From Sailor Moon Flash!
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| Profile | |
| Name: | Dante Chiesa |
| Birthday: | August 7 |
| Age: | 22 |
| Affiliation: | Elementals, JDE |
| Powers: | Magma |
| Player: | Lyn |
Contents |
The Basics
Name: Dante Vincenzo Chiesa. Dante is a thinly veiled reference to Dante Alighieri, author of La Divina Commedia, but it's also from the Italian for "enduring." Vincenzo is from the word "to conquer" and Chiesa is the Italian word for "church." It doesn't work as a cohesive sentence, but it's chock full of ironic religious references XD (Vincenzo working as both a reference to his domination issues and a Saint's name, generally required of Catholics. The Saint's name, that is. Not the domination issues.)
Position: P.R. guy for Jade Dragon Enterprises by day; Elemental Huo by night; enormous whore all the time.
Appearance: 6'1, pale blue eyes, black hair and olive-skinned, Dante's features would be striking even if he weren't among mostly short, dark-eyed and (comparatively) pale Japanese. He has a sharp, defined nose and chin, with relatively full lips for man (he is a bit girly, admittedly). His left ear is pierced; generally he wears small ruby or diamond studs. He keeps his long hair pulled back in a ponytail, but if he's feeling lazy he lets it go loose. Dante takes very good care of his hair, and has its split ends trimmed regularly. For clothing he favors the stylish and the expensive, i.e. Armani suits, Burberry coats, etc. He wears fine clothing even when not at work--his only 'casual time' is in the glass workshop.
Age/Birthday/Astrological Whatnot: August 7, age 22. He's a Leo with a Sagittarius moon and a Scorpio ascendant.
Mundane Life
Friends and Family: Dante considers his father dead to him, and for all he knows, his mother might as well -be- dead. As far as friends go, Dante considers himself a friend to women everywhere, in the same sense that the snake considered itself a friend to Eve.
Usual Daily Routine: Wake up, groom extensively, groom a bit more, beat Trin, go to work, come home, beat Trin, etc.
Background: Like most people, Dante was born naked, covered in blood, and screaming. Unfortunately things did not improve much after that.
He lived on the island of Murano, near Venice, known for its exquisite glassmaking. His grandfather, Paolo Chiesa, moved there with his wife from Pompei to pursue this and other arts, but their son grew up more interested in business than in art. Dante's father, Renato, profited from the eventual fame and moderate fortune of Paolo's glass and other artworks, as he eventually grew to handle all of his grandfather's monetary affairs and those of many other Murano artists. He made his living handling the business aspect of various glassmakers' work on Murano, and married a native woman of the island, a fair-haired, blue eyed woman named Adele. They married young, and were already having marital issues when Adele became pregnant with Dante. They did not divorce, both for his sake and because, being strict Catholics, their religion and community still looked down on the idea.
Thus, Dante was born into the midst of increasing marital turmoil, because his dad was kind of a jerk and his mom was kind of a doormat. These conditions worsened as Dante aged, because his father began to drink more than just the usual glass of wine with dinner, and by the time Dante was five, he beat Adele in drunken rages on a regular basis. Dante witnessed this, and he also witnessed that his mother never fought back, nor cried in front of him--instead she hid in the bathroom, and he heard her sobbing through the door. These episodes helped form his perceptions of men, women, and the relationships between them, as well as his intense dislike of the sound of a woman's tears. In addition to these domestic disturbances, Dante's local priest was hardcore oldschool, and gave fire and brimstone sermons on the evils of eating, drinking, and breathing--and the tempting wiles of women.
He took solace in Paolo, who encouraged his grandson's artistic nature and interested him in the art of glassmaking. Paolo often made little glass and wooden baubles for Dante, carefully painted and shaped into various kinds of animals (Dante liked ponies best). However, Paolo died when Dante was seven, a loss that shattered him in ways he was too young to understand. Paolo's absence made his homelife that much more difficult, but yet another drastic change was on the horizon. While the priest's dogma further cemented Dante's growing neuroses about women, the truly solidifying event happened when he was around thirteen. He returned home from school one day, calling hello to her as he always did, but he received no response. When he reached the kitchen he found not the usual plate of milk and cookies, but a note in her handwriting with just one hastily scribbled word: "Arrivederci." Adele decided that it was time to leave, and she had no plans of taking Dante with her. He never could fathom why she left him behind, unsure if it was because she wanted to escape the situation she'd gotten herself into entirely or if she just hated him, but either way, she had abandoned him.
