#though ds's isnt really a death scar so much as a sprite mechanic

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just finished my rng reread and i noticed you didn't give dirk his Nasty Death Scar like we see in so much fanart. so i gotta ask. what would dave (any/all of them) do if he DID have it

LOL love that we are calling it "Nasty Death Scar" because that's so on brand for me wow

Well you did not ask but the reason for his lack of scar in RNG (sorry fun fanartists) is mostly because he does not have it, in canon, and you know, godtier and ressurection and all that blah blah game mechanics, lots of questions I have about whether scars on the "earth" body transfer over to the dream body because if that were the case then neither Dirk nor Dave would have scars from before the game but that doesn't matter and not what we're talking about it's just been on my mind since yesterday

Once again not raining on anyone's parade I think the nasty death scars are Good and I really like that people interpret and have fun with it because that is the most important part of making a fan work.

ANYWAY

If Dirk did in fact have a nasty decappuccino scar, I imagine chapter 6 (and the other chapters where we cover this lmao) with Dirk and Dave would have gone very differently :) Dave would probably have had a more difficult time overcoming the concept of Right vs Wrong and if he really did the right thing then why did Dirk have the scar in the first place. and I guess I'd probably have had (well who knows given that I wasn't sure of the trajectory at the time but let's pretend) to dig into Dirk's feelings about it and his identity surrounding Heroism and the potential for questioning if his death was actually Just at Dave's hands, though y'know Dave did ask him and he didn't answer huh. Well anyway no comment there lol BUT it's a bit harder to ignore these kinds of things with a physical reminder.

I'm not sure Bro would have cared tbh, though Dave(DS) would have, and then he'd have found out sooner also. But for Bro hmm it's hard because he does find out pretty early and a lot of that became "Dave is capable of trusting a version of me who lived a different life and now I am questioning aspects of my own life" but you didn't hear that from me.

A!Dave probably would have been the most upset lol. Lots of trauma associated with the concept of failure and a physical reminder that even though he couldn't have been there to protect him anyway that all the preparing in the world wasn't enough for what the Game threw at the kids. Dave's guilt reflected into someone much older who understands the concept of sacrificing for the greater good but who is so selfish when it comes to those he loves that he would struggle, I think, with whether or not he played a part in Dirk's sacrifice this way. Maybe he still does idk but. Sometimes physical, constant reminders change how we feel about stuff!

Hope that answers your question in a satisfying way lol! It would have been fun and I debated it but decided ultimately it would be more beneficial if he did not c: