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Welcome to the first workshop! We want to encourage people to fill out the form below and paste into a comment to seek feedback on your AU ideas for the game. If there's any questions, please feel free to comment below under the appropriate top level. If you're feeling lost, check out the WORLD INFORMATION section.

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<b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>AGE/AU AGE:</b> Actual canon age or AU age. <b>HERO/VILLAIN ALIAS:</b> Not necessary to have and can always be updated later. <b>OCCUPATION:</b> ** OPTIONAL ** Hero, Villain, student, support teams, police, vigilante, etc. You don't have to be specific if they're a hero or villain. <b>PERSONALITY:</b> Bullet points are okay here. <b>HISTORY:</b> If you wish to expand on their AU history. <b>QUIRK:</b> This is the most important part. If your character is quirkless, you can put N/A. If they have a quirk, we'd like to see not only its strengths, but its weaknesses and limitations as well. If a quirk is deemed to be written too vaguely or is too overpowered, you'll be asked to revise when you app, so consider this a good opportunity for feedback. <b>COSTUME:</b> Optional, but encouraged to help your character use their quirk more efficiently.

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Dave Strider | Homestuck

[turntex]

CHARACTER NAME: Dave Strider
CANON: Homestuck
AGE/AU AGE: 16
HERO/VILLAIN ALIAS: If left entirely to his own devices it'd be something dumb and shitposty. But luckily hero school appears to let their classmates veto dumb ideas so he'll probably eventually settle on just "Stride" or something.
OCCUPATION: Student in the hero class.

PERSONALITY: Dave is a ridiculous trainwreck of a human being. He comes across as super aloof and cool at first glance but honestly, he's an awkward and needy loser. He never shuts up, oftentimes just rambling to himself if left unchecked, and he has a tendency to run with extended metaphors in bizarre, hilarious and sometimes vulgar ways. He has an extremely irreverent sense of humor, and he loves shitty art and good music. For all that he at times seems unaffected and frustratingly chill, he cares a lot about the peoples he's himself latched onto and will throw himself into the goddamn sun if he has to to protect them.

HISTORY: Dave was raised by his older brother, referred to exclusively as Bro, who worked as a vigilante hero and seemed to expect his little bro to do the same. Bro's child-rearing methods were sociopathic at best, and involved less actual caretaking and more mind games and brutal "training sessions" that more or less amounted to simple beatdowns. Dave idolized Bro and it took a few years after Bro's heroic death at the hands of a villain for Dave to come to terms with how straight-up abusive the whole situation was.

He has some lingering issues these days, most relevant being a struggle with the very idea of heroism. He feels compelled to help and protect people where he can but feels like he'll never live up to a hero like Bro, but part of him doesn't want to after Bro soured the concept for him. There are moments when the reality of what he's working towards as a student in the hero class makes him feel a little sick, but he's mostly trying to just do his own thing and do it the right way.

QUIRK: Still tossing a few ideas around but right now I'm leaning most towards Flashstepping: he can move at superspeed in short bursts, to the extent of leaving an afterimage when really pushing it. He can't maintain it for more than a second or two at a time, but when used tactically he can hit someone so fast they can't even see it coming, move in quick dashes to almost look like he's teleporting around, or even use the afterimage effect to confuse and disorient baddies. This drains his blood sugar levels like crazy, though, so he has to keep that shit in check or risk passing out. He prefers to do this with a lot of apple juice.

COSTUME: I will doodle something eventually, but I'm imagining something with extra protection for his knees and elbows and hands to make his fighting style (a clusterfuck of self-taught martial arts, ninja-esque shit, parkour, and something like breakdancing) a little less hard on the body, and pouches or something for emergency juice rations.

Re: Dave Strider | Homestuck

[explodokills]

Dave cosplays tracer, I mean—

This reminds me a lot of Satou in MHA, so I actually really like the idea of it! Perhaps use his example to find ways to build upon it even more but really this is excellent as is, too.

Re: Dave Strider | Homestuck

[turntex]

(he'd rock her look, don't deny it)

yes i will fuss with it more in the time before apps actually open and see if i wanna alter anything or add to it, but i'm glad the base idea sounds good!

[northernimpact]

is it bad to hope that one of the ideas for dave's quirk is the ability to clutter real world objects/people with jpg artifacts, distorting their corporeality for a while?

[turntex]

oh my god

man if i hadn't already settled on a thing that would definitely be up there and the incomprehensibility of it would drive some people crazy i'm sure