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they were probably really weird kids

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Nightmares

As Vergil’s partner, you’ve created a plan to help him get some well-deserved sleep. ie. comfort

PAIRING: Vergil X GN!reader

WC: 543 words

WARNINGS: None !

AUTHOR’S NOTE: sorry for being absent :( i’ve had terrible writer’s block and haven’t had the motivation to do really anything. so pls enjoy this and i’ll be back again soon heehee

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A shaking to your left wakes you from slumber, accompanied by whimpers from a familiar baritone voice. Breaking the seal of sleep, you peek over to find Vergil trembling with fear. Soft whispers of desperation fall flat from his lips, barely audible even in the dead of night. 

‘Another nightmare,’ you think in your groggy mind. It’s the fourth one this week and it’s only Tuesday. Making peace with your loss of sleep, you scoot closer to Vergil’s tense form and carefully place a hand on his shoulder, shaking him lightly. 

“Hey…hey, it’s alright - I’m right here.”

Vergil seizes at the sudden touch, jolting awake with a surge of air. He sits upright, absentmindedly shoving your hand off of him. Beads of sweat march one-by-one down his forehead as he takes in his surroundings.

Countless nights of terror and screams led to you two devising a set plan to efficiently handle such scenarios. The plan went as follows:

Wake Vergil

Duh.

Give him space

Occasionally, he will wake up still mentally in whatever prison his mind has formed that night. For your safety, you need to be ready to move away, if need be.

Water*

To help ground him.

*Depending on the severity of the nightmare, you will either proceed through the list or jump directly to the final step after this.

Reassurance, phase one

You may now ask if he is alright. Vergil is sensitive to touch so only comfort him physically if he initiates or requests it himself.

Walk

Vergil, when ready, will take a lap around your home. He’ll check the locks, note any changes, if any - all with Yamato in hand. This is an old habit of his from when he was on his own and needed to constantly survey his surroundings. Don’t question it. Don’t stop it. He will not go back to sleep til it’s done.

Reassurance, phase two

Once returned, he will crawl into bed, ready to be back in your arms. ‘I love you’s will be exchanged. At this point, Vergil will be calm enough to settle in for the night once more.

Rest

Vergil will remain attached to you until he’s fallen asleep. Your scent is a comfort to him, it’ll be the last thing he’ll want to remember before returning to dreamland. Once he’s rolled away from you and is comfortably back on his own pillow, he is asleep and you’re in the clear. 

Another thing to note is the absence of discussion of said nightmares. 

They will not be discussed the night of.

Don’t even try it.

If he feels comfortable doing so, he may share the details the following morning over breakfast or something of the like, but he will immediately shut down the topic any time before that. 

Most nights, like tonight, the plan has saved you both from the stress of sleepless nights. Of course, some nights will deviate, but you’ve now handled enough of Vergil’s chronic nightmares to be quick on your feet. Trust is important to him and it took some teeth-pulling to get him to be so vulnerable in front of you, but the plan has proved to be effective and reassures Vergil that he is safe in your presence, despite what his mind may tell him. 

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every time dante shows his little fangs I feel like a victorian man seeing a woman show her bare ankles

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"dante doesn't ever shower", "dante smells like a grease pit lol"

my dude has a completely new outfit and hairstyle every game. he's worn 8000$ coats for more than half of his life. i am 100% betting he takes forever in the god damn shower and has rose shampoo. dante is vain as shit about his appearance

#he takes his showers VERY seriously #couldnt have good showers a lot growing up being on the run from demons and all so he appreciates them now #only time he lags on showering is when he’s extremely depressed because of lack of motivation which just so happens to overlap with when he #cant pay the waterbill that month #but other then that that man is CLEAN

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Broke: Vergil poor and only has the clothes on his back

Woke: Vergil stole money from random people

Bespoke: Vergil scammed rich people out of millions

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…in the field, the ground warms as blood seeps into the dirt. (Nathaniel Orion G. K, "הבל | hevel")

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learning that at one point in time during concept art they entertained the idea of v being a woman drives me fucking insane! i've lost sleep over this!!! it was such a good idea!

vergil picturing his human side as a woman because he can't de-entangle his humanity from eva. the resulting simultaneous rejection of both his mother and his humanity after the fire, and all the love and frailness that came with it (ignoring the strength found in it as well)!!!!!!! the continuation of a perceived abandonment cycle with nero! the guilt! the shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nero as Hades character)

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POV you read the old librarian's diary in DMC5's documents:

"That child is no longer in this town. He disappeared amidst circumstances most unsavory. Perhaps he is no longer in this world.

To think that a promising youth like that could lose his life, while a lout like me still drags on... the thought is almost unbearable

I am already in my twilight years...

Perhaps that is why I recall that youth's serene eyes at every opportunity.

That pure, untainted youth."

*Note: The panel is in Spanish bc it's what I had on hand*

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V sleeps with stuffed animals . . .

A friend asked me a few days ago to draw some of his favorite characters with some of my Headcanons (or do shitpost) and among them was V I don't know enough about DMC but V has ever given me sleeping with stuffed animals vibes, so I did this much text to explain it.

AND YOU ASK: WHY IS HATSUNE MIKU HERE? Well, this friend and I played L4D2 with mods, he was Nero and I was Miku. We ended up making a story contextualizing what was happening and ship them because it sounded funny, so now if I have to draw something about DMC my brain can't stop thinking that Miku is there, somewhere.

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Did some sketches of DMC3 Dante, Lady and Vergil if they were black aka if capcom was based

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Dante study!!!

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"man she's posting a lot about Trigun, has she forgotten DMC?" you fools. you think i'd ever forget? Dante, Vergil, and Nero hold my brain hostage, they havent left since 2019

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bury the light // "the sick rose" by william blake

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I’m sorry but if you don’t like the 4 and 5 designs of Dante then i automatically don’t like or trust you at all and I will automatically slander you if necessary.

You can also suck my balls

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Everybody's having fun with the 1.6 update but I'm over here waiting for news on a release date for console looking like this