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As a general rule, Dirk 'Bro' Strider is a pretty intense and shitty guy. He's extraordinarily judgmental and self-supporting, to the point that he denies the need to ever rely on the help of others. In general this wouldn't be a problem, but most interactions with Bro can be laced with acidity and sarcasm. Because of how much Bro can play hostile, this might be something some players don't want to deal with. If you're concerned about how Bro's tone can be towards others and want to clarify exactly what tone to 'set' with Bro if you want to interact with him, or if you'd like to avoid interacting with him entirely, please comment here.

Alongside that, it's important to note the nature of Bro's relationship with his little brother, Dave. Bro's relationship with Dave is toxic and abusive. This is, flat out, a part of the character and their history that can't be ignored, nor toned down to be something else. While these kinds of interactions would likely only come up with Dave, it's only fair to warn people about the kind of person and character Dirk/Bro is, as such behavior can be triggering. If due to this reason you would like to avoid interacting with a character such as Bro, please let me know so I can honor it.

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Jan. 8th, 2020 11:19 am
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Player information.
Name: James
Age: 32
Contact: [profile] nathander at plurk
Other characters: None

Character information.
Character name: Dirk "Bro" Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Canon point: Bro is coming in shortly before his death at the hands of Jack Noir. Specifically, Bro is coming from right after Jack challenged him to a rematch and Bro proceeded to essentially slap Jack in the face with Lil Cal.
Age: Word of God has Bro somewhere around his thirties. We'll put him at 35.
Canon background: https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Dirk_Strider_(pre-scratch)
Abilities: Bro has a pretty wide array of skills. Bro is a very competent melee fighter and a skilled enough swordsman that he was able to keep up with a powerful opponent in the form of Jack Noir throughout most of his battle with him. Bro also possesses a great deal of technical skill when it comes to electronics and programming, as Bro runs multiple websites and has programmed several high ai bots, such as an auto-responder and many of the bots he uses to drive up traffic on his sites, as well as the likely possibility that Bro was responsible for some of the more high-tech devices the Striders possess, such as his airboard and Dave's turntable and soundmixing equipment. Bro also possesses the ability to Flashstep, causing him to move at ludicrous speeds. Bro is so skilled at this technique that he actually leaves a movement trail behind, meaning that less skilled opponents who can't keep up with him end up fighting his vapor trail essentially.

He's also a pretty good puppeteer, I guess.
Strengths:
Self-Aware - While Bro gives off the image of lacking any kind of self-awareness thanks to the layers and layers he buries everything he says and does under, Bro is actually hyper aware of who he is. He's aware of both his best and worst traits, and is at peace with his own understanding of them. In a way, Bro is perfectly self-actualized because of this.
Observant - Just as he's self-aware, Bro is very observant of the world and the people around him. He's quick to hone in on people's issues and behaviors, even if he himself doesn't behave in a way that'd be a logical response to them.
Talented - Bro possesses several talents, ranging from puppetry to music to combat training to programming. Bro wields a diverse range of talents, and is generally pretty proud of them. Humility is incredibly fucking lame, as far as Bro is concerned.
Devoted - Bro is devoted to the family that he has in his little brother Dave and in the Lalondes, Rose and Roxy. Bro puts the needs and concerns of his family above anything else, and his family is one of the few things that would cause him to become self-sacrificing. His family and their well-being ultimately mean more to him than his own.
Brave - In a fight, or when danger calls, Bro is damn near fearless. Unless other business needs to get under way, the dude does not back down or run from a fight. That's just not how a Strider rolls their business.
Weaknesses:
Cold - Bro doesn't have time for anyone who isn't family. Be it either because Bro on his own is just a cold motherfucker, or the fact that Bro possesses knowledge that his world was going to end in his lifetime, Bro doesn't open up to other people. He isn't inherently hostile to other people. He just doesn't see a reason to become overly involved in the lives of thosewho have nothing to do with him. While he loves this family, it can also extend to his family, such as how brutally he trained Dave for Sburb/the end of the world, with much of this 'training' moving into abusive territory, such as denying Dave food for days and forcing Dave to fight him in brutal sparring matches.
Obsessive - Bro's pursuits tend to also be obsessions. Irony, puppetry, and being a badass aren't just hobbies or things that Bro does. They're literally his life. The biggest obsession that happens to be Bro's life also happens to be Bro's little brother, Dave, and preparing Dave for the world he'll create and his own belief, and desire to prove that Dave is, a hero.
Inconsiderate - Bro is a generally pretty inconsiderate guy. While Bro is good at reading people, he is in most cases fucking awful at interacting with people. Bro likes what Bro likes, wants what Bro wants, and does whatever Bro wants to. People not liking that is a problem for other people, not for Bro.
Nihilistic - Due to his own powers of observation and awareness the world was going to end, Bro doesn't take much aside from his hobbies and training Dave seriously. Most other shit around him is frivolous, and unless it's an immediate danger, it doesn't really matter all that much.
Nightmares:
Dave dying. Failing Dave. Dave not reaching his full potential. Dave giving up. Because in Bro's mind, all these things couldn't be anything other than his own fault.
Network sample: Kapow
Prose sample: Bam
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Player Name: James
Preferred Pronouns?: He/Him
Player Contact: Personal Journal at [personal profile] truebluehorror or PM me here
Other characters in play? Pokey Minch

