Made during my Inherited!AU brainrot hours, the doodles from top left to the bottom are:
1.) Patty will beat the shit out of a bird if he keeps annoying her. Dante isn’t around to stop her; Nero won’t stop her. Text says: “You squawk again and I’ll turn you into a feathered boa!”
2.) Nero lets Patty paint his nails because he clearly has a Look and he better let her help him complete it (he gives in easily, because Kyrie and Nico absolutely will dress him up for amusement so he’s used to this).
3.) Mimicking V’s Shadow-comes-out-of-his-arm-as-he-points-his-cane, I drew Nero fingergunning and Shadow summoning
4.) Patty teaches Shadow what a catboy is and Nero regrets, once again, sharing with Patty that Shadow has a “human” form
5.) Nero let Patty do his makeup and he looks good!
6.) Shadow picked Griffon up in their mouth… Griffon is not amused! Text says: “This is humiliating.”
7.) Griffon may be a demonic bird of prey, but he is still, in essence, an oversized parrot! And Nero found out he can bring out his Devil Bringer, despite it having been ripped off
8.) A doodle in which I decided how I’ll be drawing Nero because drawing his DMC5 hair is </3
I’m too exhausted to work on my fic for the Inherited AU, but I can’t stop thinking of the AU anyways.
I particularly like thinking about Nero and the familiars bond, but Nero eventually realize how their affection is sometimes parental. Like, I can’t stop thinking of when Griffon sat on top of V all mother-hen-y,
So I imagine that Griffon would do the same to Nero. And for the littlest of reasons! Like yeah maybe he needs to force Nero to take a break when he isn’t listening to anyone (which would happen because Devil May Cry is short a devil hunter). But Griffon would also do it because he just can. And sometimes Nico jokes that maybe Griffon is just brooding, which he’ll deny, but he actually is because he cares about Nero and wants him safe. Maybe that’s some Vergil slipping in to become Griffon’s form of care (especially because I feel like Griffon’s form of taking care of V could be interpreted as metaphor for self love and care).
I already wrote a fic where Shadow lays on top of Nero and Griffon teases Shadow for going all mama cat, but I can also imagine Shadow grooming Nero, or making very parental big cat sounds, or trying to get Nero to hunt. Like especially the grooming part. I also made an art piece depicting this, but that just lives in my head rent-free. Shadow maybe pinning Nero down with a paw so that they could groom his hair, which inevitably will get stuck on their tongue because of the texture of Nightmare in Nero’s hair.
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