Dante

Dante with Dr. Faust equipped – almost never seen without it.

Gay Cowboy

Son of Sparda

Tony Redgrave

Vergil (Brother)

Nero (Nephew)

> "*The mayor's got it under control - who needs cops when she's got miniguns?*"
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## Personality

Despite typically facing seemingly overwhelming odds and foes, Dante has always remained a flippant figure considering he will often play around with his enemies. Even in tense situations, the devil hunter will very likely remain carefree and simply act as though there were no big deal. Were he to know for certain that a possible opponent was weaker than he, Dante would either simply pull his punches (as in the case with his first bout with his nephew, Nero) or refrain from fighting altogether. Despite being seemingly callous or apathetic, he does maintain a sense of justice which is likely inherited from his father. Aside from those he would call friends, Dante also cares strongly for his family – even for his brotherly rival Vergil. As fighting malevolent and supernatural enemies is more or less his line of work, the devil hunter lives for a good bout or so. Strangely enough, though he may complain about needing money to pay for his workplace's bills, Dante has never once required that someone hiring him pay. Oftentimes in Starcrossing, his lackadaisical nature will often lead to near-absentmindedness.

## Background

Dante is a devil hunter who hails from Red Grave City and happens to have ended up in Starcross not long before Christmastime. Born to the devil who was once the right-hand man of the then ruler of the Demon World and a human mother, he carries on his father's legacy by thwarting any possible Underworldly re-invasion of the Human World. His entrance into Starcross all started when he opened the door to his workplace (which normally resides in Red Grave) and found himself in the middle of New Donk City.

Of course, work had been quite slow as of late, so not only was he in another world **but** was also near-bankrupt. After some exploring about the island, he found a certain village full of sakura trees..

## Story

After humorously de-escalating a conflict between a certain Bakugou and residents of Blossom Village through letting himself be knocked about like a punching bag, the human-demon hybrid found himself becoming a sort of de facto bouncer. Once he'd become acquainted with the island's inhabitants and to an extent, the world of Starcross itself, the usually apathetic and work-hungry Dante couldn't find himself but start to legitimately care about his newfound allies. This was made no less apparent when the Fell Dragon Grima made his return to the island after more than half of a year's length of time, and the devil hunter made himself known through assisting in the initial efforts to resist Grima.

Nearly just a week after the new year was rung in, the Saiyan prince Vegeta announced the start of a tournament for 64 of Starcross's finest fighters to duke it out. Taking the opportunity to make more of a name for himself, Dante could not help but excitedly join the bandwagon albeit being initially cynical of the other participants. This attitude would eventually change once he met Michi Akechi in the crowd of spectators viewing Parsley and Ruby Rose's bout. Her overall cheeriness and eagerness to see fun fights made Dante think twice about seeing the competition in such a bad light. Once the flamboyant hunter faced off against Mario himself, this proved true, and he saw the legitimate sincerity and righteousness in the plumber's manner of battling and general conduct.

After the next round or so in which he put his style to the test against Clownpiece and won, Dante found himself joining up with Michi's Short Squad as an ally. It did not take long until the Squad had gotten embroiled in the homicides of a certain Darkter, so the crew went to work with the help of the Detective Prince himself – Goro Akechi. Thanks to the detective's briefings, Dante learns that his Shadow is very likely deep within Mementos, and that Darkter cannot target those who have awakened their Personas from their initial states as Shadows.

On round four, after surprisingly pulling out the rug from under Kirby, a certain brother of Dante's had made his way to Starcross to continue their usual bickering and rivalry.. only to end up actually partially making up for their previous feuds. Vergil knew that another tool at Dante's disposal wouldn't have hurt and thus began to train him in use of the Yamato – Vergil's space-shearing katana. Round five saw Dante falling victim to K. Rool's trick of using Dark K. Rool as a stand-in for himself. Fortunately, the devil hunter had plenty of fight left in him — the fight did not continue, though, as Rool took the disqualification. Still not satisfied with his brother's capability with his signature weapon, Vergil took it further upon himself to train Dante in performing more adequate techniques like Judgement Cut. Once he'd seen the dreamer Madotsuki's feat of effectively banishing Remilia Scarlet to a completely unknown place in their respective match, the sibling legitimately had slight fear of losing his brash brother.

