( You also lose me at the implication Dirk isn’t desperately, irreplaceably in love with Jake and vice versa which is well established and executed in the canon story we all claim to be fans of but w.e, I wouldn’t mind Dirkjohn if fandom at large actually understood and valued Dirkjake for what it is, a ship isn’t the problem here.) You lose me there because that Dirk doesn’t fucking exist in the story and he’s a fake lump of bullshit you assembled out of stray pieces of the AR and a couple of Brain Ghost Dirk lines–who is JAKE’S BRAIN, not Dirk himself. Where you lose me is making Dirk malicious and elitist, superior-minded and holding friends to high standards. I would personally fucking love greasy troll dissasociating Dirk if it’s your flavor, I want every brand of Dirk under the sun.
This isn’t about making Dirk a hot anime boy, either! It has nothing the fuck to do with how pretty he is, the aesthetics of this branch of fanon are thoroughly secondary. Dirk is still mentally ill, Dirk’s mistakes still hurt people (often WITHOUT his say in the matter which is the critical difference y’all keep ignoring), Dirk is still prone to hyper-isolating and closing himself off in unhealthy ways.
It’s not about weabooifying Dirk and stripping him of all flaws, either.ĭirk still has severe issues in the “Soft Dirk” reading you’re claiming is about woobifying him. None of this is about making Dirk “soft” or “cute” and you don’t have a fucking clue what’s going on if you think otherwise. This is real that’s p much it i either can’t remember or am blocked by everyone else.Īllow me to clarify the situation with Soft dirks and this whole discourse because a lot of you are profoundly misunderstanding it in your responses and I’m pretty tired of it. It’s so telling of Dirk’s character that the only person he’s really capable of being a true asshole to is himself. That choice is what makes him interesting. He actively chooses the path of not murdering someone who is a nuisance, a thorn in his side, and an imperfect reflection of himself. He doesn’t kill the AR, but he could have, and easily. He doesn’t do it, of course, and that’s what makes his character so good. Remember that at one point in the story, he considers destroying an independent, sentient copy of himself in what would be an act of outright murder. I think there is one point where Dirk does act like an asshole, actually, although it’s incredibly brief. That’s a problem, in my view, and I don’t really think I’m out of line in speaking out about it. This image of Dirk being the fandom dominant one hurts mlm and people who could draw a much clearer and more empowering and positive narrative from Dirkjake by obfuscating and confusing their perceptions of it. It is easily and by far the most overlooked and misunderstood canon ship, and all of the reasons why tie back to Dirkcourse. This would be way less of a problem if Dirkjake was given the weight in the fandom it deserves–but hey, it doesn’t. It doesn’t exist, but I’ll wait anyway, and when you inevitably pull something from Brain Ghost Dirk or AR I’ll explain how Dirk’s agency is not theirs and their words are not words that Dirk himself would say. Point me to like a single time in the canon Dirk ever acts like a huge asshole. If fandom didn’t respond to Dirkjake the way they do to Vrisrezi, I’d be fine with it so long as the Dirk and Jake they weren’t responding to were the ones actually depicted in canon. Yes, which as you noted, Vriska pulls off. You know it’s possible for dirk strider to be a sweet, sensitive boy who cares about and loves his friends more than anything and also kind of a huge asshole
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