#DSAF rationals

[thygoddessouijathicc]

Dave and Jack are gay and there is proof

So the fandom liked my post on the wedding dress thing so I’ve decided to make yet another DSAF text post on DSAF headcanons with rationals behind them. This time on a much bigger one with far more evidence actually, that is all but (and might actually be) confirmed.

This headcanon of course I am speaking of is Dave and Jack being gay. This is the most popular headcanon in the fandom, and for good reason. I have yet to hear any opposing opinions actually, the fandom is again unanimous. I’m going to make this post anyway for new fans and the like.

CAUTION FOR SPOILERS FOR THE DSAF 3 ENDINGS

Just about anyone who has played, watched, or engaged in any way with DSAF has likely noticed that Dave (a character who can either be your best friend or your nemesis depending on your route) and the protagonist of the game, Jack, occasionally have interactions with decidedly fruity undertones.

Although I have not seen as much evidence that JACK is gay, given that his personality varies greatly depending on how he’s played in most games, although his being gay can quickly at least be surmised from his final speech to Dave in the true ending of the third game, although not directly stating anything specific about their relationship, does have Jack imply subtly that there is something there.

If you count things the player can make Jack say specifically rather than just things he says on his own, then Jack being gay is a resounding yes, as lines of dialogue like “thanks bae”, *blush and nod*, and more are very much in the games.

Furthermore, Jack compares if not straight up calls Davetrap his ex during the good ending of DSAF 3 with Roger. Dave and Jack also slept in the same bed while in Vegas.

As for Dave being gay, there is a lot more there. Like infinity more than I think I could ever cover, but I’ll try.

Dave very frequently calls Jack pet names, in fact, I think I can count on one hand how many times he’s actually called Jack by his actual name. He also seems to blatantly flirt with him ingame.

Dave confesses to having seen Jack’s bedroom before, and in the third game further is revealed to have set up cameras in Jack’s house, connected his vents to his house to “protect” Jack, and have had frequently used his shower and toothbrush. Not exactly healthy behaviour or signs of a healthy relationship, but DSAF is DSAF, there is an ending in the third game where you burn down your restaurant because of furries.

Davetrap, although a manipulative character, and not a very good person, is one of the bigger causes for Dave being clearly gay. Davetrap, having less restraint than his Flipside counterpart and being more disturbingly obsessive, has done a number of things to confirm the ship.

First of all, Davetrap waited 30 years for Jack, and fixed Henry’s old suit in order to try to springlock him so they can be together forever, and that’s just not a thing you do with a friend. Even if it’s toxic and fucked, we’re trying to prove he’s gay, not that he’s a good person, honestly, Flipside Dave himself after his whole redemption arc is Chaotic Good at best, Chaotic Neutral to Chaotic Evil at worst, although I believe more Chaotic Neutral.

If you side with Davetrap, things get gayer from here. If you chose to hire the female nightgaurd, Davetrap berates you, not due to sexism, rather because she has an extra hole to fill with animatronic parts, going on to talk about how his own asshole is a cavern due to previously mentioned animatronic parts. The interaction ends of course with Dave implying that he wants Jack to “find something” to fill the hole. Well ok then.

Finally getting to the part I’m sure most of you have been waiting for, Davetrap’s confession, the reason I said this might be fully canon. During the bad ending of the third game Davetrap takes you down to the Fazbunker, trying to cheer himself up as he feels something is wrong. In the final room he figures out what it is, and apologizes for springlocking Jack, showing genuine care for his well-being. Jack, manipulated by Henry, then scares the shit out of Davetrap, and rips off his head. However, just before his death, Davetrap says “Don’t do this, I love you”. The reason this doesn’t fully prove it in my mind is that it could have been said out of desperation and that only Davetrap says this, Flipside Dave never says anything of this manner specifically. However I do not believe that Davetrap was lying here, as the lines previously in which he expresses guilt towards his actions and his affects on Jack prove that he does indeed care a lot for him, and while he might have been desperate, all evidence proves that he was not lying. I just can’t accept this as full undeniable evidence as, again, we never get anything like this from Flipside Dave.

That’s not to say Flipside Dave is not in love with Jack however. To the contrary, he most definitely is. Case and point. The pizza flirt.

When interacting with the pizza thingy I don’t care to learn the name of, Dave asks Jack how he likes his pizza, then proceeds to ask him if he’d ever be willing to have eggplant on his pizza. This, in context, is a very clear case of Dave very non-subtly flirting with Jack.

To go to the ending of the good route, upon finding out Jack cannot move on due to not having a soul, Dave freaks out, says he can’t go on without Jack, and says he would rather stay in the void with Jack. Jack only gets him to leave giving him Blackjack, the embodiment of his own soul which cannot join back with his body, telling him Blackjack will not leave him.

For misc evidence, during the evil route of the second game Dave changes his plan to include torturing Peter when Jack gets fired because it bothered him, referring to Jack as his “orange baby”, and insinuating that he cares more about Jack’s pain than his own.

There is an ending in which Dave says “Old Sport you will be mine” while attempting to shoot up Freddy’s.

Although Flipside Dave unlike Davetrap never actually says that he loves Jack, he does call him the “tangerine to my aubergine”, which in my opinion is pretty close.

During the neutral ending of the third game, Jack yells at Davetrap, saying how he only opened his Freddy’s location for money, specifically saying “do you think any of this was because I loved Freddy’s? Or loved YOU?”. Davetrap then responds by opening up his mask (if I recall the only time he does this), crying and saying he’s going to go cry in a dumpster, alone.

On one of Dave’s tapes he goes crazy and vows to find Jack.

In Dave’s diary he says he’s “really wild about Jack”, and writes his nickname a lot. I also heard something about having files of pictures of Jack in a maid dress, and Jack having pictures of Dave in a maid dress, although I don’t know if this is true or not.

Finally, what all of you have been waiting for. Doggo has confirmed that both Dave and Jack are pan or bi, Jack having a preference for men. Doggo has also stated that he himself ships these two, although it was intentionally made ambiguous.

So to close off my argument, here are the results. In all endings of DSAF 3, as well as all prior games, Dave is in love with Jack, Jack himself varies, seemingly only being gay during the third good ending and some routes in the previous games, although in the neutral route and the bad route of the third game he decided does not like Dave at all.

#dsaf jack #dsaf dave #dsaf old sport #dsaf #dsaf 3 #jack kennedy #dave miller #davesport #dayshift at freddy's #dave x jack #gay #DSAF rationals #Because I guess this is just a thing I do now

[docnukes]

Davesport sauna because the world is my toy and I play with it

#my art #davesport #dsaf #dayshift at freddys #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf dave #dsaf jack #jack kennedy #dave miller #I need to kill these dudes IMMEDIATELY #they piss me off and rot my brain. I see orange and purple together and my brain immediately thinks “davesport lol” #I'm sick of it. #It's so tiring. #I can't look at fucking colors matching together anymore #Davesport has taken over my heart and soul and also my rationality #I must obey dave miller and jack kennedy dsaf

[butchdykekondraki]

ok well. what if i fucking exploded huh.

