application for sirenspull
Player Information
Name: Ian
Age: 21
AIM SN: priestlyish
email: meaculpable AT live DOT com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yarp
Currrently Played Characters:
Lucifer Morningstar // meaculpable
Peter "The Spider-man" Parker // bythreadalone
Conditional: Activity Check Link: Do I need one? I passed activity with both of my characters, but did not need to respond to the AC check because of the timeframe they were accepted in..
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Mspaintadventures: HOMESTUCK
Canon Format: Webcomic
Character's Name: Dave Strider
Character's Age: 13
If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.
Dave is no stranger to unbelievably dangerous worlds filled with creepy monsters, creepy people, and even creepier goings-on in the background. As the entire point of HOMESTUCK is basically for the children involved to survive tons of dangerous situations -- not the least of which involves Dave watching different versions of himself die horrible deaths -- I think he's more than well suited enough to survive in the 'Port, if not thrive.
What form will your character's NV take?
Dave's NV will take the form of his iShades, and will function in the same manner. In his canon, they're basically a wireless, hands free computer he controls through thought.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities
Though the kids in HOMESTUCK are capable of rather off the wall, kind of insanely powerful things, for the most part only the children who have reached God-tier status have anything to their name that can be construed as a supernatural ability. As Dave is not one of these children, I'll simply be morphing his main trick in canon -- the manipulation of time using an item he possesses -- into his dormant ability, to be detailed below.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
Dave will be getting the power of TIME MANIPULATION on the MICROSCALE. This means that, much like in his original canon, Dave may only travel forward and backward through his own personal timeline, and cannot affect the timelines of others, or affect events that have already transpired without incurring some painful and very deadly backlash. As a caveat to this ability, Dave will also not be able to travel back in time to any point prior to his arrival in Siren's Port, and will not be able to travel forward in time far enough to see how game-wide plots turn out; the Core simply won't let him.
Using this power, Dave will be able to:
-- Jump forward or backward in time.
-- Heal himself a bit faster by speeding up his internal healing processes.
-- Create "clones" of himself as seen during his battle with BecNoir here, though it hasn't been explained if these are versions of himself from the future or not.
-- Create stable time loops; for example: if Dave were to see a future version of himself show up during a fight, after that fight he would have to go back into the past and help himself out.
-- "Fast-forward" himself, which will mimic his "flash-step" ability in canon; ie, he'll move so fast that the eye can't follow and he'll also leave a temporary after-image.
If anything needs to be nerfed, just let me know and I'll talk to any of you guys to try and come to an agreement!
Weapons:
Though it isn't a weapon per se, as with most every character in the HOMESTUCK universe, Dave stores most, if not all of the items he thinks he'll need to use -- or that he wants to keep on him for later -- in a HAMMERSPACE INVENTORY known as the SYLLADEX. The SYLLADEX basically functions as any other inventory screen in a video game would, keeping whatever is stored within it in pristine condition until it's used, expelled in a comedic fashion, or discarded. In Dave's case, his SYLLADEX can hold up to ten unique stacks of items without their weight encumbering him, and works on a system which assigns a numeric value to each letter in the title of the item he wants to log, then indexes it accordingly. Or not. He likes to cheat with Ys.
( For a better explanation -- because lord is it confusing -- check here! )
The items Dave has are:
1: "The SBAHJifier.” Using it, Dave can snap a picture of anything, and a tangentially related, crappy Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic will come out.
2: “Turntop.” Basically a portable PC that floats in front of him when he gets it out. We're going to pretend it doesn't have time powers.
3: Empty
4: “Shitty Broken Legendary Sword,” aka Caledfwlch. He never equipped it -- as far as I can recall -- because the sword he had on hand is better.
5: Empty.
6: “Suitarangs.” Basically, they're batarangs, except instead of looking like a bat they look like mirrored card suites.
7: Empty.
8: Empty.
9: “Red Plush Puppet Tux.” Soft, stylish red velvet, black sneakers, and a white bowtie.
0: Empty.
In addition to the SYLLADEX, Dave also has what is known as a STRIFE SPECIBUS, which is basically a deck of cards where he holds all of his weaponry. Like the SYLLADEX, the three swords he keeps within the SPECIBUS do not encumber him with their full weight until they're drawn.
