davesprite app
NAME: Ame
JOURNAL: atrocitous
EMAIL: ostentatious_wings@hotmail.com
AIM: unyields
WIKI NAME: None yet 8(
CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER NAME: Davesprite (future Dave Strider)
FANDOM: MSPaint Adventures: Homestuck
CANON: During [S] Jade: Enter, right when Bec prototypes with Jack but before his death.
WHAT THEY LOST: The pendant he gave to Dave, which is what Dave uses to summon him with once he passes the first gate, as sprites are not able to accompany the player after that point. He eventually used this to release himself after defending Dave in the Crocodile Temple. Despite the fact that he (and Dave, since Dave pretty much gave it to him anyway) doesn't need it anymore, he still keeps it with him after releasing himself, wearing it to the duel between Jack Noir and Bro. It has a hell of a lot of sentimental value as it's really the only thing that connects him to Dave.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Check it out:
startin out at home
always chill drinkin juice and never feelin alone
didnt even need no fucking phone
to chill with my crew
i just threw
my sweet rhymes at them
and they best not condemn
droppin sick beats everywhere then hittin the hay
but without delay
i get thrown into the game
i started out fresh with the best catch
hittin off with a spark didnt need no match
said i was the knight of time
the prophet of rhyme
just chillin and wheelin and dealin in here
flanked by lava and fuckin huge gears
and then my best bro gets punked
and everything starts going defunct
but thats when i turned back time
shifting paradigms
and giving no fucks
prototyping myself with a dead crow which kind of sucks
so now im a feathery asshole
but i still got soul
and now with a new role
gave all my sweet loot to my past self
said bro you gotta start learning to trust yourself
cause youre on your own gotta be independent
got everything to prove gotta represent
dont think about regression
most important things fighting the dersian oppression
dont fuck up this session
climb up the echeladder and dont stop
give it all you got and make it to the top
To put it simply: there is no Davesprite without Dave - they are pretty much the same person, barring the fact that Davesprite is actually a future Dave (about four months ahead) from a doomed timeline. See, from where he was before reversing, John and Jade were dead, which left him alone with Rose to fend for themselves. With half the players gone, their session was basically lost and the only way it could be salvaged would be for Dave to travel back in time to make things right. Of course, doing that would also mean killing him and Future Rose, only hanging onto the comfort that they'd be able to survive in the alpha timeline. Because of this, it's safe to say that Davesprite doesn't hesitate to lay his life down for his friends if it means ensuring their safety.
TG: the thing with time travel is
TG: you cant overthink it
TG: just roll with it and see what happens
TG: and above all try not to do anything retarded
Being stuck in the doomed timeline made him grow up considerably, not just physically, but mentally as well. Being one of the only two people in the universe, he became a lot more independent in terms of learning to trust himself and his abilities; no one else understands the nuances of time better than he does, after all. He could no longer rely on Bro or another of his future selves to save him when he fucked up (because in some ways, he did), he had to learn to start being careful and covering his ass every step of the way to make things right. It also made him a lot more serious and almost borderline cynical - while Rose still seems to hold onto hope that Jade might be alive, it seems that he had come to terms with it a while ago, saying that because she couldn't get into the medium before the meteor hit, her death was unavoidable.
TG: what else is there to know
TG: we lost
TG: cant finish the game with a dead heir and witch
Though he may seem blasé about it at first (because let's face it, older or not, he's still Dave underneath it all), it's obviously had a negative effect on him. However, his time with Future Rose has gotten him to open up more in terms of being honest with himself and others because when you're one of the only two survivors of a meteoric apocalypse, irony seems pretty pointless. He had pretty much lost almost everything that was important to him, keeping up his image was the last thing on his to-do list. It's obvious in his conversation with Future Rose: there's no constant verbal sparring anymore, just the plain honesty and care and worry you get when it's the end of the world and you've got no one but one of your best friends and an annoying as fuck puppet sprite to keep you company.
