[@Ryik] [@The Jest] [hider=About Beatrice and Dante] Essentially, Dante and Beatrice are childhood friends who grew up together after their respective parents somewhat settled down and became neighbors. So, since their respective parents quickly became friends, their meetings and play dates increased, which was further enhanced since they both went to the same school. To give a bit of context and as a reminder, Dante was born with 'something' lacking inside of him, which is demonstrated by his lack of aversion towards violence, as well as a somewhat distorted sense of self/worth. Beatrice, meanwhile, was born with an extremely strong sense of empathy, as well as a unusual intuition, so she could somewhat tell what people were feeling and act accordingly, which, due to her kind nature, resulted in her comforting people when they felt down. Their own oddities made it so that Dante ended up being cast as the odd one out of his entire generation, while Beatrice ended up as the most popular girl and someone who got along pretty well with other people, whether it be her classmates or the teachers. Still, they remained friends and that held on until they were around 12 years old or so. People eventually noticed their friendship and, due to varying reasons, such as jealously of Dante for being so close to Beatrice, or envy of Beatrice for being the prettiest girl of their generation and having so much attention, it culminated into a tragedy the very same day they were supposed to graduate from elementary school, a small group of boys and girls confronted Dante about it, aiming to also hurt Beatrice. They started insulting Dante, which didn't faze him at all, but this drew the ire of Beatrice who noticed what was happening and went to defend him from the insults drawing the attention and the insults onto her. Seeing that Beatrice was about to burst into tears, and how some boys were sneering at him and telling Dante they were going to beat him up to prove that he wasn't 'worthy' of Beatrice, Dante's ingrained sense of justice acted up and started a rather nasty school brawl that ended up pretty badly for those involved. He himself wasn't badly hurt, with only a few bruises here and there, but some of the boys involved had large bruises or at worst a broken nose. Going forward, and pretty obviously, the parents of those involved advocated for Dante to get expelled and, after some hesitation, he was indeed expelled from the school. This incident drew the attention of his grandfather, who after hearing about it, gave the order to bring Dante to his homeland of Italy to be formally introduced to his grandfather and such. On Beatrice's side, she was traumatized due to what had happened there. Being able to discern how people are feeling most of the time, she understood that had she not intervened, nothing would have happened in first place. Dante only acted because of his own sense of justice identifying that driving a girl into tears, especially one so close to him, was wrong, and those that had done said wrong, had to be punished. What had frightened her was the fact that the boy himself hadn't really done it out of anger, he personally felt nothing while engaged in the brawl, but also the fact that once he had 'won', he felt a sense of satisfaction which surged from the act of having fulfilled his sense of justice by punishing those that had made Beatrice cry. Beatrice's mother had warned her that all kinds of people existed out there, that there were people who did evil for the sake of doing so, and those who committed evil for the sake of others, and she thought herself ready for that when she eventually followed the footsteeps of her mother and grandmother and became an agent or something among those lines. But she was wrong, when faced with an act of evil steeming from a show of goodwill, out of 'righteousness', it broke her and left a scar in her mind. She moved back to Germany to stay with her grandmother for the time being, and eventually attended middle school after recovering from the ordeal.[/hider]