Character Name: Dirk "Bro" Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Game Transplant: Soulgemmed
Original App: Link
Game Summary: Soulgemmed was a panfandom game based off the Madoka Magica series. In it, the player characters make a wish at the behest of the character Kyuube, and having made that wish are then brought to the city of Nyio-cho to purge it of creatures known as Nightmares. Unfortunately, this game being what it is, things go bad for the 'magi' or magical warriors that the player characters have become.

How long was your character in Game: Three months
History of Character in their Game:
While Bro did not have a long presence in the game, he certainly had a colorful one.

Bro ended up coming in at the end of March, which had been a terrible month for the Magi, who had just ended up having to face two witches, both of who were the Witch forms of outsider magi that the Nyoi-cho magi were trying to watch over. Bro himself came in with most of his powers gone, but gained new ones such as the ability to be invisible to everyone who wasn't his brother Dave so long as he didn't move, as well as a life-sized smuppet version of himself that he had control of. Clearly, this meant that the best thing to do was to troll the ever living shit of everyone he came across with the smuppet.

This primarily ended up just annoying people, but it caught the eye of at least two specific people. The first was a young adult from a post-apocalyptic world named Butch, who ended up giving Bro attitude and ended up challenging Bro to a fight due to Bro's own shitty attitude. While Bro ended up fighting Butch and antagonizing Butch to the point that Butch thought he was a dickhead, Bro actually secretly had a kind of respect for Butch for actually challenging him. Bro is a guy who doesn't respect people that back down; that Butch kept stepping up to him earned him some points in Bro's eyes. The second person was a guy named Osomatsu. Osomatsu seemed kind of nerdy and weird, but due to his seemingly easy going nature and ability to see Bro's sense of humor, Bro kind of clicked with the guy right off the bat. As time went on during Bro's short stay, Osomatsu was maybe the one person Bro could conceivably see as a friend.

There were two other important people Bro met off the bat. The first was his brother Dave, now a seventeen year old. Despite the weird, empty feeling Bro felt at having apparently missed so many years of his little brother's adolescence, quickly went back to treating Dave the way he had before, specifically constantly tormenting and harassing Dave in the name of trying to train him. Bro remained as short and pointed in most of his conversations with Dave as before, wanting to give Dave some chance of challenging him, hoping that Dave would actually disagree with him and show some backbone. Bro, also quickly distrusting the people of Nyoi-cho as incompetent and incapable of actually handling themselves during combat, was keeping an eye on Dave to hope he could help keep him out of trouble.

The second person was Bro's alternate self, just going by the name Dirk Strider and sixteen years old. Bro's relationship with Dirk was conflicted. Bro disliked Dirk for the most part, but Dirk was also one of the few people that Bro could hope to get any kind of information out of. It was almost solely thanks to Dirk that Bro got information about what had happened beforehand in the town, and it was with Dirk that Bro agreed to keep an eye on people that Dirk had labeled 'problematic' and worth spying on, although Bro only agreed to this in order to have dirt on Dirk. From the beginning, Bro didn't care for Dirk, partially because Dirk reminded Bro of a younger, more idealistic version of himself that hadn't entirely given up on most people as a whole.

