Dante reached back into his coat as well, pulling out a hunting shotgun with a sawn off bore. He fired off a normal shot at the wendigos charging the man, and began charging up another shot. "Nice gun, hotshot. Mine's better." He yelled out as he let the shot fly out of the shotgun's barrel at the running pack of wendigoes, making Dante's chest recoil back in an attempt to control the gun's power. The shot may fly into a wendigo, and bide its time until it would explode, approximately four seconds after landing in its target. There is a slight chance of it dying, but it was more of a crowd controlling ability. If the shot were to miss, it would simply run its course until finally exploding far away from anyone. He swapped the shotgun for his dual pistols, "Alright, ladies, let's get to work." He aimed the pistols at the Alpha and shot rapidly at it in an attempt to further stop the wendigo from wounding the man.
Dante blinked at the guy on the bicycle, obviously being the one he followed. He tapped into his angelic powers and summoned the twin shurikens, Aquila. He winded them back, then threw them at the wendigo that the other man lobbed his bike at. He approached the man and narrowed his eyes, blinking. "I ran short on ideas. Nothing really I could've said, I've been through a lot. Just heard my twin brother tell me he wanted to rule the world in place of a demon king we had just killed." Dante explained, giving a dismissive shrug. "All that aside, we have some rude guests giving us the cold shoulder." He said, turning his body towards the camp with the wendigos once more. He pulled the shurikens back, and relinquished the angelic powers from his body, turning the shurikens back into the sword, Rebellion. He looked at Dante, and nodded. "We'll talk later. It's ass kicking time."
Dante decided to chase Vergil through the portal he made in spite of Kat's instruction to let him be. He could not let Vergil claim control of the world. A demon leader was bad enough, but having a Nephilim in control would be hell. He gave a last ditch dive to beat the portal's closing, and did so. Dante landed with a thud on the barren and snowy landscape. He frantically looked around, eventually accepting the truth that the portal put him somewhere different than where Vergil went. He evaluated the situation and where he was, muttering out "Damn it..." as he searched around once more fruitlessly. He gave a violent punch to the ground, yelling out now. "Damn it all!" He swore into the uncaring and deaf landscape around him. With that, he began a walk, an endlessly walk that would have no meaning...
That is, until he met the tracks of a bike that lay in the snow in front of him as he strode on. Dante observed them, almost not believing that something else could be out here, and began to follow them. He followed them for the longest time until they lead to the campfire that Shivani rested at. With a hopeful sigh, he began to approach the campfire. As he drew closer, several figures were around it, giving him hope until he realized that those figures weren't there for rest; Dante didn't know exactly what they were, but they weren't there for good. He reached behind him, where Rebellion appeared on his back, and drew the sword around letting it lightly drag the snowy ground under him. He would get easily within earshot of the creatures, which would probably be near the end of the campfire's radius of light, and taunt the odd creatures.
"You're pretty damn ugly... Time for a makeover, don't you think?!" Out of all the good puns you have, you have to break out a shitty one...
Age: Immortal, but looks to be in his early to mid twenties.
Gender: Male.
Appearance:
Canon, AU, or OC?: Canon.
Universe of Origin: DmC: Devil May Cry.
Personality: Dante is arrogant and not afraid to push someone right to the edge of attacking him. He can be a tenderhearted person at times, when he isn't attempting to pick a fight with someone or just generally be a rude person. Dante has moments when he actually cares, though they could be akin to finding Atlantis.
Abilities/Weapons:
Thanks to his supernatural lineage, Dante enjoys a myriad of superhuman abilities that make him a force to be reckoned with. He has immense strength and vitality, able to toss cars with ease and not only survive but regenerate from injuries that would be instantly fatal to a mere human, and his nigh-limitless stamina allows him to run and fight continuously without need for rest. Even as a youth, his raw physical strength was suficient to fight off demons and even human authorities; it took a whole battalion of armored police officers to restrain him.
His skill with weapons is exemplary. He possesses uncanny accuracy with firearms, which allows him to fire shots without needing time to aim, or even make complicated trick shots that ricochet off of multiple enemies. In fact, he seems to have an innate finesse with all weapons he encounters, being seemingly able to master weapons without any former training. He also possess enhanced reflexes as he is able to skillfully dodge almost any attack with little effort. Dante can also glide through the air by channeling demonic energy into a angelic weapon allowing him to propel through the air.
Dante wields Rebellion, a sword given to him by his father that can morph into different types of other weapons. Its forms include a demonic battleaxe named Arbiter, an angelic scythe named Osiris, demonic gauntlets named Eryx, an angelic pair of shurikens named Aquila, and a claw-like grappling hook named Ophion.
He also has Ebony & Ivory, a pair of semi-automatic pistols; one silver, Ivory, and one black, Ebony. Dante also wields a shotgun called the Revenant and a dart-shooting gun called Kablooey.
