Nero

Character:
Name: Nero
Age: 19(DMC 4), 22(DMC 5)
Height: 5'11"(DMC 4), 6'2"(DMC 5)
(Dead)Weight: 185lb (DMC 4), 198 lb (DMC 5)
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Blue
Canonpoint: Pre-DMC 4 or End of DMC 5, depending. AUs used if in shippy threads
Appearance, Voice: Nero from 4, Nero from 5. Johnny Yong Bosch voices him in both games.

OOC
Threadhopping: PM, please!
Backtagging: I don't mind. I will backtag until the universe decays.
Prose or Action: Either! Please forgive me if I forget which one I'm doing.

IC
Personality: Nero is a bundle of anger and hidden self-consciousness wrapped up in snark, terrible jokes and rude jabs. He opens up to people when they're nice or considerate and turns on the 'cocky jerk' if someone starts off rudely with him.
He likes being goofy on the job but he can be downright ruthless to anyone he thinks is an enemy. Extremely reactionary and a fan of complaining, Nero is someone who gives what he takes. If someone starts out polite, he'll try to be polite. If they start off rude, he'll return the favor. In most instances, Nero will try to be generous and help others--even strangers. While he can be standoffish in many cases, Nero is the type to secretly want validation and acknowledgement from the people he cares about. It'll take him 15+ hours of gameplay to get to this point.

Despite his usual cocky attitude, Nero can be self-deprecating due to many life events shaking his faith and sense of self-worth. Nero sees his own heritage as a demon as disgusting and worth concealing. It offers an inconvenience and danger to the people around him if only because of the stigma of associating with such creatures. His self-deprecating mood is reserved for anyone who knows him well enough, as he'll conceal it with a bad attitude if someone who doesn't know him tries to pry. 'Weakness' is a fear of his, as it greatly affects his self worth. As of the end of Devil May Cry 5, this attitude has improved somewhat but he's still a bit insecure about being a demon. If taken from Devil May Cry 4, all those insecurities will be cranked up to the max.

He can be somewhat crazed in that he really, REALLY likes beating up demons and genuinely likes taunting and mocking big, bad ones. In that sense, he can be interpreted as a little sadistic though it's almost primarily reserved to beating up the forces of the underworld.

In his personal life and quiet moments, Nero is the type of guy to read technical books and experiment with tools. He designed his revolver, the Blue Rose, despite Fortuna being a city with little to no guns and guns being a stigma among the Order of the Sword. Given that he also designed the Red Queen's alternate propulsion system, it's shown that he's extremely proficient as a gunsmith and somewhat talented blacksmith while also showing technical knowledge as an amateur engineer. Nero, despite being a meathead, would genuinely be more likely caught reading a technical manual rather than watching TV or doing whatever lame crap Dante does when he's not busy.

Background: A resident of a backwater European city called 'Fortuna', rumored to have housed a religious group that worshipped a devil who betrayed his kind and saved humanity from demonic forces.Orphaned as a boy, Nero's foster parents were killed by demons, to which the lesson he learned was to trust only in his own power to protect himself and the ones he cared about. He operated throughout his teenager years as a specialist for the Order of the Sword, a local group of knights that protected Fortuna from demons. He was outcast for playing poorly with teams and his loud mouth. Likely because he chose to use a gun on top of a sword, Nero was designated to act as the Order's 'cleaner' and killed humans possessed by demons, referring to it as 'dirty work'.

He's one of the two protagonists of Devil May Cry 4 and one of the three of Devil May Cry 5. At the start of Devil May Cry 4, he's working for The Order of the Sword. At the start of 5, he's operating his own devil-hunting shop.

Powers: Super strength, super speed, demon stuff, devastating stylish taunts, headlocks, DDTs, powerbombs, suplexes, spinning piledrivers...

Permissions:
Hugging: He may be weirded out but he'll crack an awkward joke and return the favor. For a second.
Kissing: Rank SSS Flustered, definitely freaking out if he isn't familiar. 
Flirting: He's dense like a sack of hammers and it'll take buildup for him to figure out. He might also take offense if it sounds like he's being made fun of but would return the favor very quietly if he felt the same way? It requires CR to go well.
Fighting: Nero likes doing this. Please discuss if you aren't sure!
Injuries: He can take a lot of harm. Please PM if it sounds like it may be severe.
Killing: Please PM.
Mind reading: Sure. I don't think he can stop any of that.
AU?: I really like AU, so sure. Brainstorming is preferred and I love chances to has details out. If taken from Devil May Cry 4, Nero will be self-conscious about his arm to conceal it as much as he can. If taken from 5, he could care less for... reasons.
Assumed CR: I'm happy with assume CR or fresh starts, so feel free to just toss in what you think makes sense. Nero could easily have positive existing CR with badasses he might have done jobs for or with as well as people who try to push his buttons all the time.

Shipping?
Canonically, Kyrie owns his soul. I don't ship him with other castmates but M/F crosscanon ships are heavily preferred. Preferred similar age ranges for shipping 4 or 5. For gen, Nero wouldn't mind little brothers and sisters. He's happy to be a caregiver.