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OOC Information:
Name: Aave
Age: 20
AIM: theatricalWraith
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E-MAIL: aaveolio@gmail.com
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IC Information:
Name: Davesprite
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: Right after Dave falls asleep here.
Age: 13 years, 9 months
Appearance: A glowing orange ghost with the face of a thirteen-year-old boy wearing sunglasses and a pokerface. He has a feathery ruff around his neck and large bird wings coming out of his back. He appears to be wearing an orange t-shirt, though in fact it's a part of his body, as is the katana piercing his stomach. Instead of legs, his lower body tapers into a long, wispy tail. There's a pendant with a spirograph pattern hanging from his neck. Reference here at the bottom.
Abilities: Ninja training: Dave has been trained by his Bro in speed, agility and swordplay pretty much all his life. Add to that four months of level grinding, and you something pretty damn badass. He can make short spurts of movement so fast the human eye can't follow it.
Sprite: It isn't really clear in canon whether Sprites need food and sleep or not, but at least they can get hungry. I assume that Davesprite doesn't technically need to eat, sleep, or even breathe, but he'll get very uncomfortable if he goes like that for extended periods.
Like all sprites, Davesprite can fly, with the wings giving him a little extra speed and mobility. His basic way of moving around is floating a few feet above the ground.
Another sprite trait, and technically the most important, is the knowledge of Sburb. Davesprite has a vast amount of information about the game, especially relating to Dave and his personal quest, locked away in his head. Most of it is packaged in the form of riddles and mythological nonsense and thus hard to access.
Personality: It might be argued that Davesprite is completely identical to the alpha timeline Dave. After all, they ARE the same person. However, a lot can change with four months and becoming a game construct ghost.
With John and Jade dead, Dave and Rose were left practically alone in a null session. Due to being in a branch timeline, they were even no longer able to talk to the trolls. Sure, they still had their sprites, but especially Dave's sprite - which had been prototyped with Li'l Cal - was more a source of annoyance than comfort. It just would not stop laughing. Ever.
Though they still had very little face-to-face interaction, Dave and Rose grew a lot closer. They started being more honest with each other, no longer constantly engaging in verbal sparring. Both of them had been prone to hiding their emotions, but now those masks started slipping. As far as they knew, they were the last surviving humans in the universe. In the face of that, irony started looking kind of pointless. Probably the only thing keeping them from giving in to despair was the knowledge that when he was ready, Dave could go back in time to set things right.
And for those four months, setting things right was Dave's only focus. He didn't have the luxury of wasting time on alchemizing sweet suits and brains in jars. Though he did advance pretty far on the personal myth quest the game had set out for him, it was primarily to get stronger abilities and better loot. Even so, it did earn him some personal growth in the form of greater self-confidence. Before, he had always relied on Bro or his future selves to bail him out of trouble. There was always someone more experienced and awesome than him. Along the way, as was the purpose of the quest, he learned to rely on himself more and trust in his own abilities. Becoming more independent was probably also helped by his spirit guide constantly going "HEE HEE HOO HEE HOO" and generally being no help at all.
It's easy to say "and then Dave went back and made sure the bad timeline never happened" and forget what that actually means. By undoing his own timeline, Dave was essentially killing both himself and Future Rose. Yes, their past selves would survive, but that doesn't make it much easier to think about. So yeah. This dude is literally ready to die for his friends.
Too bad all that devotion didn't get him the gratitude he deserved. First John thought the whole attempt to save him was a bad joke, then later on actually said that he didn't think of Davesprite as the real Dave. While "real Dave" claimed that he was obviously just messing with John because he wouldn't flip out like that, Davesprite's bitter anger sure seemed genuine. And hey, can you blame him? Having your best friend - whose life you just saved - say that you're not really you would be painful to anyone.
tl;dr: Davesprite = Dave - most of the irony - stoicness + all the levels + self-reliance + SRSBSNS + a lot of feathers
History: The Earth of Homestuck is pretty much the same as ours, except a little more like a video game. Everybody has an inventory in the form of a sylladex, confrontations with parental figures occur through STRIFE, and some people happen to be paradox clones who crashed to the world on a meteor with a dead pony.
Well, okay, that last part only specifically applies to Dave. He was picked up from that meteor crater by a badass ninja guardian and raised to be a ninja coolkid with a love of irony and sick beats. Later, he developed a strong online friendship with three other kids: John, Rose (who turns out to be Dave's paradox sister) and Jade. The four of them ended up playing an incredibly immersive video game called Sburb that transported them to another dimension just before Earth got destroyed by meteors. And that's when things get a bit complicated.
