Despite not having even talked to Jake to learn his opinions on what transpired between them, Dirk routinely asserts that he is a toxic individual who bullied Jake into a relationship, assuming that Jake had no agency of his own and hated every moment of their time together. I just disagree with this specific reading. Imagine never growing up with a single hug. Deprived face to face human interaction for your entire life. Imagine realizing you are the last person on earth, and imagine having that endless horizon of loneliness broken by friends who seem to actually care about who you are.
Dirk definitely gets a little condescending with his friends. Without a doubt. Roxy suggests in early A6A5 that Dirk and Jake, once the session started, were practically inseparable, which explains a lot of why Jake finally got overwhelmed and ran for the hills. He gets to hang out with his best friend and, now, boyfriend, in real life, with no boundaries of time or space between them. His friends are no longer just colored text entities he can only interact with online.
Yeah, even AU versions of him. Yeah, Striderian metaphor, I know. I was really afraid of them when I first started out, too. This is one thing where it really helps to just go out there and get some practice. Fuck around on msparp if you dare until you have the touch down. You can metaphor anything if you try hard enough. That sort of thing is great.
Dirk is actually really bad at being in control. And when the chips are down … 2. Dirk panics. Dirk panics a lot. Hey, remember this? Or maybe this? How about this? Here we have three different flavors of Dirk Panic! Social stuff? Hoo boy. This is because: 3. Dirk deflects compliments from Jake routinely. Dirk says that he believes effusive praise can destroy him.
Because … 4. Dirk hates himself. A lot. As Dirk's dream self attempts to escape from the Red Miles, he is shocked to see both Jane and Jake appearing on Derse. While telling Jane to abscond from Derse via the portal, he witnesses the Miles impaling her from behind. He then quickly orders Lil' Seb to take Jake and get him out of Derse. Afterwards, he intends to kiss Jane to save her dream self, but is knocked out by falling debris before he gets the chance to do it.
On Earth, his waking self is also knocked out by the blow, presumably because of his consciousness being divided between his two selves, and drops Lil Cal into the sea below. Afterward, the projection of Dirk which existed in Jake's dream bubble becomes Dirk's dream self. Dream Dirk states he must leave in order to repair the session, as all the players are dead or unconscious. He takes Roxy's hand and begins to leave, apologizing for his abrupt exit.
As he attempts to leave the dream bubble, Dirk finds he cannot leave it, so he throws Roxy out of the bubble instead, while he is awoken by Aranea Serket 's powers. His waking self wakes up, and afterwards he begins his plan to rescue his friends. Dirk arrives at Roxy's room , where he leaves Squarewave to take care of Roxy's entry. He revives Roxy before killing himself by sendificating his head to Jake, who revives him.
After Dirk's dream self awakens, he revives Jane and takes Roxy and himself to their session's Frog Temple , where they wait in the time capsule until Jake's time. The two are then reunited with Jane and wake up Jake in time for him to revive Dirk. Almost half a year after entering, Dirk is shown to be on the Land of Tombs and Krypton , wearing a mask to protect himself from the thick gases of the planet and shoes similar to that of his rapping robots.
He still uses his Unbreakable Katana, unlike the other kids and their newly-created weapons. Roxy announces her feelings for Dirk, which he already knew of to begin with. She then tries to kiss him in order to solve her personal problems, but he tries to fight her off, threatening to use a sword and losing his cool in the process. After Roxy's persistent behavior and Arquiusprite 's words of wisdom, he allows Roxy to kiss him, physically turning him into a trickster.
However, because of his dense mind, and possibly his abilities as a Prince of Heart, he seems to be immune to the "sugar holocaust" properties of the Trickster mode. Dirk tries to message Jake constantly after he leaves in desire for more space from their relationship, though once all of his messages went ignored and he is confronted by trickster Jake, Dirk decides to take the initiative and break up with him instead.
However, he has shown remorse for the way he did it later. After ascending to the God tiers, Dirk and Roxy are encountered by the Condesce herself.
Dirk attempts to aggress her, but is suddenly obstructed by Jade Harley , who gives him a hook to the lips and teleports him away to the Furthest Ring , the same way she did with Jack Noir. Outside the incipisphere, Dirk flies back to the session while communicating with Arquiusprite as a last resort, since he is the only person Dirk knows of who is available for contact.
