PLAYER Name: Ri Personal Journal:[Bad username or unknown identity: ”resplendentri”] E-mail: cheetah1090@yahoo.com AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: JoyBringer5002
CHARACTER Character Name: Dave Strider Canon: Homestuck Timeline: After his death (Aged: mid-50s)
Personality: For the most part, Dave in the alpha universe has similar personality traits to his beta universe self. Much like Dirk and Bro have similar interests despite vastly different upbringings, Dave Strider has a certain ineffable nature that stays the same no matter how he was raised. Much of that probably also has to do with the memories that Dave retained after the Scratch. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, in the pre-Scratch universe, was intended to be an ironically shitty webcomic, the manifestation of all of the lessons in irony that his Bro instilled in him in the pre-Scratch session. In the post-Scratch session, it becomes not only his livelihood, but also the source of his fame.
Despite what he would tell you, if there is one thing that Dave Strider is, it’s heroic. When the Batterwitch took over Earth, he dedicated the remainder of his life to fighting against her tyranny and making a difference. Ultimately, he didn’t, but his deeds were nonetheless recorded and remembered, and Dirk admires his acts.
Like Roxy, Dirk considers Dave to have been distant and somewhat neglectful. However, Dave did the best that he could. He knew that he would not live long enough to raise Dirk, and so he left the boy with everything necessary for him to be able to raise himself, and dedicated his life to trying to make the world safe for Dirk to grow up in. He left behind a legacy that would go down in history, and he told Dirk the truth about the Game and about how they were truly related. It’s obvious that even though he couldn’t be there to raise him, he still cared very much about his bro.
He wanted Dirk to remember him and know who he was, even though he had no idea when Dirk’s meteor would land. He left Dirk a collection of his films, as well as all of the knowledge that he possessed about the nature of the game that Dirk was destined to one day play.
Like his pre-Scratch counterpart, Dave is headstrong, diving determinedly into everything that he sets his mind to. An example of this would be when he fought the Juggalo presidents on top of the White House because it was the right thing to do. He isn’t afraid to die, unlike his pre-Scratch counterpart, which has more to do than the difference in maturity levels than anything else. Dave Strider is at least 50 years old at the time of the Mirthful Executives, and older still when he and Rose faced off against Her Imperious Condescension.
He is a designated Guardian of the post-Scratch session, even if he didn’t get to personally raise his charge. As such, he also has a lot of traits in common with his pre-Scratch guardian, Bro. Although he never got a chance to show it directly, he was motivated by the need to keep Dirk safe. He used all of the means that he had at his disposal to ensure this, and the few times that he is seen in canon are very reminiscent of Bro’s heroics throughout the pre-Scratch session, down to and including the way in which he died.
He is much more mature than pre-Scratch Dave, which has to do with the fact that post-Scratch Dave is into his fifties. Being admired and adored by critics has made him much less emotionally needy than his teenaged counterpart, and he is much more legitimately self-assured, with a lot less cocky teenage bravado. However, he is still obstinately bloody-minded, and he will pursue his goals to the bitter end. He is willing to die trying to make a difference in the world for Dirk, a determination that his pre-Scratch self was unable to match until Rose went on a suicide mission to the Green Sun.
History: In the Post-Scratch universe, the meteor that carried baby Dave crashed on earth around the late 1970s or early 1980s, near Houston, Texas. Because he was an unnatural baby with no parents who crash-landed in a meteor, he was put in the Texan foster care system. Like the Sufferer in post-Scratch Alternia, Dave retained some of his memories from the game. Among these memories was Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, which was actually his creation from the Pre-Scratch universe, with influence from Terezi.
When he grew up, he made a name for himself with SBaHJ, and wound up a famous director. He still possesses the shades from Starsky and Hutch that were such an important part of his pre-Scratch image, only in the post-Scratch universe they were a gift from Ben Stiller himself, rather than from John. This was not the only piece of movie memorabilia that Dave collected. In fact, he built a private museum of movie memorabilia (devoted to the art of irony), in which he displayed the stuffed rabbit from Con Air, the same rabbit that Dave gave John for his birthday in the Beta universe (and that subsequently has made its rounds through two universes and the hands of all 8 kids in one way or another). In fact, Dirk tells us that he had a brief obsession with Con Air, which is another example of the memories that he retained from the pre-Scratch session, since John’s favourite movie was Con Air.