#[ren] #i WILL vaguepost about dsaf and there is Nothing you can do to stop me #anyway #im normal #im SOOOOO averge and normal about that fucking. #eggplant pizza joke. #coming from the guy whos suppoed to be the RATIONAL dave. #like #what did he mean by that. #like damn bitch. you think like this NORMALLY ? #i can excuse reality dave being a freak hes irrational and frankly probably just. delusional or something #but RATIONAL DAVE? MAKING THESE TYPES OFJOKES? #that one. i cannot be rational about. #sorry #theyre in love #they told me so. by the way. #OUGHFHJ #exploding

[directdogman]

what prompted you to create abel brannigan and all of his bastardness

Well, he's actually a DSaF holdover. So I guess I need to discuss him within the context of DSaF first. Basically, I wanted to flesh out the 'humans' who ran the restaurant chain the game centers around and how on earth things got as bad as they did. While the player character + Dave is responsible for many of the murders linked with the restaurants, there's still the question of who's culpable for the grossly unethical conduct at the company, including (but not limited to) the cover-ups of the deranged killing sprees, knowingly using possessed animatronics and of course, forcing employees to work until they die and then forcing them to KEEP working their jobs after the fact.

Abel is pretty important to how that whole situation ended up the way it did, of course, and you could argue that Abel, Joe + Harry basically act as a story device to humanize and rationalize how a company ran by human beings could be so inhumane.

But to delve a lil deeper: I have no clue if I ever talked about it, but years ago, I had a draft on paper for a DSaF spinoff that I almost made after 3, which was basically a whole mini visual novel exploring the managers from DSaF 3. Basically, just revolved around the phone-headed cast from 3's lore, with only a handful references to the main cast from DSaF 1-3. The game's POV centered around Harry (the protagonist of the game), with Abel acting as the antagonist. It basically featured a bunch of scenes/events that were implied but not shown in DSaF 3, including Abel's second death (at the hands of a guy in a Candy the Cat suit), and it gave screen time to characters who were mentioned in 2/3, but never shown. I had a lot on paper for it, but ultimately, decided I wanted to pursue Dialtown more.

It's no coincidence that a lot of the holdovers in DT are actually from that specific cast of characters, with Harry, Tango (Terrence) and Abel being given a good bit of screen-time in DT, since they were characters I genuinely wanted to use, anyway.

To answer the question of why he is the way he is: That canned spinoff provided a good amount of insight into why Abel is the way he is and the long and short of it is that he's an insecure coward and a deeply unhappy person who attempts to release his own self-hatred by verbally abusing anyone he has power over. That's universal between his DSaF and DT incarnates.

[dsaf-confessions]

Following up on my previous confession (the one about DSAF characters but like with Genshin Impact kits)

Soooo, I thought long and hard about it, I’m adhering to game logic with their elemental types not their signature colors and what element best compliments those colors, so I’ll be doing a tiny bit of a deep dive into the characters themselves to explain why they get a certain element over another.

Dave and Jack are easy since we obviously know the most about them. Dave would most likely have a Pyro or Cryo vision depending on if we factor in flipside Dave or not. Pyro vision bearers are symbolized by raw blazing passion, I don’t think it takes much thought to notice how that applies to good ol Davey, but Cryo vision bearers all carry a theme of opposing will and/or very important internal struggles. If you factor flipside Dave into the equation then obviously you have the case for Dave being a Cryo Vision bearer, The willingness to listen to and execute Henry’s will opposing the rational mind trying to stop the bloodshed (I may be misremembering, but I think that’s what was going on with Dave and Davetrap splitting into effectively two different people)

Jack is a lot easier to pin down by comparison, he’s got a rugged exterior, blunt demeanor, and (at least according to the good endings) resolute will. Those would all be hallmarks of a Geo Vision, BUT Jack’s much more under that surface. He’s given up basically, he’s cynical and snarky not just because he’s a corpse but also because he can’t find the will to take most things completely seriously, his past actions have also shown a clear tendency to rebel (even if to a specific clear extreme [the fox]) and he acts in accordance not to what he believes is right but rather what he believes is the most entertaining. Jack Kennedy to me serves the feeling of Anemo over Geo, because not only does Jack fall into the running in-fandom joke for Anemo characters having at least one dead loved one, he also as a player avatar carries the core themes Anemo Vision Holders share those being free will and freedom of choice. Jack always has a Choice in the DSAF games, every ending is fundamentally based off of his choices. Nobody else’s choice determines the endings, only Jack’s choice matters in dsaf games. Jack CHOSE to take the deal with TRFB, Jack CHOSE to either help or ignore Dave, Jack CHOSE everything in his life his entire character hinges on the core aspect of choices that are pragmatically the player’s choices but in canon they’re his own.

I think I may have yapped too much with just those two, oopsie ‘:]!

Anyways weapon types are vibe based so TL;DR

Jack - Anemo/Catalyst

Dave - Pyro/Sword

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#dsaf confessions #dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #dave miller #jack kennedy

[thygoddessouijathicc]

The Jack Empathy Essay

So I was writing another essay and it wasn’t great, but there was one thing that I feel like I do want to talk about, Jack Kennedy and his supposed lack of empathy.

Why does Jack not really care too much about his siblings, why does he ally with Henry in the bad route of the third game, and most importantly (shockingly not kidding) why is his relationship with Dave the key to all of this.

Spoilers ahead!

So let’s get this out of the way. Jack does not lack empathy, contrary to the title this essay aims to prove he DOES have it, just not towards most people.

You may be saying I’m crazy right now, of course he lacks empathy, why else would he be this way? Well I’d actually argue Jack just doesn’t COMPREHEND empathy or understand fully how to naturally show it to people he doesn’t know.

Here is my thesis: The Jack in the games is not Jack, he’s something else inhabiting Jack’s body which has his mind in there, but in a sort of fuzzy retrospective way. He knows everything the real Jack knew but he doesn’t understand it. There’s a communication error in his Jack memories to his mind which causes him to not fully grasp anything other than a general sense of the concepts of what he should be doing and feeling.

This is a weird take to say the least, but it’s not like it makes no sense with what we’re given. In fact almost everything in the games seems to support this. When Blackjack declares himself the true Jack, he doesn’t disagree, at all. He knows he isn’t Jack, he never could be. He’s not even really human. Like at all. 

Jack has slitted pupils, I’ve analyzed before the glowing eyes, but I focused on how they dilated and why Dave has such weird ones. I never really gave Jack’s weirdly inhuman cat eyes another thought, but thinking of it now, with this idea in mind and the fact Henry, who is stated to be human, doesn’t have this, it looks weird. These eyes prove that whatever he is, he’s not just an undead human, there’s something in there, it’s not a soul, or at least probably isn’t, but it’s something. 

Now let’s talk about family. 

Jack doesn’t care about them. Well he DOES, but only surface level caring. He cares in a way that feels like he just thinks he’s supposed to. Jack cares because real Jack cared. He doesn’t know why beyond that they are family, and he has and will gladly sacrifice all of them. Not because he can’t have empathy, but because in his mind, he at least subconsciously knows that they’re strangers. 

Ok, you say, but how does this prove he CAN care. Well for that, let’s take a look at the good end to the third game. Jack lies to his family, it hurts sure, but he doesn’t really have a serious moral panic doing it, but then he gets to Dave, and he can’t lie. Jack can’t bring himself to lie to Dave for one reason or another. Not only does he ONLY tell Dave the truth, but he also basically declares his love and gives Dave “his” soul. Some think Jack wanted Dave to tell, but it doesn’t feel that way, it feels like he didn’t overly care if the others knew, only if Dave knew. Dave is the only one he wanted to know the truth. Jack can and does show empathy. 

Why Dave though? Why not his family? Well as I said, his family are glorified strangers that he feels obligated to like without truly understanding why… Dave… isn’t. Jack genuinely knows and has a relationship with Dave, platonic or otherwise, he’s the only one he shows empathy because unlike the others, liking Dave doesn’t feel like an obligation. It’s an actual relationship he had and developed that he knows fully and fully comprehends. 

