Dante

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## DanteDURANTE

* Splash Art
* Character

* Work Info
* Biographical Info
* Technical Info

### Voice actor

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 **Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.**
  Abandon hope, all ye who enters here.

**Dante** (*Hangul*: 단테, *Dante*), designated **Sinner #10**, had their memory wiped and head replaced with a prosthetic clock as a precaution for data leakage prior to becoming the **Manager** overseeing the Sinners in Limbus Company's LCB department.

While acting as the game's main character and the player's point-of-view, they have their own personality of being the inexperienced manager — struggling to wrangle their dysfunctional group of Sinners on their hellish road trip to obtain the Golden Boughs strewn across the City's ruined Lobotomy Corporation power plants.

## Appearance

In place of their original human head, Dante's current head was replaced with a prosthetic red clock which protrudes flame from its top. The clockface itself is rather thick in width, similar to the size of a human one where it can be claimed to be a mask to onlookers. The flames appear to burn from two ridges that ring around the clock down to the point of Dante's neck.

Initially on the Prologue, their minute hand on the face of the clock rests at 9. As of the end of Canto IV, it had moved by half a minute, residing between the position of 9 and 10.

Their uniform is notably distinct from the Sinners, their coat being a mix of red, yellow, and white — likely due to their role as Executive Manager. 'NO. 10' is written on their coat near the lapel, along with 'DAN TE' near the end of it. They wear a red tie and a tucked long-sleeve polo, with black pants and a white belt.

## Personality

As a manager, Dante is quiet passive and spineless. They rarely make any real attempts to stop the Sinners from going rampage or talk about their subordinates' faults and problems, all the while lamenting that there's no point in trying harder because the Sinners won't listen to them anyway.

Because of their incompetence, they also often heavily rely on others, even some of the Sinners, to help with the managerial jobs for them. Ishmael in particular is disappointed with Dante's lack of control over the Sinners, so much that she begins to help maintain order within the group, distrusting her own superior's ability to handle the job alone. Dante notices this, realizing that they have failed to meet others' expectations of them.

It's likely that Dante's lack of confidence is one of the main reasons for their passivity, as they often feel like they can never be good enough to be a proper leader, believing that anything they do will change nothing or even make the situation worse. They are also showed to be afraid of the more violent Sinners, such as Heathcliff.

Although Dante knows that they are not a good manager, they don't really know how to improve themself. However, after various failures, incidents and criticism from others, they begin to notice their own shortcomings and act more responsibly (though they are still hesitant on multiple occasions), as evidenced by their several attempts to talk to Sinclair and comfort him, as well as their refusal to give up on him even when they themself are at death's door.

Dante also has a light-hearted side, sometimes cracking jokes about their clockhead to lighten the mood, even in a serious situation.

It is unknown, as of right now, how Dante acted prior to their amnesia and transformation. They are described as being a 'big-wig' in the past, which possibly implies a confident attitude and personality during that time, however no current story evidence supports this.

## Anatomy and Abilities

    Dante's own head had been replaced by a prosthetic clock serving as their new face, which seemingly gives them powers comparable to absurd technologies such as Singularities. The Sinners recruited by Limbus Company were specifically chosen because they could "resonate" with Dante's abilities, forming the "contract" with them to gain the boon of Dante's powers:

