DESPAIR

[12:01:35 AM] Nitro: Ok, well, the first thing u gotta know is that he's actually a character from a video game, as are Dante and Nero, two of CG's characters, but we kinda
[12:01:42 AM] Nitro: Took that and ran with it and
[12:01:44 AM] Nitro: Well
[12:01:48 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): oooh
[12:02:18 AM] Nitro: My Vergil is an extremely fleshed out version (ahem, *vergion) of the one from Devil May Cry
[12:02:33 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((PUNS)
[12:02:38 AM] Nitro: (uwu*)
[12:02:54 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((I am afraid that i am not very familiar with a lot of video games tho ;-; ))
[12:02:59 AM] Nitro: (that's ok)
[12:03:22 AM] Nitro: (I'm not gonna lie I have never played it, CG just indirectly roped me into playing the character and then whoops I loved him a lot)
[12:03:30 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((oooooh))
[12:03:36 AM] Nitro: (I just watched the cutscenes on Youtube and that's)
[12:03:40 AM] Nitro: (pretty much all you need to know)
[12:03:49 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((  nice))
[12:03:54 AM] Nitro: So basically how their life goes is
[12:04:06 AM] Nitro: Their daddy's a demon named Sparda
[12:04:27 AM] Nitro: He's like two thousand years old, really nice guy, closed the gates of Hell once
[12:05:48 AM] Nitro: He gets himself killed sometime during their childhood (around 7, if you ask me) because he's extremely selfless and a bunch of poor humans were in trouble and he'd locked away most of his power when he closed Hell
[12:06:08 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((aaaaawWWW))
[12:06:57 AM] Nitro: Dante and Vergil (twins) then witnessed their mother being killed protecting them, and that's all rather rough because it's been rather hard to work out how they survived and their mother didn't -- they were attacked by demons and it was
[12:06:59 AM] Nitro: The worst
[12:07:05 AM] Nitro: Pretty much the most traumatizing thing
[12:07:17 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): D:
[12:07:26 AM] Nitro: (this is all canon if you were wondering, I swear I didn't make it this dramatic)
[12:07:36 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((hella))
[12:09:37 AM] Nitro: Here's where the stuff canon can tell us gets sketchy, but the way CG and I have it worked out, they basically go into a psychiatric care center for three years -- one of the really nice ones because they're /eight/ at best here. Now, up to this point, they've been pretty sheltered, or /isolated/ at least, from normal society, so now that they're
[12:10:17 AM] Nitro: Two little half-demons whose parents are dead, who only have each other in the entire world, taken to some strange place with a bunch of terrifying people they don't know, /severely/ /traumatized/
[12:10:33 AM] Nitro: ...they're basically inseparable, and trying to pry them apart results in, ah
[12:10:35 AM] Nitro: Incident reports.
[12:10:55 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): wait that's actually really freaking adorable hell
[12:11:02 AM] Nitro: They're really adorable
[12:11:08 AM] Nitro: They're the most adorable brothers I swear
[12:11:10 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): holy crap ADORABLE
[12:11:19 AM] Nitro: It gets worse o u o
[12:11:27 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): oh man go on, go on
[12:11:59 AM] Nitro: They can't even do /therapy/ separately for a long time, but after a lot lot lot /lot/ of work
[12:13:45 AM] Nitro: Around ten, I think it was, they get put into the foster care system. Placing them is hard because they cannot (literal total emotional breakdown, fingers-will-be-bitten-off-if-you-don't-gIVE-BACK-MY-BROTHER /cannot/) be placed separately, nevermind getting /adopted/ at that age
[12:14:50 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((warning do not remove from package if you value your appendages))
[12:15:07 AM] Nitro: (omf yes exactly)
[12:17:50 AM] Nitro: They're still going to therapy and on various medications to help with anxiety and depression, and there's a lot more detail behind all this tbh but I am just giving you a Crash Course in the Redgrave Feels
[12:18:07 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): feELS
[12:18:23 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((xanthe knows the anxiety feels))
[12:18:51 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((she knows the depression feels too but she masks them with substance))
