Going around using pseudonyms when interacting with others definitely sounds more like Reboot Vergil's style than the O.G's at any rate. 
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he was both Gilver and V. So pseudonyms were fair game for classic Vergil. Just not really imaginative ones.Going around using pseudonyms when interacting with others definitely sounds more like Reboot Vergil's style than the O.G's at any rate.
I heard that Capcom retconned Gilver to be a prototype Nelo Angelo instead of Vergil in disguise because it was incongruous to Vergil's character. Can't find a source for that at the moment though.
sure but he still went by V in DMC5. So Vergil wasn't above pseudonyms- just bad at them.
Not entirely. In the novel, there isn’t any clue about Gilver, only some Proto Angelos, all of which ended in failure when they tried to kill Tony. After that, Mundus stopped the raids against Tony because he realized it was a waste of time. The novel never mentions a powerful demon like Gilver or anything that posed a significant challenge to Tony.
The idea that Gilver is a clone of Vergil created by Mundus is just a theory to try to bring some logic to the saga, but in the end, it’s a plot hole. The truth is that not many people have read the first novel or the DMC5 novel, and their understanding often comes from misinterpretations found on the internet.
Maybe tomorrow Capcom will canonize this theory, but at the moment, it’s not a retcon.