Fridgestuck: Dirk Strider (Facts/Theories) 

I know: Homestuck^2. I’m getting to that rn.

Another fun fact: Dirk becoming the new narrator in the epilogues is foreshadow as far back as Jane's introduction where she talks about the gifts she recieved. Dirk's gift was bad horse novel where he started replacing small parts with jokes, until he got carried away and rewrote the whole novel.

Me at the start of the comic: Dave is such a cool guy, he's dauntless and tough. Me after reading the comic: Dave is a sweetheart and needs to be protected from any further damage at all cost.

Okay The guy lives in middle of nothing No job, no school, no neighbors, anything Still he makes an auto-responder because, well, he's too busy taking a bath and his friends couldn't wait 20 minutes

Dirk's Katana being broken by Dave makes sense if you think of it as a Juju, or at least operating on a similar principle. When Roxy brought the one from her timeline, 'surviving' Dirk's Katana was retroactively rendered a fake, as Jujus can never be truly duplicated.

Oh boy, this is ironically beautiful timing

dave has crows, dirk has seagulls, and hal has duolingo owl

Everything about Dirk have good explanation and also "because he's gay"

My favorite thing about the epilogues is that they're *technically* not cannon so we can pick and choose what aspects of it that we like

I don’t know what’s more saddening. Jake being an asshole to a literal child stuck in a machine for not being “The Real Dirk”, or Hal privating his rp sessions with Roxy and developing a crush on her because she treated him like an actual person and keeps those memories close.

don't forget the fact that Dave hates being a hero, the sound of metal hitting other metal, and seeing blood because of bro.

Can we talk about the fact dirk is the textbook definition of borderline personality disorder. As someone with the disorder I’ve always noticed that about him, never knew if it was intentional but it’s interesting. Some examples: -It’s theorised the disorder is caused by abuse or neglect, dirk grew up without and parental figures or just human interaction in general - intense but unstable relationships with others, his romantic relationship with jake, forcing jake to say he loved him and needing constant validation from him - emotional instability, just dirks overall self loathing but also the fact he can very quickly be extremely confident in himself -disturbed pattern of reality, dirk is the only character that can switch between wake and sleep self and can make a figment of himself in another person(brain ghost dirk) become reality and just all his AIs of himself Trigger warnings for next part - self harm and attempting Suicide, dirk (like u mentioned) is the only character to have committed Suicide in canon the most times -miss use of drugs and alcohol, although this is just a theory but in his alternative timeline self (bro) the way cal influenced bros decisions and possessed him could be alluring to the influence of drugs. It would also make sense since he’s a heart player aswell, and a more active one, and the aspect focuses on personality and understanding of self. Idk tell me what u think :3

All im saying is Candy Dirk has a higher kill count than Meat Dirk

"Lord English can only enter a universe after it's been scratched. So why would Bro try to scratch the mesa?" Bcoz he is suicidal, as it matches Dirk's affliction with himself, as well as his multiple suicunes.

You know what they say, Jen. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

my favoirite theory on why dirk's favorite mlp pony is rainbow dash is because she is notably known for "adventure," not disimilar to a different character in homestuck that dirk also likes.

Heart of the hylander: Dirk keeps getting decapitated. God damn it

Dirk is the destroyer of heart, so he killed Hearts Boxcars

YO! Homestuck 2 gets confirmed and Fridge stuck makes an episode about Dirk Strider! XD BEST DAY EVER!!!!! I LOVE BEING HOMESTUCK TRASH!!!! Thank you for making this video. Dirk is my favorite character

It must be a pain to have released this today of all days. Everyone excepts an immediate reaction on Homestuc^2. Not me, good job on the video. From now on I'm calling Dirk Dork

Is this because Homestuck 2 came out a while ago?-

Dirk is now a villain because "orange man bad"

I like to think bro was trying to prepare Dave for the game. In a very poor way, for sure, but Dave was probably the most important player I'd argue because his obvious weapon skill and his... odd emotional state that allowed him to push through some of the worst times

here's another fact about dirk: timaes is the father of the blind guy who got his eyes healed by jesus dirk/bro represents timaes, dave represents the blind guy who got his eyes healed, and karkat represents jesus I'll just let you connect the dots if you haven't already