[12:20:21 AM] Nitro: So they end up moving around home to home and gradually figuring out some sense of normalcy. Vergil doesn't do the socializing, Dante /does/, and they have their pagers always on their persons so they can get in touch any time they need to (not that they're usually too far from each other anyway). Dante's trying to immerse himself in the here and now while Vergil's just hanging in there until it maybe, maybe, /maybe/ gets better
[12:20:43 AM] Nitro: Allow me to take a rabbit trail because it's cute and important: Vergil also does horse therapy
[12:20:46 AM] Nitro: b/c he thinks horses are gr8
[12:20:48 AM] Nitro: the gr8est
[12:20:50 AM] Nitro: best things
[12:20:53 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): AAAAAHHHHH
[12:20:53 AM] Nitro: least judgmental
[12:20:59 AM] Nitro: big warm friends
[12:21:10 AM] Nitro: look how graceful and beautiful and nonjudgmental they are
[12:21:11 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): rolls across a rainbow and into a cute sunset
[12:21:18 AM] Nitro: they'll listen no matter what you have to say and and aND
[12:21:42 AM] Nitro: (and Dante does music therapy because self-expression)
[12:21:59 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): squeals
[12:22:08 AM] Nitro: lil qt babies
[12:22:14 AM] Nitro: AND THEN IT GETS WORSE
[12:22:17 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcq57d1GCC1qegnbao1_500.jpg this is what i say i give up too cute
[12:22:19 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): OH MAN
[12:22:27 AM] Nitro: O u O
[12:22:43 AM] Nitro: So basically what ends up happening is, they run away at about
[12:22:48 AM] Nitro: Fifteenish, is where I put it
[12:22:53 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): oooh
[12:23:25 AM] Nitro: Because Vergil is so /angry/ and sick and tired of being trapped and through with being shoved between homes and --
[12:23:30 AM] Nitro: It was a very impulsive decision.
[12:23:38 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): (((ooooooooooh)))
[12:24:01 AM] Nitro: I actually can't remember the exact circumstances of it that we had determined, but he and Dante run away because life sucks and
[12:24:24 AM] Nitro: Basically survive by pickpocketing, scavenging, and being tough as shit
[12:25:23 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((eeeeeeeEEEE))
[12:25:29 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((tough as nails tho))
[12:27:36 AM] Nitro: So they get by pretty ok, and Vergil studies the hell out of libraries because no no no /no/ they're not going to be worthless nobodies they're going to make something of themselves, and drags Dante along with him because /no/ his brother is not /allowed/ to fall into a heap of impulsivity and depression and living in the moment as if there's not a future to live for
[12:29:42 AM] Nitro: (oops sorry people keep messaging me suddenly)
[12:29:48 AM] Nitro: (is vERY DISTRACTING)
[12:29:52 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((it's okay!!)
[12:29:58 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((that just happened to me too))
[12:31:34 AM] Nitro: But
[12:31:35 AM] Nitro: /But/
[12:31:40 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): BUT
[12:31:40 AM] Nitro: ...they don't have their medication
[12:31:45 AM] Nitro: or therapy
[12:31:48 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): NO BBYS
[12:31:49 AM] Nitro: or any kind of stability
[12:33:39 AM] Nitro: So they're often hungry due to their ridiculous metabolic rates (thANKS /DAD/), Vergil is doing his inability to emotion and pushing his brother further and further away and they're fighting more over stupid things and too stupid to listen to each other and
[12:33:58 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ;-;
[12:35:00 AM] Nitro: It takes a /while/, but eventually one of them snaps -- Vergil because his brother's being /so/ /stupid/ and because he's /so/ /angry/ and because he's been bearing his own pain and hurt /and/ Dante's all these years (by his own determination because he has to take care of his little brother), and just once he slips up and loses his temper
[12:35:38 AM] Nitro: Dante because his brother is pushy and inconsiderate and an asshole and can't he see he's /trying/ here and sometimes he /just/ /needs/ /a/ /hug/, doesn't need any of this /bullshit/ --
[12:35:46 AM] Nitro: (there's other stuff too but again can't remember it all)
[12:36:06 AM] Nitro: And that degenerates into fighting. Vergil leaves to cool off, but
[12:36:11 AM] Nitro: When he comes back, Dante's gone.
