#dmcn

[mordenandmerry]

The DMCN show writing is so abysmal I couldn’t even enjoy my man Vergil killing supercops to Bodies by Drowning Pool. Do you know how bad your writing has to be for me to not be jumping up and down in delight at that.

[cowgremlin11]

by god i will make them domestic and spread my agenda BUT THE ADHD MEDS ONLY WANNA DO COMIC AND COMM WORK GRRR

[xjulixred45x]

BRO, imagine this; dante or vergil from netflix with a reader like lapis lazuli from steven universe! You can decide if is platonic or romantic obviosly, i just love lapis man

I like the idea of ​​this being a platonic relationship, mainly because I find very little of that kind of content in this version of Dante.

Dante Sparda with Platonic! Lapiz Lasuli! Reader

Let's agree on something: from what I've gathered of the game's lore, human-demon hybrids aren't actually that uncommon (appearing in several games in the series). So, for the sake of consistency, we can say that (Reader) is one of those human-demon hybrids. Only, unlike Dante, she's much more in tune with her demonic nature and powers. But of course, with organizations like Darkcom and short-minded people, (Reader) has never stayed in one place for long, or at least hasn't been able to hide her demonic heritage for very long, forcing her to leave as soon as she saw Darkcom's forces approaching.

Thanks to all these negative experiences with humans, I can assure you that (reader) isn't very sociable, or someone with a great deal of trust in humanity in general. She's been disappointed by humans many times and doesn't want to get hurt again, so she prefers to keep her distance and avoid getting attached/hurt again. But of course, at some point she arrives in New York, stays for a while to make a few "connections," and meets Enzo, who ends up assigning her a couple of simple jobs in exchange for money (because unfortunately, one of the things (reader) DID inherit from her human side is the constant need to eat. And things cost money).

This is where (reader) meets Dante. Let's say Enzo offers them both a job. Whether they're aware of each other or not, Dante ends up bumping into a teenage girl in the middle of a highly dangerous mission, and his first instinct is to say something along the lines of "go home, kid." Of course, that is, until (reader) ends up using her water powers to take down the demon they were assigned to… now Dante is surprised and curious.

Dante tries to talk to (reader) while they go to see Enzo for payment, but the girl is like a brick wall 90% of the time until he asks her how much Enzo offered her for the job or how she got into the business in the first place. He understands, you know? He got into demon hunting for money pretty young himself. He can't really judge her for doing what's necessary to survive, especially when you have powers as cool as THOSE.

Let's just say this becomes a bit of a constant. A job comes up, and 8 out of 10 times (reader) ends up running into Dante. Part of her is annoyed because it means they'll have to split the pay, but over time she gets used to him, his silly jokes, and even laughs at some of his humor (which Dante considers a victory). Even if they don't talk much about sentimental things (a similar arrangement to the one they have with Enzo: they do the job and don't ask questions about the past), they definitely end up keeping an eye on each other if the other gets into trouble.

Or, in any case, they get into trouble together. At the beginning of the series, it's very likely that the White Rabbit will also end up kidnapping (reader) along with Enzo for the airplane scene. You can bet that finding out Dante is Sparda's son isn't a huge shock for (the reader) (she probably hinted to him more than once that maybe one of his parents was a demon; now she has the perfect opportunity to say, "I told you so").

I like to think that, just as Lapis had this fixation on returning to the homeworld, (reader) might develop a fixation on leaving the human world and going to Makai, because she genuinely doesn't believe there's a place for her in the world, not only because of the whole Darkcom situation, but also because of all the bad experiences and rejections she's suffered throughout her life. Would it really be so bad to go to literal hell, if in the eyes of others, that's where she belongs?

If we talk about the events of the second season, you can bet that this confusion has skyrocketed, not only because (reader) lost one of the few "stable" figures in her life (Enzo), but also because she KNOWS that Dante is in Darkcom's clutches, and she can't go to save him, not only for the obvious reasons, but because she's afraid—afraid of being trapped like him, of having horrible things done to her like she always feared would happen to her. She's more afraid of being a prisoner than of what might happen to Dante.

