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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]

[How about they move out of the kitchen? This feels more like a sitting conversation. So Dante will meander toward somewhere cozy to sit before he responds, somewhere the both of them can sit side by side (and he raises his arm to beckon Vera to him, his arm ready to drape over her shoulders if she lets him). Because this... this is a hard reality, one that he still hasn't quite made peace with himself.]

I don't think it matters how strong we get. No matter what we do or how strong we are, we can't control the rest of the world. We can't always be fast enough, or make the right judgment call... there's always gonna be something else.

We're getting stronger, but that just means there are bigger challenges to face.

[heiroglyphs]

[It's amazing how comfortable she is around Dante, and he appears to be around her. This is a girl who, on an almost daily basis, goes through painstaking efforts to keep from showing weakness. Yet here she is showing that vulnerability without care. She trusts Dante, maybe more than she trusts anyone else in the world, and if her best friend wants her near, then she'll oblige.

Even if her pride forces a bit of an eye roll as she settles down beside him.]

I need to find a way to protect these people, it's what the... other me had gone to school to do, and now she's given me the power to keep growing. There has to be a way to out-pace the threat, right?

[darkinferno]

[The eye roll wouldn't bother Dante even if it was sincere. He takes comfort in physical contact, something Vera's probably picked up on as they've gotten closer, and there's something incredibly nice about knowing exactly where their relationship stands. There's no hidden meanings as his thumb brushes her shoulder idly, no need to consider that she might get the wrong idea. It's an easy, comfortable friendship where the both of them can be themselves.

But that comfort and ease doesn't stop him from wishing he didn't have to admit it:] I don't know. I wish I could say there was.

The other you, did she ever out-pace the things that threatened the people there?

[heiroglyphs]

[She has to think long and hard about that question, so much so that she hardly notices his idle rubbing of her shoulder.]

It's... hard to say. I don't have a whole lot of memories of fighting, and even when I do, it's mostly my team and I against some freaky demon animal monsters.

[Resting her head on the inside of Dante's shoulder, she lets out a small sigh.]

Even if we won, it didn't really feel like we accomplished anything. I feel like... there was a much bigger threat than what we could handle.