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FIRST IMPRESSIONS
CANON: Homestuck
NAME: Dirk Strider
SPECIES: Genetically Cloned Human
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis male (he/him)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Gay
HEIGHT: 6'3
AGE: 21
VISUAL: Muscular, extremely fit, pale, platinum blonde hair, orange eyes, large amount of freckles, prominent scar around neck from decapitation, scars over rest of body from practicing with swords. He consistently wears his triangular sunglasses and can often be seen with fingerless leather gloves. Dirk has a canonical tattoo, but additionally, I figure he has both his ears pierced with gauges and cuffs.
AURAL: A deep Texan drawl.
OLFACTORY: Citrus and occasionally like gasoline/oil and cigarette smoke.
SUMMARY OF PERSONALITY: Extremely confident, relaxed in his own skin, calm and collected, almost bored. Comes across as cool and distant. He can be outright rude, and mean, and has a crass, sarcastic sense of humor. He is an aggressive guy who can easily intimidate those around him without meaning to. He has an intense way about him. Highly intelligent and has no problem making you feel small because of it. Anyone with any sense of awareness could feel how powerful Dirk is and most tend to feel watched/overanalyzed by Dirk.
IN CHARACTER
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Fine to give! Dirk doesn't dish out too much affection back though. He can be affectionate with close friends who instigate it.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Hell yeah. Dirk loves to fight and is incredibly good at it.
ROMANCE/SHIPPING: M|M only. Down for canon or crosscanon shipping. Might take some time to develop but also maybe not? Depends.
CANON SHIPS: Good with MlM ships. Canonically he has only been romantically involved with Jake English. I play Dirk from long after they broke up but it is a relationship he regularly thinks about. I enjoy DirkKat, DirkJohn, Stridercest, and p much am open to anything else.
SMUT: M|M only. Hell yeah though. Dirk is very open with his sexuality and enjoys kink and intense sex. He's open to one-night stands/hook-ups/friends with benefits. Also into monogamous, long-term relationships. Can check out Dirk's kink list here.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS FROM DIRK'S STORYLINE/CANON:
➞ Heavy Suicide/Suicidal Ideology
➞ Decapitation
➞ Themes of self-harm and intense self-hatred
➞ Emotional manipulation
➞ Gaslighting/Other signs of emotional abuse
➞ Graphic sexual innuendos and way of talking. Regular explicit NSFW jokes including sex jokes about zoophilia/bdsm/other unusual kinks
➞ Sex addiction/allusions of sex addiction
➞ Pornography/Sex Work
➞ Fetish/Kink Discussions
➞ Child Abuse/Death (Psychological/Physical)
➞ Light mentions of animal death
➞ Bullying to the Extreme/abusive relationships among same-aged individuals
➞ Unhealthy relationship dynamics
➞ Strong Language
➞ Graphic depictions of violence/gore
➞ Body horror
➞ Incest/Incestuous humor/references
➞ Monster/Lovecraftian type horror
➞ Mentions/Symptoms of anxiety, paranoia, psychosis, and/or depression
➞ Underage/Of-Age smoking/drinking/drugs or mentions of
➞ Substance abuse
➞ Torture/Gore/General Violence
➞ Normalized social violence/attitudes towards death
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Hell yeah. Dirk loves to fight and is incredibly good at it.
ROMANCE/SHIPPING: M|M only. Down for canon or crosscanon shipping. Might take some time to develop but also maybe not? Depends.
CANON SHIPS: Good with MlM ships. Canonically he has only been romantically involved with Jake English. I play Dirk from long after they broke up but it is a relationship he regularly thinks about. I enjoy DirkKat, DirkJohn, Stridercest, and p much am open to anything else.
SMUT: M|M only. Hell yeah though. Dirk is very open with his sexuality and enjoys kink and intense sex. He's open to one-night stands/hook-ups/friends with benefits. Also into monogamous, long-term relationships. Can check out Dirk's kink list here.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS FROM DIRK'S STORYLINE/CANON:
➞ Heavy Suicide/Suicidal Ideology
➞ Decapitation
➞ Themes of self-harm and intense self-hatred
➞ Emotional manipulation
➞ Gaslighting/Other signs of emotional abuse
➞ Graphic sexual innuendos and way of talking. Regular explicit NSFW jokes including sex jokes about zoophilia/bdsm/other unusual kinks
➞ Sex addiction/allusions of sex addiction
➞ Pornography/Sex Work
➞ Fetish/Kink Discussions
➞ Child Abuse/Death (Psychological/Physical)
➞ Light mentions of animal death
➞ Bullying to the Extreme/abusive relationships among same-aged individuals
➞ Unhealthy relationship dynamics
➞ Strong Language
➞ Graphic depictions of violence/gore
➞ Body horror
➞ Incest/Incestuous humor/references
➞ Monster/Lovecraftian type horror
➞ Mentions/Symptoms of anxiety, paranoia, psychosis, and/or depression
➞ Underage/Of-Age smoking/drinking/drugs or mentions of
➞ Substance abuse
➞ Torture/Gore/General Violence
➞ Normalized social violence/attitudes towards death
PRINCE OF HEART
Dirk is at god tier level in Homestuck as well as conditioned by a really fucking weird canon. He has a wide variety of abilities and is generally considered to be one of the biggest threats out there. Here's a general wiki of his abilities from what we have seen, but I've written up a sweet and short version of how we see these powers working in canon here. I've also left out some abilities that are sort of irrelevant outside of Homestuck.