He talks to Arquiusprite to attempt to figure out the situation in the alpha session. He is told he will arrive in the session in three hours and advised to contact Dave , which he does - however, the numerous stardust glitches surrounding Dirk cause his words to become unreadable. Eventually, he gets back to the Incipisphere, only to find it utterly destroyed. He stood beneath the ruins of a statue of Yaldabaoth as John approached him, seeking to find answers as to what had happened.
Dirk simply says that he failed and is consumed by the glitches brought on by Caliborn's interference in the game. In the new timeline created by John's retcons, Dirk was zapped into the Furthest Ring just like he was in the old timeline, but now Vriska expedites his arrival by teleporting him to the victory platform with a Crockercorp rifle, the same one seen in the Act 6 Act 4 flash.
Dirk arrives through a fenestrated wall , landing right next to Dave. Dave remarks how weird that was, leading to a brief awkward conversation. After Dave unsuccessfully tries to contact someone through Karkat's computer, they have a much longer conversation about their respective upbringings, eventually bonding after Dave vents his frustrations about his brother, and Dirk apologizes.
During the battle with the Jacks in [S] Collide , Dirk was seen taking the most physical abuse i. Besides John, he was the only other person shown to get 3 hit scenes. He is also killed by Spades Slick's gun, and seriously injured by an energy blast; both times he was resuscitated by Terezi and Dave, and immediately rejoined the fight.
He was then put in a chokehold by Lord Jack, who was then put into a similar hold by Robot Jack. After exchanging a brief glance with Dave, the latter seemed to understand due to Dirk's prompting and proceeded to decapitate Lord Jack, Robot Jack, and Dirk, all at once.
Dirk's head then disappeared with two alternate Daves, who caught his decapitated head and his body. Afterwards, Dave brought him back to the victory platform and Jane later revived him.
After being on the platform, he is seen reconciling with Jake whilst talking to Rose and Terezi and later becoming Jake's friend again in Act 7 , where they are shown in the future of the new planet together, playing soccer. In the Credits , he is shown to be the king of the Consort Kingdom along with Jake, and Gcatavrosprite. Lil Hal was originally known as Dirk's auto-responder AI , and was at first an application designed to simulate Dirk's otherwise inimitably rad typing style, tone, cadence, personality, and substance of retort while he is away from the computer.
However, he became a self-aware artificial intelligence, thinking of himself as a person. Jake expresses frustration with Lil Hal, but Jane and Roxy seem to like him. As a more personal matter, Dirk scanned his brain when he was thirteen years old, and uploaded the copy of his brain into his sunglasses, where Lil Hal resides.
He later becomes a sprite, as stated by Dirk later on when he says that "someone stole my sprite" and ARquiussprite is introduced as both a sprite made from Lil Hal and Equius Zahhak. Brain Ghost Dirk is a Dirk splinter that exists within the mind of Jake. The exact nature of the splinter is unclear but it appears to be a result of the combination of Dirk's Prince of Heart powers and Jake's Page of Hope powers, and is in fact capable of physically manifesting when Jake believes in him enough.
Brain Ghost Dirk first appears after Jake is knocked out without a dream self where he appears with Jake inside a dream bubble where he is only able to be seen by Jake and Terezi. After Jake is woken up Brain Ghost Dirk continues to remain in the dream bubbles until real Dirk's waking and dream bodies are both rendered unconscious at which point Dirk appears in the dream bubbles by apparently merging with Brain Ghost Dirk.
While Dirk is making his way back to the session, his mind splinter continues to be manifested by Jake on Derse. When Aranea activates Jake's Page of Hope powers, his belief in Dirk causes the mind splinter to become real. He then exhibits the ability to rip a soul from someone's body. This same power is later used by alpha Dirk on Lord Jack and Caliborn, confirming it to be a Prince of Heart ability that exists without the aid of Jake's Hope powers as had previously been speculated.
He doesn't finish ripping Aranea's soul out of her body, and she recovers completely. Brobot was initially made as a sparring partner for Jake, and sent to him piece by piece. When finally assembled, Brobot proves to be ludicrously strong. It is implied that Brobot harboured romantic feelings towards Jake, as Brobot ripped his nuclear heart out and smashed it to pieces while Jake was talking to Roxy and Jane about romance.
