Dante

MAIN INFORMATION: Dante, designated Sinner #10, had his memory wiped and head replaced with a prosthetic clock (that is a doomsday clock by the way) as a precaution for data leakage prior to becoming the Manager overseeing the Sinners in Limbus Company's LCB department.

PERSONALITY: He has his own personality of being the inexperienced manager — struggling to wrangle his dysfunctional group of Sinners on their hellish road trip to obtain the Golden Boughs strewn across the City's ruined Lobotomy Corporation power plants.

As a manager, Dante is initially quiet, passive, and rather spineless. He rarely make any real attempts to control the Sinners or talk to them about their problems, while occasionally lamenting his inability to get the Sinners to listen to him due to his own physical weakness (being likely the only person on Mephistopheles without any combat experience, likely due to amnesia). However, as time moves on and Dante discovers his own ability to act as a guiding star for the Sinners, his increase in pride as the Manager of the group and begins to assume the position of actual leadership over the sinners.

Due to his initial incompetence, he had to rely on some of the Sinners to maintain some degree of control over the group's actions. Ishmael and Outis in particular provided some amount of help in management of the other Sinners during this period. However, their authority is consolidated as they earn the respect of several Sinners after focus actos, and this in turn earned him the trust of the entire group.

Dante's lack of confidence contributed greatly to their passivity in earlier Cantos, though it has since abated with the aforementioned rise in confidence. He was also shown to be fearful to certain Sinners with violent tendencies, particularly Heathcliff.

Dante's improvement can be seen clearly as the Cantos progress: in Canto I, Dante is shown to be slightly more than a bystander, occasionally asking questions but otherwise acting only as an "infinite life" charm, or compared to a "walking box of bandages" by come in later Cantos. By Canto V, however, they can be seen guiding Ishmael and leading her out of her destructive obsession with killing her former Captain.

Dante also has a light-hearted side, sometimes cracking jokes about their clockhead to lighten the mood, even in a serious situation. He can also be somewhat mischevous and cunning, as to some of their thoughts about some of the side characters the team meets.

It is unknown, as of right now, how Dante acted prior to his amnesia and transformation. He was described as being a 'big-wig' in the past, which possibly implies a degree of affluence and/or influence, with matching personality traits. However, as of yet, there has been no direct story evidence regarding him.

APPEARANCE:

In place of his original head, Dante's current head was replaced with a prosthetic red clock which protrudes unusually colored flames from its top. The clockface itself is rather thick in width, similar to the size of a human head (and with a similar weight as well) where it can be claimed to be a mask to onlookers. The flames appear to burn from two ridges that ring around the clock down to the point of Dante's neck.

Their uniform is notably distinct from the Sinners, his coat being a mix of red, yellow, and white — likely due to his role as Executive Manager. 'NO. 10' is written on his coat near the lapel, along with 'DAN TE' near the end of it. He wears a red tie and a tucked long-sleeved polo, with black pants and a white belt.

ABILITIES: The Sinners recruited by Limbus Company were specifically chosen because they could "resonate" with Dante's abilities, forming the "contract" with him to gain the boon of Dante's powers.

Golden Bough Resonance: Dante is able to sense where the Golden Bough are through resonating with them, able to perceive their location by "following their star". This gives Dante the visions of the Boughs as shining stars in a swirling sky; Dante can also share these visions with the Sinners through his telepathy.

Telepathy: Dante can only commune through a ticking sound, which he can alter the frequency and intensity of. Only the Sinners and a few others can understand the intended speech behind the ticks. When angered, Dante's speech may include bell chimes.

Selectivity: He is also capable of selectively limiting the recipient of his words to one person only, or to the whole group of the Sinners all at once. However because of these limitations, Dante can only verbally communicate with the Sinners and has to rely on using one of them as an interpreter when relaying information or queries to anyone outside the LCB.

Distortions: Dante can also understand the speech of Distortions that lost the ability to communicate using human language, this understanding extending to their subordinate entities as well. Dante can thus act as a interpreter for Distortions, relaying invaluable information to the other Sinners to achieve their missions. Faust speculates this is possible due to Dante resonating with the Golden Boughs they collected.

With cases like death, Dante undergoes a vision of himself opening a foreboding door filled with the wails and lamentations of unknown sufferers, as he pulls out the hands of the Sinners from the gateway. When doing so, Dante feels the sins and pain caused by them wriggling through his body as the Sinners revive with their wounds physically reversing. Although the pain felt is only temporary and quickly fades to nothing in almost an instant, the sensation is still so great that Dante incredibly prefers not using his abilities.

Winding down: When the clock on Dante's face winds down, Dante himself is rendered unconscious.

Dreams: In this state, they are able to "dream" of various alternate realities known as Mirror Worlds. Vergilius and the other Sinners were able to interfere with what Mirror World was seen by Dante by messing with the circuitry in his prosthetic head, as Dante unfortunately experiences when this happened for the first time.

Rewinding: Fortunately, Dante can be resuscitated by rewinding their clock — waking him up from their "dreams". Dante is able to recall their memories from such experiences, but it still leaves him confused and frazzled nonetheless.

Pigritia: Dante creates a field that slows everything except the Sinners within a certain radius. In game, this halves the speed of all enemies, rounded down. To outsiders, the Sinners have been sped up.

'Last Resort': A preventative measure to prevent the Golden Boughs from falling into wrong hands. By pressing a suspiciously red button with enough force on the back of their head, Dante can self-detonate a charge within their clock with enough heat 'to melt even the Stars of the City'. The Golden Boughs cannot survive such an explosion, and will be effectively eviscerated from all the generated acid.

Whether these capabilities are because of the clock or are inherent to Dante himself is unknown (bar the 'Last Resort').