『V』

Name: V. Titles: The Mysterious One. Gender/Sex: Male. Height: ~182 cm. Species: Human. Birthday: May 1st. Age: 43 days old(chronologically), 20 years old(physically). Status: Inactive (Reunified with Urizen; in game's plot), Alive(in the real world). Relations: Vergil(original self), Urizen(demon self), Griffon(familiar), Shadow(familiar), Nightmare(familiar).

V has the ability to summon familiars with demonic powers, formed as physical manifestations of Vergil's trauma from his time as Nelo Angelo, taking the form of Mundus's demon minions which he had authority over. When not called upon, the demons appear as tattoos on V's body and as ink in his hair, turning it from white to black. When they are summoned, the corresponding tattoo to each demon disappears and in case of Nightmare, his hair turns back to its original color. Due to their nature, V described his demons' abilities to be "dream-like" since they are only able to inflict pain, yet unable to kill. Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare Although he can direct them, V can also make them fight automatically. The demon familiars revert to their core state upon taking too much damage and require some time to regenerate before they can be resummoned. V can increase the speed of their return by standing close to them. Due to their contract, V is capable of telepathically communicating with his familiars. Griffon: This avian monstrosity can always be found somewhere around V, usually flapping its beak with some inappropriate jab. Griffon can summon pillars of thunder strikes and fire an electric blast as well as launch enemies into the air.[15] He is also able to lift V across the air when needed. Griffon is the only one that knows human language and acts as the interpreter for Shadow and Nightmare so others can understand them. Shadow: This demon familiar usually takes the form of a quadruped beast, only to shapeshift into blades, needles, and all manner of nasty weapons to act as vanguard, but it can also use it's claws, fangs and tail to attack. Through Shadow, V can also move at faster speeds than normal.[15] V can also ride on Shadow as a form of transport. Nightmare: V can unleash his full power to call upon this gargantuan demon. When summoned, Nightmare may crash onto the battlefield like a meteorite, or burst through parts of the environment to heed the call.

V uses his unique cane in battle only to perform singularly strong strike to finish off enemies who have sustained enough damage. According to Nico, his cane is forged with a metal ideal for channeling demonic energy, such as the attack called "Royal Fork" where he summons several copies of his cane and rains them down on enemies, as well teleport to enemies using his cane as beacon in a flash of blue energy. V can proceed to strike the target down with his cane as well as perform a double jump upon stepping on an enemy. Upon finishing demons off, V seems to use his cane to absorb the power of defeated demons, enhancing the strengths of his familiars with it. Finally, V can also enter a state similar to Devil Trigger, which causes the black ink in his hair to disappear, revealing his natural white hair, and allows him to augment his familiars as well as summon Nightmare. As he is the human half of Vergil, V only has a comparatively minuscule demonic energy, making him mostly human with a crumbling body supported only by the demonic power he had left; though he seems to replenish his energy by defeating demons, it would eventually fail to sustain him unless V uses his cane to re-merge with Urizen.

Similar to Nero's moveset, which are named after gambling and casino terms, most of V's moves are named after chess terms.

After beating Bloody Palace, V learns taunt that allows him to cover his cane with demonic energy, which increases the power of his attacks and allows him to hurt and defeat demons on his own.

V is a tall, slender young man with a very fair 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.

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 that he 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. Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare

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 will 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. Upon seeing Proto Angelo and Scudo Angelo, V's collected demeanor cracked and he 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 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.

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. 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. Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare 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 had been alive for about two days.

As Vergil picks up the William Blake anthology left in the ground, he is attacked by Dante. Vergil makes him back off and tells him to heal before their final confrontation. Vergil opens a portal with the Yamato to the top of the Qliphoth, and before entering, he thanks Nero, seemingly, for all the times Nero helped him as V. When Nero asks Dante what happened to V, he answers that he returned to himself.

As Dante climbs the Qliphoth, he is confronted by V familiars. Griffon then explains to him their nature and states that they are going to kill him before he reaches Vergil. After Dante defeats the three familiars, Griffon says, as his final words, that this was their final fight and that this is going to be the end of Vergil's nightmares. Meanwhile, Vergil waits for Dante at the top of the Qliphoth and reflects on his past, thinking that if their circumstances were different, maybe their paths would have changed. This reflection shows how his time as V has affected him, because as V reflected, Vergil disliked thinking about his past, and that sentiment was one of the things that Vergil decided to leave when he split himself.

When Dante and Vergil finally fight, they are interrupted by Nero, who then defeats Vergil. When Vergil and Dante go to the underworld to cut off the Qliphoth, Vergil says to Nero that they will have a rematch someday, then he gives him the William Blake anthology and tells him to take care of the book until their second duel arrives

After being freed from Mundus' control, Vergil was able to escape the Demon World, but his body was weakened and was crumbling from going through battle after battle. After tearing off Nero's Devil Bringer in order to regain Yamato, Vergil then returned to his family's burned mansion in Red Grave City. Fueled by his desire to defeat his twin brother Dante and for power without having to be hindered by human thought or emotion, Vergil stabbed himself with Yamato to separate his human half from his demon half, sparking the birth of "V" and "Urizen". Just seconds after his birth, V was able to retain consciousness and witnessed the horrifying formation of Urizen. In addition to being humanly weak, V was also left with four physical manifestations of Vergil's trauma from his time as Nelo Angelo, taking the forms based of Mundus's minions - Griffon, Shadow, Nightmare, Phantom. Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare

V's separation from his original self doomed him with a slowly decaying body, which was barely kept together with the lingering remnants of Vergil's demonic power. Knowing that Urizen plans to gain power from the Qliphoth tree, V vowed to stop the large-scale destruction and hopefully remerge with Urizen before his body completely crumbled.