Children of Sparda

"Honestly, I couldn't believe that the Legendary Dark Knight bore children to carry on his legacy. And hearing the legends of this guy I would imagine his own kids to have the same legendary feats as he does. But after seeing what they can do and what they've accomplished...I never would've believed that they put their own mighty father to shame. Now I see why they're so famous, and infamous, with the supernatural world. And why everyone wants a piece of them."

- Roy Mustang.

The Children of Sparda, originally known as the Sons of Sparda, are the well-known cambion children of the Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda.

Overview
Before his disappearance, Sparda fell in love with a human woman named Eva, who gave birth to identical twin sons, Vergil and Dante. Half-demon and half-human, the twins were born with supernatural abilities as well as white hair and blue eyes, all traits derived from their father's strong demon blood. Before Sparda disappeared, he gave his sons two powerful swords, each one being of his own creation with the swords themselves becoming the symbols of their spirits.

After the demon prince Beelzebub was able to gain the blood of Sparda and Eva, he was able to artificially create his own child of Sparda, Beatrice, who would later be freed and join her older brothers in Devil May Cry.

Description
While their relationship between the older sons can be strained from time to time, they nonetheless deeply care for one another and are willing to risk their lives to aid not only their allies but each other. However, there are numerous times where their ideologies can clash and thus pit them against each other because of it. For example, Dante would scold Vergil for not being careful when it comes to innocents being harmed during his battles and Vergil would perform the same when Dante would show mercy towards people who he considers to be worse than demons and so on.

Recently, both brothers have been curbing their respective attitude down as neither wish to be a bad role model to their now younger sister Beatrice. Both are very protective over their younger sister especially as she is not even close to be fully grown so she is unable to fight the more dangerous demons and monsters that her older brothers can.

Despite being identical twins they are polar opposites in tastes, fighting styles, personalities and goals and a majority of time fighting and arguing with each other. They seem to represent the two sides of Sparda himself as he was known to be both rebellious like Dante and level-headed like Vergil, and his preferred color, purple, is the combination of Vergil's (blue) and Dante's (red). On the other hand, Beatrice wears a mix of both red and blue with a bit of white.

Powers and Abilities
The twins themselves are considered to be among the most powerful cambions in the world as they are the offspring of the greatest Knight of Hell. While separately the sons are tremendously powerful in their own right, they are a virtually unstoppable force when together, as they have actively stopped and killed many high-ranking demons, monsters, fallen/rebel angels, world-threatening entities and even gods either together, individually or with their allies. Demons especially both despise and fear them for their reputation and status and even compared them to be the "Boogeymen" that demons and monsters have nightmares about.

Lucifer himself stated that he never would have imagined that the twin sons would give him so much trouble and even Satan noted that he is constantly surprised by how powerful the twins are. Mephistopheles, a high ranking demon himself and a Prince of hell, described them as "coat-wrapped nightmares" and should never be underestimated by anyone. The Great Old Ones even considered the brothers as enough of a threat to them and targeted them almost immediately after their release.

While not as powerful as her older brothers, Beatrice is still strong to take out lesser archdemons and had even once out-sniped the demonic sniper Barbatos himself.

History
The sons of Sparda spent their early childhood living together with their mother, Eva, after their father's disappearance. Vergil is the elder twin by two minutes and was always told from a young age to take care of his brother, Dante. Due to being the older brother, Vergil had much responsibility even at a young age, although this did not hinder the relationship between him and his family.

After the disappearance of their father, Vergil was tasked as Dante's protector and, as a result, views himself as such. Thus whenever their mother would leave Vergil would watch over Dante though this often resulted in two constantly arguing and fighting mainly due to the fact that Dante himself was insufferable as a child. While Dante did not appreciate being spoiled, he nonetheless loves his brother greatly and hoped to one day return the favor. He would cook and care for Dante as well as protect him while their father or mother were out performing their duties.

Some time during the twins' childhoods, Eva was killed by demons. Although the details of this event were never clearly shown, Dante appeared to have been present during the attack and witnessed his mother's death (while mistakenly believing that his twin had also been killed). In reality, Vergil was separated from his brother and mother during the attack and ended up alone with only Yamato to aid him. This forceful separation and the trauma of being alone in the world may explain his cold and withdrawn nature later in life.

Their mother's death was a huge cornerstone in the twins' lives and affected them deeply, leading the brothers to choose very different life paths. Dante dedicated the rest of his life to demon-hunting and protecting innocent humans, while Vergil, perhaps believing that humans (like his mother) died because they did not have the power to protect themselves, spent the rest of his life pursuing Sparda's power and trying to gain as much of it as possible.

Although, after Dante and Vergil's return from Hell and destruction of the Qliphoth Tree, it required much effort for the twins to make amends and reconnect. Vergil even abandoned his quest for power and focuses on increasing his own natural demonic power in order protect his friends and family. Their unity was gained faster after they realized that they had a younger sister that was artificially created by Beelzebub using the blood of Sparda and Eva.

Quotes

 * "Wow. Who could have guessed the guys called the sons of Sparda turn out to be the actual sons of the demon Sparda. Amazing, good job. My respect to you have once again drop down to the negative." - Diana Black before learning about Beatrice.


 * "So Sparda's two spawns have just been detected, huh? Very well. Iliel, Nymeriel, the two of you go and get me all possible information about them and their mother. Send Lyrel to go and watch over them, tell him if there's any sign of them being danger for heaven, report back to me immidiately. Understand?" - Uriel.

Image Sources

 * (Sons of Sparda.jpg) Brothers by Ninjatic
 * (Lee-j-p-dante-vs-vergil.jpg) Dante vs Vergil by Lee JP
 * (Dante and Vergil.jpg) Dante and Vergil by ???
 * (Dante and Vergil 1.jpg) Dante and Vergil by Халлот
 * (Dante and Vergil 2.jpg) Dante and Vergil by Халлот
 * (Dante and Vergil 3.jpg) Dante and Vergil by Халлот
 * (Dante and Vergil 4.jpg) Dante and Vergil by Халлот
 * (Dante-and-nero-dante-43048117-1600-667.jpg) Dante and Vergil by limii-circulate