Post by turntechgodhead on Sept 7, 2011 0:24:11 GMT -4
~Character Info~
Name: Dave Strider
Series: Homestuck
Gender: Male
Age and year: 15, fifth year
Appearance: Dave is a tallish, skinny (some would say gawky) boy in his mid-teens. He has very pale skin, light blonde hair, and mildly unsettling red eyes that are constantly covered by his shades. He has a near-constant poker face that rarely alters. His voice is cool, with a distinct drawl to it, and he says almost everything in the same bored, sarcastic tone.
Personality: Dave is, above and beyond all else, a coolkid. He is obsessed with being as 'ironic' as possible, and is rarely sincere with his feelings. Nearly all of his comments are sarcastic, facetious, or vulgar, with most being all three. He frequently makes pop-culture references and goes off on tangents detailing weird metaphors. He comes off as an insufferable prick, and certainly doesn't go out of his way to make friends. Overall, Dave just doesn't care - unless he's caring ironically. However, he's not quite the jaded badass he pretends to be. He cares deeply for his friends, and is secretly terrified of Bro's puppet pornography and horrible ventriloquist doll.
Dave's relationships with others tend to be eccentric but positive. He looks up to his "Bro" (who is biologically and practically his father) to a great extent, and most of his behavior is in imitation of his Bro, including the shades, the rapping, the katana, and the ironic website - Dave is the writer of an intentional horrible webcomic called Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. He seems very close to Rose, John, and Jade, despite his occasional abuse, and. Although he tries not to let people know that he cares, he is a deeply loyal person. The closest he comes to an emotional breakdown is after he finds Bro's body, and he goes off on Terezi for "accidentally" tricking John into an untimely death, even though the horrible future never came to actually pass. He's also very protective of Rose, trying to save her from her own suicidal planning, and does his best to help out Jade with her frog project.
Dave's title in Sburb is the Knight of Time, and he lives up to it well. He probably gets the most use out of his powers, setting up and carefully executing complicated time loops in order to accomplish his goals. His attitude of not caring also serves him well here; he doesn't think hard enough about how all this time travel actually works to get confused by all the paradoxes he's planning out. It also allows him to blow off the frequent Dead Daves that start appearing when he screws up, although not as much as he'd like people to think. He bonds very quickly with Terezi, in part because she's not afraid to give him as much crap as he gives everyone else, and in part because their personalities fit together in exciting and terrifying ways. In Sburb, it's shown that despite his cold exterior he really does care. He's not just apathetic, either; he's also fairly selfless, taking setbacks in stride. That doesn't mean he's any less rude and snarky; he particularly loves reverse-trolling the more high-strung of the trolls, and is partially responsible for a huge catastrophe because of it.
Canon history: This explains it more fully than I ever could, but Dave is one of the main characters of Homestuck. He was created using DNA from paradox slimes of Bro and Rose's Mom, and traveled back in time on a meteor where Bro found him. Bro raised him to be as cool and ironic as possible, frequently bordering on rather neglectful behavior. He has an eccentric but regular lifestyle, until he uploads the Sburb beta, and finds himself playing a game designed to create a new universe.
~AU Info~
AU history: The Strider family was once a prestigious wizarding family, but their reputation, and the money needed to maintain it, disappeared generations ago. When Aldrich Strider died, his son Brian discovered that all the family had left was a run-down mansion and a ton of gambling debts. Brian sold the former in order to get rid of the latter, and was forced to move into a tiny flat in a Muggle neighborhood in London, where he tried to start a career as an experimental artist. However, Brian was barely out of his teens, and his taste for older women tended to end up getting him in trouble. Brian was too cool to let anything bother him, though, until he found himself in a situation no amount of charm could get him out of.
Dave was more or less left his doorstep, with an angry note and a paternity test the only explanations for his appearance. Brian was determined to be the best father he could be, but his lack of experience and... controversial artwork, which tended to feature animated puppets in compromising positions, were not the ideal environment for a baby. In spite of the cheap swords and smuppets, Dave grew up the best he could, idolizing Brian, who he refers to as "Bro". Bro became a moderately well-known wizarding modern artist (meaning approximately 200 people knew who he was), and the Striders were able to move up in the world somewhat. Dave became infatuated with Muggle culture; even though he grew up a wizard, he's more familiar with a computer or turntables than a quill or spellbooks.