How did they change from their canon personality wise (Please explain what caused it to happen?)
How did they change from their canon physically (Please explain what caused it to happen?):
Powers:
Possessions:

Please provide three samples from your previous game, at least one will have to be third person with context:
Sample One: Bro Strider meets Dirk
Sample Two:
Sample Three:

Notes: Anything else?
eatdavesbabies: (Cal and Me)
Who: Bro Strider and You, then closed to Osomatsu
What: Bro has a special broadcast for the town, then its training time.
Where: The mirrors, then Bro's house
When: Sunday, May 28
Warnings: Bro Strider. Puppets. We're doing this.

Mirrors

[Yet again, some asshole has set up a laptop in front of the mirror to play a video.

This time, the video seems to start on a hideous rainbow background with clip-art suns and moons, with a puppet finally appearing that appears to be dressed in a maid cafe outfit that some fuckwit stole from the business. The words "NYOI-CHO-KUN-CHAN-SAN" slowly appear over the intro, with what appears to be a pencil with strips of raw bacon attached to it appears in Nyoi-cho-kun-chan-san's hand as her 'wand'.

Then we jump cut to Bro Strider, putting on an exaggerated fearful face for a good ten seconds before he actually shouts something.]


Nyoi-cho-kun-chan-san! The town is in trouble! You need to get your shit together and help!

[Then the screen cuts to Nyoi-cho-kun-san, laid on the couch in a position to imply depression or anxiety and fear, arms wobbling off the couch, just so done with the world. 'She' mumbles little whining words, not any that could be understood. Just pure nonsense, like this whole display is.

Cut back to Bro Strider drinking a mountain dew, then acting like he forgot he was on camera as he fumbles to put it away.]


Seriously, Nyoi-cho-kun-chan-san! If you don't do anything no one will! You've got to get up and get moving or the whatever the fuck is going to destroy this shithole.

[A beat. And then an exaggerated fear reaction.]

No Nyoi-cho-kun-chan-san! Not towards the fire you dumb fuck!

[And that's when there's a scene of the puppet 'flying' onto one of the burners on Bro's stove, which just happens to be on. The scenes of Nyoi-cho-kun-chan-san burning are interspersed with Bro looking properly horrified and fitting music.

Eventually, Bro just pulls his sword out to scrape the puppet off the burner. Then he gets a pan and scrambles some eggs in that pan on the same burner. Then he makes some bacon. Then he puts both in a blender along with the rest of his mountain dew and mixes that shit up nice before going back to sit down and watch some TV.

For those who bother, there is just fifteen extra minutes of the video of Bro just watching TV and drinking his awful smoothie.]


Bro's House, Closed to Osomatsu

[Bro didn't usually take on people to train. It wasn't his style. But Osomatsu, at least, seems like a relatively cool dude unlike a lot of these assholes. If he can help the dude get some serious training and survival in here, hell. It's a win for everyone, far as he's concerned. Just another way for Bro Strider to bless the fucking world.

Anyway, door's open to his house, Osomatsu. Whenever you're ready, it's time to enter the lion's den.]

HMD

Apr. 21st, 2017 09:20 am
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Personal Hows My Driving for Bro Strider
eatdavesbabies: (Default)
"Yo. Bro Strider speaking, what's up?





Hold up, I'm going to stop you there. I was going to make a joke voicemail message to trick you into thinking I'm here, but that shit is overplayed. I'm sorry for considering it, you can talk now.



Okay. So I lied one more time. Now you can start talking.












Yeah. You might want to repeat that."

Action | Voice | Text | Mirror
eatdavesbabies: (Brosephs)

OOC Information

Player: Jame
Contact Information: plurk at nathander


Bro Strider

Canonpoint:
Age: 35
Wish: "I don't want Dave to have to see this" in regards to his death.
Result: Dave instead finds a stupid, life sized Bro smuppet instead of Bro's corpse.
Weapon: His Katana
Outfit: Optional. Describe or provide a link to a picture of your character's magi outfit.


Powers

» Semi-Invisibility: Upon entering a scene, Bro is visually invisible until he does something to draw attention to himself. He can still be heard (and talking counts as drawing attention to himself), and Dave is immune to this power and can see Bro at all times, drawing attention to himself or not.
» Life Sized Smuppet - Bro has a life-sized smuppet of himself he can summon and mentally control. It's a hunk of junk that can at best be used as a distraction or puppet shows.


