Vergil's bio
PLAYER
Name: Jade
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Contact Info:
E-Mail: sakurachino200@yahoo.com
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CHARACTER
Name: Vergil
Fandom: Devil May Cry (3)
Canon History: (Note that like werallsatisfied, I find Capcom’s timelining and perpetual adding, dropping, and readding things to DMC timeline a big frickin’ pain in the ass, but I have chosen to use certain parts of it that, at least to me, give me enough of Vergil’s background to construct a somewhat ‘canon’ history. Please refer to the games and other stuff listed in Notes to figure it all out.)
The older son of Sparda, Vergil’s history is even less well charted then Dante’s, but he has still left clues and pieces of himself behind. His and Dante’s pasts are the same until they were roughly nine to ten. Raised by a mortal mother, their demonic father presumed dead, and moving constantly, perhaps pretending be one child instead of two to fool the demons hunting them, in their early years Vergil and Dante could only depend on each other and their mother. Then, after a sibling fight over who got the chocolate cake for their ninth or tenth birthday, things fell apart. Their mother Eva slaughtered by demons, here the twins pasts become hazy. Vergil was either stolen away or seperated from Dante while trying to avenge their mother, and whatever lurks in his past until they were seventeen to eighteen Vergil alone knows.
It seems, however, that what Vergil saw in humanity differed from his twin, the dark mirror to Dante’s bright. At best, he became convinced that his father had been wrong to save humanity, who were far more petty and vicious then many demons. At worst, he lost any of his ability to care for humans at all. He began to retrace Sparda’s footsteps, and eventually ran into a human who offered to help him break Sparda’s seal on the demon world. The man, Arkham, was obssessed with the legend of Sparda, and even wounded himself on Vergil’s sword Yamato, a gift from his father, to prove himself. Vergil set about freeing the seven imprisoned sins to begin raising the tower to hell, though he would also disappear from time to time, still tracing his father’s footsteps. It is during this time that he may or may not have sired a son named Nero, though there are also rumors that he found proof that the boy was his and Dante’s half brother, proving their father Sparda alive and as fickle as the rest of his kind, leaving a good woman behind.
He ran into Dante again when releasing the sin Sloth. He taunted his twin, calling him weak and unfit to wield the power of their father. However, he also refused to take Dante’s amulet, even though it would give him mastery over the Temen-Ni-Gru, telling the demon with him ‘I can take it whenever I want’. And so he vanished for another year, until he elected to raise the Temen-Ni-Gru right under Dante’s nose.
Vergil waited on the top on the tower, and Dante eventually came to him. In the rain, the twins fought, equal as they had ever been. Finally, Vergil gained the upper hand, running Dante through with Yamato and telling him, ‘Might controls everything, and without strength, you can not protect anything. Let alone yourself.’ He tore away Dante’s amulet, and to add insult to injury, ran Dante through with Rebellion, his own sword. However, he seemed almost maniacally pleased when Dante devil triggered for the first time. He left the top of the tower somewhat under protest, clearly wanting to fight with Dante again. He got his wish in the basement of the Temen-Ni-Gru at the seal itself, pounding away at his brother with both Yamato and Beowulf, the gauntlets and greaves he gained by defeating the aforenamed demon. Though the sword Yamato is said to be able to cleave through almost anything, Vergil held back and did not kill the human girl Lady, though the seal was shattered by the traitorous Arkham, Vergil knocked out and sent rolling into a crevasse.
Upon regaining conciousness, Vergil made his way back up the tower, again ignoring the girl Lady instead of killing her, though he could have killed her easily. He confronted Arkham, fighting alongside Dante during that, and even though he disliked using firearms, he took the gun Dante offered him and shot Arkham along with his twin with an ease that showed him not entirely unfamiliar with the weapon. However, the opportunity to gain the amulets and his father’s primary sword set him and Dante at odds again, both twins grabbing their own amulets and Vergil grabbing Force Edge. Yet another of their bloody brawls ensued, with Dante coming out on top. Vergil chose to warn his twin that the portal to the human world was closing, but scorned his brother’s outstretched hand and flung himself off of a waterfall to seek battle with the demon king that their father had defeated and sealed to prove himself.
This doesn’t look like the right place, however…
Personality: Cold, suits Vergil perfectly, or seems to. He is a rational being, yet very selfish and self serving. He seeks power to validate his existence, or so it seems. As he and Dante are twins, they are often polar opposites. Where Dante hates and loves their father and longs to be seen in a more human light, Vergil strives to emulate him, and considers the human side of their blood a weakness. That he uses that same human side and human emotions as a fuel for his burning rage is an irony that is not entirely lost upon him. Vergil seems to come alive primarily during his duels with Dante, the rest of the time he controls himself strictly.
