Rose is on a mission to get to the generator. She just needs to get past her mother. This could be a dangerous waste of time but- oh!

We’re now a cool dude who wears his shades indoors. He has a sword and no time for our bullcrap. This Dave Strider also we can safely assume this is turtechGodhand [TG]. He has a lot of interests, including electronic music, turntables and mixers. He likes weirdly preserved dead things. He considers himself an amateur photographer. Also he runs some ironic blogs, websites and profiles. His room isn’t messy like Rose’’s room but it is a cluttered and chaotic mess of wires and equipment. His furniture is mostly just cinder blocks with wooden boards.

We go through the usual nonsense we’ve encountered with new characters so far. Dave isn’t as obedient as John. When asked to save his friends he had no idea what we meant by that.

He does show us some of his stuff though. He has a blue package from John. It contained a signed image of “Ben Stiller” who is known for being in a lot of dumb movies. I can assume Dave likes him ironically. Also, I’m not even sure if it is an image of Ben Stiller.

He also takes the box and a bottle of apple juice to show how insane his hash modus is. It apparently stores items in a slot based on an equation. The equation uses the number of consonants in the name of the item. What a damn headache that is. Though Dave is a bit of a headache in general.

I can only relate to Dave in that I was at some point in life the cringe anime kid with a sword. I think Dave may have been what gave me the self reflection to grow the hell up.

Anyway, not really motivated to do much else Dave decides to wish John a happy birthday. Also to ask John if he’s had time to play that SBURB beta that he’d been going on about…

Ah! we’ve wandered into more timey nonsense. This conversation between them was way back in early Act 1. This might explain Dave’s lack of motivation on world ending events.

We get a taste of Dave internet habits

First we see sweetbroshellablog.blogspot.com where he is posting Ironic reviews of GameBro magazine. The real site’s claimed by Andrew Hussie but seems to not actually be in use other than some comments. And then there is sweetbroandhellajeff.com which redirects to a subsite MSPA. This is also in the unofficial collection system as /sbahj/1.

Now maybe I don’t get Irony, but SBAHJ is just awful. It comes up a lot in Homestuck and the community was a little nuts about it. I’m sure some still have tattoos. There is a printed book for it, and the memes exist to this day. What credit I will give it is that it’s possibly the most famous meta web comic in existence. It’s a webcomic made by a character in a web comic. Anyway give it a read if you like it has bearing on what’s happening in the story.

Also a webcomic within a webcomic is the Midnight Crew. We learn one of the members is Spades Slick and that the crew doesn’t always get along. We will learn more about them later though.