As of this posting, Dave is only in possession of three swords: the Caledscratch, the Scarlet Ribbitar and the Snoop Dog Snow Cone Machete. The first of the three is only special because it too can manipulate its own personal timeline, becoming a full sword of only half of one at a moment's notice, while the last blade simply freezes an opponent upon impact.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here.
To better understand Dave's TIME SHENANIGANS, the Dave's that are all the same are as follows: The Dave we're first introduced to, who enters the Medium => Red-suit Dave => Black-suit Dave => Non-doomed Felt Dave => Casual Shirt Dave, who => Finds his dead Bro => Goes back in time to fail to kill himself on the Quest Bed => Becomes Jade's server player => Hunts frogs => Fights BecNoir => Dies => Becomes his dreamself on Derse.
Point in Canon: Right before his EPIC BATTERU with BecNoir.
Character Personality: Dave is a master of the ironic. He's got an acerbic wit and a smartass mouth he uses to both alienate and discomfort people, but he stands by his friends until the bitter end, even going so far as to sacrifice his own life in one version of the future to give John, Rose, and Jade a proper chance at beating the game. He acts cool and standoffish with people he doesn't know, but gives anyone the time of day if they can make him laugh or entertain him well enough. Ideally, all it takes is a little bit of conversation to get Dave to open up, but even if you do catch his attention he's liable to pay you back with nothing more than trolling and really hardcore attempts at being ironic.
Growing up, Dave strove to emulate Bro Strider's every personality quirk, and hasn't quite grown out of it yet. He's a self-professed "coolkid" who is practically obsessed with being ironic -- both sincerely and ironically, since he almost never uses the word correctly -- and acts unaffected by the world, nearly to a fault. He is arrogant and bullheaded, and usually ends up doing things his own way unless presented with strong evidence that doing such a thing will end badly; for example, though he knows that time travel may end up dooming him forever, he still seemingly vows to master it, and uses it not only for personal gain, but almost just because he can. He is careful and discerning, but not as much as he should be, which allows people like Terezi -- and even John, in the beginning -- to influence him in very subtle ways; in Terezi's case, its both beneficial and kind of morbid, as she causes him to really reflect on what happens to him at the end of a doomed timeline, while John just says something gross that makes Dave have second thoughts about drinking apple juice.
Generally, Dave is a big picture guy, and doesn't have as many of the hang-ups that, say, Rose and Jade have. Outside of kind of flipping out when he's made to look stupid -- or confronted with puppets -- Dave always takes things as they come, and as coolly as possible, even going to far as to play off his brother's death as if it weren't a big thing. He isn't amazed by SBURB like John is, isn't interested in plumbing its depths like Rose, and honestly can't bring himself to care about the doom of the entire human race like Jade does; to him it's just a game, and it needs to be beaten so that they can all get home.
This, combined with Dave often never actually saying what he means, makes it seems as though he only cares about himself, or is at least rather closed off from the world -- this, however is patently untrue. To each of his friends, Dave is something different, and he treats each person he knows like family, even if their interactions consist of Dave either playfully insulting them or acting like he's not interested in what they have to say.
To John, Dave is neither a best friend or a rival -- he's a Bro, and he takes this title very seriously. Unlike his relationships with Rose and Jade, rather than simply put up with John's quirks and ridicule him over them, Dave instead appreciates John's weirdness -- while, yeah, still ridiculing him over it -- and feeds into it, going so far as to trade the glasses his Brother gave him at birth for a pair that John gets him for his birthday. And though their traditional roles within the narrative would suggest that they should be rivals, Dave instead treats John like a literal brother, complimenting him in a way that Jade or Rose cannot, while John does the same to him. They are easily the most influential people in each other's lives, with John wholly able to see through Dave's ironic coolkid persona and converse with the real person underneath.
With Rose, Dave really only acts tough, and spends the majority of his time bickering with her in the same way a brother and sister of their age would. He isn't exactly as close to her as he is to John -- he thinks that she's a flighty broad, honestly -- but she does gt to occasionally see his less ironic sides more often than not. He's concerned about her in the way any family member would be concerned about someone, but, because Rose shows more capability and know-how than either John or Jade, he basically lets her down her own thing and doesn't try to interfere. His stance, at the end of the day, is that Rose can take care of herself, and that if she ever needed help, she'd ask him for it. (Just not directly.)
