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One cannot simply describe the finer nuances of Dave. No. One must be a Strider to stride along the boulevards of Strider comprehension.
Okay, no, who am I kidding, he's pretty much transparent. Basically if you've ever listened to "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette, take that, flip it, make some smartass comments about it, indulge it just for the sake of hilarity, and set it to red text and there you go. Irony a la Strider. He keeps using that word, but he really doesn't seem to have any idea what it actually means. The kid was brought up to do everything in an "ironic" way, and to look as insufferably "cool" in the process as he possibly can.
TT: The upper echelons of irony should always include measures of sincerity. And if the satirical practice is executed faithfully it will achieve something bona fide in its own right regardless. TT: Through an intense commitment bordering on religious devotion to the absolutely inane, absurd, or plain fucking stupid, a very different kind of sincerity begins to materialize. One of reverence to the ridiculous. You begin to "mean it," but what exactly it is you mean is never quite what appears on the surface, and is utterly inaccessible to obtuse and literal minds. That you "mean it" then becomes inseparable from the joke, and additional rich strata of humor may be stripped aggressively from this irreconcilable truth.
Dave's life basically revolves around being cool. Not just looking cool while secretly being a bit of a failure on the inside like your typical anime trope, no. He wants to basically be the embodiment of downright enviable full-stop cool. This probably has a lot to do with who raised him, given that his older brother (who is actually technically his genetic father; please don't get me started on ectobiology), aptly named Bro, is already the epitome of a cool douchebag. It's all in the walk, not the talk. The irony in all this is, of course, that in his efforts to be cool, Dave only really succeeds in being painfully uncool, regardless of what he may or may not think about himself. Either way, Bro, and subsequently his little however-partly-unintentional prodigy, have got both the walk and the talk. For the majority of Dave's young life he wears a pair of Ironic Anime Shades resembling the ones Bro wears and often emulates his habits and interests in many ways; it isn't until John gives Dave a pair of authentic Ben Stiller sunglasses for his thirteenth birthday that Dave really begins to deviate into his own special flavor of Strider.
TG: my bro taught me a few tricks he basically knows everything and is awesome
The shades and the way his Bro's puppets begin to freak him out a bit, anyway, also thanks to John's influence. Puppets are one of the only few things that actually unnerve Dave, which is a slow progression in canon from just being vaguely creeped out to an outright enraged outburst after being covered in them at one point. This may be caused in part by one puppet in particular called Lil' Cal, which happens to be present the room where Dave's dream self sleeps, causing the waking world Dave to sometimes have nightmares and wake up in a cold sweat.
So, of course, Bro finds ways to troll Dave with puppets all the damn time.
TG: dont tell john this but i think he might have been right about the puppets TG: theyre sort of starting to freak me out a little
TG: i mean dont get me wrong i think its cool and all TG: the semi-ironic puppet thing or whatever TG: or semi-semi ironic TG: man i dont even know TG: im just starting to think some of this shit is going a little far and its kind of fucked up
TG: oh man i wish lil cal wouldnt look at me like that TG: with those dead eyes jesus TG: sometimes i dream that hes real and hes talking to me and i wake up in a cold sweat and basically flip the fuck out
TG: oh god why did i just tell you my dream TG: youre going to have a field day with that
One of the other very few things that shake Dave's otherwise unshakeable composure is death. When handling it around others he maintains his flat and infallibly cool and calm demeanor, making quips about it and essentially being very roundabout in his feelings regarding it, but has been shown to be "unable to face" the notion of his own death, even when doing so would allow him to ascend to a higher level of power. Similarly, when he comes upon the corpse of an alternate version of himself during a time loop, he is visibly disturbed and cannot stop staring at the blood, and is also notably "freaked out" by having to dispose of his own body (by tossing it out a window and into a pit of lava). He also doesn't deal very well with the deaths of others, from the accidental maiming of a Rambunctious Crow ("no one can ever know about this") to discovering the bodies of his friends and, later on, Bro, impaled by his own sword. When asked if he is sad or broken up about it by Terezi he leads her on a completely roundabout and noncommittal wild goose chase without ever giving up an actual answer.
It's pretty apparent when he tries to break Bro's sword (saying that if he's going to remove it from Bro's body it has to come out horizontally in order to prevent more blood from spilling, which in itself denotes a significant amount of respect shown toward Bro that wasn't shown toward even his own dead bodies), though, and upon failing to do so, lets himself lay on the ground face-down and unhappily tells Terezi to leave him alone.
