Dave Application | ATARAXION
PLAYER INFORMATION
Your Name: AO
OOC Journal: mutt_nik
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: noooope
Email + IM: hipposkhloros @ gmail . com | AIM dynaomism
Characters Played at Ataraxion: None!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Dave Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: Right before the Tumor explodes, on the Quest Bed with Rose.
Number: RNG me
Setting: Here is the general Homestuck page, which explains the set-up and such, and here is the SBURB page, which explains the setting of the game.
History:
Unforunately I'm on a pretty tight deadline here and unable to do this all in Fresh-Prince of Bel-Air style song form, but I really hope we can all pretend I did.
Once upon a time, in an Ectobiology Lab deep in the Veil (an asteroid ring that surrounds The Medium), a boy named John used some sort of vaguely scientific words to make a whole bunch of babies (also known as Paradox Clones) and sent them back in time. Literally nothing in that sentence makes sense outside of context, but I guess we can roll with that, thanks Homestuck! One of these adorable babies crashed landed (along with a pony) and was found and raised by the coolest of all bros, Bro. Who is also genetically related to him. He would later be named Dave, and grew up like a relatively normal kid except for all the ironic schooling and puppets and such, and became friends with other internet cool kids (though none as cool as him) Rose, Jade, and John.
The real story of Homestuck begins with John's birthday, April 13th, 1996, when he begins to play a game called Sburb. Though Dave had initially decided he wanted nothing to do with the game, he is eventually pressured into it by Rose - of course, he had previously lost his beta discs to an extremely smooth move involving crow murder and unfortunately open windows. After some freaking out about puppet rumpus and a brief strife with his Bro, he is given the beta discs and is finally able to connect as the Server Player to Rose - thereby rescuing her.
Soon after, Jade connects as his server player, and immediately starts messing around with shit, which is pretty much what you're supposed to do. She prototypes the sprite (a being created by SBURB to help the player through the game) with the dead crow from earlier and they fuck around with stuff and kids and fun is had, etc. He enters the Medium (the actual playing field of the game) after his Entry Item (an egg) hatches.
And this is where shit gets complicated. As the player of Time, Dave has some control over Stupid Time Shit, and can do shitty time travel shit he starts messing around just totally laying waste to this perfectly understandable timeline. In one line, he prototypes his sprite with the creepy as hell puppet Lil' Cal - and starts a series of events that cause him to level up enormously, but also lead to the deaths of John and Jade. This Dave, then travels back in time, gives all his sweet gear to the original Dave (henceforth known as Alpha-Timeline Dave), then protypes himself - becoming Davesprite, who is a totally different guy we aren't talking about him anymore, geez!! Alpha Dave (the one this app is about, just so we continue to be clear and perhaps slightly less confused) then enters the Medium with all sorts of pimped out tricks and also a spirt guide with his face and fused with a bird. That's neat I guess!!
As players in the game, each kid has a Dreamself - a sort of alter ego that awakens on planets of the Incipisphere (another game construct) when the player is asleep. Dave is a Dersite Dreamer along with Rose (that's the purple one) and has actually been awake all along on Derse, he just hadn't been aware of it, so when Dream Rose gets his attention he promptly falls asleep in the real world. Dreams are cool I guess.
Earlier, he used John to get an alchemization code for the journals Rose keeps, which contain Important Plot Things and Genetic Sequences and it all make a whole ton of sense, but after making a copy, they are stole by an Agent of Derse that bastard - and after attempting to use time travel to stop it, he finds his alternate timeline copy has died in the attempt and quickly decides to abandon that attempt.
After he enters the first Gate which brings him deeper on his own special planet, The Land of Heat and Clockwork, he really starts to fuck around with time and shit, but mostly time. During his time on LOHAC, he gets filthy rich using schemes on the Stock Market, talks to Trolls, changes clothes a lot, makes copies of himself in stable time loops (unstable ones result in the death of an alternate Dave), and finds a neat broken sword with a stupid name. Terezi, one of the trolls he talks to a lot, helps to guide him through a lot of his adventure, directing his stock market scandal. Here is also where the Infamous Shipping Chart comes into play and wow that is such a clusterfuck!!! It might be good to mention here, when he speaks to Gamzee, it is a pretty important conversation for the trolls. He links the highly religious Gamzee to a video containing the music video for Miracles (given to him before its real release on his birthday by a mysterious individual from Betty Crocker Corp), and Gamzee then promptly has a Massive Tantrum.