He also, along with the memories that he retained, possessed insider knowledge of his new role in the game. He knew that one day, he was supposed to be the guardian for one of the heroes of the new session. However, due to temporal shenanigans, he never got the opportunity to do so. The meteors carrying Dirk and Roxy were inexplicably delayed by four centuries, leaving Dave and Rose guardians with no charges. Dave therefore devoted himself to his films. He knew the true nature of the Baroness of Crockercorp, and the SBaHJ films all contain symbolism that point toward the threat that she represented for Earth. Eventually, his studio was engaged in all-out media war with Crockercorp. Donald Glover won an Academy Award for his role as Geromy in SBaHJ the Moivie, but was assassinated by the Batterwitch.
Dave also developed the technology to create real life JPEG artifacts which, even though no one bought them, are so inexpensive to make that they in fact made a profit being created. After a while there was a surplus of shitty JPEG artifacts that absolutely nobody wanted. So he came up with the bright idea to launch all of them into the sun in order to get rid of them. However, a few survived, including a sord in Dirk’s room and an Unreal Air that stayed in Dave’s possession.
When Her Imperious Condescension placed the Mirthful Executives in charge, Dave had had enough. He confronted them directly for a duel. They agreed, and he approached them on top of the White House. He then proceeded to hand them their asses in truly epic fashion, finishing them off with one swing of his sword. Dirk describes it as “one of the most heroic moments in human history.” After the battle, he mounted the Unreal Air and floated off into the sky, disappearing from the history books.
However, that isn’t where his story ends. He and post-Scratch Rose, who also did her part in taking out the puppet government put in place by Her Imperious Condescension, stood up against the alien tyrant. Her strength was too much for them, however, and she murdered both of them. Dave died impaled by his own sword, which was broken off in his chest.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Strengths Despite the fact that he’s getting up there in years, one of Dave’s greatest assets is his speed and agility in combat. A holdover from his pre-Scratch training, it’s one of the biggest advantages that he has, in complement to his swordkind specibus. As far as mental strengths go, he’s intelligent and witty. His films were drenched thoroughly in anti-Crockercorp symbolism, but the critics all failed to come up with solid evidence until after the Batterwitch was revealed. He is resilient and determined. When there is a job to be done, he will see it through with single-minded obstinacy or die in the effort.
Weaknesses His obstinacy also gets him into trouble, because he can put on his blinders and become completely single-minded about a task, which is not always the best solution. By far, however, his greatest weakness is Dirk. It’s probably a good thing that he never actually had the chance to be Dirk’s Guardian, officially, in the post-Scratch universe. In a way, even though Dirk’s meteor wasn’t going to land for another four hundred years, Dave still found a way to die trying to protect him. If Dirk was in danger and there was something that Dave could do about, he would stop at absolutely nothing to protect him. Even in another universe, he’s following the example that pre-Scratch Bro set for him for how to be a good guardian, a Bro that Dirk can be proud of, even if Dave couldn’t be there to raise him.
Abilities: Dave is an excellent swordsman. He destroyed the Mirthful Executives in one swing of his sword. He’s also creative and technologically talented. He patented new technologies to make the real JPEG artefacts, and his unique system of delivering films (part of the experience, supposedly) was downright brilliant. He does NOT seem to possess any of his time-altering abilities from the pre-Scratch session.
Relationships to Canon Characters: Dirk Strider – Dave was supposed to be his guardian, but Dirk was temporally displaced by a few centuries. Still, Dave prepared his apartment for Dirk’s arrival, presumably just before going off on a suicide mission to fight the Batterwitch. Dave Strider – His pre-Scratch self Rose Lalonde – His ecto-sister; her alpha universe self fought and died alongside him against Her Imperious Condescension. He also remembers the other Beta kids to some degree, particularly John.