Now let’s talk about Henry. Why does Legacy take his side? It’s the same reason he doesn’t care more than a surface level about his family and does care about Dave. Jack knows he’s supposed to hate Henry but doesn’t feel a full motivation to beyond that he’s a bad person who killed the original Jack as well as Dee. He hates him, but not to an extreme level. So if he hates Fredbear, is ok with murder, wants a legacy, and doesn’t have more than a surface level hatred of Henry, well, if Henry talks to him he becomes super easy to manipulate because almost all their goals and opinions line up, to him, he doesn’t know Henry, not really, so it’s really not hard to side with him, he does the same with Dave who he knows was involved in his sister’s death so he’s done this before. 

So if this is the case, what about the fight with Henry? Well, in that case, he opposes all his beliefs and goals, and cares about morals so he hates him, when he finds out everything fully and sees it’s effects on others, probably especially Dave given as I’ve said, he ONLY cares about Dave truly, so the faux hatred becomes real hatred.

The only characters without prompting from others he’s ever hated (besides Matt) are Steven and Fredbear. And this actually makes a lot of sense. Steven is mean to him, and thus he doesn’t like him, even understanding the complexities of phone guy’s he still dislikes him by default because as stated, Jack only cares if it happened to him in his life, he never truly shows a distaste for phone guys as a concept without player prompting, so it’s fair to say he’s neutral on them or might not even fully understand. He doesn’t care why Steven is like this, only that he was mean.

Next is Fredbear, and why he hates him in the bad route is clear, Fredbear could solve all of this himself but doesn’t, and instead revives a rotting corpse in this weird state to do it for him. Blackjack did in a day what Fredbear failed to do in years, and Jack feels like he’s a casualty who suffers because Fredbear simply doesn’t want to do things himself.

Now let’s talk about the murdered kids. Does he care? No. Jack understands he should and generally why, but it feels more like an inconvenience to him, if not something he wants to indulge in himself. Yet another case that hints to Jack not really understanding the world around him.

I’d say Jack is like an adult man with the moral understanding of an 8 year old. He knows right from wrong but he doesn’t understand right from wrong. He’s very much an adult but has this weird thing where it’s almost like he were never actually taught good vs bad beyond that people think it exists, he doesn’t know what the words mean, just one is liked, one isn’t. So he has no qualms about doing bad things because he doesn’t know what bad means.

Now I may be, and probably am really off base. At the very least this theory is around the same weirdness level of Lizard Dave, maybe even Frogry. But I think it makes some sense.

And hey, at the very least it makes a cool fanfic concept.

Essay over, begone.

#dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf jack #dsaf old sport #davesport #??? #dsaf rationals #dsaf essay #Weird theory that explains way too much and I don’t like it #Jack might not be Jack guys #I might write a fic around this #Even if someone disproves it I still probably will because it’s at least a cool AU.

[thygoddessouijathicc]

Compiling and analyzing Dave’s reptilian qualities

Ok so I have done a lot of analysis on DSAF Dave. Like more than I probably should have given that part of his appeal is that we don’t know what the fuck this man is. As you probably know my leading theory is that he’s some kind of alien.

But let’s cast the theories relating to what Dave actually is aside for a moment, and focus more on what Dave is very heavily implied to look like.

Yes, we do get art of how he looks in the game, and that is where I am getting a lot of my evidence for what he might realistically look like, however since these depictions are drawings, all semi, but not completely realistic, some missing important details that we do know.

Dave is most comparable to a combination between a lizard and a human, more along the lines of being just a humanoid lizard rather than a fusion. I guess lizard people don’t run the government, they just work at shitty pizza places.

Now Dave being not human is one of the few things we know for sure, not only is it pretty clear that just simply deformities, even in a fictional setting, probably can’t make a person look, and function the way Dave does. Not only that but Doggo himself has stated Dave to be a Cryptid, which is not a species, rather in this context I think just means he’s an inhuman humanoid who just kind or coexists.

Now that we’ve got the not being human out of the way, let’s talk about what a hyperrealistic rendition of Dave Miller would look like, in reference to him being reptilian, comparing his physical traits to one’s that exist in the real world to paint a picture of how he’d look.

First things first, general body shape. We know from a lot of art and his sprites that Dave is rather slim, in fact, most of the cloths he wears seem to give off the impression of being too big, or at least too wide. This, alongside his coiled neck has made me see Dave as being particularly snakelike, and in fact, I think that his neck would look like the body of a snake. As for his head, while I don’t recall ever seeing it from the side, from the front it’s very humanlike, although it may be more reptilian from a side view, we just don’t know that, however I find it likely it simply is very humanlike.

As for facial features, this is where it gets more snakelike. Dave does not have visible ears (he likely has ear holes on the sides of his head), he does not have a visible nose (it could be a very narrow snakelike one), and weirdly, he doesn’t show his teeth often, but we do know Dave probably has teeth because there is one image of him in the tapes in which he had human teeth, so Dave does have human teeth. Dave’s face is also visibly wrinkled.

To get into a detail I have not yet talked about, his hands. Dave’s hands are very interesting as they are probably the part of him the most similar to a real animal that isn’t a human. Dave has long fingers, and no visible fingernails, which is important because all primates have fingernails, unlike most other species which tend to have either talons, claws, or neither. On top of not having visible fingernails his fingers also come to a sharp point.

These strange hands have an almost exactly matching real world counterpart.

The hands of a marine iguana. Of course Dave’s fingers are longer and the composition is more humanlike, but it’s not a stretch that something with hands like the marine iguana could evolve to have hands like Dave’s.

Now, the point I’ve been sort of dancing around. Dave is purple. He also has purple blood, which is not seen in reptiles but does exist, although that’s not relevant right now because his blood has absolutely nothing to do with his pigment. Dave says ingame that he has a “scaly hyde”, I believe sometime during the good route of the third game. Dave is purple because his scales are purple. Scales are a thing seen on no actual depictions of Dave, but he definitely does have them, it’s something that’s always peeved me because he’s never drawn with arguably one of his key inhuman traits. This also means that Dave probably canonically CANT grow hair due to a lack of follicles. Now the size and shape of Dave’s scales is not known but I do believe they are probably relatively small and flat to his body. Also as a side note, I take Dave’s multiple shades on his body as canon under the belief that Dave has multiple shades of purple scales.

Now, why is he purple. This question actually matters quite a lot. There are 3 possible answers. The first is camouflage, unlikely and in fact impossible unless he comes from a place in which purple is a common pigment. The second is sexual selection, specifically akin to that of the peacock, the bright colour of the male peacock is due to the females of the species finding that trait desirable for the exact reason that it’s not, since the bright colours make it easier to be spotted by predators only the strongest survive, the brighter the pigment the stronger the bird would have to be, and thus to survive with this bright pigmentation means the peacock is genetically better as a mate than ones with duller pigments because in a counterintuitive way it actually means the offspring will have more overall fitness, Dave being bright purple could be a similar strange evolutionary path. The final reason Dave could be purple is that it could potentially be a warning sign, it’s common in nature to not want to be seen so having a bright, rare pigment is never ideal, unless you WANT to be noticed as part of a survival strategy, in order to encourage larger predators to avoid eating them many animals develop not only poison or venom, but a bright colour as well, it’s less common with venom because venom is less defensive more offensive, but reptiles are rarely actually poisonous and far more likely to just have a deadly bite, and that’s not to say none employ this warning sign, I’m not saying Dave is venomous but I’m also not saying he isn’t.

This is all the reptile Dave evidence I have thus far although I may find more. Now you are all ready to invision what a realistic rendition of DSAF’s Dave Miller would look like.

