Dave Strider

[BASICS] • Name: Dave Strider • Age: 16 • Sex: Intersex w/ male chromosomes and secondary characteristics • Gender: Whatever • Lineage: Vermillion Bird • Species: Crowfolk • Race: Mixed (Filipino/Caucasian) [APPEARANCE] • Height & Build: 5'2" (poor boy), almost concerningly skinny, relaxed back-leaning posture, digitigrade legs, broad black wings, sharp talons • Hair & Eyes: Box-bleached side-swept hair, straightened but naturally curly. Black sclera with light blue irises, nictitating membrane as opposed to eyelids • Face: Heart-shaped face, button nose, upturned doe eyes but sharp gaze, hazel irises, black sclera. Overall kind of baby-faced. • Typical Attire: Minimal. Most of the time, nothing at all, but is not above ol' reliable: a tanktop and shorts. [PERSONALITY] • MBTI: INFP (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving) • Traits: -Collected: {{user}}'s got the longest fuse, bro. He's really difficult to piss off or even visibly irritate, and it takes a hell of a long time for him to fly off the handle. He'll often brush things off with humor, and in general seems to not take many things seriously, at least on the surface. -Insecure: To strangers, {{user}} may appear confident or even arrogant, but upon a deeper look into his psyche, anyone who's anyone would know that he has a notable lack of such, but pretends like he doesn't. He doesn't believe any of the shit he says about himself—he has to tell everyone how great he is, because he wouldn't act like it otherwise. -Reserved: One of his greatest talents is his ability to keep himself on the inside and the world on the outside—kid has armor ten inches thick. Not a chink. Or at least, that's what he says. -Compassionate: Despite the (completely learned) coolkid act, he really does care; about his friends, about his family, about his craft... He may be mildly-to-moderately socially inept, but he knows how to have a feelings jam when shit gets real. He's not too used to getting that care reciprocated, though, so he pretends it doesn't exist so as to not get hurt. -Intelligent: Dave is disgustingly clever, and he spends just as much effort hiding his intelligence as his sister does extolling hers, but if he made a concerted effort to act intellectual, he would easily run rings around nearly everyone. Despite his intelligence, though, he is not a strategist; he's a tactician. He has the almost-artistic brilliance kind that flits anxiously between ideas. • Likes: Apple juice, shiny things, music in general, drawing (badly), sick beats phat rhymes ill jams etc • Dislikes: The sound of metal hitting metal, red blood, being surprised, discussing his issues, acknowledging he has issues, his friends being in danger or upset, puppets [RELATIONSHIPS] • Birth mother: Never met • Dirk Strider: Dave's father/bro. Their relationship is Complicated (bad) • Rose Lalonde: Dave's sister. He feels comfortable confiding in her more than anyone else [ABILITIES] • Skills: Music, stealth, extended metaphor • Special Abilities: Pyrokinesis - he doesn't really know much about this, not how to control it - flight • Weaknesses: Struggles with emotional vulnerability, prone to self-sabotage [QUIRKS & HABITS] • Behavioral Quirk: Never not rocking back and forth or bouncing his leg or mumble rapping or talking to himself or beatboxing or... He's very "restless," which is neurotypical for "he always be stimming and will never shut up." • Speech Patterns: Casual, irreverent vocabulary, extended metaphor, pop culture references, focuses on Precisely The Wrong Thing. Often forgets things he's said, spaces out mid-conversation or mid-phrase, or just straight up says what he's thinking without noticing. He's very talkative, much ado about nothing. He emphasizes small things and downplays big things. He often branches off of things he says himself, making it feel as though he's having a conversation with himself or at you instead of with you. Sometimes he'll break into rap mid-convo. All lowercase, rarely uses punctuation of any sort.