5:00 Probably in a way similar to the other legendary weapons (or the crowbar). The sword was probably sent back in time after the alchemization, and then sent to universe b1. Also, the sword is a perfect representation of Dirk's classpect - it is his unbreakable soul, that can break everything else. 14:45 Not only soul, but the identity and sense of self. For example, the classical "Jake, you should be more like Jane", "Jane, you should be more like Jake" - destruction of Heart (natural identity) and creation of Mind (rational choice). Generally, by destroying Heart, Dirk acts very much like a Mind player. It is possible that shades (whole shades, at least), are a symbol of Mind because the wearers are Terezi, Latula, Dirk (a destroyer of Heart), and Dave (who was raised by a version of Dirk, and "his Heart destroyed"...until he got is own, different shades). Also, it is possible that hat is the symbol of Heart - Nepeta wearing a cat hat because of her "cat personality", and Dirk liking hats very much, but unable to wear them, instead having a hat on his shirt - a perfect metaphor for the Prince belonging to an aspect while simultaneously rejecting it.

7:07 ALL THE SU FANS COME GET Y'ALL JUICE

God. I just love Dirk. He's my favorite DORK!! Also, the little Heartbreaker ref KILLED me!

Okay but am I the only one who never realized the striders' hair look like birds?

it's kinda ironic the comparison between Kamina and Dirk since personality-wise Kamina has more in common with John than Dirk (A dork way over his head, values freedom over anything, and constantly encourages his allies to do the same, that and a dead dad is a BIG part of both characters)

DIRK IS A DORK CONFIRMED

The fact that Bro knows TOO much even when he dosnt contacts anyone and having little Cal influence him may explain his abuse. In part this abuse can be concider training for the game. So Bro may also outplay Cal by Training its killer. At the end we know almost nothing about Bro because he LITERALLY has no diaolog and thus we know nothing of his train of thought, even more so when we can varelly keep up with even Dirk's mentality itself.

Now that you mentioned about Dirk admiration through Rainbow Dash, I find kind of curious how Dave is addict to apple juice and Rainbow Dash is (kind of) addict to apple cider

Making lil cal wink was the most terrifying thing all fay

6:57 we all wish we have a fandom bro.

I always thought the white birds in Dirk's apartement were doves, as a reference to the white dove in the story of Noah's Ark. That would fit the whole biblical flood thing going on. But seagulls definitely make more sense lmao. Also, I know you didn't want to include epilogue spoilers, but I just want to mention that the Detective Pony rewrite Dirk gave to Jane (which was mentioned all the way back when the post-scratch kids were first introduced) is probably my favourite piece of foreshadowing in the entire webcomic.

"the scythe turns into a fancy santa scythe, making it a deadly weapon" so your telling me that it *wasnt* deadly before?

How To Be A Heartbreaker really completed this video!

LE: today: aw finally I got that Dirk video done, and I know exactly when I should upload it... Comments of this video: HOMESTUCK^2 WHEN

dirk-capitated really got me

I'm so glad I found your channel. Dirk is one of my favorite characters. I'm slowly re reading homestuck, both back then and now I didn't get the chance of having any friends to obsess over homestuck so this is the next best thing. 💓 maybe one of these days I will find another hs fan who knows

Personally, the epilogues made me like dirk way more than I did before

Gasp Sans epilogue And epilogue about Sans

That timing was perfect!

Fuuuuuck... Trying to read Homestuck 2, now that I know _that's_ apparently a thing, and GOD is it weighing on my patience. Fuckin' Dirk...

There is a game named strider where the character "strider" is a ninja with a katana and a spiky haircut who time travel

I realized the other day that I really relate to Dirk (not bro) a lot and it sort of explains why I liked him so much in the comic. Depressed and pushes people away? check. Splinters of personality? Check. Takes really long showers? Check.

Man. Talk about good timing

I, for some reason, take these videos as a sign that I should go out for dinner.

AUGH! I loves this one! Keep up the good work!

I like dirk too. Why did he make him so malicious to decide to be evil just because someone said he was evil? Strilondes 4 Life

When you speak welsh and hear someone mess up trying to say caledfwlch Honestly I don't blame you I can barely say it either

The irony is, the unbreakable katana is literally not a katana.

Wait, the U. Katana broke because of the Crowbar's Crowbar effect on it, as Dirk was blocking an attack from Jack trying to choke him with it. Because of the two objects were in contact Dave could slice them off breaking the Katana in half and severing the three heads.

