V

V

**V** (Ｖ「ブイ」, *Bui*) is Dante's new client to put him on the trail of Urizen and takes Nero as backup insurance. It's revealed later that V is, in fact, the human half of Vergil.

## Description

*Book and cane in hand, this slender man appears covered in impressive tattoos. Before chaos fell upon Red Grave City, he sought out Dante through the information broker Morrison and tasked him to subdue a certain demon. V lacks the power to fight himself, instead relying on three demon familiars to take the offensive in battle.*
### Appearance

V is a tall, attractive slender young man with pale skin and dark green eyes. He has chin-length, natural white hair with long bangs swept to the left, which sometimes obscures his eye, but his pact with his demons dyes his hair black and covers his entire upper body and his neck in black tattoos.

V wears a long, open sleeveless leather coat with the sides tied together by strings, inside pockets, and a sewn-in, corset-like vest in the front. He also wears black pants with a silver chain made up of skulls on the right side of his belt and a fingerless glove on his right hand. V sports many accessories, including a tooth pendant around his neck, silver ring on his left middle finger, and a spiked bracelet that crisscross around his left wrist. Unlike most characters in the series, V wears black sandals instead of boots. V carries a silver metal cane, which serves as a weapon and a tool for support since his slowly decaying body making it hard for him to move, and a brown, gold-embroidered book, containing poems by William Blake, with a large "V" insignia in the cover.

### Personality

In contrast to the more flamboyant Dante and hot-headed Nero, V is a quiet, calm, and relaxed individual. While V is generally polite to everyone he meets, V is a man shrouded in mystery and does not speak more than necessary, which caused Nero and the others to question if they can trust him. Due to being the human half of Vergil, V possesses all of Vergil's knowledge of the Demon World and often reveals that he knows things that no human should have knowledge of, but does not explain how he attained such information, which only makes others more suspicious of him. Due to his odd appearance, behavior, and abilities, many people often found V to be unsettling and have often questioned if V really is a normal human despite his frail look.

 File:DMC5 V Reading From Book.jpg
A distinctive trait of V is his extreme fondness for poetry, as he often recites lines when speaking to people or even enemies, and often by memory alone, to the point where Griffon calls him "Shakespeare" at one point of the game. V greatly treasured his book of poems, as his original self, Vergil, possessed it since he was a young boy. Keeping in line with his original self's personality, V has a dry sense of humor and is not above jokes or finding antics around him amusing. While first introducing himself to Dante quoting Infant Joy, V was being cheekily literal with Dante, as Vergil used Yamato to split himself on May 1 and V met Dante on May 3; therefore, he has been alive for about two days.

Being the human half that Vergil repressed and disdained, V is more in touch with his emotions and is introspective. V often reflects over his "past self", such as remembering how prideful he was in the past and was the type to be irritated at being called a "dead weight". He deemed Urizen to be full of "delusions" while expressing a deal of regret towards his own actions as well. Unlike his former self, who looks down on humans, V has been shown to respect humans and believes that their tenacity to never give up is their best quality.

As he is aware of his limits and capabilities, V has demonstrated to be pragmatic and cautious in how he approaches situations. While confident in his abilities, V is able to tell when a fight with certain demons would be too much for him to handle and would walk away from it or leave it someone else to deal with. While V is willing to do morally questionable things and even outright lie and manipulate his allies, V possessed a genuine desire to save the world from Urizen and help humanity, even at the cost of his own debilitating health.

 File:DMC5 V Showing Anger.png   Upon seeing Proto Angelo and Scudo Angelo, V's collected demeanor cracked and became enraged at the sight of them due to his memories of Vergil's horrible time as Nelo Angelo. While V was mostly affable towards Dante, Vergil's lingering resentment towards his brother, Dante was still within him and he expressed resentment and hatred towards Dante while he was unconscious. Before re-merging with Urizen, V also revealed that his intense desire of power strongly lingers in him. In V's idle animation, V even runs his hand through his hair, in a way similar to Vergil's habit of slicking back his hair.

## Trivia

* Some sentences said by V are quoted directly from William Blake poems, such as "*He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.*" and "*I curse my stars in bitter grief and woe, that made my love so high and me so low.*".
	+ Additionally, one of Nico's tattoos also quotes a William Blake poem titled "Eternity".
* The song V plays during his violin taunt is Paganini's Caprice no. 24. During his orchestra conductor taunt, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries plays.
* V's Familiars appear to be references to the servants of Koichi Yamano from the manga Babel II. These were Rodem (a panther), Ropross (a pterosaur), and Poseidon (an iron giant).
* While noted to be human, V's summoning of Nightmare causes all of the dark ink coating his body to vanish, revealing his hair is naturally white, a trait all from Sparda's bloodline carry.
* V's own name is derived from Vergil's, and the book of William Blake poetry he carries, having previously belonged to Vergil as a child.
* The way V swings his cane has an identical animation to the start of one of Vergil's combos with the Yamato.
* V's Royal Fork finisher has him summon multiple energy formed copies of his cane, reminiscent of Vergil's usage of Summoned Swords to surround and impale his enemies.
* V is visibly disturbed and angered at the sight of Proto Angelo and Scudo Angelo, which are replicas of Nelo Angelo, specifically stating "What evil lurks, I must destroy."