First Person: so how does this thing work exactly oh this must be speech to text that button is handy as fuck ill have to keep note of that handsfree communication is the way of the future or also this shithole whatever the fuck it is
where is everyone? can anyone actually read this or am i just making an ass of myself wouldnt be the first time honestly haven’t seen a single fucking soul around here if anyones out there the names dave strider you might have heard of me then again you might not far be it from me to judge your taste in movies
Third Person: The last thing that he remembered was searing pain. The sharp pain of the sword being pushed deep through his gut, so hard that it snapped roughly in two. It had been a lingering, aching death, a slow bleeding out, and he had had plenty of time to consider everything that he had lost. His life, his goals...his sister. Rose’s death had been much shorter than his own, and he could only watch, helplessly pinned to the ground, as the life seeped out of her.
And what had he gained? Absolutely nothing. He and Rose had taken out the heads of the puppet government that the Baroness put into place, but in the long run that wouldn’t do any good at all. The Baroness would simply replace them with someone else. Someone worse, potentially.
Dave lay there with his face frozen in a grimace of pain, blood rattling in his throat with every shaky breath, for god only knew how long, as it got harder and harder to focus – harder and harder to breathe - and all that he could think about, by the end, was how badly he had failed the one person who was counting on him more than anything. His final shaking breath came out in a sob, and then Dave Strider was no more.
But almost as soon as the darkness had closed in around him, he was jolted awake again. And this time, he was seated on a train, rolling quietly through the countryside. There was no physical pain – there was a phantom throb in his gut from where the sword had pierced him, but it passed as soon as he saw that it was no longer there. It didn’t make any sense. Why was he still alive? It was impossible that he had just dreamt it. If anything, being on the train suddenly was what felt more like a dream, like an afterlife right out of one of Rose’s elaborate wizard books. When the train rolled through an impossibly dense fog, it definitely didn’t do anything to erase the sinking feeling that he was on a one-way trip to Somewhere Else.
Finally, the train slowed. A grey sort of civilisation rose slowly out of the fog, casting a darkened pall over everything. It creaked to a halt and stayed there for longer than it should. Dave slowly made his way to the door, feeling like the train was just waiting for him to leave. When he stepped out onto the platform, just as alone as while he’d been riding it, he decided that that must mean that he had made it to Somewhere Else. He must’ve really fucked up if his afterlife was a desolate wasteland.
Oh well, shame to waste it, anyway. He might as well start exploring.
{[FANDOM OC] Dave Strider (Post-Scratch) || Homestuck || no reserve || 1/1}
Name: Ri
Personal Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”resplendentri”]
E-mail: cheetah1090@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: JoyBringer5002
CHARACTER
Character Name: Dave Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: After his death (Aged: mid-50s)
Personality: For the most part, Dave in the alpha universe has similar personality traits to his beta universe self. Much like Dirk and Bro have similar interests despite vastly different upbringings, Dave Strider has a certain ineffable nature that stays the same no matter how he was raised. Much of that probably also has to do with the memories that Dave retained after the Scratch. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, in the pre-Scratch universe, was intended to be an ironically shitty webcomic, the manifestation of all of the lessons in irony that his Bro instilled in him in the pre-Scratch session. In the post-Scratch session, it becomes not only his livelihood, but also the source of his fame.
Despite what he would tell you, if there is one thing that Dave Strider is, it’s heroic. When the Batterwitch took over Earth, he dedicated the remainder of his life to fighting against her tyranny and making a difference. Ultimately, he didn’t, but his deeds were nonetheless recorded and remembered, and Dirk admires his acts.
Like Roxy, Dirk considers Dave to have been distant and somewhat neglectful. However, Dave did the best that he could. He knew that he would not live long enough to raise Dirk, and so he left the boy with everything necessary for him to be able to raise himself, and dedicated his life to trying to make the world safe for Dirk to grow up in. He left behind a legacy that would go down in history, and he told Dirk the truth about the Game and about how they were truly related. It’s obvious that even though he couldn’t be there to raise him, he still cared very much about his bro.
He wanted Dirk to remember him and know who he was, even though he had no idea when Dirk’s meteor would land. He left Dirk a collection of his films, as well as all of the knowledge that he possessed about the nature of the game that Dirk was destined to one day play.
Like his pre-Scratch counterpart, Dave is headstrong, diving determinedly into everything that he sets his mind to. An example of this would be when he fought the Juggalo presidents on top of the White House because it was the right thing to do. He isn’t afraid to die, unlike his pre-Scratch counterpart, which has more to do than the difference in maturity levels than anything else. Dave Strider is at least 50 years old at the time of the Mirthful Executives, and older still when he and Rose faced off against Her Imperious Condescension.
