I Like To Think Kyrie Is The Type Of Person Everybody Assumes Is Really Sweet And Innocent So They Want

i like to think Kyrie is the type of person everybody assumes is really sweet and innocent so they want to keep her away from all the gorey and fucked up parts of devil-hunting - nero especially - when in reality all she wants is for them to stop coddling her and let her join in on the fun dammit!!

I'd heard that the (wacom intuos pro) nibs wore down faster but it is day 16. I have to replace this already, I legit do not press even slightly hard this is nuts!!

This is my idea of Brutus, Judas and Cassius as bosses for DMC 6. The main traitors in history

dont mind me just thinking about some things

(How when Dante lunged at Vergil to attack him after V's reunion with Urizen, Vergil's only move was to defend, never to attack. Not once did he draw Yamato and try to hit back despite Dante's best attempts to get a strike in, and a genuine one at that, he only blocked Dante's attacks. The only times Yamato's blade was drawn in that scene was when Dante took the sheath to throw it and when he cut the portal open.

How even though Dante was understandably boiling over, upset and angry with his brother, that anger was not reciprocated in the slightest.

"Fighting you like this has no meaning" Its pointless, it wouldn't solve either of their issues and he doesn't want to go down that endless path of (self) destruction again, and he wants Dante to see that as well. When Dante taunts him, "Come on Vergil, lets do this." He ignores it.

"Heal your wounds, Dante. Get strong." He understands Dante's reaction is coming from a place of deep pain and trauma, he knows his little brother has been hurt by his actions both physically and mentally, and he now knows that hiding from and pushing away that pain is what made him - and Dante - weaker.

"After that we'll settle the matter." He wants to see his little brother again, just not like this.)

Also, i dont believe they would've killed eachother on top of the Qliphoth if Nero never intervened. To me, that fight read more like "like old times", a sparring match in the most over-the-top Sparda Family way possible. Vergil doesnt want to hurt Dante, and most definitely he doesnt want to kill his little brother. I think part of the reason he agreed to fight Dante on top of the qliphoth was twofold: 1, he wanted a rematch because Dante did just whoop his ass in the Urizen fight, and 2: Dante needed to blow off some steam, and what better way to do that than with a swordfight?

Yes they lunged at eachother toward the end in their DT forms, yes they taunt things like "Time to die!" But their SDT forms are tough. (And you know where they also threaten death as a taunt? In the SE Epilouge cutscene with the twins in hell, having yet another sparring match, which is clearly not leathal in the slightest. They sit down, give eachother a break and time to recover, before starting again. If it was a true battle, Vergil would've taken that opportunity to attack when Dante sat down.)

You know what i imagine would've happened? They collide and tumble and roll around untill they get tired. Of course Nero didn't know this, understandably panicked he wanted to stop them. But i still think even if he wasn't there, the twins wouldn't have killed eachother. And if Dante tried to kill Vergil, Vergil is very much capable of defending himself.

Ugh yeah i hate how fan-servicey and ignored the girls got into considering they had solid beginnings to their stories. Not just Trish but Lady, Lucia and Kyrie as well, and possibly Nico if the previous track-record is anything to go off of she likely will end up the same way.

They deserve to have their stories explored and expanded upon, and not just for more fanservice. And hopefully if they do expand upon the girl's stories, their characters arent butchered or watered down like they were in the anime. (They way overdid the whole "dante owes lady money" thing, and Trish barely shows up outside of episode 4.)

I suppose if the devs wont do it then fanfiction can always suffice but it shouldnt have to be that way. All they were created for so far was to carry Dante's storyline, which i feel safe saying is reaching its end at this point. If worst comes to worst i will gladly do it myself lol

been thinking about Trish a lot lately, and her connection to Eva

(Big ranty thing with some analysis into her character + my own headcanons about trish below)

She was created to be a carbon copy of Eva, right down to the most unimportant details. So much so that Dante recognized her immediately he didnt even do a double-take, as soon as those glasses were off he saw Eva standing infront of him instead of Trish. (I mean, blonde haired+blue eyed women arent uncommon and its not like Dante has never been into a public space before. Hes probably seen similar women to Eva many times throughout his life, but only Trish was so perfectly like Eva that he couldnt see anything else but his mother in her that first moment they met.)

But thats just physical features. It'd be too easy, too simple for Mundus to just create a look-alike to Eva. And i dont think that alone would've been enough to trick Dante either, Dante isnt an idiot no matter how dumb he acts sometimes. So, how deep into this "recreate Eva" thing did Mundus actually go?

Does Trish experience the same motherly instincts Eva had toward Dante (and Vergil)? Does she feel the need to protect them and cherish them like Eva did? Does she get urges to hold them, kiss and hug them and give them praise as Eva once did in their childhood? If so, does she ignore these feelings, pushing them down untill they're buried so deep within her mind that she's forgotten them entirely, or does she let them be and let them pass on their own, wether she acts on them or not. She's quite sassy with Dante in dmc4 and seems quite aloof in dmc5, so maybe thats how she copes with it instead - acting the total opposite to what Eva ever would.

Going even deeper into that, does Trish have any of Eva's memories? Even just vague snippets or imaginings of Eva's life, considering how well Mundus made Trish then that might not be an impossibility. If so, how much would she have the ability to recall? Could she even recall the fire, maybe? If she can, how would she feel about it. Would she grieve? Feel anger, regret, or nothing at all?

And how would she feel about all of this overall? Being a clone of Eva right down to the gritty details even Dante wouldn't know. Trish is so strongly contrasted to Eva in personality, style and tastes that i'd like to imagine she isnt that much of a fan, put simply. She's her own person, she wants to be her own person and she hates the person she represents. She hates how her existence causes pain to somebody she's wired to care so deeply for - sometimes against her will - and she hates seeing him cry or drink himself to death over that dusty old picture thats been sitting on his desk for decades, knowing that she'll only ever make it worse for him in the end, that his grief extends so far into the core of his being that nothing in existence will ever truly fix it.

She's conflicted.

She's Trish. But is she really? Or is that just who she says she is in an effort to push back and ignore the reality of her existence? Nothing more than a fake, a husk of a person who's time was cut short prematurely then taken advantage of by the very being that killed her in the first place.

She's Trish. Not Eva. She can't be Eva, and she never will be Eva. Nothing will change that. Not a dusty old picture, not an old man's delusions, not some dead demon king who breathed life into her form in the first place.

She's Trish. But who even is Trish? Her entire being has always been about Eva. She doesnt know anything else. So she overcompensates with acting sarcastic and sassy, looking hot and sexy and playing with guns and swords because those are things Eva wouldn't ever do herself. Eva. Again, it all comes back to Eva.

She's Trish. Devil hunter and the most 2000s representation of "hot blonde" one could get. Thats who she is. Or at least, that's who she's trying so desperately to be.

Trish needs more love from the developers, her character is so interesting. I have other analysis' of the other characters too if anybody would be interested in that but for now, ill leave you with my take on the iconic blonde from this wonderful series.<3

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