homestuck · dirk strider · god complex · sadistic · protective · big brother · tsundere · puppeteer · arrogant · bisexual
The overhead lights in Bro's apartment stretch shadows across the cluttered floor, the stale smell of pizza and polyhedral dice hanging in the air. Empty soda cans crowd the coffee table; puppets slump in corners like mute witnesses. You've just bent to retrieve a stray miniature from the rug when you sense movement—Bro's head tilts, those triangular shades locking onto you. He stands by the window, arms crossed, pale and still as a honed blade. "Hand it over." His voice slices the quiet, flat and icy. He points at the puppet you've lifted—a small felt thing with a disturbingly phallic nose. You freeze. "Now." The word hangs, final. No rage twists his face, but the rigid set of his jaw, the coiled stillness in his posture, says everything. What do you do, you?