[Dante]

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You're so sweet[break] but I like it loud[break]
Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em

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One thing Dante missed about America was the open roads of desert. Somehow, out there, he felt closer to the sky. Whether it being sunburnt under the glorious sun or shivering under the great expanse of brilliant stars, he didn't care- the desert could rough him up all it liked- but he loved it because it was home. Funny how the things that hate you the most are the things you come crawling back to, huh? But not here. There's no desert here. There's his home away from home, the slums and squats of the streets.

The delinquent's exploring his new home, at least, that's what he told the old man. A clear excuse to get away from that dreaded hero university he had just taken up in, but before there was any protest, he was out the door and roaring down the streets away from there. A hero school! The exact opposite of punk and heavy metal! Just being there drained the rockerboy from within him, and shit, he couldn't let that happen.

But then down one particularly abandoned road on the outskirts of what he thought was called Shinjuku, a desolate place rose from the skyline, a forgotten playground that could have been unintentionally mentioned in one of his songs. His '69 mustang screeches to a halt as he happens by the entrance, then reverses, rolled down the window, and Dante peered out, looking over his sunglasses. He should have said, "creepy" or "it's probably haunted", but nope.

"Oh, fuck yeah."

Once he tears down the straight of the entrance and finds himself in the middle of everything, he can't help but think, shit, what a fantastic place this would be for a concert. The dreary and empty horror aspect of the amusement park practically was begging for something to liven it up. Isn't that what amusement parks were for? Amusement? Well, he considered himself to have the right to make himself amused in such a place.

Wiring his guitar to the speakers of his electric guitar as he tucks it over his chest, he gives a few quiet experimental strums to test the sound level. All good, nothing seemed out of tune, thank god. He hops up onto the roof of the muscle machine, and gives the area a look around. There's a ferris wheel, too. It's begging to be haunted. Thinking for a moment, he mentally cycles through his available song list, before nodding and deciding on one. Oh, it's sure to stick out here. Though, he can't resist absolutely ripping the strings to hear that glorious howl from his guitar, and does the echo of his song sing back to him like glorious hellfire. "Killer acoustics," Dante comments, a wry grin on his lips.

"Like a fire in the night

Like a bllion satellites

The stars in your eyes

Couldn't tell within the sky

Just ten seconds to go

Countdown to where to go

You said we're comin' home

But where, where do we go?"

God, it's actually an angel's choir singing to him. Shit, it's settled. Somehow he's got to get a crowd here.

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[Eiji Harada]

When Eiji first heard the commotion he feared the worst. Had their enemies finally snuck into the park? What were they planning, surely they wouldn't stoop so low as to go after the orphans their little community housed here. On behalf of the Hummingbirds, as The Heart, he had to check out what was happening. When he arrived on the scene he didn't interrupt Dante right away. Instead he chose to hang back and listen to the music, the acoustics and his voice hitting him like a wall of sound that gave him chills to his core, those kinds of chills you'd get from attending a killer concert.

Given that this guy had come in here and immediately started to make a ton of noise, Eiji was inclined to believe he didn't mean any harm, at least that was what he hoped. Once Dante finished his song, Eiji would step forward clapping his hands together. ''Nice tunes! I'm Guts, Heart of the Hummingbirds. What brings you to our little corner of Shinjuku, stranger?'' He grinned. He always wanted to try the friendly approach first before he decided whether he needed to throw hands. Eiji was wearing some pretty standard street swear, but most notably, his entire right arm was gone, replaced by a prosthetic.

''Not sure if you know, but this place is the territory of our gang. You're not in trouble or anything like that.'' He waved his hand casually. ''I'm just curious how you found us is all.''

Dante

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You're so sweet[break] but I like it loud[break]
Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em

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Well, so much for wanting a crowd! He's already got one right here, but he needs more than just one person to really make the heavens sing... thankfully, the redhead doesn't seem upset at Dante's intrusion upon his territory- rather fascinated, to Dante's delight. Even if he was a regular old Debbie Downer, it would have hardly stopped the raging delinquent.

"Dante." The rockerboy replies with an equally interested lilt in his tone, his brows raising over his shades as he shifts the strap of his guitar so it hangs around the side of his waist, striking a match on the heel of his boot to light the cigarette he had placed in his mouth. After a long drag, he breathes out, watching the smoke swirl and disappear. "Weren't on purpose," He eventually speaks up again, an obvious foreign accent tweaking his voice. "jus' a wanderer passing by who saw a place that needed a little life sparked back into it. I mean, it's an amusement park. Where the fuck's the amusement? Did the fatcats upstairs run the poor underpaid sods out here because they thought they did a bad job at making people happy?" Dante scoffed. "Well, wouldn't that just be a fine case of hypocrisy."

