SO HERES THE THING ABOUT DIRK

whatever else you can say about him, he cares so so so much about his friends. he rewrites an entire book for jane and builds her a robotic rabbit designed to help and protect her. he loves roxy so so much and yeah, maybe sometimes hes a little freaked out by her flirting at the beginning but its so clear that he loves her anyway. he's obsessed with jake, kind of in an unhealthy way, but he KNOWS that and he tries so so hard to be who jake wants him to be, to make jake even a tenth as happy as jake makes him. he literally cuts off his own head to save their lives. and god. dave. DAVE. he meets dave near the end of the session, and he finds out that an alternate universe version of him was an abusive shit to dave, and he apologizes. and you can tell he blames himself but he does such a good job trying not to make it about him. and he cheers dave up with stories about HIS alternate universe self and he gives the guy a hug and lets dave chop off his head later to save them all, no questions asked. this fucking guy. THIS FUCKING GUY. so sweet and so considerate and literally always thinking of the people he loves. the fuckin hallmark of 'maybe his alt self was evil, but he himself is so so good and is proof that people arent fundamentally good or bad, but a product of their environments.' youre telling me that THIS dirk strider. what. decided it was a good idea to amalgamate all potential versions of himself--including the super abusive piece of shit versions--into one 'ultimate being,' and became the bad guy for the epilogues and homestuck^2?????? I think the FUCK not!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I stopped reading hs2 a while ago admittedly, so I dont have MUCH of a leg in the game, but man. thats not my dirk. if theres not something else going on there, ill eat my cool bro hat.