but why do i lie awake each night thinking instead of you, it should be me?

Suddenly remembered about my DMC fan poster series from 2019!

Me since I was 10 years old: Motivated by Vergil

looks like he's hugging the poster

that's me BTW

DEVIL MAY CRY & BAYONETTA 3 • dir. Hideki Kamiya

Dante's concept art for DMC1

Not gonna lie, I miss tan Dante. He looked so gorgeous.

dante if he locked in

inspired by this tweet

sad dante my beloved

On a date with a bear today, are we?

with LIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

Mundus & Dante (Devil May Cry)

Back on my yap because I’ve wanted to mention this for a while

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From the way I see it, Mundus must’ve been obsessed with the Sparda twins, especially Vergil.

Firstly we know that Mundus is kind of a mad-scientist type because of him constantly making demons (all of dmc1 demons were made by him). Most importantly, Nightmare, he literally took a bunch of demons, slapped them into one and realised he created a monstrosity that could even kill him. So that proves the whole Mad Scientist thing.

Then, because Vergil wasn’t concealing his identity, unlike Dante, Mundus literally stalked this young boy, collected data on him and how he fights and created a clone of him (Gilver) who he then sent to attack Dante. Knowing that Mundus stalked Vergil for who knows how long, he definitely caught onto Vergil wanting to reach Sparda’s level of power. He’s definitely seen what Vergils true intentions are (to never feel the pain and weakness he did the night Mundus killed his mother), and realised how weak mentally Vergil was in that state. Maybe he knew that Vergil was going to make his way to the Underworld one way or another.

This brings on my next point. The Proto-Angelo’s show that Mundus had probably wanted Vergil under his control but needed the perfect armour to do that. I think that maybe he ordered Machiavelli to do that, since we know he created the armours. Going along with the Mad Scientist and Mundus’ obsession with God-likeness, he was probably a perfectionist and needed the armour to be exactly perfect to keep Vergil trapped within.

Quick mention: I know that the 2005 DMC1 comics aren’t canon. But it really intrigued me how in those comics, Mundus “adopts” Nelo-Angelo. Going as far as to call him son. Ofc Mundus is a villain, very manipulative and deceptive. But it took me by surprise for him to not only brainwash Vergil, but to also use his admiration towards his father against him and make him think Mundus is his father. Once again, the comics aren’t canon but maybe this part could be.

Long story short: Mundus is an obsessive creep but super interesting as a villain (like what do you mean the world was covered in snow when he was born????) and I wish we got to see more of him

TRISH <33