry fer
tv show vergil would watch without complaining:
this is hard for me cuz i'm not really a tv watcher either so i'm not really sure what he'd be into but i'm going to say like national geographic back when they actually focused on doing more animal documentaries especially on stranger/weirder/misunderstood/niche creatures like. idk. deep sea creatures. i think any tv shows that feel sort of vergil-core to me he wouldn't actually like because he would find them pretentious. even though his taste in media is very. classic romantic-era literature guy:tm: similarly adjacent classic romantic-era tv shows or movies would just make him roll his eyes and scoff i think. so yeah....nature documentaries on niche topics i guess. LKJDFJDS
how often do they do their laundry:
3 era vergil living on the go doesn't have many clothes to begin with and so it's kind of. whenever he can. he doesn't usually have the cash or quarters or anything to wash clothes at a laundromat very often and given his wardrobe is mostly made up of leather items (thanks devil may cry character designers) it's not like he can really put his coat in the washer...getting leather professionally cleaned is Expensive. he's pretty good about keeping up with cleaning stuff because he doesn't have a lot of clothes to wear underneath his signature vest and stuff but it mostly comes down to him washing his stuff in the tub at whatever hotel or abandoned apartment he's staying in while he travels around. when he has the spare money and quarters for it he'll do it at a laundromat though. he usually takes great pride in caring and cleaning his leather stuff when he can and waterproofing it with waxes and stuff but it's different from getting it professionally cleaned.
5 era vergil obviously does not have the same pains that 3 era vergil has with access to that sort of thing. i can see him oddly having a lot in common with dante specifically about how they care for their leather items and stuff cuz i can also see dante being really meticulous about caring for his coats and jackets etc. given how rooted dmc is in style and looking cool...
i feel like they'd be like "wait you really like/enjoy the routine of applying leather conditioner to your jacket too?" and get weirdly sentimental over it because i do think they feel like they havent had anything in common since they were 12 and got separated. im sad now. when you feel so disconnected from your sibling and are desperate for any amount of reconciliation but you're both bad at being upfront you have to bond over enjoying the routine and care of maintaining your nice leather clothes instead
