nephilim, delinquent....hero?
Name: Dante
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 177lbs
Build: Slim, curvy, sinewy muscle
Appearance: Black hair, cold blue eyes with a vicious smile that never quite reaches them, scar over his right eyebrow
Proficiency: Firearms of any kind, hand to hand combat, longsword combat, control over an array of angelic and demonic weaponry
Specialty: killin’ demons, asshole.
Demon father, angel mother—bad combo. Dante’s lot in life is cursed from the very beginning. The first seven years (a lucky number for most, but not the sons of Sparda) are filled with joy, a loving family and a magnificent manor called Paradise on the outskirts of a sprawling city. The beautiful Eva gifts unto her sons a pair of amulets, and their father, Sparda, offers a weapon, made specially for each of them—a fitting set of gifts for a future no one can predict.
Mundus, the demon king and once Sparda’s blood brother and best friend, finds the happy family and does what demons do best. He tears the still-beating heart from Eva’s chest and sends his demon horde out to pursue Sparda, who has escaped Paradise with Dante and Vergil. The boys are sent to St. Lamia’s orphanage, which is run by witches, sympathetic to Sparda. He asks them to weave a spell that wipes his sons’ memories, leaving instructions to tell each a different story of how they lost their past. Sparda returns to Mundus, to throw him off the scent of the Nephilim sons which will be the demon king’s downfall. To Sparda is given eternal torture and agony, but the seeds of his vengeance are sewn.
Vergil is adopted immediately, by a wealthy family who provides for his every want and need. Dante, the younger twin, is fiery and spiteful, and cannot seem to behave himself. Mundus tracks down the only known son of Sparda and kills those who collaborated with the traitor, installing his own demonic headmistress and staff to torment the boy.
When Dante begins “seeing demons,” they medicate him. When he begins to lash out physically, they restrain him. When he realizes that his “caretakers” are vicious demons, he summons Rebellion and slays every last beast, bathing the orphanage in blood. He is not crazy. He is not gifted.
There is no place in this docile world for a fiery young man who sees devils and fights with a twisted claymore. The foundation of revenge is built upon his shoulders, but at what cost? Such a thing has weight; it crushes down on one’s heart, hardening it to stone.
It is this way in which Kat, a young witch, finds him on Bellevue pier, having just awoken from a night of wild debauchery and “sexual deviance”—most likely.
Characterization: Dante is a young, bullheaded jackass with a chip on his shoulder, an ax to grind and the means to swing it. He is aggressive, flirty, overtly crass, and has a penchant for terrible puns and one-liners that will leave bystanders (assuming they’re not demons) rolling their collective eyes. At heart, he is nothing more than the product of an extremely abusive childhood, years of psychological manipulation, and a grudge he cannot remember—Dante is a scared child who wields awesome power, but can still get in over his head.
Bonus facts: Dante is left-handed. He is a DEEPLY closeted bisexual–the man is in Narnia.
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