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Name: Lucy
Contact: lucylovespluto
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Character Info

Character's Name: Dave Strider
Character's Canon: Homestuck
Character's Age: 16
Canon Point: [S] Game Over
Background/History: i'll spare you a sbahj quote

Strengths:

CHILL: While he frequently commentates on how bullshit his own universe and situation is, Dave is fairly even-tempered and go-with-the-flow. He's dug his heels in on shit a few times (most notably when Jade was trying to get him to time travel for evil training) but is more often willing to kind of just cave on whatever and/or deal with whatever comes his way. He's good at adapting to bullshit, and generally Dave gets along with most people; even when he doesn't, he doesn't seem to get angry all that often but instead just occasionally indulges in internet troll tendencies, winding people up. There are a few examples of him generally getting upset in comic, but he tends to keep it to himself (or tries to) or just doesn't confront people about whatever that often; he's fairly non-confrontational and more than willing to let anyone else take on the leader role as long as they don't, like, ask him to murder babies or something obviously "no?" worthy. He never really tries to snag the leader role for himself, although he does actively work towards getting shit done; Dave's actually more a team player when it comes to action than he isn't, preferring to work with the Betas and later the trolls.

INTELLIGENT: Dave is actually a smart dude, but tends to apply his clever nature to sort of inane shit when he isn't using his brains to find loopholes or to get around new obstacles. He's not a scholar by trade like Rose, but instead is sort of functionally intelligent and savvy, and he uses it to roll with the punches. He tends to display knowledge on a wide variety of topics (though he admits he considers this "faking it") and unlike other characters never seems to have trouble understanding game mechanics. He's good at picking things up on the go and is excellent at finding and abusing loopholes and cheat codes.

HEROIC: Though he definitely doesn't consider himself a hero, Dave is one. It may be more of a weakness by some standards since he 100% will always throw his life down for other people without a second's thought (see: arguing about why he should be the one to take the green sun suicide mission, and then stubbornly sharing it with Rose instead of leaving her to it), but Dave is pretty much always willing to help and do what has to be done even if he complains about it or acts reluctant at times. Dave's the stereotypical hero in ways he will never acknowledge: self-sacrifical, loyal, and dedicated as fuck.

Weaknesses:

AWKWARD: Dave is also just really fucking awkward sometimes. A lot of it is verbal awkwardness. Dave basically has no filter, and tends to engage in a sort of flow-of-consciousness commentary style conversation rather than anything else. A lot of times no one else even has to be involved, as he finds his own voice soothing and will just wander around muttering to himself at length without even really noticing he's doing it. Beyond that, he tends to be a little touchy and weird about certain things (read: his brother) and cagey about yet others, and once you get to know him he comes off as less cool and more dorky and sort of a disaster.

DICKISH: Dave Strider can be a jackass. He likes to troll people (he actually manages to get one of the trolls to block him during the whole troll-the-humans campaign because he made the guy so uncomfortable just by spouting bullshit at him) to a certain degree of just messing around with them for kicks, and he's frequently sarcastic and deadpan. He riles people up on purpose sometimes and isn't particularly apologetic about it. However, Dave also is an inherently decent dude. He admits that Karkat, for example, is fun to mess with, but says he'd never want to actually upset the guy and that there's a line. This comes across in most of his conversations - whenever someone he cares about seems to be getting genuinely seriously upset, he'll usually back off or flip to serious if he was joking around previously. That said, he tends to give into his trolling/sarcastic instincts pretty often.

INSECURE: Growing up in the tender care of his Bro (read: actual child abuse and neglect) had a lot of effect on him - beyond the whole worrying about being a good guy and not wanting to be a hero and hating fighting (although he will always fight when he needs to) and being kind of messed up in other ways, Dave is pretty fucking insecure and is extremely clingy and attention-starved. He frequently bothers his friends for attention, and poor Rose Lalonde gets a fuckton of this on the meteor. Dave even at one point asks if he can go along with Rose on one of her dates with Kanaya, and otherwise just kind of invites himself into her vicinity and starts rambling at her. This is a thing that hasn't really changed since he was thirteen - once Dave likes someone (and it is so easy to get him to start paying attention to you, because you just have to give him some sort of vaguely positive attention and you're in, like Terezi managed) he's unlikely to ever leave them the fuck alone. He is a loquacious friendship barnacle, attached to you for life.

