#vindante's lore

[washichan]

I love to entertain the idea that Vincent loves Dante in his tvDan+pre-DMC2 era. A sort of companion that tragically passed away due to unfortunate events, but not before leaving a mark on life and Dante. He loves the strange man that Dante is and find his unsettling quirks charming to a fault. And Dante loves Vincent's companionship in a way it had almost filled the void in his heart. Someone who was so fixated on him and dragging him along in his life. A sorta companionship he was forced into yet he didn't hate it. A strange life that wasn't his own, with cheap dinner, regular labour and racing. Indeed a more luxurious life than that he had as Tony back in the day. Dante wasn't committed to such generic life no but deep down, he wished it was his too. But to live in a calm life is to forsaken his identity and his duty as a protector. The blood that shall never be cleansed off his hand. He couldn't have such dream. In the end, Vincent is a fragile human and Dante is the acursed son of Sparda.

Even so

Little did he know Vincent's faith has already sealed the day Dante let that young man wormed his way in his life again. That Vincent was truly lonely, due to the death of the last beloved relative and being the closeted gay man that he was. His yearrning for companionship in Dante is a cause that leads to his down fall. His hands would be soon soaked with blood of others in the name of survival and so on. His "death" would be out of nowhere and absurd, one that reminds Dante that how fleeting a human's life can be, and not everyone dies because of demon attacks. That it's not his place to step into the matters between human. That he should stay far away from these kind of warmth, unless he is in for another heart break.

Edited TLDR: Vincent "died" because of gang -related human's affair.