In Dave's book, downplaying feelings is the quintessential rule of cool. So it isn't that he doesn't have them or feel them very strongly—he just doesn't communicate them outright very well. His actions speak for themselves, but his words are a conundrum, a mixture of sarcastic and sincere and sometimes outright lies in order to save face. He hasn't been shown to completely lose it around anyone, and as long as he has a say in the matter, that's how it'll stay. Bro brought him up to be tough, to hold that unshakeable wit or bust, and Dave doesn't normally have a problem with doing so. In fact, outwardly, Dave reacts pretty well to the nightmare that is SBURB, though most of that is due to his arrogant tendency to flat out reject things that don't fit into his mold and will continue blindly pushing forward in whatever direction he's headed, regardless of whether this could put him into a bad spot.
TG: maybe i am supposed to be a hero and rise to the occasion because there seems to be this little persistent voice in my head nagging me about it TG: insisting someones gotta pay TG: and its hard for me to disagree
Some of that blindly pushing forward is caused in part by being an easily-influenced person. He takes cues from others to structure his idea of cool, but things like John's opinions and Terezi's influence on him have been shown to massively direct what he does, though he never makes a point of showing it or saying so. Dave may have a hard time remembering things, since he forgets what he's doing at the time during quite a few moments in the storyline (at one point he even forgets that he was supposed to forget something), but when he is set on a task, he is pretty dead set about it. Again, sometimes literally, because many of his alternate timeline selves are killed as a result of a generally bad decision or some poor advice that he followed (thanks a lot, Terezi). After finding Bro dead he expresses that he feels weird for being the only one angry enough to want to go after Jack Noir and make him, and other such mutinous agents, pay by "putting them in the slammer," and notes that each of his friends all have their own reasons for not dropping what they're doing to make this happen, whereas he himself feels that they should all quit tiptoeing around the big problem and face it head-on. A lot of this might be grief talking, but Dave later makes a point of wanting to be the one to sacrifice himself for his friends to put a stop to things, so, again, you never know when he's actually being serious.
On the subject of his friends, Dave is actually quite close to them, despite how detached he can be from them all at times. His three friends, Rose, Jade, and John, understand him in a way that doesn't need to be said, seeing both the good and bad qualities alike in him—and the reverse holds true as well. They influence him in many ways, as does Terezi, his "patron troll" and the only one that he really cares about at all. It's easy for Dave to joke around them whether they appreciate his humor or not and he has been shown to resort to texting them to "calm his neves" during a moment when a possible puppet-induced freakout is imminent—even if the person he's trying to contact isn't at their computer to take his messages, he will go on and on and on, babbling away (and has also been shown to awkwardly mumble to himself in a corner while hanging around people in person, too). He seems to share a number of interests with all of them, despite how often Dave berates them for liking stupid shit like Nic Cage movies and writing gay wizard fanfiction, and in turn they berate him for his weird interests, too, such as his lame self-photography; weirdly preserving dead things in jars; and rapping on the fly, to the point of almost being obnoxious. The four kids really care about each other a lot, and it says something about Dave in particular that he would be willing to give himself up for the rest of them, despite that his apparent fear of his own death.
TG: but i dont want you to die TG: this isnt right
So overall Dave is kind of a mess of tropes and notions of cool, shooting off pop culture references and starting some sick fires in the form of the noble art of slam poetry to get his point across (or just to fill the airspace, who knows). He does things "ironically," which is really just that something is uncool but treating it as cool therefore makes it ironic and subsequently cool in this way, and never seems to be able to take things seriously except for when he is, just ha-ha you can't tell if that's what if he's doing or if he's just being a jackass. He keeps his bizarrely candy red eyes hidden behind a pair of stylish shades and wears a heck of a slick suit, but there are lot of feelings going on beneath the surface there. Dave just doctors them up with tropes and irony labels before he lets them fly. And if it takes people awhile to get it—if they never get it, even—it's whatever. He's got plenty of time on his side.
Powers: Dave's ability to manipulate time will be dulled down to basically nothing, especially since he won't have access to his timetables—the mutated psychic abilities the game gives him will lend themselves to precognitive ability and psychometry.
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DW Journal:
Contact: aim @ dreams of prospit,
Current Characters: IM FIRST HA HA HA
Character Name: Dave Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post-A6I3
History: Recapped here.
Personality:
Powers: Dave's ability to manipulate time will be dulled down to basically nothing, especially since he won't have access to his timetables—the mutated psychic abilities the game gives him will lend themselves to precognitive ability and psychometry.
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