Sorry, I have a few points of contention, just out of everything I know and my distinct inability to keep my mouth shut.
So forget honor for that guy. Classic Vergil was much more respectable.
Vergil was never honorable either. He killed people at the drop of the hat when they outlived their usefulness to him, or if they served his agenda. Remember that he killed a defenseless Arkham, while stating "you're no longer useful", and would have cleaved Lady in two had Dante not jumped in. Vergil's "honor" is headcanon for the most part, and what respect there is was simply to fair, unadulterated fights. That's why he doesn't like guns - there's not much skill involved, and it puts what equates to a machine doing all the work betwixt the opponents.
But hey, even in the end he used Ebony, because it served a purpose for him - defeating Arkham.
DmC Vergil even shows hints of this when be begrudgingly calls Kat "useful" after finally coming clean about what he thinks about humans. As long as it's useful to Vergil (either of them), fine.
The guy didn't grow up with rich parents so he was hardened. He wanted more power not for selfish reasons, but to protect what he loved and himself. He felt damaged when Eva was killed and thought it was his fault.
There's unfortunately no real canonical evidence to support what Vergil's motivations are :x He almost never speaks of his mother, nor her death, and unfortunately like everyone else, goes on and on about Sparda. Vergil seems to hate his human side so much, he could be doing it out of spite for how weak his mother was, instead of out of love for being unable to protect her, in a sort of "Nuh-uh, not gonna happen to me" sorta way. The possibilities are nigh endless because we were given so little actual information with which to draw conclusions from.
It's a moot point :S
"Might controls everything, and without it you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself."
And this was said
to Dante, the guy who established a business to protect people. It's not quite indicative of something that Vergil applies to himself, it's like he's trying to teach his brother the virtues of power based on what Dante believes in (protecting people).
Everything in DMC3 paints Vergil as a guy who doesn't care about anything or anyone, but getting more power, what I like to call "f#ck everyone, get power". For what reason, and to what ends, no one rightly knows. If you're in his way, you're in trouble.
And this Vergil had honor! Even as Mundus's knight.
This sorta goes back to Vergil's love of a fair fight, not exactly honor or respect for the individual he's fighting. He cares about strength, and only a fair fight can offer true tests of it.
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A lot of it is headcanon, but I'm not
at all saying that headcanon is bad. It's just not fact.
Although I really like DmC Vergil's attire.
Dat trilby :tongue: Nah, that's actually not my favorite part of his design, it's really dat coat with the South American skull design. I have a thing for skull designs
