At the entrance of Dante’s Devil May Cry office. (Note: These are events that took place at random times, so there is no obvious time line for these six moments to happen)
(and this one is just a nice dream)
Drew these all because I wanted a new set of illustrations to shuffle on my iPhone lock screen( ´ ▽ ` )
The reason I am so ensnared by the idea of Patty interacting with Dante AND the entire DMC cast is that she is, pretty much, the only normal person out here. Dante and Patty's relationship (found family or just friendly, I hunt down shippers for sport) is the most normal relationship, which is also quite important to him. And he has never had that.
Dante's relationship with literally any other character is rooted in very bad, no good, terrible history which neither of them want to talk about ever again. Those relationships are full of landmines, which they need to avoid. Dante&Patty don't have that, there is no big blacklist of topics between them, they can just vibe together without this additional weight of History TM between them. This normality, is in itself, abnormal in DMC and for Dante especially. He needs that, and honestly, every character in this series is mentally deranged in some way, they all need that. But I also think exposing them to this little island of almost-normal will hurt them initially...(this can vary a lot depending on the circumstances, look for reblog for additional thoughts).
This doesn't make other relationships Dante has with characters less, nor does it make Dante&Patty's relationship more important than others. I just wanted to point out how heavily this (1) normal relationship heavily contrasts with everything else this series has, and can have a little earthquake effect of this house build of cards. More importantly, I wanted to highlight how Interesting it would be to compare it with others, and it would be fascinating to see other character's reacting to it.
There needs to be more Patty content in this fandom.
For REAL.
I sort of understand, as she's hasn't been in the wider game sphere before the DMC5 cameo. HOWEVER, her dynamic with Dante is so good that people just need to use it more! She was LITERALLY a reflection of Dante's trauma in the first episode, and no one has used that in a fic before and it hurts. Not to mention her sheer ability to ignore Dante's walls better than almost anyone needs to be studied in a lab, because the rest of the cast should really take notes.
It's a shame the Devil May Cry anime was rubbish because the concept of Dante, the whacky woohoo pizza man himself, eternal class clown of the universe meeting his match in the form of an annoying precocious kid sidekick who frustrates him to no end by stubbornly refusing to be impressed or amused by him no matter how hard he tries to show off is gangbusters.