Dante

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Name: Dante
Aliases: Anthony Redgrave, Son of Sparda
Age: 25-32

Gender: Male
Species: Half Demon

Alignment: Good
Canon or Original: Cannon - Devil May Cry
Date of Birth: Unknown
Place of Birth: Unknown

Physical Appearance: i40.tinypic.com/33f6zae.jpg
Height: 6 ft. 9 in.
Weight: 175 lbs.

Personality: Dante is incredibly flippant, mouthing off to the most powerful of demons, and he generally enjoys rubbing people the wrong way. He does mature as time goes by, but never really loses his attitude. Dante is seemingly unflappable, not showing fear whether he's being attacked by the Seven Hells in his office or being swallowed by giant serpent demon. Dante can seem at times to be uncaring or even callous; he makes cynical quips about it the entire time. Unusually, while he has issues with his own demonic side. Dante has a fondness for pizza, and while he complains about olives, he always puts them on his pizza. He is also shown to favor strawberry sundaes as well as his habit of getting roaring drunk; one time, he mentioned getting so drunk that he proposed to a mop.

Special Abilities:

• Transformation
  
  • Devil Trigger: Dante's infamous transformation, there are two forms of this, one, is where he can simply use his demonic aura to his whim or the more infamous one where his human form is tossed away and he becomes a devil.
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    Height: 8 ft. 3 in.
    Weight: 265 lbs.
    [Duration; 10 posts]
    
    
    
  • Dreadnaught: The highest technique achieved in Royal Guard. The energy stored within every block done by Dante is stored up and soon accumulates, manifesting over his body as armor made of inpenitrable armor that makes him impervious to physical and magical attacks.
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    Height: 6 ft. 9 in.
    Weight: 360 lbs.
    [Duration; 5 posts]
    
    
  • Supreme Devil Trigger: This Dante’s demonic form and power in its highest and purest absolute power. He rarely enters this form at all, and when he does, the pressure from his demonic aura can be felt at the very least, ten feet away from him. In this form he looks like his father’s Devil form only there are bat-like wings instead of insectiod wings. Two long, red blade extend from his forearms that can be used in various methods. In this form, Dante can use his demonic energies to varying degrees. The strongest being a Dragon created from pure destructive demonic energies so pure, they create a power that rivals holy energy.
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    Height: 9 ft. 9 in.
    Weight: 275 lbs.
    [Duration; 6-8 posts]
    
  
  

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Dante possesses power that surpasses that of most demons. He has enough physical strength to punch through stone with little difficulty, and often overpowers demons much larger than himself. Dante is extremely agile, able to jump to great heights or even to balance on a flying rocket. He is able to channel his power into various physical objects, ranging from his guns to the air itself, and exhibits mastery of any weapon he picks up. Dante can instantly heal from nearly any wound; even the Hell Prides were surprised when he mostly ignored their attack on him at the beginning of Devil May Cry 3. Dante has been shown to survive wounds that would kill a normal human, such as being impaled through the chest with his own sword or being shot point-blank in the head.

It is implied that Dante's strength is not due to his father, but from his will to protect others. After Dante defeats Agnus, Dante tells him that the reason he's inferior is because Agnus surrendered his humanity. It is suggested that any demon who possesses the will to protect and love others rather than to simply destroy will gain the full might of their demonic power, though Dante, Vergil, and Nero may simply be exceptions due to possessing both human souls and demonic power.
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Styles and attacks[/i]

• Quick Silver:
  Time Lag - Send out a dimensional time-rift wave that slows down your enemies while giving you ultra-high speed.
  [Duration; 1 post]
  
• Doppleganger:
  After-Image - which is obtained from Doppelganger. It allows Dante to create copies of himself to assist in battle, thus allowing him to experiment with different tactics and combos. The Doppelganger wields the gun and Devil Arm equipped to Dante when it was created, and performs those weapons' analogues to whichever actions Dante performs
  Shadow Lag - Increases the lag between the your inputs and the Doppelganger's actions. Can be used twice before resetting.
  Wraith-Reflect – An attack that originally started as a trial and error. Now, through means of practice, Dante can summon Dopplegangers that resemble the demons he faced over the years Such as Cerberus, Nevan, Agni&Rudra, Berrial, Shade, Griffon, Phantom, Bagon, and Gilgamesh.
  [Duration; 3-4 posts]
  
• Trickster:
  Dash - A quick burst of speed propels the hunter forward. This technique helps get Dante out of tight situations.
  Sky Star - A quick aerial dash that propels you forward through the air.
  Mustang - Close in on an enemy by dashing, and then use their body as a platform to jump into the air.
  Air Trick - Aim above an enemy's head and disappear in the blink of an eye with blindingly quick movements.
  