#DSaF #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf dave #over analyzing him again sorry #weird rambling #how did I learn this stuff you ask #I watched a lot of alien biospheres #dsaf rationals #the Dave biological analysis initiative

[thygoddessouijathicc]

Strong Jack Truthing as an Essay

I would just like everyone to know I am a strong Jack truther. Why? Because it’s funny, and it’s fact.

Shockingly, warning for some spoilers.

Jack can canonically carry the animatronics with relative ease.

Well, he could just be using a dolly you say, or something of the sort. No. Jack actually has a tendency to leave through windows meaning whether he is or isn’t using one at some point in the process he isn’t either before or after he gets to the window as he’d have to lift it up onto the dolly outside, or take it off of it and drag it to his car.

Regardless of if Jack is or isn’t using something to make the process of hauling animatronics easier, Jack very much can carry the animatronics at LEAST for short periods of time.

This is especially impressive with the fact that his body is decaying and thus becoming weaker over time, meaning in his prime this man could possibly lift a fucking bus. However I do not believe this to be the case. I don’t think Jack could have done this while he was alive, rather I think Jack’s unusual strength is actually a result of Fredbear, as it’s not exactly a off the table for abilities he could give Jack given that he can easily make him immortal.

Speaking of Fredbear, that brings me into the point of Jack not having trouble basically just punching out animatronics. Possibly the flipside animatronics can be discounted as not being true animatronics, although I do believe they have the properties of them. However, in DSaF 2s “An Ending” Jack beats the real Fredbear himself, who is a deity of childhood as well as an animatronic.

In DSAF 3s bad ending, Jack also rips Dave limb from limb, definitely not the first insane feat of strength he has shown but the one the fans noticed and asked Doggo about, Doggo saying his heightened strength in that scene came from being springlocked. While I think that is partially the case, I think a lot of it also had to do with Jack being genuinely the strongest character in DSAF.

By this logic Dave is also pretty strong too, given that he can throw Foxy into the Grand Canyon. This actually makes quite a bit of strength with them BOTH being rather strong.

Now, why does this matter? Unlike Dave’s species, Dave and Jack’s relationship and me hopefully wrongfully theorizing that Henry is a frog, this has no effect on the lore. So why did I write an essay on it?

Because I want everyone to know this.I want everyone to know when they see fanart of Jack carrying Dave bridal style, it’s genuinely probably something he can do. The Jack carrying Dave bridal style images are fucking CANON. STRONG JACK IS REAL. HE’S RIDICULOUSLY STRONG. JACK CAN THROW THE PINK BITCH OUT THE WINDOW. JACK CAN CARRY HIS PROBABLY BOYFRIEND IN HIS ARMS. JACK WOULD WIN ANY FUCKING FISTFIGHT.

So now, from now on, all who look at the Jack carrying Dave bridal style drawings and know within themselves that he actually could because I garentee Dave weighs less than any of the fucking animatronics Jack has carried or beaten up with his bare hands.

In conclusion. Jack is strong, Jack carry ourple, strong Jack truthers were right the whole time, and this post is over. GOODBYE!

#dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #davesport #the real fredbear #dsaf dave #dsaf jack #dsaf old sport #JACK CAN BENCHPRESS DAVE #shitpost #to the greatest degree #dsaf 3 #dsaf rationals #i use my powers of writing DSAF rationals only for evil #Frog Henry and buff Jack #That’s all you get from me #And the occasional long post on why Davesport is completely canon #TIME FOR BEAR

[thygoddessouijathicc]

Remember when I did those in depth theories? This is not that. (Steven is short HC)

Ok so disclaimer, I don’t actually know any of the canon heights, this is just a dumbass headcanon I have about Steven.

Basically, I think Steven is short, I don’t exactly have a concrete reason for this aside from “wouldn’t it be funny” and “short king Steven is best Steven”.

My reasoning for this is how his sprites look. And by the way I am NOT counting Flipside sprites as evidence for any heights because upon reviewing a lot of them characters fluctuate wildly and if some scenes are to be believed Peter is fucking giant. I could try to justify this with a headcanon about sizes fluctuating because it’s not a physical plane but I think the actual likely reason for this is that Doggo didn’t feel like measuring to keep everyone’s size consistent across every cutscene.

I do use those sprites to measure based on bodily proportions which is why I tend to draw Peter pretty tall aside from tall Peter also funny. If you measure like this rather than just going by pixels Steven is definitely shorter. It could be that he has a big fucking head. But I doubt it would be SO extreme.

Anyway Flipside sprites aside the overworld Steven sprites also kinda carry this vibe that he’s small. Though the suit does seem to fit the way it’s cut makes it look like it’s way too big and loose on him like it’s a few sizes too large.

I also believe Steven is wearing high heels why? Vibes and trust me bro I know what I’m talking about!

That was your most unhinged Ouija Essay yet, more to come!

#dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf phone guy #dsaf steven #dsaf essay #dsaf rationals #Steven is a short king #because trust me bro #shitpost

[thygoddessouijathicc]

New Essay On the Pink Bitch

Those of you unfortunate enough to have seen it may recall I wrote an essay on what I thought Henry Miller was, coming to the conclusion that he was a frog.

Fortunately a couple people corrected me and said he’s actually probably human, and thinking more about it, yeah, he probably is and I was really reaching because I was not only analyzing a character with little information about him for species and going with the first crazy theory, but I never needed to do any of it in the first place because Henry is so obviously human.

Part of me still subscribes to the Frogry theory because it’s weirdly funny to think about and when I make my Henry design I’m actually going to make two, one official Ouija cinematic universe design, and one frog man design for humour and to acknowledge my sins.

This also contains a massive theory about Henry and Fredbear, that is objectively very weird but I think would be cool if it were true but it probably isn’t.

Warning for spoilers somehow.

Ok, so Henry isn’t Frogry. Probably. As I said part of me still watched Amphibia and thought Henry = Sprig because I think it’s so funny and cursed that I have to keep the theory alive because people need to learn from my mistakes as well as see Henry as a frog. (To the person who reblogged my Frogry theory post with a picture of the frog himself, you have my eternal gratitude that made my day.)

Now, to get on to the actual essay, Henry is a human. I wrongfully assumed he wasn’t because of Peter and Jack’s alive sprites and Henry being such a bright pink with the undead eyes.

The main thing that got me confused was Henry’s eyes which we never see on any character who isn’t undead or Dave aside from him. (Personally I’m not sure if Dave’s eyes have to do with his being undead, I actually think they have more to do with whatever he is because they actually look different from Jack’s so they might not be just a zombie thing but it might be just a stylistic choice and they are the same.)

However at what point did Henry die? You’d think he would have mentioned it in his tapes because that would have been what he wanted, right? Henry wanted immortality and if he died and came back immortal he would have talked about it and his success, but since he didn’t he absolutely cannot be dead.

I have a theory about the eyes that changes a lot about their meaning and Henry’s character but it’s kinda weird and out of left field so I’ll save it for after I discuss his skin.

Henry is pink. I was wrong saying he was magenta, his arms and legs are but his face and body are not so it’s probably a different thing. I heard it suggested that Henry just wears pink clothes and I think that makes sense. Dave and Jack have a pretty good reason they could very well have different shades of their respective colours on their bodies, but for Henry, it’s probably just clothes. Why is his skin pink?

A popular theory/joke is that Henry eats a lot of shrimp. This doesn’t make sense because this only works on flamingos. Also I doubt Henry eats brine shrimp. Because it’s not just any shrimp, it’s brine shrimp.

I think it’s more that Henry is a kinda naturally pinkish looking man. It explains literally everything if he is. He isn’t pink, he’s just a little more pink tinted than your average man.