Backstory: (Note, backstory contains spoilers!)
Dante is the child of an angel named Eva and the demon Sparda, and seemingly hunts down other demons in the twisted shadows of Limbo City, while slowly coming to grips with his ethereal powers. Dante grew up in various institutions, orphanages, youth correction facilities, and foster homes, but these were mostly operated by demons, and often resulted in torture and violence. Dante has therefore developed a deep hatred of demons and authority in general, but tries to stay incognito.
In spite of this, he attracts attention thanks to his violent tendencies and the actions of the demons against him. Dante is not subtle in his war against them, even going so far as punching out a bouncer in front of a group of people in order to enter a nightclub run by demons. The demons are even less subtle when fighting Dante, perfectly willing to tear apart Limbo City to subdue him. These mutual acts of sabotage have allowed the demons to use the media to portray Dante as public enemy number one.
After a raucous night of booze-fueled promiscuity, Dante wakes up to a young woman warning him that he's in danger. As Dante opens the door, the girl explains that he left a trail for a Hunter Demon to follow, and Dante is subsequently dragged into Limbo. After acrobatically getting dressed, Dante is guided through the Bellevue Pier's carnival by the girl, who introduces herself as Kat, a psychic medium who can see him in Limbo. Upon defeating his demon pursuer, it referred to him as "Son of Sparda," to Dante's confusion, and taunted the young man that he had been found. After returning to the human dimension, Dante is asked by Kat to come with her and meet her boss. Reluctantly, Dante accepts the proposal to repay the assistance Kat gave him at the pier.
Along the way, Kat explains that she is part of The Order, a rogue group led by who Dante calls "that masked freak on the 'net," hell-bent on exposing the demons to the world and releasing Limbo City from their clutches. The leader of The Order introduces himself as Vergil, and asks Dante about his past, which he remembers very little of thanks to a bout of meningitis when he was younger. Vergil explains that he too had lost his memory, but the instances that cause their amnesia was something only humans suffered from. Vergil explains that Dante is exceedingly important, and with his help The Order can bring down the demons. Dante scoffs at the idea, but Vergil pleads with Dante to at least let him show Dante their shared past.
Recapping their destiny, Dante asks how they can end Mundus' reign, and avenge their fallen family, but before Vergil can explain more, a Spotter finds the brothers and pulls Dante into Limbo. After fighting his way to a gate Kat made, Vergil explains to Dante the more insidious side of Mundus' actions, and outlines the plans to take out the Raptor News Network for its demonic propaganda, and the Virility Plant that brews the spiked energy drink of the same name. During Kat and Dante's journey to the Virility factory, Dante is once again pulled into the demonic dimension. As he fights his way through the twisted streets, he learns a bit more about Kat, who was taught much of her psychic abilities with Vergil's help. Once they arrive at the Virility Plant, Kat guides Dante from the mixing room and to a rift where she can spray paint a glyph to bring Dante into Limbo. From Limbo, Dante makes his way back to the mixing room, where he finds grotesque tubes feeding into the mixing tanks that people sampled cups of Virility from.
Kat helps Dante descend to the bottom of the mixing room's center air duct, where he soon confronts the "secret ingredient," a disgusting, monstrous slug-like Succubus demon hooked up to the same cords and tubes that lined the walls of the factory. During his battle with the Succubus, Dante systematically removes the demon's intubation until she falls into a river of what could only be years of her own vomit, where Dante then forces her into an industrial fan at the back of her chamber, which promptly tears her apart.
Within the Raptor News Tower, Dante and Barbas face off, with the demon badmouthing the young Nephilim and riling him up, even breaking up the fight to show Dante a newscast that local enforcement agencies found Kat and the ringleader of The Order, and were mobilizing on their headquarters. An angry Dante subdues Barbas with bullets from his twin pistols, and then quickly hurries back to The Order.
Dante gets pulled into Limbo upon his arrival at The Order's headquarters, just as SWAT teams are entering the compound. Dante watches in horror as the armed forces mercilessly kill any members of the Order they come across, while specifically searching for Kat. When Dante finally reaches Kat's location, she guides him down to the server room where Vergil is holed up. In the server room, Vergil helps Kat to expunge terabytes of data and back it up to a secure location, while Dante fights off incoming waves of demons. When all is done, Kat sets up the headquarters to self-destruct, and Vergil intends to leave her behind while he and Dante escape from Limbo. Dante stays behind to comfort Kat, instructing her on how to endure being taken into custody just as SWAT teams swarm through the server room, shooting Kat in the arm, and then beating her into unconsciousness as Dante watches helplessly from Limbo. With Kat dragged away, Dante meets up with Vergil.
