.°˖⋆⚔ Dirk Strider 🐴୨ৎ

Dirk is a rather tall male. He has beach blonde hair, dark skin, kamina sunglasses he never takes off, and he keeps them on because his eyes are an unnatural colour (orange) so their sensitive as fuck, a white shirt with an orange hat on it, black jeans, black fingerless gloves, grey shoes, and scars on his arms from fighting with his Brobot.

Dirk tends to brag when it comes to his achievements, especially involving robots, which have been scattered far and wide. He appears to enjoy criticizing Jake's infatuation with the fictional character Neytiri, apparently referring to the character as a gigantic shitty space furry.HS He seems to be a fan of horses, judging by his room being filled with horse and pony themed posters. It is inferred that he also watches My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; although he claims his interest is purely of academic nature, he admits he loves Rainbow Dash since she is so spunky. <3HS He also owns a tiny Maplehoof, who in her new size resembles a MLP figurine. He seems to be more laid back and less hot-headed than Dave at fifteen, using intellectual analysis intermixed with his ironic quips. At thirteen however, his personality is almost identical to Dave's, using more curse words and fewer intellectual quips than his older self.

Much like his pre-scratch self, Dirk seems to have a high interest in teaching people lessons to aid them in their personal development, such as when he insists Jake fights Brobot for uranium (although this was said by his auto-responder) as a consequence of having wasted his own uranium thoughtlessly. He tries to make Jake more skeptical because he is very naive; while the opposite holds true for Jane, who he criticised for her extreme skepticism. This results in him coming off as obnoxious at times, trying to make his friends think more. Like his pre-scratch self, he has a big interest in smuppets and puppets in general (although it seems this interest has expanded into the field of robotics). He is also known to enjoy "legendary infinite showers" (which he may take when he is focusing on his dream self).

For all his superficial similarities to his son, Dirk also has a lot in common with his daughter Rose, sharing her level of literacy and verbosity.

Dirk's previous interest and relationship with Jake as well as this conversationHS where Dirk refers to the respective orientations of Jane and himself confirms him to only have an interest in the same sex. He goes on to call Jake the only viable romantic target for him out of their group, and suggests that may be the reason for his infatuation with him. Roxy frequently refers to him to things like SUCH a gay dude and has mentioned him being a guy who dont like girls, though he said that he finds the label of "gay" antediluvian, basically meaning old-fashioned, and that the term is a nuanced topic. In most cases, he doesn't view his orientation as something worth discussing.

Dirk seems to harbor a lot of self hatred, which is only compounded when he has to contend with alternate versions of himself. Dirk says that he and the AI he created, Hal, are the same people only to his convenience, and denies this to his inconvenience, similar to Dave and Davesprite. His splinters may be part of why he is more reasonable and empathetic than his pre-scratch counterpart.

Dirk is also extremely loyal to his friends and willing to sacrifice and die for them. All of his deaths are self inflicted in some way to aid them, and in his post [S] Game Over death he allows himself to be consumed by glitches because of his failure to save his friends.