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[knightime]

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Name: Kim
Personal Journal: raku
Age: 21
Contact Info: rakuranger@plurk; rakuranger@aim
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Character Information

Character Name: Dave Strider
Character Series: Homestuck
Character Age: 13
Character Gender: Male
Original Canon
Canon Point: End of Act 6 Intermission 1
Background Link: MSPA Wikia
Personality: The first thing you need to know is that Dave is your stereotypical cool kid. He's the type of kid you would see at school and who would be considered popular. No seriously, this kid is so damn cool that he makes the hottest Summers feel like a cool Fall with his coolness. Ok, we're getting off track.

But Dave's coolness seems to make it so he's calm and collected in any given situation. He stays level-headed even in the strangest of situations. Such examples would be SBURB or the apparent destruction of their world. He didn't seem at all bothered, but took to getting into action as soon as he could. Even the thought of time travel and having multiple versions of himself running about didn't seem to bother him so much. He was more invested in actually getting things done. This makes Dave a reliable guy. He was able to help Jade understand everything when she entered the realm. But just because Dave is usually level-headed doesn't mean he doesn't lose his cool. Although it seems that he has a high tolerance before freaking out, Dave has showed himself losing his cool. It's just, it isn't until he's lost his cool that he flies completely off the proverbial handle. Such an example was when a pile of puppets fall on Dave and he completely freaks out over it or starts to be extremely melodramatic about things. It's most likely due to looking stupid, as Dave strives so hard to be cool, looking dumb would probably bother him a lot. Usually, he keeps his nonchalant attitude in check most of the time.

Despite being really cool, or at least trying to be really cool, Dave seems to be easily influenced. Or at least, John seems to easily influence him. An example is when John mentions how creepy Bro's puppets are. Dave had never had a problem with Bro's puppets up until John mentioned they were creepy. After that, Dave suddenly found Bro's obsession with puppets to be unsettling and found them creepy himself. It could be that because Dave wants to be so cool, that he is easily influenced by other things and people around him. It could also be that despite being cool or despite thinking he's cool, he's only as cool as people think he is. Because of this, he probably gets easily swayed by the opinions of others. His want to be really fucking cool means that what people think should be heavily considered, and as his friends are important to him, what they think about things are probably important to him. He wants to be perceived as someone admirable while still someone you can relate to. His age might also be something to consider. As someone who's thirteen, you might not realize certain things until it's pointed out, and at his age, younger people are susceptible to different influences.

Dave is also rather brilliant. Of course some may be annoyed with how he thinks, but Dave seems to understand the mechanics of things rather swiftly. He has shown this since the beginning, having his modus already set and having one of the most advanced sylladices at that time. He also uses a higher Pesterchum version then John was using. His ability to learn the mechanics of things quickly really helps Jade out for example. John, who was Jade's original server player, could not continue that role at some point. Dave had Jade deply the INTELLIBEAM LASERSTATION and copy the server discs so that he could become her new server player. From that point on, he deployed the equipment she needed. Equipment that were highly upgraded, since he was farther ahead in the game then she was. Dave is one of the only kids who seemed to invest himself fully in the mechanics, being the one responsible for actually connecting their session to the troll session. Although the trolls had contacted them before they actually started the session, Dave had sent a hefty amount of Boondollars to the trolls, making them aware of their existence. His fetch modi is also based off a data structure type and he seems to be fairly knowledgeable of captchaloguing in general.

A big part of Dave is that Dave likes to be ironic. Maybe he has to be ironic. Either way, he's constantly doing and saying things for the sake of being ironic. Such cases is wearing the shades he received and drawing ironic comics, although a lot of this is also influenced by Bro, who he respects and highly regards. The gifts he's sent his friends before are supposed to be ironic, although there's a more sincere feeling to them then he lets off.

Oddly enough though, Dave can be rather forgetful. It's quite strange. Such a cool guy and being as intelligent as he is, he often forgets a multitude of things ranging from unimportant to important. He'll forget things like his place in MS Paint Adventures to even the fact that he has his timetables and can therefore travel through time. He'll even set Sylladex traps, forget them, and spring them on himself.

Dave can act like a bit of an arrogant ass, knowing that he's as cool as he makes himself out to be (he tells John to take notes on how to be cool from him) or saying and doing things that annoy others. Despite that, he's a good kid and he obviously cares for those he cares for. He obviously regards them well or he wouldn't take the time or day to contact them personally, and he's shown to care. He obviously shows that he regards John highly, as the other easily influences his own thoughts and he sometimes goes to Rose about some of the anxieties he has sometimes. He also seems to speak to Rose quite often, even if he finds her annoying sometimes. He even seems to find Jade fine, even if the way she types is usually a target for cool people to pick on. Examples would be the Doomed timeline where John gets himself killed. His alternate self had threatened Terezi to back off from John, since it was her fault it happened. Another moment is when Rose and Dave are deciding who was to go on the suicide mission and Dave volunteered to.

He also has trouble facing his own mortality. Even though he probably knew that his alternate self that was sleeping on his quest bed was doomed anyways, he couldn't bring himself to kill the alternate Dave. He also spends a good amount of time staring at another dead version of himself, who he eventually throws out his window to avoid freaking out Jade. He does freak out, himself, as he figures out how he was to dispose of the body.

So really, Dave isn't actually that super coolkid that has bitches all over him. He pretends to be, but he's really kind of dorky. He's cool in his own way, but not the way he thinks he's cool. Almost everyone sees through it too. Dave is kind of an asshole, but he's got a good heart and head on him.

Abilities: Dave is really your usual teenager. Well, okay, he isn't. But he's not superhuman. He can fight well though, being one of the more experienced fighters in his Session. He's spent a good portion of his life fighting on the rooftop with his Bro. He's quick and skilled, but not superhuman.

The session, however, has given him some rather fascinating powers. As the Knight of Time, Dave has control over the timeline. Dave can travel freely through time. But it isn't just a walk in the park. He has to be careful. Everytime he travels through time, he creates a time loop. The loop can either be a stable time loop or it can lead to a Doomed timeline. If the time loop is stable, the Dave traveling through that loop eventually becomes Alpha!Dave. So there can be hundreds of Alpha Daves running around at once, but they'll all eventually become one person. Dave is mostly seen traveling back in time. Because he's the time traveler, he's also been in session the longest, being able to travel back and forth.

Dave's power also extends past traveling time and he can freeze time around people. He hasn't actually been shown using the power, but Aradia was shown freezing time around Jack Noir. Since both of them hold the same title and were in charge of the same thing for their separate sessions, it can be assumed that Dave can also do this, but has had no reason to use it yet.
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ok
cool
i can tick kidnapped to some crazy fucking ass tower of my list of shit that hasnt happened to me yet
gonna be straight up honest with you guys
this was not something i was exactly expecting to actually happen to me
thanks for the creepy fucking welcome though
i should probably mention
that my world already got fucked over by some flaming giant rocks already
so really
this is pretty redundant
unless you mean the stupid meteor i was chillaxing on
got destroyed too
but that isnt so much of a world as its like a really cool car
seriously
also
it would have been nice if you have taken lalonde with me
pretty rude
taking the coolkid and leaving that psychoanalyzing broad
to deal with a bunch of trolls
all by herself
rude much???
so sup guys
strider is in the tower and it aint a party
till im here