#this now makes Three versions of myself i have created for dsaf

[dee-in-the-box]

happy valentine's day, y'all!

so uh.

if i were to say that i may or may not have made a self-insert for the dsaf universe, as well as how they're Completely Normal about Jack and Dave,

would you like to hear about them?

[directdogman]

could we get some random facts/headcannons about the main three (jack, dave, henry)? i wanna know more--

So, you want trivia? Sure, I got some o’ dat.Jack’s full name is Jack Fitzgerald Kennedy, aside from being an obvious nod to the late US president, “Fitzgerald” was chosen as his middle name as it’s the surname of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, which is the book that the inappropriate, yet endearing usage of “Old Sport” by Dave came from. In very early development, I tossed around the name Mike for OS, but due to Scott coincidentally turning Mike Schmidt into a sibling zombie going from Freddy’s location to Freddy’s location with a new name each time, from SL onwards- I kinda thought to distance myself from that name, so things’d be less confusing.Jack’s name comes from three sources. The obvious one is that when he goes “LEGACY” his face turns into a pumpkin, and he’s orange. The second is a nod to the dude who tricked the devil, Stingy Jack, who ended up living an immortal life due to a deal that went wrong, only to find himself unable to enter heaven OR hell. (Sound familiar?) Shadow Doggo is based is on the British legends of black hounds. The image of Blackjack barging into a room full of people and mauling Henry by the throat is inspired by Black Shuck, an alleged hellhound who broke into a church, killing worshippers, and leaving scorchmarks on the door on the way out.The other legend is of Richard Cabell, who allegedly sold his soul to the devil, only for it to be sealed away, and his resting place was pursued endlessly by frustrated hell hounds, trying to free the soul. The twist on this story is that the tomb is empty, the hell hound IS the soul, and the hound has a soul of his own imprisoned in a hell of his making.Blackjack’s ability to move through timelines manifests in DSaF 2, when he can comment on events from other savegames in current ones, not unlike Flowey in Undertale. The ability canonically is the physical manifestation of Jack’s desire to alter time, to turn back the clock and prevent Dee’s untimely death.Some of Jack’s qualities are actually nods to my own. Jack’s height is 5′10-6′2, which is the height range I am in, Jack’s pizza preferences are like my own, and there’s a few other eerie similarities I only now realize, but those are for another post, I guess. Jack’s orange colour was chosen in DSaF 1 (instead of pink, red, green) because the suit the player wears in DSaF 1 is orange. Simple as. At one point in development, I considered giving Jack the surname of “Johnson”, but an artist I was working with pointed out that “Peter Johnson” essentially means “penis penis”. Johnson was the surname of a US president who resided over the early vietnam war period, and was the vice president of JFK, so I just went one back, and decided to adopt the “Fitzgerald” as a reference to Gatsby, as I said previously.Dave’s an odd one to discuss, because he was kind of an enigma before DSaF 3. I’ll just give a few facts, then. I don’t know what Dave is. Dave flat out implies he’s actually half eggplant in DSaF 2, but with how dishonest he is, I doubt that to be the case. I consider him a cryptid, because according to Dave in DSaF 3, he was purple as a kid too, long before his death.Him and Jack are polar opposites in a weird inverted way. Dave’s immortality comes from manually repossessing his body, because he can’t let go. He’s alive through sheer determination, even though it’s a lie and it’s eating him alive from the inside out. Jack’s alive against his will, because he can’t die. It’s like determination vs perseverance. An unstoppable object vs an unmovable object. This is why they work so well in a pair; they’re completely complimentary. They cover each other’s weaknesses. This is represented in the Flipside segment, because Jack and Dave each have a weak attack/defense stat, but can boost each other to make each other both stronger, and equally strong/tough in the same ways. Funny, that.Dave’s relationship with Henry is something I never quite got to show properly on screen due to never showing any scenes before Henry’s death that don’t involve murder. Henry calls Dave “Willy” as a subtle way to demean him, because it’s slang for wiener, and that’s why Dave hates it so much.I’ve written a long ass post about Henry in the past. It’s here, in case you wanna read it. There’s obviously more that I never wrote down, but there ya go. Explains how he got from birth to the circus, anyhow, and why he has a book. Bonus fact: he listens to very old music (mostly classical) as he works, hence why he had My Grandfather’s Clock stuck in his head as he created Dee’s new vessel, and why his theme is a waltz. Henry is also much older than Dave, who is slightly older than Jack. My original headcanon design for Henry was a flushed version of Stephen Fry, but tbh, YOUR design for him has really grown on me :)Hope this helped!