12-16-2014, 01:17 AM
As someone who's made plans with Vergil in order to barge in on him, I feel obligated to post here before I go and ruin his thread. :/
Vampire-Ridden
The best part of this thread, and Vergil's character, by far, is how easy it is to understand Vergil's character. As someone who has never seen seen much of Devil May Cry besides the third game, I was refreshed how simple in concept this iteration of Vergil was, taking only the basics of his backstory. Which works perfectly here, really. Those few basics of Vergil's story are arguably the only ones that need to be known to understand some of his actions, and the rest can be chalked up to 'because he's a completely self-righteous jerk'. The player depicts all of this well.
At the same time, though, Vergil's posts also do well to depict Vergil as the more righteous individual versus Dante, but only barely. The details are overt enough to see that Vergil doesn't see himself as any sort of villain, but the reader does. It goes with the simplistic depiction of Vergil's character as mentioned above, but still goes as far as to show Vergil's perspective in opposition to everything else.
Which brings me to one of the main selling points of the thread. Vergil is an arrogant, prideful half-devil prince-lord with one of the greatest disdains of humankind to be seen in this world, and nobody cares. Imagine seeing a comedic play or movie, with characters that you don't recognize. Even if you have no idea who the characters are, you can still laugh because the humor is still there on a basic level. That's what this is, right here.
The great part about that, is that there is some depth to be had if you know of Vergil as a character, which makes it all the more better. And it just so happens that such details of Vergil's character are weaved into the narrative, so that the thread becomes all the more entertaining when you realize that Vergil is by all accounts a Demigod being talked down upon by peasants who have clearly had enough of everything.
I'm going to go with Sarah on saying that you don't need to know anything about Devil May Cry to find enjoyment in this thread and in Vergil himself. If you care to know, though, the player does manage to explain all the necessities of Vergil's history character in the narrative of this and his other threads.
Vampire-Ridden
The best part of this thread, and Vergil's character, by far, is how easy it is to understand Vergil's character. As someone who has never seen seen much of Devil May Cry besides the third game, I was refreshed how simple in concept this iteration of Vergil was, taking only the basics of his backstory. Which works perfectly here, really. Those few basics of Vergil's story are arguably the only ones that need to be known to understand some of his actions, and the rest can be chalked up to 'because he's a completely self-righteous jerk'. The player depicts all of this well.
At the same time, though, Vergil's posts also do well to depict Vergil as the more righteous individual versus Dante, but only barely. The details are overt enough to see that Vergil doesn't see himself as any sort of villain, but the reader does. It goes with the simplistic depiction of Vergil's character as mentioned above, but still goes as far as to show Vergil's perspective in opposition to everything else.
Which brings me to one of the main selling points of the thread. Vergil is an arrogant, prideful half-devil prince-lord with one of the greatest disdains of humankind to be seen in this world, and nobody cares. Imagine seeing a comedic play or movie, with characters that you don't recognize. Even if you have no idea who the characters are, you can still laugh because the humor is still there on a basic level. That's what this is, right here.
The great part about that, is that there is some depth to be had if you know of Vergil as a character, which makes it all the more better. And it just so happens that such details of Vergil's character are weaved into the narrative, so that the thread becomes all the more entertaining when you realize that Vergil is by all accounts a Demigod being talked down upon by peasants who have clearly had enough of everything.
I'm going to go with Sarah on saying that you don't need to know anything about Devil May Cry to find enjoyment in this thread and in Vergil himself. If you care to know, though, the player does manage to explain all the necessities of Vergil's history character in the narrative of this and his other threads.