idr if I’ve talked yet about dante and gene’s relationship in my mystreet au yet, but oh well i’m doing it again
so yk the two of them basically grew up with a single mom. dante wasn’t old enough to remember their pos dad, but gene is and he avoids any of dante’s questions about him. even with all the shit gene got up to in hs, he tries to keep up appearances to dante and their mom. their mom because he doesn’t want to worry her, and to dante because gene knows dante looks up to him. gene doesn’t know why, he doesn’t get why someone would look up to him of all people, but dante does so gene tries to make the best of it
meanwhile dante doesn’t remember their dad, he just knows that gene avoids talking about him, especially around their mom. and their mom glares at her parents whenever they try to bring him up. gene really stepped up though when their dad left, as much as a kid could. but gene did some small jobs here and there to help their mom with groceries until she got a big promotion, and gene helped take care of dante when their mom couldn’t. he babysat dante, got him snacks after school, helped him with his homework. dante wanted to be just like gene someday, took him a while to realize that included being a guy too (surprise, trans dante)
in gene’s eyes he was a menace, a screw up, he was bored in school and he made it everyone’s problem. to dante, gene was his hero.
gene saw all the bad parts of himself, and dante saw all the good
