I love how DMC fandom is “Lol wow who fucked Vergil, he’s a dad???” Hey, I though the same! Then I realized that accidentally becoming a teenage father is more fitting to Vergil than it is to Dante. Why?
Because, as much as Vergil plays other role on the outside, he is actually acting on a whim based on his emotions and feelings.* Vergil lacks this self-awareness and planning up ahead, concentrating only on what he can get now. What is the short term pay off for this? I’ll go for it! Everything that happens to Vergil is from his point of a view someone else’s fault and he has done nothing himself, when he’s actively sabotaging his own life with his recklessness.
He gets an idea? He goes after it immediately, no matter the consequences. His mind is narrowly focused on the goal only and fails to recognize anything else.
Something goes wrong? No, it was not my fault, everyone else is at fault and made me feel like this, which made me act like that.
He blames Dante for being born and making his life miserable, when Vergil has actively himself acted on a whim and doomed himself deeper and deeper into the mess he is in.
He yeets himself into Hell at the end of DMC3 though he could have gone to human world with Dante and have the life he wanted with the disciplined work with himself which he is capable of, but his feelings were telling him to do the opposite.
He yeets his humanity out of himself (and proceed blaming Dante for his actions - dude, you had Yamato. You stabbed yourself, though I know you were dying) almost causing an apocalypse.
He resents Dante so much, blames Eva for forgetting him and favoring Dante in the demon attack that it doesn’t even occur to him that maybe mother was unable to find me. Perhaps she was attacked, even killed? The demon attack seemed to happen really quickly.
His demon awakens only due his strong emotions and feelings, and Vergil gets obsessed with his feeling and emotions so much that he does anything he can to get more powerful, logical or not, wise or not, beneficial to him or not. It doesn’t matter. He has a feeling and he must act upon it.
His feelings are shown on the outside and he doesn’t hesitate to show rage, anger, resentment etc.
So, in a sense, Vergil is very responsible, calculating and calm on the outside, but his true self is emotional, lacking self-awareness, going after imminent rewards and irresponsible.
Of course he would accidentally become a father as a teenager! Poor Vergil just seems to make a bad decision after a bad decision because he’s so controlled by his feelings and emotions, as much as he tells himself being the calculating and powerful Alpha Demon.
Now, Dante on the other hand, is the opposite of Vergil. He appears on the outside as a wacky-woohoo pizza-party man who doesn’t know how to handle money, and is irresponsible, playful, joking and doesn’t take anything seriously. Whereas you would find Vergil on a Sunday afternoon practicing with Yamato with a calm discipline, you’d find Dante eating strawberry ice-cream and drinking whiskey in his boxers from the sofa with messy hair.
Dante seems to act on a whim, but he’s logical, calculating and sees wide pictures, trying to be a one step ahead of others. He contemplates long term effects and how they affect others around him. He knew for years that Nero was Vergil’s son, being his uncle, but instead of acting upon this realization, he started to scheme how he could keep Nero safe from that information. In DMC5 he’s doing everything he can to subtly keep Nero away from Urizen and Vergil, hurting Nero in the process.
Where Vergil sees no fault in him - he is the Big Bad Alpha Demon after all - Dante sees that everything happening around him is somehow his fault and his responsibility. He goes to clean Vergil’s messes, when if you looked only the outside of the twins, you’d expect Vergil to be the one who keeps rescuing Dante from all the messes he has gotten himself into.
While Dante is very sensitive and emphatetic - he embraces his humanity more than his demon - he rarely shows his true emotions and feelings. His empathy doesn’t reach him and it’s said (canonically) that Dante is reckless because he doesn’t care about himself. He’s mainly concerned about others and refuses to do something which would hurt others, especially humans.
Vergil hides his reckless nature in the mask of coolness, logic and awareness.
Dante hides his calculating nature in the mask of irresponsibility, humor and carefree attitude.
*In astrology, this Inner Self vs Outer Self is explained with Sun Sign and Rising Sign. The Rising Sign is what people perceive when they see you and what you project on the outside. The Sun Sign is who you truly are, how your true nature is, and it can be extremely well hidden from the views of others, especially when the Rising Sign and the Sun Sign are opposite of each other.
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