Women in Devil May Cry
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In the Devil May Cry saga, every incarnation of the game had a different character as female co-protagonist, but none of these girls have appeared in more than one title of the series (Save for Trish’s cameo appearance in Devil May Cry 2), and it is unknown if they’d ever will. These women have, in different ways, made a mark in the life of the game’s main protagonist, Dante.
[edit] Trish
Trish, the first female co-protagonist, is a mysterious and beautiful woman who possesses supernatural powers and bears a great resemblance to Eva, Dante’s deceased mother.
Appearing one night, she attacks Dante, but is easily defeated and so she tells him that she is not his enemy, making the previous attack look like a test of skill. Trish invites Dante to Mallet Island, where the dark Emperor Mundus is planning to open the gateway to the devil world to conquer the human world. Dante obey and thus the adventure began.
Later in the game, it is revealed that Trish is actually a demon created by Mundus, made exactly to look like Eva and to lure Dante into the island so that Mundus’ demons may kill him, but after those demons are defeated, Mundus command Trish to use herself as bait and make Dante fall in her trap. While fighting the Nightmare bio-weapon, Trish betrays Dante hardening his battle, but even so Dante prevails and win the match, but then, when it seems that Dante and Trish were going to fight, Nightmare’s last attack put them both in danger and Trish nearly die, but Dante saves her, revealing to her the fact that she looks like her mother, but not completely forgiving her yet, and then he leaves.
Because of her failure, Mundus threatens to kill her, but since Dante is still emotionally attached to Trish, he decides to use her as bait once more, this time in his own trap, which nearly manages to kill Dante, but Trish, whose conscience seemed to remorse her after Dante saving her, sacrifices herself to save him, dying at Mundus’ attack.
After the battle with Mundus, Dante hold Trish’s dead body, remembering his mother death and, regretting not being able to save her, cries over her. He then leaves her mother’s amulet on her with Sparda’s sword too, as an oath for his family to rest in peace.
But then, during the last battle against Mundus and for everyone’s surprise, Dante hears his mother’s voices and then Trish appears behind her, alive and full of energy. She helps him to defeat Mundus for once and for all and they both escape from the island seconds before it collapses.
Trish was the one who made Dante realize that devils never cries, and so he changes the title of his shop to “Devil Never Cry”, having now Trish as his sidekick for hunting demons after giving her Sparda’s Sword.
Trish also made a cameo appearance in ‘‘Devil May Cry 2’’ as a secret playable character to use in both Dante’s and Lucia’s scenarios. She uses Sparda’s sword, a pair of guns called Luce & Ombra, and an advanced version of the Nightmare laser weapon. Her moves resembles Dante’s in ‘’Devil May Cry’’ and she has the same kind of Devil Trigger of Dante and Lucia, with the exception that she does not transform into a demon but rather has a yellow aura surrounding her.
[edit] Lucia
Lucia, the co-protagonist of ‘‘Devil May Cry 2’’ and the first female character playable. Lucia is lithe, quick, agile and her weapons are two ornately crafted curved daggers which resembles elbow blades. Plus, like Dante, she can also Devil Trigger, turning into a bird-like creature.
Lucia is a member of Vie de Marli, a clan of guardians that have the blood of demons. She lures Dante, whom she calls Son of Sparda, to her island so that Matier, her mother, may ask him to help them to defeat Arius, and evil man who has turned their land into a demon paradise. Dante accept, and so he and Lucia start their quest separately.
Later in the game it is revealed that Lucia is actually a demon created by Arius, like all of his secretaries, but that she was a “defect”. Lucia denies this at first, but Arius shows her the birthmark in her own arm which is prove of her being his creating and that her real name is actually “Chi”. However, this does not change Lucia’s objectives and so she follows her mission.
She obtains the last of the Arcanas, the keys for the ritual that Arius wishes to perform, and gives it to Dante. She the goes by herself to destroy her own creator, but fails, only to be saved by Dante shortly afterward, in exchange for the Arcanas. Both Dante and Lucia escapes, but leaving Arius free to perform the ritual.
After talking with Dante and Matier, Lucia regains her confidence and decides to follow Dante, who had already parted to destroy Arius. However, when she arrives Dante has already defeated him. Now, for Lucia, the only thing that remains to do for Dante is to kill her, in order to prevent her to become a monster that could attack the humans.
However, in that moment the portal to the demon world is inexplicably opened. Dante seems to realize that, in order to seal it, one most go inside and defeat the demons, which he is willing to do proclaiming that his job is haunting devils. Lucia, however, stop him and volunteers to go herself, saying that she is expendable while tears fall from her eyes. Dante clear those tears away, explaining her that devils never cry and so insinuating that Lucia is much more than a devil. He proposes to leave the decision to fate and takes his coin. Heads, Dante goes, tails, Lucia goes. Dante flip the coin and, for the third time, it is heads, and so, after leaving her coin to Lucia, Dante departs to the demon world.
But things aren’t finished for Lucia either. After Dante leaves, Arius, completely turned into a monster, raises from the ruins of the buildings. Lucia confronts him, a confrontation that not only test Lucia’s skill, but also her determination to prove to herself that she is more than just a mere demon.
Even though disadvantages, Lucia wins the battle, and Matier tells her not to worry about Dante, since everything he’s done has been exactly as it was with Sparda. Just then Lucia realizes that Dante’s coin is actually a two-heads coin, thus, he tricked her.