His voice continues to echo throughout the deadly quiet chasm of where Happiness was Supposed to Live but Actually Dies, and his left hand taps on the fretboard of his guitar, a clear sign that he wants to start playing again. Despite whatever the newcomer might have had to say, he starts strumming away again without a song in mind with his cigarette perched between his lips, grunting as he sat down with his legs dangling over the edge of his mustang's roof. "You said you were in a gang, yeah?" Dante asks, voice a little disfigured thanks to the stick of death in his teeth. "Where's the rest of 'em?"

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[Eiji Harada]

Dante. Definitely not from here from the sounds of it, or at the very least someone who had family abroad judging from his voice. Dante's reason for being here and subsequent assessment of the place had Eiji laughing in seconds. ''You're right Dante, this place has been abandoned for years, ever since I was a little kid. It's a shame you hadn't stopped by a week from now we're setting up for a local festival.'' Not quite like the spring festival in Tokyo, although the people of the park partook in those festivities too, the Hummingbirds had their own traditions. ''This place hasn't been used as a real theme park for a long time, but a bunch of us decided to move in. Why let the space go to waste, y'know?''

''The rest of 'em? You want me to get them for you?'' He grinned confidently, punching his prosthetic arm up into the air as he activated his quirk, sending a surge of flames through it that for a split second, flew several feet up into the air, but dissipated faster than firework. ''Hey everyone! Come say hi to our new guest, he's putting on a show!!'' Sure enough, all it took was Eiji's signal for more and more people to come pouring out from every corner of the park, some of the orphaned kids even watched from afar, having climbed on top of an old stall to sit on the roof so they could look over the crowd of people that had gathered there. ''Who's that, boss?'' Shouted one of the gang members. ''Dante, he's our treasured guest.'' Eiji grinned, turning back to Dante to flash him a wink. ''Hey Dante, ever performed in front of this many people before? Think your rocker soul can handle us?'' He grinned, trying to spur him on and get him fired up.

Dante

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You're so sweet[break] but I like it loud[break]
Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em

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Dante stared at Guts for a long, hard moment, his emotions unreadable beneath his glasses. Usually people would give him odd looks if he performed unprompted in public- his rocker soul wasn't a quiet one, and people didn't exactly welcome loudness beyond repair on the streets outside of underground concerts and bars. But his confusion lasts for but a second as he isn't one to show any emotion other than narcissism, egotism, or cockiness, and only gives a devilish grin in response as the Heart of the Hummingbirds gives him the go-ahead.

"You got no idea what you're asking for," Dante smirks, scratching at his chin as he watches multitudes of street cats appear out of the blue, himself vaguely wondering how they managed to appear like that undetected. He stands up on his mustang once more and rests his guitar on his waist, glancing around. Whoever these people were, it was clear that they were a tightly-knit community- a village without the villas, he supposed. Did the council not catch wind of them occupying the amusement park, or had they simply turned a blind eye to them?

"Got any requests?" Dante asks Guts, but his insinuation grants input from anyone watching.

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[Eiji Harada]

Eiji got multiple questions thrown his way by his fellow birds. Was this a good idea? Who was this man? Could he be trusted. Eiji handwaved all of it. He may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he knew how to spot someone with bad intentions when he saw them. If Dante was an ill-intentioned person, then why would he have given up his own element of surprise to shred it like an absolute God in the middle of their home? It was highly likely he wasn't a villain and even if he was, Eiji had front row seats and was ready to throw hands at a moment's notice to protect his people.

Did they have any requests?

The others were still too shy to speak, just like that time Eiji dragged an unconscious Freja through the park and helped nurse her back to health. They warmed up to her, so he had all the confidence they would warm up to someone as eccentric as Dante too. Eiji just grinned. ''Dante, my man I don't know shit about music.'' He proclaimed confidently, not that he was proud of it, but he knew he was an absolute amateur speaking to an expert in their field. ''Got anything that can set our souls aflame and light up the night?'' He punched the air with his prosthetic arm and used his quirk for a second, sending flames flying through it, almost like a little, much less effective flare. ''Like this?'' He smiled, eager to see what the minstrel did next.

Dante

[Dante]

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You're so sweet[break] but I like it loud[break]
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One thing comes to mind— the song his alias was named after, Archangel. A legendary symphony in which to inspire the unfortunate and unlucky who had their lives damned by corporate functions, to spur riots on the spot and have their souls lit aflame with just a few small but very, very meaningful words. The song was his everything, and the very meaning he took up his career in the freelancing arts after absconding from the American military. To incite freedom in the chained.

