Okay so the first glimpse we see of Dave and Terezi (from Dave's perspective) is when she gives him inspiration to create SbaHJ comics, thanks to her effortlessly shitty drawings. I mean gog, he has to exert EFFORT to be that horrible and she just makes it all look so easy. He even remembered her name. She made an impression, that's for sure.
When Dave came into camp, he was taken from a time when that impression was still mostly positive. He had yet to come across Bro and Davesprites dead bodies, and Terezi hadn't created a doomed Dave yet. This made for quite a lot of time where he could just hang with Terezi and get to know her and realize she was a pretty damn cool kid herself, was fun to hang around with and etc- basically, the troll disease called friendship struck him with full force.
Then things started going wrong.
Three events in camp have really shaken Dave so far- hearing from Karkat of all people that his slime-dad is dead, hearing that Terezi manipulated him and biggest of all- becoming a troll himself. The first is something that made him seriously antagonistic towards Karkat, but also more open to Terezi because... well, she actually stood by him, and it was nice to have her there. She saw a pretty miserable side of him, and didn't give him crap for it. Yes, Dave considers her awkward support as comfort. He hasn't had a lot of it in his days. Terezis manipulation on the other hand really hurt, and though he did forgive her reasoning that Terezi probably just didn't think he would actually mind, it did teach him that while Terezi's smart, she's not perfect either. She thinks she's smarter than most other people, and is often but not always right.
It may not have endeared her to him, but it did teach him a thing or two about her.
Finally, becoming a troll. This was actually a REAL eye-opener to Dave because suddenly your weird concepts and romances suddenly make sense to him. Dave-troll was honestly never much interested in a romantic relationships with any of his fellow trolls because as all of them were mutants in troll society. The thought of furthering the bloodline wasn't ever on his mind. Dave-troll thought he would never be filling buckets with anybody, and as such thought troll romance was meaningless and ignored any and all urges to pursue them. Then he met human Terezi whom reproduction was a moot issue with anyways, and whom it wouldn't feel weird to suddenly broach, however jokingly, the subject of black and red-rom. When he got turned back into a human, he pretty much realized that holy shit, human-him was probably in love with Troll-Terezi too. Denial may be a strong suit of him, but he always knows what it is he's denying.
But the most important matter that he learned from all this, was honestly sympathy and human, HUMAN mind you, pity for Karkat. Dave totally gets why Karkat would go gray after his own experiences, and as he said himself compared to Dave-troll Karkat aspiring to be a leader and help his team to victory was hella more noble than anything Dave did for his team. And all that aside, while troll-Dave never reached God Tier he still did his job as a Knight of Time, with all the sacrifice that entailed.
And thus, we are brought to the bad decision dinosaur attack, where Dave agreed to letting Terezi have them both. Throughout his stay in camp Dave has felt more and more isolated and alone. He doesn't have that many friends in camp, Jade is gone, John is mostly absent and Rose have her own relationships to worry about. Dave has been told repeatedly by Aradia that as the player of time he must be prepared to make sacrifices, so when the moment of truth arrived Dave was fully prepared to sacrifice his fledgling relationship with Terezi, because why not? He's losing things left and right, so why shouldn't he lose this as well? He came in after Karkat who deserves Terezi more than him. He's the odd man out who doesn't fit into the puzzle, so there's no reason for him to hope she would seriously pick him.
Okay so the first glimpse we see of Dave and Terezi (from Dave's perspective) is when she gives him inspiration to create SbaHJ comics, thanks to her effortlessly shitty drawings. I mean gog, he has to exert EFFORT to be that horrible and she just makes it all look so easy. He even remembered her name. She made an impression, that's for sure.
When Dave came into camp, he was taken from a time when that impression was still mostly positive. He had yet to come across Bro and Davesprites dead bodies, and Terezi hadn't created a doomed Dave yet. This made for quite a lot of time where he could just hang with Terezi and get to know her and realize she was a pretty damn cool kid herself, was fun to hang around with and etc- basically, the troll disease called friendship struck him with full force.
Then things started going wrong.
Three events in camp have really shaken Dave so far- hearing from Karkat of all people that his slime-dad is dead, hearing that Terezi manipulated him and biggest of all- becoming a troll himself. The first is something that made him seriously antagonistic towards Karkat, but also more open to Terezi because... well, she actually stood by him, and it was nice to have her there. She saw a pretty miserable side of him, and didn't give him crap for it. Yes, Dave considers her awkward support as comfort. He hasn't had a lot of it in his days. Terezis manipulation on the other hand really hurt, and though he did forgive her reasoning that Terezi probably just didn't think he would actually mind, it did teach him that while Terezi's smart, she's not perfect either. She thinks she's smarter than most other people, and is often but not always right.
It may not have endeared her to him, but it did teach him a thing or two about her.
Finally, becoming a troll. This was actually a REAL eye-opener to Dave because suddenly your weird concepts and romances suddenly make sense to him. Dave-troll was honestly never much interested in a romantic relationships with any of his fellow trolls because as all of them were mutants in troll society. The thought of furthering the bloodline wasn't ever on his mind. Dave-troll thought he would never be filling buckets with anybody, and as such thought troll romance was meaningless and ignored any and all urges to pursue them. Then he met human Terezi whom reproduction was a moot issue with anyways, and whom it wouldn't feel weird to suddenly broach, however jokingly, the subject of black and red-rom. When he got turned back into a human, he pretty much realized that holy shit, human-him was probably in love with Troll-Terezi too. Denial may be a strong suit of him, but he always knows what it is he's denying.
But the most important matter that he learned from all this, was honestly sympathy and human, HUMAN mind you, pity for Karkat. Dave totally gets why Karkat would go gray after his own experiences, and as he said himself compared to Dave-troll Karkat aspiring to be a leader and help his team to victory was hella more noble than anything Dave did for his team. And all that aside, while troll-Dave never reached God Tier he still did his job as a Knight of Time, with all the sacrifice that entailed.
And thus, we are brought to the bad decision dinosaur attack, where Dave agreed to letting Terezi have them both. Throughout his stay in camp Dave has felt more and more isolated and alone. He doesn't have that many friends in camp, Jade is gone, John is mostly absent and Rose have her own relationships to worry about. Dave has been told repeatedly by Aradia that as the player of time he must be prepared to make sacrifices, so when the moment of truth arrived Dave was fully prepared to sacrifice his fledgling relationship with Terezi, because why not? He's losing things left and right, so why shouldn't he lose this as well? He came in after Karkat who deserves Terezi more than him. He's the odd man out who doesn't fit into the puzzle, so there's no reason for him to hope she would seriously pick him.
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