AUGH MY BRAIN IS JUST ROTATING DANTE VERGIL AND NERO AROUND I HAVE THINGS TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
But like
Dante who resents his demon side because of what happened to his family as a kid and because of what happened to Vergil and to the other people he cares about but doesn't show a shred of his fear and trauma, hiding it behind jokes and cockiness (except in dmc2 which is post Nero Angelo and has him believing he's lost the only family he had left which explains why he's so "not Dante" in that game) but he uses that demon side to fight against them and get his revenge. I don't doubt he's often had the thought "if it wasn't for my father none of this would've happened" or even "if I wasn't part demon the people I care about wouldn't have targets on their backs."
Vergil on the opposite end resents his humanity because of what happened to his family. He believes his humanity is what held him back, it was his weakness, if he had more power he could've stopped the attack and saved his mother. And that becomes his mission, while he still hates demons he believes that gaining more demonic power and becoming more like Sparda will finally make him powerful enough, he won't have that weakness. Yet, no matter what he does somehow Dante is still better. Dante doesn't even want this, why does he always succeed, he gets everything. Mother saved him, she didn't even look for me. It isn't till after Vergil has been separated into V and Urizen that he's forced to deal with his humanity as V. He is forced to go on a personal journey until he combines with Urizen and becomes Vergil again (visions of v is so beautiful at showing this I cry so hard reading those final panels).
And then there's Nero. He spent most of his life completely unaware of the Sparda bloodline. He saw his demon arm as a curse for a long time because he knew the Order would hate him and possibly try to kill him because he has some kind of demonic connection. He was partially right about this, but they were hypocrites and creating their own demons to fight. Now he knows he's a descendant of Sparda, but despite this demon side he knows who he is. He knows what's important to him, and this demonic power can be used to protect the people he loves like Kyrie, she loves him regardless of this demonic side. He's in touch with both his humanity and the demon within, we see this culminate in DMC5. He's that balance between Dante and Vergil, he's truly a successor to Sparda's legacy. And he didn't even know he was a part of it until he was nineteen.
and then since the seizure my hips hurt so it would be extra uncomfortable to sit in my chair but it would hurt my back to type while sitting on the couch so i haven’t been able to write the gale fic :(
Idk how Doctor managed to wait for 4 billion years in the Dial, I've been waiting on some stuff for close to two months and I'm about to go fucking insane
Now that we’ve passed the soul-crushing angst of Intersection chapters one and two, we can get chapter three and some of the stupidest dialogue I’ve ever written.
He hears the gentle crunch of Aki approaching him. They've come to a stop beside the bed when he sighs. "If we did leave this place, we should look for the Ikea devil’s room."
"You think there's an Ikea devil?" comes Aki's bemused voice.
"Why not?" Angel asks. "Those places are huge. Humans probably get lost in them all the time."
Aki hums. "I went to one with Denji and Power once."
Angel sits up on his forearms to peer at Aki curiosity. "How'd that go?"
a sumi haircut variation ive been testing out. i wanna say its a bit post-canon, not too far off, maybe a year or so. hasnt quite figured out what to do with herself yet, but shes getting there. only a little ways away from graduation.
lol i went for the world's shortest run at the world's slowest pace* but like. considering it's been literal years i feel good? or, you know, maybe not 'good,' but like. satisfied or whatever. pleased my bribing myself worked. now i just have to do it again infinity more times! how exciting…
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*like a mile and a half-ish and it took me like. 15 minutes lmao. baby div i rower!K is extremely Not Impressed but like. fuck her, sometimes you gotta lower yr standards and just. keep trudging.
So, life took a wild turn and I’m dealing with some stuff. Dad had a nasty fall and busted the back of his head, and the hospital docs noticed some other stuff while he’s been admitted and we’re looking into another possible diagnosis that his spinal cord injury symptoms may have been masking for the last few years.
He’s alright for now, getting his MRIs finally done today and hopefully discharged today or tomorrow, but that means I’m probably moving back in for a few days to a week or two to watch him while I go about hiring a home health aide. Which will be just so fun because he’s going to fight me on that and want to hire a blonde early 20s big titties chick from Craigslist while I look into actual accredited nurses and companies for a male aide.
Anyway, went a little TMI there, but that’s why I dropped off radar again the past few days as I dealt with the hospital stuff. Probably going to lay low again for a bit. Cheers mates!
And yes, I’m fine. This is not the first time I’ve dealt with him being in the hospital. I’m very dissociative and take this kind of thing as ‘shit happens, I can’t change the outcome, why worry before I need to. He’s in the actually good hospital this time, they know their shit and didn’t try to discharge him without doing due diligence. Thank fuck for insurance.’
Oh he knows EXACTLY what he’s doing 🤣 by uploading “the wonder” after yesterdays gig (Alex is his wonder)
How Matt is following Alex’s hand and also looking up (also love the “rose tint” lyric in both Miles “the wonder” and “there’d better be a mirrorball” ;) they are doing it again 🤣 )
Also how Alex calls for Miles via the mirrorball which kind of resembles the moon (which could be callback to TBHC) but also that works with that one interview where Alex said that when they are halfway round the world away from each other they look up at the moon and wonder what the other one is doing