#dictatorshipper

[crawlingchaosx]

Have you ever been electrocuted?

yeah! it's fun. turns me on:)

[pyxxie-nyxxie]

Can I get a sneak peak at arkayne playlist maybe. Pretty please. If it's okay to ask

I can share my own malev playlist in return???

jafjshfhs I only have these five songs for now..... Which is interesting bc when I made the Jarthur playlist I was able to throw like 15 before I started running out of songs

And I would like a lookey-loo at your playlist pretty please

[captainswan618]

Trick or treat! Threat? I always mix those two up

You get: they saw you from across the bar and they hate your vibe

(send me “trick or treat” and I’ll give you a semi-random screenshot/gif/video I’ve taken of classic who! it may not be halloween anymore but I certainly won’t stop you)

[itadoricest]

Ok yeah so I will need to see this asap

Pretty please

i’m SO glad you asked about this because i was probably going to make a whole separate post about this anyway but i gotta be so honest. i typed a long ass reply to this and then tumblr crashed and deleted all of it so i’m going to try to keep this one kind of brief LMAO.

(also just fyi i kind of hate comparing the reboot and the og games just because i feel like i have to enjoy the reboot as it’s Own Thing and not as a dmc game, but for the purpose of talking about this i’m going to compare them.)

the one thing i feel like the reboot did INCREDIBLY well was making Vergil’s “fall” feel like a genuine loss. in the og games, the love is definitely there, but it’s on the outside of the story almost. the twins don’t talk about it, and it’s kind of up to us to uncover that love through subtext (or through V in 5). when we meet Vergil and Dante in the og games, they’re already at odds with each other, there’s already a disconnect between them, they’ve already come to terms with the fact that, someday, one of them is going to kill the other one (even if this isn’t true in the end). they’ve already mourned that, and we’re seeing the aftermath, which is heart-wrenching in its own way, of course.

but in the reboot, the twins are friends. they’re on the same team, they have the same goal, they work together, they fight together, they bicker like siblings and they have silly, meaningless conversations. we’re seeing them before the fall out, and even during the fall out there’s still love that’s the center of the conversation: “don’t do this” and “i’m sorry, brother”/“don’t be” and “it’s not too late”/“yes it is” and “i loved you, brother” and “Dante betrayed me, there’s nothing left for me here.” like, og Vergil definitely loves Dante, but reVergil says it. and he shows it. and it makes the eventual fight between them feel so much heavier, because these two weren’t supposed to fight!! they were never supposed to raise their weapons against each other!! and it’s painful!!

and don’t even get me started on how the reboot frames physical touch between the twins:

^^ this is literally the antithesis of the scene in 3 where Vergil cuts Dante’s palm to reject him. reVergil ends up rejecting Dante by letting go, while Dante seems like he wants to hold on a bit longer, and it makes me a little insane.

i also really like how in the dlc, Dante’s “betrayal” is framed as Vergil losing his heart:

which. could mean nothing.

anyway. if the love is on the outside of the og games, the love is the Main Theme of the reboot, and i feel normal about it!! it doesn’t make me crazy at all!!

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Hey hello have our little loremaster circle discussed already in which form will john and arthur exist in dark world because not in the body and tf "You are naught but a whisper, if you want to call it that. You’ll appear as you are now!" means

Sorry for being chaotic. I assume it means that they'll be... what, ghosts?

hmmmm my BET is that "naught but a whisper, you'll appear as you are now" is implying that the dark world doesn't, like, carry over their physical bodies, just a sort of... imprint of what they're "supposed" to look like, so they'll be the same as they were before except. un-dismembered. bc it seems like in the waylay they were existing in the same shared, whole body again (as far as we know, which, i feel like if that wasn't the case they would have probably. been surprised enough to mention it.)

THAT SAID this raises a lot of really fascinating further implications that i doubt will ever get addressed canonically but i am VERY EXCITED to rotate in my head on my own time, such as:

if the dark world operates on a basis of perceived "supposed to look like," where does it derive that perception from? like, is arthur still gonna be scarred to hell, and if so, is that because it's using other people's (john's) perception of him, or. idk. maybe ours?

related to the above, wtf would it imply about their entanglement situation that even their ephemeral souls are still inseparable and can't help but overlap. if they both see their "default state" as sharing a body. god.

if john doesn't have a body, can he still manifest? AND does that still drain arthur's energy? AND what does it mean for the mechanics of manifestation if it DOES drain him?

re: the other thing abt self-image we were saying earlier: what if arthur looks like how he did in part 1 again bc that's still his mental picture of himself

HOW is the absorbed piece of lillith gonna affect any or all of this

DO THEY STILL HAVE THE TREE FINGER??

[wojtekaneko]

I’m so happy to hear that you like “Close your eyes”! Let’s discuss it sometime, there are posts with my thoughts about it on my page too!

seriously i’m like this podcast’s hype woman, recommending it everywhere

Yeah!! It's so good, I just finished s2 a few weeks ago and honestly I'm still not over it! Very good story and the mystery is so captivating I can't wait to find out more about it! I'd love to discuss it, now that I have some free time at least ^^ oh and I'll definitely want to draw the characters I like them a lot c:

[crawlingchaosx]

Have you tried video games?

of course. it’s funny you guys created your own little version of what I do everyday. (i’m talking about the sims 4 btw)

candy crush is also fine but repetitive = boring.

[crawlingchaosx]

Do you prefer any particular human language?

I guess English, it has the most speakers, can say it’s universal language, so I can reach to maaaanyy people easily, though Middle Egyptian is also entertaining!