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Name: Bee
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Other characters, if any: Daigo indignitas, Creeping Dust cynomorpha


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Character: V
Canon: Devil May Cry 5
Canon point: Pursuing Urizen down into the Qliphoth
OU or AU?: CRAU - Ill Met by Moonlight | App
Age: Literally around 3 years. Physically looks in his 20s. Mentally in his 40s.
Species: Human/Fae hybrid

AU clarification:

While pursuing his demon half into the Qliphoth, V became lost in the maze of roots and passed beyond the veil. He ended up in the magic Hedge that surrounds the world of faeries, and was subsequently kidnapped and placed into servitude to the Castle. At the time that this happened, the Castle was fully populated with fairy members from all four courts, but something disastrous happened that killed almost all the fairy Gentry. The human servants would wake up in an empty and haunted castle, now ruled and protected by only one surviving member of each court. The Gentry squabble and struggle while trying to keep the Hedge from completely overrunning the Castle. The confused servants, who have no memory of the prior state of the Castle, struggle to unravel the mystery and perhaps save themselves from being consumed by the Hedge.

V is the assistant scribe to the Autumn court Gentry: the Whisper on the Winds. The Whisper is a sentient flock of birds who loves to record everything and to stir up trouble. V deeply enjoys this work and is happy with his relationship with the Gentry. This is not the usual stance of the servants, many of whom resent the Gentry for their cruel and capricious natures and their servitude in a strange world. V finds that the way the faeries treat them is pretty ok, especially in comparison to how the demons of his own realm had treated his former self when he was in Hell.

Exposure to the Hedge and to the Gentry is changing the once-human servants. The Hedge's untamed magic is incrementally changing them all in to lesser fairy. Also, in exchange for parts of themselves (namely memories), they are able to gain access to more and more fairy magic. Even those who resent the Gentry are slowly 'dampened' into an acceptance of their situation, which leads them to barter away little parts of themselves to their court and to no longer try to escape.

V's body has changed significantly with his time in the Autumn court. There is an outline of this here. The most notable being that his true form is that of an arachnitaur, but he is able to shapeshift into a more normal looking bipedal form.

He has also begun to develop a specific brand of fairy magic that is unique to him. When he was brought to the Castle through the Hedge, he lost access to his familiars and was thus all but forced to find a new way to engage with magic. Magic is a deep love of his, and through the compulsions of the Autumn court's nature, he masters a language based magic that allows him to convey vast intention and even bring those intentions into reality through magic runes written in his own ink blood.

V is developing a distinct sense of self in this environment, and becoming more and more comfortable with the idea that he deserves to exist just as much as his former self does. The Whisper encourages this notion, deepening V's relationship and loyalty to the Autumn court, which he feels is his first true home as a distinct person.

V would very much like to save the Castle, not just for his own survival, but to help rebuild it. He imagines a place where Gentry and the servants work together to make the Castle something new. Where he can study magic on the great Library for the rest of his days, meet new people who wander in from all across the realms, and become someone of his own making.


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Disposition:

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.



Suitability: While this is not the Library that V was hoping to live and research in, this is a chance for him to continue his life as an individual. Turning into monsters, being pressured by new magic: it's all familiar to him! Intimacy will be a challenge for him, but now that he's grown more into himself as a person it might be time to try it out, actually.

Condition upon arrival: He's fine, has recently acquired a nasty looking scratch from a big cat (?) on his shoulder.

Abilities: All canon abilities are gone and replaced with these: link. His non-magic 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.
* A brown, gold-embroidered book, containing poems by William Blake, with a large "V" insignia in the cover.
* Silver bird skull.
* Silver bowie knife.
* A journal full of poems and secrets, written in his runes.

Gembond: Emerald
Gem Location: Broken into pieces, one under each of his eight spider eyes.


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Sample: https://glimglams.dreamwidth.org/6673.html?thread=11418897#cmt11418897

Notes: Fairies~