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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]

[There's a pause before Dante texts back this time. He's not expecting Noah to sympathize with him--he was expecting the other boy to snap at him and leave him alone. He doesn't want to talk about it, not with anyone, but at the same time, ever since the game ended it's been gnawing at him, festering like an open wound.

Finally...]

yeah

i guess i am




we were in this haunted mansion and got forced into playing this game by one of the ghosts there. it was either play or he'd have hung the both of us

i tried to throw the game to make sure he'd be okay but...

[But he'd fucked up.]

there were these blades in the ceiling. they dropped down right onto him and i couldn't do a goddamn thing to stop it

what the fuck is the point of all of this stuff from retrospec if you can't protect the people around you when it actually matters?!

[redarm]

[He didn't really expect Dante to open up at all, so it's a bit of a surprise. But he'll read through the message. It...sounds absolutely sadistic, the place they were. His team mostly had monster fighting. Which while that was tough, monsters aren't exactly sadistic in that manner. They just want to eat you....]

i dont know.

[That's his honest answer, since he's feeling it himself. He spent week struggling, pushing himself- all to save his friends. To save Ryoji. But in the end, before they even had a chance to reunite....]

i dont know what the point is, or if there even is fucking one. its all shit.

but i think you did the right thing, even if it didnt work.

[darkinferno]

what's the point if it didn't work

don't answer that, it's not important

i'd rather forget the whole thing ever happened

[redarm]

cant blame you there...

[in fact to even help Dante get his mind off it...]

whatd make a good housewarming gift for a stunt man who lost his houseboat?

[darkinferno]

[Distraction successful! It helps that Dante's willing to be distracted...]

there was someone living on a houseboat? i didn't know those things were actually real

buy him a life preserver

[redarm]

well he lived on a houseboat. But he lost it when the ocean went away for awhile?

so now hes got an apartment but no stuff in it.

[darkinferno]

does he have stuff like furniture and towels yet? normally i'd say alcohol but if he lost all that too, that's probably a better idea

[redarm]

im too young to buy alcohol.
and as far as i know hes got nothing.
just a bed.

[darkinferno]

you know people who would buy it

but get him something useful if that's the case, if you walked into a new home with a pair of mattresses on the floor what's the first thing you'd want to make it more livable

[redarm]

sure i do.
but its a dumb idea when the partys being hosted by a social worker.

[Not that he thinks Dante would be too broken up if he was sent off to live in foster care, BUT HE RATHER NOT]

me?
definitely food related.
a microwave or something.