Terezi and Dave eventually comes a timeline decision involving a coinflip. Offering to flip a coin in order to decide which route he would take (one granting him equal power to John, the other putting off the quest to compete with his friend), this effective split the timeline in two - in this case, Alpha Dave choosing to wait, while the Alternate Dave chooses to go for it yeeeeeah. Terezi then explains God Tier and puts him on his Quest Bed, where he falls asleep. Because of time bullshit, after the events described in the next paragraph (you can go read that one now and then come back if you want its like a choose your own appventure) Alpha Dave finds his quest bed and is instructed by Terezi to kill himself. The alternate timeline self, that is. He gives up on that plan, certainly not because of any Issues about Death that would be stupid gosh, and leaves - eventually alternate Dave wakes up, and is promptly killed by Jack Noir whoops.
At some point here, he finds his dead Bro (killed in a fight with Jack) and Is Totally Not Upset At All and that is a completely true fact don't fight it. Here, the Aimless Renegade (one of the Exiles who commands the kids by using future bullshit its all bullshit im crying right now please don't look at my shame) contacts Dave and starts demanding things about Justice and THE LAW and PUNISHING JACK NOIR FOR HIS CRIMES which makes for Dave's concurrent conversation with Terezi to be pretty confusing (you call it the SLAMMER when you are extra angry at crimes, start taking some notes here jesus get a fucking pen). After his dead-broventures, he travels to Jade's planet, and helps her set up all sorts of nifty gear, and finagles it so he is able to become her server player as John is Otherwise Occupied. They mess around with frogs for a bit (it's complicated), before being attacked by Jack Noir - though at this point Jack has been affected by the prototyping of Bec, Jade's beloved dog and is unable to bring himself to harm her.
Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to give a shit about Dave and kills him in a massive DICK MOVE by warping bullets to shoot him RIGHT IN THE BACK. seriously RUDE. Jade kisses his Cold Dead Corpse and he wakes up on Derse (this is one of the powers of the players, to be able to revive dead people using their dreamselves and making out and I'm sure its all dandy and such) where he finds Rose again (who had died and been revived as a dreamself as well). They get into some Sibling Cahoots and hash out how to destroy the Green Sun - in order to restart their Universe with a Scratch of the game's session in the hopes they will be able to defeat the now nearly omnipotent Jack Noir in another session. Liv Tyler the bunny has delivered them the Tumor. I'm not even touching that sentence. Of course, this would be basically a very complex form of suicide, and Rose being Rose she knocks him out (WITH A BALL OF YARN seriously im not even fucking with you right now) and heads off to do it herself. Dave, unable to go after her for the moment, tries to talk her out of it by contacting her through dreambubbles, but fortunately (???) is stabbed by the Draconian Dignitary (who works for Jack) and wakes up back on Derse, catching up to her (because he can fly because dreamselves can do that). He also kills that Draconian Dignitary because fuck that guy.
At the end of act five, they reach where the Green Sun is supposed to be, find their quest beds and set up the Tumor - which is a bomb containing both the Kid and Troll Universes. Both he and Rose die in the explosion, which ends up creating the Green Sun, and they ascend to God Tier, making him the Knight of Time.
