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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 29, 2021 19:45:37 GMT -5
Knowing Dante, if he ever comes back it will be with a new profile and probably emulating another personality. He really appreciates the fact that Daniel Handler doesn't want to mess with asoue ... So Dante won't want to mess with his reputation over the years, nor will he want to undo his epic departure ... I imagine him reading from here a few months this post, and recognizing that after all I am an interesting theorist ... And he will feel like infiltrating here again, and will ask for help from Antenora to leave me confused. But maybe he'll give up when he reads that I anticipated all his steps. And then, Dante will leave only a like with a mysterious identity, and I could never be sure that it was he who left that like, or just a recent visitor. And when that happens, he'll know he won again ... And I, I'll be waiting for that day ...
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Post by carmelita0cheryl on May 1, 2021 14:26:10 GMT -5
Why did he leave anyway?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on May 1, 2021 15:50:05 GMT -5
Dante was always mysterious and reserved, and he never explained much about his reasons for doing things. He was like that during life and even more so during death. I think we can live up to his memory by making theories about it. In his final speech he spoke about the time he spent here. It included moments of suffering in the past. He suffered and yet he stayed here. I think he was addicted to Dark Avenue, (I know how he feels). It is a mixture of attachment and pain. He once told me that he felt a little tortured by my theories, and I think that must have to do with that feeling. The fact is, it never stopped him from staying here. People change for some reason. During the time that he was planning his departure, he literally put Antenora as one of the forum moderators. There is evidence that Dante and Antenora know each other in real life. And there is evidence that they love each other. I cannot speak all the evidence, but I can say that they have already declared their love for each other in public here. So I will make a passionate theory: Antenora and Dante decided to get married. They realized that Dark Avenue was a dangerous addiction to their relationship. (A third person in a life of two, so to speak). So Dante decided to end his career on Dark Avenue with an epic end. After all, to get rid of an addiction, one of the methods is to avoid that completely. It is a little painful, but there are still advocates that it is a more efficient method than gradual weaning. In addition, it serves as a proof of love. Note that Dante and Foxy were people who abandoned us in a similar way. Most people just leave us gradually ... This is because for these people Dark Avenue is just a forum. But Foxy and Dante (and maybe me) have very strong emotional attachments. And we would only leave it here for the greatest love. I think Foxy left the forum for the love of God: she considered herself a very fervent Christian. I talked to her about the Bible in private messages. On the other hand ... I think Dante could leave us out of love for Antenora. But both Dante and Foxy wrote farewell letters. And they both wanted to leave their legacy behind. Dante did what he did and Foxy left us a list of detailed notes she made during her life. This shows the same pattern of behavior: Sacrificing something you love for someone you love more. I think for most of you, reading this may seem clueless and overkill. But I believe that people like us have a very strong psychological reason and probably have roots in our childhood and adolescence to get attached to asoue the way we do. Leaving this behind is a very big step that we would not have done without a greater cause. Perhaps we have already tried to justify this by our taste for books and the arts in general (isn't it Reba?). But the real reason we’ve been here for so long is difficult to explain and I don’t know how to express myself in words about it, but I can say it’s as real as my spleen: something I’ve never seen, and I don’t even know how it works, but I know it's hiding somewhere and affecting my life wherever I go. And I know that it may be necessary to remove it if it harms me more than it helps me ... but not without a painful procedure.
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Post by R. on May 1, 2021 15:50:47 GMT -5
He left because I revealed his true identity. 🙄
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Post by Hermes on May 1, 2021 17:40:24 GMT -5
Well, JL, that is an intriguing theory - though not, I think, entirely in the spirit of Dante, being too speculative for his liking. But it's true that he had painful memories, and yet stayed here for many years; and I think it's likely that he was finally able to make the break because of taking on some new commitment - though whether that is marriage or something else I would not like to say.
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Post by counto on May 1, 2021 21:18:00 GMT -5
Or basically we pestered him too much on his true identity
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Post by the panopticountolaf on May 2, 2021 7:38:21 GMT -5
Ehh... I didn't know Dante very well at all, but from the little I've gathered, I don't think that bothered him very much. (The speculation that he is DH, I mean. Pestering someone about their true identity outside of the context of that identity being a well-known personage is very rude.) The fact that he wrote the opening ceremony for the Dantes and then included a joke about the speculation in that writing makes me think that he found it at least a little humorous.
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Post by Hermes on May 2, 2021 12:15:53 GMT -5
I am quite sure that Roxy did not cause Dante to leave. People have been much more intrusive in the past, and he did not leave then.
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Post by limeny on May 3, 2021 8:48:56 GMT -5
when talking about the original covid lockdowns,
Apr 3, 2020 21:29:28 GMT 10 Dante said: "as one with a health condition that makes me particularly vulnerable"
i do not want to intrude on his personal life, but this could be a potential reason for his departure. for his sake, i hope something positive --- à la JL's, or even roxy's theories are true i think we should all manifest his good health, regardless.
the uncertainty and not knowing is probably what makes us theorise (plus on 667 it's in our nature),
even if he gave us a silly reason like "i took up extra shifts at the uranium processing plant", it would likely satisfy our curiosity.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on May 3, 2021 8:52:27 GMT -5
even if he gave us a silly reason like "i took up extra shifts at the uranium processing plant", it would likely satisfy our curiosity.
Damte is Homer Simson comfirmedd?!///11
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Post by TheAsh on May 4, 2021 2:09:13 GMT -5
A real pity. Dante was by far the most well versed member in ASOUE.
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