• Swordmaster:
  Prop - Spin Rebellion at propeller-like speeds and earn your opponent some frequent flier miles.
  Shredder - After launching an enemy with Prop, slice and dice your foe with the rapidly spinning blade.
  Aerial Rave - A multiple sword strike combo that deals devastating damage to airborne enemies.
  Drive - A lightning quick swing of the sword that sends a powerful sword-induced shockwave toward enemies. Great for hitting far away foes.
  Quick Drive - A Drive attack born from a slash. While the speed at which it is unleashed is admirable, it does have a limiting effect on power.
  Dance Macabre - Unleash a streaming barrage of sword slashes that dance around their doomed targets with breakneck speed.
  Helm Breaker - A devastating overhead attack powerful enough to shatter the sturdiest of armored helms or demonic skulls.
  High Time - A powerful attack that launches an enemy skyward
  Stinger - Skewer an enemy at high speed with an attack sure to send them flying. Level 2 is a powered version that has even greater range.
  Million Stab - A blinding whirlwind of stabs with enough momentum to blast an enemy away.
  Round Trip - Hurl Rebellion at an enemy. The impaled blade will shred the enemy until called back.
  
• Gunslinger:
  Fire Works - Spin your shotgun around your body like a set of nunchucks, randomly blasting nearby enemies.
  Charge Shot [Shotgun] - Focus energy for a brief time then fire off a super-charged magically imbued burst. Levels 2 and 3 increase the number of bullets fired.
  Gun Stinger - Ferociously ram your shotgun into an enemy and pull the trigger to hit them with a concentrated burst of buckshot.
  Point Blank - Fire off a shotgun round while standing right next to an enemy, doing maximum damage.
  Twosome Time - Fire in two directions to attack multiple foes simultaneously.
  Rain Storm - Rain hundreds of bullets down upon unsuspecting foes that lie waiting below you.
  Charge Shot [Ebony and Ivory] - Focus energy for a brief time then fire off a super-charged magically imbued burst. Levels 2 and 3 increase the number of bullets fired.
  Rapid Shot - Quickly click off shots, resulting in a large number of bullets being fired in a short amount of time.
  Honeycomb Fire - Turn enemies who lie ahead into honeycombs with the sting of countless rapid-fire bullets.
  
• Royalguard:
  Block - Minimize the damage taken from an enemy's attack, while at the same time accumulating power within the Royal Gauge.
  Air Block - Minimize the damage taken from an enemy's mid-air attack, while at the same time accumulating power within the Royal Gauge.
  Royal Block - Evade an enemy's attack at the last second to avoid damage and greatly increase the angry energy stored within the Royal Gauge.
  Release - Release all the energy stored in the Royal Gauge, and lash out at your enemies with an explosion of dreadful power.
  Air Release - Release all the energy stored in the Royal Gauge, and lash out at airborne enemies with an explosion of dreadful power.
  Royal Release - Release all the anger stored within you as a violent, damaging counter-attack against those unfortunate enough to provoke you.
  Dreadnaught - A mysterious technique that transforms the body into a seemingly metallic shell imperious to enemy assault. The duration of the technique is is linked to the amount of energy stored within the Royal Gauge.
  

Weapons:

• Ebony and Irvory:
  Ebony & Ivory are Dante's trademark pair of personally customized, semi-automatic pistols, designed to rapidly fire demonic power, and are the only weapon to appear in every installment in the series. The right gun, Ivory, was custom built for rapid firing and fast draw times, while the left gun, Ebony, has been modified for long-distance targeting and comfort.
  
