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REVOLUTION IS IN THE AIR.

player. NAME/HANDLE: tussah PERSONAL JOURNAL: dondarrion ARE YOU 16 OR OVER?: yes! CONTACT: pm to anoint | direwolves OTHER CHARACTERS: Alayne Stone | A Song of Ice and Fire | wont Pearl Jones | American Vampire | teething Joan Watson | Elementary | babysit character. CHARACTER NAME: Vergil SERIES: DmC: Devil May Cry ( DmC on Wikia, Vergil on Wikia ) CANON POINT: mid-Mission 15, The Trade ( after Vergil has killed both Lilith and Mundus' unborn child, during their escape ) AGE: 18 APPEARANCE: Look at this swank motherfucker. He even uses Yamato like a pimp cane. PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: PERSONALITY: In many ways (and to put it oversimply), Vergil is all of the things that his twin brother Dante is not. Following the death of their mother and the subsequent memory wipe instituted by their father, even their childhoods differ vastly — with Dante being passed from orphanage to institution to foster home while Vergil is adopted by an affluent family that ushers him into a life of both education and privilege. Naturally intelligent and with an eye turned towards both analytics and attention to detail, Vergil manages to not only assimilate himself fully into human culture (therefore escaping the attention of the same demons that doggedly hunted Dante his entire life) but also uses his skills to create a computer program that — with its release — makes Vergil a teenage millionaire (money that he puts to good use not only maintaining the lifestyle of his youth but also financing the anti-demon terrorist organization he eventually founds, the Order). Where Dante becomes a juvenile delinquent, often lashing out at the world in both impulsive and self-destructive ways, Vergil becomes something much more intellectualized and insidious — an insurgent hidden in plain sight whose ultimate goal is not just to hurt Mundus and his demon cohorts in blood battle, but to destabilize the anesthetized human world around them, dismantle their own facade completely, and pull the world they’d created out from underneath them. Vergil thinks long term, thinks strategy instead of brute force. If he had his way (and everything Vergil does is just that: to further his way and nobody else’s), his enemies would die a death of a thousand tiny cuts rather than in a single cataclysmic blow. His is a different sort of endurance than Dante’s, Vergil’s takes patience and planning and deliberation. Even his combat style conveys the sense that Vergil is a tactician first and a warrior second. Rather than the blunt brutality and relentlessness of Dante’s more heavy hitting attacks, Vergil’s swordplay relies on swiftness and evasion, as well as powers that focus on teleportation and misdirection. This need to plan and to control everything around him — moving humans and demons (and even Dante) like chess pieces around a global board — stems from Vergil’s own realization of who he is and all of the ways his life has been manipulated. That initial loss of identity and the struggle to recapture it has resulted in a Vergil who is obsessed with the concept of control. Not only does Vergil want to be the man with the plan who’s calling all the shots, he also is preoccupied with the flow of information. CCTV surveillance, rumors and hearsay, all of the data that the digital age can offer his clever fingertips flows inwards to the Order, while an iron fist of paranoia works constantly to prevent even a trickle of intel from leaking out. This allows Vergil to remain wholly anonymous to his demon enemies, providing him a kind of freedom that Dante (who has lead a life garnering attention through disobedience and violence) lacks; it is an advantage that he spares no expense to maintain — going so far as to sacrifice Kat’s freedom (and her life) in order to ensure that the Order databases don’t fall into demon hands. Though Dante rails at Vergil’s choice to leave Kat behind, never once does Vergil express a moment of doubt or regret for his actions. He is wholly practical, measuring out every action and its possible reactions, considering every pro and con. The problem with Vergil (or more accurately, Dante’s problem with Vergil) is that some of the factors that come into consideration aren’t given enough value or weight. Destruction and loss of human life are little more than collateral damage to Vergil who, in an attempt to lure Mundus from the Hell Gate and drain him of his energy, didn’t flinch before provoking the demon king to unleashing a violent wave of energy that destroyed an entire section of Limbo City. Even Kat, a vital part of the Order and effectively Vergil’s right hand woman, can be dispensed without so much as a glance back so long as it helps maintain his tactical advantage and can be easily mitigated with a backup plan. Where some people would be quick to label this as “cruel”, Vergil simply sees it as necessary. He is completely devoid of sentiment on the subject (and on many other subjects as well), defaulting to a matter-of-fact, sometimes cold decision-making process that is ruled by facts and figures and informed by only a single goal: destroy Mundus. For most of the game (and past the pull-point I’ve chosen for him, I should note), this clarity of vision, this