Something funny happened: I completely ran out of space on my phone, so even my drawing app told me I wasn't drawing anymore, so I'm sharing some of my junk with you.
This is a small sketch for an AU where Verg raised his son, but then split in half anyway, leaving all the unnecessary stuff to V. But he didn't consider his attachment to Nero a weakness, so that gimmick remained with Urizen. I drew this during exam time (it's like a month of exams, idk), so I immediately used the outline brush, and eventually got so tired of drawing Urizen and his throne that I abandoned the drawing, + I wasn't very happy with the result. So, everything fell by the wayside.
But I still want to make one small comic sketch for this AU. God, give me strength🙏🥲
Is this a safe place to say that Urizen was kinda hot. Like just look at him.
Imagine all the freaky shit (he literally controls tentacles) you could do with him before he kills you. I would like to get freaky with the new demon king.
I am bagging both of the Sparda twins and nobody can stop me. A lot of these are attempts to fill in the gaps in Vergil’s backstory and aren’t necessarily reflections of how he felt in the canon. A lot of this takes place before Devil May Cry 3.
These brainrots can apply the OG games and the reboot game. I’m not quite sure about the Netflix series yet, we’ll have to wait for Season 2 before I make any big decisions about that.
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Potential triggers include canon-typical violence, death, cheating, references to underage sex
As previously mentioned in the Dante post, Callie and the twins are 2 1/2 weeks apart and they grew up together for the first eight years of their lives. Vergil had a bit of a contradictory relationship with Callie as a child. He was happy that Dante wouldn’t be bothering him while she was there and then he could read his books in peace. But that became boring pretty fast when he saw that they were, in fact, having a great time without him.
That all changed when the fire happened. As it turns out, Callie’s mother Fran had a really sinking feeling that something was wrong with Eva and decided to drive out to the house to see her. She found the bloodied Vergil when she arrived at the house, and, after learning Eva and Sparda were dead, took Vergil in as her foster son. I think it would be interesting if Vergil and Dante ended up having opposite childhoods after the fire and ended up having opposite personalities to the way in which they were raised. Vergil has an upbringing with a loving foster family, but he refuses to properly work through his trauma and becomes hard.
Before they could be left home alone, Callie and Vergil would get to hang out in the hospital's daycare. But when that became boring, they snuck off and wandered around like children often do. I want to believe that Vergil stole the code to the research library so they could look at all the books. Boy, oh boy, were they in trouble when they got found out.
Fran waited until she felt like Vergil was okay to interact with people before she sent him to school with Callie. She couldn't continue the education he was getting from his parents due to her being both a surgeon and a human, so it was off to public school for him. Vergil was the kid who was super scary smart and played by himself at recess and pretended the other kids didn't exist. He would practice swordplay by himself at the far edges of the playground and Callie eventually wormed her way into it. Every recess, they would be going at each other with big-ass sticks that keep breaking, much to Vergil's frustration. So they start stashing sticks in places so they won't have to go looking for them when it happens. The teachers were mildly concerned but they knew Vergil was...different, so they just kept an eye on them to make sure they didn't take each other's eyes out. Then one day, Callie found a discarded pipe and annihilated Vergil in the stomach with demon strength she didn't know she had. Then the principal forbade them from stick-fighting again.
Come high school, Vergil and Callie ended up forming a romantic relationship. This short-lived romance mirrored my own high school romance. They were a sexless, moderately-affectionate couple who moved like a pair of lesbian tortoises and looked like best friends to anyone who hadn't seen them kiss. They talked a lot about poetry and Shakespeare and all the classical English lit stuff because Callie was a nerd in high school and lived on that shit. It got to the point where Vergil was not only anticipating doing her English homework with her, but Callie was actively photocopying her homework and giving it to him so they could do it together. Imagine two kids sitting on the floor of the living room coloring in coloring books except it's two teenagers writing about the symbolism of Beowulf or the greater themes of the god's eyes in The Great Gatsby. Grades be goddamned, the teachers would have loved to read Vergil's interpretation of Gatsby. And you know what? Dante did. Because Callie’s broken-hearted tenth-grade ass saved that shit. Vergil's ramblings about Beowulf, The Great Gatsby, A Midsummer Night's Dream and To Kill A Mockingbird are all saved in her mom's place.
