Don't turn your back my dear...

Kayla 35. Certified Elf Anatomy Expert and Demon Connoisseur 🚫NO SPARDACEST🚫

[reyteyy]

Wippppp 🍓

[neloangelowesker]

I have never seen an enemy that did this until Nelo Angelo

[sonderlativ]

Everything about Nelo Angelo’s introduction is absolutely flawless! On the one hand I am genuinely sad that I didn’t get to experience this scene free of spoilers, on the other hand this cutscene and character holds so much more gravitas after playing DMC3.

I love how the foreshadowing of Nelo Angelo’s identity manages to be extremely subtle (for first time players) and blatantly obvious at the same time. When the camera switches focus and zooms from Dante to the ‘reflection’ in the mirror I still get goosebumps because this is such a smooth way to establish the man in the mirror as a) the antagonist, b) Dante’s equal and opposite at the same time, c) a man who values fairness because it would have been laughably easy to attack Dante while his back was turned towards the mirror instead of confronting him face to face.

Of course my poor heart was broken by the end of the first boss fight against Nelo Angelo. Because that was when it finally clicked for me what exactly DMC3’s secret ending implied.

It’s a pity we never got to see what Kamiya would have had in mind for Vergil. But DMC3’s team did such a wonderful job of breathing new life into this criminally neglected part of DMC1’s plot. (Seriously, you force me to kill Dante’s lost twin brother and then expect me to be okay after that bittersweet exchange between the boys and their mom? Why?!)

[sonderlativ]

@raynehallowell That is such an excellent observation, it should not remain hidden in the notes! My mind is low-key blown at the thought that the shattering dimension might have been a clever call-back to this scene from DMC1.

[juliette-has-a-pencil]

POV: Your sellsword removes his helmet. Well, now you have to live with the knowledge that this Dunmer is damn good-looking 😯💫🫠

@darkcimba tag you❤️

[thebloodofages]

God I miss my blorbos Teldryn and Throm. 💛🩶

[ariesstarram]

“What form of power is this?” (Ermmm vergil that is your son) Happy Father’s Day!

[ruiojousama]

Happy Father's Day to our deadbeat Dadgil!

[punkonrecord]

The lightness of a heavy soul in the form of a butterfly🦋

[shidoart]

I still believe it's his best outfit, had to draw it

[luxroseus]

vergil being extremely possessive and clingy is something my brain loves to drown in,,

he would definitely be the type of man to leave his clothes scattered around the place, in hopes of eventually seeing them on you,, the thought of your body, scattered with his hickeys and love bites underneath an item stained with his core essence belonging to him would send his mind into a frenzy,,,

no doubt he’d also try to find a sweet, dainty necklace with a v pendant and gift it to you so innocently, knowing he would like to mark and brand you for eternity only for his own pleasure,,

[p3tri-core]

I remembered this from Undertale, I wanted to do it with Vergil. I've been having a lot of DMC drawing ideas lately :]

(I feel like I can't still get this mans hair right, help me)

[thebloodofages]

That's exactly it. (And don't worry, I can't draw his hair right either)

[skittlesandham]

they don't bite 😉

[bluskksk]

It’s that day again…

[physadelys]

my fav dante version

[banban111]

[friseee]

Sketches for the Djpon3 trend

[theeeveetamer]

My favorite thing about Dante and Vergil is just how they constantly match each other's energy. Like I know DMC5 is a lot more explicit about how Vergil is a silly lil guy underneath the veneer of seriousness, but I wanted to highlight a few of the Vergil lines/exchanges/moments from DMC3 that demonstrate... yeah he was kinda always like this

From right before the first Vergil fight in DMC3:

Dante: You sure know how to throw a party. No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left. Vergil: My sincerest apologies, brother. I was so eager to see you I couldn't concentrate on the preparations for the bash.

I find this one especially fun because pretty much every other boss you fight in DMC (like the entire series) just gets huffy and angry and yells about annihilating Sparda or something. Vergil is probably one of the few major bosses that snarks back

2. After Vergil gets Beowulf he does the Dante thing of playing around with his new weapon

3. From right before the second Vergil fight:

Dante: It doesn't matter to me one way or the other. More importantly, I've come all this way. I'm sure you have time for one more game… right Vergil: Why not? After all we share the same blood… I'll just use more of yours to undo daddy's little spell.

Something about "daddy's little spell" is just so irreverent and funny

4. From right after the second Vergil fight:

Vergil: It is time for the clown to bow out, Arkham. Dante: Dude, the show's over!

To me it comes off like Dante's spring-boarding off of Vergil's theater metaphor that with the "show's over!" line. Vergil set him up for that one

5. This bit at the start of the Arkham fight which Vergil was NOT present for:

Dante: Dude, my father wasn't so hideous. Can't you tell by looking at me? Anyway that shape suits you better. Let's begin the main event!

Followed by this exchange midway through the fight:

Dante: Look at you, making a big dramatic entrance and stealing my spotlight. Vergil: Well... You don't possibly believe that he deserves to be our main event now do you?

Vergil wasn't exactly present for Dante's "let's begin the main event!" line, which means he just came up with the same thing completely independently? That, or he was watching and just decided to wait for the most dramatic possible moment to jump in. Either way, it adds silly lil guy points (either for being just like his brother or for timing a dramatic entrance)

6. Same fight scene, the finger waggle Vergil does as he says "You should come to realize you cannot control the power of Sparda."

7. The classic:

But also the way Vergil immediately knows exactly what Dante is talking about when he says "Remember what we used to say?" and he smiles about it

[toishies]

[blackened-angel]

Happy 19th anniversary to Devil May Cry: The Animated Series!