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Player Information
Name: Bus
LJ: stfu_pedochan
Contact: aim: awildbus | plurk: busobeaners
Current character(s): i play the pokepimp No one~
Character Information
Name: Dave Strider
Age: 13
Canon: MSPA: Homestuck
Timeline: Leaving Derse to help the Lalonde twins
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter(s): Vulpix
History: Wikia Link To Canon
The wikia link is to Dave's canon history to point out that the main difference between his canon and this universe is the fact Dave is one of two Strider children. The events have, if at all, not diverged in any extreme amount. Each set of 'twin' players was counted as a singly unit which meant sharing titles, planets, and all other game associations as evenly as possible with each other. Each set of twins is in essence the same 'canon' kid, but split into male and female bodies and possessing almost identical looks and similar but unique minds much like actual human twins do. The most obvious difference that can be counted lies in the backgrounds of each.
The Strider twins were by nature the kind of children to always end up in trouble, either by accident or by seeking it out. Every chance they had out of Bro's supervision was spent getting into some kind of situation at another's expense around their apartment building. It escalated into being kicked out of the public school system at early ages, to which Bro decided to home school the two since public schools couldn't handle their 'swag' and like hell he'd put them in private school. They'd tear up any poor private school before he could finish writing the check for tuition. While it might have saved many intensive parental figures a heart attack or dozen, it subjected their fellow tenants to every bit of Bored Strider Trouble to such a degree that they collectively crumbled and gathered a force together to insist and beg Bro to do something to keep the two occupied during the day. Various lessons at the local community center were offered up that Bro agreed to due to his own interest in the two learning something 'cool' and that it would give them something to do while he worked as well. The majority of the classes they took were focused in the musical side of art like dancing and singing, as well photography classes. They were adored and lavished with praise at their classes despite the sincere convictions of their neighbors that they were horrible hellions put upon earth to convince people to buy actual homes away from them. It turns out they have an almost unnatural gift for music and the ability to stay perfectly in sync with each other at all times without effort.
Much like Canon, they ended up with a sprite prototyped with the corpse of a dead strider to guide them. Davesprite is the only sprite that comes about due to a Doomed timeline Dave making the decision to leave Davi behind to stay with the Lalondes while he left to stop John and Jane from once again dying.
This is one of the rare cases of one of the twins ever separating from each other in the entirety of the game. Everything else they did was done as a team, with little acceptable exceptions. They worked as team when using their time powers to avoid disastrous run-ins and keep stable time loops, and when it came to confronting enemies and the trolls later on like tag-team conversing with Terezi. They even died together when it came to the God Tier Incident, being unable to kill each other or themselves and dying while sleeping next to each other. Life or death, they refused to leave each other's side as long as there was a perceptible alternate.
This bond is not unique to the Striders, and is a constant for each pair of twins in this universe. Both Egberts reached God Tier together, the Lalonde siblings went Grimdark, and the Harley dreamselves died together. They all share a special link with their twin that matches many myths about twins at large. Picking up on thoughts and emotions no matter the circumstance came easier and stronger to the Strider twins however due to having the closest of all living arrangements. It's way easier and cheaper to get one bed and two turntables for double the intense beatage after all. The Strider priorities show.
Personality:
Dave often gives off an image of being 'cool and aloof' that prompts many people to have the impression he's one of those ~cool kids~ who can make anything awesome. Dave likes to encourage this, though any amount of interaction with him reveals his true nature as an insufferable douchebag. He often teases and playfully mocks his friends on how they act and tell them to learn from his obvious mastery of all that is cool and ironic. He likes to think of himself as that too, a master of cool, but he recognizes the deep hidden denials and self-bashing thoughts that can creep up on him in stressful times. Dave has a reputation for being the kind of guy to purposly dig under peoples skin to drive them into blind rages for shits and giggles, and is surprisingly viscious and brutal when he feels you aren't worth trying to be civil to. His friends are never subjected to this and tend to accept it about it as well as they can when they learn he's in a mood like that. He tries hard to keep an uncaring poker face at all times, and is ashamed that it can slip by tiny fractions when he gets angry or frustrated. Davi and Bro are the only ones who truly recognize when this happens are are quick to remind his to get a damn grip on himself.
