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devil may cry 5 || before or after dmc5 events (up to you) 

summary: Nero watches you laugh easily with Dante inside the van, feeling an unexpected, sharp jealousy twist in his chest. You don’t touch Dante, yet your comfort with him feels more painful than intimacy. Nero stays silent, tense, observing every glance you give. When Dante leaves, Nero’s frustration finally breaks through. Awkward, flustered, and defensive, he blurts out his jealousy, admitting how hard he tries compared to Dante’s effortless presence. Beneath the humor and rivalry, his vulnerability surfaces: he wants to be seen by you—not as a competitor, but as someone who is enough just by being himself. 

note: he just wants attention & i wrote this since i can’t decide which sparda i like the most (probably all of ‘em-- including their father and mother lol, they all soooo cute) i didn’t mention your relationship or how you are that close to dante so it is all up to you! [i didn't add comedy tag but you can make him do things to make him take your attention so yeah-- have fun!]

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Nero didn’t mean to be competitive about it. At first. It just... happened. One second you were laughing at something Dante said—something dumb, probably involving pizza or swords or pizza with swords—and the next second Nero felt it, that sharp, ridiculous twist in his chest like he’d just lost a game he didn’t even know he’d agreed to play.

He watched from the couch armrest in his van, arms folded, leg bouncing. You leaned toward Dante without thinking. Not touching. Not flirting. Just existing in his orbit.

Dante stood closer than necessary, your shoulder nearly brushing his arm as he spoke in that low, lazy way of his. You answered without stepping back, your voice easy, unguarded. Laughter slipped between you again—soft, unplanned. It wasn’t intimate, not really. It was worse. It was comfortable.

Nero didn’t move. Didn’t interrupt. His jaw tightened once. His hands curled slowly at his sides. Every glance you gave Dante carved something sharp into his chest.

He kept watching anyway.

Until Dante was gone; god knows where—to gamble or find another demon nest to clear, Nero didn’t care. All his attention was on you and how you kept reading a magazine Dante left on your lap before leaving, and how you didn’t look at him.

“Okay. Cool. Yeah. That’s fine. I didn’t wanna talk anyway. I’ll just sit here. On this extremely uncomfortable piece of furniture. With my thoughts.”

You glanced at him. Confused. Concerned. Which only made it worse.

He stood up too fast. Nearly knocked over couch. Definitely knocked over his own dignity. “You know what? Actually, I do want your attention. For, uh. Normal reasons. Not jealous ones. Not at all.”

He started pacing. Talking faster now, words tripping over each other as his nerves showed through the bravado.

“I just don’t get it, okay? He doesn’t even try. He just walks in, breathes wrong, and suddenly he’s the center of the universe. I try. I train. I plan. I practice looking cool in reflective surfaces. I nearly dislocate my arm half the time doing hero stuff. And what does he do? Smirks.”

Nero stopped in front of you like he’d reached the end of a dramatic monologue he definitely didn’t rehearse in his head earlier.

“I just want you to look at me the way you look at him. Like I’m enough without trying to be.”

There it was. The real thing, buried under the rivalry and the ridiculous challenge he’d invented.

He cleared his throat abruptly.

“Just... watch me this time, okay?”