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IMPORTANT LORE QUESTION
Where did V's tapdancing skills come from?
It wasn't gonna be in the brief time he existed, that was a race against time and he wasn't messing around. It had to come from Vergil. Same as his ability to pretend to play a violin and his ability to walk around holding a book. We see Vergil hold up a book and say "Yo I should give Nero a book." in one of his so called taunts.

At some point Vergil sat down and found time to hone his tapdancing prowess. You can see a bit of this after he kills Beowulf. He could have just obliterated him and stood still but he makes it a point to bounce around.

I think there was a lot off off-screen tapdancing perpetrated by Vergil. Kills Arkham -> walks off screen and dances a merry jig. Kills Beowulf -> forgets he's on screen for a sec and almost dances. Fights Mundus at the end of 3 -> tries to do a little dance the same way Dante would insert a taunt -> Mundus defeats Vergil easily because of this.

I don't care about the taunt where ghost Vergil does a dance, that ghost Vergil could have a whole other origin story.