[ honestly, it isn't the romance part dave's even concerned about. he goes silent for a minute or two (one minute, forty-two seconds) as he tries to figure out how to word it. it's not his usual route to say things straight up without a million layers of bullshit or a long time beating around the bush until dirk stares him down but he does occasionally try to be straight-up.
with dirk. everyone else still gets the usual bullshit, although rose has been able to deal with it for years. ]
I figured he was ignoring whatever bullshit you're doing re: not deserving interactions with people who give a fuck about you, but I just wanted to double-check.
[ so basically he was concerned about dirk's ridiculous emotional shit rather than dirk's romance. which was dumb, and he knows it, but maybe if he'd started trying to talk to people about their problems earlier, he'd have been able to say something to rose when she started drinking all the time instead of leaving it up to vriska.
how the hell would that have ended up without the spidertroll? dave knows he wasn't going to say a word to rose about it, because...
...well. because he didn't know how and that was frankly one of his biggest regrets for not knowing how to handle this kind of shit. rose isn't going to dissolve into an alcoholic mess again (he thinks?) but it'd be nice to have the emotional capacity to like, be there for her. for everyone. ugh this is difficult???? ]
I'm extremely terrible at comfort and helpin' shit but I guess just lemme know if you need to talk or whatnot? I will attempt to be less terrible. I'd like to not completely flunk brother school, again.
[ he means the shit with rose, this time, which dirk knows nothing about. ]
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with dirk. everyone else still gets the usual bullshit, although rose has been able to deal with it for years. ]
I figured he was ignoring whatever bullshit you're doing re: not deserving interactions with people who give a fuck about you, but I just wanted to double-check.
[ so basically he was concerned about dirk's ridiculous emotional shit rather than dirk's romance. which was dumb, and he knows it, but maybe if he'd started trying to talk to people about their problems earlier, he'd have been able to say something to rose when she started drinking all the time instead of leaving it up to vriska.
how the hell would that have ended up without the spidertroll? dave knows he wasn't going to say a word to rose about it, because...
...well. because he didn't know how and that was frankly one of his biggest regrets for not knowing how to handle this kind of shit. rose isn't going to dissolve into an alcoholic mess again (he thinks?) but it'd be nice to have the emotional capacity to like, be there for her. for everyone. ugh this is difficult???? ]
I'm extremely terrible at comfort and helpin' shit but I guess just lemme know if you need to talk or whatnot? I will attempt to be less terrible. I'd like to not completely flunk brother school, again.
[ he means the shit with rose, this time, which dirk knows nothing about. ]