((rainbow cream & tuxedo strawberry))
dante has a soft spot for beaches. volleyball, swimming, surfing, taking a snooze under an umbrella, playing frisbee with your (maybe a god?) dog pal — can’t go wrong with any of that! he likes crowded beaches, because what good is a beach if you’re just gonna sit around in the shade by yourself, vergil… but, sometimes, when he needs a bit of solitude, he goes somewhere quiet, without a soul around, to think. the sound of the waves can be very… soothing. if helps him think.
how dante got his infamous red leather duster is an interesting story. looks like something way, way, way too rich for his blood, right? right. well, for once in his life, and only this once, he got damn lucky.
he found it in a dumpster.
specifically, he found it in a dumpster behind the group home he was living in, just before getting his own place. what a waste, he thought. look at that leather. might as well be mooing! that cow went and died for nothin’ at all.
he learned later that one of the former residents had just moved out— some weeb, kind of shy, kept to their room, dante didn’t talk much to ‘em— and for whatever reason, they didn’t wanna take their hand made, designer, shibuya stylin’ coat with them. something about a ‘‘fresh start’. well, dante couldn’t blame them for that. they could all use one of those ‘round here.
…but, hey, you know what they say — one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right?
the directors were… not pleased that he went dumpster diving, again, after being told, again, that he didn’t have to anymore, he wasn’t homeless. but, it would be a waste, and this would be something that was his, only his. not a foster parent’s, not the state’s, not even his parent’s. this was his coat.
so sure, why not. wasn’t like the leather had gone bad.
dante thinks about that weeb sometimes. he hopes they’re doing alright. he really does.