Dante

Dante is one of two sons of the Demon known as the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda and a human woman named Eva, as well as being the younger twin brother of Vergil.

## Power, Abilities, Skills, etc.

* Dante's Half-Demon blood allows him to shrug off injuries that - to a regular human or hanshin - would be fatal.
* Dante was essentially forced to learn how to fight, having been pursued by Mundus' demons since he was a child.
* Since being impaled by his sword Rebellion in a duel against his brother, Dante has unlocked the potential of his half-demon blood, giving him the ability to enter a form known as "Devil Trigger." This form increases his abilities to a supernatural extent, and even heals some damage done to him.

### Stats:

> Has four basic “styles” to use in combat.
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> ☀If changed during an enemy’s turn, it will only result in half the buff that it would normally give until his next turn, and may also not be changed again until his next turn.
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**Trickster:**

* +4 to speed/dodge rolls.
* +1 to damage recieved.
* -1 damage dealt.

**Swordmaster:**

* +2 to attack rolls using non-ranged attacks.
* +2 to damage rolls using non-ranged attacks.
* -2 to ranged damage rolls.

**Gunslinger:**

* +2 to ranged attack rolls.
* +2 to ranged damage rolls.
* -2 to non-ranged damage rolls.

**Royalguard:**

* +2 to damage rolls from any range.
* +2 to defense rolls from any range.
* -2 to counter rolls.

**[Special]** **DEVIL TRIGGER:**

* Lasts five turns.
* Removes debuffs from current style.
* On the final active turn, allows Dante to recover 3 HP.
* Upon being struck by a hit that would incapacitate him, survives with 3 HP, but is left in cooldown.
* Six-turn cooldown post-use.
* Dante can’t use Devil Trigger until five turns have passed in battle.

**Halfling Buffs:**

* Immune to sickness or organ failure.
* Doesn’t recieve active status effects, but will take any initial damage.
* Can survive any normally fatal blows, such as stabs to the heart or a gunshot to the head.

### Inventory:

* Rebellion [Image]

* Lucifer [Image]

* Pandora [Image]

* Gilgamesh [Image]

* Ebony & Ivory [Image]

* Coyote-A [Image]
* Leonidas [Image]
* Tsumugari [Image]

* Motorcycle Keys

## Character Backstory

After a brief fling as a mercenary, Dante struck out and started his own business under the guise of an odd jobs shop - a façade that has, in the past decade, become irrelevant and unused - named Devil May Cry. Ever since then, he’s taken on many Demon Hunting jobs as well as just generally helping out around the city, and even joining the police force just to help make ends meet for his office (with the assistance of Angie's painting skills and his other co-workers), in which he works to solve issues for little or even no pay thanks to Dante’s surprising hospitality and rather common forgetfulness to bill a client after a job is done.

## Storyline:

Since the start of last year, when transfers started showing up out of the blue, Dante's business has boomed. As a result, he's met valuable friends and allies, as well as hiring some helping hands for Devil May Cry - although it's mainly his single co-worker Angie who's been doing the hiring.

Being a participant in the first World Tournament (having been spurred on by the prize money), he fought and lost, but met the now deceased champion, who went by the alias "Akaoni" (Red Devil). Wishing him luck, he went on his way and since fell into the background, until the First Impact.

He fought against waves of undead, able to take them down fairly easy due to his demonic power -- eventually even taking down that one girl who liked throwing meteors (cut me some slack, I forget her name. It's been forever.)

After that and a scuffle with Shadow the Hedgehog in his office over a Chaos Emerald, he decided it might be worth it to settle down. Meeting Death, the two ended up dating for a while before she took advantage of him. Shortly after, she broke up with him, and he was then introduced to Atua (who went by Compassion at the time).

After getting to know her, the two started dating, only to be abruptly interrupted by Dante's untimely death at the hands of two other Sins, after which Dante chose to stay in Hell as it was "more fun than Heaven." So he spent his afterlife getting to know Satan, slaying demon hordes for him, and training a girl he'd met there as well. This continued until the end of the Sin game, when some parties were resurrected after Life's defeat.

Since then, Dante's spent his life as normal -- well, as normal as Dante can. He's had an encounter with Maleficent after his brother, Vergil, came to him in the form of V requesting his help. After an attack on Hollow Bastion, the Devil Alastor who was a familiar demon to Dante due to formerly being a Devil Arm he'd used, lost the remainder of his power and vanished, although the mission was overall a success with Vergil regaining his lost power after Dante's final duel with Vergil's other half.

Out of sheer boredom, Dante resurrected a pit demon in his office and introduced her to pizza.

Since then, nothing all that interesting has happened in his life.

**Fun Facts/Trivia:**

* Dante originates from the Devil May Cry series.
* Although primarily appearing in his outfit from the first Devil May Cry game due to those being the sprites from Project X Zone 2, Dante has canonically worn each of his costumes from every game in his series.