His father, no longer having his mother as a punching bag, turned his ire towards his son. Dante suffered both physical and mental abuse, but the latter more than the former--Renato wanted his son to become a businessman like him, and attempted to groom him as such despite frequently berating the boy. Of course, much of this conflict arose from the fact that Dante did not want to be a businessman, having always been interested in the arts. He loved to hang around the glassmakers' studios in Murano, most of whom had known his grandfather. They taught him how to use their tools and techniques, and it was through this informal apprenticeship that Dante learned the basics of glassmaking. He tried to keep it secret from his father, who put increasing pressure on Dante's academics as he aged. Fortunately, being an intelligent boy, Dante made good grades and was usually able to avoid questions about where he went after school--but when his compulsory education ended, at age 14, his father pushed him into pursuing a technical education. He rejected Dante's bid to continue his schooling in the arts, despite endorsements from local glassmakers that Dante showed promise and talent. However, he eventually relented, as it reached the point where he stood to lose clientele if he did not allow his son to make his own choice.
But, as you may imagine, this course of events ever more embittered Renato, and he treated Dante with undisguised contempt, constantly lecturing him on how he was wasting his life. Dante dealt with this by spending as little time at home as possible: when he was not in the glassmakers' workshops, he was working odd jobs or going out with girls. He really liked going out with girls, and they liked going out with him--that is, until he lost his temper with them and slapped them, of course. Dante lost his virginity when he was 15, but the constant compulsion for sexual activity did not reach its peak until 18, when he was out with a new girl every other night. Needless to say, his father didn't much like this habit, and the abuse took on a new dimension--which, of course, just made Dante angrier, and increased his desire to be out and away, channeling that rage elsewhere.
Dante managed to persevere until university by losing himself in his studies, but the stress of higher education plus the unceasing disgust of his father eventually became too much for him to bear--that, and his mental instability had now reached potent levels. He dropped out of school before he took his final degree examination, and, at age 20, decided it was time to leave not only his father but Italy in general. Using the money he earned from his jobs, he traveled around Europe for a while, eventually deciding to go to Japan because he actually knew the language better than most of the other Romance languages--his father had insisted he take it while in school, given the business acumen of the Japanese. As with all things chosen by his father, Dante resisted at first, but he actually enjoyed the calligraphic style of Japanese writing (to this day he is actually better at writing Japanese than he is at speaking it). Besides which, having learned some about Japan over the course of studying the language, he was under the impression that their stratified, well ordered society might do him some good in terms of settling his restless, psychotic soul (too bad he never came across anything about their lively sex industries in his textbooks). Thus, he went to Tokyo, and it was there that he met Yu-Huang, while working as a waiter in a bar. As with his other disciples, Yu-Huang promised to give Dante what he wanted: the ability to control, to take. With Yu-Huang, Dante could have women, wealth, and a workshop of his own, just as long as he agreed to serve faithfully. Dante accepted, and handed over his starseed readily: now he works as the Public Relations guy for JDE, promoting whatever facade Yu-Huang sets out for him, eager to get with and then get rid of all the hot senshi ladiez <3
A Little More Specific
Quirks:
Darkest Secret:
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Badassery
Power Sphere: Magma
Asswhoopery: Boiling Earth: Dante creates fissures in the earth's surface for this power, summoning up bubbling molten rock from way deep down. Magma seeps out of the fissures as they grow larger and larger, until the entirety of his chosen area has split open to reveal what look to be the innards of a mini-volcano. He can then cause variably sized eruptions of rock and fire for a tasty senshi fricassee, or direct the path of the magma in various directions, including up into the air like a waterspout. Generally he chooses to do this underneath the area where his targets are standing, but it's fairly easy to get out of the way before the ground splits open entirely and the danger of falling in becomes real, as the cracking asphalt would be a good signal to move XD;
Magma Armor: For this, Dante summons the magma from the earth directly below him, so that the ground breaks and rocks and lava spout forth to encase his body. Depending on how much time the magma has to cool, it will form into either zircon, topaz, or ruby, with ruby being the strongest, forming after five minutes, and zircon being the weakest, forming after one. The process stops when he is attacked, so, if he's attacked five minutes after beginning the process, the attack will hit the ruby armor, and if he's attacked one minute after, it will hit the zircon armor. Though this power requires a specific time condition, once formed, all three types of armor are fairly powerful. Obviously, the zircon type is easiest to break through, but even it requires extensive magical pummeling. The ruby armor is nearly impossible to crack, the topaz a little less so (being that the gems have not just their natural hardnesses but are fortified with Magical Evil).
