Player Information

Name: Vee
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Character Information

Name: V
Canon: Devil May Cry 5
Canon Point: Pursuing Urizen down into the Qliphoth
Age: Literally a month and a half. Physically looks in his 20s. Mentally in his 40s.
History: Wiki
Personality:

DRIVEN V's willpower is his most valuable trait in the storyline. He is able to convince three separate demons to join forces with him on a suicide mission. They all come to the mutual agreement that while they may be ephemeral beings, they want to make their time in this world count. With no experience and no resources but the drive to stop the world being destroyed, V manages to get together the cash to recruit Dante, fools his own twin brother about who he is, and convinces Nero to leave the hospital after losing an arm to join them on their mission. He finds the Sparda on his own, figures out how to awaken Dante with it, and also drags himself through every hurdle to make it all the way back to Vergil. All these acts come from someone that was born as cast off dregs and meant to die. He is opposed to just lying down and dying, and incisively plans the way forward with every tool he can get his hands on.

ARROGANT This is a trait inherited from Vergil. V often has to hide his real thoughts and attitudes, but his arrogance comes out openly in battle. The lowly demons that he battles bring out his cruelest and most vicious aspects. He is a ruthless tactician and spends all battles loitering in the background while his familiars do all the work. He taunts enemies by laughing at them, turning his back on them, sometimes even dancing or playing the air violin. Once a demon is weakened, he personally and eagerly provides all the killing blows. You can also see a touch of his arrogance in his interactions He is definitely the most intelligent member of the main DMC5 characters. It shows in some of his sarcasm, his pointed lack of comment, and definitely his liberal application of poetry quotations that no one else knows, cares about, or can follow.

MYSTERIOUS V keeps everything very close to the chest. Combine a careful poker face and some casual arrogance and that's how he bluffs his way through every situation; regardless of how scared or nervous he might be. His secretiveness has practical application in that it allows him to manipulate the DMC team. He gives away just enough information to distract everyone from asking any extra questions. It is easiest to control the situation when he's the only one with a full vantage point. Still, he also wouldn't know what to tell anyone about himself, even if they did ask. He hasn't existed long enough to have much of his own, and he's able to disguise this discomfort with an air of mystery.

VULNERABLE Vergil is a paragon of repression and intractability. He took those traits with him to become Urizen, and what they left behind for V were all 'weak' emotions. More than just the emotions, however, is V's willingness to express them. He tells Trish openly that he hoped that by enlisting Dante, the wrong he had committed could be righted. He bonds with Nero, he bonds with the familiars. He knows he can't do any of this alone, and in the grander scheme that he never could. The trade-off of opening up has always been that you're then more vulnerable to hurt, disappointment, etc. V still gets very little taste of these things in game, they remain new. But by definition of what he isn't, he must challenge himself to face them when they come. The one taste of this V does get is how he builds bond with the familiars even though they each represent something from Vergil's traumatic memories. In order to join with their powers, V had to face those memories and make them a strength rather than a torment. If Urizen is intractability, then V must be the one who can learn from the mistakes of the past.

BRITTLE He wasn't meant to live on as a separate entity. He was meant to disintegrate and die. He is aware of the physical and emotional pains of his incomplete creation. Physically, his body is weak/ill and actively breaking down around him. Emotionally, he was disdained and rejected by Vergil for so many years, before being removed entirely. He knows he is unwanted. Often, V has a smirking sense of humor about his own weaknesses, the gallows humor of the dying. These smirks contribute to his arrogant and mysterious outer presentation. But just like Vergil, he is filled with pain on the inside. Sometimes, that pain and bitterness comes out. He sneers at a picture of their mother Eva, he tells Griffon that his childhood memories bring bitterness, and he definitely tries to stab Dante in the face with the Sparda, which he can barely wield.

ROMANTIC Unlike Dante, Vergil has always valued intellect, but he always used this as a tool to pursue power and never let it be a goal in and of itself. V inherited his book of William Blake poetry, which has some extremely relevant and specific themes. (I'm going to torture you with a couple quotes, sorry:)

"[...] While the early Blake focused on a "sheer negative opposition between Energy and Reason", the later Blake emphasised the notions of self-sacrifice and forgiveness as the road to interior wholeness. This renunciation of the sharper dualism of Marriage of Heaven and Hell is evidenced in particular by the humanisation of the character of Urizen in the later works."

"One of Blake's strongest objections to orthodox Christianity is that he felt it encouraged the suppression of natural desires and discouraged earthly joy."

"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governd their Passions or have No Passions but because they have Cultivated their Understandings. The Treasures of Heaven are not Negations of Passion but Realities of Intellect from which All the Passions Emanate Uncurbed in their Eternal Glory."

This is a body of work that V spends extensive time in contemplation with. As above, William Blake outlines passion, creativity, intellect, self-sacrifice, and forgiveness as the true path to wholeness. I have outlined almost all of those items in the above sections. All that's really left is to embrace creativity above ambition. He needs to allow himself to love poetry and prose for its own sake. This idea is cemented when Vergil gives the beloved book of poems to Nero, a gesture of its importance and what he's learned from V after he lived out those ideals. Vergil even says thank you on V's behalf, for the kindness that Nero showed him.

Where and how did your character enter the Hedge? Got lost in the Qlipoth Tree's roots which make a similar, if more bloody and demonic, maze.

Additional Memories Lost:

It wasn't very difficult for him to begin bartering. He had already played that game before. Gaze into the darkest depths of Vergil's mind: receive magic and power. Now it was merely the opposite. Take your gaze away from these things: and we'll see what we can do. At first, he cared a great deal about keeping hold of his mission to defeat Urizen and reunite into Vergil. He played the game carefully.

As the dampening took effect, however, he became less careful. He longed less and less for the company of his familiars, and for his original form. So he traded those things away for new magic. He wanted power, even as he forgot exactly why. The most traumatic memory that needed time to be dampened was the memory of being unmade and made again as Nelo Angelo. Until that memory became soft and pliant, he found the changes to his body and mind disturbing; being remade again by yet another master. With the panic turned pliant, it is now simply familiar to him. His body as a servant will be his fourth form. He remembers them all, but the intensity and violence with which several of them were created has finally been removed.

V's clearest memories of his very short time in the human realm are the ones he cared about the most: The time in the van with Nero and Nico where he could almost have pretended he was just a member of their demon-hunting crew, and a friend at that. Sometimes he forgets that isn't true, but who's here to tell him he's wrong?

He retains many of Vergil's memories. The most faded is the childhood which, of course, after 40 years had also become a bit faded for Vergil before him. The constancy of Dante remains vibrant, even as other things become blurry. His twin, his beloved other half, his most hated rival. Urizen lingers just as perniciously in V's nightmares, the dark other half that is always trying to consume him. As they were a huge part of Vergil's life, V retains many secrets about demons, demon magic, the Hells, their kings, and their armies.

For the most part, V is now a rather good servant. He likes not being in the Hells, and he especially likes being able to pursue magic for himself. These things motivate him in his willingness to give away memories now that the worst of it has gone blurry and dull.

Skillsets: Without his magic and his familiars he is nigh on physically defenseless. His lingering skills are things like his ability to motivate others to his cause, plan strategically, and generally manipulate events while he stands on the sidelines.

Inventory:

* V's Cane - This is metal, but it's unspecified what kind? Just that it has 'demonic properties'.
* A brown, gold-embroidered book, containing poems by William Blake, with a large "V" insignia in the cover.
* Handful of change for the pay phone.

Sample: https://illmetbymoo.dreamwidth.org/3453.html?thread=358525#cmt358525