  On their grips are portraits of Victorian women; as befits their names, Ebony's is dark-haired, and Ivory's is fair-haired.
  
  Ebony & Ivory are modified M1911 pistols, with a grip modified for comfort, and with the ejection ports on opposing sides of each pistol so as to eject spent shells away from the gunner. Each gun has a unique hammer as well (Ebony's is a spur hammer, while Ivory's is a ring hammer). The insides of both gun's frames (when holding the guns) have the words Ebony & Ivory in a cursive script along with a unique design. They also have compensators to reduce recoil (though the recoil is most likely negligible to Dante).
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• Force Edge;
  A powerful blade that was once wielded by his father, the demon knight Sparda. It was used to seal the demon world from the human one, and fought over between he and his brother during the events at Temin-ni-gru. It was then lost after the final battle of Mundus, his brother Vergil taking what had split off and reformed into the Force Edge. After a ferocious battle which ended with what appeared to be Vergil's death at the hand of the Dante copy, Dante, the real one, obtained the force edge once more.
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  • Alt-- Sparda;
    The unlocked power of the force edge, named after the legendary dark knight himself it is a manifestation of the power he surrendered in order to safe the human realm. Whomever wield this version of the blade is gifted with the Dark Knight's original power.
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History

On a birthday before his eighth, Eva gave Dante and Vergil each a half of the Perfect Amulet.

Eventually, Sparda died, and Eva and the twins were left alone. When Dante was eight years old, he and his family were attacked by demons. Eva was killed, and though both Vergil and Dante survived, the twins were separated, and Dante believed Vergil to have died.

At some point after this, Dante met Enzo and began a demon-hunting business under the alias "Anthony "Tony" Redgrave."

Later down the road an older, cockier Dante is seen in his yet-to-be-named shop. Arkham comes to his shop and invites him to the Temen-ni-gru on behalf of his brother Vergil by sending a few Hell Prides and Lusts to attack him. Dante effortlessly kills them all, and heads to the tower in search of an interesting time, and it is soon revealed that Vergil is attempting to reopen the portal to the demon world in order to obtain the full power of their father, which remains in the demon world within the Force Edge. Within the tower Dante encounters and defeats the demonic gatekeepers who were sealed away by his father, as well as the demon hunter Lady, who is in pursuit of her father Arkham, and the demon Jester, who guides him through the tower for his own reasons. Upon defeating most of these demons, Dante acquires their souls in the form of new weapons and combat styles. Dante, Lady, and Vergil eventually discover that Arkham is Jester, and was using all of them in order to open the portal and acquire the Force Edge for himself. After defeating Arkham in the Demon World, Vergil and Dante duel over the Force Edge. In the end, Dante claims ownership of the Force Edge, while Vergil chooses to remain in the Netherworld. Dante matures considerably during the game and, inspired by Lady's courage and commitment to her own family, continues his demon hunting business with a greater sense of purpose. They become partners, and he decides to call his shop "Devil May Cry", in reference to what Lady said to comfort him over the loss of Vergil.

"Maybe somewhere out there even a devil may cry when he loses a loved one. Don’t you think?"

A mysterious woman named Trish attacks Soon After Dante in his office. He impresses her by easily brushing off her assault, and tells her that he hunts demons in pursuit of those who killed his mother and brother. She says the attack was a test, and that the demon emperor Mundus is planning a return at Mallet Island. She takes him to the castle there, but abruptly vanishes.

Dante explores the castle, slaying minor demons and finding weapons, and encounters the spiderlike demon Phantom while looking for a way to proceed through the castle. Dante wins the battle, but Phantom soon reappears and chases him through the halls. After further exploration and combat, Dante battles a demon named Nelo Angelo who impresses Dante with his confidence. The demon wins, but suddenly flees upon seeing the half-amulet Dante wears. The demon attacks twice more in later missions, and is eventually revealed to be Vergil, killed and manipulated by Mundus. After Nelo Angelo's final defeat, his half of the amulet joins with Dante's, transforming the Force Edge into its true form, the Sparda.

