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Player Name: Folded
Player LJ: byakko
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Character: Dave Strider
Series: Homestuck
Deviance: 1

Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Human

Canon Used: Webcomic

Appearance: Dave is taller than most kids his age at a whooping five foot eight. His skin is pale but his eyes are bright red, usually concealed behind his aviator shades. His blond hair is kept short, just long enough to impede his vision if he doesn't brush his bangs out of his face. At sixteen he’s losing the softer lines that defined him as a child and looks closer to being a young man.

He favors his red get up, with a red gear shirt, long knight cape, and yes red pants. His shoes seem to be converse with steel over the ends. Most expressions he makes are very subtle, from a lift of the eyebrows to a faint frown.

Psychology: Are you taking notes on how to be cool? Jesus get a pen already.

Dave is considered a cool kid, but that isn't all there is to him.

Time and time again Dave has shown a loyalty and commitment to tasks he deems important. Such as nagging his friend John to save his own life. A version of Dave came back to the present dedicated to the task and even sacrificed his humanity to ensure things didn't go to hell. His important tasks are always for the greater good of ensuring his friends’ safety and well being. For them he’ll sacrifice himself over and over. When he had to be killed, he didn't tell his friend Jade she would be the one to do it. He wanted to protect her from as much suffering as he could. And while he can be reluctant to do something, his friends’ happiness is fairly important to him. He wouldn't have involved himself with the game in canon, if his friends hadn't asked him to.

Dave is concerned for the safety and well being of most people he encounters when their lives are in danger. He chose to take up a suicide mission in place of someone else. And he found sleep difficult after he witnessed countless souls being destroyed. Even when faced with his own corpse, he was more worried about how other people would react to it. Dave went as far as stretching one day into three times as long trying to help other people out. He didn't ignore the ghost Meenah asking him questions. Instead, he encouraged her to follow her plan to gather her friends together. While he doesn't think he’s a hero, he possesses the heroic instinct.

But one of his flaws is his inability to see trouble coming until it’s too late to stop it. As a child this meant being bailed out by his brother. Within the game, his future self would step in to protect him. Over time, he’s become quite cynical because he’s forced to roll with the moment. He can’t do anything to stop what’s happening when a situation turns bad like finding a version of himself with his throat cut open. While managing time has honed his discipline, it also makes this flaw more apparent. Because no matter what he does to affect things, he’s just following what was set to happen. Any time he sought to change things a version of himself died, or he doomed a timeline. It reinforces his thoughts that there is nothing he can do to fix things.

And it doesn’t help that he hides what he’s thinking while painting circles around his feelings with word dances and misdirection. However, all of his words have elements of truth buried within them as he never outright lies. He’s prone to deflecting any questions about his own feelings, or directing a conversation away from a subject that bothers him. Something his friends call him out on, but he doesn’t always acknowledge. Nor does he state his worries and concerns without tying it to teasing or a joke. This doesn’t make him any less of a truculent asshole when the mood strikes him to be. Which is often. But Dave isn’t heartless. When he decides to counter-attack against words or physical attacks aimed his way, his pushing in those cases is aimed to defeat his opponent, but not hurt them. Such as when an alien named Tavros kept bothering him, Dave finally turned the tables on him. Because he was sick of being pestered. He doesn’t pursue anyone once they've retreated, because the fight is over. He can go right back to what he was previously doing.

Which brings us to another of his bad habits and character flaws, rather than face what’s bothering him, he’ll cover it up. Until he’s pressed on a subject, it is buried. A canon example of this is the fact is he like his friend Jade had always been ‘awake’ on another world known as Derse. He avoided being conscious of it by wearing shades and cramming his head full of music to drown everything out. When he bothered to face the situation, he immediately went snooping around his sister’s room as a distraction. And when he was told about how to get the power he wanted, via killing himself, he went back to managing time to avoid thinking about it . And not even an hour after his brother’s death he redirected Terezi’s attempt to comfort him into a talk about justice. He even simplified and downplayed his relationship with Bro then switched the subject.

Despite these flaws, Dave is pretty reliable. He has a level head, and sound judgement in the face of most things tossed his way. His sister Rose seems to always use him as a sounding board for her plans. The idea of a suicide mission was addressed to Dave before anyone else. In the beginning he can be skeptical of his surroundings, but he comes around in time. When asked to do something, he does it. Like when he manipulated a planet’s stock exchange, or making a map requested of him. It just might take him hours to get around doing what you asked. He did take awhile to get a copy of the game to save Rose’s life, but he rescued her just in time.

Very few people witness his transition from skeptic to believer, because it’s an internal process. To those that can see it, he goes through his upsets, frustrations, and his metaphors or commentary sometimes break down into capslock. Or shouting, like he did when his sister knocked him out to take up his suicide mission to the Green Sun. Originally, he’d resisted the idea of the mission. After his death and revival, Dave went along with the idea. But he didn’t handle the alien Equius’s poetry turning into beastiality porn with any grace and told him to shut up. Another alien tried to make him consider going into a threesome right before his sister reminded him he used to hit on her, much to his horror and exasperation. In both cases, he reacted poorly, first turning a talk into a physical fight and the later sputtering at the subject of accidental incest.