Of everyone, Jade is probably the only one that Dave really has a soft, mushy spot for. He puts up with her craziness both out of affection for them and because she's usually always right about things -- a fact that never ceases to amaze him -- but her quirks are sometimes even more bothersome than Johns, and he complains about them to everyone else whenever possible. Unlike Rose, however, Dave does keep tabs on Jade, and really seems to look out for her despite sounding like her mere existence gives him a headache. In short, he likes her, but is too much of a little douchebag to ever admit it to her or to himself.
At the end of the day, Dave is a caring, really thoughtful young man who -- because of his brother's really warped upbringing -- strives to please the people around him in a mad effort to get their respect. Even if he plays at not wanting to be the hero, and acts like being the Knight of Time is so much harder than John's windy things, deep down Dave wants to be in the limelight. He wants people to know who he is, and he wants to save the day just as badly -- if not even more -- than John does, and this, more than anything, forms the core of who he is.
Character Plans: Dave wants to get back to SBURB. He needs to get back to help save the universe from being destroyed. Even though he knows that a fight with Jack is waiting for him, he's not going to pussy out and treat his time here like a vacation -- if anything, he'd try to work with people that want to study and/or capture the core to help find a way home, and then do his best to stay on their good side and get there.
Appearance/PB: ( comic ) -- ( comic; detail ) -- ( fanart; realistic )
Dave is a thirteen year old Caucasian male with sandy blonde hair, lightly tanned and freckled skin skin, and red eyes. It's never explained why his eyes are red, and we don't ever see them in the comic, but its inferred that since each human character has the same color eyes as their primary color, then Dave's must be red. He's probably the tallest of the group -- though not very tall, as he's still thirteen -- and has a wiry frame that looks toned and muscular from the years he's spent doing epic rooftop ninja battles with his older brother. Let's go with 5'3, with whatever average weight should go to a kid that size who eats properly.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
text;
TG: okay so lets ignore how off the wall balls out retarded this is
TG: and i know thats going to be a massive stretch of the imagination only spongebob mcsquaredoodle could appreciate
TG: but goddamn
TG: goddamn holmes and holmettes
TG: if one more frothing monster type tries to stranger danger his claws all over my crotchdaschund i dont know what ill do
TG: i know im probably the most illest temporal badass theyve ever seen but
TG: shit gimme a sec
TG: seriously what the fuck is up
TG: its like a marathon of priestly chucklephiles all over this bitch and im the first plump farm fresh thirteen year old theyve ever laid eyes on
TG: just reaching and grabbing like its prom night and the whole damn worlds turned into the backseat of some mouthbreahters snogmcroofiemobile
TG: but pimp daddy here dont play those games yo
TG: no means a definite imma slap your shit silly, pure MAD magazine style shenanigans up in this piece if you dont stop
TG: might just find myself going to do a graceful fucking pirouette off the handle of ragesanity if it keeps up
TG: no tickets required just try that shit one more time and see what happens
TG: i mean i get that every shit tier level in this game needs as many injections of awesomely sicknasty roofninjas as is medically possible
TG: like i can already hear you poor bastards crying out for some professional as fuck me shaped coolkid to arrive and lead you to the nonpsychotic promised land
TG: shit you can just call me charleton heston while youre at it id be that good at leading you poor lambs to paradise
TG: but this is just seriously b-a-n-a-n-a-s ridiculous
TG: i only got here an im already laying waste to motherfuckers left and right
TG: its like some christmas fairytale of beatdowns up in this piece
TG: only instead of presents im handing out asses to every rump deficient monsterkid that ever did look up and cry
TG: yes mister oh please help me ive got not ass to sit down on
TG: please mister oh god i keep falling off chairs help me bro
TG: dont worry little monsterdudes ive got ya
TG: dave wont let you down no sir no how
TG: and let me stop you right there because i see it in your eyes already
TG: just let me just say one thing before you start cheering and excitedly stroking each others raging crotchbulges and clitboners
TG: i know the prospect of having such an unequivocal badass hang around makes you crazy kids flip your collective shit
TG: seriously if those jaws dropped any faster wed have to test for seismic activity
TG: but im not here to save anyone or be the next big fuckoff thing you all fall to your knees and worship
TG: i definitely could be because im that professionally legit
TG: but let it be known that me
TG: dave strider
TG: aka the emperor of izzle
TG: aka the turntech godhead
TG: aka the most dopest flashstepper this side of the lohac and wherever the hell this place is
TG: am not going to be saving any spritely wee little lasses in castle far away or anon
TG: shit just isnt my style and id look like shit in overalls or whatever the shit it is that john calls the zelda reject hoodie he wears
TG: besides ive got too many unironic fires in the oven and way too many frogs to
TG: wait fuck
TG: shit
TG: jade whered you go
Third Person Sample
Time was never of the essence with Dave Strider. He surfed the ocean of the temporal like every aspect of it bent to his will, like his simple act of existing made timestreams so hot bothered for him that, really, it was the least Dave could do to dial them up when he was bored and give them just the smallest bit of attention. Time, to Dave, was just another facet of the grand track that was life; the fifth element which completed the equation of DJ-ing, MC-ing, breaking, and turn-teching, and he's mastered it like every other thing he ever put his hands on.
