Dante, son of Sparda

Dante is the half-human son of the demon knight, Sparda, along with his twin, Vergil. The boys' namesakes are two poets, Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy, and Virgil, who guides Dante through his journey through Hell and Purgatory, stopping at heaven. Virgil wrote the Aeneid, the tale of the Greeks as they came to modern day Italy. (see Divine Comedy for an old theory on the name of his mother/reason for Trish's name being what it is.) Dante comes from the Italian "durante" meaning "long lasting." Words like "duration" have the same root.

Two thousand years ago, Mundus, the devil prince, took it upon himself to invade the human world. Sparda "awoke to justice" as the game puts it, and he defeats Mundus, which highly pisses him off. Sparda seals Mundus in a vault, pissing him off further. Soon after that, Sparda rules over the human world. (Did he defeat Mundus just so he could have the human world? We may never know. *fanfic writers take note, please*) He falls in love with a human woman, who then bears him twin sons. It isn't said when this happens, however, and we can assume that this took place anywhere from approximately thirty years to almost two millennia ago. One thing is known, someone demonic killed his mother and kidnapped his brother, believed to be dead, twenty years ago.

Currently, Dante has a business called, "Devil Never Cry," renamed at the end of Devil May Cry from the original, "Devil May Cry." His office is decorated with both the heads of demons impaled on the walls with various pointy things and posters of nude women with strategic black stars over their nipples. A drum set sits in one corner. Perhaps he has some musical aptitude? Several bottles of Jack Daniels litter his desk when Trish comes to visit him in the opening sequences of Devil May Cry. As the informant in the booklet accompanying Devil May Cry puts it, if Dante doesn't want to take a job, even if you stacked money to the ceiling, he'd never take it. He'll take any job involving demon hunting or spiritualism though.

What does any of this say about him? Does it say anything at all? Am I on crack?

I'll thank you to keep your mouths shut on that last one.

Dante is a man with a great sense of Justice, inherited from Sparda, and will not work for money. This tends towards Virtue as well, doing the act for the sake of the act itself. He's brash, offensive, and rough around the edges which we like in tarnished heroes. He's certainly not perfect, and perhaps that's the way someone beomes after they lose their twin like that. He's the jackass we all love because underneath that exterior is a noble heart that strangely enough came from a demon.

The men behind the voice:

Devil May Cry:
Drew Coombs.

This actor has done a number of projects both in the US and Canada, most recently in Mutant X and The Relic Hunter here in the US. You can read his resume and other acting credentials here.

Devil May Cry 2: (There was dialogue in DMC2? Oh, wait...)
Michael Kaminsky

Michael's recent works include Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Psychonauts where we actually get to hear his voice a bit more. I hope.

Devil May Cry 3:
Reuben Langdon

Reuben's a member of a California-based group of martial arts stuntmen called Zero Gravity. DMC3 is his most recent work.

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