Dante Aventus

Dante is the main villain of Part 1 Threads of Fate along with making an appearance at the end of Part 3 after being revived by Romeo Valentino. He is the reason Part 3 even happened, and is one of few characters in the server that have been revived after their initial death.

## Appearance

Dante is a very tall and imposing man, with long, unkempt hair. He normally wears a bland white dress shirt with a black vest with a black tie under the vest.

## Personality

Dante is a man of sadistic and manipulative nature. To those who support him he comes off as genuine and well meaning, attempting to lead his loyal subordinates to glory and riches. This is of course an act of calculated manipulation. Through these means he was able to recruit the likes of Davide, Jax, and Romeo, all powerful stand users who were loyal to him even in the face of their own deaths. For his lesser subordinates he is not as kind, and those who offer no real value to him are disposed of if they cannot keep up. To his enemies he is exceptionally cruel. He greatly enjoys battle and toying with his enemies before he finishes them, and loves the pain and suffering he is able to bring to others. He has no mercy for any who challenge him and is utterly ruthless in crushing opposition.

## Stand Ability

Separate Ways is a stand ability based around altering past actions of its user, Dante Aventus. The ability works like this: When activated Dante is able to alter any of his previous actions within the last 30 seconds. However there are restrictions to this. The first thing is that any information gained after the altered action can be used. This effectively limits Dante to only choosing between actions he could have chosen in that moment. Once activated there is a bright flash of light as the new results of his action take effect. No memories are altered and everyone affected will still remember the original timeline.

The stand is further supplemented by its excellent close combat centric stats.

## Requiem Form

In the final battle of Part 1 Dante achieved his life long dream and gained unlimited power through the form of Separate Ways Requiem. This stand has the nearly unparalleled ability to control the past. Separate Ways Requiem has the ability to alter any action, event, or choice in the last 5 minutes. This has almost no restrictions and allows Dante to craft realities that perfectly fit what he needs at any given moment.

## Frontier Form:

Stand ability: Something of a fusion between Separate Ways original ability to swap past decisions of its user and its requiem ability to entirely alter the past, Separate Way’s new form, acquired after his revival in part 3, allows Dante to rewind time 10 seconds and change his actions. The actions of others are not changed. None but Dante are conscious of time being rewound, and they will remember the original timeline, and will not have memory of Dante’s new created timeline, and will only experience the result of his actions. Unlike the original ability Dante is able to alter his actions in any way he wishes, and can bring knowledge of what has happened in the present back with him.

This ability is obviously one of the most powerful ever to be seen on the server. Not only does the stand itself have very impressive stats but its primary ability allows Dante to effectively nullify any attack, provided he survive long enough to do activate his rewind, and allows him to attack unimpeded while altering the timeline.

Weakness: Because of its nature of altering and reforming timelines Separate Ways cannot exist in the same timeline twice, meaning that once a time is altered it cannot be altered again, and Dante cannot rewind into that time. This means that after each use of his rewind he cannot rewind time again for at least 10 seconds, otherwise he would rewind into an already altered timeline and end up destroying himself, this leaves him open to counter attacks. As well as that his stand is exceptionally short ranged, and has no effective method for countering long range abilities without using his rewind.

## Backstory

Not much is known about the history of Dante Avnetus. What is known is that at the age of 23 he suddenly rose out of obscurity and claimed rulership over the black markets of Italy, and rapidly began subjugating the many stand users of the Italian Underworld. Over the next 6 years his power only grew, until his gang, Red October, stood at the very top, unrivalled by any. Dante himself throughout this time kept himself very secretive and rarely showed his own face or even shared his name with any of those beneath him, keeping himself hidden to all but his most trusted followers. This however also granted him great freedom, as he was able to openly travel and do as he pleased without any fear of being recognized, this lead to many meeting the “Crimson Titan” without even knowing it. Dante’s reign lasted untill 2019, when his empire was toppled by a little known stand user Pazicio Azuro and his own gang, Blue Christmas. Though he would not only achieve Requiem and kill almost all of his enemies during the final battle he would still meet his death, defeated by his rival Pazicio and his own requiem. 2 years later he was revived by the efforts of his loyal subordinate Romeo Valentino, of course this didn’t last long, and he was quickly returned to his grave by a group of allied stand users.