That didn't mean that he wasn't totally excited for Hogwarts, and when he received the letter on his eleventh birthday, Bro held an ironic going-away party. Dave loves Hogwarts, although he's far too cool to let anybody actually realize this. He carefully maintains his coolkid facade, at the occasional expense of bonding with his housemates. His grades can best be described as "reasonably good" - he does well enough in class, but he doesn't care enough to live up to his full potential. He manages to show off more of his skill in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration classes, which managed to combine the right mix of challenge and speedy returns. Quidditch is the one thing he can be counted to really get excited about. Bro was a star Keeper back in the day, and Dave plays the same position now. As much as he loves it, he's terrified of the day when he officially has let in more goals than Bro did.
Dave's Patronus takes the form of a giant crow, with what seems to be a sword piercing through it. He has a feeling it's symbolic, although he can never quite remember why. Although he would never admit it to anybody, his boggart is one of Bro's smuppets, slowly waving its rump and probiscus as it advances towards him.
House: Gryffindor! Dave is bold, brave, and about as chivalrous as you could ask a white-guy ninja rapper to be. He also has the strong anti-authoritarian streak frequently seen in Gryffindor students such as the Weasley twins or the Marauders. None of the other houses really fit - he's too laid-back for Slytherin, too lazy for Ravenclaw, too much of a loner for Hufflepuff. Plus, red is totally his color.
Magical Strengths and Weaknesses: Dave is probably best at Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration. He's easily worst at History of Magic, but Potions and Herbology are pretty far down there as well; he simply doesn't care enough to give any of them the amount of attention required for a good grade. He gets the best grades in Muggle Studies, since he knows all of it already; he claims he's just taking it "ironically." He's also on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a Keeper.
Wand: 10 1/4 inches, unyielding, ebony with a phoenix feather core.
Other: Dave tends totype write in bright red, eschew punctuation and capitalization, and swear a lot (and far more strongly than I've done here). If any or all of that is objectionable, please let me know - I don't want to offend anyone, but I do want to play him as close to canon as possible.
~Player Info~
Name: Tira
Other characters you have in the rp: None
~Sample~
When Dave heard the quiet yet persisting tap at the window of his dorm room, he swore into his book before getting up. Sure enough, it was Lil Cal, Bro's owl, watching him with those huge, unblinking eyes. Dave was cool with Lil Cal, Lil Cal was his man, but seriously, did he have to just pop up out of nowhere all the time?
Dave gingerly opened the window, retrieving the proffered letter as quickly as possible. Lil Cal, of course, didn't fly off yet, instead waiting to see if Dave wanted to send a reply. It was really cool of Bro to let him borrow Lil Cal all the time like this. He was a really smart owl, even if he did have those still, dead eyes...
Desperate for a new subject, Dave opened his letter, not surprised to see it was from Bro. It was his totally ironic letter from home that he sent every week, matched only by the even more ironic Howlers Lil Cal sometimes delivered, though on a far less regular schedule. Bro liked to keep Dave on his toes.
Dave rooted around his bag for a quill and clean piece of parchment, intent on penning a reply as soon as possible so Lil Cal could get home. Not that Dave didn't want Lil Cal around, he just didn't want Bro to miss him. Yeah, that was it.
hey bro its me
how youve been im pretty good
classes are okay quidditch still kicking my rear end
its like some kind of footballer only it specializes in underage arse
trying to punt our impudent rumps from here to fubaredville
theres a whole league for it and everything
so far qudditchs in the lead but potions always pull ahead around finals
hope your next show goes good and you sell a ton of pieces
love you dave
Dave rolled up the letter and began attaching it to Lil Cal's leg, watching in no little relief as the owl flew off back to London. For some reason, there was an oddly light feeling in the pit of his stomach as he contemplated Bro's face upon reading the letter. After all, it wasn't like he actually needed to hear from Bro regularly or anything. Neither did Bro. It was just an ironic parody of all that stereotypical touching family crap.
