Dante

Art by AppleJuicys

### Fears

* Nothing. Man's died singing while being burned alive, He's either the bravest guy out there, or he's just too dumb to know when he's supposed to be scared.

### Weapon

He *can* control fire but he just wants to sing and play music

## Appearances

### Story Appearances

* Silent Treatment Pt.1 (Story)
* Silent Treatment Pt.2 (Story)
* One Last Time (Story) (NSFW)

****Main Page****
**Gallery**

 My death made news nearly everywhere! Surely, you must have heard!
 — Dante, Silent Treatment

**Dante** *(Formerly Andrew Playbill)* is a popular undead Rockstar from Bonemaw. He died during an accident during one of his concerts where some fire effects went off before their time which caused him and his stage to get caught on fire.

However, rather than saving himself as he was being burnt alive, he chose to keep on singing, wishing to finish his show, and after he died, rather than moving on into the Afterlife, his soul refused and went on to possess what was left of his body so he could keep on singing.

The concert in a way had been a success, and after returning from the dead, Dante's popularity only kept on growing, making him a local celebrity in Bonemaw.

## **Appearance**

Dante is 188cm tall, being a skeleton, he has no flesh whatsoever, but is still quite heavy. He has two bull-like horns with earrings on their sides, yellow eyes and sharp teeth. His hair and tongue appear to be made of fire, though they don't seem to burn when touched.

He does not wear a shirt, having a visible ribcage, instead, he wears a long black jacket with short sleeves and bone-like decorations.

His arms appear to constantly be on fire and he wears fingerless gloves. He also wears a belt adorned with a skull and black cargo pants and well as black boots, which are also decorated with bone-coloured spikes.

The back of his coat appears to be decorated with a spine and other bone-like appendages.

## **Personality**

At first appearance, Dante appears to be rather scary and intimidating, as well as angry and a brute, however, this couldn't be further from the truth. Dante is quite energetic and loud, and although he's friendly, his personality can come across as very overbearing to most.

He's a bit of an egomaniac, obsessed with his own journey as a musician, and taking great pride in his work, not in the sense that he sees himself as better than anyone else, but more like he's his own biggest fan.

Oddly enough, despite this, Dante doesn't really let fame get to his head too much, and keeps a close connection with his roots, having a surprisingly down-to-earth private life contrasting with his intense rockstar persona.

Having grown in a farm, he has an affinity for farm animals, with bulls and cows being his favourites, and he tends to be very empathetic, which can result in him coming across as naive at times.

Dante is also known for his overly flirtatious personality, finding himself unable to say no when propositioned by others, he's really outgoing and likes anyone that likes him back.

He still respects his partners, but due to his incapability of settling down, he never gets into any serious relationships, and mostly just seeks companionship from others. This is partially due to his heart still belonging to one of his past lovers, and Dante having trouble moving on from him.

He's still a people pleaser at heart, and although he's quite extravagant and eccentric, he's somehow still the nicest guy you'll ever meet.

## **Abilities**

Dante is a skilled musician, although he both plays the guitar and writes most of his songs, his biggest passion is singing.

Dante also seems to be able to manifest fire at will, which he mostly uses for no reason other than to show off. Contrary to regular fire, his will not burn whoever touches it as it is made of a ghostly ectoplasm-like material that resembles fire.

Being a skeleton, he can also pop off parts of his body, but he doesn't do it that often as he finds it really bothersome to put himself back together every time.

## **Relationships**

### **Angus**

Despite being very close, Dante and his brother have somewhat of a rocky relationship.

Being orphaned at a young age, Angus ended up taking a more parental role over Dante, growing increasingly controlling and neurotic, which clashed with Dante's more relaxed and carefree attitude.

Angus had always been dismissive of Dante's aspirations to become a singer, regarding his music career as childish and not viable for his future, as well as not seeing it as "productive" work.

This caused Dante to distance himself from his brother, eventually moving out to get away from him, despite still caring for him.

Their relationship seemed to improve when he moved out, only to quickly go downhill when Dante died and was reborn, resulting in his brother refusing to speak with him over being angry over his lack of responsibility.