He's a natural loner and very anti social, though his family and friends are the only exceptions to this. Everyone but Davi can grind on his nerves despite that though. He was raised in alone with his twin and older brother/secret genetic father, whom he idolized and had a case of hero worship to concerning degrees. There was no one in the world better than bro, and to dave the man could do no wrong and fuck everyone who dared to criticize his strange or hobbies and lack of socially expected proper child rearing skills. He is highly aware of the fact Bro did his best with the twins for his conditions, and hold him in high regards for it despite his teenage rebellion and tendency to try rebelling against him in minor ways. He came to accept and believe that everything he did could and would be excused as long as he could justify it as 'Irony', despite having no clue what irony actually IS because it didn't matter. Strider Irony is on it's own level okay? Needless to say he used and abused this justification and his cool image to get away with all kinds of shit that would get normal kids into extreme amounts of trouble.
Deep in his mind though Dave is aware that his whole upbringing was mostly bullshit and not exactly right. Many of the things he grew up with weren't things he was supposed to be exposed to, like the puppets he so despairingly tried to accept as cool are the source of his disturbing nightmares and paranoia issues. He's faster to admit his phobia and disgust of puppets and plush rumps of all kinds as the game progresses though. Not that admitting things will ever get him to admit that Bro isn't so awesome and cool, and just kinda really creepy and perverted in some twisted ways.
He also can't admit to himself that he has problems with controlling his violent side and being drawn towards unhealthy fascinations and darker urges. He enjoys fighting and cutting down enemies to slightly primal levels and it shows when he gets sadistic and cruel in his taunts and reckless behavior. He has a tendency to stop caring about what happens to himself as long as he gets what he wants. It causes Davi and Bro to pause and worry a lot, but he never notices when things take a darker turn until Davi tells him to cool down. The Lalondes in particular have field days trying to analyze this part of his personality. Poor Tavros once had a taste of this when Dave tore apart as many aspects of his personality and mocked him pretty brutally. He felt pretty bad about that, but refused to apologize and admit he had a moment of being uncool.
He also has severe insecurity issues and lack of self-worth, to the point where he demoralizes himself in comparison to his friends and especially the Egberts. He's no sort of hero, or meant to be anything but a keeper and sacrifice to make sure the real heroes get everything they need to shine and get their glory. He's accepted this self-imposed role as a simple life fact, and embraces it wholly. He also has deep rooted shame and fear of his unnatural eye color and supposed sexuality identity. He realized early on that chicks simply didn't interest him like they were supposed to, and had no issues proclaiming this and not understanding why people wouldn't get that. He faced a lot of harassment and judging for this, and it gave him a complex as well as paranoia about all strangers and whether they would also be huge assholes. He might give off an uncaring attitude about these things, but it's obvious that he cares too much about what will happen by hiding his eyes away at all times and feels unreasonable anxiety at the thought of taking them off.
Dave isn't quite unable to show emotions as he is incapable of showing correct ones or appropriate ones. He was taught to hide his true emotions and throw people off, so he ended up not being able to pick up social signals and reacting in ways that are considered inappropriate. Luckily his cool kid persona is an easy excuse for these situations, especially when he just feels nothing at all. He often consults Rose and Ruby to try and overcome this shortcoming and get an explanation to things he just can't understand or dreams that disturb him. He realizes he's a pretty fucked up kid in the head, and that he maybe kinda sorta need to get it worked out with therapy. He's more comfortable dealing with it with the two friends who just happen to be ace pseudo-therapists and evenly balance casual conversation and advice and counseling.
Powers & Abilities:
• Knight of Time; Dave controls the flow of time through his turntables and as such abuses the fuck out of his ability to bend time to his every whim, be it childish or random.
• Swordfighting; Thanks to Bro regularly testing the boundaries of teaching self defense and beating the shit out of his charges, Dave is a skilled swordsman and apt at using swords no matter how poorly made or damaged. He also has excellent reflexes and speed due to being trained in the ways of the 'ninja' despite being from Texas.... and a rapper. Don't question it.
