This takes place sometime during when angels fall

so yk the two of them basically grew up with a single mom. dante wasn’t old enough to remember their pos dad, but gene is and he avoids any of dante’s questions about him. even with all the shit gene got up to in hs, he tries to keep up appearances to dante and their mom. their mom because he doesn’t want to worry her, and to dante because gene knows dante looks up to him. gene doesn’t know why, he doesn’t get why someone would look up to him of all people, but dante does so gene tries to make the best of it

meanwhile dante doesn’t remember their dad, he just knows that gene avoids talking about him, especially around their mom. and their mom glares at her parents whenever they try to bring him up. gene really stepped up though when their dad left, as much as a kid could. but gene did some small jobs here and there to help their mom with groceries until she got a big promotion, and gene helped take care of dante when their mom couldn’t. he babysat dante, got him snacks after school, helped him with his homework. dante wanted to be just like gene someday, took him a while to realize that included being a guy too (surprise, trans dante)

in gene’s eyes he was a menace, a screw up, he was bored in school and he made it everyone’s problem. to dante, gene was his hero.

in this i was considering having nana go through her whole serious phase after high school? like people weren’t taking her seriously, and she got some comments from her family, so she died her hair to a more muted pink, started dressing more serious business woman esc, and started acting differently and hiding her love of cute things and all that. she gets a super serious degree in business (which eventually helps her with opening the cafe) when she moved away for college. she doesn’t move back to the area until aph and katelyn ask her to move in, and they hadn’t actually seen her in person for a long time, so aph and katelyn are a little surprised when their high school best friend shows up and she’s a completely different person

at first they’re confused, but she says she grew up in college, and they accept that at first. but over time aph starts getting suspicious and can tell that nana isn’t happy. eventually one thing leads to another, and nana breaks down crying to them one night and explains everything, and something something power of friendship, they help her start being herself again

but nana’s still a little- hesitant? bad experiences yk, she doesn’t want to go back to not being taken seriously like she used to be, and it’s hard to unlearn stuff like that (speaking from experience). at some point she has a big moment with zane that help changes everything for her. it’s just one comment he made in passing, but it has a massive impact on nana

A revival of a very long-gone story....

These sillies are from an old story called Ourstreet! They were never actually drawn so I thought 'might as well!' To celebrate Mystreet coming back and all :P