#eclectickefi

See, certain neurodivergent people, such as dyslexics (*points at myself*) have difficulty doing tasks that require keeping track of sideways, upsidedown, or whatever. So like, I have a simple way of tying my own shoes but I know there’s a more common, complicated way to do it.

Anyways, the prompt goes that; Maybe Dante can’t do certain tasks but completely overlooks it. He can’t tie his shoes because keeping track of all those knots and twirls makes his eyes feel upside down. He can’t do the military-style bedsheet tuck-in that Nero’s done before, because it ends up reversed. He can’t imagine wearing something like Vergil’s vest with all the clasps and buttons that has to be undone and redone. There’s all of these little things that Dante just…doesn’t do, and its just Dante being Dante.

But yeah, fun little characterization prompt, I guess. Not saying Dante is dyslexic, but it’s fun to speculate and wonder. Especially with all the autistic Vergil headcanons already floating around. I like the idea of Dante being his own flavor of neurodivergent and just living with it cuz he already knows he’s not Normal™️ (ironic, considering dyslexia is a human quality). Meanwhile, Vergil saw one (1) meme about being autistic and begins to question his sense of reality.

im so bad at answering asks.

I am also neurodivergent and dyslexic! Both reading-wise and I have left-right dyslexia. meaning. no matter how hard i try. no matter what trick you teach me. i cannot remember. it's gotten to the point where i am going to, legitimately, tattoo and L and an R on my hands so i can remember. I told my mom who also has it and we're going to do it together.

i honestly think all of the spardas are autistic coded [as well as Trish] because... well. they're not human. they aren't going to get the Secret Neurodivergent Codes of another fucking species. We can barely understand dogs and cats body language, and they've evolved alongside us! More dogs, but you know! I think they all struggle and while I don't think they have the same genetics that make them autistic [well, maybe. eva. went out of her way to fuck a roach, she's a bit Out There], per se, functionally they are autistic because they're not human enough to fully get it.

there's a lot of things dante knows he can't do. and he does definitely feel bad, or like a fuckup, or a slob [people joke about it and he definitely feels a lot of guilt/insecurity about it but you keep that deep down inside until you Die. if you die. one day.]

i think nero at first would be so annoyed about it but later realized. oh. he's not being lazy or weaponizing his incompetence. he genuinely just. doesn't get it. and he's trying really really hard.

he has to step back and be like. okay. dante really is trying. has to really muster that patient dad energy to try and help find a method that dante can do, even if it's not the normal one. like when you need to eat, but you're not able to make yourself do it, because it means dealing with dishes... then just use a paper plate, or go animal style and eat it with your bare hands. messy? wasteful? maybe. but sometimes we can't be perfect.

and dante is far from perfect, but nero's learning to be okay with it.

Aww, thank you so much! 😊

Thank you for your time 7:P

Good question! There's no confirmation that they personally interacted, but they were in the same place at the same time, the Mereth Aderthad at the pools of Ivrin in FA 20 (quoting the whole passage as it's an interesting one):

When twenty years of the Sun had passed, Fingolfin King of the Noldor made a great feast; and it was held in the spring near to the pools of Ivrin, whence the swift river Narog rose, for there the lands were green and fair at the feet of the Mountains of Shadow that shielded them from the north. The joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow; and it was called Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting. Thither came many of the chieftains and people of Fingolfin and Finrod; and of the sons of Fëanor Maedhros and Maglor, with warriors of the eastern March; and there came also great numbers of the Grey-elves, wanderers of the woods of Beleriand and folk of the Havens, with Círdan their lord. There came even Green-elves from Ossiriand, the Land of Seven Rivers, far off under the walls of the Blue Mountains; but out of Doriath there came but two messengers, Mablung and Daeron, bearing greetings from the King. The Silmarillion, "Of the Return of the Noldor"

Do you plan to do this event next year (2024) ?