• Sylladex; A sylladex is an inventory system common in Dave's world used to store objects and weaponry through two decks, the Captchalouge (for common items) and Strife (For weapons to be equipped.)
o Hash Modus is an attatchment to his sylladex that allows regular items to be used as weapons as well, rather they be actual weapons that aren't his weaponkind he's just carrying or everyday items that could prove to be lethal in the wrong setting. Each card in the deck is given a number from zero to the number of cards in the deck minus one. The Modus can be changed around, vowels and consonants are either assigned 1 or 2, the number of the word is then added up and divided by the number of cards in the deck. There are two other options as well, assigning a number based on the number of a letter from the alphabet or assigning a number based on the values of scrabble pieces. The resulting number becomes it's index number, but Dave has to be careful with what he calls things because if an object already occupies the card of that number, the first item is ejected to make room for the new one. However, if he has the 'detect collisions' box checked, it prevents the second item from being captchalogged. It's a slower, but safer method to go by for him. There's also a button that can eject his entire sylladex at once if need be. In order to retrieve an item from it, he must do an action or say a keyword that produces the same number as the desired index card. Sometimes, they even activate on accident. He would have 'Hash Map Rap Battles' with Bro and Davi, each of them using words in their rap battle specifically meant to eject certain items from their sylladexes to attack.
• TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE; Dave can read his sister's thoughts and emotions so well that they never have to verbally communicate unless they feel like it.
Posting Samples
Third-Person Sample: Shared looks of cool disinterest passed between Dave and the small vulpine perching on an eye level rock in front of him. If he were any other man Dave would drive himself insane trying to figure out how his last day (or was it days?) had ended up in a damp cave with a cheeky little creature staring at him with such an expectant expression.
Oh he knew exactly what he was looking at, don't misunderstand. What kind of kid in his era didn't know about Pokemon? His lip twitched slightly upward, the vulpix mimed his expression as well as it could with a soft "Vul~" of amusement. Well shit. He was seriously here wasn't he?
He reached out to scratch under the Vulpix's chin idly as he contemplated his next move. "So apparently we did a shit enough job to warrant being tossed from one game to another like a piece of gossip between desperate housewives with no hot pool boys to fuck. Fuck SBURB too then, I can chill here with the pokemans for now. I got shit to finish so it won't get rid of me that easy, can't keep a Strider down you know?" Vulpix gave a happy mewl he decided to take as confirmation instead of just pleasure from the attention.
"Guess you're coming along for the ride till I can find my way back home. Be chill and we'll get along fine, and..." He trailed off as what had been a small itch in his mind made it's way to the front. Where the fuck was Davi? Where.... This wasn't right. He couldn't feel her anywhere, and it was throwing off his previous plans to stay calm and carry on. Did that mean he had to try and make his way without her? He didn't like the way such a previously unthinkable idea seemed to settle on his mind. It was wrong, like sticky plastic wrap on the skin that he had to wear suddenly.
He felt a nudge on his hand and focused back on the vulpix giving him a curious expression. He let out a huff and smoothly returned to his confidence. "Well we gotta do a lot of shit before I go seems like. You ready for an adventure?" "Vulpix!" The vulpine raised a tiny paw towards Dave, who grinned slightly as he met the paw with a bump of his fist. He could work this all out no problem,so there was no point in getting worked up on anything.
First-Person Sample:
right so this is what the fates apparantly decided i should do huh
'no dave you suck at this shit here go fuck around with the pokemans'
well fuck you too fate cause i got dis shit down pat
i am the elite
in the top god damn percentage
but no stupid rattata i mean that thing was useless forever and always
joey lives in some sort of delusion
the boy is drunk or something
lucky bitch
whatever at least i got a sweet pokemon
my baby girl got back and sass yall better watch out
speaking of sass and junk in the trunk
where. is. my. sister.
davi you hoe you better be here
come on girl dont leave me with morons and icky nonironic people
is this karma for what i was gonna do
come on baby i can change it was for the greater good and all that
baby come back
you can blame it all on me
if you dont respond soon im gonna assume you aint here
in which case i better get my sweet ass back
so who here wants to tell me how i do that
do i gotta be the pokemon master
i got dis bro im doing it im MAKING IT HAPEN.........