In short, Dave knew time. Time was Dave's friend. He didn't mess around with it in a way that would make it cry like a little bitch, and similarly, causality would not mess with his shit like a certain blind Troll forever being morbid and creepy with him.
It was a surprise to him, then, that his powers were not working in this new place, in this new aspect of what he thought was a game that spanned all of reality. He found that could go forward, but not back, could create time clones to help him through future events, but not those surrounding his immediate past. It was as if some force blocked him off, timeblocking him in the same way that trying to mess with anything past The Critical Event up and smacked him in the face for being so damn presumptuous.
If it was a new trick of SBURB, he was annoyed. It was a symptom of what was making his Pesterchum client not work, he was nervous. Without it, he had no other lifeline, no other bro or sisbro to torment and ironically berate to make sure they didn't do anything that would get themselves killed. It meant that he was alone, and in more ways than one that he'd have to look out for numero uno Strider unironically rather than --
Well, rather than how Bro had taken care of him. And how Jade had. And how Terezi had, in her own psychotic way.
He gave himself a moment to grieve -- just a moment -- and then tried to jump back in time again.
If there was anything that Dave had an abundance of, it was time.
He just wasn't sure if anyone else could say the same.
Name: Ian
Age: 21
AIM SN: priestlyish
email: meaculpable AT live DOT com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yarp
Currrently Played Characters:
Lucifer Morningstar // meaculpable
Peter "The Spider-man" Parker // bythreadalone
Conditional: Activity Check Link: Do I need one? I passed activity with both of my characters, but did not need to respond to the AC check because of the timeframe they were accepted in..
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Mspaintadventures: HOMESTUCK
Canon Format: Webcomic
Character's Name: Dave Strider
Character's Age: 13
If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.
Dave is no stranger to unbelievably dangerous worlds filled with creepy monsters, creepy people, and even creepier goings-on in the background. As the entire point of HOMESTUCK is basically for the children involved to survive tons of dangerous situations -- not the least of which involves Dave watching different versions of himself die horrible deaths -- I think he's more than well suited enough to survive in the 'Port, if not thrive.
What form will your character's NV take?
Dave's NV will take the form of his iShades, and will function in the same manner. In his canon, they're basically a wireless, hands free computer he controls through thought.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities
Though the kids in HOMESTUCK are capable of rather off the wall, kind of insanely powerful things, for the most part only the children who have reached God-tier status have anything to their name that can be construed as a supernatural ability. As Dave is not one of these children, I'll simply be morphing his main trick in canon -- the manipulation of time using an item he possesses -- into his dormant ability, to be detailed below.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?
Dave will be getting the power of TIME MANIPULATION on the MICROSCALE. This means that, much like in his original canon, Dave may only travel forward and backward through his own personal timeline, and cannot affect the timelines of others, or affect events that have already transpired without incurring some painful and very deadly backlash. As a caveat to this ability, Dave will also not be able to travel back in time to any point prior to his arrival in Siren's Port, and will not be able to travel forward in time far enough to see how game-wide plots turn out; the Core simply won't let him.
Using this power, Dave will be able to:
-- Jump forward or backward in time.
-- Heal himself a bit faster by speeding up his internal healing processes.
-- Create "clones" of himself as seen during his battle with BecNoir here, though it hasn't been explained if these are versions of himself from the future or not.