Permissions

Are you okay with fourth-walling? Backtagging? Shipping? Violence? I'm cool with this stuff but ask first if it's major.
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Player name: James
Contact info: Plurk - nathander
Other characters currently played: CRAU!Pokey Minch, Lucifer

Character name: Bro Strider
Age: In his 30s; we'll assume 34-35
Canon: Homestuck
Canonpoint: After his death at Bec Noir's hands

Background: http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Dave's_Bro

Personality:
Bro Strider is an enigma wrapped in smuppet felt and stuffed with shit.

During the short period of the comic where Bro is an active participant, we only get short snippets of who he is while much of the rest of his personality is left to interpretation based on evidence we have from Dave and from traits from Dirk that seem to correspond to some of Bro's earlier behaviors. The foremost trait Bro expresses, however, is the toxic masculinity Bro possesses that he appears to try and drill into Dave. Bro idolizes the concept of being self-made man: you have to be strong enough, quick enough, and smart enough to rock the world off its feet when it comes knocking, and you have to be ready and prepared to do such alone. Because of this, Bro himself isn't particularly social. He relegates most of his social activity, including 'work', to online. It's implied he has quite an online presence, especially in the puppet fetish scene with the multiple smuppet porn sites he operates, although Dave later on implies that Bro populated his chatrooms for his sites with a great number of bots, as well as using bots to boost the traffic he gets to his porn sites. Bro could very well be a lonely dude, but Bro would never admit to this loneliness. Men don't give a shit about that, let alone dudes who know you don't need anything but blood anyway. This attitude shows that Bro is stunted emotionally, something he displays in his behavior as shown in his failure to display empathy towards Dave, let alone any sense of real nurturing. Which leads into the fact that he has only two real known relationships: his brother Dave, and his favorite puppet, Lil Cal.

Bro's relationship with Dave is less than ideal. Early on, Dave seems to respect and hero worship Bro, and in many ways this means that what Dave says and does can be viewed as a mirror of who Bro is. Much of what Dave says during the early parts of the comic are likely a regurgitation of what Bro himself believes and says, and while it has to be understood much of that is still Dave, at least some of it is Dave trying to emulate his brother. This leads to an understanding of Bro putting an emphasis on being a cool, cool motherfucker, both in personality via internet culture and 'ironic' humor that is so impenetrable it could be said to barely give you an indication of the person wielding it, as well as a willingness to troll and antagonize people if they present themselves as susceptible targets, or even just as a natural means of interaction.

The toxicity of Bro extends beyond the behavior he teaches Dave to emulate and into his raising of Dave himself, which could be called Spartan at best. Bro has webcams placed all over his home, ostensibly in order to monitor any illicit activities of his smuppets, but also likely as a means of watching every action Dave takes within the house 24/7. Bro makes a habit of knowing Dave's every move and changes things up in the house on Dave in order to keep Dave on his toes (or, more accurately, paranoid). Saying Bro's behavior towards Dave is borderline abusive towards Dave is disingenuous; it is abusive. Bro seems to speak or communicate in short, blunt terms with Dave most often (as seen in his note telling Dave to get on the roof for a strife with him) and seems to hold nothing back when engaging in strifes with Dave for training. He frequently would leave Dave alone and without enough food, forcing Dave to rough it out.

In an insane way, this is Bro's way of making Dave a man. Despite his cool exterior Bro is deeply insecure and uncertain of himself, traits of himself that he's disgusted with as they are so against the hyper masculinity he hopes to display. He'll be damned if he'll allow Dave to feel this same insecurity, and because of this he goes to extreme lengths to ensure that Dave is able to earn and development the kind of inner confidence to face the world, and Sburb, that Bro lacks and has to fake. While Bro can go far enough in demonstrating just how brutal the world can be in trying to train Dave to be able to be self-sufficient, Bro fails to provide any form of nurturing or care for Dave. Bro doesn't understand how to and couldn't if he tried, as he assumes that even if he could it would just soften Dave and leave him dependent on others. Bro needs Dave to be self-sufficient not just so Dave can take care of himself, but because if Bro makes Dave self-sufficient then it'll prove Bro really does have a handle on the masculinity he believes himself to have, and thus Dave will be his actual monument and legacy to the man he is. That being said, he does display that if Dave is in trouble that he is willing to defend and help Dave, though often only when Dave himself wouldn't see that he did, such as cutting a meteor in half that was threatening to fuck their shit up while Dave was falling and sending his hoverboard to catch Dave.

Bro does love and care about Dave, but it's wrapped up so selfishly and garnished with so much sociopathic behavior that only Bro actually understands it, leaving his brother the emotional mess he is now.

