Dave Strider

Dave Strider is one of the main characters of the popular webcomic Homestuck, and a character in the Chaos RP controlled by DarkAlex06. Dave is a self-proclaimed "cool kid" obsessed with irony. He is also the Knight of Time.

His associated symbol is a slashed record.

Early life
Dave was raised by his adoptive brother, who also happened to be his genetic father. He was physically and emotionally abused by him, being forced to fight him under the disguise of "training", and he was often starved by him.

Homestuck
Dave was one of the many players of the video game Sburb, which he played alongside his friends John, Rose (Dave's sister), and Jade. He was the third to enter the game.

During his time in the game, Dave gained time travelling abilities due to his status as the Knight of Time, which he would use to cheat the game's money system and be able to make proper time loops. He does enough time travelling that he spends 3 days longer than the others in the game.

After finding out his 'Bro' is dead, Dave realizes that he must face his mortality and begins to quit using time travel as much. He accompanies Rose after he discovers that she is going on a suicide mission to destroy a massive star known as the Green Sun, which is powering up a demon known as Bec Noir, not knowing that they are being manipulated.

The plan ends up killing them both, but they are quickly ressurrected after ascending to godhood, as the Knight of Time. Dave and Rose meet up with the remaining Trolls, Aradia and Sollux pushing the meteor away, leaving them stranded on it until they arrive at a new universe.

They spend 3 years on the meteor, and Dave ends up in a romantic relationship with Karkat, despite their massive differences. Dave learns that the people they are going to meet at the end of their journey are younger versions of the kids' guardians.

When they finally arrive in the other universe, Dave is sent off to fight two alternate versions of Bec Noir. Dave and Dirk, the alternate version of his adoptive brother, have a heart-to-heart about their respective childhoods, which ends in them restoring their sibling relationship. Dave and Dirk fight the alternate Noirs alongside Terezi, eventually killing them both.

After the battle, the players have successfully won the game, and have now been given access to their own universe.

In the Knitterverse
However, Dave's happy ending doesn't last long as he is sent inside the Knitterverse along with Karkat and Dirk.

They spend quite some time inside the Knitterverse, getting an apartment and exploring some of it's parts. Eventually, Dirk decides to head off on his own, leaving Dave and Karkat to fend for themselves and search for the Needles, with little success.

At some point, however, while taking a so-called nap, they end up in some sort of void, along with Roxy and Hachi. However, not long after, Hachi and Roxy both dissapear, Roxy telling the both of them to meet her at the river clearing. They then wake up.

They then meet up with Roxy.

Personality
Dave is, at first glance, the stereotype cool guy. He is obsessed with being "ironic" and puts up the image of nothing bothering him, and he can be quite an asshole at times. He often makes sarcastic jokes and teases those he cares about.

But of course, everyone wears costumes. The "cool guy" personality is mainly what he was expected to be like growing up, although now he doesn't do it much anymore. He is quite scared of facing his own mortality and has fears of his own, like a large fear of puppets due to his upbringing.

He has frequent habits, most of those being picked up from other people, especially Karkat. Some of those habits include grumbling under his breath, frequently using long words, and getting angry when he finds things dumb or confusing.

Dave is also quite forgetful, and cares a lot about animals, his favourite animals being birds, especially crows. He also loves turntables, music, paleontology, and movies. He apparently does not follow any religion, believing every religion is wrong, despite the fact that he is technically a god himself.

On his own

 * Enhanced Swordsmanship: Due to his extensive swordsmanship training, Dave is naturally capable of using blades and swords very easily.
 * Broken Weapon Proficiency: Dave is also capable of using broken weapons such as broken blades very easily, due to training swordsmanship all his life.