He is a designated Guardian of the post-Scratch session, even if he didn’t get to personally raise his charge. As such, he also has a lot of traits in common with his pre-Scratch guardian, Bro. Although he never got a chance to show it directly, he was motivated by the need to keep Dirk safe. He used all of the means that he had at his disposal to ensure this, and the few times that he is seen in canon are very reminiscent of Bro’s heroics throughout the pre-Scratch session, down to and including the way in which he died.
He is much more mature than pre-Scratch Dave, which has to do with the fact that post-Scratch Dave is into his fifties. Being admired and adored by critics has made him much less emotionally needy than his teenaged counterpart, and he is much more legitimately self-assured, with a lot less cocky teenage bravado. However, he is still obstinately bloody-minded, and he will pursue his goals to the bitter end. He is willing to die trying to make a difference in the world for Dirk, a determination that his pre-Scratch self was unable to match until Rose went on a suicide mission to the Green Sun.
History: In the Post-Scratch universe, the meteor that carried baby Dave crashed on earth around the late 1970s or early 1980s, near Houston, Texas. Because he was an unnatural baby with no parents who crash-landed in a meteor, he was put in the Texan foster care system. Like the Sufferer in post-Scratch Alternia, Dave retained some of his memories from the game. Among these memories was Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, which was actually his creation from the Pre-Scratch universe, with influence from Terezi.
When he grew up, he made a name for himself with SBaHJ, and wound up a famous director. He still possesses the shades from Starsky and Hutch that were such an important part of his pre-Scratch image, only in the post-Scratch universe they were a gift from Ben Stiller himself, rather than from John. This was not the only piece of movie memorabilia that Dave collected. In fact, he built a private museum of movie memorabilia (devoted to the art of irony), in which he displayed the stuffed rabbit from Con Air, the same rabbit that Dave gave John for his birthday in the Beta universe (and that subsequently has made its rounds through two universes and the hands of all 8 kids in one way or another). In fact, Dirk tells us that he had a brief obsession with Con Air, which is another example of the memories that he retained from the pre-Scratch session, since John’s favourite movie was Con Air.
He also, along with the memories that he retained, possessed insider knowledge of his new role in the game. He knew that one day, he was supposed to be the guardian for one of the heroes of the new session. However, due to temporal shenanigans, he never got the opportunity to do so. The meteors carrying Dirk and Roxy were inexplicably delayed by four centuries, leaving Dave and Rose guardians with no charges. Dave therefore devoted himself to his films. He knew the true nature of the Baroness of Crockercorp, and the SBaHJ films all contain symbolism that point toward the threat that she represented for Earth. Eventually, his studio was engaged in all-out media war with Crockercorp. Donald Glover won an Academy Award for his role as Geromy in SBaHJ the Moivie, but was assassinated by the Batterwitch.
Dave also developed the technology to create real life JPEG artifacts which, even though no one bought them, are so inexpensive to make that they in fact made a profit being created. After a while there was a surplus of shitty JPEG artifacts that absolutely nobody wanted. So he came up with the bright idea to launch all of them into the sun in order to get rid of them. However, a few survived, including a sord in Dirk’s room and an Unreal Air that stayed in Dave’s possession.
When Her Imperious Condescension placed the Mirthful Executives in charge, Dave had had enough. He confronted them directly for a duel. They agreed, and he approached them on top of the White House. He then proceeded to hand them their asses in truly epic fashion, finishing them off with one swing of his sword. Dirk describes it as “one of the most heroic moments in human history.” After the battle, he mounted the Unreal Air and floated off into the sky, disappearing from the history books.
However, that isn’t where his story ends. He and post-Scratch Rose, who also did her part in taking out the puppet government put in place by Her Imperious Condescension, stood up against the alien tyrant. Her strength was too much for them, however, and she murdered both of them. Dave died impaled by his own sword, which was broken off in his chest.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
Despite the fact that he’s getting up there in years, one of Dave’s greatest assets is his speed and agility in combat. A holdover from his pre-Scratch training, it’s one of the biggest advantages that he has, in complement to his swordkind specibus. As far as mental strengths go, he’s intelligent and witty. His films were drenched thoroughly in anti-Crockercorp symbolism, but the critics all failed to come up with solid evidence until after the Batterwitch was revealed. He is resilient and determined. When there is a job to be done, he will see it through with single-minded obstinacy or die in the effort.