However, to look only at this surface is to miss a great deal about Vergil. He is a liar and a deceiver even to himself, saying or doing one thing and meaning another entirely. He scorns humanity, yet at the same time, when confronted with souls he believes show him the best or greatest potential humanity has to offer he turns aside the killing blow or refuses to fight them, showing a twisted honor and loyalty to the human mother who died. While he attacks and hurts Dante, he also shows something almost like affection, dealing blows that he knows won’t kill his twin, yet at the same time will hurt him greatly. At the drop of a hat or his own whims he’ll side with Dante or protect him. He will seek out allies only to betray them when they have ceased being useful to him, but he often selects them for whatever crimes he might use to justify such slayings. He strikes at Dante from the front, and kills Beowulf when it attacks him with his back turned, but strikes down Arkham, who he seems to view as honorless, when Arkham’s back is turned.
The core of Vergil’s twisted morals and ideals, however, are the three people he both loves and hates with a passion he hides almost brutally well. His father, who sired them and either died or left them with the burden of defending humanity. His mother, Madonna and whore, pure and stained, who died trying to save them from things she couldn’t or wouldn’t fight. And Dante, for in truth, they were never meant to be twins. One son that became two, one key that became two, Vergil loves Dante as everything that he can never be, and hates him for possessing the power that he believes ought to rightfully be his. Anything else is a shallow emotion to Vergil, and it takes a great deal to become noticable to him. Unless, of course, Dante has noticed it first. At that point, Vergil can be a very nasty being to be around.
Biggest Fear: On the surface, it would appear Vergil’s biggest fear is being weak, however, it goes deeper then that. Vergil fears being too weak to protect what he holds dear, of seeing someone he loves die before him like his mother did.
Powers: Like Dante, Vergil possesses superhuman strength, agility, and stamina, as well as the ability to invoke his Devil Trigger. Due to his greater knowledge and experience with his demonic powers, he is able to use a more advanced teleport. As he does not consider firearms true weapons, he manifests Summoned Swords to use as long-range weapons.
As for melee, Vergil utilizes a real-life sword style with the Yamato known as Iaido, which involves attacks with both the sword and sheath. As of DMC3 still, Vergil is shown to be the most competent with wielding Yamato, striking so fast that the opponent does not realize they have been slain until he sheathes his weapon.
SAMPLES
Third person:
It was too quiet.
Vergil would never admit it, but he disliked that. The noises around him were less then appealing in the first place, but that wasn’t the quiet that was getting to him. No, it was quiet of a different kind. He idly sucked on the cinnamon candy as he moved about the apartment he was in. No Dante, at least that he’d seen. No demons that he was familiar with. No humans that he knew either. The yurei about the area were poor substitutes, and the fact that his twin wasn’t there… Vergil reached down and stroked Yamato, reassuring himself subtly that something familiar was there. It was times like this that the human in him, closer to the surface then he would like to admit, came completely to the fore.
He was lonely, and he didn’t like it.
Vergil never needed to go very far to find Dante, when they were both on the same plane of their home. He could almost effortlessly trail his twin, and with effort put into it, it was almost as if he was the one where Dante was, feeling what his twin was feeling. At best, he was a cold moon to his twin’s sun, and he hungered for that emotion. He was a jealous, possessive bastard, and Vergil knew it.
And here, in this shabby, rundown apartment so like places his twin would stay, Vergil was lonely, and he truly hated it.
First person:
[The screen flickers on, a tall young man with striking silver white hair, cold blue eyes, and an elegantly patrician face studies the screen. A blue coat is carefully folded on the bed, and the man wears a sleeveless black vest shirt and pants that look like they’re made from the hide of some giant serpent are tucked into sturdy brown boots. He sighs, closing his eyes.]
This… is not where I intended to be. Damn it, Dante, somehow I know this is your fault. And if it isn’t, [A wry smile crosses his lips.] I’ll find a way to blame it on you anyway, Little Brother. [He opens his eyes again, eyeing the screen with something that might almost be amusement.] Though I would ironically be glad to hear your ‘dulcet’ tones my dear sibling. They would tell me that at least you haven’t gotten yourself slaughtered by a passing Lust or blown up by a Wrath. Or heaven forbid, gotten slain over a woman. [He chuckles a little.]
So, might I presume there is at least one living person in this cesspool listening to me? And might they be inclined to explain just WHERE in the nine levels of Hell I’ve landed myself? I would be… much indebted to anyone so kind. [The last is said in sardonic tones.]
Notes: Sources used for Vergil’s History listed below.
Devil May Cry Mangas Code Dante and Code Vergil
Devil May Cry 3
Devil May Cry (Some of the background.)
Devil May Cry 4 Japanese Novel (Some of the background.)