HEY, i think i just saw DANTE MORETTI walking down the strip. stop by to catch up and you’ll learn the THIRTY YEAR OLD is working as a MEDICAL RESIDENT AT SUMMERLIN MEDICAL CENTER + FIGHTER AT THE WAREHOUSE + SLAYER IN TRAINING and lives in SOLSTICE APARTMENTS. given they are PRINCIPLED but HAUNTED, it’s likely that they ARE NOT a vampire. i bet you can find them tearing up the dance floor to COLOSSUS BY IDLES and you’ll know why they’re called THE PROMETHEUS. ☾ .⭒˚ belmont cameli. cis man + he/him. pansexual + scorpio.
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Trigger warning: Death of loved ones, graphic violence/blood, medical trauma, grief.
I.
The first thing you learn about fire is that it leaves nothing behind but ash and silence. You aren’t older than ten when the world you knew turns into a roaring inferno. You remember the smell of iron before the smoke filled your lungs; the copper stench of blood spilled across the living room carpet, a predatory shadow slipping out the window just as the first spark caught the curtains. They thought the fire would eat the evidence. They thought it would eat you, too.
Instead, you crawled out of the embers, coughing, your skin blistered and your soul permanently hollowed out. The authorities called it an accidental electrical fire, a tragic loss of an entire household. But you saw the puncture wounds on your father's throat before the flames took him. You saw the pale, monstrous face grinning at you through the smoke.
II.
How do you survive a haunting? For you, it was through the cold, absolute discipline of science. Now you didn't run from the blood; you chose to understand it. You spent your youth buried in textbooks, obsessed with the intricate machinery of the human body, eventually earning your white coat as a medical resident at Summerlin Medical Center.
In the bright, sterile halls of the hospital, you are a savior. You are principled, methodical, and dedicated to the preservation of life. You treat the sick and the anxious with a calm manner. No one looking at you would ever suspect the rot eating away at your core. They see a brilliant young doctor on the rise. They don't see the ghosts of your family standing right behind you in the elevator mirrors, or the phantom smell of smoke that fills your nostrils every time a patient's heart rate monitors flatline.
III.
Fighting isn’t a hobby; it’s a desperate routine to keep your hands moving and your brain busy when the downtime gets too loud. You tear up the floor of the ring, letting the heavy bass match the frantic rhythm of your pulse as you welcome the pain. You need to feel your ribs crack; you need to feel the blunt force of a fist against your jaw just to prove to yourself that you are still warm, still breathing, still alive.
That’s one of the reasons you join the slayers, too. That, and the absolute resentment you have for the ones who thrive in the dark, the ones in power who look the other way. Your medical knowledge makes you a terrifyingly calculated student of the hunt; you don't need brute force when you know the exact anatomy of a ribcage and precisely where to slide the wood to pierce a dead heart. One side of you brings them back to Earth, another permanently ends them. Every day, you go through the same routine of never-ending checklists, trying to convince yourself you're still a healer, while keeping your hand firmly on the stake hidden beneath your scrubs.
IV.
You live a life split into three irreconcilable fractures. One side of you heals the broken. One side breaks the living for a thrill. And the final side permanently ends the damned.
You always wanted to protect people, to be the shield your family never had on that fateful night. But as you stare at your hands under the harsh bathroom light after a shift – sometimes scrubbed raw from surgery, sometimes bruised from the Warehouse, and sometimes carrying the invisible residue of ash – you wonder if the fire you stole will eventually consume you entirely.
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Deals with PTSD. Sometimes even random little things can trigger a panic attack. Been taken to the ER because of that countless times. A bit of insomniac, too. A lot of his nights are spent by driving around town. Thinking. Definitely needs therapy.
Instead of a traditional journal, Dante tracks his hunts using an old, physical medical logbook he stole from an abandoned wing of the hospital.
Dante refuses to fix the cracked bathroom mirror in his apartment, which shattered during a night of blind rage after his first messy vampire kill.