[12:36:14 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): no oN ON Oon
[12:36:17 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): bbYY
[12:36:33 AM] Nitro: Dante proceeds to get
[12:36:37 AM] Nitro: ...well
[12:37:03 AM] Nitro: Who the fuck is Dante
[12:37:16 AM] Nitro: /Tony/ sure doesn't know a Dante
[12:37:24 AM] Nitro: (he basically represses all his memories)
[12:37:27 AM] Nitro: (gets into drugs)
[12:37:48 AM] Nitro: (he does not deal with things very well)
[12:38:09 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((hey look xanthe you could make a friend))
[12:38:28 AM] Nitro: (nasty nasty nasty case of dissociation)
[12:39:17 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((poor bby ;- ; ))
[12:39:32 AM] Nitro: (CG can tell you more about that but it is really sad)
[12:39:35 AM] Nitro: (he just)
[12:39:38 AM] Nitro: (he's all alone)
[12:39:41 AM] Nitro: (he has nothing)
[12:39:52 AM] Nitro: (nothing holding him together at all)
[12:40:08 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((: ______________________ ;))
[12:40:18 AM] Nitro: /Vergil/, meanwhile
[12:40:24 AM] Nitro: ...what's he supposed to do
[12:40:41 AM] Nitro: He's broken the only good thing he had left.
[12:41:04 AM] Nitro: His brother doesn't want anything to do with him, clearly. /Rightfully/.
[12:41:10 AM] Nitro: (his brother doesn't deserve to deal with him)
[12:41:15 AM] Nitro: (his brother deserves /better/)
[12:41:28 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((i want to hold him))
[12:41:35 AM] Nitro: (someone who isn't going to hurt him like that)
[12:41:51 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((AH h h AH h ah ))
[12:42:37 AM] Nitro: (...but as if Vergil could trust anyone else to be there for him)
[12:42:49 AM] Nitro: ((this never gets incestuous in case that sounds weird ok))
[12:42:51 AM] Nitro: ((they're just))
[12:42:55 AM] Nitro: ((thEY'RE JUST BROTHERS))
[12:43:10 AM] Nitro: ((NOTHING ELSE,,,))
[12:43:27 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((NO I UNDERSTNAD YES))
[12:43:45 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((THAT IS HOW I feel when i try to explain the relationship between xanthe and her brother))
[12:43:55 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((he never did anything like incestuous to her))
[12:44:06 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): (( he was just angry and mean))
[12:44:17 AM] Nitro: ((yES IT'S JUST))
[12:44:31 AM] Nitro: ((THEY'RE JUST SIBLINGS WITH A REALLY COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP OK))
[12:45:19 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((EXACTLY))
[12:45:42 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): I really like vergil a lo t okay i really do christ on a cracker
[12:46:19 AM] Nitro: I'm not sure I've even gotten to the best-worst bits
[12:46:30 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): eEE
[12:47:05 AM] Nitro: We're not even to the beginning of the earliest game in the timeline h-ha
[12:47:07 AM] * Nitro H              a
[12:47:19 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): HLJKFDSGK;FDLK;GS
[12:47:23 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): so much timeline
[12:47:29 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): listens
[12:49:54 AM] Nitro: Ah right so --
[12:50:18 AM] Nitro: Verge pretty much, uh, goes off the deep end kind of? Not in the /insane/ way, but he
[12:50:57 AM] Nitro: Pretty much spends the next two years barely speaking to a fellow individual, scraping by, and /researching/
[12:51:32 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): >:(
[12:51:42 AM] Nitro: He just gets more and more bitter and fearful for Dante's safety and the nightmares get worse and worse and
[12:51:58 AM] Nitro: (it's worth noting that this is the first time they'll have spent any significant amount of time apart in their lives)
[12:52:55 AM] Nitro: And he dabbles more and more in the demonic side of their heritage. Eventually this leads to
[12:53:30 AM] Nitro: Deciding to get /revenge/ on the asshole who killed his mother and, indirectly, his father -- and I don't think I really mentioned that earlier because I'm silly but hold on, I gotta read over something real fast
[12:53:44 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): okey!
