Dave Strider

Dave Strider is a human from beta Universe B. He is a player of Sburb and the dancestor of Dirk Strider. The alpha counterpart of this character is Dirk's Bro.

Personality
Dave is a stoic boy who openly values irony in all aspects of his life. He tries hard to maintain a personal image of coolness. He is prone to long bouts of uninterrupted rambling.

HS 1662 (His handwriting) is very angular. He writes in all lowercase and doesn't use punctuation, the same way he types.

Appearance
Dave has light-colored slicked back hair.

As a kid, he wore a plain white tee shirt with a picture of a record disc on it. HS 1070 (After a fight with his Bro), this picture was scratched. He also wore normal-looking pants. His shoes were black with white ends. Before he turned 13, he wore HS 1096 (sunglasses with scalene lenses) identical to the ones worn by his Bro.

HS 1097 (On his 13th birthday), John gifted Dave sunglasses which were once worn by Ben Stiller, which replaced his old pointy anime shades.

On April 13th, 2009, Dave played Sburb. His future self came back in time from a doomed timeline and provided him with lots of artifacts from later in the game. Among these items were HS 1658 (a white tuxedo with a red bowtie) and his scratched record symbol, paired with black dress pants. Dave wore this outfit from then on.

Interests
HS 312 (When he is first introduced), Dave is described as being interested in:


 * Spinning out ill jams with his turntables
 * Bands no one has ever heard of except him.
 * Collecting weird dead things preserved in various ways
 * Photography
 * Ironically humorous blogs, websites, and social networking profiles
 * Rapping ("dropping phat rhymes on a mofo and representing")

Dave initially HS 386 (claims that he enjoys his brother's puppets), despite ribbing from John. However, he later has HS 465 (a mild breakdown surrounded by his Bro's puppets) and HS 419 (admits to Rose that John may be right) and that the puppets are starting to unnerve him.

Possessions

 * HS 312 (Posters): Midnight Crew, The Felt, Sawtooth and Squarewave
 * A hanging scroll that bares PS 1455 (the pattern printed on Demonhead Mobster Kingpin's forehead during his third phase).
 * Photographs of Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, and Ben Stiller.
 * The photo of Ben Stiller HS 318 (is autographed and was a birthday present from John).
 * Ironic selfies
 * Camera
 * HS 1573 (Enlarger) – A device used for photography.
 * HS 337 (Akai MPC-1000 Sampler)
 * Turntables
 * HS 383 (Phone) – An HS 1071 (Apple iPhone), most likely a 3G or 3GS.
 * HS 468 (Dave's phone background) is a reference to And It Don't Stop by Andrew Hussie.
 * 2 Game Bro magazines in his room, as well as HS 448 (many issues of Game Bro Magazine) in the living room that either belong to him or his Bro.
 * HS 322 (Computer)
 * Dave's desktop background is a reference to And It Don't Stop by Andrew Hussie.
 * HS 1099 (In 2008), his desktop background was pictures of Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear in the 2004 Starsky & Hutch movie.
 * Dave uses the HS 325 (web browser) HS 323 (Hephaestus).
 * Dave uses the application HS 323 (Complete Bullshit) presumably HS 457 (to keep up with updates on various websites).
 * HS 343 (A ninja sword and katana) hung up on his wall
 * HS 1658 (Scratched Record Tuxedo) – Artifact from the future of a doomed timeline given to Dave by Davesprite.

Dave has used the following weapons:


 * HS 343 (Ninja Sword) – Initially hung on the wall in Dave's room and was never actually captchalogued in his Strife Deck. HS 346 (This sword was ejected from Dave's fetch modus on accident) and killed a crow.
 * HS 443 (Katana) – Initially hung on the wall in Dave's room. Captchalogued on HS 443 (page 443) and finally put into his Strife Deck on HS 568 (page 568). The katana HS 1071 (was broken in half) during Dave's strife with his Bro, causing Dave's modus to change to HS 1083 (1/2bladekind).

Dreams
HS 1704 (Dave's dream bedroom) is bathed in red light. There are yellow and blue drawings of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff on his walls. The rooms was also shown to be filled with crows, but it's unclear weather this is because there were crows in his real bedroom at the time. There is a HS 1699 (Lil' Cal puppet) that moves and laughs seemingly of its own accord.

By the time Dave starts playing Sburb, his dream self has already been awake for quite some time. However, Dave is merely unaware of this and perhaps represses it subconsciously.

Exposition

 * Dave is born on HS 999 (December 3rd, 1995). He lives in an apartment with his older brother ("Bro") until 2009.
 * Dave befriends John, Rose, and Jade online via Pesterchum.
 * HS 22. Dave and his Bro both receive copies, but Dave doesn't want to play it, despite pestering from Rose to do so with her.
 * HS 1097 (On Dave's 13th birthday), he received Ben Stiller's shades from John as a birthday gift. On the same day, HS 1099 (he was trolled by) Tavros Nitram. However, Dave counter-trolls Tavros, causing Tavros to become uncomfortable and block Dave instead.
 * Dave buys HS 1661 (the stuffed rabbit used in the movie Con-Air) as a birthday gift for John. He mails it to him HS 1662 (with a letter) enclosed.

