#Dante ic

[wayfaringtrainers]

So I constantly joke about how Robin's cooking skills are comedically terrible, but this has always been exaggeration for comedic effect. It got me to thinking: "how capable is Robin in the kitchen? and it kinda snowballed to thinking about all my muses and their culinary capability, sooo, from worst to best:

Worst: Robin

Yeah no, he's a terrible chef, let's not get ahead of ourselves. But not as bad as we've made him out to be. Robin did spend 6-7 years alone on the road, and at least half of them were a hermetic, loner lifestyle so he had to be capable enough to cook for himself.

For the most part, Robin is fine with really basic things. He can butter some bread and slap meat between it, he can fling something into the oven for half an hour. Robin's main issue is impatience; he cannot stand hovering in the kitchen for an hour or two, doing all the prep-work required, his instinct is to just throw it all in at once, no matter how bad an idea that is: if the vegetables needs half an hour at 200 degrees to cook, but the meat takes two hours at 150? He throws them both in at 200 and walks away for 2 hours. It's probably why curries are the only thing he can reasonably cook (being very much a "throw everything in and cook it" kind of food), but even they are just... Mediocre.

Bad: Katrina

Anybody is a master chef in comparison to Robin, but that doesn't mean Katrina is a good chef, she just isn't a disaster. Unlike Robin, who is impatient, Katrina is inexperienced: she's never really done a lot of cooking, because it's never held her interest. She'll cook if she has to, but she doesn't really want to: so her cooking tends to be somewhat plain, bland and uninteresting.

Katrina is strictly a "follow the cooking guide" girl and if she's asked to cook something that doesn't have instructions? She's not even gonna try. What's more, while Robin and Amber will go out to eat because they travel a lot, Katrina will go out to eat regardless, even if she has access to cooking facilities. It just isn't something she cares for.

Average: Amber

Amber's only ahead of Katrina by necessity. Before she met Robin, Amber had a theoretical knowledge of how to cook, but due to her childhood illness, she was rarely allowed to cook for herself (her father and brother were obsessively over-protective). Plus, being Robin's travel companion means she can't rely on him to cook for them, so she has a better handle on it.

Good: Samantha

Being a single mother of two on a budget means Samantha had to be pretty good with her utensils to keep her kids well fed. Prior to her kids, she was already pretty good at campfire culinary, on account of her ranger training.

When times were tough and money short, she may have taken to some of her old-school foraging knowhow to keep food on the table, but Samantha has had years to get comfortable with the kitchen. Her only fault though, is her reluctance to get creative; like everybody else, cooking is a chore for Samantha and while she does it well and takes pride in her skills, she doesn't do it for pleasure, only because she has to.

Best: Dante

Dante is the only one on this blog who actually likes cooking. Dante always had a stressful life, being the favourite child of a perfectionist mother, he was always expected to excel, excel, excel and anything in his life that didn't contribute to accolades, achievements and ambition was something he was discouraged from.

(Yeah, neither of the Richards siblings had a good childhood, go figure)

Cooking was effectively an escape for Dante, it was something practical that his mother couldn't dismiss as a waste of time, but also something he could enjoy doing. He likes the whole process of forming a meal, considering it significantly less stressful than literally every other moment of his life (which includes: work as a nuclear physicist, being Amber's guardian during her sickly days, his whole grief-induced mad scientist arc and having to literally work with criminals). Even the most complex meal is a breeze compared to all that.

[illustratus]

Lake Cocytus and the Traitors (Dante's Divine Comedy Enferno) by Gustave Doré

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Satan trapped in ice at the bottom of Hell

[p1zzaparty]

Really old drawing of loser inspired ice cream?? It was connected to another idea i had with another character cough cough but I feel too cringe to post him so fucking gay ass popsicles  🍦

[of-pale]

It's always about the little things with him

Nero was working on a crafts project in the back of the van when the tool he needed was out of reach. He turned to Vergil, who was sitting nearby, “Hey, can you pass over them scissors?”

Setting his book aside, Vergil picked up the scissors, but instead of handing them over, he just frowned at them as if they had wronged him. Fascinating as it was to see Vergil confused by a simple pair of old scissors, Nero needed them today, so after a minute of waiting, his patience had run out.

“Look, you could’ve just said no, I—“

Much like how he called upon summoned swords, Vergil created a spectral copy of the scissors and passed them over to Nero without a word. When Nero picked them up, he quickly realised the scissors were actually a mirrored version of the originals, better suited for a left-handed person. It was an unexpectedly thoughtful gesture from his father, considering Nero favoured his left hand for most things.

Not sure how to process that, Nero sheepishly mumbled, “Uh, Thanks… but I’m sort of ambidextrous.“

[staryarn]

Dante is NOT having a fun time

[highladyofterrasen7]

Dante are you okay?

[raynoddle]

Detail shot of the light blue part of the color wheel.

Blue is for Original Cerberus!

I had two crashes while doing this, first my pc decided to die and I had to format and I lost the whole dante wheel. I was only able to recover the JPG I shared here, so now I'm continuing on top of it. Lost all the layers on the other Dantes :(

Second time was last night, after cerberus itself was almost done, PC froze and photoshop didn't recover it.

[kadilnu]

I love drawing wings, so I drew a Dante w wings

I drew this first on traditional

[fisheito]

*bouncing an empty dish back and forth like pinball*

STOP SLACKIN ON THE SUNDAES, DANTE

[kusurrone]

[yakny]

“You were supposed to be on some honeymoon at this stage in your life, not stranded on some lonely moon found in the middle of interstellar space! You’re out of reach now, Miss Uraraka. I cannot pull on your fate anymore.” He fell to a sudden crouch, a grim smile on his face, “You, on the other hand, still have me orbiting around you like some goddamned satellite.”

[taitiii]

Dante eating ice-cream.

Dante. Marvel vs Capcom Infinite.

[mako-neexu]

a man who is (semi) accustomed to hot humid air for his star who lives in the east 🫶

[dante-in-odd-places]

Fighting Duolingo in Duolingo on Ice to get his family back

if it was up to me i’d let you keep him, but i don’t think Vergil would be real happy with me if i left him behind

[fella-lovin-fella]

save me ibuprofen