Some time later, Vergil receives a video message of Mundus requesting to trade Kat for the Nephilim, Dante. Vergil is surprised to know that Mundus still doesn't know of his existence as a Nephilim as well, but nonetheless denies Dante the opportunity of saving Kat's life. Dante then offers up the information about Lilith and her unborn demon child, and the two brothers come to an agreement of kidnapping Lilith in exchange for bringing Mundus away from Silversacks Towers and possibly saving Kat. Dante returns to Devil's Dalliance and attempts to engage Lilith when she drags him into Limbo, and forces him to run through a Reality TV-like gauntlet in order to reach her. As Dante meets with Lilith face to face, she mutters of her intentions of bringing Dante's corpse to Mundus to earn favor, and even brings out their demon spawn to help battle the Nephilim.
Back at the safehouse, Kat informs the twins on what she learned while being held captive in the Silver Sacks Tower, where she used her astral projection to snoop around the grounds in Limbo. With this information, the remnants of The Order make one final attempt to reach Mundus, with Dante storming in through the front doors while Vergil sneaks in from the back, helping Dante reach higher up in the tower by taking down security protocols. Near the apex of the tower, Dante finally squares off against Drekavac a final time, routing the demon before moving on. Meeting up with Vergil, the two make their way through the Furnace of Souls, a desolate space of fiery captive souls and crag. At the top, Dante helps Vergil reactivate the generators that power the vault to Mundus' office, and once open, the two being the final phase of their plan.
Dante, tasked with drawing Mundus away from the Hell Gate, infuriates the demon king with snide comments about demon-kind and particularly Mundus' child. Mundus blasts Dante out of the office, and then rushes into him, the two of them flying out of Silversacks and onto a nearby roof. With his chance upon him, Vergil uses the Yamato to close the Hell Gate, cutting off Mundus from his immortality, and capturing his demonic soul in the human vessel Kyle Ryder. However, Mundus is still a formidable opponent, and attempts to tear out Dante's heart until he is stabbed in the back by Vergil. Mundus falls off the roof and onto a car, but instead of perishing, energy swarms around his body, and debris gathers together, forming a colossal entity of Malice, concrete, and iron. Together, the Nephilim work to take down Mundus, and expose the soul-locked body of Kyle Ryder at its core. With Mundus defeated and the Hell Gate closed, there's is nothing left to sustain Limbo, and the demonic dimension deteriorates, and demons are left in plain sight for the entire world to see.
With social media and news organizations buzzing with recent events, Dante, Kat, and Vergil look out over the city from what's left of the playground the brothers frequented as children. Vergil thanks Dante for all his help, and begins to outline his plan for ruling over humankind, which both Dante and Kat disagree with, having thought they were fighting for their freedom. Dante deduces that Vergil was only after freedom for the Nephilim, so they could live without fear of reprisal from a demon king, and Vergil claims that humans are frail, like children, and that humanity needs protection from itself. The only way to ensure that is for the Nephilim brothers to rule over the lesser race. Vergil, astounded at Dante's reaction, claims that it was them, the two Nephilim that save the humans. Angry, Dante emphasizes that without a human - Kat - they wouldn't have been able to free mankind, and would have failed miserably. Vergil states that if Dante wants no part in ruling the humans, then he should stand aside and let his brother rule alone. Dante lashes out, yelling that he didn't help his brother defeat Mundus so he could take his place, where suddenly Phineas' parting words made all too much sense.
Dante can't allow his own flesh and blood to rule over the people he had just freed, and Vergil can't let his brother obstruct his bid for domination. With the two brother's at odds, they cross swords. As the two Nephilim battled, Dante continually pleaded with his brother to reconsider, to no avail. In the end, Dante had no choice but to unleash the devil inside him and run Vergil through the heart with Rebellion. Unsure of what to do, Dante forced Vergil to the ground, impaling him with his sword until Kat begged him to let him live. Sheathing his sword, Dante helps Vergil to his feet, and declares that the world is under his protection. Vergil responds that his brother has chosen the wrong side, and that he'll never be human. Opening a dimensional rift with Yamato, Vergil mutters "I loved you, brother" before disappearing through the portal.
Dante is left questioning who he really is, and Kat succinctly replies that he is Dante—"nothing more and nothing less."
Faction: No Faction, but he would likely side with the UMMA.
@Earnest Evans And? I like the remake's Dante a lot, that being the main reason I chose "Donte" over Dante. He's different. I know who I'm playing, I realize he's not the most liked from the series, but I like him. @VitaVitaAR And yes, he's not fitting to who he is in the original games, and that's what I like. There's originality to him. He's not like the Dante from the original. Sure, there are things I like about the original Dante that DmC's Dante doesn't have, but there are plenty of things that DmC's Dante has that the original does not.