Aside from Dave, the only meaningful relationship Bro has is with his puppet, Lil Cal. Bro is never far from Cal, and in a weird way, Cal is maybe the one thing Bro truly trusts as a consistent in his life. While Bro has an unabashed love of puppets in many, many ways, Lil Cal is the only one he could say 'understands' him. Cal itself is a possessed, evil puppet made up of the fractions of several people's souls/personalities, launched through time in a clusterfuck of insanity. Because of Cal's nature, it's possible that Cal in fact has influenced some of Bro's behavior. At the same time, there are enough traits that Bro shares with his post-scratch version, Dirk, such as his cool composure, his emphasis on control, his technological knack (though Bro still doesn't have Dirk's level of skill), and of course love of puppets. Still, Cal is more or less the one thing Bro would consider a friend, and it is possible that he was susceptible to Cal's influence because it both reaffirmed his own beliefs and because he was lonely enough and truly willing enough to not fully question that there was something wrong with Cal that he was willing to listen to Cal's "advice" to please the only thing he considered a friend.

Bro is, at the end of things, competent at what he does. He's skilled with technology, generally unshakable, and a talented fighter. At the same time, he lacks almost any real sense of humanity to him in terms of empathy and socializing. Dave labeling him sociopathic isn't far off; he doesn't really understand other people, and in a way this allows him to thrive in his own 'ironic' sense of humor and art as he primarily takes in internet culture as a substitute for dealing with people on a human basis. The guy can get the job done, but he has generally little concern about the way he does it and how cruel and cold it might come off as. He often underestimates others and is willing to deal with most people in a way that could be seen as condescending, as seen when Jack Noir approached him for a rematch and his response was to pull out Cal, state "Let's get it on, motherfucker." and then slap Jack in the face with Cal.

Which brings us to his wish.

Wish:
"I don't want Dave to have to see this."

He didn't come to this fight expecting he was going to bite it when Jack showed back up again. They had been so evenly matched that he had thought that, while it might be clutch, he should still make it out of it.

Looking at his corpse when Kyuubey shows up to offer him a wish, Bro is forced to confront something he doesn't really want to confront. Let alone left with a choice he usually wouldn't take. Wishes go against how he thinks. You don't just take something some jackhole offers you, you work for your shit.

But here and now, all he knows is that he doesn't want Dave to know this shit happened. The wish is inherently selfish, even if Bro might try and create an unselfish reason in his mind for it. After all, what dude wants to see that his brother bit it big time like a chump? Shit. That would put everything Bro had taught Dave in jeopordy, couldn't it, if Dave thought and saw his Bro was just hot air. He doesn't want to destroy Dave's confidence or have a crisis of faith, does he?

Doesn't want his bro to see just how shamefully, inadequtely human his brother is.

So instead of Dave ever finding Bro's body and gaining closure on what happened to his brother, Dave instead finds a life-sized smuppet of Bro with a sign saying "#BreakTime" on it. Certainly, this development would never cause any kind of neurosis or feelings of abandonment.

Passive ability: Due to his wish to go unseen, Bro ends up going unnoticed to the point of being invisible whenever he first shows up someplace until attention is drawn to him. This power has several caveats:
1) He is only visually invisible. He can still be heard or have other senses pick him up.
2) The moment he openly speaks or takes an action that would get him noticed by someone, the invisibility ends. If he's just passing through or standing, he remains invisible. The moment he takes a more specific action, the invisibility ends.
3) Familiars/Nightmares/Witches are not affected by this and can sense Bro, whether he has done something to draw attention to his presence or not.
4) Ironically, Dave is immune to Bro being invisible and will always see when Bro shows up somewhere, whether Bro has done something to warrant attention or not.

Active ability: Bro's active power is a copy of the big, dumb smuppet of himself that he left for Dave to find. Unlike that piece of shit, Bro can mentally control this puppet to take actions as if it was a separate person. Bro must be in the puppet's presence to do this, and must have enough concentration that he can mentally think what the puppets actions should be. That being said, the puppet is a piece of shit; it's not very strong, only enough so to pick up light items, and will be destroyed within one or two hits. It's not worth much aside from being used as a distraction, and if it does get destroyed Bro must wait a day before summoning it again.

Weapon: His Katana

Sample: https://souljammed.dreamwidth.org/7397.html?thread=1318373#cmt1318373

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