Vergil
“Dante's twin and a swordsman who craves the full power of a devil — cold-blooded, but never hollow.”
An ultra-fast katana capable of cutting through dimensions — the draw speed and precision are superhuman.
Summons dozens of spectral swords to fire as ranged projectiles — his answer to both close and long range.
Draw-and-sheath iaido combat at invisible speed — Vergil's answer to Dante's Style System, and its mirror opposite.
Slices the surrounding space faster than visible motion — the environment falls apart without any apparent swing.
A cold swordsman who defines humanity as weakness and seeks value only in demonic power. But the root of that obsession is the shock of failing to protect his mother and an all-consuming fixation on his father Sparda. The irony: the more he tries to seal away emotion, the more emotionally driven he acts. DMC5's arc of reclaiming his humanity is brief but lands hard.
- ▸Surpassing his father Sparda's power
- ▸Escaping the helplessness of failing to protect his mother
- ▸Eliminating human weakness to claim full demonic power
- ▸Being powerless again
- ▸Losing to Dante — which would mean admitting their rivalry is ultimately pointless
- ▸Reading William Blake's poetry (canon mention)