Now, to get to my theory. Keep in mind this is all speculation and I’m not claiming it to be at all correct or really logical. It’s a weird theory but it makes some sense to me and I don’t mind if you disagree, it’s just an interesting theory of mine.

Besides being undead and largely monochromatic, what is one thing Dave and Jack have in common. Soul separation. Jack has Blackjack who is his soul, and Dave has Davetrap who has half of his soul. What if Henry also has a split or missing soul for a different but similar reason.

Perhaps Henry couldn’t deal with the death of his family and it eventually caused his own soul to fracture and create a separate entity which also led to a major increase in his overall cruelty and evil due to the further loss of his already weak morals due to his Machiavellism that he developed at some point during his time in the military.

The fracture was small at first like with Flipside Dave and Davetrap, having “some version” of Flipside Dave always in the Flipside but Flipside Dave becoming more of a prominent and separate entity as Dave became more feral and possessed his own body more, perhaps Henry’s soul split off more and more due to his own growing insanity and obsession which in turn made it get worse and made his soul split more.

Now, you may be thinking I’m crazy, if Henry had another creature repressing half of his soul we would have seen it. What if I tell you we did. In fact what if I told you it was FREDBEAR.

Ok, you surely think this is insane, Fredbear is nothing like Henry, and both Blackjack and Davetrap/Flipside Dave are similar to their counterparts, Flipside Dave and Davetrap so much that I actually can’t tell which of them is more Dave, it feels honestly like they both are.

Well Fredbear isn’t actually the greatest person… errr bear. He just sort of drops Jack in expecting him to solve all of his own problems and if Jack kills people, Fredbear canonically waits until 12 people (11 of them children) are already dead to do anything about his creation killing people. Fredbear could have fixed the problem himself, we know he can kill Dave, he could probably have dealt with Henry himself, so why didn’t he? He’s frequently referred to as a coward specifically for not doing any of the many things to stop the child murder that he clearly could have done.

So Fredbear is definitely self serving, not only that, but he’s a coward, one who waits until the last moment to do anything and sends other people such as Dee (a small child who had just been murdered and presumably works for him) and Jack to deal with a problem he could easily fix far faster. Why, because Fredbear is afraid of death, cripplingly so. And who else is? Henry.

Why Fredbear, doesn’t it make more sense to be Godred? Actually no. Godred is very separate although he has to do with Henry clearly. Godred is an actual animatronic however eldritch as he may be, however Fredbear, although he is an animatronic, never hung around as an animatronic. In fact, we’ve seen his real life counterpart and it doesn’t seem very animate nor does it fully look like him. So Godred is Godred, not Henry.

Why would Henry’s soul take on the form of an animatronic bear. Well, that plays a lot into my theory. I think the split reached its peak around the time of Fredbear’s Family Diner, at which point Henry played the role of Fredbear himself, his own creation. So doesn’t it make sense for his soul, upon gaining its own level of sentience, to take on the beloved form of Fredbear rather than the cursed form of the murderer and mad scientist Henry Miller. Think of Fredbear after splitting off as being like Flipside Dave, witnessing his real life counterpart commit atrocities, not wanting to actually do those atrocities himself but being helpless to stop it.

My theory is that Fredbear, despite being just as Machiavellian and crazy as Henry but less homocidal, wanted to stop Henry’s actions, however he didn’t want to kill him because he worried it would destroy him too and he feared death more than anything. As Henry continued to get worse, Fredbear got stronger as he took on more of Henry’s soul, similar to Blackjack being somewhat powerful and Flipside Dave being able to make portals, but to a much higher degree because the soul he split off of was very much alive, eventually letting him ascend to the point of being the god of childhood, the ethereal real Fredbear.

Perhaps at one point Fredbear lost all memory of ever being Henry but his desire not do no anything too extreme continued, or perhaps he still does remember but has at this point entirely rejected being Henry.

For further proof, Dave claims no one could play Fredbear like Henry could. There’s no Fredbear without him. In the most twisted ways, Henry is both responsible for every problem in the series, and responsible partially for its solution with bringing Jack back to life.

Henry and Fredbear never directly interact, but from dialogue they seem to hate eachother for obvious reasons of being on opposite sides. However if they are the same person it paints this dialogue pretty differently. Rather than them being two separate people on opposite sides working for opposite goals who hate eachother, they are the same man split in half fighting himself forever because neither side is willing to hurt the other in fear of retribution and death.

What does this mean for the good ending? Well I think that seeing Jack accept death after everything was said and done and finally complete what he never could out of fear, Fredbear realized his own fault and that he should have just fixed everything when he had the chance and prevented a lot of heartbreak. Every child who died in Freddy’s, their blood is on his hands. He just let it happen. I think this causes Fredbear to either finally move on from purgatory and rejoin the other half of himself in whatever comes next, Hell, reincarnation, or otherwise. Either that or he can’t move on at this point after all he’s done and what he’s become, he sees what Jack did and knows he himself still has a responsibility to help the stragglers move on and fix all future murders that a part of him caused.

I’m not saying Henry is a good person, nor is Fredbear evil. What I’m saying is a part of Henry split off and became his opposite.

And to conclude this batshit crazy Henry is Fredbear theory, this is why Henry has the same eyes as Jack and Dave, because he too is one half of a whole.

I’d love to hear counterpoints and your thoughts about the matter, and I’m sorry I spent so long on a theory like this. I doubt this is what Doggo intended, but if he did, I think it’d be cool :)

Please do not send hate, this is just a theory not me announcing I sympathize with Henry’s actions or anything of the sort, just me therorizimg about something weird with the main antagonist of Dayshift at Freddy’s that could be really cool if it were true.

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What is Dave Miller?

There are many things in DSAF we do not find out by the end. What happened to the characters? What is Dave and Jack’s true relationship? How old are the characters truly? What happened to Henry’s family? But one of these unanswered questions stuck out to me. That question of course being what exactly is Dave? More specifically is he human?

I will attempt to answer this question (or at least isolate the facts) in this essay. It’s far more speculative than my more evidence based essays as a lot of it will be analyzing Dave’s sprites, some weird running gags, official art, and throwaway lines of dialogue never meant to be looked very far into.

Join me on this spoiler filled journey of trying to figure out if Dave Miller actually qualifies as human.

Now, the supernatural does exist in DSAF, that much is known to all players. We spend a lot of time in what is basically purgatory, we know about ghosts, godlike entities, and zombies all existing. You may think this doesn’t matter for this essay but you’d be wrong. This matters a lot, and complicates everything way more than if Dave looked how he did in a magic-free setting.

First of all, we don’t know if he’s a magical entity, whatever he is, he does defy physics and carry a pigmentation that is not seen in humans, in fact, a pigmentation not really even seen in mammals, although I don’t doubt it being theoretically possible for a purple mammal to exist, in fact, something I will touch on later actually explains how Dave could logically actually be purple.

Let’s get one thing out of the way. We don’t know very much about Dave’s biology. What we do know comes from dialogue mostly as well as educated guesses.

However, here is what we do know: Dave is purple, his blood is purple, he carries human level intelligence, he speaks English with an accent, he has scales, his neck can seemingly infinitely extend, he has humanlike teeth (Dave is rarely drawn with teeth but there is one time in which he has them), he does not have hair, he has no nose nor visible ears, his mouth is wide, his hands are large, and he has an organ composition similar to a human. 

That may sound like a lot of information but it’s really not and most of it is not only useless but contradictory, I’ll touch on the less useful information later and for now ignore it.