Personality:
Dave is quite possibly the coolest kid to ever exist, in any universe. Even hot alien chicks can't get enough of charm and style, and his delicately turned sense of irony is unmatched. All of his friends are also completely convinced by this, and would never question his unerring coolness, instead choosing to crawl about on the ground by his feet and worship his every red colored word. At least, that's what Dave would like to think. He sets himself to be a paragon of cool, doing whatever it takes to be perceived or seen as fucking awesome. He practically worships everything his Bro does, from the puppetry to the outright stupid (who keeps swords in the fridge how are you supposed to get Hot Pockets out?), and strives to become what he believes is a level of cool untouchable by everyone else. He creates stupid comics, dumb websites, and shitty blogs, all for the sake of the Holy Irony In The Sky (with Diamonds), distances himself emotionally from his friends, and generally denies being affected by anything else beyond awe at his own incredible self.
Even his interests seem to focus on creating an image, though he is quite fond of his music. He has his own set of turntables, and uses them to create sweet jams and shit, and is seen sending them to Jade. He also has a fascination with rap, and rapbattles, which I guess are so outdated (and also really dave, really??) that they are now coming back around the other way as cool and ironic. Of course, what actually is ironic, and what isn't, is a pretty fine and often wuzzie line, and sometimes just doesn't make any sense at all. He never speaks directly, much preferring to completely avoid the point by being intentionally obtuse, using metaphors, phrasing and assholishness to compensate. He can be pretty hard to pin down and communicate with, and will avoid discussing upsetting topics by getting more and more wrapped and wound up in his metaphors. It's pretty silly.
He sets himself up as sort of an asshole, especially when the game begins. He picks on his friends for not understanding sylladexes and the things they enjoy, and seems to put a lot of stock (harhar) in being able to understand the things that they have not experienced yet. It's important to him to be able to prove himself, though the reasons seem to be fairly mixed - including, in a sense, wanting to be able to protect those he cares about. He is very insecure about his abilities, and this leads to his fateful decision of the coinflip with Terezi - and how much he is willing to sacrifice for power (the answer is, he isn't.)
Beneath a carefully crafted layer of irony, aloofness and just generally being a cool shit, he's actually just a insecure kid who wants approval and praise from his friends. He's actually pretty heavily affected by his emotions, but has spent so long hiding them that he effectively cripples his ability to express them. I could compare him to Hank Hill here, because look at it, it is perfect, TEXANS, but I will spare you that image please thank me later. He actually cares quite a lot about his friends, being really fond of John's present to him of the Ben Stiller sunglasses and not wanting her to go through with the suicide mission - insisting that it was his duty.
Ironic, for a Knight of Time, Dave also seems to be pretty absent minded and forgetful, even forgetting his own equipment (and its ability to let him travel in time), and setting off items in his sylladex willy-nilly. He's also pretty unnerved by puppets, which might stem from influence by Gamzee who inserts Lil Cal into his dreams and torments him with nightmares.
What Dave is afraid of most though, seems to be his own death. He is pretty freaked out by seeing the dead bodies of himself from alternate timelines, and can't bring himself to sacrifice for God Tier - despite his complaining to Terezi about being unable to match John. He doesn't seem to deal well with death, which serves as an important part of the game though his God Tier Ascension may represent a step towards the tackling of that fear.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
As the Knight of Time, Dave has the ability to Time Travel, and in the event of creating a Stable Loop, can make multiples of himself as long as they remain on the Alpha Timeline. This could be pretty gamebreaking, but also requires equipment to use and can result in Alternate Timelines which then results in A Dead Dave. It might be best to remove this altogether, or limit it to very small, stable Time Loops (as in only a few minutes long).
He's also pretty good with a sword, having been trained from birth to be pretty sick at fighting.
Of course, his major ability is being the coolest, and so cool I will choose to LIMIT HIS COOLNESS by 50%, just to save everyone from melting eyeballs and inability to stop weeping in his presence. You can thank me later, I promise.
Inventory:
His sylladex, a nifty way to carry lots of shit around
- SWORDKIND
- Shitty iShades
you know what that's it dave can suck it
Appearance:
Dave is a 13 year old kid. He has blonde hair with a cool haircut that apparently looks like a bird or something, red mutant freak eyes and according to Karkat, pursed lips (????).
Age: 13, though a Homestuck-13 is a horse of a different color from most pre-teens (tweens?), and Dave is pretty used to terrible game happens and such.
