[@Benzaiten] For sure, I could see Dante wearing Mel down to try and make friends. He probably scoped her out to be somewhat of an outcast too, but mostly as someone he has a few shared interests with. It’d make sense for Dante to sort of cling to someone who’s actually capable of and willing to parse the stuff he talks about.

For the gaming part, that could definitely be a thing, though I feel like he would be too busy with his startup to really keep up with all of that, so it could be a case of them drifting apart after graduation. I see pre-college Dante as someone who has a much richer life online than he does outside of it, so he’d probably would’ve been a big MMORPG guy. So games like Guild Wars, WoW and RuneScape (lol). If that’s something that Mel‘s also into, I can imagine them planning for and going on raids together.