GC: 4R3 YOU SUR3 1 C4NT T4LK TO H1M
GC: 3V3N 1F 1TS JUST TO 4POLOG1Z3
GC: WOULD TH4T B3 OK W1TH YOU S1R BR4V3 KN1GHT >:?
While it could be said that all he did was just reverse himself back to the past and the doomed timeline ceased to exist, it's so much more than that. Not only did the process technically kill himself, Future Rose and everything else, he ended up prototyping himself with Dave's crow sprite; which turned him into a glowy, feathery ghost thing with a sword through his chest and a shitton of new power and knowledge about the game. He did it all without a second of hesitation, just boom - get there, unload all his loot in front of Dave and then back flip into the sprite. His devotion to his friends is clear at this point and he wastes no time getting on pesterchum immediately afterward to tell Terezi to step off. It's easy to say he's the white knight of the game (which is true, considering most of the stuff he did before he died) and he doesn't seem to refute it. The most important thing to him is making things right and making sure they survive; it's something he'd spent four months preparing for and he'd be damned if he lets the same mistake happen twice.
TG: the true purpose is to make a sprite that doesnt make me want to flog myself raw with my own brain stem
TG: anything else is gravy
To make a long story short, Davesprite is basically Dave. Plus a lot of feathers, all the levels, maturity, and self-confidence but minus most of the stoicness and irony. Ask him anything, he'll give you a straight answer.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
When Jack's ring lit up in the middle of the battle, Dave didn't need his Sprite powers to know that something big was going to happen. Something big and probably really, really bad. The small comfort that Jade finally made it into the medium died as quickly as the blinding light and Dave knew that shit was going to go down, fucking buckets of excrement falling on their heads because he had just spent all his time trying to make things right and in the end-
In the end it all went to shit.
He glanced at Bro, saw him tighten his grip on the hilt of his katana and he did the same, crackling green energy reflecting off their glasses. This was it: this was the culmination of all that goddamn ninja training and rooftop dueling and four fucking months of level grinding. Now was the time to bring out all the stops, no dicking around like a n00b anymore because shit just got real.
Jack's new prototyping made him faster, a lot faster; he could tell Bro was breathing harder, and even with his own Sprite powers, Jack didn't seem to be slowing down - he was gaining speed. For the first time in his life, Dave felt utterly useless. There was a sharp, brief sound from Bro and before he realized it, Jack was already swinging his sword at him, blade headed straight for his midsection.
It was too late. He couldn't possibly block in time - it was over. Bro's voice faded as he closed his eyes tight, blindly swinging up his sword anyway; if he was going down, he wasn't going alone-
And then he opened his eyes.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
[There's the odd sound of feathers being ruffled and a rather familiar, displeased thirteen year old boyvoice coming over the journals.]
Well, fuck. Isn't this just great. Fan-fucking-tastic. As if locked in a duel with the final boss wasn't fucking enough, jegus. I gotta say, whoever pulled this shit's got goddamn perfect timing; was just about to get filleted like a fish with a goddamn butterfly knife. Pretty fucking impossible seeing as first guardian powers can't just fucking-
[There's a sound of some footsteps before a pause - looks like he noticed the journal.]
What the fuck.
... Testing. Testing.
Okay.
Okay. Fine, whatever, I can fucking deal with this. But change the font. Right
now
good
at least somethings going right jegus fuck
okay i dont really give a shit how this happened
but i dont have the time or patience for your magic castle shenanigans
shits hitting the fucking whirling device and hell if im just going to sit here twiddling my feathers waiting for you to spit me back out again so
were gonna do this my way
which means you tell me what the fucks going on
and where the nearest exit is
because ive got a fucking hell hound over there to wrestle back into the goddamn pound
and times a wastin
INTENT: It's motherfucking Davesprite, plus thano's Dave is awesome and. I dunno, awesome bros just gotta stick together, you know? Hopefully I'll have better luck with him than with Terra. orz
JOURNAL: atrocitous
EMAIL: ostentatious_wings@hotmail.com
AIM: unyields
WIKI NAME: None yet 8(
CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER NAME: Davesprite (future Dave Strider)
FANDOM: MSPaint Adventures: Homestuck
CANON: During [S] Jade: Enter, right when Bec prototypes with Jack but before his death.