SAMPLES
Log Sample:
Dave had been raised by beats. Sick ones, strife ones, ones running low and rumbling through the thin walls of a cheap apartment, the march of the beat of inevitable events, of time making its slow drag onwards. He could move with them, understand them - in the game they had at least made sense. You don't overthink it, you just move in time and it works out. If it stutters you just lay in another flow, right over the old one, blocking out visions of yourself lying dead on the ground and heartbeat stopped cold. Even when the timeline starts spiraling down, the music goes on, getting deeper and louder and pounding at the back of your head, but at least it's there.
As long as you were alive, you kept going, kept moving, like time and rhythm and beats.
It doesn't help the metronome to be jolted awake and cold and wet and what the actual fuck. It's like taking the record and smashing it into concrete, pushing the needle into the vinyl so hard it scratches all the way round - it throws him off the beat, and for a brief moment in totally blackness, there is no sound, and for that instant, the fear bubbles up.
It isn't until he's regained his vision and conceded to himself that having a minor meltdown all alone won't hurt anyone that he's able to get up. The silence hangs heavy and cold and still, until he fumbles around with his things to get them back where they belong, shades on his face and clothes on - until the voice starts in, and with it, a cadence, a rhythm, and purpose. The beat goes on.
Comms Sample:
are you fucking with me right now
look i know im pretty much impossible to resist
this mad swag got every booty dropping with 200 lightyears
but i really do not have time for this
right now
look just call me in a few months
maybe we can hook up and we can go a shitty date to the interuniversal ihop or something
just me and you
you enormous empty broad of a spaceship or whatever
get the never ending hot fresh pancakes and all the whipped cream you want and ill even hold you hand after
you wont ever want to wash it again that right there is a true promise
if you ask all nice you can stick your freaky tube thing down my throat again
but this shit right here
not cool
this is not classy
not in cosmo's 101 dating tips for curvy ladyships
okay peace im closing my eyes when i open them they better be filled with the beautiful sights of whatever shit i was just doing okay
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2
1
shit
Your Name: AO
OOC Journal: mutt_nik
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: noooope
Email + IM: hipposkhloros @ gmail . com | AIM dynaomism
Characters Played at Ataraxion: None!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Dave Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: Right before the Tumor explodes, on the Quest Bed with Rose.
Number: RNG me
Setting: Here is the general Homestuck page, which explains the set-up and such, and here is the SBURB page, which explains the setting of the game.
History:
Unforunately I'm on a pretty tight deadline here and unable to do this all in Fresh-Prince of Bel-Air style song form, but I really hope we can all pretend I did.
Once upon a time, in an Ectobiology Lab deep in the Veil (an asteroid ring that surrounds The Medium), a boy named John used some sort of vaguely scientific words to make a whole bunch of babies (also known as Paradox Clones) and sent them back in time. Literally nothing in that sentence makes sense outside of context, but I guess we can roll with that, thanks Homestuck! One of these adorable babies crashed landed (along with a pony) and was found and raised by the coolest of all bros, Bro. Who is also genetically related to him. He would later be named Dave, and grew up like a relatively normal kid except for all the ironic schooling and puppets and such, and became friends with other internet cool kids (though none as cool as him) Rose, Jade, and John.
The real story of Homestuck begins with John's birthday, April 13th, 1996, when he begins to play a game called Sburb. Though Dave had initially decided he wanted nothing to do with the game, he is eventually pressured into it by Rose - of course, he had previously lost his beta discs to an extremely smooth move involving crow murder and unfortunately open windows. After some freaking out about puppet rumpus and a brief strife with his Bro, he is given the beta discs and is finally able to connect as the Server Player to Rose - thereby rescuing her.
Soon after, Jade connects as his server player, and immediately starts messing around with shit, which is pretty much what you're supposed to do. She prototypes the sprite (a being created by SBURB to help the player through the game) with the dead crow from earlier and they fuck around with stuff and kids and fun is had, etc. He enters the Medium (the actual playing field of the game) after his Entry Item (an egg) hatches.
