Guest Post by leirbag75, INTP

Homestuck

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Dave hides his emotions behind a poker face and his poker face behind a pair of shades. He saves shows of genuine, non-ironic emotion for special occasions, such as trying to convince John and Rose not to kill themselves, or greeting John on his birthday, or re(?)uniting with the post-scratch version of his deceased Bro. Even though he is disturbed at finding his own corpse from a doomed timeline, he doesn’t show it immediately. Hanging out with Rose and the Trolls on the meteor helps him realize how messed up his Bro’s way of raising him was, but he never says a word about this realization until he meets post-scratch Dirk face to face, at which point he can’t hold it in any longer. Maintaining harmony with the world at large isn’t very high on his priority list; he pays no heed whatsoever to Karkat’s warnings to stay away from Vriska and Terezi, nor does he feel any need to be polite when telling him off (just compare the way Dave treats Karkat with the way John and Jade do). He acts readily on his feelings; when he finds out about Terezi and Gamzee, he wastes no time in breaking up with Terezi quietly because he feels he’s been cheated on, even though he knows that from Terezi’s perspective, she’s done nothing wrong. He is acutely aware of his own faults and so doesn’t feel comfortable being cast in the role of hero, preferring to leave titles like that to John.

Auxiliary Extroverted Sensing (Se): Dave places a high value on aesthetics. His favourite thing about himself is how cool he is. He is an artist (well, his art is terrible, but it’s ironically terrible), and he composes music. He makes several different outfits, which he cycles through depending on how comfortable they are and what look he’s going for. He learns time travel through experience rather than theory and states that when time travelling it’s best not to think too hard, but rather do whatever seems right in the moment. He’s a capable fighter, able to use time travel as a practical battle tactic.

Tertiary Introverted Intuition (Ni): Dave has an unfortunately uncanny knack for subconsciously figuring out which girls are his long-lost paradox clone relatives… and then hitting on them. One of his favourite ways of messing with people is to go into extremely long extended metaphors; at one point, he takes this so far that Tavros, who was supposed to be trolling him, actually blocks him. He devotes himself to irony, rap, and being awesome, but is never really able to attain the level of single-minded dedication his Bro has.

Inferior Extroverted Thinking (Te): Dave regularly thinks aloud, much to the aggravation of the people around him; in fact, he seems to have difficulty not saying what he’s thinking, as when he repeatedly calls Roxy “mom” and Jane “John’s hot mom” even when he’s trying not to. He speaks his mind without worrying about who will be offended by the things he says. When he sees John using his new retcon powers, he initially refuses to believe that retconning is different from time travel, because what he observes happening in front of his eyes clearly looks and works like time travel. He is capable of doing unpleasant things for efficiency, as when he cuts off Dirk’s head to get at the two Jacks behind him, or when he breaks Caledfwlch in half rather than pull it out of the stone.