-- Create stable time loops; for example: if Dave were to see a future version of himself show up during a fight, after that fight he would have to go back into the past and help himself out.
-- "Fast-forward" himself, which will mimic his "flash-step" ability in canon; ie, he'll move so fast that the eye can't follow and he'll also leave a temporary after-image.
If anything needs to be nerfed, just let me know and I'll talk to any of you guys to try and come to an agreement!
Weapons:
Though it isn't a weapon per se, as with most every character in the HOMESTUCK universe, Dave stores most, if not all of the items he thinks he'll need to use -- or that he wants to keep on him for later -- in a HAMMERSPACE INVENTORY known as the SYLLADEX. The SYLLADEX basically functions as any other inventory screen in a video game would, keeping whatever is stored within it in pristine condition until it's used, expelled in a comedic fashion, or discarded. In Dave's case, his SYLLADEX can hold up to ten unique stacks of items without their weight encumbering him, and works on a system which assigns a numeric value to each letter in the title of the item he wants to log, then indexes it accordingly. Or not. He likes to cheat with Ys.
( For a better explanation -- because lord is it confusing -- check here! )
The items Dave has are:
1: "The SBAHJifier.” Using it, Dave can snap a picture of anything, and a tangentially related, crappy Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic will come out.
2: “Turntop.” Basically a portable PC that floats in front of him when he gets it out. We're going to pretend it doesn't have time powers.
3: Empty
4: “Shitty Broken Legendary Sword,” aka Caledfwlch. He never equipped it -- as far as I can recall -- because the sword he had on hand is better.
5: Empty.
6: “Suitarangs.” Basically, they're batarangs, except instead of looking like a bat they look like mirrored card suites.
7: Empty.
8: Empty.
9: “Red Plush Puppet Tux.” Soft, stylish red velvet, black sneakers, and a white bowtie.
0: Empty.
In addition to the SYLLADEX, Dave also has what is known as a STRIFE SPECIBUS, which is basically a deck of cards where he holds all of his weaponry. Like the SYLLADEX, the three swords he keeps within the SPECIBUS do not encumber him with their full weight until they're drawn.
As of this posting, Dave is only in possession of three swords: the Caledscratch, the Scarlet Ribbitar and the Snoop Dog Snow Cone Machete. The first of the three is only special because it too can manipulate its own personal timeline, becoming a full sword of only half of one at a moment's notice, while the last blade simply freezes an opponent upon impact.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here.
To better understand Dave's TIME SHENANIGANS, the Dave's that are all the same are as follows: The Dave we're first introduced to, who enters the Medium => Red-suit Dave => Black-suit Dave => Non-doomed Felt Dave => Casual Shirt Dave, who => Finds his dead Bro => Goes back in time to fail to kill himself on the Quest Bed => Becomes Jade's server player => Hunts frogs => Fights BecNoir => Dies => Becomes his dreamself on Derse.
Point in Canon: Right before his EPIC BATTERU with BecNoir.
Character Personality: Dave is a master of the ironic. He's got an acerbic wit and a smartass mouth he uses to both alienate and discomfort people, but he stands by his friends until the bitter end, even going so far as to sacrifice his own life in one version of the future to give John, Rose, and Jade a proper chance at beating the game. He acts cool and standoffish with people he doesn't know, but gives anyone the time of day if they can make him laugh or entertain him well enough. Ideally, all it takes is a little bit of conversation to get Dave to open up, but even if you do catch his attention he's liable to pay you back with nothing more than trolling and really hardcore attempts at being ironic.
Growing up, Dave strove to emulate Bro Strider's every personality quirk, and hasn't quite grown out of it yet. He's a self-professed "coolkid" who is practically obsessed with being ironic -- both sincerely and ironically, since he almost never uses the word correctly -- and acts unaffected by the world, nearly to a fault. He is arrogant and bullheaded, and usually ends up doing things his own way unless presented with strong evidence that doing such a thing will end badly; for example, though he knows that time travel may end up dooming him forever, he still seemingly vows to master it, and uses it not only for personal gain, but almost just because he can. He is careful and discerning, but not as much as he should be, which allows people like Terezi -- and even John, in the beginning -- to influence him in very subtle ways; in Terezi's case, its both beneficial and kind of morbid, as she causes him to really reflect on what happens to him at the end of a doomed timeline, while John just says something gross that makes Dave have second thoughts about drinking apple juice.
