Headcanons for Meteorstuck Dave Strider
david’s having a pop culture based identity crisis since there’s no new media to take in from anywhere right now and his entire persona is structured around it so excuse his awkward attempts to figure out where he goes from here
while time players are typically patient there’s still only so much to do waiting to finish up a 3 year journey through the void so to fend of perpetual boredom he kind of ended up trying out a bunch of different stuff to try and find something time consuming but still interesting to do. sometimes that means settling on watching alternian movies and sometimes that means seeing how expansive a card house he can build
he did fill a lot of time working on music as well as picking photography up again after getting his hands on a camera (he had some difficulties trying to go back to comics for emotional reasons and only ended up drawing if terezi asked him to join her in some)
“can’t i just time travel us out of here?” “you know that’s not how it works” “I KNOW!”
he may have accidentally sort of ended up as an emotional rock for people, which wasn’t super helpful to his own emotional crises at the time but it did sort of force him to drop the coolkid farce (and realize it was actually fine to just. ya know. be dave. instead of CoolGuy McStrideShades) so about a 50/50 on the pos-to-neg scale
he tried cutting his own hair because it was getting in his eyes and being annoying and uhm. it didn’t go great. absolute mess. luckily kanaya it pretty familiar with practicing cutting her own hair and was willing to help fix it to the best of their shared abilities
set the lab’s kitchen on fire once because he got distracted and forgot about the food he was making (no humans or trolls harmed in this process, one pan totally decimated tho)
trying to keep up with rose’s experimental book club means having to come to terms with his undiagnosed and previously unaddressed dyslexia
traveling through space at the speed of light really fucks up everybody else’s internal clocks and nobody’s sure if it’s day or night anymore so as the resident time player who seems unaffected by it, dave gets to be the go-to walking talking alarm clock