single focus of mind and purpose, is presented as all an attempt to liberate humankind from the shackles that Mundus and the other demons have placed upon them. In order to bring Dante onto his side, Vergil makes the struggle a personal one, one informed less by “the greater good” and ruled instead by hot emotions like vengeance and anger. In truth, neither of these are wholly the case though it would be wrong to say that Vergil’s incapable of emotion; he is in fact capable of many (Dante isn’t the only bitter son of Sparda with a temper), though they are often colored by his own narcissism and obscured by his generally understated nature (again, another form of control). As far as ultimate intentions are concerned, where Dante sees his demon-angel parentage as a point of dismissal and occasional contention (often insisting that he is nothing like his demon father, Sparda), Vergil takes it as a sign, a kind of birthrite that entitles both he and Dante to the highest seat. Given that nephilim are the only beings that can kill a demon king, Vergil considers himself nearly transcendent; above humans and angels and demons alike, a god killer affixed amongst mortals, with only one equal deserving of both his loyalty and respect: his brother Dante. It is important to note that, despite his designs to subjugate the entirety of the human race in the wake of Mundus’ defeat, Vergil does not perceive his intentions as wholly self-serving (even though that’s exactly what they are). If anything, he thinks of himself as a benevolent god, swooping in to liberate mankind from the demons only to take them subjects of his own. Humans, although occasionally useful, are undisciplined, ignorant and lack self-control — better than demons but in their own lay lost and in need of constant protection not only from greater forces but themselves as well. This is ultimately a form a self-deception, a way to cover up what is eventually revealed as Vergil's madness and megalomania (the ultimate emergence of which is triggered by Dante's final rejection). ABILITIES: THE BRAINS | i'm smarter Naturally eloquent, intelligent and with a mind focused on detail and execution, it's obvious that Vergil is "the smart one" between him and Dante. He is an extremely skilled hacker, capable of both tearing apart and rewriting someone else's code as well as building his own from the ground-up. His life of privilege also afforded Vergil a very good education; as a result, he is extremely well-read and has an understanding of global politics, economics, philosophy, and data systems, as well as more off-the-beaten-path topics such as Wicca, demonology and magic. THE ORDER | you have been lied to As the leader of an underground anti-demon terrorist organization, Vergil has developed and perfected an odd assortment of various skills. Most immediate is his ability for oratory and public speaking; Vergil is used to both diatribes and speeches, having given plenty as the "face" of the Order. In a certain way he can be charming or at least convincing enough to manipulate people into not only going along with his plans but to also give him a certain amount of loyalty and trust. He is, as stated earlier, a tactician and excels in both devising and finding the means to execute sometimes elaborate and multi-pronged plans. His strength comes through information, so Vergil understands and often tries to control key channels of information in any given environment via surveillance. THE THIRD RACE | son of sparda and eva the whore As an angel-demon hybrid also known as Nephilim, Vergil is preternaturally fast and preternaturally strong as well as capable of healing himself from wounds well beyond what would kill a normal human. Having been given the Yamato by his father, Vergil is capable of wielding the katana with devastating skill while channeling energy from either the demonic or angelic parts of himself to enable different combat abilities. His fighting style relies mostly on evasion, misdirection, and blocking as well as magic (as opposed to Dante's which seems to focus on the fury of unrelenting raw damage). To complement this, Vergil is has the ability to "quick-step" in battle via short-range teleports that make him "flicker" out of the way of in-coming attacks. He is capable of summoning spectral swords which allow him to deal devastating damage up-close as well as attack from a distance. Vergil, like his brother Dante, also has a Devil Trigger — which is a brief but enhanced state that accelerates all of his abilities as well as grants him a new one, available for only that period of time. When Vergil enters his devil trigger, his appearance changes. He is capable of creating a ghostly copy of himself which mimics his combat style and does damage, running interference and deflecting in-coming blows while Vergil heals himself. Oh, and Vergil's got really good aim. Really good. POSSESSIONS: » the clothes on his back | as seen here ( + this trilby hat ) » a smiling silver mask | face of the order » yamato | a silver katana » throwing knives | ( 5 ) count » sniper rifle | ( + 2 spare clips ) » vergil's laptop » set of car keys samples. JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE: Dear_Mun ( 1 ), the EV Test Drive ( 2 ) THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: N/A