And this is where shit gets complicated. As the player of Time, Dave has some control over Stupid Time Shit, and can do shitty time travel shit he starts messing around just totally laying waste to this perfectly understandable timeline. In one line, he prototypes his sprite with the creepy as hell puppet Lil' Cal - and starts a series of events that cause him to level up enormously, but also lead to the deaths of John and Jade. This Dave, then travels back in time, gives all his sweet gear to the original Dave (henceforth known as Alpha-Timeline Dave), then protypes himself - becoming Davesprite, who is a totally different guy we aren't talking about him anymore, geez!! Alpha Dave (the one this app is about, just so we continue to be clear and perhaps slightly less confused) then enters the Medium with all sorts of pimped out tricks and also a spirt guide with his face and fused with a bird. That's neat I guess!!
As players in the game, each kid has a Dreamself - a sort of alter ego that awakens on planets of the Incipisphere (another game construct) when the player is asleep. Dave is a Dersite Dreamer along with Rose (that's the purple one) and has actually been awake all along on Derse, he just hadn't been aware of it, so when Dream Rose gets his attention he promptly falls asleep in the real world. Dreams are cool I guess.
Earlier, he used John to get an alchemization code for the journals Rose keeps, which contain Important Plot Things and Genetic Sequences and it all make a whole ton of sense, but after making a copy, they are stole by an Agent of Derse that bastard - and after attempting to use time travel to stop it, he finds his alternate timeline copy has died in the attempt and quickly decides to abandon that attempt.
After he enters the first Gate which brings him deeper on his own special planet, The Land of Heat and Clockwork, he really starts to fuck around with time and shit, but mostly time. During his time on LOHAC, he gets filthy rich using schemes on the Stock Market, talks to Trolls, changes clothes a lot, makes copies of himself in stable time loops (unstable ones result in the death of an alternate Dave), and finds a neat broken sword with a stupid name. Terezi, one of the trolls he talks to a lot, helps to guide him through a lot of his adventure, directing his stock market scandal. Here is also where the Infamous Shipping Chart comes into play and wow that is such a clusterfuck!!! It might be good to mention here, when he speaks to Gamzee, it is a pretty important conversation for the trolls. He links the highly religious Gamzee to a video containing the music video for Miracles (given to him before its real release on his birthday by a mysterious individual from Betty Crocker Corp), and Gamzee then promptly has a Massive Tantrum.
Terezi and Dave eventually comes a timeline decision involving a coinflip. Offering to flip a coin in order to decide which route he would take (one granting him equal power to John, the other putting off the quest to compete with his friend), this effective split the timeline in two - in this case, Alpha Dave choosing to wait, while the Alternate Dave chooses to go for it yeeeeeah. Terezi then explains God Tier and puts him on his Quest Bed, where he falls asleep. Because of time bullshit, after the events described in the next paragraph (you can go read that one now and then come back if you want its like a choose your own appventure) Alpha Dave finds his quest bed and is instructed by Terezi to kill himself. The alternate timeline self, that is. He gives up on that plan, certainly not because of any Issues about Death that would be stupid gosh, and leaves - eventually alternate Dave wakes up, and is promptly killed by Jack Noir whoops.
At some point here, he finds his dead Bro (killed in a fight with Jack) and Is Totally Not Upset At All and that is a completely true fact don't fight it. Here, the Aimless Renegade (one of the Exiles who commands the kids by using future bullshit its all bullshit im crying right now please don't look at my shame) contacts Dave and starts demanding things about Justice and THE LAW and PUNISHING JACK NOIR FOR HIS CRIMES which makes for Dave's concurrent conversation with Terezi to be pretty confusing (you call it the SLAMMER when you are extra angry at crimes, start taking some notes here jesus get a fucking pen). After his dead-broventures, he travels to Jade's planet, and helps her set up all sorts of nifty gear, and finagles it so he is able to become her server player as John is Otherwise Occupied. They mess around with frogs for a bit (it's complicated), before being attacked by Jack Noir - though at this point Jack has been affected by the prototyping of Bec, Jade's beloved dog and is unable to bring himself to harm her.
Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to give a shit about Dave and kills him in a massive DICK MOVE by warping bullets to shoot him RIGHT IN THE BACK. seriously RUDE. Jade kisses his Cold Dead Corpse and he wakes up on Derse (this is one of the powers of the players, to be able to revive dead people using their dreamselves and making out and I'm sure its all dandy and such) where he finds Rose again (who had died and been revived as a dreamself as well). They get into some Sibling Cahoots and hash out how to destroy the Green Sun - in order to restart their Universe with a Scratch of the game's session in the hopes they will be able to defeat the now nearly omnipotent Jack Noir in another session. Liv Tyler the bunny has delivered them the Tumor. I'm not even touching that sentence. Of course, this would be basically a very complex form of suicide, and Rose being Rose she knocks him out (WITH A BALL OF YARN seriously im not even fucking with you right now) and heads off to do it herself. Dave, unable to go after her for the moment, tries to talk her out of it by contacting her through dreambubbles, but fortunately (???) is stabbed by the Draconian Dignitary (who works for Jack) and wakes up back on Derse, catching up to her (because he can fly because dreamselves can do that). He also kills that Draconian Dignitary because fuck that guy.
At the end of act five, they reach where the Green Sun is supposed to be, find their quest beds and set up the Tumor - which is a bomb containing both the Kid and Troll Universes. Both he and Rose die in the explosion, which ends up creating the Green Sun, and they ascend to God Tier, making him the Knight of Time.
Personality:
Dave is quite possibly the coolest kid to ever exist, in any universe. Even hot alien chicks can't get enough of charm and style, and his delicately turned sense of irony is unmatched. All of his friends are also completely convinced by this, and would never question his unerring coolness, instead choosing to crawl about on the ground by his feet and worship his every red colored word. At least, that's what Dave would like to think. He sets himself to be a paragon of cool, doing whatever it takes to be perceived or seen as fucking awesome. He practically worships everything his Bro does, from the puppetry to the outright stupid (who keeps swords in the fridge how are you supposed to get Hot Pockets out?), and strives to become what he believes is a level of cool untouchable by everyone else. He creates stupid comics, dumb websites, and shitty blogs, all for the sake of the Holy Irony In The Sky (with Diamonds), distances himself emotionally from his friends, and generally denies being affected by anything else beyond awe at his own incredible self.
Even his interests seem to focus on creating an image, though he is quite fond of his music. He has his own set of turntables, and uses them to create sweet jams and shit, and is seen sending them to Jade. He also has a fascination with rap, and rapbattles, which I guess are so outdated (and also really dave, really??) that they are now coming back around the other way as cool and ironic. Of course, what actually is ironic, and what isn't, is a pretty fine and often wuzzie line, and sometimes just doesn't make any sense at all. He never speaks directly, much preferring to completely avoid the point by being intentionally obtuse, using metaphors, phrasing and assholishness to compensate. He can be pretty hard to pin down and communicate with, and will avoid discussing upsetting topics by getting more and more wrapped and wound up in his metaphors. It's pretty silly.
He sets himself up as sort of an asshole, especially when the game begins. He picks on his friends for not understanding sylladexes and the things they enjoy, and seems to put a lot of stock (harhar) in being able to understand the things that they have not experienced yet. It's important to him to be able to prove himself, though the reasons seem to be fairly mixed - including, in a sense, wanting to be able to protect those he cares about. He is very insecure about his abilities, and this leads to his fateful decision of the coinflip with Terezi - and how much he is willing to sacrifice for power (the answer is, he isn't.)
Beneath a carefully crafted layer of irony, aloofness and just generally being a cool shit, he's actually just a insecure kid who wants approval and praise from his friends. He's actually pretty heavily affected by his emotions, but has spent so long hiding them that he effectively cripples his ability to express them. I could compare him to Hank Hill here, because look at it, it is perfect, TEXANS, but I will spare you that image please thank me later. He actually cares quite a lot about his friends, being really fond of John's present to him of the Ben Stiller sunglasses and not wanting her to go through with the suicide mission - insisting that it was his duty.
