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Name: Kobayashi
Personal LJ: Kobayashi89
Contact Info: MindtheSukima on AIM
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: 1647 Albright Lane
Character Name: Dave Strider
Character Series: Homestuck
Character Age: 13
Background: http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Dave_Strider
Personality: Dave Strider is a really fucking cool guy. Or that’s pretty much what his entire existence is about acting like. His every action and word is made to make him look cool or some ironic-level removed of cool. He enjoys bands no one’s ever heard of, has a dark room for his own photography, collects weird preserved dead things and is not afraid to represent and drop some ill beats. And he does it all with a straight face.
In his quest to be the coolest, Dave comes out as pretty stoic. He never shows tears and does his best to never be caught looking lame or weak, like grieving (even when it’s over the death of his only family member) or being freaked out (over, say, a meteor heading towards his house or finding his own dead body). He always wears sunglasses, both to hide his red irises and his emotions so that he always looks cool and collected. He remains cool and nonplussed in the face of being brought into the Medium, meeting his own alternate-future self (from the future), fighting giant monsters and any number of other crazy happenings, always taking them in stride. Being raised fighting roof-ninja battles with his incredibly cool older brother probably lent to this, as well as his desire to stay ironically aloof and cooler than everything else ever.
Of course, he doesn’t always succeed, such as with the aforementioned dead family member or flipping the fuck out after the mound of puppet proboscis that broke the camel’s back. He also genuinely cares about his friends, working well with the bubbly, dorky and weird Jade, who most “coolkids” would just make fun of, wearing the shades (ironically) that John got him for his birthday, or confiding in Rose about his growing unease with his brother’s puppet collection. He also has some rather understandable issues with his own mortality, being unable to kill himself to obtain God Tier, or spending ten whole minutes staring at his blood-soaked hands after throwing his (doomed timeline) corpse out the window. He seems to get over this though when it comes to saving others, later getting himself killed after he sees himself get killed in order to preserve the continuity of the alpha-timeline and not drag Jade into a doomed timeline with him.
Even with all those humanizing traits and efforts to look cool, Dave also genuinely is a very skilled person, much more capable in combat and sylladice than any of this companions, able to adapt to the game Sburb very well and quickly make his way up the echeladder. This also leads to him being a bit arrogant, as he is not above lording his skills over others to make himself look cool or emphasize another’s lameness. Really, he’s kind of a jerk, brushing people off when he feels like, making fun of others like the trolls or using ill rhymes and/or drawn-out metaphors and pop-cultural references to humiliate them and/or make them uncomfortable. His arrogance also leads him to be a bit stubborn, often going forwards with plans or handling things by himself and ignoring others; at one point, Terezi’s only method of convincing him to go along with her plan is to get future Dave to come back in time and give him the thumbs-up to cooperate with her.
Over all, Dave is a cool guy who sometimes acts too cool for his own good, but deep down definitely cares for his friends, though he tries not to let it show, refusing to acknowledge any of the times he freaked out over things or showed panic or other “uncool” behavior.
Abilities: Dave has the ability to move with ninja-like speed, basically flash-stepping all over the place, leaving after-images, appearing behind people and all that cool stuff. It’s also implied that his power to control time, going back along the time stream, create stable and unstable time loops and everything else he does as the Knight of Time is his own inherent abilities and not actually granted to him by the Timetables given to him by himself from an alternate future.
Sample Entry:
Shit, alright. I can’t believe I’m using an actual off-the-wall with a curly-cord landline phone, but since apparently these assholes managed to stop the signal, this is what we’re reduced to. I feel like the Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, only a lot happier with the plumbing system. I am the Yankee, it is me.
So, since I can’t really complain about third-world living conditions, I guess I’ll lament my loss of the internet. Or really, the internet should lament its loss of me. Seriously, what will my thousands of fans do without my figure to prostrate themselves to? Well, I mean, besides be dead because earth was annihilated by meteors like a bad sci-fi movie with Bruce Willis in it.
The real point is: I can’t draw Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff without a computer. And they took the SBaHJifier. So today I discovered that drawing by hand is a lot harder. Like, old-school Nintendo hard. No matter how hard I try… I just can not make these fucking comics look as incredibly shitty as they need to look. I’m cursed to make flawless masterpieces without the filter of the amazing electronic medium you mortals call a “computer” to interfere with my artistic genius. These beauties just flow from my fingers like ill beats from my tongue.
Not to mention, what the hell am I even going to do with this shit? Get “mom” to hang it on the refrigerator? Clearly, that’s the great artistic pedestal that we should all strive for. I’ll aim to be the fucking best refrigerator artist known to man. And troll. And whatever other fucking crazy species all you guys out there are.