April 13th, 2009

 * Following HS 290 (a mishap with John's copy of the Sburb server), John and Rose try to HS 294 (get Dave to connect to Rose) with his own copy of the Sburb server.
 * HS 355 (Dave has his own mishap and loses both of his Sburb discs), killing a crow in the process. He instead tries to find his Bro's copies to use. He goes into his Bro's room and has HS 465 (a mild breakdown surrounded by his Bro's puppets). After this, he HS 419 (admits to Rose that John may be right) and that puppets are starting to unnerve him.
 * Dave HS 612 (finds a note from him telling Dave to meet him on the roof).
 * He HS 665 (ascends to the roof) and his brother is there with Lil' Cal. Bro HS 836 (immediately starts a Strife encounter). Dave fights back but is overpowered and HS 871 (pushed down a flight of stairs). He HS 1070 (comes back and tries to fight) but is defeated, his sword is breaking in two. The record decal on Dave's shirt is scratched. HS 1082 (Lil' Cal is also destroyed) in the scuffle. Bro gives Dave his copies of Sburb and flies off on a rocket board.
 * Dave HS 1146 (installs his Bro's copies of Sburb) to his own computer and connects to Rose. He deploys all the Phernalia necessary for Rose to enter the game. He picks up the Zazzerpan statue and uses it to open the Cruxtruder. He tosses the statue aside, toppling it over and breaking the hand off.
 * After Rose enters the LOLAR, HS 1393 (Dave attempts to get ahold of her). However, she's AFK. Instead, he opts for trying to read her GameFAQs walkthrough on Sburb so that he's up to speed, but the amount of text is too great and he gives up. Jade messages him and tells him that she will be connecting to him as his host player, but that he can finish his business as Rose's host first.
 * Jade tries to clean the apartment using the Sburb host interface, but HS 1405 (accidentally rips the toilet out of the floor). While holding the toilet above the roof, she has a narcoleptic episode and falls asleep, HS 1437 (causing the toilet to fall through the ceiling) and land on the Cruxtruder's lid, opening it.
 * Dave HS 1438 (argues with Jade about it), who is now asleep and not in her right mind. Dave has to pee due to drinking the apple juice earlier. He considers HS 1441 (pranking John by peeing in the empty apple juice bottle) and sending the captcha code for it to John for him to alchemize and drink. However, he decides that's too much work and just HS 1443 (pees in the shower).
 * While Dave is in the bathroom, Jade finds HS 1445 (the bird that Dave accidentally killed). Feeling bad for it, she prototypes its corpse into the Kernelsprite. Dave wakes Jade up by tricking her into HS 1448 (slapping herself awake) using the Dreambot.
 * Without Dave or Jade realizing it, Dave's kernelsprite has been taking loose objects and building HS 1507 (a nest on top of the building's radio tower). The kids proceed through the entry process and HS 1505 (alchemize Dave's cruxite artifact:) an egg. However, due to Jade placing the Alchemiter in a hard-to-reach location, Dave can't reach the egg before his Kernelsprite HS 1506 (steals it) and places it in the nest.
 * After Dave suggests he might try and microwave the cruxite egg, HS 1508 (Jade throws his microwave off the side of the building).
 * Jade and Dave discover that with each host–client connection, HS 1510 (the client gets more Build Grist and the host is given access to more phernalia to deploy). Jade deploys a new CD available from the Phernalia Registry. Dave HS 1518 (installs it to his computer), giving him access to GristTorrent. Dave uses GristTorrent to download Build Grist and Shale from John's grist cache. Jade also retrieve's Dave's lost Sburb copies from where they fell and HS 1511 (gives them back to him).
 * Jade uses this grist to HS 1557 (deploy the Punch Designix) in Dave's hallway. Dave punches a bunch of cards and takes them back to the Jumper Block Extension and experiments with the shunts. They find out that putting punched cards inside the Jumper Block Extension adds upgrades to the Alchemiter based on what artifacts the punched cards are for. Dave HS 1576 (upgrades his Alchemiter) with a Punch Designix, Holopad, Totem Lathe, Jumper Block Extension, and the enlarger from his photography setup.
 * Rose kills some imps and wounds an ogre, knocking it unconscious. HS 1588 (Dave pesters her) that he needs more grist to build up her house. He tries to get her to kill the ogre but Rose says killing it in its sleep would be unseemly. Both of them get messaged by trolls.
 * Dave is HS 1589 (trolled by) Kanaya Maryam. Kanaya asks Dave for advice on how to befriend Rose, to which Dave suggests she just say the opposite of everything she means. Immediately after, while working on a SBaHJ comic, Dave gets HS 1595 (trolled by) Tavros Nitram. He delivers a lengthy, clumsy rap towards Dave, who does not respond for the duration of the trolling.
 * After this scene, Rose and Dave HS 1737 (upgrade Rose's Alchemiter) offscreen. See Homestuck for more information on when exactly this happens.
 * At some point after becoming Rose's host, Dave sees that Rose has writing all over her walls. HS 1627 (He tells Jade that he'll tell Rose about it) but ultimately doesn't end up doing as such.
 * As the meteor approaches, HS 1632 (Dave tries to climb up the radio tower) to get the cruxite egg back. Nervously, HS 1628 (Rose messages Dave) trying to get him to send her a screencap of her bedroom. However, Dave is busy climbing and cannot respond.

