Please take note of Nero making such a big deal out of Urizen being Dante's brother. "Your own flesh and blood." THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO NERO. The blood relation is PARAMOUNT in his mind. Keep this in mind.
V admits in this scene that the one thing he and Urizen have in common is their hatred of Dante. That is the one defining foundational trait that makes him Vergil, whether whole or in pieces.
He's always defined himself as "Dante's older brother." He felt that that's how the world and his parents defined him. He saw Dante as the favorite, as the one who never had to struggle, who could be irresponsible and get away with it because HE as the older brother always needed to be held to a higher standard. To Vergil, brotherly love is irreparably entangled with his feelings of resentment.
That's why V says "you've lost me, and I've lost you." This is not a simple "my good half and my evil half" kind of thing. Urizen is all of Vergil's selfishness and pride and power incarnate. And those things are part of Vergil just as much as his humanity, his empathy and his eccentricities. He can no more give up that demonic pride and still be himself than he could his love for William Blake poems. They are all essential ingredients that make him Vergil. All this experience has taught him is that he was out of balance before, and that is why he lost to Dante at the Temen-ni-gru, because he was willing to suppress the things that truly mattered and were important to him in that blind quest for power. Just as Urizen lost to Dante here and now.
Now that he's learned his lesson. Now that he's remember what truly was important about being human. NOW that he is whole again, he can finally truly defeat Dante once and for all. Or so V is thinking in this moment.
When he does recombine with Urizen, I wonder. Does the memory of Dante telling Urizen that Eva died trying to find and save Vergil remain for him? Would that knowledge make a difference to him now? Given how Vergil acts from here on out... maybe I'd like to think so.
God this moment was so fucking hype when it happened back when the game came out. "The alpha and the omega Vergil." holy shit this game kicks so much ass.
leyendecker study but make it caitvi 🌸
i just started honkai impact recently ....... i don’t know her true intentions, i don’t know how far she’ll go and how doomed the world is thanks to her existence but i just know that i Get Her
this. these two shots right there. this is what gets me. they found each other. they’re finally reunited and nothing comes in between. they defied oil and water.
mari and jackie scissoring in the afterlife to spite shauna shipman idgaf anymore they’re ghost gfs haunting her and making sure she never has another good day 😁
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