Finally, Lucia is shown waiting in Dante’s shop, flipping his coin continuously while remembering his words, and at the last moment she seems to remember that, according to the tale of Sparda that was refereed during the whole story, Sparda did come back. Just then, Lucia hears a motorbike in the outside of the shop and goes out running, leaving the coin completely forgotten on the floor.
[edit] Lady
Differing from the previous female co-protagonist, Lady wasn’t designed to look as a beautiful woman neither so sexy as Trish or Lucia, yet Dante shows some attraction for her during the game. Lady, whose original name is Mary, fights with fire weapons like guns, machine guns, grenades and her signature rocket launcher named Kalina Ann in honor to her deceased mother. Lady’s story is more developed than the ones of the previous female co-protagonists, and it is more tragic and, like most cases in ‘‘Devil May Cry 3’’, her relationships with the rest are very subjective, to the point that they may change from allies to enemies and vice-versa at any moment. Lady is also the only one of the girls who hasn’t been a playable character, even though she is practically made for combat, but in compensation, she serves as a Final Enemy in one of the last levels of ‘‘Devil May Cry 3’’.
Lady is not seen but heard in the game’s intro as she narrates which could be interpreted as a preview of the history that is about to happen. She makes her first appearance in the intro of the third level, in which she is barely seen, and her face is finally shown at the end of the same level when she meets Dante inside the Temen-Ni-Gru tower, a short lived encounter in which Lady only tried to kill him, probably as a way to tell him to get out of her way, but after failing, she leaves the place immediately.
Despite of having little training, Lady shows that she knows how to deal with demons by herself, though that’s only until she meets the promoter of all this: Arkham, her father. During their argument, it is revealed that Arkham killed his own wife and now Lady is after revenge, but she fails that attempt and her father throws her from the tower.
Her fall is shortly later stopped by Dante who catches her in midair by the foot, yet, instead of thanking him, Lady shoots him and stops her fall by herself, showing that she desires no help and that she wants to accomplish her objectives by herself. After seeing that bullets don’t work on him, she realizes that Dante is a demon too.
Some time later, Lady is wandering in some kind of backyard of the tower, when the corpse of Leviathan, the gigantic whale-like flying monster, falls from the sky and Dante comes out from its left eye. They both argue for a moment, but then joins forces to kill the demons surrounding them. Dante leaves the place and the demons to Lady saying that he doesn’t want to miss the party, while Lady, who never actually counted with his help, keeps fighting until she destroy all the demons.
To her surprise but not for her joy, Lady finds what seems to be Arkham’s corpse just when Dante was around there, and so she believes that he is the one who killed him. Lady attacks the demon hunter angered because of him stealing her revenge, but proves to be no match even though Dante wasn’t fighting seriously. Finally she accepts her failure and tells him to leave, but after that, when she thought that she was alone, her father proves to not be dead yet. Lady immediately takes a defensive stance, but surprisingly Arkham shows regrets for his actions and tells her daughter that he had been being manipulated by a devil named Vergil, and ask her to stop him in order to prevent the portal to the demon world to be opened, and appears to finally fall dead. Lady cries for him and then focuses her determination on stopping Vergil.
She irrupts into a battle between Dante and Vergil, right where the ritual to break Sparda’s spell and put the tower to work is being held, but she doesn’t manage to do much while both brothers are reaching their limits in that fight. Then Jester steps in and reveals to be Arkham, who had actually used all of them to lure them into this moment. Now that they are tired, neither Dante nor Vergil can do something against, and Arkham proceeds to grant the last key needed to break the Sparda’s spell: her daughter’s blood, since she is a descendant of the priestess that Sparda sacrificed in order to seal the Temen-Ni-Gru tower. After that, the tower’s function is activated the whole place turns over itself making several changes to the scenario.
Arkham rises to the top of the tower while Dante, Lady and Vergil are left behind, the last one falling though an abysm. Dante and Lady argues once again, and then Lady leaves Dante behind in order to kill her father for once and for all. Both Dante and Lady climb the tower in different ways until they finally meet again at the library, when the final confrontation between occurs. Dante is victorious, finally managing to calm her down, and promises that he will take care of everything and that would make things right for her. Lady then decides to help him by giving him her Kalina Ann in exchange for his name.
Lady stays in there for a while, sitting in silence until she suddenly hears someone pass by, and when she looks up she just see an open door. After that, she decides to go on.
Finally reaching the top of the tower, and to her surprise, Arkham falls from the portal to the demon world he himself opened and lands near Lady, who, after a brief and bittersweet discussion, kills her own father mercilessly until her gun is out of bullets.
Finally having archived her revenge, Lady falls back and starts laughing, but her laughs slowly turn into tears. In the end, even accomplishing her revenge didn’t make her happy.
Dante and Lady meet again for the last time in the streets near the raised tower. Dante returns Kalinna Ann and tells Lady that they should be fine for now, although they still have some job to do, which is to eliminate all the remaining devils around. It was during that last encounter that Lady saw Dante shedding tears for the loose of his brother, Vergil, and tells him that maybe even a devil may cry when he loses a loved one. That quote was the one that made Dante decide the name of his shop as “Devil May Cry”
After that, Lady and Dante parted ways, apparently in good terms, and even though there’s no record of them having met again, they both share a special bond as partners in devil hunting.