Basic Abilities
Heightened Speed: Extremely fast. When attacking, can travel at nearly supersonic speeds. Situationally based on when he is fighting. In more casual settings in enclosed spaces, he can flash step which is him moving in a flurry of blurred motion and looking like he's hardly moving.
Heightened Attacks/Strength: Has the attack ability strong enough to level small-scale buildings. This does seem to only really be active when he's fighting rather than him just being overly strong all the time. Video game logic?
Heightened Durability: Can withstand being thrown through buildings and taking a serious beating that would kill a typical person. Not impervious to damage though and can get injured/bloodied up.
God Tier Abilities
"The Prince of Heart destroys emotions and the soul itself. They can literally destroy the emotions of others as well as themselves. Making them feel nothing and hollow. Along with the power to attack the soul itself and destroy the very fabric of a person's being."
Dirk is the Prince of Heart which translates roughly to "Destroyer of Souls" for his role in the game. The majority of his god-tier abilities are specific to this role.
Flight: Capable of basic flight.
Semi-Omniscent Intelligence: Dirk is canonically a genius and this combined with how his god-tier abilities work and his general obsession with controlling everything and everyone means he tends to have a finger in every pot, so to speak. This can enable him to have what appears to be an "omnipresent" intelligence/presence. However, Dirk actually isn't that great at multitasking and can often zone out if he's too occupied elsewhere. Additionally, if an alternate self is knocked out/killed, Dirk will be dazed and take a while to refocus.
Conditional Immortality: God Tiers can only die if by a "just" or "heroic" death meaning Dirk can only really die if he dies saving someone or in order to do a greater good. He cannot die from natural causes/aging. Dirk's most common form of death involves him sacrificing himself when occupying his splintered selves. Dirk can be more quickly resurrected if someone kisses his corpse's mouth. Otherwise, it takes a few minutes for him to come back.
Splinters/Incorporeal Entities: Capable of manifesting/replicating and controlling "splinters" of his soul. Unlike the other kids, he was able to simultaneously control his dream self and his waking self. Once a splinter has been killed, it cannot be resurrected. Dirk's splinters do not have immortality the way the real Dirk does.
Some cannot do any physical damage period as they sometimes may only appear in someone's dream or mind as a sort of Brain Ghost version of Dirk. He seems to maintain consistent "splinters" of himself until they are destroyed. Some of his splintered selves seem to be a product of the whacky timeline shenanigans in canon. Canonically, he has been known to have up to 3-4 splinters at one time.
This process is essentially Dirk replicating his soul and splitting it apart from himself to have it manifest separately from him, but still under his own control, so these splinters are not self-sustaining beings or individual people (though Dirk sure argues with them like they are). They are parts of Dirk and can only exist as long as Dirk exists and can only be controlled through Dirk's personal choices. Most will function on autopilot without his control or be completely shut down.
Soul Manipulation/Destruction: He can remove someone's soul in a very agonizing manner which effectively kills them. This is a slow process and if he is interrupted, the soul will go back into the person. He is also capable of removing someone's soul and putting it somewhere else such as when he puts Caliborn into Lil Cal to form a juju.
Resistance to Mental Manipulation: Considering Dirk keeps his mind spread between multiple versions of himself, it's understandable that he is naturally difficult to mentally manipulate. For a psychic, it would be like trying to catch smoke.
Heightened Speed: Extremely fast. When attacking, can travel at nearly supersonic speeds. Situationally based on when he is fighting. In more casual settings in enclosed spaces, he can flash step which is him moving in a flurry of blurred motion and looking like he's hardly moving.
Heightened Attacks/Strength: Has the attack ability strong enough to level small-scale buildings. This does seem to only really be active when he's fighting rather than him just being overly strong all the time. Video game logic?
Heightened Durability: Can withstand being thrown through buildings and taking a serious beating that would kill a typical person. Not impervious to damage though and can get injured/bloodied up.
"The Prince of Heart destroys emotions and the soul itself. They can literally destroy the emotions of others as well as themselves. Making them feel nothing and hollow. Along with the power to attack the soul itself and destroy the very fabric of a person's being."
Dirk is the Prince of Heart which translates roughly to "Destroyer of Souls" for his role in the game. The majority of his god-tier abilities are specific to this role.
