I heard you had Dante distortion ideas? Hand them over
TBH I WANTED TO DRAW THEM?? I have a comic idea for the simple concept, might see if I finish it or not.
But as a basic idea to get my point across:
Dante isn't as natural as most other distortions- infact, the entire clock just completely gets REMOVED, but that doesn't mean that you get to see the head.
No.
A ripped apart corpse filled with weapons, ripped apart flesh, broken open chests, ripped hair and severe bleeding and stretching stats make it wqy too big and gory doesn't make the face or head very recognizable.
Just know this.
The Dante distortion is one of the most dangerous, merely for the fact that anything that dies around them simply revives.
For they are useful now. And showing off every single bit of their suffering in gurgled screams and whispers of the Sinners names.
It isn't even quite sure if it is crying. For it is in too much pain to even think.
HELLO, I HAVE FINALLY RETURNED WITH AN ANALYSIS POST WORTH MAKING!!!!
Today, I want to get into the characterization of Dante during the Sinnerlings April fools event and how it may hint towards pre-Dante stuff, Trauma regarding yuri and generally Dante's thoughts towards children.
While some of the discussion today will be more farfetched, I still will say that this has spoilers for the Sinnerling April fool event, so read at your own want!!!
[Also not as many pictures cause. Yes.]
AHEMEMEMEM.
The April fools events are an interesting thing to me. While sure, they are not meant to be taken seriously, we get a whole lot to interesting characterization to go along with it.
Of course, we cannot speak of complete accuracy- Every April fools event so far has taken place in Dante's head, which only leaves things up to their interpretation.
But, that's exactly my point- WE GET AN IDEA TOWARDS DANTE'S OWN OPINIONS!!!!
Now, why am I going indirectly onto the Sinnerling event and not the bodyswap one which came previously?
I gotta be honest I gotta analysis that one again I haven't played it in a while apologies hshshshshs
ANYWAY!!! Let's get right onto our first point:
An idea of Dante's Childhood.
Now, this is one of the farfetched ones, but I wanna put it into view because I'm insane and I love analysing things that ain't important.
In the April fools event, Dante clearly isn't the SUPER greatest with children and I don't expect them to!!! They don't often interact with children throughout the story at all.
If anything, we often see them confused, a bit baffled and fascinated by how others treat children, which is a accurate way to show it.
However...two specific things stand out to me specifically.
That is:
1: Dante clearly seeming to praise 'mature' children.
2: Dante being quick to scold children on their 'bad behavior' and sending them off into a corner if necessary.
[Perhaps this one isn't as bad? Perhaps I just had very bad experiences with timeout corners like urgrhrhr.]
Now, why are these two things special to me? Well....Let me give you a very quick psychologically lesson towards parent and child.
You see, a Child is easily affected by their Parents behavior and opinions towards a child. Kindness will be learned, strictness will be learned, abuse can be learned.
If, let's say, a Child is often left alone or learns things rather quickly due to teaching themself how to handle themself, a Parent may see them as 'mature' and 'responsible'.
If a child is way too young and shouldn't be doing this, then this is not a good thing. However, the Child will start to pick up on it and get used to caring for themself, seeing the 'maturity' as a natural and good thing.
As they have been taught.
Same goes for the idea of being punished when causing bad behavior.
Isolation and being cast out is often a very, very bad response to children doing bad things, as this can cause bullying, a refusal to communicate and learning that acting a bit harsher can cause immediate consequences.
This, again, can cause the child to get used to such opinions. And for both of these, the Child will turn into an adult who thinks that both of these things are okay.
And often, even if trauma is forgotten, the body and mind will still hold those opinions automated in their head.
Now, WHY AM I TELLING YOU ALL THIS???
Because Dante seems to indirectly go down at both of these traits towards the Sinnerlings.
Be it calling both Meursault and Outis 'Mature' for acting more like adults and the ones 'controlling themself and the sinnerlings' or putting Rodya into the corner for acting 'not correctly' for a longer period of time, even if they indirectly note the starving behavior.
Now, of course, this can just be them having Manager urges- After all, the Sinnerlings are based of Dante's opinions of the Sinners.
And of course, perhaps I'm overdoing it. They are pretty observant and are ready to put about anyone in the time out chair. And that the more 'mature' children still have struggles with words.
But still, it is quite interesting how easily they seem to just...accept that some children are more 'mature and useful' than the others. Or that other children need to be put in time out much more often. Naturality, of sorts.
Or yknow. Them literally seeming quite comfortable just letting other children do the controlling. Because. Yknow. Why not trust the toddler.
