loudst:

yesette:

While we’re on Headcanon Express here…

I like to think Dave is more unsettled by the differences between Dirk and Bro than the similarities.

Dirk does something frighteningly similar to Bro and Dave says nothing, hardly even thinks anything of it. They’re bound to be similar. That’s To Be Expected.

But sometimes he bangs his fucking shin on a coffee table at 3am while flashstepping and the goDDAMN X FILES THEME PLAYS IN DAVES HEAD AS HE STARES IN BEWILDERMENT. Dirk proceeds to curse under his breath about asspacking endtables as he makes himself a pot of coffee, all the while Dave’s entire world is falling apart. He thinks back. Had Bro ever clipped the coffee table? No? What the fuck, did he ever trip over a chair? NO? SLIP ON A SMUPPET… NO. No unexplained bumps in the night, no quiet cursing as he goes about his weird routines. Nothing.

I think that after a while he gets used to it, and takes comfort in the differences as well as the familiarity fostered by any resemblance he may share with dead relatives. But it takes time. And so it goes that for like 4 months Dave just quietly freaked out every time Dirk wasnt the untouchable broninja he grew up with.

#co written by loudst because he was at the desk when i started rambling#this isnt how all of my text posts happen#but it is how quite a few have happened#I DONT THINK DAVE MISSES BRO#I JUST THINK THAT THERE WAS A STATUS QUO#THAT DAVE EXPECTED TO BE Reinstated in some way#some idea of normalcy that was disrupted or maybe just never initialized#like… this is how i think things should be#and this is how they are#they are not the same#and its fuckin me up#this post got so out of hand holy shit

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