The worst thing that may have come from Vergil's high school days was Vergil taking out a few agro varsity athletes without even unsheathing his sword because it was the 90s. But the effect Vergil had on the student body was insane. I'll go into detail in a separate post, but the emos and the goths were foaming at the mouth for him. He was an ice-cold drink of water with an unbreakable poker face, some mad drip, and a katana. He was their Emo Jesus. Many a girl had pictures of him in their lockers and he inspired a trend of dressing up in trench coats and cravats.
I think they had Game Night at Fran's post-divorce apartment bc she needs a little time with her kids due to her busy schedule and Vergil gets really into it. He dominates Scrabble and he always gets unnecessarily offended during card games. There wasn't a Monopoly incident, because this family isn't stupid. There was, however, a Sorry! incident wherein Vergil cut the board and the table in half after one of his pieces was sent back to Start. He actually refuses to feel bad about it and feels he was justified.
Nero is….a touchy issue. Callie ended up being more of a parent to Nero than Vergil ever was, but it was hard for her to come around and accept his existence for a bit. Vergil was the love of her teenage life, and knowing that he had slept with someone behind her back, after she'd given so much to him, devastated her. She doesn't put anything on Nero for it, it's just...it was hard for her to look at him for a while. He looks so much like his dad, after all.
Since Callie was also an important part of Vergil's childhood, I really want to play around with the way she would disrupt Nelo Angelo's brainwashing. I think Mundus orders her to be captured for the first game, and Nelo Angelo abducts her while she's on her way back from the hospital. There's this feeling that comes over him when he looks at her. He knows she's important, he's drawn to her -- he just doesn't know why. And when he hears her shout for Dante, reaching out to Dante when he arrives, it awakens this fury inside him.
Going into DMC 5 territory, I'm still playing around with how V, Urizen and the Nightmares viewed Callie. As of right now, my ideas for them revolves around my interpretation of Urizen as Vergil's passionate side and V as Vergil's logical side. Kind of like the Skeksis and the Uru from The Dark Crystal. V recognizes Callie on a superficial level -- he knows she's important to Vergil and to him by proxy, he just doesn't have the feelings attached to the memories he has of her. Meanwhile, Urizen immediately feels a deep affection for Callie when she inevitably rolls up to do battle with him, so he doesn't take her seriously as a threat. Their battle is not about eliminating a threat to his power, but asserting his dominance as the proper mate.
If I were to write a Urizen smut fic, would y'all read it?
Like is that something that people want? I've only seen/read one fic like that (which was a three-way between V x Reader x Urizen) and I am genuinely curious as to if people want/would read that?
(Tbh I am curious to as if I would be able to even write something like that lol)
{Also, I am being serious and I want answers, so please reblog and let me know in the tags or comment please please please-- thanks! :)))}
Vergil squirmed in the vines of the Qliphoth, trying to use everything he had to break free. The room was soaked in scarlet light, the demon king just sitting so casually before him. His green eyes turned to Vergil before back to the people that were tightly coiled in the Qliphoth’s vines nearby him: his son, his brother, and his lover.
“Who should I rob from you first.” Urizen murmured in boredom, eyes flicking to the three. “These pathetic humans? Or Dante?”
“I will assert my dominance over you!” Vergil snarled, trying to invoke his Devil Trigger. His exhausted demonic heart could only weakly flicker the visage of his demonic form, causing Urizen to laugh. Suddenly, a sickening crunch caught Vergil’s attention. He shook as Dante’s broken and still body was thrown to his feet, crushed to death by the Qliphoth.
“Dante...”
“This is always how it ends.” Urizen murmured as a second crunch echoed too loud in Vergil’s ears. This time, it was Nero’s body thrown to him, flopping uselessly next to his brother’s. “You will always fail to stop me. Just like you couldn’t stop him from breaking us.” He heard Cassandra cry out in pain from being squeezed, just shy of being crushed herself. “Only absolute power can protect us.” Was that bitterness in his voice? Vergil couldn’t think of it as Cassandra let out a pained gasp from the life being squeezed out of her. Urizen threw her corpse next to Dante and Nero’s. Vergil lowered his head, cold tears streaming down his face.
‘No...’ He could barely offer resistence as the Qliphoth’s vines pulled him downward, to where he could not fathom.