WHAT THEY LOST: The pendant he gave to Dave, which is what Dave uses to summon him with once he passes the first gate, as sprites are not able to accompany the player after that point. He eventually used this to release himself after defending Dave in the Crocodile Temple. Despite the fact that he (and Dave, since Dave pretty much gave it to him anyway) doesn't need it anymore, he still keeps it with him after releasing himself, wearing it to the duel between Jack Noir and Bro. It has a hell of a lot of sentimental value as it's really the only thing that connects him to Dave.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Check it out:
startin out at home
always chill drinkin juice and never feelin alone
didnt even need no fucking phone
to chill with my crew
i just threw
my sweet rhymes at them
and they best not condemn
droppin sick beats everywhere then hittin the hay
but without delay
i get thrown into the game
i started out fresh with the best catch
hittin off with a spark didnt need no match
said i was the knight of time
the prophet of rhyme
just chillin and wheelin and dealin in here
flanked by lava and fuckin huge gears
and then my best bro gets punked
and everything starts going defunct
but thats when i turned back time
shifting paradigms
and giving no fucks
prototyping myself with a dead crow which kind of sucks
so now im a feathery asshole
but i still got soul
and now with a new role
gave all my sweet loot to my past self
said bro you gotta start learning to trust yourself
cause youre on your own gotta be independent
got everything to prove gotta represent
dont think about regression
most important things fighting the dersian oppression
dont fuck up this session
climb up the echeladder and dont stop
give it all you got and make it to the top
To put it simply: there is no Davesprite without Dave - they are pretty much the same person, barring the fact that Davesprite is actually a future Dave (about four months ahead) from a doomed timeline. See, from where he was before reversing, John and Jade were dead, which left him alone with Rose to fend for themselves. With half the players gone, their session was basically lost and the only way it could be salvaged would be for Dave to travel back in time to make things right. Of course, doing that would also mean killing him and Future Rose, only hanging onto the comfort that they'd be able to survive in the alpha timeline. Because of this, it's safe to say that Davesprite doesn't hesitate to lay his life down for his friends if it means ensuring their safety.
TG: the thing with time travel is
TG: you cant overthink it
TG: just roll with it and see what happens
TG: and above all try not to do anything retarded
Being stuck in the doomed timeline made him grow up considerably, not just physically, but mentally as well. Being one of the only two people in the universe, he became a lot more independent in terms of learning to trust himself and his abilities; no one else understands the nuances of time better than he does, after all. He could no longer rely on Bro or another of his future selves to save him when he fucked up (because in some ways, he did), he had to learn to start being careful and covering his ass every step of the way to make things right. It also made him a lot more serious and almost borderline cynical - while Rose still seems to hold onto hope that Jade might be alive, it seems that he had come to terms with it a while ago, saying that because she couldn't get into the medium before the meteor hit, her death was unavoidable.
TG: what else is there to know
TG: we lost
TG: cant finish the game with a dead heir and witch
Though he may seem blasé about it at first (because let's face it, older or not, he's still Dave underneath it all), it's obviously had a negative effect on him. However, his time with Future Rose has gotten him to open up more in terms of being honest with himself and others because when you're one of the only two survivors of a meteoric apocalypse, irony seems pretty pointless. He had pretty much lost almost everything that was important to him, keeping up his image was the last thing on his to-do list. It's obvious in his conversation with Future Rose: there's no constant verbal sparring anymore, just the plain honesty and care and worry you get when it's the end of the world and you've got no one but one of your best friends and an annoying as fuck puppet sprite to keep you company.