## Abilities and Gear

Thanks to his being half-demon, Dante has numerous Tricks up his sleeve. These include:

* The bare necessities of being superhuman; those being inhuman strength, agility, and even durability considering the many times he's been impaled, even with entire relatively large swords.
* A healing factor that *would* normally put Deadpool to shame. For reasons still unknown to him, Dante's recovery is majorly stunted in Starcross — minor wounds take at the most a minute to be fixed up, but major ones can take about an hour.
* Proficiency with close-ranged combat, especially with any melee weapons.
* Proficiency with long-ranged combat, especially with firearms.
* His signature four styles of choice: **Trickster** (his speediest and most evasive), **Swordmaster** (expands his melee potential), **Gunslinger** (expands his ranged potential), and **Royalguard** (his parry and counter). Additionally, he has kept two from back in his younger days like **Quicksilver** (timestop) and **Doppelganger** (summons a double to mirror his every move) should a situation ever call for them.
* By tapping into his demonic side, Dante can use the form known as a **Devil Trigger** (**DT**) which boosts his already impressive abilities for a limited time.
* More recently, he has learned to tap *even more* into his devilish abilities through the use of his **Sin Devil Trigger** (**SDT**) which allows him to surpass the sheer power of even the most legendary demons such as his father Sparda, but it lasts for even less time than the normal **DT**.

Of course, no hunter's complete without their own tools!

* The **Devil Sword Dante** (**DSD**): A sword created from the fusing of an older blade in his younger years (**Rebellion**) along with one his father was known for using (**Sparda**) — this sword not only shares Dante's name, but it also contains his will.
* **Balrog**: A set of gauntlets and greaves acquired after Dante's trouncing of a bigshot demon also named Balrog. It works through two modes: Blow Mode (boxing-like attacks) and Kick Mode (breakdancing-like attacks). This weapon can be "Ignited" (adding a fiery effect to attacks) through landing 10 hits in Blow Mode or manually lighting it up with a dance in Kick Mode.
* **Ebony** & **Ivory**: Dante's specially designed handguns which thankfully never require reloading as his demonic power allows for constant loading of ammunition. Weak as each individual shot may be, this is not necessarily the case at all for when he switches to **Gunslinger**.
* **Coyote-A**: Unlike his pistols, this double-barrel shotgun needs to be reloaded with each pull of the trigger as both barrels fire simultaneously. Becomes much, much more useful with **Gunslinger**.
* **Double Kalina Ann**: A pair of rocket launchers on loan from a female friend of his; they can be combined to perform **Cascade** (a sensibly effective laser) or even **Mega Cascade** (a much more prolonged, wider, and long-reaching version of **Cascade**), just a few of his hardest-hitting ranged attacks.
* **Cavaliere**: While at first glance just an odd looking motorcycle, upon seeing it one would get the impression that it worked as though the wheels were effectively the blades of a chainsaw. This Devil Arm can even be separated into two halves to function as gnarly chainsaw-swords, even.
* **Dr. Faust**: Gifted to Dante by a lady friend of Nero's. Faust is a cowboy hat that, once put on, spawns a red scarf which lengthens depending how many Red Orbs Dante has on-hand. It can even be thrown to enemies and, on direct contact with it, places a spectral version of Faust on their head regardless of previous headwear. Upon the real hat's return to Dante's hands, he can immediately pull off his signature **Hat Trick** and its pose(s), causing any foes' spectral versions of Faust to explode into a shower of Red Orbs. Like his other ranged gear, **Gunslinger** allows for even more techniques.
* **Cerberus**: A three-for-one weapon acquired from the eponymous devil dog – ice nunchaku, an electrifying three-section staff, and a fire bo-staff.

## Friends

### Sans

Considering their relatively lax attitudes, it's no wonder why they immediately got friendly with each other. Dante holds Sans in high regard due to his being able to tell that the skeleton has a few Tricks up his sleeve that he'd rather have downplayed and ability to make a damn fine strawberry sundae. He and Sans often get into zany shenanigans whenever downtime comes about due to their easily being bored.

### Mr. Game & Watch

Of all things to have surprised Dante about Starcross, seeing a straight up two-dimensional figure was somehow not the strangest thing he's seen so far. Oftentimes the two will tag along to see what's what, be it a Short Squad matter or general Blossom Village one. When it came time for the two to do battle in the tournament, Dante consistently especially made sure to not go completely all-out against Game considering his being 2D making him relatively fragile compared to the others. Despite eventually blowing the little LCD friend up with a Mega Cascade from his Kalina Anns, Akechi was on-hand to revive Game who (thankfully) didn't have any hard feelings.

### Michi Nisenaki

Dante never expected to make any pals through inaction or, in this case, watching two other people doing the action as he stood with a crowd. However, their shared passion for doing and watching cool or "badass" stuff on the daily led to a quick friendship and even alliance between Dante himself and Michi's Short Squad formed partway through the Starcross Tournament. Having learned of her not being a human per say and actually a Shadow (he had no idea what those were at the time), the gay cowboy tries to have a helping hand in brushing her up on what it's like to be an official human. He and Majima have tried their hand in training the floof up in the event she has to take measures into her own hands.

## Enemies

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