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[Ajisai] Dante

Published: Apr 15, 2016

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Dante Casimiro | 22 | Cis Male | Mewtwo
Bisexual (Aromantic) | February 6th
3rd Year College | Swim Team Captain

Personality:

Dream Job: [Redacted]

Personality:
• Intelligent | Charismatic | Perceptive | Driven | Meticulous | Perfectionist | Ambitious | Cold | Manipulative | Remorseless | Narcissistic
• Dante possesses the sharpest of minds and a flawless charm, an impeccable student who is generally well-liked by teachers and peers. He is a talented leader, and understands people well enough that he can get along with most anyone, at least on a casual basis. He's also fairly flexible, capable of rolling with any situation presented before him, and a perfectionist in every sense of the word. However, almost the entirety of his seeming shining personality is a carefully honed fabrication; his true nature is unrelentingly manipulative. He cares for no one but himself, is vain to the point of narcissism, and considers other people to be generally beneath his time and attention. He gives that attention because it's expected of him, but cares little for the thoughts and feelings of most people. There are precious few persons that he considers "worth the effort", and even his regard for them doesn't protect them from the frigidity of his bearing when his expectations aren't met. Most of that unpleasantness, however, is carefully tucked away; even at his worst, he'll rarely show anything more telling on his face than bland disinterest, betrayed only by the coldness of his eyes. The rest of the time, expect to be faced with an unfailingly polite, even occasionally good-natured, ambitious young man.

History:

It is not an easy life, being the sole heir to a large family crime syndicate.

From a young age, even before being exposed to the darker side of his father's world, Dante was carefully shaped to eventually take up his father’s mantle. Involved in just about every dark dealing imaginable, Dante’s father was the leader of a sprawling crime family well before Dante was born. His wife, Dante’s mother, was a good but impassive woman, disapproving but unable to influence her husband in any way that truly mattered. She did what she could to bolster the public face of her husband’s business, keeping their name clean enough to keep her husband out of prison. She even went to far as to open a soup kitchen in her name, in some small effort to undo the evils done by her husband and his associates. A stronger woman might have fought back, taken a stand, but good is not always strong.

For Dante, the idle fancies of childhood were discouraged, and he was pushed excel in school; nothing less than the best would suffice, and failure was never an option. At home, starting from as young as ten, he was tutored in politics and law and business, anything that might give him an edge later in life. He never complained, never faltered, and he went about the work with the single-minded efficiency that was endlessly drilled into him. There were no friends, there were future business partners; there were no girlfriends or boyfriends, only distractions (or, at best, potential allies). Dante’s world, difficult but not hopeless, devolved into a black and blacker morality the older he became, and things like “kindness” or “generosity” were taught to be useful tricks, but nothing to put any emotional stock in.

In a way, school was difficult, especially at first. He had trouble connecting with people his age, and until he learned to hide it, social situations openly confused him. A lifetime secluded from friends and play and fostering what might have been his personal interests and passions meant that all he could do was focus on maintaining top scores. Eventually, pride forced him to learn how to hide how completely he didn’t understand people and relationships, and eventually to fake his understanding well enough that it was no longer obvious.

Though originally from Castelia City in Unova, at fifteen years old Dante's mother enrolled him in Ajisai Academy in Johto. The distance, she insisted, would be good for him, away from the world his father was so relentlessly building around him. In a way, it was the greatest act of defiance against her husband — and love for her son — that she was ever able to muster. In her heart she felt that giving Dante a change of scenery, a change of people, would open him up to the world he'd been missing out on since he was a child.

In the midst of that transfer, when Dante was fifteen years old and just settling into the Academy, his mother died. Or rather, was killed. A former member of the gang, angry at being discharged for some small failure, against Dante’s father. In a single afternoon, Dante lost both his mother and his father; his mother to a place he could never again reach her, and his father to a broken heart. His wife, meek and good and ignored by him all his life, suddenly meant the world to him. Dante’s father lavished more love on her memory than he’d ever shown the living woman — to Dante, it was a pathetic, empty display, and the first glimpse to him of how truly weak his father was. His mother, the only person Dante might have loved, who supported him and tried to help him lead a normal life, was gone.

Dante returned from school in the middle of the semester to see to his mother's funeral arrangements. If there had been anything left of his heart, this would destroyed it, and as it was he went about doing what needed to be done with a stony, numb sort of coldness. But despite it all, he kept a level head. His father did not come out so seemingly unscathed.

After, Dante’s father took his grief and pain out on his son, already-intense training turned almost cruel. His excuse was that he needed to ensure that Dante would never make the same mistakes he made, and for that to happen Dante would have to be impossibly perfect. While he became even harder on his son, the rest of Dante’s father softened. He opened several food-kitchens and charitable institutions in their city, all in memory of his wife. He became less severe with his men, and started ignoring when their work was sloppy, or their behavior too of line. The empire he had spent all his life building slowly started to lose its foundation, becoming all the more dangerous for loosening the reins.

In memory of his mother, despite his father's protests, Dante returned to the Academy. It was, in a way, his mother's final wish that he go, that he study in some semblance of normalcy, that he find whatever part of himself she'd hoped he look for there. He wouldn't, of course — her wish had come too little and too late, and there was nothing that could shift the course he had been set (and had set himself) on. But for her, he'd go through the motions.

When Dante was nineteen, his father finally re-married, and when he was twenty, his step-mother gave birth to a little girl. At that point, Dante lost his father completely — suddenly uninterested in his son, he became the doting father to his daughter that he never was for Dante. At first, Dante resented it, but soon forgot why he should even bother to care; he was more than self-sufficient at this point and, given how far his father had fallen, preferred to have such a weak person removed from his life.

Dante continues with the Academy, nearing the end of his college career and setting his mother's hopes to rest along with her. Once he graduates, he has more than a few plans for himself and for the shambling skeleton of the once-powerful empire left behind by his father. For now, it remains difficult to directs things from the school, but he manages it with the kind of proficiency with which he manages just about everything else.

Additional Info:

Likes: Fast Cars | Well-Tailored Clothes | Exercise | Reading | Leading | manipulating his only and closest friend into an unhealthy and unbalanced power-play on-and-off-again specter of a romance
Dislikes: Chatty People | Children | Dark Rooms/Spaces | Cats [aka cat-like pokemon] | Laziness | Authority

Extra:
• Dante is fastidious with money, but indulges in two personal weaknesses; expensive clothes, and even more expensive cars. He has a veritable army of luxury cars at home, and regularly rotates them around to use at school.

• Dante is incredibly nearsighted. Anything further than the reach of his arm demands squinting, if he can see it at all. He rarely takes off his glasses outside of swimming practice.

• Vain as he is, Dante is hyper-conscious of his health and appearance. He took up swimming as his primary exercise at the behest of a friend, but regularly practice a variety of other sports/exercises.

• Dante's only friend since childhood is Horatio. Their fathers worked together, and they became frequent acquaintances. Enough time has passed that even Dante has come to trust and rely on Horatio as he does no other person, and Horatio may very well be the only person he genuinely likes.

• He is completely aromantic, and has no interest in indulging anyone with any kind of romantic or passionate feelings. He has, however, had many partners in the past, male and female, and is perfectly capable of lavishing gifts and attention on them, however short the relationship.

• Smokes, and fairly frequently; however, he doesn't drink in public, and never with other people present.}

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White-Rose-Brian

Aug 19, 2016

Very good work!