GC: 4R3 YOU SUR3 1 C4NT T4LK TO H1M
GC: 3V3N 1F 1TS JUST TO 4POLOG1Z3
GC: WOULD TH4T B3 OK W1TH YOU S1R BR4V3 KN1GHT >:?
While it could be said that all he did was just reverse himself back to the past and the doomed timeline ceased to exist, it's so much more than that. Not only did the process technically kill himself, Future Rose and everything else, he ended up prototyping himself with Dave's crow sprite; which turned him into a glowy, feathery ghost thing with a sword through his chest and a shitton of new power and knowledge about the game. He did it all without a second of hesitation, just boom - get there, unload all his loot in front of Dave and then back flip into the sprite. His devotion to his friends is clear at this point and he wastes no time getting on pesterchum immediately afterward to tell Terezi to step off. It's easy to say he's the white knight of the game (which is true, considering most of the stuff he did before he died) and he doesn't seem to refute it. The most important thing to him is making things right and making sure they survive; it's something he'd spent four months preparing for and he'd be damned if he lets the same mistake happen twice.
TG: the true purpose is to make a sprite that doesnt make me want to flog myself raw with my own brain stem
TG: anything else is gravy
To make a long story short, Davesprite is basically Dave. Plus a lot of feathers, all the levels, maturity, and self-confidence but minus most of the stoicness and irony. Ask him anything, he'll give you a straight answer.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
When Jack's ring lit up in the middle of the battle, Dave didn't need his Sprite powers to know that something big was going to happen. Something big and probably really, really bad. The small comfort that Jade finally made it into the medium died as quickly as the blinding light and Dave knew that shit was going to go down, fucking buckets of excrement falling on their heads because he had just spent all his time trying to make things right and in the end-
In the end it all went to shit.
He glanced at Bro, saw him tighten his grip on the hilt of his katana and he did the same, crackling green energy reflecting off their glasses. This was it: this was the culmination of all that goddamn ninja training and rooftop dueling and four fucking months of level grinding. Now was the time to bring out all the stops, no dicking around like a n00b anymore because shit just got real.
Jack's new prototyping made him faster, a lot faster; he could tell Bro was breathing harder, and even with his own Sprite powers, Jack didn't seem to be slowing down - he was gaining speed. For the first time in his life, Dave felt utterly useless. There was a sharp, brief sound from Bro and before he realized it, Jack was already swinging his sword at him, blade headed straight for his midsection.
It was too late. He couldn't possibly block in time - it was over. Bro's voice faded as he closed his eyes tight, blindly swinging up his sword anyway; if he was going down, he wasn't going alone-
And then he opened his eyes.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
[There's the odd sound of feathers being ruffled and a rather familiar, displeased thirteen year old boyvoice coming over the journals.]
Well, fuck. Isn't this just great. Fan-fucking-tastic. As if locked in a duel with the final boss wasn't fucking enough, jegus. I gotta say, whoever pulled this shit's got goddamn perfect timing; was just about to get filleted like a fish with a goddamn butterfly knife. Pretty fucking impossible seeing as first guardian powers can't just fucking-
[There's a sound of some footsteps before a pause - looks like he noticed the journal.]
What the fuck.
... Testing. Testing.
Okay.
Okay. Fine, whatever, I can fucking deal with this. But change the font. Right
now
good
at least somethings going right jegus fuck
okay i dont really give a shit how this happened
but i dont have the time or patience for your magic castle shenanigans
shits hitting the fucking whirling device and hell if im just going to sit here twiddling my feathers waiting for you to spit me back out again so
were gonna do this my way
which means you tell me what the fucks going on
and where the nearest exit is
because ive got a fucking hell hound over there to wrestle back into the goddamn pound
and times a wastin
INTENT: It's motherfucking Davesprite, plus thano's Dave is awesome and. I dunno, awesome bros just gotta stick together, you know? Hopefully I'll have better luck with him than with Terra. orz