#hopefull-mindset

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Hello! I really appreciate your Fanfiction and your characterization of Bro Strider. Fanfics that actually go out of their way to characterize Bro like another Dirk always has my appreciation. But also, is it fine for me to ask more about your thoughts with Bro and the Handmaid? And maybe mom lalonde as well? Maybe that’s too much. I keep staring at your old art of them from back in 2016 (or smth) and I’m just a little obsessed? Yk?

aw jeez it is super old at this point isn't it! i still keep it as my header art, though!

First of all, thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!! I really really love writing Bro Strider in a way I cannot put into words and it's so silly I know that but man I just! Find it so fun and captivating. Mostly because he IS a Dirk Strider and that is the most interesting part of writing guardians, because we don't have access to anything about them, but we know about Dave's personality! We know about Dirk and his interests and insecurities! So it's just super fun to delve into the hypotheticals!

Now all that being said, YES RESOUNDING YES YOU CAN ASK ABOUT THEM ALL YOU WANT IT WOULD B E MY PLEASURE

I'm going to need a more. does the more button still work??

okay so my whole thing with those two....

One day I want to actually write an AU where they interact, but it'll be a production, and I have other things on my plate first!

But there is just something about the very little we know about them, Bro and the Handmaid.

We can try, like we do with Bro, to get as much as we can from our brief interactions with Damara in the dream bubbles, and yes she's awful, and sometimes on purpose, but I like this about her, too, how maybe she wasn't always like that, maybe she was pushed too far by her friends. She's bitter, and she's angry, and she uses this to her advantage. We see the Handmaid as a kid, trapped by Doc Scratch, in order to serve Lord English as an adult, which, obviously, she does, but she's trapped, and she wants out, and she does genuinely try to fucking die to get out of it??? and ???? and they bring her up again, when talking about how she's all fated to like, FINALLY die so that her powers can pass on to the Condense or whatever u know???

And what I just think is so interesting about that like, we have these two very different people, two different species, but in a way, both of them dealt with a version of Caliborn, both were tied to the element of Time; Bro raised a time player, the Handmaid and Aradia are both Time players, and of course the HM herself ends up serving LE, the lord of time.

And I just wonder at the fact that the Handmaid basically has spent every moment of her time, trapped in immortality, wanting to die, knowing she will, but being unable to until she fulfills her purpose

and then the headcanon that I have and share with a select few, where basically because since gamzee says a bunch of crazy shit about Lil Cal talking to him, and stuff, we love to think that maybe Bro knew from a young age that he would die in the game, and thus every passing year was like a slow march towards the end, and what does that mean for everything in between? Obviously rng exists, where I ramble about this at length, but I just think it's so much more interesting because we don't know how he felt about that, or if he could feel anything at all?

We don't really know anything about these two, just that they were both always going to die, and that it was a cosmic inevitability. Time bullshit! There's just something super fascinating to me about the concept of living a life with a set amount of time, and fulfilling a role vs actually being able to do what you want to do, and I like that even though the two are not related to each other in the main story, there are still things they have in common. AND I like to think that perhaps there's a bit of them both that would have that anger, or at least bitterness, about them, about getting no choice, about doing a job, and knowing that one day, when that job was finished, they would die. And i just constantly want to know what it would be like, to put them in a room together!

:) i hope any of this made sense!

As for Mom Lalonde, I would LOVE to keep talking but this is getting super long I suppose I could make my own post for that but??

Basically I think she is a complicated person, she's a guardian, she also served a purpose, and even if she didn't do a particularly good job, she was certainly still trying, and she certainly still did the best she could do. I think that she could have chosen not to drink, as much as any alcoholic can really make that choice, and I think that these are things that have real consequences on the people around you. Roxy as a young person tends towards being sort of selfish, and maybe a little involved in her own fantasy of what she thinks other people are like, but she does genuinely care about Dirk, and I like to think that Mom and Bro would have a similar bond, at least as kids! Of course things change as we get older, and resentment builds, and it's just! a mess! yeah! c:

ANYWAY I WOULD MAKE A WHOLE POST ABOUT MOM AND BRO ALSO SORRY I HOPE THIS IS ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!