Powers/Abilities:

• In the non-ridiculous normal abilities section: Dave is good at mixing music, amateur photography, and making terrible comics. He's also really fucking amazing at building things (or at least building houses upwards) and is able to handle computers/technology in the sense he's a capable user (he does not build or code anything). He also likes to rap a lot.

• Dave can utilize a hammerspace storage system known as a sylladex. His fetch modus is the hash map.

• Dave's strife specibus is 1/2 bladekind and bladekind. This means he uses swords as his weapon of choice (and also broken swords).

• He's an excellent combatant, having been trained from basically birth to fight someday by his anime ninja older bro. Beyond the ninja-esque speed and flashstepping (which he could do even as a baby, wtf - also, flashstep is basically teleport spam without the teleporting), he's just pretty good at sword fighting and is very much a combat pragmatist, going so far as to use Jade as a shield against Jack once he figured out Jack wouldn't hurt Jade.

• As the Knight of Time, Dave is able to manipulate the flow of time and is (according to another time player) a "powerful warrior class who uses the flow of time as a weapon". He is shown to be able to hop through time (and to be able to hop himself and EVERYONE ELSE forward through time 5000+ years, what the fuck), but in a way that he has to maintain a series of stable timeloops unless he wants to stack up a shitload of doomed Daves. Dead Daves are the enemy, man - and to explain that, any Dave that isn't part of a stable time loop (i.e. Dave at some point in the future backtracks and becomes that Dave) is fated to die because...time travel. In battle, Dave's time manipulation is shown to allow him to flashstep all over the fucking place and/or spam himself in battle (he can flashstep normally, but adding time travel to it makes it Worse) and backtrack the fuck up if one of his allies goes down, to "fix" things (shown in stellar stereo when he teams up with the Seer of Mind, who can see the best way to rewind). Another time player is shown to be able to freeze an enemy in place, and apparently time players are really fucking good at managing their time shit (if they aren't, they're p much dead), so Dave tends to have a pretty good grasp on timelines and consequences and when and where he is; I generally play him with an exact internal clock.

• As a god tier player, Dave is conditionally immortal. Unless his death is deemed Just or Heroic, he will simply revive. For the canon unfamiliar, a Just death comes after you do something/a lot of things villainous enough that your death is considered Just; a Heroic death is the opposite, and if you die doing something Heroic you're shit out of luck. The other abilities that all god tier players receive also apply to him, and those are the ability to fly/float, and the ability to change into his god tier pajamas at will. Said pajamas are magic in the sense that they are apparently always clean even if not laundered, and they're super comfy.

• He can apparently breathe in space? Since he flies around in legitimate outer space sometimes? SO THAT'S A THING.

Other Noteworthy Traits: He mumbles under his breath a lot and really fucking hates puppets.
Weapons & Other Special Inventory:

ON HAND:
-knight of time godtier clothes which are apparently magically self-laundering (i don't know! why the fuck! they also apparently grow with the kids??? they wear these things for three years fairly constantly. WHY)
-ben stiller shades
-caledfwlch (his sword)
-for some godforsaken reason a wrist comm with a foam butt on it, which muffles anything coming out of the comm. the wrist comm works better without the foam butt on it but like. #aesthetic
-iphone and headphones, presumably his charger
-timetables, apparently (they're...floating records he sometimes but does not always use for time travel. THEY BASICALLY SHOW UP TO LOOK HELLA, AND DO NOTHING ELSE? #aesthetic)
-it's safe to assume he has his timetop or some other computer in his sylladex but idc if he doesn't have it on hand in game. it's a computer "with time related powers, you guess?" but basically is just His Computer. it has nothing special on it except probably various sbahj comic files and a music mixing program and shit?

ONE REASONABLE EXTRA ITEM:
-i want his stupid captcharoid camera, it is functionally probably completely useless

Color: RED. #e00707 red if possible. Dave's color-coded that specific shade of red in his canon; it's everything from his eye color to his text color to That Color He Wears A Lot.

Sample: TDM link here!

[ OPTIONAL ] World Aspect: Dream bubbles are kinda cool? They're like. Shared dream sequences, although (hilariously) they are physical things too sometimes so you can just be going into it physically (against your will usually) and there are people dreaming there, and people who are dead, and people who went in normally/physically. Being Homestuck this sometimes results in people physically being in the bubbles, falling asleep, and being able to stand there staring at their actual body as they are a dream hologram projection. IDK, Homestuck does what it does.

Alternately if that's like not viable by all means torture Dave with smuppets.