[1:00:26 AM] Nitro: Ok yes hi!
[1:00:31 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): hi!
[1:00:48 AM] Nitro: So simply put, the reason his dad had to seal Hell a couple millennia ago was Mundus, who's sort of a dick
[1:00:53 AM] Nitro: Basically DMC Satan
[1:01:56 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): o h
[1:03:00 AM] Nitro: And he also was, in all likelihood, the cause of Sparda's death and /definitely/ killed their mother -- not directly, but he was the one who sent the demons
[1:03:15 AM] Nitro: Basically just because he's a giant vengeful power-hungry dick.
[1:03:18 AM] Nitro: Also because it's fun.
[1:03:19 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ew
[1:03:35 AM] Nitro: The demon world is pretty much like that in general
[1:03:59 AM] Nitro: That's an entirely different and extremely long worldbuilding thing, though.
[1:04:33 AM] Nitro: So Vergil deciding to go after Mundus for power, revenge, and to prevent his /brother's/ untimely death basically leads into DMC3, which is
[1:07:49 AM] Nitro: They reunite, try to kill each other a couple times, and [spoiler] by the end of it Vergil takes a headlong dive into Hell, leaving Dante grasping at thin air
[1:07:52 AM] Nitro: That's
[1:08:04 AM] Nitro: That's basically a very very condensed summary of DMC3
[1:08:22 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): !!!!
[1:08:33 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): that makes me want to paly the game tbh
[1:08:41 AM] Nitro: There are a few videos with all the cutscenes on Youtube if you feel the need to watch it sometime, and it's cheesy as shit but also awww
[1:09:00 AM] Nitro: It's not, uh, not the /best/ game at storytelling, I won't lie
[1:09:09 AM] Nitro: But it's cool. Also the combat, according to CG, is fun as shit
[1:09:24 AM] Nitro: Just
[1:09:30 AM] Nitro: Really fun to play
[1:09:33 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ayyee
[1:09:34 AM] Nitro: Much killing big monsters
[1:09:40 AM] Nitro: Fast hacking and slashing and all that
[1:09:48 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): oooooooh
[1:09:51 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): fun ;)
[1:09:56 AM] Nitro: Indeed!
[1:11:03 AM] Nitro: So, the end results of that are Dante walking away believing that his brother really, truly wanted nothing to do with him...and Vergil
[1:11:12 AM] Nitro: Vergil does not win against Mundus.
[1:11:28 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): bby vergil no
[1:11:47 AM] Nitro: But of course
[1:11:57 AM] Nitro: Why kill him? That's so /fleeting/.
[1:12:22 AM] Nitro: And when you're effectively immortal as Mundus is, you need entertainment to pass the time.
[1:12:35 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): verGIL
[1:13:29 AM] Nitro: This is also canon -- so basically, the next game in the lineup is DMC1, in which you play as Dante on your way to fight Mundus who's trying to escape from Hell again (spoiler: he loses)
[1:13:41 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): sIGH
[1:14:30 AM] Nitro: And one of the demons you fight throughout the game is Nero Angelo (Nelo Angelo, by the game's spelling, which is used consistently but which I hate because it's technically incorrect)
[1:15:00 AM] Nitro: You fight him three times, as far as I remember, and some shit happens in the game but basically the third time
[1:15:16 AM] Nitro: He takes off his helmet and whoops hey it's /your/ /brother/
[1:15:26 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): jdkljs;ka'
[1:15:28 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): BKJGLDS
[1:15:28 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): G
[1:15:28 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): GKDLS;'
[1:15:29 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): GFJD
[1:15:29 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): S[G
[1:15:49 AM] Nitro: But Dante, for whatever reason, kills him.