Anything else?
Name: Bus
LJ: stfu_pedochan
Contact: aim: awildbus | plurk: busobeaners
Current character(s): i play the pokepimp No one~
Character Information
Name: Dave Strider
Age: 13
Canon: MSPA: Homestuck
Timeline: Leaving Derse to help the Lalonde twins
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter(s): Vulpix
History: Wikia Link To Canon
The wikia link is to Dave's canon history to point out that the main difference between his canon and this universe is the fact Dave is one of two Strider children. The events have, if at all, not diverged in any extreme amount. Each set of 'twin' players was counted as a singly unit which meant sharing titles, planets, and all other game associations as evenly as possible with each other. Each set of twins is in essence the same 'canon' kid, but split into male and female bodies and possessing almost identical looks and similar but unique minds much like actual human twins do. The most obvious difference that can be counted lies in the backgrounds of each.
The Strider twins were by nature the kind of children to always end up in trouble, either by accident or by seeking it out. Every chance they had out of Bro's supervision was spent getting into some kind of situation at another's expense around their apartment building. It escalated into being kicked out of the public school system at early ages, to which Bro decided to home school the two since public schools couldn't handle their 'swag' and like hell he'd put them in private school. They'd tear up any poor private school before he could finish writing the check for tuition. While it might have saved many intensive parental figures a heart attack or dozen, it subjected their fellow tenants to every bit of Bored Strider Trouble to such a degree that they collectively crumbled and gathered a force together to insist and beg Bro to do something to keep the two occupied during the day. Various lessons at the local community center were offered up that Bro agreed to due to his own interest in the two learning something 'cool' and that it would give them something to do while he worked as well. The majority of the classes they took were focused in the musical side of art like dancing and singing, as well photography classes. They were adored and lavished with praise at their classes despite the sincere convictions of their neighbors that they were horrible hellions put upon earth to convince people to buy actual homes away from them. It turns out they have an almost unnatural gift for music and the ability to stay perfectly in sync with each other at all times without effort.
Much like Canon, they ended up with a sprite prototyped with the corpse of a dead strider to guide them. Davesprite is the only sprite that comes about due to a Doomed timeline Dave making the decision to leave Davi behind to stay with the Lalondes while he left to stop John and Jane from once again dying.
This is one of the rare cases of one of the twins ever separating from each other in the entirety of the game. Everything else they did was done as a team, with little acceptable exceptions. They worked as team when using their time powers to avoid disastrous run-ins and keep stable time loops, and when it came to confronting enemies and the trolls later on like tag-team conversing with Terezi. They even died together when it came to the God Tier Incident, being unable to kill each other or themselves and dying while sleeping next to each other. Life or death, they refused to leave each other's side as long as there was a perceptible alternate.
This bond is not unique to the Striders, and is a constant for each pair of twins in this universe. Both Egberts reached God Tier together, the Lalonde siblings went Grimdark, and the Harley dreamselves died together. They all share a special link with their twin that matches many myths about twins at large. Picking up on thoughts and emotions no matter the circumstance came easier and stronger to the Strider twins however due to having the closest of all living arrangements. It's way easier and cheaper to get one bed and two turntables for double the intense beatage after all. The Strider priorities show.
Personality:
Dave often gives off an image of being 'cool and aloof' that prompts many people to have the impression he's one of those ~cool kids~ who can make anything awesome. Dave likes to encourage this, though any amount of interaction with him reveals his true nature as an insufferable douchebag. He often teases and playfully mocks his friends on how they act and tell them to learn from his obvious mastery of all that is cool and ironic. He likes to think of himself as that too, a master of cool, but he recognizes the deep hidden denials and self-bashing thoughts that can creep up on him in stressful times. Dave has a reputation for being the kind of guy to purposly dig under peoples skin to drive them into blind rages for shits and giggles, and is surprisingly viscious and brutal when he feels you aren't worth trying to be civil to. His friends are never subjected to this and tend to accept it about it as well as they can when they learn he's in a mood like that. He tries hard to keep an uncaring poker face at all times, and is ashamed that it can slip by tiny fractions when he gets angry or frustrated. Davi and Bro are the only ones who truly recognize when this happens are are quick to remind his to get a damn grip on himself.
