DMC4 Rant/Speculation (how obsessive of me)
You know, I'm getting pretty tired of everyone saying Nero's Vergil and Nero's devil trigger is Vergil's spirit or demon half (bwuh? half-devil does not mean literally half and half...the halves are a whole and they can't survive separately, that defies logic) or some such as that. Honestly, the DT he has looks so like the statue of Sparda shown in the anime, episode ten, I'm more than willing to believe it's Sparda, and Yamato's sheath being on the form says nothing to me. It was Sparda's sword first, we know that from playing LDK in DMC1 and it seems to just be reacting accordingly to someone with Sparda's blood. It treats Dante in no different a manner, as far as I know. Watching the cutscenes alone, and knowing that the game is so very based on Sparda and his myth, I'm certainly more willing to jump to other conclusions. Nero is raised by the Order, and his demon blood manifests itself when he needed to save someone he loved. That doesn't sound very Vergil to me. Vergil, in canon, runs away like he was supposedly told to when his loved ones are attacked, and when his brother is right there wanting him to quit chasing Mundus and their father's power, he runs again. Yes he helps Dante smash Arkham, but that was so he could get the power himself, let's not mistake it for anything else.
I'm sorry, but Nero just seems more like a Sparda reincarnation, if he is indeed anybody's reincarnation. Which, by the way, i don't think he is. I seriously don't think he's got anybody else's soul or body parts hanging around him, and the demon arm doesn't seem to have been surgically added...in that particular cutscene where we get a blackscreen audio flashback of Nero recalling the Devil Bringer awakening, it seems to be implied that it's his arm that changes in that instant, not that he lost it and got another put on by the Order's whack doctor Agnus. Furthering this point is that he does not know Agnus, and he surely would if the man had operated on him. Really. Even if he fainted after the fight or whatever and was out for the entire operation, Agnus would have kept Nero around as a test subject, believe me. Besides that, Agnus himself doesn't seem to know Nero very well nor to know much about his arm or his power - it scares the crap out of him when Nero manifests his DT and takes over Yamato. That just doesn't make any sense if he really had put the arm on the kid.
On top of this, none of the Order members seem to have expected Nero to have Sparda's power in him, which they surely would have it they had modified him or if he had come to them with that arm. They seem to know quite a bit about Sparda's bloodlines, so I don't really think Nero's some long-lost kid of Sparda's either, because none of them claim anything like that. They say he inherited the power, but never that it was by blood connection or anything else. The only Son of Sparda they refer to is Dante. And certainly not Dante's or Vergil's because Dante would have kept any kids he had safe from nutjobs like that and Vergil was gone from earth long before he thought about having kids.
Really, truly, I think, looking over the cutscenes, Nero was exposed to demonic power as a child, and perhaps, because the order certainly seems to have used Sparda's power or at least demonic power to modify its members, Nero managed to inherit the blood that way. But the manifestation having to do with his love for Kyrie and Kyrie herself being a gentle, loving woman? That, that just makes it even more clear to me that Nero inherited Sparda's power because he is very like the Dark Knight himself. Sparda saved humanity because he thought it was wrong how they were treated, but he had to be seriously head over heels in love with Eva to get with her after 2000 years alive and then go out and risk having strong half-devil children with her. She must have been a very impressive soul, probably kinder and tougher all at once than any other human, and she must have seen his own heart, the way that Kyrie tells Nero she sees his in the end.
Sorry, but looking over the game, I really cannot see how Nero and Kyrie are anything other than a representation of Sparda and Eva. I certainly don't think Nero is a representation of Vergil, the two characters are very little alike, and nobody in the games themselves seems to hint at that at all, which is rather a dead giveaway. Instead, they all seem to hint at him having Sparda's blood and Sparda's power....Vergil's great and all, but please, fans, he's gone for now and probably dead, so don't throttle Nero's other possible sources of power in your blind want to have the older Son of Sparda back.
Okay, so that's off my chest. Feel free to give a rebuttal if you have a proper basis for it, or if I missed something.
I'm sorry, but Nero just seems more like a Sparda reincarnation, if he is indeed anybody's reincarnation. Which, by the way, i don't think he is. I seriously don't think he's got anybody else's soul or body parts hanging around him, and the demon arm doesn't seem to have been surgically added...in that particular cutscene where we get a blackscreen audio flashback of Nero recalling the Devil Bringer awakening, it seems to be implied that it's his arm that changes in that instant, not that he lost it and got another put on by the Order's whack doctor Agnus. Furthering this point is that he does not know Agnus, and he surely would if the man had operated on him. Really. Even if he fainted after the fight or whatever and was out for the entire operation, Agnus would have kept Nero around as a test subject, believe me. Besides that, Agnus himself doesn't seem to know Nero very well nor to know much about his arm or his power - it scares the crap out of him when Nero manifests his DT and takes over Yamato. That just doesn't make any sense if he really had put the arm on the kid.
On top of this, none of the Order members seem to have expected Nero to have Sparda's power in him, which they surely would have it they had modified him or if he had come to them with that arm. They seem to know quite a bit about Sparda's bloodlines, so I don't really think Nero's some long-lost kid of Sparda's either, because none of them claim anything like that. They say he inherited the power, but never that it was by blood connection or anything else. The only Son of Sparda they refer to is Dante. And certainly not Dante's or Vergil's because Dante would have kept any kids he had safe from nutjobs like that and Vergil was gone from earth long before he thought about having kids.
Really, truly, I think, looking over the cutscenes, Nero was exposed to demonic power as a child, and perhaps, because the order certainly seems to have used Sparda's power or at least demonic power to modify its members, Nero managed to inherit the blood that way. But the manifestation having to do with his love for Kyrie and Kyrie herself being a gentle, loving woman? That, that just makes it even more clear to me that Nero inherited Sparda's power because he is very like the Dark Knight himself. Sparda saved humanity because he thought it was wrong how they were treated, but he had to be seriously head over heels in love with Eva to get with her after 2000 years alive and then go out and risk having strong half-devil children with her. She must have been a very impressive soul, probably kinder and tougher all at once than any other human, and she must have seen his own heart, the way that Kyrie tells Nero she sees his in the end.
Sorry, but looking over the game, I really cannot see how Nero and Kyrie are anything other than a representation of Sparda and Eva. I certainly don't think Nero is a representation of Vergil, the two characters are very little alike, and nobody in the games themselves seems to hint at that at all, which is rather a dead giveaway. Instead, they all seem to hint at him having Sparda's blood and Sparda's power....Vergil's great and all, but please, fans, he's gone for now and probably dead, so don't throttle Nero's other possible sources of power in your blind want to have the older Son of Sparda back.
Okay, so that's off my chest. Feel free to give a rebuttal if you have a proper basis for it, or if I missed something.