Due to some very bad screwups, the kids' game session was doomed to be massively broken in a way that also affected another session in another universe. The players of that session decided to get revenge on the kids by trolling them through time and space. Then one of them managed to indirectly kill both John and Jade. Crap.
Even worse, that created a time paradox since it prevented the events that would break the game. Thus Rose and Dave were stuck in a really sucky doomed branch of the timeline. Luckily, Dave acquired awesome time travel powers and after four months of leveling up and learning about the game he went back to stop John's death.
After doing that, he handed Past Dave all his awesome high-level equipment and jumped into his kernelsprite. Sprites are basically the players' spirit guides. They can be prototyped twice to determine both their own and the game enemies' appearance and powers.
So yeah, Alternate Future Dave became Davesprite, an orange ghost with crow wings and a sword through his chest. For a while, he advised Dave and his friends before flying off and getting killed when the game broke and the shit really hit the fan.
Roleplay Sample - Log: Davesprite quirked an eyebrow as his past self dropped to the ground. Since when did he have narcolepsy? Whatever, Rose was probably bothering him on Derse or something. He had more important things to worry about, such as the huge wave of underlings heading their way. He turned, sword drawn and badass yet ironic one-liner on the tip of his tongue-
But there were no underlings, or Land of Heat and Clockwork for that matter. The only thing facing him was a white wall. More importantly, his sword was gone. He whirled around, already knowing that he wouldn't see Dave but still disappointed when he didn't.
What the fuck was going on? Had something gone wrong again? His pokerface remained immaculate, but on the inside he was freaking out hard. Calm down, he told himself. The important thing right now was to figure out what was happening and whether or not his friends were all right. Freaking out could come later.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: ok
the whole evil science experiment thing is cute
in a totally retarded bullshit way
but i was kind of in the middle of something
so if leaving right the fuck now is an option im taking that
but im guessing it isnt so
someone just tell me what the deal is with this place
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function? Davesprite has gone through some heavy stuff in his canon already. While it has left its scars on him, he won't let them stop him, especially if that would mean abandoning others. As long as he can keep helping others survive, he won't stop soldiering on.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. There is technically already a Davesprite in the game, but since he hasn't ever posted or made AC, I'm hoping it's all right for me to apply.
Name: Aave
Age: 20
AIM: theatricalWraith
MSN:
Y!M:
E-MAIL: aaveolio@gmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: I'm new!
IC Information:
Name: Davesprite
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: Right after Dave falls asleep here.
Age: 13 years, 9 months
Appearance: A glowing orange ghost with the face of a thirteen-year-old boy wearing sunglasses and a pokerface. He has a feathery ruff around his neck and large bird wings coming out of his back. He appears to be wearing an orange t-shirt, though in fact it's a part of his body, as is the katana piercing his stomach. Instead of legs, his lower body tapers into a long, wispy tail. There's a pendant with a spirograph pattern hanging from his neck. Reference here at the bottom.
Abilities: Ninja training: Dave has been trained by his Bro in speed, agility and swordplay pretty much all his life. Add to that four months of level grinding, and you something pretty damn badass. He can make short spurts of movement so fast the human eye can't follow it.
Sprite: It isn't really clear in canon whether Sprites need food and sleep or not, but at least they can get hungry. I assume that Davesprite doesn't technically need to eat, sleep, or even breathe, but he'll get very uncomfortable if he goes like that for extended periods.
Like all sprites, Davesprite can fly, with the wings giving him a little extra speed and mobility. His basic way of moving around is floating a few feet above the ground.
Another sprite trait, and technically the most important, is the knowledge of Sburb. Davesprite has a vast amount of information about the game, especially relating to Dave and his personal quest, locked away in his head. Most of it is packaged in the form of riddles and mythological nonsense and thus hard to access.
Personality: It might be argued that Davesprite is completely identical to the alpha timeline Dave. After all, they ARE the same person. However, a lot can change with four months and becoming a game construct ghost.
With John and Jade dead, Dave and Rose were left practically alone in a null session. Due to being in a branch timeline, they were even no longer able to talk to the trolls. Sure, they still had their sprites, but especially Dave's sprite - which had been prototyped with Li'l Cal - was more a source of annoyance than comfort. It just would not stop laughing. Ever.
Though they still had very little face-to-face interaction, Dave and Rose grew a lot closer. They started being more honest with each other, no longer constantly engaging in verbal sparring. Both of them had been prone to hiding their emotions, but now those masks started slipping. As far as they knew, they were the last surviving humans in the universe. In the face of that, irony started looking kind of pointless. Probably the only thing keeping them from giving in to despair was the knowledge that when he was ready, Dave could go back in time to set things right.
