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Dante Rantanen

"Hey, you've reached Dante. I'm not in right now--you know what to do."

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[darkinferno]

you're kidding

it's not a chicken, it's a rat with wrinkles and ears too big for its head

[darkinferno]

i don't know of any other mako on the network

last time i talked to him outside of pen's party, he was being sketchy and asking people that didn't know him to meet him in private for some sort of secret thing he wouldn't give any details on

isn't he the one that's supposed to be reminding us all about stranger danger

you have? i apparently haven't been paying attention. how long have you been connected?

[originallutece]

Yes.

And his name is Kawaii-san.

[darkinferno]

i don't know john you might just have to take one for the team

[darkinferno]

[Welp.]

was it yu or souji

[godcards]

shut up SHUT UP YOU'RE NOT LISTNING AT ALL YOU'RE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT I SAY YOU STUCK UP ASSHOLE I HATE YOU LEAVE ME ALONE GO AWAY GOAW AY GO A WA Y

[sharplydressed]

let me live wtf
also honestly id say no but you might
he does sometimes stop by to do the grocery shopping after practice
he's a really hopeless guy

[erythristic]

[if she knows what's actually going on, she has the decency to not show it. to pretend that he's just fine and preserve his pride - because he's young enough to need it, and because it gives her the chance to have this settle in her heart. people weren't let close with her - they simply ended up there by circumstance and some coincidental design - but even so. even so it feels less like a duty and more what simply should be.]

Of course. Anything.

Accidental photo 9/13

[standalonehuman]

[darkinferno]

so why are you sending me pictures of women glaring at you? if she didn't want her picture taken you shouldn't have pushed it

[Of note: there is definitely no bra in this picture. Togusa, he didn't know!]

i didn't take you for the sort of guy for casual flings

[standalonehuman]

[So. Togusa is panicking harder now, because Dante's message pops up in his vision instead of staying on his god damn phone like Retrospec should.

Fuck fuck fuck.]

How did you get a picture? I didn't take a picture! What the FUCK, Retrospec?

And no. No no. Very no. That's Mariko, I'm at her place.

[darkinferno]

a lot of us working together and a lot of persistence

[Is it really any surprise at all that he was in the middle of that fray?]

[darkinferno]

well unless retrospec's fucked enough that they're sending their stalker photos from other people's accounts to the wrong people you definitely sent me a picture

isn't that the woman you told me to stay away from

i see what's going on here

[...sorry, Togusa. But low-hanging fruit and all that.]

[standalonehuman]

THE OPPOSITE OF THAT, DANTE. WHATEVER YOU ARE THINKING. THINK THE OPPOSITE.

Mariko is a friend. And technically a colleague of a sort. So no.

[darkinferno]

[He's laughing, honestly.]

like that's stopped the rpd before

[standalonehuman]

Me. Dante. It stops me. Somebody might be happy to mix business and pleasure which I still haven't gotten to the bottom of.

Your fault. Why do I know this?

[darkinferno]

[Oh.

Oh.

Abruptly Dante's expression goes blank and he lets out a quiet sigh. More death. More killing. Is there any of them that hasn't been affected by it in some way by this point, whether it be through their memories or their reality...? (There probably is, but it's a topic that's been far too real in the past week for his liking.) At any rate, this is a topic that he has to face head-on--it's not right to Sorey to keep disrespecting it, to keep making sarcastic comments to deflect.

That doesn't mean he's happy about it. But Dante takes the other boy's words in, listening and frowning.]

Do you know anything about that person? Who they were, or why you killed them?

[Is this really a conversation you want to have in public where people might overhear, Sorey?]

[darkinferno]

because for some reason you decided to care about what other people said to me

you brought this on yourself

[standalonehuman]

My fault for caring. Of course.

Equally your fault for being interesting and actually giving a damn about what's happening in the city, then.

[darkinferno]

most of the time people decide it's not worth the effort, not my fault you decided to be an outlier

[Okay, okay, he's. Actually pretty quietly grateful for that fact.]

but while we're on the topic of what's happening in the city

how'd that picture get sent to me if you didn't take it

[standalonehuman]

I've got my phone with me. If I'm at home, I put the damn thing in a box because of the last time we thought Retrospec hijacked our cameras.

It's paranoid, but maybe I was right to.

[darkinferno]

were you holding your phone when that picture was taken?

[standalonehuman]

.............no

[darkinferno]

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so you probably aren't as right as you hoped

[standalonehuman]

There's something that I remembered.

And I really have to hope that something like it hasn't happened yet.

It was a way that other people could see what you were seeing, through machines.