Greatest Weakness:
Summoning: Magma Imps: Think of wee, evil cherubs with fangs, bat wings, tridents, and a lower half made of fire. Dante can summon these guys in small packs (about six at a time) from the bowels of the earth. They're quick and nasty, tending to divebomb opponents with their fire-spitting tridents, but, if you can hit them, they're not hard to kill at all. A water attack is the most effective, of course, but any sort of direct bonk is enough to send them back to where they came from (excepting another fire attack, which would make them stronger)--it's just that they flit around so fast that it's hard to get a lock on'em.
Connections
Li-Nian
She's smoking hot, so naturally he will also be on her like white on rice, particularly if he realizes that she is not going to Tell. However, his relationship with Li-Nian would be a bit simpler than his relationship with Trin, given that Li-Nian will likely not attempt to provoke him or resist him. Even so, something she does will eventually make him angry, just because he's a temperamental psychobeast, and since she's the crying sort...let's just say that won't go well at all n_n; In addition, he'll still see her as The Boss's Daughter and thus nominally off-limits, but that doesn't mean he won't make amorous advances on occasion anyway--because, again, smoking hot (her) and no willpower (him).
Trin
Aggressor x enabler OTP XD; No, seriously, he'll be on Trin like white on rice, as she is Hot (perhaps not in the traditional sense like Li-Nian, but Dante does have a real appreciation for all types of feminine beauty), and he'll quickly realize that she is not going to Tell on him for groping her in the hallways and various other forms of sexual assault n_n; Once he discovers how she folds like a house of cards, he'll probably make it his personal duty to make most of her decisions for her, up and including eating and bathing habits n_n; As with all women he's interested in, he will also likely give her many presents, but also subject her to much abuse in various forms. Her general ability to endure this sort of thing will not be helpful in changing his conception of women, but at the same time it might also eventually be the key to his realizing that, hey, maybe women DON'T like it when they're coerced and slapped, since the one woman that always takes it is also the woman who stabs herself with needles on a regular basis and never cries for anything. He will have real affection for her, but it will be bound up in his psychobeast tendencies, unfortunately. Their relationship will be complicated and fucked up, in summation XD;
Lucien
Another that's hard to say. It's possible that they'll annoy each other, but it's also possible that they could be something like buddies, although I doubt they'd be going on male-bonding camping trips any time soon. As Lyko said, they could fight over ladiez XD Dante will be impressed by Lucien's dedication to a task, but he might be put off or even angered by his persistent unfriendliness. Both of them have a tendency to redirect blame, as well, which could potentially cause conflict, though Dante's habit of blame-shifting is more specifically focused n_n;
Gene
It's hard to say, because they have some common ground in that they both like art and Eugene might possibly be interested in Dante's glass work (given that he uses the techniques of the masters in Murano), and the fact that Dante is pretty much a quivering bundle of emotion, but at the same time I doubt Eugene will like Dante's violent tendencies, should he see them in action (it is possible that he might not, as Dante is good at holding back in public). Similarly, Dante always likes a fellow art enthusiast, but he'll be very creeped out by Eugene's particular brand of personal artistry, and will likely see his gentleness as unsettling rather than calming.
