I don’t know the answer to this but I do know that whatever it is Rose and Dirk argue bitterly over it
rose enjoys hunchback, even the fucking gargoyles. dirk cannot let this stand
theres no fucking way rose enjoys those fucking abominable gargoyles. that nonsensical tonally dissonant garbage goes strictly in the dave wheelhouse. I will fight you
I will concede but I will also propose: dave starts talking about how great they are and rose, seeing dirk starting to open his mouth in longwinded protest, immediately jumps on the bandwagon just to see how mad he gets
I literally think the second dave was like oh yeah those gargoyles I love those guys dirk would open his mouth and swallow his entire tongue while meekly saying oh …….. oh yeah ……. me ……… too ………………………………… because he wants dave to like him so fucking badly and of course rose overhears this and immediately saunters up, chin in hands, oh really? tell me more, father. tell me more about how you just love the delightful antics of the most jarring and out of place so-called “sidekick” characters in all of disneydom. educate me, please. I especially am interested to know what value you believe the gargoyle wanting to fuck the goat brought to the film. rewind it, dave. let’s see that again
this post has evolved to its final form
while video editing i sometimes stumble onto really good Homestuck lines i forgot or never really read and its this habit that brings you:
Well, not literally the same person. That’d be stupid. But Dave Strider, from Homestuck, and Tidus, from Final Fantasy X, share a surprisingly high number of similarities. Their weapon progression, their abilities, a few of their in-story actions, and most importantly, some of the themes their characters tie heavily into, are far more closely related than one might think at first glance. One might ask “Just how high did you even have to be to think this shit up? After all, Homestuck and Final Fantasy are worlds apart in terms of story, dialogue, characters, and basically everything!”
My answer to that little query is that I must’ve been pretty god damn high. But this little exercise gave me a fairly interesting outlook on both Tidus and Dave as characters, and hopefully you’ll enjoy it in a similar fashion. Obviously there will be casual spoilers for Final Fantasy X in this post, so I’ll hide the rest of this under the break.
i headcanon dave as a white cis guy because i find the journey of him going from perceiving himself as white/straight/cis and having all the internalized ignorant, privileged bullshit that comes with that crumble the fuck down when realizing hes not actually one of those things is the most satisfying version of dave to me. why? because i live in the whitest city in america and am surrounded by white people and their bullshit. when i was a baby and my family went on vacation to mexico to visit my grandparents soon after buying a house here, our xenophobic white neighbor went into our yard and broke one of our windows and our door gate in order to try to scare us into moving away because he didnt like that a spanish-speaking latino family moved next to him. with dave i like exploring how someone who grew up in this shit society that caters to white straight cis men can go through some kind of introspection and reject it. its vindictive and compelling to me personally, because of my personal experiences. this is NOT a “dave is white and cis and this is why youre wrong if you dont agree” post – my point is ultimately everyone has different life experiences and finds different things compelling for a multitude of different reasons, some of which may not be obvious at first glance to you. so all these posts going around insisting that people who headcanon dave and dirk as white because of arbitrary reasons like “theyre stridercest shippers” (fucking yuck) or whatever the fuck bullshit are shortsighted as hell. next time you see a post that goes “all people who have inconsequential headcanon X are all HORRIBLE THING Y” when those two things dont even have anything to do with each other or “you have to headcanon Z thing or else youre fucking scum” just realize its a thinly veiled attempt to smear people because of 1.its an attempt to kick up drama because of fandom stagnation 2.its people trying to position themselves as morally superior to everyone else and pat themselves on the back over what is frankly some grade A stupid shit
Flying through Storytelling 