When they eventually reunite, she expects Dante to hate her for not going to save him, for doing nothing but hiding like a coward, but instead she encounters a Dante happy to see her, happy to see that she's safe, casually asking if she got into any trouble while he was gone, and (reader) can't help but want to hug him, something she's never done before, never with Dante at least, besides, is she—crying?

Dante might be a little cynical, but he tries to reassure her by saying she won't get rid of him easily, so she can relax. Yeah, that sounds good.

[twigg27]

i was working on an art fight illustration but then THIS GUY came on over

[soltycheerios]

This meme isn't dead until I say it is.

[ilovementhatcankillme]

I need him to to be buried inside of me to the hilt. I need him to

FUCK ME

please sir. destroy my pussy. give me a collar that has your name on it. please treat me like a toy please manhandle me please

Turn me into a mindless zombie pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

GIVE ME YOUR COCK.

NOW.

[mariyekos]

Netflix Devil May Cry Opening Breakdown Part 1

I'm a month late, but I finally scrounged up the time to watch the Netflix DMC Anime Trailer. This breakdown goes frame by frame in a lot of places, connecting what I can to other DMC materials and occasionally rambling on about where I think the Anime might be going. Part 2 can be found here, and Part 3 can be found here.

First thing: Song's fun. I don't have much to say there. It fits the spirit well enough.

So, swords! I labeled them below. Note that for swords that appear in multiple games, I put the design they most resemble. For example, Rebellion in DMC5 puts the ribcage on the blade part of the sword rather than leaving the ribs on their own like they are in DMC3/4 and in this image, so I attributed it to DMC3 instead. Side Note: The background really reminds me of the Bloody Palace in DMC5. The arena changes a bit as you ascend the tower so I don't remember quite which level this resembles, but it's one of them. Makes me think of how Nero gets those breaks in between floor sets where he can choose his devil breaker...

Also it's interesting to me how only 3 swords get detail: Red Queen, Rebellion, and Alastor. Vendetta doesn't really have any good places to pop, but Agni and Rudra could (the heads). It could just be that they only wanted to do it with the front swords. It could be they're doing it because the closeup means you don't see blood coming from the front three as you do all the others.

Here's my best attempt at labeling them. All of these are Dante's, besides Red Queen which is Nero's, and Cutlaseer which is Lucia's. The question mark is there because it's a bit of a stretch; Lucia's swords are a bit more curved, and it's hard to get a good idea of the top of the swords with Alastor in the way. They're my best guess so, so that's the label they get.

Actually- they look less like Cutlaseer at this angle. I'm a bit stumped on these. They don't look like Lucifer either. Cutlaseer's my best guess. I think they were going for pretty much all of the playable character swords besides the Sparda and DSD.

From there, some flashing. First we get Dante's face in the background behind the swords, then the scene goes blue and changes scenery entirely, with the Yamato replacing Rebellion.

Note the tsuba/hand guard: it is neither round (DMC3, DMC4) nor pronged (DMC5). It's angular, which most resembles Yamato in DMC1. Now it could just be some artistic license being applied to DMC3 Yamato since many things in the Netflix anime have been pretty angular, but it's definitely not DMC5 Yamato.

As for scenery, the first thing that comes to mind is the scene in DMC5 where the bridge breaks under V in Mission 5. It could just be the city in DMC3 where the Temen-ni-gru emerges, with the bridge either being broken as a result of the Temen-ni-gru rising or because it's not a super nice place and it simply hasn't been repaired after other damage. But I think it's really interesting that Dante's background is the demonic one (Bloody Palace/strange curving protrusions) while Vergil's is human (a human city, complete with telephone pole). The colors also work very nicely as they encompass both the darker blue of Vergil's coat and the lighter blue of his demonic energy. I do really enjoy the flicker/glitch where Yamato turns into Rebellion and vice versa; it's not just one disappearing and the other takign its place, but more like a piece by piece replacement, or slurring/blurring of existence. The same thing happens with Dante himself.

What really fascinates me is the below, blink and you'll miss it:

Dante with a blue glow from his eyes. Some blue-green waves come over the screen for a frame or two during the flickering of his face before this, but it's the blue lightning that gets me because that's Nelo Angelo's thing. Nevan and Alastor both have purple lightning, and neither has a focus on Dante's eyes. Nelo Angelo doesn't get a zoom into his eyes while he's sparking blue, but he DOES have a few scenes where the camera zooms on his eyes, and he does spark blue when he fights against Mundus' influence! Lightning sound effects and everything. Yes there's the blue cloud too, but the lightning starts first before the blue cloud envelops him and he's transported.

