Dave Strider (COMPLETE)

General

appearance

Dave Strider has incredibly angled facial features. High cheekbones are dusted with freckles just barely darker than his sun-tanned skin. His nose has a soft turn upwards and the bridge is very defined all the way to the tip of the nose. His jaw is long, defined and turns up sharply into his ear. His eyes, though, are the most stand out feature of his face. Almond shaped, surrounded by long dark brown lashes, his irises are a very vivid shade of red. He goes out of his way to hide this fact though by wearing aviator style sunglasses at nearly all times (He was taught that it was for his own good).

Dave's bone structure is incredibly prominent in area, namely his collarbone and hips. His shoulder and collarbone are littered with the same freckles apparent on his face. His body type is very thin and he has a lot of trouble with muscle build up. The muscle he does have is very long and, when flexed, very apparent. There is very little fatty tissue on him. The muscles in his core and legs are incredibly strong, his legs very obviously more built than his arms.

Scars cover quite a bit of his body. A result of relentless training, each one has a story. Most of them are accumulated on his back, waist, arms and hands. Most are simply long pale lines along his skin, since most were caused by blade. Very few are obviously cratered, most are thin and raised. He has one that is painfully obvious and much more serious than the rest. A six inch gash on his right shoulder blade, mostly pale white scar tissue it dips into his skin, instead of being raised. It is smooth and soft to the touch and quite sensitive to Dave when touched.

Clothing wise Dave enjoys fitted clothes, most of his attire consisting of skinny jeans and converse shoes. His wardrobe rarely varies much.

personality

Dave comes off quite differently than he actually acts. He wears a mask in an attempt to hide his insecurity and to come off as a little bit more cool than he actually is.

Dave likes to play up a cool demeanour. Where he acts purely through irony. This demeanour involves being stone faced, showing very little emotion. Aside from being something that happens throughout his family it's always been an attribute that Dave has associated with 'cool'. It gives him a more mysterious appearance, or at least he likes to believe it does.

The other important part of this demeanour is an indifference towards everything. Another aspect of being emotionless and appearing cool is seeming to not have an opinion or any strong views on any given thing. Even if Dave feels incredibly strongly about something he will skirt around the topic or simply turn it into an anecdote.

All this being said this does not keep Dave from rambling. Dave loves to talk just for the sake of hearing his own voice. He has a tendency to fall into long metaphors or similes that can go on until the original purpose of the rant is skewed. This rambling is not limited to metaphors and the like but often consists of at least one.  

In reality Dave is a very nervous, very self-conscious person. He doesn't particularly enjoy speaking with other people and he finds it very hard to actually properly interact with new people. He finds it much easier to speak to people when it is through a medium like text or IMing.

That being said he is an incredibly friendly person. He cares way too much for his own good and the only way one person would be able to get him to do something that would otherwise cause him problems is to mention the fact that it is for a friend. Dave doesn't often act like it but, chivalry is definitely not dead.

Dave is prone to tantrums. While he tries his damnedest to keep a cool, stoic face; it isn't incredibly hard to completely shatter it if on good terms with him. He, around friends-- and in moments of extreme emotion-- will yell, make faces, laugh like mad or even cry (for reasons that are actually un-ironic).

Dave, in all, is a relatively complex character that, through writing, will show a lot of development. Dave's entire development is based off of building relationships with people and being pushed to move forward by said people.

history

Being born to an incredibly poor and unstable family, Dave had a very difficult childhood. His parents split up when he was very young and left her two boys with their young father. Dave was barely two years old and his brother Dirk was nearing four. Apart from knowing that their mother moved to the other side of the country, they knew very very little about that side of the family.

He grew up in a small apartment with a singular bedroom. He and Dirk shared the room. Their dad, whom they referred to as 'Bro', slept on a futon in the living room.

Bro, being only 19 years old when Dave's mother left, was barely sure what he supposed to do to take care of these small boys. Having grown up in a rather odd household himself and no longer having any connect to his parents, Bro treated his boys' strangely.

To Bro it was important that the boys knew how to defend themselves. Bro had a interest in blades and taught his boys how to use them as well. Both Dave and Dirk got their first swords at a very young age.

Magic affected Dave life from the beginning of his life, without really being aware of it. Bro owned a doll, a doll that never left the older Strider's side. A doll named Lil' Cal. This doll had strong hypnotic power, a connection formed when making constant, direct eye contact with it. Being aware of this fact it was important to Bro that both Dave and Dirk wore sunglasses at all times in the house. It ended up being a trait that all three of them carried forward for the rest of their lives.

He had been training with blades since he was young and was no amateur when it came to wielding one. He, like the other Striders', was incredibly athletic. But he had his fair share of wounds to show for it. While always being a little easy on the youngest Strider, Dirk and Bro never relented unless it was clear that Dave was done. The other two had a considerable amount more stamina than Dave did.

When Dave was thirteen he discovered that he himself had some sort of magical prowess. Like his brother Dave's power awoke in a dream state. Becoming vividly aware of the fact that these powers exist and becoming aware of the fact that he can control these powers when awake as well. Dave loved the feeling of having power.

Dave quickly got used to the idea of having powers and played with them constantly. His older brother being incredibly nervous with the fact that they had these abilities. Bro seemed less worried, and less surprised than he ought to be.

Learning that he was not the only one with powers of this sort was a very amazing thing to Dave. He found out that his powers made him a 'Knight of Time'. The ability to fight with time. was how it was described to him.

Within the next few years Dave grew more and more scared of his own power. The ability to distort the fabric of time and change things in a moments notice became too much to chew and quickly got out of hand. While he had always tried to be careful, there was only so much he could do at such a young age and things inevitably went wrong, leading to a small pile of very dead Daves.

From the age 16 on he has been terrified to use any sort of time manipulation. With time he has come to realize that maybe this wasn't the sort of thing he should be playing with so willy-nilly.

This was the reason he and his brother decided it was in their best interest to enrol in MA. Needing a stronger grasp on how to control without going overboard.

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