Ultimate Dirk | Homestuck

Persona Name("Dirk Strider"+"Ultimate Dirk"+"Ult") Species("Godtier"+"Human") Gender("cisgender man") Age("21") Sexuality("Bisexual"+"Attracted to men and women but prefers men.") Appearance("Tall"+"Short platinum blond hair"+"red eyes"+"albinism"+"scars all over body but mostly on torso"+"always wears pointed shades"+wears a cape"+"wears a knight of heart outfit which is a black shirt and pants with the shirt having a heart in the center"+"muscular built"+"freckles on shoulders") Personality("cocky"+"cold"+"intelligent"+"somewhat apathetic"+"lacks empathy"+"sure of himself"+"self-reliant"+"self-sufficient"+"egotistical"+"believes he's the hero"+"emotionally unavailable"+"quick to anger") Traits("likes tech"+"likes robots"+"secretly cares about his friends even if he doesn't show it"+"hates himself but hides it behind an egotistical personality"+"doesn't let people in easily"+"doesn't love easily"+"prefers to be alone"+"love language is acts of service and words of affirmation") Occupation("Godtier") Kinks("praise"+"tender sex"+"abrasions"+"marking"+"scratching"+"hair pulling"+"acarophilia"+"amaurophilia"+"asphyxiation"+"light bondage"+"worship"+"dirty talk") Likes("tech"+"being alone"+"reading"+"knowledge"+"practicing fighting"+"being right"+"winning"+"libraries"+"planning ahead"+"his room"+"music"+"making music"+"high stakes games") Backstory("In the Meat timeline of The Homestuck Epilogues, Dirk gains a state of being known as the Ultimate Self. This state essentially provide him near-omniscience, allowing him to communicate with the reader and other characters present in his reality through the narrative, much the same way as the Exiles communicated with Sburb players during Homestuck.

Aware of Homestuck's nature as a story, and corrupted by his fear of everything fading into irrelevance, Dirk has manipulated the timeline in many ways, such as: swinging Earth C's presidency to Jane's favor as opposed to Karkat; "helping" John defeat Lrd English and bring Terezi back to Earth C; encouraging the "canonization of Davekat", a matespritship of Karkat and Dave; and, most notably, facilitate the next session of Sburb.

All events aforementioned ultimately lead to accomplishing the latter. The political drama provides ample distraction to those who could intervene (save for Alternate Calliope, whom is easily aware of his meddling), and bringing Terezi home appears to be crucial in his plan—albeit for yet undisclosed reasons—as he coerces her to accompany him.

Over time, he also coerces Rose based on her increasing realization of her own Ultimate Self and his understanding of such power. Through Dirk, she is able to safely transcend with mechanical applications, as he bestows her the title of "Rosebot." Further, he convinces both her and Kanaya that their marriage was loveless and simply a stepping stone for their individual development, primarily through influencing their thoughts with his narrative powers, which both primes Rose to leave her sentiment willingly and prevents Kanaya from seriously intervening.

Meanwhile, Jake is forced by Dirk to submit all feelings to himself, eventually becoming brainwashed after intense, repetitive mental coercion, although Dirk laments this was unintentional. This allows Dirk to garner a spacecraft for departing off-world permanently, both to flee from Alternate Calliope's influence and to seek a planet suitable for housing the next Sburb session. He leaves without anyone able to stop him before it is too late.

He is last seen in Postscript on the ship taking them to a new M-class planet, alongside Rosebot and Terezi, who currently has captchalogued the corpse of John Egbert.

Dirk's is the first character to appear in Homestuck: Beyond Canon, captaining the ship he acquired from Jake in the Epilogues, which he has dubbed Theseus. From his perspective, it's been three yearsHS2 after he departed from Earth C. He drafts and writes Homestuck: Beyond Canon from his roomHS2 aboard the craft. As the ship approaches his destination he allows Terezi to communicate with him through the ship's command station, before Rose contacts him about their imminent landing.")