And back to Dante, interesting choice for them to get rid of his pupils there... Is it to show power? To look cool? Or is it a reference to a son of Sparda whose pupils weren't visible during his possession/when he wasn't in control of himself...?

I'm going to go with it being meant to look cool. The blue could just be here for contrast. I like that when Dante swaps to the red skin here, the color starts gradually encroaching upon his cheek before he snaps to totally red. The black sclera makes me think they're taking from the way Dante and Vergil's sclera were drawn black in the manga when using certain demonic powers. They went red in one of the first trailers too, so I'd bet that's what this is supposed to be. If you want to see my comment on the Game Awards trailer, you can find it here.

Dante runs ahead with Rebellion (which he either rips out of the ground or has magically teleport into his hand in an animation error because the grip is not in his grip to start. I'm going to go with him ripping it out of the ground because the color scheme here matches that of when Rebellion was in the ground earlier), and out of the sky comes...

Cavaliere Angelo from DMC5! Which is interesting. But not completely unreasonable, given Trish was only there to power it, and the armor had already been made by Machiavelli if my memory serves. Point is, yes we the fans know it from DMC5, but it would've existed during DMC3 too. It would just need a different host/fuel.

Next we've got a Category 5 Bunny Warning. The White Rabbit from the DMC3 Manga. Sky portals are nothing new in DMC- we've got the portal to Hell in the sky of DMC3, and a bunch of flying demons come out of a red sky in the original DMC anime after Sid opens the portal to get to Abigail.

Takeout. The guns Dante's had so far haven't been Ebony and Ivory, but the ovals on these are giving me some pause. I don't see the inscriptions on them, and them being the same shade doesn't make them seem like Ebony and Ivory, but they have the right parts. I don't know gun anatomy so sorry for butchering this, but see the lines on the right edge of the below image? the little dip/opening on the left side? The uh. It's on the left of the above image in red, and it's there in the below but in gray/black. I'm going to stop embarrassing myself now and just say look at them and the important fact that both sets of guns have the oval portrait. I think it might be an inscriptionless Ebony & Ivory or a prototype made by Nell.

Moving on, we get a shot of the city and some action happening in Dante's silhouette.

I really like the bits of color in the moving section on the right, because to me, they represent the core of who Dante is: his hair (white, from his father), his amulet (red, from his mother), and his guns (his own choice). All three are inherited or gifts from others in some way, if we consider the guns a gift from Nell. Dante is who he is because of others. But he's also taken those things and made them his own! Every other part of him is obscured, and only those three things show.

Strawberry sundaes and Jackpot bullets I think speak for themselves. I will say it's a bit interesting Dante seems to have physical bullets here. Ebony and Ivory run off demonic energy, though if my memory serves the Coyote-A ejects shells. Could be that he hasn't figured out the demonic energy thing, could be that his demonic energy manifests in bullets which have Jackpot engraved on them (I'm split between whether he'd have customized his gun to engrave that or whether he'd use demonic energy to carve them even if the bullets themselves are physical/tangible objects), could it be the animators just skipped over that detail for the sake of something fun? Who knows. I think it's cute.

After that we get a shot of the city in blue, then this:

Which could be absolutely nothing. As in, maybe it's just some shapes made to look creepy and fill space in a transition for a handful of frames. But I feel like it should be something, I'm just not sure what.

Maybe it's this. The craggy pit Dante leaps into while lighting strikes in the sky. A descent into Hell if you ask me. That Hell is in the ground this time is a fun detail.

I'm going to end this post here as I'm pretty sure I'll hit the image limit sooner or later. I'll make another later today on the rest of the opening, starting with Lady's appearance a few frames after this!

[twigg27]

past white rabbit was basically a cryptid to a few demons who saw him in the wild whenever he is out of the caves.

"HOLY SHIT WAS THAT A HUMAN"

"dont be stupid"

the shadow in the corner: