Dantalian, who become possessed by a wealthy, unnamed Korean NEET, is the main protagonist of the Dungeon Defense Light Novel series. He is ranked the 71st Demon Lord, a member in an order of 72, who rules over all demons. He is the lover of Lapis Lazuli, foster father of Laura De Farnese and master of the Berbere Witch Sisters, all whom have sworn their loyalty to him. Elizabeth von Habsburg, the Imperial Princess of the Habsburg Empire, acknowledges him as her arch-nemesis.
With pure black pupils, wrapped in a black mantle and dressed up in similar dark clothing, he could only be described as a persona of darkness. Despite his frail appearance, he has a sturdy physique with firm muscles.
Before the transmigration, the original 71st Demon Lord Dantalian bore a personality not far from that of Andromalius the 72nd Demon Lord. Despite ranking low in the demon society hierarchy, Dantalian showed an arrogant attitude as a member of the Order of 72 Demon Lords. He know full well that his kind is customary treated as highly being. As such, he has unrestrained nature towards people who are below him and otherwise towards those who are naturally above him by status. This said, he tend to be impulsive especially if his pride and status is threaten to a degree. He only acknowledge people based on their status and reputation especially if said people fully acknowledge him.
Due to his past experience, he developed a intense desire for authority which ultimately made him interested in the field of politics. He only felt authority when he saw himself overwhelming the other party. He possess high caliber of intelligence especially in the field of politics and its philosophies. Couple with his childhood talent in acting, he naturally developed his skill in speech and rhetoric and became a charismatic individual who posses eloquent. His nurtured talents and skills allowed him to show capability to devise an effective and resourceful plan based on deduction, calculation and prediction in his field of expertise.
He greatly detest doing pointless and inefficient labor or investment. Though he can be casually labeled as lazy due to his desire to live a lazy life, he doesn't hate the idea of exerting full effort to achieve something that he consider relevant through efficient method since he deeply believes that a half-ass work will only result to a half-ass result. Due to his laziness however, he rather prefer not working at all than working inefficiently as he similarly prefers to be seriously crude than crudely serious.
Contrary to the impulsiveness of the original Dantalian, the new Dantalian acts with great caution especially when he is cooking a scheme. He prefers to execute his schemes patiently by creating or waiting for a good opportunity to carry it out to the fullest. Though he may fall short in technique when devising scheme, he tends to be resourceful by using his skills and surroundings to create simple but effective scheme. Unlike Laura De Farnese who prefers to play with the threats before eliminating them, the fed up Dantalian prefers to quickly eliminate threats. While at it however, he enjoys ridiculing arrogant type of prey. However, whether it be plotting against someone or trying to achieve or adhere to something, he isn't indecisive to put everything, including his life, on the line to express the sincerity of his thoughts through actions as a cultured individual.
Being a pessimistic individual as he is, the common concept of love, friendship and the likes disgust him very much as he believes that they are only relationships where betrayal haven't taken place yet. He instead prefers to engage towards the much more reliable relationship of mutual-benefits where each party rely onto one another merely for benefits.
Before becoming the demon lord Dantalian, he was a young Korean born with a wealthy but indecisive father who shamelessly practice polygamy. This resulted in the friction between his birth mother and step mothers while his own father watched idly despite being fully aware of the suffering his own children were experiencing, thus incurring his son's resentment for his weak inflexibility, irresponsibility and pathetic unwillingness to take any initiative to shield his children from the abuse of his wives. With this, he came to hate the concept of polygamy.
Born to an indifferent and insensitive father who practiced polygamy, he had several step mothers and half siblings. However, he experienced many violent childhood traumas caused by his psychotic yandere birth mother towards his half siblings and himself. Once, he had nearly lost his life when he experienced being used as a shield by his father in order to avoid the knife being swung by my mother during the mid-summer of his second year in elementary school. Even after the age of forty, the wives' bloody competition and feud over his father caused much abuse and suffering for him and his half siblings. In order to gain even a little bit more affection, his little sisters had to flatter their father each and every time they could, much to his disgust. Though circumstances for him were a bit better compare to his little sisters since he was male, in the position of a child, he still wanted to kill himself.
Though he thinks that his father has fulfilled his role as an individual of society and as a parent who can responsibly provide the primary needs of his children, he greatly considered his father a failure as a parent. He had lost all trust in his father when his father told him that he would rather sacrifice all six of his children than to divorce his wives, as he loved them to that extent. From then on, he forever detested his father whom he consider weak for being indecisive due to the illogical concept of love. He only maintained a good relationship with his second half little sister, whom he often doted on in the past.
Dantalian stopped trying to solve his problems through force since the time he got beat up by the girl sitting next to him in kindergarten. Once he obtained the information that the girl sitting next to him wet her bed every morning, he took advantage of it as much as possible. After having done so, he learned the greatness of information which ultimately arose his interest with diplomatic studies. Having been trained by his father to be an actor, Dantalian was able to polish his talent in acting since he was a child.asd
At the age of six, he was able to developed a keen self-awareness towards himself and his capabilities as a prodigy child. He had since committed himself to sharpen his intellect in order to survive in his household as well as meet his mother's adamant demands for him to attain first place in his entire school, solely for the sake that his father would pay more attention to his mother. He worked hard to be independent and even gained authority as the student council president of his school to manage his academic and household life with the obligation to clean up his irresponsible father's mess every time, an incredibly tedious task that he despised but carried out none the less. This however made him a sore target for his competitive step mothers. As such he had experience being kidnap by men hired by his step mothers three times.
It wasn't until his father's unexpected death when he considered dropping college and live a lazy life as a NEET with all the money he took and saved. Though he was once an optimistic individual, after witnessing his mothers engaging in deathmatch during the funeral of his father, his positive outlook in life remained no more.
Now as the Demon Lord 'Dantalian', he frequently utilizes his superior intellect to achieve his goals, overcoming obstacles, getting the better of his enemies and outwitting opponents more powerful than himself through resourcefulness. To ensure his survival in this new world and to avoid the fateful end of the demon lords, he would resort to any means necessary that might seem rash or suicidal to most while being motivated by his desire to live a lazy life. Therefore, his keen and intuitive mind greatly bolsters his hand in politics giving him the ability to quickly devise strategies with outstanding outcomes, such as using the Margrave of Rosenberg's sense of justice to play a vital role in a trap that Laura had prepared which ultimately lead to the Margrave's utter defeat and downfall.
It is his motto to never act rashly, and this drew valuable allies to pledge their loyalty to him such as the Berbere Sisters who had betrayed his secret activities to Paimon in order to find out his true intentions and to confirm if he could be trusted. He was also able to establish a mutual understanding and sincere communion with his lover Lapis, a woman who loves and desires authority above all else much like himself. Aided with the knowledge of the future events bound to take place in , the fruits of his meticulous strategies and plans seem almost uncanny to his allies and leaves much to be dreaded for his enemies.
Perhaps due to the traumatizing childhood and harsh treatment he had experienced throughout his former life, Dantalian had discarded his self pride and developed a very thick skin, easily ignoring the criticism and slander of others regarding his choice of company or decisions, with the sole exception of the unreasonable requests of the witches to bed him.
Despite his twisted nature, he does have certain values and characteristics that he admires in others and expects them to act upon. However, those who fail to do so leave Dantalian cold in disappointment and would often lead to tragic outcomes; such as the events whereby the heroine Christiane von Volfusbrook irresponsibly plead for him to spare her own life instead of taking responsibility for the lives of her people. It left him bitter as he saw no trace of guilt for her irresponsibility in taking the lives of people in the uprising she started. Those who do otherwise however can fill Dantalian with sincere respect in a degree that is enough to move him to express it through action. Such scenario was so when Torukel displayed his responsibility and etiquette in trading life for life. As an expression of his sincere respect, Dantalian without hesitation adhered in Torukel's last wish despite seeing the severe risk of doing so.
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