And for those four months, setting things right was Dave's only focus. He didn't have the luxury of wasting time on alchemizing sweet suits and brains in jars. Though he did advance pretty far on the personal myth quest the game had set out for him, it was primarily to get stronger abilities and better loot. Even so, it did earn him some personal growth in the form of greater self-confidence. Before, he had always relied on Bro or his future selves to bail him out of trouble. There was always someone more experienced and awesome than him. Along the way, as was the purpose of the quest, he learned to rely on himself more and trust in his own abilities. Becoming more independent was probably also helped by his spirit guide constantly going "HEE HEE HOO HEE HOO" and generally being no help at all.
It's easy to say "and then Dave went back and made sure the bad timeline never happened" and forget what that actually means. By undoing his own timeline, Dave was essentially killing both himself and Future Rose. Yes, their past selves would survive, but that doesn't make it much easier to think about. So yeah. This dude is literally ready to die for his friends.
Too bad all that devotion didn't get him the gratitude he deserved. First John thought the whole attempt to save him was a bad joke, then later on actually said that he didn't think of Davesprite as the real Dave. While "real Dave" claimed that he was obviously just messing with John because he wouldn't flip out like that, Davesprite's bitter anger sure seemed genuine. And hey, can you blame him? Having your best friend - whose life you just saved - say that you're not really you would be painful to anyone.
tl;dr: Davesprite = Dave - most of the irony - stoicness + all the levels + self-reliance + SRSBSNS + a lot of feathers
History: The Earth of Homestuck is pretty much the same as ours, except a little more like a video game. Everybody has an inventory in the form of a sylladex, confrontations with parental figures occur through STRIFE, and some people happen to be paradox clones who crashed to the world on a meteor with a dead pony.
Well, okay, that last part only specifically applies to Dave. He was picked up from that meteor crater by a badass ninja guardian and raised to be a ninja coolkid with a love of irony and sick beats. Later, he developed a strong online friendship with three other kids: John, Rose (who turns out to be Dave's paradox sister) and Jade. The four of them ended up playing an incredibly immersive video game called Sburb that transported them to another dimension just before Earth got destroyed by meteors. And that's when things get a bit complicated.
Due to some very bad screwups, the kids' game session was doomed to be massively broken in a way that also affected another session in another universe. The players of that session decided to get revenge on the kids by trolling them through time and space. Then one of them managed to indirectly kill both John and Jade. Crap.
Even worse, that created a time paradox since it prevented the events that would break the game. Thus Rose and Dave were stuck in a really sucky doomed branch of the timeline. Luckily, Dave acquired awesome time travel powers and after four months of leveling up and learning about the game he went back to stop John's death.
After doing that, he handed Past Dave all his awesome high-level equipment and jumped into his kernelsprite. Sprites are basically the players' spirit guides. They can be prototyped twice to determine both their own and the game enemies' appearance and powers.
So yeah, Alternate Future Dave became Davesprite, an orange ghost with crow wings and a sword through his chest. For a while, he advised Dave and his friends before flying off and getting killed when the game broke and the shit really hit the fan.
Roleplay Sample - Log: Davesprite quirked an eyebrow as his past self dropped to the ground. Since when did he have narcolepsy? Whatever, Rose was probably bothering him on Derse or something. He had more important things to worry about, such as the huge wave of underlings heading their way. He turned, sword drawn and badass yet ironic one-liner on the tip of his tongue-
But there were no underlings, or Land of Heat and Clockwork for that matter. The only thing facing him was a white wall. More importantly, his sword was gone. He whirled around, already knowing that he wouldn't see Dave but still disappointed when he didn't.
What the fuck was going on? Had something gone wrong again? His pokerface remained immaculate, but on the inside he was freaking out hard. Calm down, he told himself. The important thing right now was to figure out what was happening and whether or not his friends were all right. Freaking out could come later.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: ok
the whole evil science experiment thing is cute
in a totally retarded bullshit way
but i was kind of in the middle of something
so if leaving right the fuck now is an option im taking that
but im guessing it isnt so
someone just tell me what the deal is with this place
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function? Davesprite has gone through some heavy stuff in his canon already. While it has left its scars on him, he won't let them stop him, especially if that would mean abandoning others. As long as he can keep helping others survive, he won't stop soldiering on.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. There is technically already a Davesprite in the game, but since he hasn't ever posted or made AC, I'm hoping it's all right for me to apply.