They eventually reunited, which resulted in a large argument ending in Dante cutting off his brother for good.

Due to Angus' tendency to berate and overly criticize him, Dante prefers to keep his distance from him. However, throughout the years, Angus has slowly loosened up, and they regained friendly terms.

As such, Dante's visits have also become more frequent, with him occasionally staying over to help his brother out in the ranch when needed and using his earnings to help out the family farm.

Dante really cares for Angus a lot, but he also can't stand hanging out with him for long due to how much they end up arguing all the time.

### **Rick**

Rick was a bandit who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and was captured by Dante's brother Angus in an overly contrived scheme to try and get information out of him about where the hiding place of the desert raiders was located.

Dante played more of an unwilling spectator role part in this, and after his brother left him in charge, Dante struck a conversation with the bandit, taking pity of his situation and deciding to release him against his brother's wishes.

He never heard from him again until a few months later in an unrelated encounter, and as Dante struck a conversation with him, the two began to form a strong friendship bond, with Dante often seeking him to hang out. With time, they developed romantic feelings for each other and eventually secretly got into a relationship.

Dante cared for him deeply, but when Rick began to feel doubtful, scared of outing himself to his family, and afraid that being with someone as popular as Dante could put himself at risk, they decided to break-off their relationship despite how strongly they felt for each other.

Dante never really managed to get over him, and neither did Rick, who requested the break-up to begin with. Despite this, they remained close friends and it's clear to anyone that they still have feelings for each other and it's part of the reason why Dante can't really settle with any of his new partners.

Although Rick claims to be keeping his distance, they still meet up and hang out often, and Dante is always excited to see his Cactus friend, even knowing that a proper romantic relationship isn't possible.

And with their tendency to drink when they're together, they do sometimes find themselves hooking up, much to their dismay. This often results in claims that *"this time"* they'll break up for real, but with how often this occurs, neither of them think they can stick to that promise.

### **Sadie**

friend

Dante is so glad to have more family members. Sadie is a delight :)

### **Lucia**

Madre Lucia was surprised at how Dante had managed to go through the undead revival process all by himself without any of her or any other Reaper's input. Normally she'd take him to the Afterlife, but finding him to be such an oddity, *and with such a charming personality no less*, she chose to let him stay for a while longer.

Dante appreciated her gesture and even wrote some songs dedicated to her.

### **Olivia**

Liv's association with Angus was retconned so I don't know what to do about keeping her here hmm

### **Cherry**

Cherry is a young singer who Dante met once. He was impressed by her energy on stage but noticed she seemed a bit nervous when meeting him. He's always happy to meet a fan and hopes her career is successful.

Cherry has requested for them to do a collab together and Dante said that he was going to think about it. Could be fun!

### **Mother**

Nice lady! They got along and he was very spoiled as a kiddo.

### **Father**

He's okay. Dante found him too stern and uptight for his liking, similar to Angus is a lot of ways.

### **Stepmother**

He never met her and all he has are pictures to go by. When they were younger, he could tell that Angus missed her and Dante wished he knew how to comfort him. He's a bit intimidated at the idea of his stepmother, but from his family's stories, she seemed alright.

## **Lore**

Very simple, the guy caught on fire during a concert and died and he was so hardcore that he refused to stay dead and his ghost went on to possess his burnt body and decided to keep on singing.

## **Trivia**

* His name was directly inspired on Dante's Hell.

* His design is inspired on a Houndoom (Pokémon) and on Lewis from the Mystery Skulls "Ghost" music video.
	+ This accidentally made him look like the Ghost Rider, which was actually completely unintentional.
* In his early concepts, Dante was actually imagined as a skeleton of a Fire Elemental Drimare rather than his current Regular Drimare self. The reason I didn't go with this was because I wrote it down and proceeded to immediately forget about it.
* Dante is bilingual and speaks both English and Spanish.

## **Navigation**

**⧼ *Bonemaw* ⧽**

 Locations | Bonemaw ✦ Ashenpyre ✦ Nopal ✦ Haven of Madre Lucia ✦ Aurean Canyons ✦ Maverick ✦ Leadsdale