Ratty little comic about butch!Nero confronting fem!Dante's past as Tony Redgrave
I could not think of a way to continue this in visual form so i'm just gonna ramble what it's about under the cut
Some context, Dante posed as a man when she was still under the alias Tony Redgrave and lived like that up until she reclaimed her real name, the ones who knew she was a woman took it to their graves. Past the first novel's events she no longer found the need to pose as a man any longer but was still often mistaken as one, this went on through dmc3's era (despite her... warddrobe choices) and still a couple years down the line, but she isn't hiding anything anymore
Nero, baby butch born and raised in conservative society that doesn't accept any deviations from the status quo, faced much opposition within her choices of living her truth. She pushed her way through the system with Credo's help, despite his initial disapproval of it, and maintained her spot in the Order
Years down the line, Nero quietly looks up to Dante as a role model, not just in combat but presentation as well. Neither of them ever breached the subject directly, it had stayed as a silent understanding between the two. That is until Nero was given Morrison's letter detailing Dante's life before his time, the subject of Tony Redgrave caught her attention and decides to confront Dante about it
Nero is searching something in the lieu of reconciliation, connection, and validation, hoping Dante's recounts of living as Tony Redgrave having some insight
I struggle to put the next part of this in words because dialogue is not my strong suit, and needing to weave Dante's deflections and roundabout ways of breaching sensitive subjects is an added challenge, so just use your imagination of what she could have said lol
technically this post had hit its anniversary this month (yay?), so to celebrate i decided to post forbidden knowledge: originally there were two more...
but i fucking hate my redesign idea for them lol so i didn't post them with others, so technically non-canon homies??
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