Flight: Capable of basic flight.
Semi-Omniscent Intelligence: Dirk is canonically a genius and this combined with how his god-tier abilities work and his general obsession with controlling everything and everyone means he tends to have a finger in every pot, so to speak. This can enable him to have what appears to be an "omnipresent" intelligence/presence. However, Dirk actually isn't that great at multitasking and can often zone out if he's too occupied elsewhere. Additionally, if an alternate self is knocked out/killed, Dirk will be dazed and take a while to refocus.
Conditional Immortality: God Tiers can only die if by a "just" or "heroic" death meaning Dirk can only really die if he dies saving someone or in order to do a greater good. He cannot die from natural causes/aging. Dirk's most common form of death involves him sacrificing himself when occupying his splintered selves. Dirk can be more quickly resurrected if someone kisses his corpse's mouth. Otherwise, it takes a few minutes for him to come back.
Splinters/Incorporeal Entities: Capable of manifesting/replicating and controlling "splinters" of his soul. Unlike the other kids, he was able to simultaneously control his dream self and his waking self. Once a splinter has been killed, it cannot be resurrected. Dirk's splinters do not have immortality the way the real Dirk does.
Some cannot do any physical damage period as they sometimes may only appear in someone's dream or mind as a sort of Brain Ghost version of Dirk. He seems to maintain consistent "splinters" of himself until they are destroyed. Some of his splintered selves seem to be a product of the whacky timeline shenanigans in canon. Canonically, he has been known to have up to 3-4 splinters at one time.
This process is essentially Dirk replicating his soul and splitting it apart from himself to have it manifest separately from him, but still under his own control, so these splinters are not self-sustaining beings or individual people (though Dirk sure argues with them like they are). They are parts of Dirk and can only exist as long as Dirk exists and can only be controlled through Dirk's personal choices. Most will function on autopilot without his control or be completely shut down.
Soul Manipulation/Destruction: He can remove someone's soul in a very agonizing manner which effectively kills them. This is a slow process and if he is interrupted, the soul will go back into the person. He is also capable of removing someone's soul and putting it somewhere else such as when he puts Caliborn into Lil Cal to form a juju.
Resistance to Mental Manipulation: Considering Dirk keeps his mind spread between multiple versions of himself, it's understandable that he is naturally difficult to mentally manipulate. For a psychic, it would be like trying to catch smoke.
OUT OF CHARACTER
BACKTAGGING: I prefer to keep tags up to date.
THREADHOPPING: With permission.
FOURTHWALLING: Yes.
GAMES: N/A
INTERESTED IN: Always down for casual shipping/smut stuff on memes/psls, etc. I love comedic threads, casual texting. Very open to intense relationships based on antagonistic interactions. Dirk can be downright mean and if he feels someone could gain something, he might push them towards that regardless of how he does it. He does serve as a brother-like figure to many people, younger or older than him (or his same age). Really open to platonic friendships. He is somewhat socially awkward and can struggle with making connections with people. He can pick fights and wouldn't think twice about it.
NOT INTERESTED IN: Poly shipping, cheating, open relationships, rape, or gay/lesbian with "exception" plots.
THREADHOPPING: With permission.
FOURTHWALLING: Yes.
GAMES: N/A
INTERESTED IN: Always down for casual shipping/smut stuff on memes/psls, etc. I love comedic threads, casual texting. Very open to intense relationships based on antagonistic interactions. Dirk can be downright mean and if he feels someone could gain something, he might push them towards that regardless of how he does it. He does serve as a brother-like figure to many people, younger or older than him (or his same age). Really open to platonic friendships. He is somewhat socially awkward and can struggle with making connections with people. He can pick fights and wouldn't think twice about it.
NOT INTERESTED IN: Poly shipping, cheating, open relationships, rape, or gay/lesbian with "exception" plots.
PLAYER
NAME: Milk
PRONOUNS: He/Him - They/Them
AGE: 30+
CONTACT:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
brainmeat
OPT-OUT: Here.
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Quick-medium paced. Sometimes can be slow due to health issues.
BRACKETS/PROSE: I automatically write in brackets, but I will match my partner's style.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Discussions of sexual abuse/trauma, non-detailed mentions of animal violence/death, mentions/jokes about weed, pics of spiders.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: Descriptive animal violence/abuse (including hunting), active use of weed.
PRONOUNS: He/Him - They/Them
AGE: 30+
CONTACT:
OPT-OUT: Here.
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Quick-medium paced. Sometimes can be slow due to health issues.
BRACKETS/PROSE: I automatically write in brackets, but I will match my partner's style.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Discussions of sexual abuse/trauma, non-detailed mentions of animal violence/death, mentions/jokes about weed, pics of spiders.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: Descriptive animal violence/abuse (including hunting), active use of weed.
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