When Dante next meets Trish, she betrays him and reveals that she too is working for Mundus. She lures Dante into a final fight with the bio-weapon Nightmare, but Dante manages to kill the monster. In the resulting chaos, the room collapses, and Trish is almost crushed. Dante saves her, claiming it was solely because of her resemblance to his mother, but he warns her to stay away from him. Yet when he finally confronts Mundus, who is about to kill Trish, Dante again chooses to save her and is injured. Mundus tries to finish him off, but Trish takes the attack instead. Dante's emotion at this tragedy unleashes his full power, allowing him to take on the form of his father.[6] Dante and Mundus then battle on another plane of existence, and Dante is victorious.

Dante leaves the Perfect Amulet and Sparda sword with Trish's immobile body before departing, but just as Dante reaches the castle's hangar, Mundus returns and corners Dante, who is now back to his regular strength. However, Trish also returns and lends Dante her power, and Dante is able to defeat Mundus by sealing him away again. When Trish tries to apologize she begins to cry, and Dante tells her it means she has become human and not just a devil, because "devils never cry". Dante and Trish narrowly escape on a plane as the island collapses, and after the credits, it is revealed that Dante and Trish are working together as partners, and have renamed the shop "Devil Never Cry".

A few years later all were sent into motion when Lady came to Dante's office, offering a job. She told him about the Order of the Sword - a small congregation in the castle town of Fortuna, which worships Sparda - much to the Dante's surprise.

Dante: "They worship a demon as a god?"

She explained that there is a legend of Sparda, who served as a feudal lord at the city long time ago. She also said that although peaceful worship can't be condemned, the Order's members recently started catching demons and collecting Devil Arms, interfering with her work. Trish, who was present and heard all this, departed, leaving the "see you there" message written by her lipstick on the mirror. There was nothing to do for Dante but to go to Fortuna after her.

Later it is revealed that the Order's increased activity was because of The Savior - a giant artificial demon brought by the Order, which is only controllable with Sparda's blood and sword. They started creating smaller copies of the Fortuna's Hell Gates (powered with the gathered Devil Arms), which were needed for some of the Orders projects and as a part of their plan to lure Dante to Fortuna and capture him. It seems that Dante became aware of their plan, most likely through Trish, who disguised herself as Gloria and handed over the Sparda to infiltrate the Order.

Dante makes his entrance in Fortuna through the roof of the Opera House during Festival of the Blade, executing the town's vicar Sanctus and slaying several Holy Knights of the who try to subdue him. Nero, one of the Holy knights, enraged that his love-interest Kyrie has been endangered, interrupts Dante and keeps him busy until Kyrie and her brother Credo can escape. After a brief fight with Nero, Dante reveals to him that the slain knights were actually demons, and leaves with a cryptic message to Nero, claiming that "We’re the same...you and...I...and [the fallen knights]...though I suspect you carry something different from the others". He then leaves Nero and heads for Fortuna Castle. On Credo's orders, Nero follows Dante, catching up to him at the entrance to Mitis Forest, though Dante escapes into the forest. Nero finally corners Dante within the Order's headquarters, but Nero no longer seeks to capture Dante, as he has been betrayed by the Order. However, Dante challenges him for his brother's sword, which Nero now possesses. After an intense battle, Nero at last gets the upper ground, but then Dante easily knocks Nero off, and Nero realizes that Dante has been playing with him from the beginning. Dante explains that Yamato is the key to the Demon World, but allows Nero to continue using the sword, as Nero needs it to rescue Kyrie.

However, Nero is absorbed by the Order's partly awakened The Savior, which is controlled by the revived Sanctus. Credo is mortally wounded trying to stop Sanctus, and the Yamato is taken by the Order's Alchemist, Agnus, to open the true Hell Gate in Fortuna. At the dying Credo's request, Dante follows The Savior back to town to rescue Nero and Kyrie, after sending Trish to help the citizens escape to safety. Along the way, he kills Echidna, Dagon, and Berial, destroys the three fake Hell Gates they had emerged from, and obtains the Devil Arms that had powered the gates. Once he returns to the Opera House where this all began, he finds Agnus. The two fight, and after slaying Agnus, Dante recovers the Yamato, closes the Hell Gate, and then destroys it.