Generally, Dave is a big picture guy, and doesn't have as many of the hang-ups that, say, Rose and Jade have. Outside of kind of flipping out when he's made to look stupid -- or confronted with puppets -- Dave always takes things as they come, and as coolly as possible, even going to far as to play off his brother's death as if it weren't a big thing. He isn't amazed by SBURB like John is, isn't interested in plumbing its depths like Rose, and honestly can't bring himself to care about the doom of the entire human race like Jade does; to him it's just a game, and it needs to be beaten so that they can all get home.
This, combined with Dave often never actually saying what he means, makes it seems as though he only cares about himself, or is at least rather closed off from the world -- this, however is patently untrue. To each of his friends, Dave is something different, and he treats each person he knows like family, even if their interactions consist of Dave either playfully insulting them or acting like he's not interested in what they have to say.
To John, Dave is neither a best friend or a rival -- he's a Bro, and he takes this title very seriously. Unlike his relationships with Rose and Jade, rather than simply put up with John's quirks and ridicule him over them, Dave instead appreciates John's weirdness -- while, yeah, still ridiculing him over it -- and feeds into it, going so far as to trade the glasses his Brother gave him at birth for a pair that John gets him for his birthday. And though their traditional roles within the narrative would suggest that they should be rivals, Dave instead treats John like a literal brother, complimenting him in a way that Jade or Rose cannot, while John does the same to him. They are easily the most influential people in each other's lives, with John wholly able to see through Dave's ironic coolkid persona and converse with the real person underneath.
With Rose, Dave really only acts tough, and spends the majority of his time bickering with her in the same way a brother and sister of their age would. He isn't exactly as close to her as he is to John -- he thinks that she's a flighty broad, honestly -- but she does gt to occasionally see his less ironic sides more often than not. He's concerned about her in the way any family member would be concerned about someone, but, because Rose shows more capability and know-how than either John or Jade, he basically lets her down her own thing and doesn't try to interfere. His stance, at the end of the day, is that Rose can take care of herself, and that if she ever needed help, she'd ask him for it. (Just not directly.)
Of everyone, Jade is probably the only one that Dave really has a soft, mushy spot for. He puts up with her craziness both out of affection for them and because she's usually always right about things -- a fact that never ceases to amaze him -- but her quirks are sometimes even more bothersome than Johns, and he complains about them to everyone else whenever possible. Unlike Rose, however, Dave does keep tabs on Jade, and really seems to look out for her despite sounding like her mere existence gives him a headache. In short, he likes her, but is too much of a little douchebag to ever admit it to her or to himself.
At the end of the day, Dave is a caring, really thoughtful young man who -- because of his brother's really warped upbringing -- strives to please the people around him in a mad effort to get their respect. Even if he plays at not wanting to be the hero, and acts like being the Knight of Time is so much harder than John's windy things, deep down Dave wants to be in the limelight. He wants people to know who he is, and he wants to save the day just as badly -- if not even more -- than John does, and this, more than anything, forms the core of who he is.
Character Plans: Dave wants to get back to SBURB. He needs to get back to help save the universe from being destroyed. Even though he knows that a fight with Jack is waiting for him, he's not going to pussy out and treat his time here like a vacation -- if anything, he'd try to work with people that want to study and/or capture the core to help find a way home, and then do his best to stay on their good side and get there.
