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□ Name: Davesprite aka Dave Strider aka Alternate Future Dave
□ Series: MSPA: Homestuck
□ Age: 18 (officially in game, not having been aged up)
□ Canon point: after leaving the ship
□ History: link
□ Personality: To understand Davesprite is to understand Dave, since they are quite literally the same person. Davesprite is just a bit older and has different experiences than the current 'Alpha' Dave.
Dave has always fashioned himself to be a 'cool kid' who could take practically everything in stride without a problem. He idolized his older brother and tried to emulate him in a lot of ways while still trying to be his own person. In a lot of ways he's just a normal kid. He likes playing video games, has interests in photography and rap music, though he did have a collection of small animal skeletons which one might consider odd.
His life had been far from normal though. His brother trained him practically from babyhood to be a fighter. Literally. There were swords and throwing knives and blades of all kinds stashed in the fridge, cabinets, and who knows where else. To him it was normal. Frustrating at times, but normal. The only thing that bothered him about his brother to any real extent -though he spoke otherwise outwardly- was his penchant for puppets. Lil Cal creeps him out to no end.
Dave is kind of a little shit when it comes to his interactions with others. He has no problem telling people off or letting them know he doesn't give a fuck about what they have to say. He will directly or indirectly insult people, rambling on in an almost storytelling sort of way. While he's never as completely stoic and impassive as he wishes, he tries to cover up a lot with jokes, ironic quips, and pop culture references. Rose is the only one who's ever been able to work through it, though usually by pissing him off in the process.
Not to say he's a complete dick to everyone. With his close friends he's actually very loyal, he just doesn't always know how to express himself well. They're the ones who get to see his dorky side come out, and his awkward social moments.
Davesprite has his differences though. He spent a good long time in a world where two of his best friends were dead, and there was no possible end to the game he was stuck playing. His sprite had been prototyped with the remnants of Lil Cal, which ended up as little more than a source of rage and frustration for him. So he gives up absolutely everything to go back in time and save John's life, preventing that dead end future from ever happening.
The result is that he is from a timeline that had been doomed to erasure, which in time-player terms means that heis also doomed, usually in some violent, unexpected way. To give himself more time he becomes his own sprite, but it's not a permanent fix. Paradox space will catch up to him at some point and he knows that so, he lives every day expecting to die. He doesn't consider himself any sort of hero, despite having made a number of huge, sacrifices with the sole purpose of helping his friends succeed, regardless of what it meant for himself.
The social dynamic in general shifted between his friends after he became a sprite. The only person he'd had to talk to in all the time he was in the alternate timeline was his ecto-sister Rose, whom was something of a confidant already but they grew closer when the world ended and it was just the two of them. The Rose he knew is gone now since he erased that timeline, but he doesn't know that she survived in a sense as part of the Rose in the existing timeline. Granted now it's been three years since he'd seen her.
Jade was the one he always seemed to be nicest to, more genuinely playful. With Jadesprite he was very calm tempered and didn't run his words around in circles, chosing to be as helpful and supportive as he could be for her until she ended up merging with Jade when she went god tier. They ended up dating for a good while during the 3 year boat ride, but he ended up breaking up with her because he felt she deserved better. He admits that he screwed things up with her, but he didn't want her to be stuck with some cheapo version of Dave when (in his mind) she most likely wants the 'real' Dave.
John used to be his best friend, but he lost him once when John died, causing the creation of that alternate timeline. In a sense he lost him again when he came back in time to save him. Once he became a sprite John seemed to lose all sense that Davesprite was a real person, constantly referring to Dave as the 'real' Dave. John always had the biggest influence on Dave, and it wasn't much different with Davesprite. While he hides it for the most part, his sense of self worth has deteriorated a great deal, going so far as to say that "nobody really deserves bird dave as a boyfriend or a friend or anything" and considers himself like some shitty knockoff of the 'real thing' that everyone else would be better without.
So he's bitter and jaded, often talking to himself because he has no one else to open up to. He knows he should say what he needs to say to them, but in the end he literally jumped ship the moment he could.
□ Age: 16 (possibly 17, he told John he was running around for 'like a year' vs a prior mention of 4 months, which can be interpreted as 'time travel' vs 'real time')
□ Gender: Male
□ Appearance: He looks and dresses exactly like Dave, but in shades of glowy orange. He has two, large, feathery wings and a plume of feathers around his neck, and from the waist down he has a wispy ghost
□ Abilities/Powers: Sprite Powers: These can be kind of arbitrary, but given what we've seen from the other sprites and what Calsprite was able to do before Dave took it's place we can infer some of things.
∙Calsprite was able to shape shift and shoot lasers.
∙Sprites can be solid or become completely incorporeal to pass through walls.
∙Create functioning energy objects ala green lantern.
∙Glowing graffiti. Dave's is red that glows orange.
∙Grow back missing appendages.
Knight of Time: He's able to move through time to set up or prevent situations from happening, but to do so he has to make sure it's all run through a single, stable loop or multiples of himself will occur. To fix this, any Dave that isn't the main Alpha Timeline Dave will die in some unfortunate way. Davesprite was able to avoid his death by prototyping himself into a sprite.
Since prototyping doesn't seem to negate any previous powers, he's likely still able to move through time as he pleases, he just choses not to because it's not something he particularly enjoyed.
Flash Step: Well it's less of a step now that he doesn't have legs, but he was trained by his brother to have really, really fast reflexes, allowing him to dart short distances faster than the eye can see.
Swords:He fights with these.
□ Personal Items
1: sprite pendant
2: sylladex
3: a living Nakodile
4: billy puppet
5: shitty katana
6: ishades
7: smuppet pile
8: x-box
9: x-box games
10: the bones of some small animals
□ First Person Sample:
okay
so this has to be the dumbest fucking method of communication ever
last thing i needed was someone dicking around in my brain with microchips so i can think type at some perverted douchenuggets on the internet for some contrived bootyknocking pornosim
ps wheres my fuckin legs
not that i don't have more than enough swag oozing from my tail it's like i'm already covered in bitches
gonna win this game yo
people will be disgracing themselves just to get a taste of this
though i shouldn't be surprised these fuckers are lazy enough to do away with computers all together why would they take the time to give a strider back his stride