 * Flash Step: Taught to him by his 'Bro', Dave is capable of going so fast that all that is left behind is just an afterimage, as if he has teleported. He does not use this ability very much anymore, however, due to bad prior experiences.
 * Flight: Due to his status as a god, Dave is capable of flying.
 * Time Manipulation: Thanks to his status as a Time player, Dave is capable of manipulating time in different ways. A Knight of Time is one who equips themselves with time so they can protect it. This allows Dave to utilize chronokinesis in the ways listed below.
 * Time Travel: Dave is capable of going back in time to specific moments. However, he mainly uses this ability to prevent paradoxes and create stable time loops.
 * Temporal Duplication: When time travelling, Dave becomes a time duplicate, technically. Daves from other timelines are also capable of travelling into the 'alpha' one, so many Daves can exist at once, as long as they do not cause a paradox.
 * Time Reduction: Dave is capable of slowing down time, either for himself or for others, although he mainly uses this ability on others.
 * Temporal Awareness: Dave is able to sense when someone is altering the time stream.
 * Conditional Immortality: As Dave is a god, he is unable to be killed.. Most of the time. If Dave dies in a way that is heroic, like sacrificing himself to stop a greater evil, or just, like dying while being corrupted, he will die for good unless revived by someone else.

With assistance

 * Space-Time Attacks: With the help of Jade, Dave can perform Adagio Redshift, a move which allows the two of them to distort space and time, creating cracks in the sky, unleashing a powerful attack inherited by the first guardians.
 * Time Fusion: With the help of Terezi, Dave is capable of merging different timelines together, and thus can bring the memories, position, and/or subconcious of an alternate timeline with them, and place them into the 'prime' timeline.
 * Alternate Timeline Travelling: With the help of Terezi, Dave can also travel to and see alternate timelines, even having the ability to take his alternate self's position, and change the timeline to become the 'prime' timeline once again.

Equipment

 * Fetch Modus: A set of cards that operate like an inventory system, which allows Dave to store objects and later take them out again.
 * Suitarangs:  A large set of card-themed throwing stars.
 * iShades: A set of sunglasses that hold a computer inside of them, seperate from the sunglasses that he uses most of the time. It has an Apple logo on the middle.
 * Strife Deck: Similar to the Fetch Modus, a Strife Deck is a set of cards that operates similarly to a 'Weapon' slot in RPG games.
 * Bladekind/½bladekind: Dave's primary Strife Specibus is bladekind and ½bladekind, meaning he can use any kind of blade. Using his Timetables, he is also capable of switching between both, drastically changing his fight style every time.
 * Katana/Broken Katana: A regular katana, broken after a sword fight Dave had with his 'bro' at age 13.
 * Caledfwlch: Dave's main sword, created from one of his older swords and a magic cue ball. It is also an incredibly powerful sword, capable of killing those far beyond Dave's power, with it being Lord English's only weakness.
 * Caledscratch: A sword that has no true 'form', Caledscratch is a sword capable of taking it's user anywhere in it's timeline, to points where it was broken, unbroken, old, and rusted.
 * Snoop Dogg Snow Cone Machete: Don't even bother asking at all. The sword is capable of freezing anyone it hits in a block of ice.
 * SORD....: A sword that is somehow so shitty and so .jpeg-y that Dave has a hard time even holding it, and can't be used for damage at all.
 * Timetables: A pair of records floating on rotating gears, that, when it's records are scratched, allows Dave to control the flow of time, like jumping to different positions in the timeline. He is able to summon them without his Fetch Modus, thanks to his title.
 * Turntop: A variation of the Timetables, that has keyboards on the records, and a floating, portable computer in-between the actual records themselves.

Trivia

 * The sprite used in the infobox is made by strxderz on Twitter.
 * His theme is "ill probably just name this one something normal oh no aw beans" by James Roach.
 * Dave does not want to remove his shades as his eyes are abnormally red.
 * His hair is also blonde, according to Andrew Hussie.
 * According to the official SBAHJ book, Dave is also white.
 * According to the Homestuck Epilogues, Dave is bisexual, which is hinted at many times in mainline Homestuck.
 * While Dave is 21 years old towards the end of Homestuck, this Dave is taken from right after the Ultimate Reward, meaning that he is 16 years old.
 * Dave is portrayed as "0: The Fool" on the official Homestuck tarot card deck.
 * On the VS Battles Wiki, Dave is depicted as being 2-A.