Appearance/PB: ( comic ) -- ( comic; detail ) -- ( fanart; realistic )
Dave is a thirteen year old Caucasian male with sandy blonde hair, lightly tanned and freckled skin skin, and red eyes. It's never explained why his eyes are red, and we don't ever see them in the comic, but its inferred that since each human character has the same color eyes as their primary color, then Dave's must be red. He's probably the tallest of the group -- though not very tall, as he's still thirteen -- and has a wiry frame that looks toned and muscular from the years he's spent doing epic rooftop ninja battles with his older brother. Let's go with 5'3, with whatever average weight should go to a kid that size who eats properly.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
text;
TG: okay so lets ignore how off the wall balls out retarded this is
TG: and i know thats going to be a massive stretch of the imagination only spongebob mcsquaredoodle could appreciate
TG: but goddamn
TG: goddamn holmes and holmettes
TG: if one more frothing monster type tries to stranger danger his claws all over my crotchdaschund i dont know what ill do
TG: i know im probably the most illest temporal badass theyve ever seen but
TG: shit gimme a sec
TG: seriously what the fuck is up
TG: its like a marathon of priestly chucklephiles all over this bitch and im the first plump farm fresh thirteen year old theyve ever laid eyes on
TG: just reaching and grabbing like its prom night and the whole damn worlds turned into the backseat of some mouthbreahters snogmcroofiemobile
TG: but pimp daddy here dont play those games yo
TG: no means a definite imma slap your shit silly, pure MAD magazine style shenanigans up in this piece if you dont stop
TG: might just find myself going to do a graceful fucking pirouette off the handle of ragesanity if it keeps up
TG: no tickets required just try that shit one more time and see what happens
TG: i mean i get that every shit tier level in this game needs as many injections of awesomely sicknasty roofninjas as is medically possible
TG: like i can already hear you poor bastards crying out for some professional as fuck me shaped coolkid to arrive and lead you to the nonpsychotic promised land
TG: shit you can just call me charleton heston while youre at it id be that good at leading you poor lambs to paradise
TG: but this is just seriously b-a-n-a-n-a-s ridiculous
TG: i only got here an im already laying waste to motherfuckers left and right
TG: its like some christmas fairytale of beatdowns up in this piece
TG: only instead of presents im handing out asses to every rump deficient monsterkid that ever did look up and cry
TG: yes mister oh please help me ive got not ass to sit down on
TG: please mister oh god i keep falling off chairs help me bro
TG: dont worry little monsterdudes ive got ya
TG: dave wont let you down no sir no how
TG: and let me stop you right there because i see it in your eyes already
TG: just let me just say one thing before you start cheering and excitedly stroking each others raging crotchbulges and clitboners
TG: i know the prospect of having such an unequivocal badass hang around makes you crazy kids flip your collective shit
TG: seriously if those jaws dropped any faster wed have to test for seismic activity
TG: but im not here to save anyone or be the next big fuckoff thing you all fall to your knees and worship
TG: i definitely could be because im that professionally legit
TG: but let it be known that me
TG: dave strider
TG: aka the emperor of izzle
TG: aka the turntech godhead
TG: aka the most dopest flashstepper this side of the lohac and wherever the hell this place is
TG: am not going to be saving any spritely wee little lasses in castle far away or anon
TG: shit just isnt my style and id look like shit in overalls or whatever the shit it is that john calls the zelda reject hoodie he wears
TG: besides ive got too many unironic fires in the oven and way too many frogs to
TG: wait fuck
TG: shit
TG: jade whered you go
Third Person Sample
Time was never of the essence with Dave Strider. He surfed the ocean of the temporal like every aspect of it bent to his will, like his simple act of existing made timestreams so hot bothered for him that, really, it was the least Dave could do to dial them up when he was bored and give them just the smallest bit of attention. Time, to Dave, was just another facet of the grand track that was life; the fifth element which completed the equation of DJ-ing, MC-ing, breaking, and turn-teching, and he's mastered it like every other thing he ever put his hands on.
In short, Dave knew time. Time was Dave's friend. He didn't mess around with it in a way that would make it cry like a little bitch, and similarly, causality would not mess with his shit like a certain blind Troll forever being morbid and creepy with him.
It was a surprise to him, then, that his powers were not working in this new place, in this new aspect of what he thought was a game that spanned all of reality. He found that could go forward, but not back, could create time clones to help him through future events, but not those surrounding his immediate past. It was as if some force blocked him off, timeblocking him in the same way that trying to mess with anything past The Critical Event up and smacked him in the face for being so damn presumptuous.
If it was a new trick of SBURB, he was annoyed. It was a symptom of what was making his Pesterchum client not work, he was nervous. Without it, he had no other lifeline, no other bro or sisbro to torment and ironically berate to make sure they didn't do anything that would get themselves killed. It meant that he was alone, and in more ways than one that he'd have to look out for numero uno Strider unironically rather than --
Well, rather than how Bro had taken care of him. And how Jade had. And how Terezi had, in her own psychotic way.
He gave himself a moment to grieve -- just a moment -- and then tried to jump back in time again.
If there was anything that Dave had an abundance of, it was time.
He just wasn't sure if anyone else could say the same.