Reasons I think Devil May Cry characters would achieve five minutes of fame on the internet:
Dante—posts a bunch of really shitty-quality videos of himself attempting stupid stunts he’s seen in movies and/or on Jackass (which usually result in him getting badly injured) to reddit. he neglects to mention the half-demon healing factor thing, which as a result causes him to develop a small but loyal fanbase of conspiracy theorists trying to figure out if he’s a) drowning in hospital bills, b) really good at special effects, or c) just Built DifferentTM. Dante does not look at the comments at all after posting, and thus has no idea that he’s internet famous despite at least one of his videos having been featured on Tosh.0
Vergil—made a guest appearance in one of Dante’s home videos, titled “letting my brother throw different swords at me to see which one hurts the most.” this video somehow breaks containment, possibly due to people swooning over how hot Vergil is. however this is ruined by the fact that Vergil has no concept of how to deal with internet trolls and refuses to learn. he frequently gets in lengthy and extremely one-sided arguments with random people on twitter, featuring perfect punctuation and grammar, as well as very eloquently-phrased death threats. he gets famous about once a week for this, especially if he ends up (unintentionally) going after and relentlessly pestering a public figure to the point of being blocked. he also has no idea he’s famous.
Nero—was a semi-well-known shitposter during the golden age of tumblr. was mostly unaware that he was part demon at this time, and therefore would talk about his bizarre bodily quirks like they’re perfectly normal for humans. A few of his greatest hits include “man I fucking hate it when I have a big math test coming up at school and my body decides that NOW is the best time to start my yearly egg-laying cycle” and “anybody have any good lotion recommendations cuz my scales are shedding and i am SOSO itchyyyyy.” people couldn’t figure out if he was a comedy genius or doing weird kin roleplay, and the fact that the rest of his blog was full of your typical edgy punk/emo teenager stuff didn’t really help. Nero looks back on these days with DEEP second-hand embarrassment.
Lady—gets arrested after being pulled over for a bad taillight and the cop discovers the quite frankly ridiculous amount of definitely not registered and highly modified firearms in her backseat. she goes viral after starting a gofundme to pay her legal fees and everyone on the internet starts calling her a “girlboss” and “an absolute icon,” and ends up being placed on house arrest, but this does not upset her very much as lesbians on the internet saw her photos where she poses in the mirror with her guns and her muscley forearms and are clamoring for more. she is now forever known as “that hot gun lesbian who got arrested because they thought she was the unibomber.”
Nico—her reckless driving was somehow caught on camera at some point, and it went viral being used in the background of those “me when [insert catchy/popular song] comes on in my car” videos. after noticing, she capitalizes on this and becomes somewhat famous for her absolutely wild car mod videos, whose comment sections are full of people frantically trying to explain that said mods are highly illegal and unsafe. nico’s only response to this is to start saying “for legal reasons this is a joke haha” at the start of each video. she has been investigated by the FBI for the suspected manufacturing and selling of illegal weapons at least twice, but they’ve never been able to prove it or find anything on her. Nico wears this as a badge of honor.
Trish—has an onlyfans. however this is not why she’s famous. she is famous because a creep tried to grab her ass in public and someone managed to catch her on video choke-slamming the guy through a car window. She then ends up semi-regularly posting videos about how to deal with creepy men, most of them involving maiming and/or killing and eating them, and everyone thinks she is absolutely hilarious (they do not in fact realize that she is being 100 percent serious). men on the internet despise her. women on the internet adore her and desire her carnally.
Kyrié—had a really pretty and cute aesthetic blog on tumblr back in the day that was semi-famous for a while but then she mysteriously stopped posting. a few years later her old posts are still floating around on various aesthetic blogs and upon noticing one in her feed one day she reblogs it with “hey that’s me!! fun fact I was deeply entrenched in a cult when I posted these but dw I got out and I’m better now” and does not elaborate whatsoever.