Yeah, that was it. He was just feeling all happy and loved and stuff ironically.
Name: Dave Strider
Series: Homestuck
Gender: Male
Age and year: 15, fifth year
Appearance: Dave is a tallish, skinny (some would say gawky) boy in his mid-teens. He has very pale skin, light blonde hair, and mildly unsettling red eyes that are constantly covered by his shades. He has a near-constant poker face that rarely alters. His voice is cool, with a distinct drawl to it, and he says almost everything in the same bored, sarcastic tone.
Personality: Dave is, above and beyond all else, a coolkid. He is obsessed with being as 'ironic' as possible, and is rarely sincere with his feelings. Nearly all of his comments are sarcastic, facetious, or vulgar, with most being all three. He frequently makes pop-culture references and goes off on tangents detailing weird metaphors. He comes off as an insufferable prick, and certainly doesn't go out of his way to make friends. Overall, Dave just doesn't care - unless he's caring ironically. However, he's not quite the jaded badass he pretends to be. He cares deeply for his friends, and is secretly terrified of Bro's puppet pornography and horrible ventriloquist doll.
Dave's relationships with others tend to be eccentric but positive. He looks up to his "Bro" (who is biologically and practically his father) to a great extent, and most of his behavior is in imitation of his Bro, including the shades, the rapping, the katana, and the ironic website - Dave is the writer of an intentional horrible webcomic called Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. He seems very close to Rose, John, and Jade, despite his occasional abuse, and. Although he tries not to let people know that he cares, he is a deeply loyal person. The closest he comes to an emotional breakdown is after he finds Bro's body, and he goes off on Terezi for "accidentally" tricking John into an untimely death, even though the horrible future never came to actually pass. He's also very protective of Rose, trying to save her from her own suicidal planning, and does his best to help out Jade with her frog project.
Dave's title in Sburb is the Knight of Time, and he lives up to it well. He probably gets the most use out of his powers, setting up and carefully executing complicated time loops in order to accomplish his goals. His attitude of not caring also serves him well here; he doesn't think hard enough about how all this time travel actually works to get confused by all the paradoxes he's planning out. It also allows him to blow off the frequent Dead Daves that start appearing when he screws up, although not as much as he'd like people to think. He bonds very quickly with Terezi, in part because she's not afraid to give him as much crap as he gives everyone else, and in part because their personalities fit together in exciting and terrifying ways. In Sburb, it's shown that despite his cold exterior he really does care. He's not just apathetic, either; he's also fairly selfless, taking setbacks in stride. That doesn't mean he's any less rude and snarky; he particularly loves reverse-trolling the more high-strung of the trolls, and is partially responsible for a huge catastrophe because of it.
Canon history: This explains it more fully than I ever could, but Dave is one of the main characters of Homestuck. He was created using DNA from paradox slimes of Bro and Rose's Mom, and traveled back in time on a meteor where Bro found him. Bro raised him to be as cool and ironic as possible, frequently bordering on rather neglectful behavior. He has an eccentric but regular lifestyle, until he uploads the Sburb beta, and finds himself playing a game designed to create a new universe.
~AU Info~
AU history: The Strider family was once a prestigious wizarding family, but their reputation, and the money needed to maintain it, disappeared generations ago. When Aldrich Strider died, his son Brian discovered that all the family had left was a run-down mansion and a ton of gambling debts. Brian sold the former in order to get rid of the latter, and was forced to move into a tiny flat in a Muggle neighborhood in London, where he tried to start a career as an experimental artist. However, Brian was barely out of his teens, and his taste for older women tended to end up getting him in trouble. Brian was too cool to let anything bother him, though, until he found himself in a situation no amount of charm could get him out of.
Dave was more or less left his doorstep, with an angry note and a paternity test the only explanations for his appearance. Brian was determined to be the best father he could be, but his lack of experience and... controversial artwork, which tended to feature animated puppets in compromising positions, were not the ideal environment for a baby. In spite of the cheap swords and smuppets, Dave grew up the best he could, idolizing Brian, who he refers to as "Bro". Bro became a moderately well-known wizarding modern artist (meaning approximately 200 people knew who he was), and the Striders were able to move up in the world somewhat. Dave became infatuated with Muggle culture; even though he grew up a wizard, he's more familiar with a computer or turntables than a quill or spellbooks.