Ironic, for a Knight of Time, Dave also seems to be pretty absent minded and forgetful, even forgetting his own equipment (and its ability to let him travel in time), and setting off items in his sylladex willy-nilly. He's also pretty unnerved by puppets, which might stem from influence by Gamzee who inserts Lil Cal into his dreams and torments him with nightmares.
What Dave is afraid of most though, seems to be his own death. He is pretty freaked out by seeing the dead bodies of himself from alternate timelines, and can't bring himself to sacrifice for God Tier - despite his complaining to Terezi about being unable to match John. He doesn't seem to deal well with death, which serves as an important part of the game though his God Tier Ascension may represent a step towards the tackling of that fear.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
As the Knight of Time, Dave has the ability to Time Travel, and in the event of creating a Stable Loop, can make multiples of himself as long as they remain on the Alpha Timeline. This could be pretty gamebreaking, but also requires equipment to use and can result in Alternate Timelines which then results in A Dead Dave. It might be best to remove this altogether, or limit it to very small, stable Time Loops (as in only a few minutes long).
He's also pretty good with a sword, having been trained from birth to be pretty sick at fighting.
Of course, his major ability is being the coolest, and so cool I will choose to LIMIT HIS COOLNESS by 50%, just to save everyone from melting eyeballs and inability to stop weeping in his presence. You can thank me later, I promise.
Inventory:
His sylladex, a nifty way to carry lots of shit around
- SWORDKIND
- Shitty iShades
you know what that's it dave can suck it
Appearance:
Dave is a 13 year old kid. He has blonde hair with a cool haircut that apparently looks like a bird or something, red mutant freak eyes and according to Karkat, pursed lips (????).
Age: 13, though a Homestuck-13 is a horse of a different color from most pre-teens (tweens?), and Dave is pretty used to terrible game happens and such.
SAMPLES
Log Sample:
Dave had been raised by beats. Sick ones, strife ones, ones running low and rumbling through the thin walls of a cheap apartment, the march of the beat of inevitable events, of time making its slow drag onwards. He could move with them, understand them - in the game they had at least made sense. You don't overthink it, you just move in time and it works out. If it stutters you just lay in another flow, right over the old one, blocking out visions of yourself lying dead on the ground and heartbeat stopped cold. Even when the timeline starts spiraling down, the music goes on, getting deeper and louder and pounding at the back of your head, but at least it's there.
As long as you were alive, you kept going, kept moving, like time and rhythm and beats.
It doesn't help the metronome to be jolted awake and cold and wet and what the actual fuck. It's like taking the record and smashing it into concrete, pushing the needle into the vinyl so hard it scratches all the way round - it throws him off the beat, and for a brief moment in totally blackness, there is no sound, and for that instant, the fear bubbles up.
It isn't until he's regained his vision and conceded to himself that having a minor meltdown all alone won't hurt anyone that he's able to get up. The silence hangs heavy and cold and still, until he fumbles around with his things to get them back where they belong, shades on his face and clothes on - until the voice starts in, and with it, a cadence, a rhythm, and purpose. The beat goes on.
Comms Sample:
are you fucking with me right now
look i know im pretty much impossible to resist
this mad swag got every booty dropping with 200 lightyears
but i really do not have time for this
right now
look just call me in a few months
maybe we can hook up and we can go a shitty date to the interuniversal ihop or something
just me and you
you enormous empty broad of a spaceship or whatever
get the never ending hot fresh pancakes and all the whipped cream you want and ill even hold you hand after
you wont ever want to wash it again that right there is a true promise
if you ask all nice you can stick your freaky tube thing down my throat again
but this shit right here
not cool
this is not classy
not in cosmo's 101 dating tips for curvy ladyships
okay peace im closing my eyes when i open them they better be filled with the beautiful sights of whatever shit i was just doing okay
3
2
1
shit