He's a natural loner and very anti social, though his family and friends are the only exceptions to this. Everyone but Davi can grind on his nerves despite that though. He was raised in alone with his twin and older brother/secret genetic father, whom he idolized and had a case of hero worship to concerning degrees. There was no one in the world better than bro, and to dave the man could do no wrong and fuck everyone who dared to criticize his strange or hobbies and lack of socially expected proper child rearing skills. He is highly aware of the fact Bro did his best with the twins for his conditions, and hold him in high regards for it despite his teenage rebellion and tendency to try rebelling against him in minor ways. He came to accept and believe that everything he did could and would be excused as long as he could justify it as 'Irony', despite having no clue what irony actually IS because it didn't matter. Strider Irony is on it's own level okay? Needless to say he used and abused this justification and his cool image to get away with all kinds of shit that would get normal kids into extreme amounts of trouble.
Deep in his mind though Dave is aware that his whole upbringing was mostly bullshit and not exactly right. Many of the things he grew up with weren't things he was supposed to be exposed to, like the puppets he so despairingly tried to accept as cool are the source of his disturbing nightmares and paranoia issues. He's faster to admit his phobia and disgust of puppets and plush rumps of all kinds as the game progresses though. Not that admitting things will ever get him to admit that Bro isn't so awesome and cool, and just kinda really creepy and perverted in some twisted ways.
He also can't admit to himself that he has problems with controlling his violent side and being drawn towards unhealthy fascinations and darker urges. He enjoys fighting and cutting down enemies to slightly primal levels and it shows when he gets sadistic and cruel in his taunts and reckless behavior. He has a tendency to stop caring about what happens to himself as long as he gets what he wants. It causes Davi and Bro to pause and worry a lot, but he never notices when things take a darker turn until Davi tells him to cool down. The Lalondes in particular have field days trying to analyze this part of his personality. Poor Tavros once had a taste of this when Dave tore apart as many aspects of his personality and mocked him pretty brutally. He felt pretty bad about that, but refused to apologize and admit he had a moment of being uncool.
He also has severe insecurity issues and lack of self-worth, to the point where he demoralizes himself in comparison to his friends and especially the Egberts. He's no sort of hero, or meant to be anything but a keeper and sacrifice to make sure the real heroes get everything they need to shine and get their glory. He's accepted this self-imposed role as a simple life fact, and embraces it wholly. He also has deep rooted shame and fear of his unnatural eye color and supposed sexuality identity. He realized early on that chicks simply didn't interest him like they were supposed to, and had no issues proclaiming this and not understanding why people wouldn't get that. He faced a lot of harassment and judging for this, and it gave him a complex as well as paranoia about all strangers and whether they would also be huge assholes. He might give off an uncaring attitude about these things, but it's obvious that he cares too much about what will happen by hiding his eyes away at all times and feels unreasonable anxiety at the thought of taking them off.
Dave isn't quite unable to show emotions as he is incapable of showing correct ones or appropriate ones. He was taught to hide his true emotions and throw people off, so he ended up not being able to pick up social signals and reacting in ways that are considered inappropriate. Luckily his cool kid persona is an easy excuse for these situations, especially when he just feels nothing at all. He often consults Rose and Ruby to try and overcome this shortcoming and get an explanation to things he just can't understand or dreams that disturb him. He realizes he's a pretty fucked up kid in the head, and that he maybe kinda sorta need to get it worked out with therapy. He's more comfortable dealing with it with the two friends who just happen to be ace pseudo-therapists and evenly balance casual conversation and advice and counseling.
Powers & Abilities:
• Knight of Time; Dave controls the flow of time through his turntables and as such abuses the fuck out of his ability to bend time to his every whim, be it childish or random.
• Swordfighting; Thanks to Bro regularly testing the boundaries of teaching self defense and beating the shit out of his charges, Dave is a skilled swordsman and apt at using swords no matter how poorly made or damaged. He also has excellent reflexes and speed due to being trained in the ways of the 'ninja' despite being from Texas.... and a rapper. Don't question it.