"Say less brother." Dante laughs and flicks the cigarette beneath his boot to crush it after he stands on the roof of his mustang once more, fingers gliding effortlessly over his guitar's fretboard once more. He doesn't play the backing soundtrack for this piece— it's purely Dante's solo, and only him.

the desire to destroy

to disrupt to lose control

to rebuild and then

to tear it down again

bend it backwards until it breaks

capacitors roaring inside my brain

agent of chaos and discontent

I’m gonna take out the corporate man

Start the fire

Start the fire

His verse descends into the chorus with ease, taking a moment to pump a fist in the air once, twice, thrice, in beat with the song before moving onwards. He's never met a crowd he couldn't please, and he certainly doesn't deny it would happen now.

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[Eiji Harada]

Dante's music was transcendent. The type of rebellious vibe it hit was exactly what resonated with the vigilante group who fought for their own way of life and stood up against corporations no matter how small they felt in this increasingly quirk-centric world. The crowd, hyped for another number pretty much immediately lit up as he began playing, enjoying his sound to the fullest. Eiji, although he was having fun getting lost in the music still kept an eye out, but he mostly had his attention directed towards Dante.

As his music filled the air, his presence only grew more mysterious. Where did he come from? Why did he stop here? He said he was a wanderer, was that all the story there was to it? Usually people didn't wander without a reason, or at least so Eiji thought, given he had never been one. He was a Shinjuku street rat, born and raised. Even if he wanted to set out on a journey like Dante, he couldn't bring himself to. Not with the amount of found family he had here in Shinjuku who needed him.

To say the crowd was pleased would be putting it mildly. Several were pumping their fists in the air alongside Dante and even the shy kids in the back were slowly warming up to this mysterious stranger bringing tunes of rebellion. Once the song concluded, Eiji would approach him again. ''That was amazing! We've never had a performance like yours here at the park. It wouldn't be wrong to say you've lit a spark.'' He looked over his shoulder to see the crowd abuzz with energy and discussion amongst each other.

''You said you're a wanderer, right? What's your destination?''

Dante

[Dante]

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Dante was beginning to view Eiji as naive. He supposes, that's a part of the rogue's charm, but he doesn't know shit about him. The delinquent ran his tongue over his fangs in thought, elbow lying on the neck of his guitar.

"Ain't got one," Dante replies, country accent clear as the sun in July. "never did. Mutualistic lifestyles these days s' jus' like... stepping into thick hot black tar and never getting back out. People say you should have goals, but I don't see the point in having stress when working up to that." Dante shrugs.

"But that's just me. All I want is to grab hold of that little ember so many people seem to have, and spark it into the blazing inferno of rebellion." Dante throws his hands up. "Like the good old days of rock n' roll. That's what it was made for originally anyway. Here, maybe I could do that for a bit. Place you've got here feels like a little home I never had, and the crowd has appreciation for my arts. Of course," Dante looks around before back at Eiji with a suggestive smirk. "if you'll have me, that is."

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[Eiji Harada]

''Is that so? Aren't you mysterious.'' He grinned, finding the wanderer more interesting by the passing seconds. In a way they were polar opposites. Dante couldn't be tied down, free to roam and see the world on a journey that presumably didn't have an end. Meanwhile, Eiji was born on the streets of Shinjuku and had stayed here to help the people that took care of him and raise the next generation of delinquents that would take over once he became too old for all that nonsense. What kind of sights had the stranger seen? Just how big was his world compared to Eiji's?

''I can get behind that. If anything, rebellion is exactly what we need at times like this.'' He nodded thoughtfully, crossing his arms. Not only did he shred on his guitar and sing with the power of that roaring fire he wanted to start, but Dante was the pure embodiment of rock and rebellion too. ''You think so? I'm glad to hear it! We'd be more than happy to accommodate you. I bet staying here at our park will be different from what you're used to on the road. For one, it's safe. Your equipment won't be stolen.'' He smirked back with his own suggestive glint. ''And I can personally vouch for your safety.'' He motioned for Dante to follow him with his head. ''Come with me.''

Dante

[Jinx]

☆ MISSION SUCCESS ☆

From embers to a wildfire!
Great thread you two!

+ 5,000 EXP!!

Eiji: 14,250 // 19,250
Dante: 15,250 // 17,750 <cap reached>

Dante has reached the monthly cap after gaining 2500 exp from this thread

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