#dsaf davetrap

[r4spberry-vinaigrette]

i fear i will get eaten alive for this but i find it so odd that some people act like flipside dave just... isn't reality dave. because flipside dave did, 100%, do all of the things reality dave did and see very minimal issue in doing it until after several layers of the flipside where he realized henry wasn't just killing kids and he didn't, in fact, "have good intentions." this is emphatically said after steven has his flashback, which is right about when dave is like "alright so Maybe I Was Wrong". and under the assumption reality dave isn't flipside dave in any sense... i dunno man. it feels reductive.

yeah, reality dave did do bad things, whether he was entirely aware of the wrongness of those things or not (depends on what you're talking about -- it's kind of a grey area for a lot of things), but that's the point of him redeeming himself. that's the point of jack freeing davetrap's soul by burning the restaurant down. that's the point of jack saying "i hope you can find peace with what you've done" to dave before he leaves with blackjack. that's the point of dave getting better. he did bad things and he acted poorly to jack sometimes and with how his soul is split (on top of jack uh... ditching him for 35 years in some bid to force him to move on) his reality self is much clingier and more aggressive when pushed to its limits -- jack and dave both emphatically say that dave's reality self cannot move on from henry / jack and that's why he keeps coming back. they're still two halves of the same entity. to treat them like they aren't two halves of a whole, just under different circumstances, is ... kind of ignoring a big part of dave's arc, imo?

fundamentally if flipside dave hadn't done anything that reality dave did, what is the point of him taking accountability? what's the point of his entire talk with dee? what's the point of him having to deconstruct what he did and what henry did to him if he isn't somewhat accountable for all he did, y'know? obviously he isn't entirely consciously reality dave, but they're two parts of the same entity pushed to different extremes in different contexts. davetrap was isolated and abandoned and he is incapable of moving on properly, much as jack tries to get him to before turning to burning the restaurant down, and he's going to inevitably have a WAY harder time acknowledging that henry did anything bad because that pedestal is all he's hinging on. if henry is bad, dave coming back over and over was all for nothing, so of course he's in such vehement denial and clinging so hard to this idea.

of course he can act hostile or aggressive or creepy to jack in certain endings, his one role model was the man who watched him with cameras to study him, cut him open and took out his organs, constantly gaslit him and manipulated him into thinking he wanted everything that henry did and then ditched him. of COURSE reality dave is therefore clingy and scared of abandoment -- flipside dave expresses this same fear, getting borderline guilt-trippy when jack first says he'll leave until jack clarifies he plans to come back. it's to a far less severe degree, yeah, but it's still clearly a part of both daves. to act like reality dave should be condemned and flipside dave was just manipulated is to act like theyre not effectively the same entities in different contexts.

i dunno. you can have your headcanons and i don't want to sound mean to anyone who considers them entirely different people because that's ultimately not my territory to tread on and it hurts nobody. if you enjoy it, have fun with it! i've just always found it reductive and like it ignores kind of the point of dave needing to take accountability and be redeemed and it tends to lead to reality dave being dismissed as "all bad" and flipside dave just being traumatized and "the good one." not sayin everyone with the headcanon does it and ultimately this is just my interpretation off canon so im not the end all be all. it's just something on my mind

[gabv1elyuri]

[patfo]

I spent the whole night on it, I think it was worth it.

[detestx]

[day-shrimp]

Drawing on ms paint until i get good at drawing with a mouse day 2

[sp0rtsyy]

Bro's thinking abt his ex husband

[moltenmusic]

Dave and Jack, and barbenheimer!!

(Or, a wack doodle of my slice of life au with redeemed davetrap, because there needs to be more davetrap content)

[eastwardnest271]

Plessis put me down😂😂😂

[royaldoge7370]

DSaFTOBER DAY 3: Davetrap

He's so everything to me actually..

Prompts made by Static_dropz

[blackjacktheshaddowdogger]

AUGHHDHE.. YOU DONT KNOW STRUGGLE TILL TRYING TO GET AROUND 3 WATERMARKS AT ONCE

[patfo]

[detestx]

[lemontrash13]

Tried to do some sorta correlating series of DSaF fanarts some time ago, so here's that.

Used coolors.co for the color palettes, pretty useful website, I do recommend!

TW for slight discolored blood, eye contact and Henry Miller under the cut. (Personally everytime i look at him i physically recoil but he is also sadly quite fun to draw. Oh well)

[davetrapp]

// Day 112

Fight

Reference Image lmao

[windym1ller]

"He always comes back..."

[salvagedsprings]

throws my icon and banner and runs away