One fact in here you may overlook but is actually very important is that his blood is purple. In fact, this might actually be the key to figuring out a lot of things. Believe it or not, purple blood does exist. Just not in humans. Many worms and crabs actually have purple blood, which means there is a precedent for it. Now, this straight up on its own almost entirely proves Dave is not human, however I’d like to go further into evidence for this, and my own personal beliefs on this.

Dave doesn’t have ears, a nose, or any visible teeth most of the time, I actually can’t explain what this means aside from the fact he probably has slitted nostrils with no apparatus for a nose, ear holes rather than humanlike ears, and something with his teeth because while we see him with his mouth open many times we see him with teeth exactly once. My theory, to get way into speculation, is that his teeth are either retractable, or he has a large upper lip that he needs to in some way pull up in order to actually show his teeth. Is there a precedent for this? Not really, it’s just my best guess for how this works.

Most of Dave’s traits indicate inhumanity. However we need to address those that directly display human traits. Namely, his voice, intelligence, and organs. 

Now, we are never directly told he has human organs, however it’s pretty implied. He refers to himself as heartless as a result to Henry’s surgeries, Henry being a scientist would surely note if Dave had inhuman organs at LEAST as a footnote in his tapes, yet we get nothing of the sort. Henry even implies he tried to figure out what Dave was and never could, so if his organs were truly inhuman, I feel like this absolutely would have been mentioned.

Dave has a human voice. In fact, one of his more recognizable features is his voice. The fact of his voice being human implies similar vocal cords to our own, an understanding of language, and a tongue like our own. This of course can not really be taken as anything as all across media creatures that shouldn’t be able to speak human languages do, and even I am guilty of this in my own works so it’s absolutely not a thing we can use for evidence.

Finally, of his human features, we reach his brain. Dave undeniably behaves human, in fact, he also seems to be relatively smart… in a way. He’s still an idiot, but an idiot who is also ridiculously good at robotics. Overall, in terms of behaviour, he’s human and that is undeniably a fact.

Now, to touch on a more obscure and weird trait. Dave has scales. This is from a throwaway line in which he refers to himself having a “scaly hyde”. It’s unclear exactly what this means, but the clear implication is that he has scales.

Now, earlier I said I could explain logically how he’s purple, there are two possible answers. But first I have to explain something that really irks me in the process of creating this analysis. Dave has two distinct forms that contradict each other. He has his sprite as well as Davetrap, but also the official ingame art, which for whatever reason doesn’t really match up. I’ve used it as evidenced earlier on, but only for things that somewhat match up or for something I thought was interesting. But one thing I keep getting annoyed with, is that in the tapes he’s a completely different colour than every other goddamn depiction ingame. So I am going to explain BOTH of these forms and how they respectively could be purple.

Now, tape/official art Dave does not have scales, and is a light purple colour. This is more biologically likely to be because of his blood. His blood is purple, which causes a tint, similar to how our own skin tends to have a pinkish tint due to our red blood.

The more used sprites however tell a different story, one easily explained by Dave’s previously mentioned scales. Dave’s scales are purple. This works perfectly to explain how this works, and even explains how his body shows multiple shades (he appears to be naked and I’m going to assume he is because when drawn with cloths he looks very different), the explanation being multiple shades in his scales. Now his scales aren’t big, I’m not saying he’s covered in massive scales, no I personally think they’re incredibly small. The scales absolutely explain how he works, and definitely prove no, Dave is not human.

To add on the final detail, his neck. It defies logic and physics, and is obviously magic. This is not up for debate biology does not allow this to exist without magic.

Going into the fandom I saw lines of dialogue stating Dave to be “deformed” and assumed he was just a deformed human. However there’s a point in which it stops being a deformation, that point is quite a bit before having actual scales, being purple, missing facial features, having purple blood, and having a stretching neck.

I would like to make it absolutely clear I’m not saying he’s not a person, only that he can’t possibly be biologically human, Dave is a person, not a human. His species is unrelated to his personhood.

Jack refers to Dave as deformed, Henry states he never figured out what Dave was (Don’t worry I’ll analyze what Henry is too because he’s also kinda like Dave but clearly not the same thing). Despite what you may insinuate, Jack is not the same thing as Dave, he’s not even actually orange, he’s a corpse wearing orange makeup, I’ve seen people who think Jack was always orange, and no he wasn’t. We’ve seen him pre-tangerine, he’s not actually orange.

Dave is not an eggplant, he’s eggplant coloured and jokes about being one, it doesn’t make sense for him to be an eggplant, because he’s purple inside not green.

Dave cannot possibly have all the features he does and be biologically human. It’s just not possible.

What do I think Dave is? Well I have three answers.

1, Magical creature. This one makes the most sense logically with his human anatomy that he’s just kind of a magical creature that exists and is in no way related to humans but vaguely looks like one.

2, Alien. Ok, this may sound like it comes out of left field, but it doesn’t. Nothing on earth has all of Dave’s traits together, although they do all exist. Dave has been compared to an alien due to his appearance by Jack, and it would explain quite a bit. It brings his humanlike organs into question but explains everything else.

3, Reptile/Worm/Crab descended sapient creature. This is my least favourite option. It explains his scales and purple blood but not why he looks human, how he came to be, or why he’s the only purple man in existence in the world of DSAF, much less why no one could ever figure out what he was.

Overall, it doesn’t have any effect on the story, and he can really be whatever you want. But I love over analyzing things, zoology, and specifically speculative zoology, and dislike not knowing things so boom, essay on Dave’s anatomy.

If you have anything you’d like to add, or know something Doggo said about this please speak up about it I’d like to know.

I might come back to this.

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DSAF EYE DILATION THEORY LETS GOOOOOO

Ok, so you may have noticed my essays becoming more and more unhinged. I would just like you to know: the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. That will be all.

Now onto the stuff that actually matters, the topic of today’s theory being the glowing eyes possessed by Dave, Jack, and Henry, and how they seem to work in terms of sprite changes. This may seem innocuous. And it is. Very much so actually. But so was my strong Jack theory. It’s it clear enough now that I just like making dumb theories and WILL do so.

Spoiler warning:

As stated, and as I’d hope everyone reading this would know given that you all probably have at least SEEN the DSAF sprites, Dave, Jack, and Henry have black cornea and glowing white pupils. Dee also has this but it seems to be for an entirely different reason so it will not be in this essay.

Now I’ve already given my theory on why they all have these and even if I weren’t entirely correct with my Fredbear Henry connection with Fredbear apparently being a Tulpa (which is awesome FYI) who while he does contain the more humane parts of Henry’s soul, he also contains other souls, this doesn’t discount the fact that this means that the only three characters to visibly have these eyes are the only three characters confirmed to have any separation in their souls. This of course led me to speculate that this, and not being undead, is the reason for this strange appearance because Henry never died prior to DSAF 3s good ending.

Now, would these eyes work? No probably not. I assume everyone is unaware but to state it for the sake of this essay, in essence your pupil is a pit in your eye that you see through, with the iris mostly functioning to adjust the light intake and focus of the pupil. However these glowing eyes COULD presumably work if it were only the iris were white, the cornea just happened to be black, and the pupil was as per usual, however we don’t see this as if I recall, the core of the eye is always white. So I have come to the conclusion that since this actually couldn’t work, it’s probably just magic and for once I’m going to leave it be, perhaps I’ll touch on it again when I’m less sleep deprived.

For now I want to go over some misc details before getting into the juicy bits of this theory.