* **Golden Bough Resonance**: Dante is able to sense where the Golden Bough are through resonating with them, able to perceive their location by "following their star". This gives Dante the visions of the Boughs as shining stars in a swirling sky; Dante can also share these visions with the Sinners through their telepathy.
* **Telepathy**: Dante can only commune through a ticking sound, which they can alter the frequency and intensity of. Only the Sinners and a few others can understand the intended speech behind the ticks. When angered, Dante's speech may include bell chimes.
	+ **Selectivity**: They are also capable of selectively limiting the recipient of their words to one person only, or to the whole group of the Sinners all at once. However because of these limitations, Dante can only verbally communicate with the Sinners and has to rely on using one them as an interpreter when relaying information or queries to anyone outside the LCB.
	+ **Distortions**: Dante can also understand the speech of Distortions that lost the ability to communicate using human language, this understanding extending to their subordinate entities as well. Dante can thus act as a interpreter for Distortions, relaying invaluable information to the other Sinners to achieve their missions. Faust speculates this is possible due to Dante resonating with the Golden Boughs they collected.
* + Ryōshū killing the other Sinners because they annoyed her, before getting stabbed through the head by Don Quixote.
	+ Dante standing at the hellish gate they see when they revive the Sinners.
	+ The closer they approach...
	+ Dante preparing to open up of the hellish gate made from human bodies.
	+ The screams of damned erupt with outstretched arms as Dante pulls the Sinners from its depths.
	+ The deceased Sinners being revived, healing from their injuries as their flesh and blood is 'rewound' back to their bodies.1/6**Turning back the clock**: After Faust had Dante bind the Sinners into a "contract", Dante is capable of healing their injuries and reviving the Sinners from death, however causing Dante great pain to do so.
	+ With cases like death, Dante undergoes a vision of themselves opening a foreboding door filled with the wails and lamentations of unknown sufferers, as they pull out the hands of the Sinners from the gateway. When doing so, Dante feels the sins and pain caused by them wriggling through their body as the Sinners revive with their wounds physically reversing. Although the pain felt is only temporary and quickly fades to nothing in almost an instant, the sensation is still so great that Dante incredibly prefers not using their abilities.
* + Dante seeing a Mirror World where they're a "Teacher", with Vergilius as their student.
	+ Dante, as a "Doctor" on Limbus Island with a Vergilius with rabbit ears.
	+ Dante, with a Vergilius who is inexplicably a race horse.1/3**Winding down**: When the clock on Dante's face winds down, Dante themselves is rendered unconscious.
	+ **Dreams**: In this state, they are able to "dream" of various alternate realities known as Mirror Worlds. Vergilius and the other Sinners were able to interfere with what Mirror World was seen by Dante by messing with the circuitry in their prosthetic head, as Dante unfortunately experiences when this happened for the first time.
	+ **Rewinding**: Fortunately, Dante can be resuscitated by rewinding their clock — waking them up from their "dreams". Dante is able to recall their memories from such experiences, but it still leaves them confused and frazzled nonetheless.

**'Last Resort'**: A preventative measure to prevent the Golden Boughs from falling into wrong hands. By inputting a sequence into a button on the back of their head, Dante can self-detonate a charge witnin their clock with enough heat 'to melt even the Stars of the City'. The Golden Boughs cannot survive such an explosion, and will be effectively cremated.

Whether these capabilities are because of the clock or are inherent to Dante themselves is unknown (bar the 'Last Resort')

## Etymology

Dante is based on the protagonist of the 14th-century epic poem *Dante’s Inferno*, and subsequently the rest of the *Divine Comedy*. Both Dantes are named after the sobriquet of the Divine Comedy’s author, Dante Alighieri.

* Dante is a hypocorism of the name ***Durante***, their in-game call sign and the baptismal name of Dante Alighieri — born under his full name, **Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri**.
* 'Durante' derives from the Latin proper name *Durans* or *Durantis*, both of which originate from the Latin verb *dūrāre* (“to endure”), in reference to becoming resilient, tough, or hard.
	+ Likely reflected in-game with Dante metaphorically *and* literally 'enduring' the pain and sins of their fellow Sinners, along with their ability to revive the fallen back from death as a ever-'enduring' group.
* The Italian word ‘durante’ also derived from ‘durare’ can mean “during” or “in the course of”, as well as “long-lasting” in Cebuano.
	+ Also likely tying in to Dante's clock motif and ability to "turn back the clock" for the Sinners.

## Trivia

* In contrast to the discrepancy with Yi Sang's uniform reading "Lee Sang" instead of "Yi Sang", the overcoat on Dante's talking sprite shows their correct name, "DANTE", while their splash art shows "DURANTE".
	+ This is the only instance where a Sinner's call sign that was written on their personal belongings is replaced by the character's actual name.

* Dante (단테) shares their exact same name with Dante (단테), a Fixer of the Seven Association's Southern Branch, Section 3 — fought in an optional encounter *Library of Ruina*.
	+ This is likely a coincidence, as Dante is not the only instance of two characters sharing a name (ex. Rose from Wonderlab and Rose from W. Corp).
* Dante appears to split the difference between the role of a silent protagonist (similar to the player character of *Lobotomy Corporation*) and being an independent character with their own personality (similar to Angela and Roland, the main characters of *Library of Ruina*).
	+ This is because Dante lacks a voice actor as they are *completely inaudible* to anyone but the Sinners. Other characters —*as well as the audience*— can only hear the ticking their head prosthetic filters out.
* Dante's 'face' does not resemble a normal clock; instead it bears a resemblance to the Doomsday clock (a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human made global catastrophe).

## External Links

* *Dante (단테) - Korean page (Namuwiki)*
* *Dante (ダンテ) - Japanese page (wikiwiki)*
* *Dante (Данте) - Russian page (Project Moon wiki)*

## Navigation

 #2 **Faust** -
 #3 **Don Quixote** -
 #4 **Ryōshū** -
 #5 **Meursault** -
 #6 **Hong Lu**
 #7 **Heathcliff**
 #8 **Ishmael** -
 #9 **Rodion** - #10 ****Dante**** -
 #11 **Sinclair** -
 #12 **Outis** -