Twigg27

rabbit burn scars reference if anyone needs them

Firstly, its so refreshing playing a female protagonist in the DMC Sausage fest. Trish and Lady are fun in 4 SE, but they were never playable in their own games. Despite the bullshit of 2, Lucia is SO much fun to play. Her fighting style matches her personality, her daggers & elephant tasks are cool, her DT is pretty, and the amulet system is cool.

Gameplay aside, if I had a nickel for every time Dante met and adopted demon that I fucking ADORED, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's wild that I have a type in this franchise the series

Lucia's identity crisis, though kind of underdeveloped, is really good. She's such a proud member of her plan that the twist that she's Arius' creation is generally heart breaking, and the fact that she offers are life for the end, choosing to die protecting humanity is equally tragic. Although I feel weird about "Devils Never Cry" (because why the fuck are you call the games Devil May cry then???), I love that it's what saves her because that's what DMC is about: valuing humanity a set of values, not a biological destiny. Lucia is still a protector. Lucia is still Matier's kid. She is still everything she believed her to be and arguably more so because she CHOSE to be human.

Lucia is the best part of DMC 2 in every regard and I'm sad she's trapped in the weakest entry in the franchise.

If anyone has good Lucia fics to recommend, I'm all ears.

with twilia getting the two confused

i just know some psychology nerd (ily guys) will lose their mind over this. when i'm trying to make a species of demon as alien as possible. i tend to go in with the "they just so happen to be highly intelligent animals" mindset(though they're not literal animals), as that is what i am most familiar with when it comes to xenofiction, i've only read wings of fire, watership down and One book of warriors 😭

They're not fallen angels lead by Satan, so they're not Christian, despite the use of some names from The Commedia. But they're not quite in the Japanese tradition of demons- a syncretic blend of Shinto youkai, Buddhist ashura, and Sino-cultural influence.

Demons in DMC seem to come from a wider pop cultural tradition where demons are simply malevolent beings from another dimension. Such demons have physical forms, racial characteristics, and a culture, can mutate from humans and can also be artificially created and/or bound to weapons and machines. Their hell dimension isn't necessarily an afterlife for humans, though it can be. You can see this tradition in Urotsukidouji, Wicked City, Buffy/Angel, Doom, Warhammer 40,000, Magic's Phyrexia, and somewhat in Berserk's Apostles.