Is this an indirect reference to me thinking Dante might have shitty parents? Absolutely. Especially due to me noting that they don't like Christmas music, but perhaps that a Nagel reference
Anyway, ONWARDS TO POINT NUMBERO TWO.
Yuri and the trauma of those one couldn't save.
[This is the more proper point]
Now, we all mourn Yuri. Of course we do. It's Yuri. She's wonderful. But at first, it may not seem that Dante is too bothered by that fact throughout the story-
They care about everyone else, but most of the Yuri stuff is sparse. That is natural- after all, they were freshly into the job and couldnt do much in that position.
However, if we take anything from the dream, her Death might still be haunting them.
Yuri, in the April fools story, is a simple Caretaker. A Caretaker, who is very, very tired of doing all this over and over again.
Doing all this for the children. Doing her job. Overworking herself to achieve anything in life. Clearly being exhausted and in the end turning into a monster and harming everyone she grew close to.
This, in my opinion, indirectly reflects Dante's thoughts towards her. Becuade they are quite observant, even if they don't seem so.
With the way she clearly is pissed in the fever dream they are having, I can only assume that Dante innerly still regrets her death. For not letting her be alive to see another day, fo show more emotions, to perhaps be able to join Limbus company.
In the end. She died. She died by the able, swallowed and grossly transformed into a mere husk of herself.
Especially the transformation itself seemed to be unnatural and rather grotesque, a slow descent into nightmarish territory despite the goofy boss fight and somewhat scarce content.
Sometimws, Nightmares don't make sense. They seem ridiculous after you wake up.
But that doesn't make them any less of a nightmare.
And Dante clearly still hasn't fully moved on. Still keeping the people they couldn't safe deep in their thoughts.
One must wonder how many times they dreamed of such horrid things, even in funnier context?
Maybe we will know someday.
Now, this isn't a big point and may axtually fit more into other points, but I want to mention it.
I find it interesting how clearly, Dante orders the Sinners into baby's or more grown children based on their own opinions.
Like Outis being one of the oldest yet still being in kindergarten and Don being one of the youngest despite being a somewhat fully grown blood fiend.
They even drop that entirely and grow serious when Yuri snaps, which is interesting to see.
In the End, this is all farfetched. Perhaps too farfetched. But hey, it's an April fools event. So might as well!!
I might be inaccurate too, but I try my best to get my points across.
Im always happy to hear other opinions but am just haPPY to go insane and ramble NONSENSE.
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The LCB Group has taken another visit to the LCE, this time getting all their Pain tolerance tested due to their constant exposure to death and injury.
Dante is not a huge fan of seeing their Sinners suffer.
So maybe, they can push it back a little by being a Sinner once again.
Or: Dante finds out their Pain Tolerance.
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Get your Dante angst as these always end up much bigger than they are supposed to help
Did anyone ever play Nihilumbra? Yknow. The game. The game about Personhood. About finding your own personality. To find meaning in life. That even if you come from a bad place, you are still a person no matter what. About finding peace with yourself. You know. That game.
Loving your Dante analysis posts and I want to ask, how much have the Sinners actually questioned who Dante used to be? Cause we know Dante does still care about their past life but do the Sinners care about who they were before? Do they wonder what kind of life Dante used to lead, would they help Dante try and recover their past?
Would they put their foot down if something or someone from Dante's old life were to pop up and their manager was denied the opportunity to finally learn about who they once were?
WELL, THIS DEPENDS
You see, only in the beginning and very small occasions does anyone even question who old Dante used to be.
And the few times any of the Sinners mention this, it's mostly theories about 'the Big wig being super Evil or a genius oOOOoO-", which makes me believe that they simply got used to our Dante too much.
I feel like sadly, the Sinners have accepted that this is Dante, because they are.. tolerable of sorts. Malleable. Accepting and helping. A version of the 'Evil Big Wig' that nobody knows that apparently is more socially acceptable.
Dante themself is someone who has thought about this a bunch and they are the one who promised the Sinners to accept them no matter what atrocity they committed.
Now.
If they return that favor, it is unknown.
Faust and anyone affiliated with the company is clearly not allowed to say anything, but it is quite strange that this supposed 'Dangerous and really evil Big Wig' has apparently never been mentioned by one of the big syndicates by the pinky or anything. Especially since they practically disappeared without a trace.
So to get to your question: It may be that the Sinners will not accept Old Dante at first, especially due to their old theories
And Limbus company itself may be doing work to make sure nobody of Dante's past is getting in their way.
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