That didn't mean that he wasn't totally excited for Hogwarts, and when he received the letter on his eleventh birthday, Bro held an ironic going-away party. Dave loves Hogwarts, although he's far too cool to let anybody actually realize this. He carefully maintains his coolkid facade, at the occasional expense of bonding with his housemates. His grades can best be described as "reasonably good" - he does well enough in class, but he doesn't care enough to live up to his full potential. He manages to show off more of his skill in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration classes, which managed to combine the right mix of challenge and speedy returns. Quidditch is the one thing he can be counted to really get excited about. Bro was a star Keeper back in the day, and Dave plays the same position now. As much as he loves it, he's terrified of the day when he officially has let in more goals than Bro did.
Dave's Patronus takes the form of a giant crow, with what seems to be a sword piercing through it. He has a feeling it's symbolic, although he can never quite remember why. Although he would never admit it to anybody, his boggart is one of Bro's smuppets, slowly waving its rump and probiscus as it advances towards him.
House: Gryffindor! Dave is bold, brave, and about as chivalrous as you could ask a white-guy ninja rapper to be. He also has the strong anti-authoritarian streak frequently seen in Gryffindor students such as the Weasley twins or the Marauders. None of the other houses really fit - he's too laid-back for Slytherin, too lazy for Ravenclaw, too much of a loner for Hufflepuff. Plus, red is totally his color.
Magical Strengths and Weaknesses: Dave is probably best at Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration. He's easily worst at History of Magic, but Potions and Herbology are pretty far down there as well; he simply doesn't care enough to give any of them the amount of attention required for a good grade. He gets the best grades in Muggle Studies, since he knows all of it already; he claims he's just taking it "ironically." He's also on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a Keeper.
Wand: 10 1/4 inches, unyielding, ebony with a phoenix feather core.
Other: Dave tends to
~Player Info~
Name: Tira
Other characters you have in the rp: None
~Sample~
When Dave heard the quiet yet persisting tap at the window of his dorm room, he swore into his book before getting up. Sure enough, it was Lil Cal, Bro's owl, watching him with those huge, unblinking eyes. Dave was cool with Lil Cal, Lil Cal was his man, but seriously, did he have to just pop up out of nowhere all the time?
Dave gingerly opened the window, retrieving the proffered letter as quickly as possible. Lil Cal, of course, didn't fly off yet, instead waiting to see if Dave wanted to send a reply. It was really cool of Bro to let him borrow Lil Cal all the time like this. He was a really smart owl, even if he did have those still, dead eyes...
Desperate for a new subject, Dave opened his letter, not surprised to see it was from Bro. It was his totally ironic letter from home that he sent every week, matched only by the even more ironic Howlers Lil Cal sometimes delivered, though on a far less regular schedule. Bro liked to keep Dave on his toes.
Dave rooted around his bag for a quill and clean piece of parchment, intent on penning a reply as soon as possible so Lil Cal could get home. Not that Dave didn't want Lil Cal around, he just didn't want Bro to miss him. Yeah, that was it.
hey bro its me
how youve been im pretty good
classes are okay quidditch still kicking my rear end
its like some kind of footballer only it specializes in underage arse
trying to punt our impudent rumps from here to fubaredville
theres a whole league for it and everything
so far qudditchs in the lead but potions always pull ahead around finals
hope your next show goes good and you sell a ton of pieces
love you dave
Dave rolled up the letter and began attaching it to Lil Cal's leg, watching in no little relief as the owl flew off back to London. For some reason, there was an oddly light feeling in the pit of his stomach as he contemplated Bro's face upon reading the letter. After all, it wasn't like he actually needed to hear from Bro regularly or anything. Neither did Bro. It was just an ironic parody of all that stereotypical touching family crap.
Yeah, that was it. He was just feeling all happy and loved and stuff ironically.