Weaknesses
His obstinacy also gets him into trouble, because he can put on his blinders and become completely single-minded about a task, which is not always the best solution. By far, however, his greatest weakness is Dirk. It’s probably a good thing that he never actually had the chance to be Dirk’s Guardian, officially, in the post-Scratch universe. In a way, even though Dirk’s meteor wasn’t going to land for another four hundred years, Dave still found a way to die trying to protect him. If Dirk was in danger and there was something that Dave could do about, he would stop at absolutely nothing to protect him. Even in another universe, he’s following the example that pre-Scratch Bro set for him for how to be a good guardian, a Bro that Dirk can be proud of, even if Dave couldn’t be there to raise him.
Abilities: Dave is an excellent swordsman. He destroyed the Mirthful Executives in one swing of his sword. He’s also creative and technologically talented. He patented new technologies to make the real JPEG artefacts, and his unique system of delivering films (part of the experience, supposedly) was downright brilliant. He does NOT seem to possess any of his time-altering abilities from the pre-Scratch session.
Relationships to Canon Characters: Dirk Strider – Dave was supposed to be his guardian, but Dirk was temporally displaced by a few centuries. Still, Dave prepared his apartment for Dirk’s arrival, presumably just before going off on a suicide mission to fight the Batterwitch.
Dave Strider – His pre-Scratch self
Rose Lalonde – His ecto-sister; her alpha universe self fought and died alongside him against Her Imperious Condescension.
He also remembers the other Beta kids to some degree, particularly John.
First Person:
so how does this thing work exactly
oh this must be speech to text
that button is handy as fuck ill have to keep note of that
handsfree communication is the way of the future
or also this shithole whatever the fuck it is
where is everyone?
can anyone actually read this or am i just making an ass of myself
wouldnt be the first time honestly
haven’t seen a single fucking soul around here
if anyones out there the names dave strider
you might have heard of me
then again you might not
far be it from me to judge your taste in movies
Third Person: The last thing that he remembered was searing pain. The sharp pain of the sword being pushed deep through his gut, so hard that it snapped roughly in two. It had been a lingering, aching death, a slow bleeding out, and he had had plenty of time to consider everything that he had lost. His life, his goals...his sister. Rose’s death had been much shorter than his own, and he could only watch, helplessly pinned to the ground, as the life seeped out of her.
And what had he gained? Absolutely nothing. He and Rose had taken out the heads of the puppet government that the Baroness put into place, but in the long run that wouldn’t do any good at all. The Baroness would simply replace them with someone else. Someone worse, potentially.
Dave lay there with his face frozen in a grimace of pain, blood rattling in his throat with every shaky breath, for god only knew how long, as it got harder and harder to focus – harder and harder to breathe - and all that he could think about, by the end, was how badly he had failed the one person who was counting on him more than anything. His final shaking breath came out in a sob, and then Dave Strider was no more.
But almost as soon as the darkness had closed in around him, he was jolted awake again. And this time, he was seated on a train, rolling quietly through the countryside. There was no physical pain – there was a phantom throb in his gut from where the sword had pierced him, but it passed as soon as he saw that it was no longer there. It didn’t make any sense. Why was he still alive? It was impossible that he had just dreamt it. If anything, being on the train suddenly was what felt more like a dream, like an afterlife right out of one of Rose’s elaborate wizard books. When the train rolled through an impossibly dense fog, it definitely didn’t do anything to erase the sinking feeling that he was on a one-way trip to Somewhere Else.
Finally, the train slowed. A grey sort of civilisation rose slowly out of the fog, casting a darkened pall over everything. It creaked to a halt and stayed there for longer than it should. Dave slowly made his way to the door, feeling like the train was just waiting for him to leave. When he stepped out onto the platform, just as alone as while he’d been riding it, he decided that that must mean that he had made it to Somewhere Else. He must’ve really fucked up if his afterlife was a desolate wasteland.
Oh well, shame to waste it, anyway. He might as well start exploring.