[1:16:00 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): D:
:D::
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[1:17:34 AM] Nitro: He shows no sign of recognizing Vergil when he takes off the helmet, and the exact reasons are not known but I think CG's said before that it was largely because his memories were still really screwed over badly a lot (he doesn't remember a /lot/ of his childhood or young adulthood), and my personal headcanon is that he thought Mundus was trying to mess with him
[1:17:40 AM] Nitro: Which is totally a thing Mundus would do
[1:17:58 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): dammit mundus
[1:18:21 AM] Nitro: ...but then when Vergil dies, this red amulet falls.
[1:18:36 AM] Nitro: The other half of the split red amulet they'd been given when they were kids.
[1:18:44 AM] Nitro: And /then/ he realizes.
[1:18:47 AM] Nitro: (it's the worst)
[1:18:54 AM] Nitro: (just)
[1:19:02 AM] Nitro: (this silent, resigned grief)
[1:19:07 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): (((!!!!!)))
[1:19:27 AM] Nitro: (also I'm sorry for dumping text on you I just)
[1:19:32 AM] Nitro: (am enjoying this thoroughly)
[1:20:13 AM] Nitro: There's a bunch of other stuff to explain actually but I don't even know where to start
[1:20:50 AM] Nitro: But with the vergion that's Sara's surrogate uncle, there's basically shenanigans, and he ends up alive again.
[1:20:50 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((no i really like hearing about vergil!!!))
[1:20:58 AM] Nitro: Many sads are had, and much emotion.
[1:21:32 AM] Nitro: With the /games/, it goes on to DMC4 but we kinda had to retcon DMC4 in order to make a consistent world with lots of cute dadfeels so
[1:21:48 AM] Nitro: The new kid from DMC4 is Dante's son and he's basically a snotty little bristly brat
[1:21:53 AM] Nitro: (i.e. the Nero mentioned earlier)
[1:21:59 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): whoop
[1:22:02 AM] Nitro: (he's great)
[1:22:20 AM] Nitro: (ngl DMC4 is my favorite of the games to watch just because I love him a lot)
[1:22:57 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((nero thO)
[1:23:18 AM] Nitro: Idk how much all that gave you about what Vergil's /like/, but he's basically really insecure and traumatized and values his family and friends with an extremely immense protectiveness
[1:25:25 AM] Nitro: (and he likes horses)
[1:26:02 AM] Nitro: (and had a lil stuffed dinosaur named Sir Tyrroarosaurus that he carried with him all the way up until he and Dante split ways and then it accidentally ended up with Dante)
[1:26:11 AM] Nitro: (Tyrro for short)
[1:27:01 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((he's fucking adorable i can't even get over him))
[1:27:07 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((i would totally rp with him))
[1:27:17 AM] Nitro: (I would totally RP him incidentally 8y)
[1:27:34 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): (( 8)))))) ))
[1:27:41 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((winks suggestively))
[1:27:47 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((just kidding n i don't))
[1:27:56 AM] Nitro: ( ;3 )
[1:28:02 AM] Nitro: (makes 33333 lips)
[1:28:11 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((OH MY God  D)
[1:28:18 AM] Nitro: (:3)
[1:29:12 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((butt lips))
[1:29:21 AM] Nitro: (yes)
[1:29:26 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): ((definitely))
[1:29:30 AM] Nitro: also
[1:29:47 AM] Nitro: Given that he becomes a prosecutor after being resurrected, an alternative way to summarize his character would be
[1:30:08 AM] Nitro: "Literal demon prosecutor Vergiles Redgeworth"
[1:30:23 AM] I stuck my toon (Emma): omfG
[1:45:01 AM] Nitro: (Edgeworth is probably an accurate idea of his personality)
[1:45:23 AM] Nitro: (I swear I'd never played Ace Attorney when I first started playing Vergil but)