Dante and Rurik walk out of the cinema after watching Project Hail Mary and something ignites in Dante's head. A week later he had already read the book twice, put Rurik into movie accurate Ryland Grace cosplay 5 times and keeps on discussing all the descriptions of oddly specific scientific details every dinner, then calling dad Sci to share all the points he came up with while Rurik was just silently listening to him and petting a small Rocky figure Dante managed to weld together from some old metal parts he found in the garage (because he doesn't understand a thing but it's so hot when Dante is passionate about something)

Dante's leitmotif would be in Rurik's theme lowkey