First of all, Dave doesn’t have the same eyes as Henry and Jack. We see this in the tapes. I drew him with lizard eyes but this is not canon and was probably the least canon part of the design because for everything else I tried to follow canon to the T as best I could (actually Jack has more cat/lizard like eyes which I find interesting). Dave generally appears to have the same eyes but if you look closer in the tapes he very clearly has a duller second ring around his glowing pupil. My belief on this specifically is that it actually has to do with whatever he is as Jack and Henry are only portrayed with either Jack’s on and off slit pupils or regular circles, the extra ring is unique to Dave, so my belief is that the ring or slit is a human thing and since Dave is so clearly not human (like that cow from ADSFMovie kinda not human) it must just be his species’s equivalent.

Now JUICY STUFF. Why do their pupils dilate? Although we have not seen Henry with many different expressions Dave and Jack both have a specific set of facial expressions. Most don’t show too much aside from the fact they have faces and they can squint their eyes, but through a few sprites we can clearly see that the pupils themselves can grow or shrink depending on mood, with Dave’s even being able to take up his whole eye when panicked.

Pupils expand and shrink in order to take in more or less light however this can’t be the case for the characters of DSAF because since their eyes glow and are white they clearly aren’t there to ABSORB light. It also can’t be linked to affection because Dave and Jack don’t immediately do the panicked Dave Sprite whenever in the same room/j.

This leaves one correlation that seems to be common across all occurrences of eye expansion, some level of elevated stress or frustration tends to always be expressed when the eyes expand. I believe it’s linked to something LIKE (but not actually for obvious reasons) heart regulation, potentially adrenaline output causing rapid eye dilations because since their bodies are in a state of disrepair due to either being dead or missing vital parts of their very existence causing adrenaline to fire off in massive quantities to decidedly less intense than average situations for adrenaline. Which is fancy talk for their bodies are fucked up and minor levels of stress cause an effect that does happen in the real world but in far less dire circumstances than it would tend to happen in the real world.

Basically when Dave, Jack, or Henry is stressed their eyes rapidly expand, if this stress becomes panic they overtake the entire eye.

So what does this say about the eyes shrinking. The only time that is seen is with what looks to be disappointment, so I’m assuming with full disappointment and acceptance of the bad situation stress increases but in such a way that adrenaline is somehow not released but instead ejected causing the eye to shrink. Unlike the eye dilating because of increased adrenaline I don’t think there is a real life precedent for it but it’s my only explanation.

To touch on one final thing, Legacy Jack. Legacy ALWAYS has dilated eyes. This implies that Legacy is in a constant state of stress. Although I believe it to be different than the average stress that would cause DSAF’s eye dilations. Where most are caused by the person having negative experiences Legacy is always like this because he’s always stressed, not because of anything specific happening to or around him, rather because Legacy is paranoid and prioritized killing and preserving his well… legacy over most things causing him to stress often about things not happening and where to find his next victim so his murder streak will not end, in case of DSAF 3s bad ending specifically Henry’s presence in his mind might also be elevating his stress because his body is well aware that it’s a non-native presence in his mind that is really not supposed to be there.

In conclusion, the eye dilations seen in the colour gang are a result of elevated levels of adrenaline due to their bodies misfiring it at times it’s not required. This causes varying degrees of expansion from the average eye expansion seen to Dave’s panicked sprite.

Also Legacy might want to get some fucking anxiety pills to help deal with his chronic stress.

Of course as always this essay is for entertainment purposes only with me speculating on a meme game.

THIS POST IS NOW OVER BEGONE.

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Care for some Dave Biology updates?

So this isn’t a single theory but more a collection of new ones and explainations of past theories and alternate possibilities, for this I will be going under the same impression as all prior theories; that being that Dave is naturally occurring, and evolved naturally in a similar way to any other creature. Wether he’s from our planet or not is irrelevant because it doesn’t change what I’ll be talking about today.

My first new updated theory is that Dave once had a tail but doesn’t anymore, likely because of cutting it off, or someone else having cut it off. I think I brought this up as a headcanon, but I actually think that it is actually pretty possible given some evidence.

So Dave has a weird posture. His head is always in front of him and slightly off to this side (although I think the off to the side part is just Dave being Dave.) this looks like an unlikely posture to take, as we know his neck has the muscles to be upright yet it’s not. Well, my theory for this is that his neck can’t get any shorter, and due to being heavy it’s easier to just have it hang slightly forward. This causes his species to evolve this weird neck positioning. Cool, so we get his posture but how does that relate to him possibly having had a tail? It seems irrelevant. Except is not.

See heads are rather heavy, and it seems his neck is too, not to mention that it stretches and becomes heavier, so this means that his species would have horrible balance. This would lead to a hunched over posture to accommodate for the weight. See there are a few types of body plans, the most relevant here being quadrupedal and bipedal, while the former is well balanced and rarely needs a huge counterweight, even creatures like giraffes being able to stand fine due to leg distribution, being bipedal is actually more efficient as you have less legs to move allowing the creature to technically travel faster, or at least with less effort, but balance is sacrificed for this. Humans manage fine due to out very straight posture and foot shape, however compared to any quadrupedal animal we are incredibly easy to topple. Now imagine how bad that’d be if our bodies were constantly leaning forward due to the weight of our own heads and that likely in order to eat we had to further throw our bodies off balance to eat if I’m reading Dave’s neck’s likely purpose correctly.

If this were the case, we’d need a counterweight in order to continue to be bipedal. Likely, the answer to this is a large, heavy tail that counteracts the weight of the head and then some. This implies that Dave had a tail, and the fact it isn’t there is likely because it was removed.

For another new theory, Dave isn’t a browser. I may have written a whole essay on the fact he is, but now I’m thinking of an alternate purpose for a long neck, all surrounding the fact Dave doesn’t have ears. I always imagined he has ear holes. That was until I realized that snakes don’t have external ears of any kind, not even a hole, this is one way they can be told apart from legless lizards. So this got me thinking, what if Dave is actually some sort of different solution to the same problem as snakes. This makes sense regardless of if he has ears or not which I’m still on the fence about.

My theory, is that Dave is a large opportunist, but still specialized, predator that mostly hunts by sticking its long neck down into the burrows of prey and slithering along until it finds said prey. It’s an explanation for the neck for sure, but it also makes a lot of sense in other ways. Since they don’t actually just go in the hole like snakes do, their bodies are still vulnerable above ground. If Dave evolved from a browser he wouldn’t ever have evolved. Browsers rarely need communication, or community, and when they do have it it’s for mating, and strength in numbers. It’s why herbivores are unlikely to evolve sentience. Predators are also kind of unlikely, especially large ones with nothing that eats them, as they just don’t need it to defend themselves. But something that is both predatory, and likely to a degree opportunistic given that he evolved he’d have to be, but still is vulnerable due to the fact when hunting it’s exposed and easily attacked, would very much be likely to develop a sort of community, at least a rudimentary one.

My idea for this is that they hunt in groups of at least two, taking turns hunting while one member of the species stays above ground to watch for predators similarly to a meerkat. But how do they decide to go with eachother? It can’t just be mates or parents because then juveniles who have not yet found a mate would die off, thus wiping out the future generation and creating an evolutionary dead end. But what if they formed larger packs and chose to go with different members. But then how do they pick, just on ability alone? Maybe but I imagine it would change. What if, one realizes that if they let another die who doesn’t benefit them, they get more food in the long run, creating the concept of both betray, and of opinions based on others treatment towards them. Which could eventually lead to sentience.

Another more simple theory is on organ placement, this one is kind of dependent on unclear factors, but I think it makes some sense. My theory is that their digestive system is slightly out of order due to the long neck being utilized for an organ similar to a small intestine as well as an asophogus. The reason I think this is because it just feels simple and easier and they have a long tube down to their stomach so it would be a waste not to use it and would just make it take longer for them to get nutrition if this isn’t the case.

