dirk appreciation thread

[dirkaeus]

henlo i love dirk. that is all

[Sylandrophol]

epilogues did dirk dirty. if you think dirk's a transphobe you have a ticket to the shadow realm with your name on it

also dirk is a trans guy (and roxy is a trans girl too) and that's the facts

[Leddy]

Pre Epilouges Dirk was going in a good direction so I'll appreciste thst Dirk

[parasomniac]

Ngl but Dirk is one of my favorite characters

[seerofheart]

I used to think that Dirk was the least interesting character in homestuck, but after the epilogues he entered my brain and has yet to leave! I love the Fallen Hero trope and I just love his long ass philosophical and expository rants and how he's just up his own ass all of the time.

I have a weakness for shitty smart boys and I admit to it.

[rookie1978]

I loved his arc in the comic- about how a socially inept fugitive of his own mind has to work and overcome every single 'splinter' and version of himself, just so that he can accept who he is, and disregard what he's 'fated' to be. Every individual personality set aside just so Dirk could be his own.

And then the epilogues and by extension HS^2 ruin literally every part of that, because after all his time cementing himself as just being dirk and not being any of the other versions of himself, he apparently suddenly decided all the other dirks and versions were fine and accepted literally every awful Dirk into his own essence to become an 'ultimate self' and literally make himself the bad guy.

Don't get me wrong. The direction they're going with a self-imposed villain character simply playing the villain to extend his own existence with power over the narrative itself is really interesting- but making Dirk that villain literally trashed his entire character. This is not the Dirk we met in Homestuck. It never will be.

[nonsenseMnemonic]

epilogues did dirk dirty. if you think dirk's a transphobe you have a ticket to the shadow realm with your name on it

also dirk is a trans guy (and roxy is a trans girl too) and that's the facts

hell yes. trans dirk trans dirk

[Sylandrophol]

epilogues did dirk dirty. if you think dirk's a transphobe you have a ticket to the shadow realm with your name on it

also dirk is a trans guy (and roxy is a trans girl too) and that's the facts

hell yes. trans dirk trans dirk

trans dirk! trans dirk! homestuck gay and homestuck trans, and that's also the facts!

[furrylatula]

i LOOOOOOVE ultdirk yall his psyche is interesting as SHIT

he loves his friends SO MUCH and its why he won't let them have free will, because they'll use it to hurt themselves and and others and ultimately drag the timeline into a pit of congealed sugary despair. he provides the exterior motivation the characters need to keep developing in a narratively satisfying way. hes become the anime villain of all of our dreams

everything about him is <3 <3 <3 im so glad he exists

[sorbicCondition]

Dirk is not a transphobe but having a hard time initially understanding how someone could be non-binary makes a lot of sense for his character as one who tends to put concepts in absolutes. Especially if we're to assume his ultimate self contains Caliborn in some way, Cherubs seem especially intent on putting literally everything into a binary.

Anyway, Dirk is probably my favorite character. My favorite qualities of Rose and Dave packaged together in one shitty orange boy.

[benni]

dirk is amazing, and hs2 isnt dissuading me of that.
hes quickly become one of my top 3 characters, hes great.

[BrobyDDark]

He'd look cooler if he went back to the black shades

Unironically fucking love those style of shades because Dirk redeemed them after (hot-take) Gurren Lagann

[gutza1]

Dirk is literally Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts. He's associated with Heart/souls, has lots of copies of himself, is a mastermind who struggles with his dark impulses, and becomes the main villain and the driver of plot in the Epilogues and HS^2.