#but PM's got a pretty good track record on their story stuff thus far

[vmlowell]

Thinking a ton about Dante after seeing this concept art. It like really highlights how different they are from PM's last few protagonists. Of course, we don't really *know* anything on Dante aside from the barest of scraps, but unlike most generic amnesia MCs they have an actual personality and react to things in their own way.

Unfortunately there's probably most definitely going to be a traumatizing and horrifying past reveal somewhere down the line, almost a given with this being a Project Moon work; but the way Dante acts with even a dim but hopeful attitude that focuses on going forward already stands out brightly in a world filled with broken, downtrodden characters haunted by their pasts. It's difficult to imagine them taking the "OH WAIT, they were actually A SHITTY BASTARD in the PAST!!" cheap copout as well, too overly trodden ground.

But most of all just fucking so god damn glad we have a main character who **isn't** a boring, pathetic blank slate propped up by everyone around them going "ohhhh you're so good, you're the best!!!" like every other gacha out there. If you're going to write a story, you HAVE to have a character! They're not automatically relatable just because I got to pick a gender and then two or three lines of dialogue.