He hides his emotions because he’s quite insecure, having lived and been brought up in his successful brother’s shadow. He was raised to show no weaknesses, or emotions. When he discovered his brother’s corpse, he didn’t cry. But in the past he tried to emulate Bro Strider only to find he could never measure up. He had the cool but he could never fully ‘get’ Bro’s jokes. He even found them border lining into disturbing. Such as turning muppet babies into a rendition of a murder scene. By the time he realized that he wasn’t a carbon copy of his brother, fear of being inadequate and taking some statements about himself too literal had become a daily thing. It was only made worse being stuck in his own shadow and as a result of his insecurities and low sense of self-worth, Dave downplays his accomplishments.

To make sure everything turns out alright, the nosy knight will poke at everything and everyone around him once. He has to know what’s going on, and he will stick his nose into anything he feels is important. It tends to come off as joking or teasing because it is. His sense of humor is dry and can be scandalous on purpose or morbid, putting others off. Time and time again he’s accused of not seeing when someone is in trouble, not giving a shit about them, or when his friends need to talk. He shows he’s aware of the interests of his friends and their lives, often pestering them before they bother him, or when they’re asleep. When they need advice he’s been there to talk and even if he can’t help, he does try to.

And when left to his own devices, while his friends are elsewhere, Dave will entertain himself. He talks to himself and he’ll randomly start projects out of boredom. He created a version of tumblr for the afterlife, for example. Things like this show he is clever and is excellent at finding solutions . Usually in daring and reckless ways. His adaptability makes him deadly in a fight and one to turn to in cases of trouble. Yet, he has a strong temper, sometimes stupidly doing things because his cool is lost and he’s attempting to escape the situation. He jump kicked a sword because he wanted to snap it in half.

Now we can see the full scope of Dave Strider. He is a loyal, attentive friend who can come off a bit needy when he wants attention. He’s left pages and pages of messages to his friends when they’re offline. But, once he’s won over, there’s nearly nothing he won’t do to ensure the safety of others. Even if it means he’s dying in their place or keeping information to himself. Dave is honest with his opinions on serious matters and ribs playfully when the situation isn’t important to survival. He’s willing to get blown up to fix a situation and shoulders responsibility without considering how it will wear him down over time. And he’ll keep moving no matter how tired he is. He truly is the knight that he doesn’t think he is.

Other Skills/Abilities: In the game Sburb/Sgrub, all players that enter the Medium a realm of space constructed for the purpose of creating a new universe; all players are given a title. With these titles come powers and for Dave his title of Knight of Time was set to challenge him.

Dave is a sword wielder, and has been known to break his blades from harsh use. Fitting the knight profile, he defends others by managing time with the help of his Timetables (think turntables). He preserves the Alpha time stream, the correct one as he moves through what are called time loops.

As the time stream must be preserved, he can be several places in time at once. As many as thirteen Daves have been seen at once as he moved through the loops, completing them so he didn’t have a counterpart that wound up doomed. A doomed counterpart was destined to die to keep time flowing right, often times warning against decisions that lead to their own failures. One wrong move and he’d see far too many of his own corpse.

Recently, Dave ascended, essentially becoming a God of Time. To do this the game provides the means, you die on your quest bed and rise up (provided you have a living dreamself). Godtier gives him greater control, speed, and power. Allowing him to no longer need the timetables to freeze people in timelocks or warp from one location to the next. The full range of abilities aren’t yet revealed but he still has Fraymotifs, basically special skills that change his attacks (in combo with space you get Adaigo Redshift a time and space area effect attack).

Godtier players are given another specific ability that makes them difficult to kill. They will not pass for good if the death wasn’t justly given or heroic.

Besides these things, he collects dead things, decent computer hacker, mixes music, and isn’t a bad photographer.

It is important to cover the Sylladex, a technological device that allows him to store items in card format (Captchalogue deck) and restore them to reality. He has to put things in based on his Fetch Modus, a program that puts things into the cards and labels them to ensure he knows what they are.

Any item of any size or shape can be stored within a Captcalogue deck. They are much like magical bags of holding or pocket dimensions in themselves. The limit a user has on what they can store is based on how many cards they have. Dave’s current Fetch Modus is unknown but with the ease he uses it, clearly very smooth and safe for him to use on the fly. A Fetch Modus is the requirement to both store the item and remove it. Some Modus are unnecessarily annoying, like Dave’s previous Modus, Hash Map.

Due to the number of cards his Future Self left him, he won't run out of space anytime soon but, I can limit his space as the mods desire.

Other Weaknesses:

Weaknesses.
X PUPPETS - Don’t mind him. He’ll be as far away from you as he can get.
X CYNICISM - The first person to see the bad in a situation. In his mind you have to roll with it. It can’t be changed.
X APATHY - Let’s face this now. Most times Dave just doesn’t care enough. This comes back to bite him countless times.
X RELUCTANT HERO - Don’t let the asshole routine fool you. He’ll die repeatedly so no one else does. That’s just his job.

History: History

Canon Point: A6A6I2 - Chasing after Bec Noir, and PM Bec to get Jade’s body back.

Reality Description: Dave’s reality is a lava covered world filled with half metal buildings and catwalks winding between grinding gears. Temples are hidden within the structures and the native Nakadile species has their own economy which Dave has already ransacked. A towering structure that was formerly a Huston city apartment complex leads up to the second half of this reality, through a gateway.

On the other side of the gateway is a lush jungle world with numerous frogs and an active volcano. A lake of lava is not too far from a fallen tower. The jungle dominates most of the second planet, with steam vents making it more humid than it already way. Perfect for anything froglike.