This catches the attention of Sanctus, who attempts to kill Dante using The Savior. However, Dante is able to weaken The Savior enough that he can reawaken Nero by returning the Yamato to him. Dante continues to distract The Savior while Nero tracks down Sanctus and slays him. Nero succeeds and breaks free of The Savior with Kyrie and the Sparda in his hands, but before Dante could drag away any apologise from Nero, The Savior reawakens as The False Savior, a much weakened version created by the weapon's merge with Sanctus. Nero hands Dante the Sparda, and attacks the atrocity with his Devil Bringer, destroying it.

When the battle is finally over, Nero at last thanks Dante for his help, and though he attempts to return the Yamato, Dante tells him to keep it.

Nero: "What…? I thought this meant a lot to you...?"
Dante: "That’s the only kind of gift worth giving. I want to entrust it to you, and so I am. What you do from here is your call."

Nero asks if he will meet Dante again, but Dante leaves without a word.

After Dante returns to his shop, Lady enters and thanks Dante and Trish for helping her by eliminating the Order. She hands them the case with their payment, but it is revealed to only contain a few banknotes. Against Trish's protests, Lady claims that it was her fault that the situation got out of hand, and Dante calms them down by commenting "We take what we can get, right?" Suddenly, the phone rings, and Trish informs Dante that it is a customer with the password. Trish and Lady decide to come with Dante on this mention, and it's the last time the trio is seen working together.

During the years that followed, rarely anything happened in the city, Dante went about his way of taking up odd jobs that involved devils, many of the mercenaries in the city becoming devil hunters as well before a military faction known as S.C.A.R. who ever specially trained to defend against the demonic threat moved in and took over the devil hunting scene, making vigilantly hunting of demons illegal. Despite this, many still secretly hunted demons, Dante especially. But on a rather boring night, Dante was given a challenge that his unwanted partner Enzo accepted for him. And that was the night that he had met the Vampire Ranka. The two began a little contest of killing the most demons only to realize it was a trap by Ranka’s middleman affectionately called snow white. Through the chaos that Ranka and Dante gave to the massive hordes of demons, a large juggernaut demon named Amon was summoned, working as a team Ranka and Dante put an end to the demon and before putting snow white out of his misery, the two hunters found out they were the target of a demon sect.

For a very long year Dante and Ranka worked together to try and put an end to them but soon, the big boys of the sect arose and S.C.A.R. was the force to act, only for the entire force to be wiped out leaving Dante and Ranka to fight them off alone while their old friends Nero, Trish, and Lady fought off the massive army of demons. After a devastating battle to the city… The leaders were finished off. The city was declared destroyed and the survivors, along with Dante and crew moved away to other locations, Dante and Ranka worked together for a time in another city before the reports of a female vampire going around, killing and raping people rose. Ranka was on another assignment leaving Dante to tackle this one.

When the two met they fought, before it ended in a tie with Dante joking around the entire match. The two went on having drinks before having a one nightstand. Nine months later, Anthony was born and dropped off at the doorstep of Devil May Cry.

The years went on, Ranka had left Devil May Cry, and Anthony grew up before he was taken by demons and then all hell once again broke loose in the city, a harbinger of death returned to earth causing mayhem and panic, Dante fought this creature only to be defeated. Afterward he met the daughter of Mundus. After his defeat, Dante met back up with Ranka and many trials and tribulations occurred but when the final match was finally set… Dante and the team gathered together and finally put an end to the creature known as Veran, if only to have the city they were in implode upon it self. Once again the would be team dispatched and made locations around the area and neighboring cities near Domino City. Dante on the other hand, received a mission in Dumary island.


Dante aided a mysterious woman Lucia in defeating Arius, an international businessman who uses demonic power and seeks to conquer the world by attaining the power of Argosax the Chaos. Dante must go into the demon world to stop a major demon from escaping, but the gate closes behind him and he is trapped. With no way back to the human world, Dante heads even deeper into the demon world on his motorcycle. Lucia is sitting in Dante's office when she hears a motorcycle outside and rushes out to see who it is and only sees an after image of Dante riding into the jaws of hell...

