OK HI I don't mean to be rude or anything, but im trying to write some fics about the ramon brothers coming back to life and all that, and I've gotten some crap about mt fics and I was wondering if you could help me understand Armando and Dante because Google isn't helping. (Sorry)
Of course! My only problem is that I don’t know what it is you’re having trouble with, so I don’t really know how to help you. I can give you a general rundown of their characters and their specific “quirks”, though, and if you like I can elaborate on certain points or answer more specific questions.
Dante is headstrong, but more importantly he’s self-destructive. How you want to show that is up to you. He doesn’t have a full-time job and any jobs he’s had are fairly low paying, which he’s secretly stressed about. He cares very deeply about both of his brothers, but he distances himself from Cisco somewhat by not talking about Armando because he feels like it was his fault that he died, since he was too afraid to save Cisco from the boom tube that Armando was able to rescue him from-the one that sucked him in and ‘killed’ him. Despite this, he would do anything for him, including potentially die to save his life. Dante has PTSD but he doesn’t seem to have any coping mechanisms outside of treasuring and carrying everywhere the soccer ball he had when Armando died, and visiting Armando’s memorial gives him flashbacks to what happened, though he seems to not care since it’s a place that used to make him and Cisco feel better when they were kids. It’s an extreme comfort object for him even if those words aren’t actually used. Dante also mishears a lot of words or forgets certain words and substitutes similar-sounding ones in (in English, not in Spanish, where he doesn’t seem to have the same problem). He wears mostly the same clothes every day, particularly the same shirt. He also admires a lot of superheroes! Cisco gets him Stargirl’s autograph and potentially others, and either him or Cisco has a big poster of the Flash hanging up in their room.
Armando has more wiggle room. What we know for sure is that he was a star football player at a high school in Detroit nicknamed “Rupture”, and was about to graduate (with lots of talent scouts clamoring for his attention) when Darkseid invaded and a boom tube opened, sucking his younger brother Cisco in (the event that gave Cisco powers). Armando pulled Cisco free but was pulled in himself, just as a Parademon came out and stabbed him. Armando was pulled into the breach, tossed through a dozen dimensions before he crashed in an unnamed one near/in the city of Piradell, close to death. Mordeth (mother of Cyn(n)thia Mordeth (the girl whose codename is a slur. Please don’t use it) and wife of Quell Mordeth/Breacher) found him and turned him into Rupture (it can be assumed he picked the name himself), and Armando, abused and gaslit by her, became her weapon of mass destruction. He has the same powers as Cisco, just advanced to their highest degree, so he can do things Cisco can’t (maybe yet, maybe not ever) like fly. Cisco managed to break him free of the brainwashing and he killed his “Mistress”, opting to stay in Piradell’s dimension and continue to fight the woman who had abused him (as well as abusing her daughter and husband). His heart is good, he’s a very kind person who was forced to commit atrocities, and while he generally doesn’t show many signs of PTSD it can be assumed he has it just like his brothers do.
I hope this helps! If it doesn’t, feel free to ask clarifying questions.
