clairavance;198966 said:
Do you think Eva knew who Sparda was when they fell in love? Do you guys think the 'devil blood' thing might have been an issue at first (obviously they got past that hurdle in the end)?
The Luce & Ombra, guns of Sparda, were made by Neil Goldstein, which in the first novel, makes Dante's Ebony & Ivory. The inscription in the Luce & Ombra is the same which is found in E&I -
For Tony Redgrave.
What I'm implying is that Sparda went with that nickname long before Dante was even in his father's thoughts. Eva could have been a modern-day priestess aka devil huntress who knew Sparda by tales and legends but never thought she'd actually get to meet him.
Recalling the method Sparda used to seal the Temen-ni-gru, as in sacrificing the blood of a priestess among other rituals he performed, It was Sparda who fell in love with her first, and gradually, Eva recognizes who he truly is and eventually gets to love him as well - even having demon blood in his veins.
clairavance;198966 said:
Because Eva was human, she must have had a family - do you think they were encouraging about the concept of their daughter uniting with a has-been devil warrior?
What I always thought of Eva's backstory, was that of an aristocratic family of generations. Eva's bloodline was slaughtered by demons who seemingly saw them as a threat and Eva was the only who survived the massacre.
Eva's family and bloodline was probably related to the Order of the Sword since the time Sparda sealed the True Hell Gate 2000 years ago.
clairavance;198966 said:
And do you think Sparda was easy to sway over to get involved with her? I mean, he had an IQ of 2000 years, and who knows how long he's been alive even before that, so he had to have a sharp mind.
It is mentioned somewhere Eva was the only woman Sparda loved with his heart and with whom he fathered children.
That said, Eva must have left him unforgettable impressions no woman has done so for who knows how many millenniums.
clairavance;198966 said:
Don't you think he might have figured that his demon ex-compadres would come after him if they found out he was establishing a family for himself?
That's the boiling point of Sparda's story. Maybe he just surrendered to the fact that what he did, going against his own kind, would leave a big mark in his bloodline for generations to come - that the children of their children would suffer this kind of curse on their shoulders, this heavy burden, living always in the fear of being hunted.
Dante and Vergil have thought of this, even though both in different ways. Thus they seem so distant looking to form a family and all that. They want to end the bloodline by being the last known carriers of Sparda's blood.
Nero's addition in the series seems to have made the story a bit more interesting, even more due to his Sparda persona he's wielding.