42 ā Hobbies?Ā Dante loves music. I mean, really loves music. Really, really loves it. It wouldnāt be a stretch to say that it saved his life many, many, many times. His first experience with a guitar was nothing short of magical. Heād sooner die than ever break one of his guitars. He also plays the drums, the piano (and the keyboards, by proxy), and knows his way around a synthesizer or two. Lord Reznor demands it. He even writes! He keeps a little black notebook inside his coat that he whips out in his fits of INSPIRATION. He finds he makes his best work when he throws caution to the wind and just throws down whatever comes to mind. Any longer than that and he starts rhyming āmurderā with āmermaiderā.
And then there is, of course, his stand-up. Not surprising, considering itās all about being the center of attention and making people laugh. Two of his favorite things! He works the local circuit and sometimes regional circuit when heās got the time (and money), but heās not aiming for any higher than that. Itās just a thing he does for fun. Making a career out of it would make it all stressful and shit. Then heād turn into Bob Saget.Ā Full House Saget. He keeps the little black notebook for that, too. Never know when youāre gonna find that killer material. If you see him scribbling in that book and heās snickering about it, then you might want to grab that bad boy, because boyĀ he does notĀ have good things to say about you tonight.
(Or maybe heās just doodling Godzilla. He⦠he does that a lot.)
His other greatest love is, of course, being a snoopy little shit. He loves exploring cities, woods, towns, and⦠well, everywhere. If itās got nooks and crannies and secrets, he is so there. Heās a very urbex kind of guy and his first instinct to anything remotely spooky and abandoned is to dive right into it. You know. For ghosts.
He also considers himself a āchampionā thrift shopper long before Macklemore made it cool. When it comes to slumming it, heās the best. Donāt believe him? Hah, fine, heāll prove it.You see that jukebox? Got that for a fractionĀ of what itās worth at some Goodwill. Sure, itās dusty and sometimes it hacks up a buncha junkĀ instead of a song, but thatās a gen-ui-ne antique right there. Can you believe it? The things people throw away, huh?
45 ā Superstitions or views on the occult?
ā¦You really asking that? Really? You know, itās a little hard notĀ to believe in what goes bump in the night when you areĀ what goes bump in the night. Thatād be like being a god that doesnāt believe in gods. Or a Russian that doesnāt believe in vodka. We gotta have standardsĀ here, okay?
As for being superstitious⦠well thatās a little loaded, donāt you think? He doesnāt believe in everything, but he will give everything a chance, like any good detective should. He takes a very hands-on approach on whatās real and whatās just bunk. Being a paranormal (would-be) P.I requires him to be an expert on these matters. Which is no problemĀ with him. He livesĀ for it! Fortune telling? Sure, baby, heāll let you read his palm anyĀ day. Haunted house? FuckĀ yes, sleep over! Skinwalkers? Camping trip!
ā¦There is oneĀ thing he wonāt believe in, though. No way, no how.
Aliens? Bullshit. Just a buncha attention seeking wackos looking for their fifteen minutes of fame. Trust him, heās been to those wack ass UFO conventions. Theyāre⦠really something else. Seriously though, if these aliens are sooooooĀ advanced, why would they come to some hick planet in the middle of nowhere? Cāmon people, think.
49 ā Is your character afraid of dying?
At first glance, you would swear that Dante has some kind of death wish. How someone could so recklessly throw themselves into danger with a smileĀ on his face defies all logic. Isnāt he afraid? Doesnāt he worry?
The truth is no, no he doesnāt.
Oh, sure, heās always on the look out for trouble and if someoneās coming at him with a meat cleaver heās not just gonna stand there, but death? Doesnāt worry him at all. He doesnāt give it even an ounce of thought, and when he does, it doesnāt bother him in the slightest. Why should it? He doesnāt know whatās gonna happen. No one does. Might as well wait and see what happens. Maybe itāll be a pair of big olā pearly gates. Maybe itāll be the Great Down Under and heāll be all out of āGet Out of Hell Freeā cards. Maybe itāll be nothing at all. And heās fine with that.Ā
Because, you know what? Sometimes, nothing doesnāt sound so bad. Sometimesā¦
Sometimes it sounds kind ofĀ nice.Ā