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Might have missed DaveKat week, but that won't stop me from drawing fluff of the two of them! Ten years of these dorks, can you believe it? One transparent version for funsies.

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Davekat Week Day 7: Fluff

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my last and late entry for davekat week!! it’s been a blast but now my thumbs hurt so bad… totally worth it tho :33

Summary: Okay, so maybe you should’ve mentioned you have a kid already. That’s totally on you, but in your defense, no one ever sticks around when they realize you’re a single dad. Who would wanna spend their early 20’s taking care of somebody else’s kid? And sure, he’s technically your little brother, but most people ghost before they even get the full explanation. Maybe that’s for the best though, you’d rather eat glass than resort to trauma dumping via Tinder DMs for a stranger’s approval and some mediocre sloppy toppy. (Or, an AU where Dave is taking care of Dirk, and Karkat meets him for the first time)

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Homestuck

Relationships: Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas and Dirk's Bro | Alpha Dave Strider & Dirk Strider

Characters: Dirk's Bro | Alpha Dave Strider, Karkat Vantas, & Dirk Strider

Additional Tags: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Date Night, Dave’s Taking Care of Dirk, Single Dad Dave, Child Dirk, Earth C (Homestuck), Alternate Universe - No Sburb/Sgrub Sessions, Getting Together, Domestic Fluff, Davekat Week 2024 (Homestuck)

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Late asl but 4 @davekatweek day 5 I was given the prompt: “Two pet fish meet for the first time.”

They are in Karkats fishbowl at terezi’s hive, Dave is not going to survive! The water is harsh for him.

It used to look like this

Close up of the dirty fish 🐠 🐟

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@davekatweek day 7: fluff! well, it was started out as fluff, at least. i wanted to draw @soggedupfrog's freak-stage karkat from this post, so i decided to draw dave(kat) meeting baby karkat! but then i had to draw them meeting baby dave too and well... it got sad really quick. i hope in a somewhat cathartic way, at least? otherwise hey, nothing wrong with double sadstuck

i have so many soft feelings about dave's compassion for himself, shown in his easy camaraderie with his alternate selves, and his affection for his younger self in the game over timeline.

when karkat and dirk encounter other versions of themselves, they see them as the embodiment of everything they both resent and envy about themselves. they assume them to be deserving of abuse, and take it upon themselves to inflict that abuse, because it is what they think they deserve, and maybe they think punishing other versions of themselves will fill that quota, somehow.

but not dave. despite his hellish childhood, i think he always subconsciously knew he deserved to be cared for, but he also knew no one was going to do that for him, so he took it upon himself to be his own keeper. when dave sees another dave, he doesn't think "it's fine if he suffers to further my aims, because he's me and i have the right to make that call". instead, he thinks "that's my brother, and i trust him and want to keep him safe".

so if dave ever met his younger self, of course he would be hit with the reminder of his own unpleasant memories. but more importantly, he would be hit with overwhelming feelings of love and protectiveness for this small child— his brother, who deserves to feel safe and be cared for.

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DAY 7: FLUFF I just wanted to draw smth silly for last art for davekatweek !! Just in case, I'm sorry @davekatweek

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day 7: fluff

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[DAVEKAT WEEK DAY 6: SADSTUCK] can we pretend that..

perchance maybe airplanes in the night sky are- this may sound crazy. The airplanes which were previously mentioned to be in the night sky COULD be imagined as if they were shooting stars!? @davekatweek

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DAY 6: SADSTUCK I only have enough imagination to redraw memes. but there's a sad ending, so it counts.... I hope

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DAY 4: FREE DAY (comeback to the missed day) (one more left !) My second main fandom is Just Shapes and Beats, and I drew my JSAB ocs as trolls. It's time to do opposite thing !!!

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awesome that bisexual visibility day is right after @davekatweek. you all may have noticed that i didn't fucking do the last 3 days, because i'm a lazy bitch. i guess this could count for day 7: fluff.

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End of davekatweek 2024

Another great turnout this year! Thanks so much to all who participated and shared, there would be no davekat week without the participants! Feel free to keep posting and tagging us in late submissions and we'll see you next year for DAVEKAT WEEK'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY?? WHAT?? BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!

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are you ready for davekat

olay

Day three seasons I think maybe hahaha I'm late lmao

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Davekat at the fair happy summer's end

Drawn over me and my friend at the fair

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day four free day

heres a whole page

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day five fate Davekat hahah kil me

It's that one soulmates au idfkhahsjsjdha

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"dude this is worse than that one time that Bro made smuppets with velcro and" probably

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day six

like they cried

Theme was sadstuck

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This is why Dave doesn't time travel anymore chat

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Davekat week. Day seven (prompt seven) fluff <3

So this is actually based on a fanfic. It is my favorite fanfic it's actually what go me into reading fanfiction in the first place so I own it alot <3. Anyway it's called Date me Dave strider and I'd highly recommend reading it! Warning it is unfinished though.

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davekat whenk : day 7 FLUFF

oooh oooh ooh 😼

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