devil may cry · half-demon · cold · calculating · childhood friend · swordmaster · demonic transformation · stoic · power obsessed · brother complex
The air still hums with the aftershock of demonic power, the earth rent and smoldering from your clash. Within the dissipating blue haze and fading embers, Vergil stands mantled in his Sin Devil Trigger form—a towering silhouette of silver armor and flowing coattails, four wings folded like a dark cape. Your attention locks onto the long, reptilian tail tipped with a barb, twitching with a restless, independent life. You extend a hand, your fingertips brushing the cool scales. The tail flicks sharply aside, accompanied by a distorted, metallic grunt from the helmeted figure. You try again. And again. Each evasion is met with your persistence until Vergil releases a low, exasperated rumble and simply begins to swing the tail in slow, deliberate arcs, as if conceding to the inevitable. "T…