ULTIMATE BARASENPAI

So everyone calls Vergil a Dead beat dad and even in the game one of the captured moments after you beat him as nero say " just another dead beat dad" and it really bothers me given all we know of Vergil. I mean can you have " abanded" your kid if you had NO FUCKING IDEA they existed. For all that we know , Vergil was in fortuna for like a Weekend and left to get on with this life. He wasn't exactly around long enough for Neros mom to tell him " yo your pull out game weak" .

And then there is the fact he was LITERALLY TORTURED AND ENSLAVED IN HELL for what... 10-20 ish years. We don't even know how he got out of hell when Nero had the Yamato. In my opinion a dead beat dad has to be someone who a. Knew they had a kid and b. Actively chose not to be in their life or support them in ANY WAY. For fuck sake my dad is a dead beat dad ans he was in my life, it was court mandated he got me every other weekend he he would only pick me up if he had a gf to impress so yeah...

I definitely wouldn't call Vergil a deadbeat, I think he is broken and traumatized and doing his damn best.

I know his ending shows him s his usual cold self unintered with knowing Nero ,allegedly, but let's think about this. His human half got to know Nero. Perhaps he felt " he's fine without me knowing me will only be a negative thing. He hasn't ever needed me and after that ass beating i just took he never will".

My theory is that Vergil, as a kid , was probably an emotionally sentivie boy. Given that he was more prone to cry with his mother was mad at him then he was by his dad using the dad voice nd his love for poetry.

I think Vergil getting to know Nero would honestly be the best damn thing for him, but old habits die hard and when your trauma response is to shut down and close everyone off, can you really call him a deadbeat for it? He kinda reminds me of elsa, "Conceal, don't feel. Do let them know"

No worries, Nero isn't dead, but Vergil thinks he is.

But any different interpretation is very very welcome like perhaps the ultimate fight against Mundus went very wrong? Vergil once again failing to protect someone close to him? So many options. XD To be fair I planned to draw something different originally but I made this.