• Sylladex; A sylladex is an inventory system common in Dave's world used to store objects and weaponry through two decks, the Captchalouge (for common items) and Strife (For weapons to be equipped.)
o Hash Modus is an attatchment to his sylladex that allows regular items to be used as weapons as well, rather they be actual weapons that aren't his weaponkind he's just carrying or everyday items that could prove to be lethal in the wrong setting. Each card in the deck is given a number from zero to the number of cards in the deck minus one. The Modus can be changed around, vowels and consonants are either assigned 1 or 2, the number of the word is then added up and divided by the number of cards in the deck. There are two other options as well, assigning a number based on the number of a letter from the alphabet or assigning a number based on the values of scrabble pieces. The resulting number becomes it's index number, but Dave has to be careful with what he calls things because if an object already occupies the card of that number, the first item is ejected to make room for the new one. However, if he has the 'detect collisions' box checked, it prevents the second item from being captchalogged. It's a slower, but safer method to go by for him. There's also a button that can eject his entire sylladex at once if need be. In order to retrieve an item from it, he must do an action or say a keyword that produces the same number as the desired index card. Sometimes, they even activate on accident. He would have 'Hash Map Rap Battles' with Bro and Davi, each of them using words in their rap battle specifically meant to eject certain items from their sylladexes to attack.
• TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE; Dave can read his sister's thoughts and emotions so well that they never have to verbally communicate unless they feel like it.
Posting Samples
Third-Person Sample: Shared looks of cool disinterest passed between Dave and the small vulpine perching on an eye level rock in front of him. If he were any other man Dave would drive himself insane trying to figure out how his last day (or was it days?) had ended up in a damp cave with a cheeky little creature staring at him with such an expectant expression.
Oh he knew exactly what he was looking at, don't misunderstand. What kind of kid in his era didn't know about Pokemon? His lip twitched slightly upward, the vulpix mimed his expression as well as it could with a soft "Vul~" of amusement. Well shit. He was seriously here wasn't he?
He reached out to scratch under the Vulpix's chin idly as he contemplated his next move. "So apparently we did a shit enough job to warrant being tossed from one game to another like a piece of gossip between desperate housewives with no hot pool boys to fuck. Fuck SBURB too then, I can chill here with the pokemans for now. I got shit to finish so it won't get rid of me that easy, can't keep a Strider down you know?" Vulpix gave a happy mewl he decided to take as confirmation instead of just pleasure from the attention.
"Guess you're coming along for the ride till I can find my way back home. Be chill and we'll get along fine, and..." He trailed off as what had been a small itch in his mind made it's way to the front. Where the fuck was Davi? Where.... This wasn't right. He couldn't feel her anywhere, and it was throwing off his previous plans to stay calm and carry on. Did that mean he had to try and make his way without her? He didn't like the way such a previously unthinkable idea seemed to settle on his mind. It was wrong, like sticky plastic wrap on the skin that he had to wear suddenly.
He felt a nudge on his hand and focused back on the vulpix giving him a curious expression. He let out a huff and smoothly returned to his confidence. "Well we gotta do a lot of shit before I go seems like. You ready for an adventure?" "Vulpix!" The vulpine raised a tiny paw towards Dave, who grinned slightly as he met the paw with a bump of his fist. He could work this all out no problem,so there was no point in getting worked up on anything.
First-Person Sample:
right so this is what the fates apparantly decided i should do huh
'no dave you suck at this shit here go fuck around with the pokemans'
well fuck you too fate cause i got dis shit down pat
i am the elite
in the top god damn percentage
but no stupid rattata i mean that thing was useless forever and always
joey lives in some sort of delusion
the boy is drunk or something
lucky bitch
whatever at least i got a sweet pokemon
my baby girl got back and sass yall better watch out
speaking of sass and junk in the trunk
where. is. my. sister.
davi you hoe you better be here
come on girl dont leave me with morons and icky nonironic people
is this karma for what i was gonna do
come on baby i can change it was for the greater good and all that
baby come back
you can blame it all on me
if you dont respond soon im gonna assume you aint here
in which case i better get my sweet ass back
so who here wants to tell me how i do that
do i gotta be the pokemon master
i got dis bro im doing it im MAKING IT HAPEN.........
Anything else?