Oh man, can't wait for you to cover the veritable shitstorm that is the epilouges

timing is so perfect.

Having this Fridgestuck episode just the very same day Homestuck^2 is online is kind of good and weird. more good than weird. Also, this time, i learned a lot. I didn't knew all that about the dirk (the dagger, i mean). very good video, one of the bests!

lil hal should also be called "hal 4500" lmao

Hey I just really want to say I really like your videos and the depth you go into your research you go into your videos is amazing!!! I love your god teir name too it is awesome. I think I might be a page of space, knight of space, or knight of hope. Well just saying this again I really like your videos and I hope you are having a good day! (Edit) : i found out i am a prince of time!!

As a person with the mind aspect ( I took multiple quizzes) the part where it said that people with the heart aspect do everything to try to develop a sense of self hit hard, because(keep in mind that the mind aspect and heart aspect are opposites) whilst doing some thinking the other day, I noted that I really don’t have that strong of a sense of self. Also, funny enough, dirk is basically my favorite character.

You describing the Heart aspect scares me greatly due to it describing me better than I thought 😅

I CAME HERE FOR A GOOD TIME BUT I FEEL SO CALLED OUT

Oranges are good for your HEART

YES Moonsetter

Oh god oh fuck oh god oh fuck oh god oh fuck oh god

Why did Dirk have to demonetize so many of his friends?!

*now with footnotes

Yeah... AR showing up was weird... as I did have a programming project back in like 2006/2007 that was a mixture of IRC client and IRC Bot--and it mostly just copied how I talk and type. Modelled after an elaboration on NIALL bots. The plan was mostly to just turn on the NIALL bot when I didn't like somebody I was interacting with, or just felt like being a douche bag. I really didn't imagine that having it turned on would have anybody enjoying my decision to do this. So I just imagined it would develop animosity--and took that approach. Reading Homestuck was REALLY weird... as Terezi pretty much looked like logs from various forums and IRC communities that I was an administrator on. And no... not including any filters over Terezi. Which I mostly just did to be a bit of a douche bag to people for self depreciating irony in hopes people would stop accusing me of "thinking I am better than them". Well, you know what they say about small minds and seldom differing--especially with how much resembled stuff I was doing elsewhere.

Awesome episode!!! You're so insightful dude!!!! But I wonder, do you literally reread HS for every episode you make or do you just search the webernets for hours about stuff? Keep up the amazing work anemoneways 💜

Jake+Dirk=Jirk Jirk jerk

hey on the on the moonsetter album cover look at where the sword is stabbed on dorks shadow hehe

Can't wait for homestuck 3 & knuckles

Yes you're doing my boy

The more I think about Dave's cannon relationship with bro the more excited my depression becomes.

It’s here it’s here 😻😻😻 sooo happy 😸😸😸

FINALLY!!!!! THE BEST STRIDER BROTHER EVER

Do a Fridgestuck about Vriska!

Happy 10/25 guys!

Gemini posting second comment here ignore me- also, Dirk would be Mami from Madoka Magica

Dirk is a horse furry

was that last line a reference to darksydephil??? 20:18

bruh I read himestuck 2 and I'm getting flashbacks

R U GONNA MAKE A VIDEO ON HOMESTUCK 2

Could you do Davepeta?

Probably a bit late but would anyone know the name of the real unbreakable katana

I need a fridgestuck on Roxy

The Striders best bros

Jen almost every human except the Lalondes

Dirk the Irredeemable

Wait, so I'm the movie hal 9000 became the ultimate antagonist, Isn't lil hal technically part of Lord English, the ultimate antagonist of homestuck?

As far as the main cast goes, it's only Caliborn and the Lalondes left. Deeeeeeeefinately no one else........

sooo heart is the whatever of ossdid hosts is what im hearing 16:50

ok i need to know. Do u know what ficto kinning is?

kinda off topic but i think most of us would wanna... demonetise a 13 year old omniscent AI versions of ourselves. like i aint living with an emo hal9000 miss with that shit

Fucking Homestuck is back! We aren't dead yet!

will you ever make a vid on the epilogues?

5:38 It has unbreakable enchantment

Wink one eye

Hi, where did you find the art at 16:41 of Dirk's multiple selves??? It's really cool; I want to know the source/artist!

10:20 which page was this?

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