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.
This may be a reference to the fact that Jade is now quite literally a gigantic space furry, as seen in the Cascade Flash. 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. He seems to be more laid back and less hot-headed than Dave at 15, using intellectual analysis intermixed with his ironic quips.
At 13 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, which makes him similar to his biological daughter Rose. 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.
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. As with Dave before him, he seems to have had a strained relationship with his Bro , who died in the 21st century as a resistance fighter against the Baroness.
Unlike Dave, he was unable to physically brawl with his brother due to their separation in time, forcing him to build robots, set them to kill mode, and spar with them to death instead. Dirk is aware that they are not actual brothers, instead being related through an esoteric process of genetic reamalgamation.
Although his statement seems to imply that he knows about John's ectobiology shenanigans , in actuality he likely assumed he was the product of a reproduction process similar to the trolls', as the Condesce experimented with that before and during his lifetime. Jane also believes that he is a bit bitter about his bro's success with Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff the Moive [sic] , although he would never admit it. It was revealed by Dirk's auto-responder and then later on by Dirk himself that he harbors a romantic interest in Jake.
Dirk's auto-responder alluded to this. The auto-responder also informs Roxy that Dirk is planning to make some sort of romantic overture to Jake once they both begin playing the game. He and Jake were revealed to be dating for some months after entering the medium, but when the story resumed from their perspective, Jake was shown to feel uneasy about the relationship.
Upon being confronted by trickster Jake's proposal to group marry him and once engaging in a failed version of trickster mode himself, Dirk breaks up with Jake. Dirk guesses that his intense advances towards him were partially initially because Jake was the only romantic target due to his orientation. After [S] Collide , Dirk and Jake confront each other and seem to talk through their relationship.
It's revealed in the flash of Act 7 that they're back on good terms, playing with a soccer ball away from the others. This is further indicated by the Credits , when they form the Consort Kingdom with Gcatavrosprite , and when they engage in practice fisticuffs with Sawtooth , Squarewave , and a new robot resembling L o rd English.
They later pose together for a snap that John receives on his 19th birthday. Dirk and Jane are good friends. At the start of their adventure, he is shown to be concerned for her well being as the heiress to Crockercorp. He makes the robotic bunny Li'l Sebastian for her 13th birthday present in part to help protect her from assassination threats.
She seems quite taken with his sense of humor as shown by her reaction to the edited Pony Pals book he gifted to her. She is also the only one he talks to in crypt conversations after Trickster mode, where they reconcile, looking back on the events of their session so far and seeming to distract each other from the impending death and ascension to god tier that awaits them.
Dirk has been aware of Roxy's romantic feelings for him for some time and feels guilty about it since he is unable to reciprocate. Dirk clearly cares deeply for her in other ways, however, and wishes to remain friends without allowing their feelings to cause any issues between each other. Even for her own good. Dirk and Caliborn talk frequently. He has made a few attempts to test the waters and see if Caliborn would consider reconciling with Calliope, but without much success.
It can be said that Dirk is Caliborn's obvious favourite out of all the humans. It could also be because he finds Dirk physically attractive, an opinion he voiced multiple times despite his tendency towards insults.
For instance, he called Dirk an "Anime prince" and later called him a "pretty boy ninja stud", although it's possible that when he called Dirk the "Anime prince", he was simply referring to Dirk's class and the fact his sunglasses are similar to ones worn by certain anime characters.
He also said that he admired Dirk and that Dirk had a "powerful body. Dirk and Calliope only spoke once. Dirk also asks them for advice regarding what to do with the body of Hegemonic Brute. Dirk has shown trepidation at the idea of meeting Dave in person, despite saying earlier that he would like to. This mirror's Dave's own reluctance at the idea of meeting Dirk.
The first real interaction between Dirk and Dave, which takes place prior to their battle with Lord Jack, is forced and awkward, much more so than any other interaction so far between pre- and post-scratch kids. However, they eventually break the ice after Dave tells of his upbringing by his brother, and they begin trading stories of their lives and those of their respective guardians.
Dirk probably has the most strained, terse relationship with his sprite out of any of the alpha kids due to his dislike of himself.
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