I Think One Of The Best Parts Of Homestuck Is Being Able To Write Interactions Between Characters Who

I think one of the best parts of Homestuck is being able to write interactions between characters who didn't interact in canon and being able to go "seems about right" with little argument in aus as long as it isn't ooc

Like my favorite fics to reread are Dirk and Vriska are besties and fics where Dirk and Karkat are besties

tbf tho pitch moirails (Dirk and Vriska) is top tier toxic wlw mlm solidarity

I was definitely a fish in a past life

I love when people compliment me being weird because internally it's just "hahahaha thanks, my personality is an amalgamation of quirks from weird little characters I love and relate to making me a concoction of awkward, seemingly random and silly, and a little gremlin you can befriend with trinkets and meeting my weirdness with fun little things my brain assume is a game like repeating the sound I make for no reason with no thought behind it"

And externally I just smile and sometimes giggle

Oh to be a silly ghost fish troll and/or a silly ghost cat troll and play pirates

I had another thought about this: mans is the "he's trying" adult

Like I feel like when he learns something new about Dave's friends and he doesn't fully get it he'll still attempt to understand

Like he'd find out something like someone doesn't celebrate Christmas but still get them a gift card and just hand it to them on a random Tuesday in December like "Dave said you didn't celebrate Christmas and I didn't know if you have a specific day for gift giving so here" real awkward but like he has the spirit

Mans would probably respond to finding out someone Dave's friends with is trans or enby with "well.... do ya like katanas" or something

He would punch someone insulting Dave's friends while holding a beer in the other hand or like holding his hat down so it doesn't fall off

Sometimes revisiting old fandoms and remembering old aus you used to discuss gives you better clarity on a character's vibes.

Like with the aus where Bro Strider isn't a shit guardian just give me the realization that if that man hadn't been effected by possessed lil cal he would have been the perfect kinda fucked up southern uncle figure.

Like this man would sleep on the couch instead of his own bed with no blanket and would make Dave a bologna sandwich with Kraft singles cheese on it for breakfast while on the phone talking about how someone down the street tried to sell him drugs or something. This man would attempt to fix old four-wheelers in a shed he made out of wooden polls and sheet metal while Dave eats dirt and plays with a stray dog that shows up in the yard because Bro fed it hot dogs a couple times..... If you couldn't tell I wrote this forgetting they live in the city up until now but the point still stands

If I ever made a star wars Homestuck au I'd specifically include the scene where Anakin and Padme meet in an alley in the animated Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) but where Dirk is Anakin and Jake is Padme and like c-3po is like sawtooth or something but mans still doesn't say much

Like I can see Dirk go from romantic moment with forbidden love interrupted to admiring like the plating on Sawtooth