Alpha Timeline

 * Dave enters the Medium, bringing along the rest of his apartment and the roof of the apartment building.
 * Dave's sprite suggests that he HS 1646 (tier-two prototype it with the remains of Lil' Cal). Dave HS 1637 (asks John for advice) on what to tier-two prototype his sprite with. John says to either ask Rose or listen to what his sprite suggests. John tells him he's going to blast off to his seventh gate. Dave says he's fucking something up, but doesn't stop him.
 * Here, the timeline splits. In one timeline, John is killed by his denizen. For that timeline, see: Davesprite's Timeline. Otherwise, the events of the alpha timeline are as follows:
 * HS 1648 (Another Dave appears from the future). This Dave comes from Davesprite's Timeline. He tells alpha timeline Dave to tell John not to go to his denizen's palace. John thinks Dave is trying to prank him and doesn't believe him. Future Dave HS 1650 (drops all of his captcha cards filled with artifacts) and jumps into the sprite, tier-two prototyping it with himself and becoming Davesprite.
 * Davesprite HS 1657 (messages Terezi) and tells her to stop telling John what to do. He tells Terezi that her attempting to divert the alpha timeline was an integral part of the alpha timeline's machinations the entire time and was thus partially responsible for whatever situation the trolls are stuck in. Davesprite and Terezi bond slightly by trading jokes.
 * Davesprite HS 1658 (lets Dave know some stuff about Sburb). He tells him that the gear he provided to Dave should help him easily get through the first couple of gates, and that eventually he'll unlock the ability to bring Davesprite with him down to the land.
 * HS 1666 (Dave pesters John) asking if he blasted off, to which John says he did, but that he won't enter the gate if Dave is telling him not to, because they're best bros.
 * Presumably, Davesprite tells Dave that John wants to talk to him. HS 1692 (Over Pesterchum), John tells Dave that he thinks he upset Davesprite by calling him "not the real Dave". Dave says Davesprite probably isn't upset because Davesprite is still Dave, and Dave says he himself wouldn't give a shit.
 * Dave comes to the computer and sees that Rose is asleep. HS 1693 (Dave tries to convince John to snoop around Rose's room) while she's sleeping.
 * On Derse, HS 1696 (Rose's dream self leaves her bedroom tower) and goes to Dave's room. HS 1700 (She throws a ball of yarn at him) to get his attention, which makes Dave's waking self HS 1701 (fall asleep). Dave and Rose's dream selves HS 1720 (jam out). Rose gets annoyed by Lil' Cal and HS 1722 (throws him out the window). Dave HS 1755 (feels little remorse) for the loss of the puppet.

Davesprite's Timeline
The following events take place in the timeline where John goes to fight his denizen early and is killed.


 * John HS 1643 (goes to his denizen's palace early and is killed). Because John then can't connect to Jade as her host, Jade is also presumed to be killed by a meteor strike.
 * Dave tier-two prototypes his sprite HS 1642 (with Lil' Cal).
 * Dave eventually unlocks the ability to time travel. Him and Rose HS 1643 (hatch on a plan): they'll progress further through Sburb and learn as much about the game as possible. When they've gone as far as possible, Dave will go back in time and stop John from dying, as well as give past Dave all of his loot and tier-two prototype himself instead of Lil' Cal.
 * Four months go by. In this time, Dave and Rose get no contact from the trolls. Rose's dream self awakens. The two also realize that Dave's dream self has been awakened the entire time without either of them realizing it. Dave has a new sword, and is wearing a white suit with his symbol on it and computerized sunglasses that he uses to talk with Rose.
 * Rose implies that Dave became conscious of his dream self at some point and came to visit Rose's dream self on Derse.
 * Dave decides it's finally time to go back and save John. Rose ponders what will happen to her and the rest of the timeline after Dave changes the future. Dave suggests she fall asleep and try to survive the timeline change as her dream self.
 * Dave goes back in time to HS 1646 (this moment) before John blasts off to his seventh gate.

Mythological Role
Dave is the HS 1592 (Knight of Time).

Dave is hesitant to play Sburb. He is only made to do so after pestering from his friends that Rose's life is in danger. This inaction goes against the aspect of Time.

Rhetorically, the caption on this page of Dave reads HS 1084 ("It's like what are you made of time").

Trivia

 * Dave and Jade are the only two beta humans to have their strife specibi allocated before being introduced. This is due to both of them having been trained for combat before the start of the comic.
 * A HS 310 (sword) is used during Dave's introduction, but this is before Dave has captchalogued any swords to use to begin with, so it may not be canon.
 * HS 1099 (The wedding Dave describes he's going to have with Tavros) resembles that of a Jewish wedding ceremony.
 * Dave draws Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comics HS 1149 (using MS Paint and a mouse), and exports the files with the lowest file size.