While there, he searched for his son but heard word of Mundus’ return and decided to put an end to the prince of darkness. He traveled to the fortress of the ruler of hell only to be ambushed by wave after wave of demons. Dante fought through them, the exhausted Dante was then blind sided by Mundus, the fight didn’t last long with a tired Dante easily succumbing to Prince of Darkness and being put into servitude much like his brother Vergil was. Three years went by as Dante served under the prince of darkness, controlled like a puppet before his brother met him in hell. The two began fighting, Vergil using this fight as an attempt to free Dante from the grip of Mundus. This attempt ended in success, with the sacrifice of the Sparda Blade – which transformed into two pieces and split apart, what was left with Dante was the force edge - Dante was freed from Mundus’ control and the two brothers made a temporary truce and worked together to put a permanent end to the Prince of Darkness. His last words echoed through the deepest pits of hell.
“ never thought… I’d see the day the heirs of Sparda would ever truly surpass their father in everyway.” Soon after… the truce ended and Vergil betrayed Dante, taking the force edge from his brother and sending him through the rift created by Mundus’ death. Dante had been returned to the human world.

Slowly but surely, the darkness that was placed into his veins by the late Prince of Darkness ran it’s course, turning Dante into a brutal and dark person before Dante completely left the human world and returned to the demon world.

Dante was immersed into the chaos that was the underworld now that Mundus was destroyed. Many demons were fighting for the right to lay claim to being the supreme ruler of the demon world. He joined in on the fray and fought off countless demons in the Bloody Palace before finally arriving to the top and laying waste to every other demon around the area so that no other king rose again . By this time, the Prince of Darkness' power within his veins had been accumilated and melded with Dante, but there was still an overpowering darkness festering within him. Within a few years, Dante traveled the plains of the demon world soon coming upon Jund in which he sensed a strong demonic pressence. From there, he traveled the dangerously mysterous layer before encountering an odd demon that he eventually killed. But upon his victory he was attacked by the very layer itself, constricted and then sealed away as slowly Dante slipped into a deep sleep as he felt his essence being drained away. It would be many years as a false Dante rampaged the lands of the human world before Dante's own son found him, sealed away and gave his soul, power, and essence to free Dante. The father and son passed on a few words, Anthony informing Dante of what had happened and Dante setting out in a search for his companions after escaping from hell.

The road ahead was long and grueling after being thrown into a three way war between the Legion of the Abyss, the council of Legion, and them. It was a hard road to walk down but finally the abyss was killed by the council, and it was Devil May Cry's turn to tear them up. The battle to get to Mahavelo was hell, and when they got their, they were split up into their different ways. Dante of course, taking his clone.

The clone stood before him, holding Rebellion in his hands. Degeneration had set in deep upon his appearance, the skin darkening and twisted as the eyes were a topaz yellow. They exchanged witty banter before fighting. And the fight seemed to last for hours, each fighter countering one another's attacks to make the entire battle seemed like a well choreographed fight.

But finally, after hours the demon's energy wore low, and visaed was cast away, revealing an old, a scarred mask, what stood before Dante was Veran, wielding the other half of what the Sparda blade had become. Despite every attempt made by the devil hunter his actions were in vain and all seemed lost until a familiar howl of a dimension being sliced open echoed through the area, Veran lost his arm wielding the scythe, only to be caught by Dante. Vergil was now standing next to Dante, the twins quipped back and fourth before engaging in a heated battle with the beast.

Through it all, though they were gaining the upper hand Vergil was struck hard, he seemed to be falling away as Veran's blow stuck him. Vergil's parting words were simple; 'Don't let him win... show him the true power... of our... FAMILY!' Dante nodded as the Force Edge was tossed to him.

He knew what to do and his voice, his words presented that. "Alright you fucker, let's see how well you stand up against this!" He fused the scythe and sword together, the resonance of power was enough to shake the world around them as what formed in Dante's hands was the Sparda sword, echoing fourth with a fierce, hidden power that had never been seen in over 2000 years. And as Dante's blade collided with the force of Veran, a bright light erupted fourth and as Dante awoke... he was in a weird place. His only thought, 'Did we win?'

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