Another theory is a very simple one based on the tapes and the snake theory. Dave has a second ring around his pupil which is unique only to him and thus must be a species thing because for all other characters with glowing eyes, the pupils match up better to those of a human. My theory is that his eyes naturally do actually have a second ring of pupil in order to see better by taking in more light, they also likely are reflective.

My next theory is about the claws and their purpose. Dave has talons on his hands like an iguana, but why does he need them? This further supports the snake theory actually as one easily understandable purpose is to plant him into the ground better when hunting.

Finally, Dave might have fangs. He doesn’t visibly although his teeth do look a little sharp, but he might have filed them down. If he is snake like, he probably kills in a similar way. Now he might or might not have venom, I personally think it’s likely, but this makes sense anyway if he doesn’t. In order to kill his prey he has to bite it to death, since if I’m correct about how he hunts that means his mouth is the only weapon he has to use to hunt. This implies long canines line a snake to bite down on necks, or inject venom.

These are some weird theories but I really like analyzing this guy’s biology.

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What is Henry Miller? (To all who read this I’m sorry)

Awhile back I wrote an essay on what I thought Dave Miller was, in said essay I said I’d also analyze Henry. 

Now, analyzing Henry is easier said than done because we have very little to go off of as far as I am aware, so if you know anything Doggo has said about the topic please tell me and I might update this in the future to include that evidence.

But it is here that we must now talk about Henry Miller from a biological standpoint? Why? Because I am a masochist and will grasp at straws because of this fact.

Warning for spoilers and for the fact I again, don’t have much to work with, so this gets a little goofy. I apologize in advance for my eventual conclusion being what it is.

Now, there are three characters in DSAF with a very particular appearance that makes them stand out, each seemingly for their own reason. Jack, who is orange because of makeup, Dave who I have done a prior essay on, and finally Henry, who is pink and it’s never explained to any extent.

While we know now from my past essay and from things Doggo has said about Dave being a Cryptid (which I think doesn’t really mean I have to change my essay because it’s not claiming he’s not human exactly), Dave is decidedly not a human and looks how he does because he’s actually a humanoid creature that is evolutionarily distinct from humans.

And you might think that means I’ll just say Henry is the same thing as Dave. You’d be wrong because we don’t actually know that and if we’re going off of Dave being the standard appearance for whatever he is, Henry absolutely is not the same thing.

Now, we know Henry isn’t human, because upon realizing Dave isn’t, it becomes clear that Doggo always draws humans and bizarre Cryptids differently, and Henry is bright pink. 

Let’s now go over the physical differences between Dave and Henry with state they absolutely cannot be the same thing. 

Dave has teeth, but they are small, and rarely seen, as for Henry, Henry’s teeth are absolutely massive and seen in almost every depiction of him. Henry is pink rather than purple. His body shape and size are different. Henry does not have a neck like Dave’s. And all other details we know about Dave such as him having scales are never mentioned.

Next, I would like to address something I’ve decided. While I will be using official art as evidence I will take it with a grain of salt because it appears to be created by multiple people none of which are Doggo, the versions he did create of course being the actual sprites, which I will use more for evidence.

To go off the sprites, like Dave, Henry is multiple shades, unlike Dave who’s colour is accurately described every time and has a precedent in nature especially with his blood being purple, Henry’s is not. Let’s get one thing out of the way. Henry’s ingame sprite is not pink, it’s magenta. He’s been called magenta, and he is, but while you can call any shade of purple purple and be right, magenta is actually not pink. In fact, it’s not a colour. You may be wondering what I mean here, of course it is, he is magenta so how can it not be a colour? It is and isn’t. Magenta can only exist naturally as an optical illusion caused by blue and red being put next to eachother but not mixed, we can manufacture it or something like it, and it easily appears in games, but magenta is not actually real.

Now, why does it matter that Henry is magenta rather than pink. Well, as I said, magenta does not occur in nature. So how is Henry magenta? I mean, Dave being purple because of purple scales or blood is kind of a stretch to a degree given how rare those things are, but Henry is a colour that isn’t a colour. Unless he’s surrounded constantly by invisible fields of red and blue it’s impossible for him to look like this.

To be entirely fair, there are exceptions. These exceptions are plants. These exceptions are therefore irrelevant because plant and animal cells are entirely different. However, even in plants, it’s barely a thing, but it does tell us something, something that makes it possible for Henry to appear a colour that doesn’t exist, although it’s highly theoretical.

Magenta can only exist with the complete absence of green light. Magenta is two colours, blue-violet and red. For this to exist on Henry, he would be reflecting these two colours allowing them to be perceived by the human eye, and entirely absorbing green light causing him to visibly appear as a colour that isn’t real due to a total lack of a very large part of the light spectrum.

Now this brings a lot into question, namely, why is he absorbing green light, and how could this ever evolve? I mean, being magenta sound horrible from an evolutionary standpoint especially in a world so taken up by greens and browns, magenta stands out to the point that it’s actually hard to look at for extended periods of time, so how would something evolve to be a colour that stands out so much. It’s like ringing a dinner bell. There’s no hiding when you’re that brightly coloured… unless, you’re poisonous.

Yes. I’m saying Henry Miller might be poisonous. Yes, I’m laughing saying this. Yes, this is incredibly goofy. Yes, I’m actually somewhat serious.

The only way Henry could be magenta and actually evolve to the point he has, is if he’s poisonous. All throughout nature there are small, brightly coloured animals that you’d think would all get eaten, but don’t. Why? Because the bright colour is actually a warning sign to predators that they will die if they eat them. 

To be human sized and one of the brightest “colours” possible means that you’d have to be pretty fucking deadly. And no I’m not considering Henry being a mimic, because A MIMIC OF WHAT!? ANOTHER MAGENTA HUMANOID?! If he were, that wouldn’t discount the fact that a poisonous magenta humanoid exists in the world of DSAF?

Why didn’t I say Dave is poisonous, he’s also a bright colour. I didn’t think of it at the time and frankly, he might be, but my alien theory could discount this if he comes from a planet where purple is a more common colour.

Now. Henry could be an alien form a magenta planet thus meaning it’s a warning sign not to be, but I don’t feel like he is. First of all, how likely is it that they both are, it’s near impossible that even one is and if one is, it’s probably Dave, because Dave is almost impossible to have evolved on our planet, Henry however, if the theory about his pigment actually works, very much could have evolved from an amphibian creature on our planet.

The only question becomes why is he the only one and why is he unprecedented. Well, I don’t actually think he is. Unlike Dave who is mistreated for being physically different from others and has that brought up, how many times has Henry being magenta (which is commonly mistaken for a shade of pink so him being called pink is not a stretch) actually brought up as weird or different, it’s just kind of accepted as if it’s rare yes, but not that weird. I theorize that in the world of DSAF a humanoid species that descended from an amphibian species (probably a frog or newt), walks among us, and that’s what Henry is.

Going into this I said I was grasping at straws, and you can surely see that in this essay ending up claiming Henry is a frog, and that’s not even uncommon. We really don’t know much about this guy. Also, his backstory doesn’t say this isn’t possible. I do not think this is actually the case, but honestly this is the most possible explanation for him being magenta.

This essay, like all my essays, is for entertainment purposes only, and to share my thoughts with the fandom. Even if these thoughts are that Henry is a poisonous treefrog.

I’m so sorry I wrote this essay.

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If Dave is a Naturally Occurring Creature He Would Have Descended From Basically a Giraffe

Ok so you might be starting to notice a pattern with my rationals.

I make some bizarre, frankly insane, unhinged, and and shitpost-esque claim and then I go into detail as to why it actually makes sense.

This is no exception.

This doesn’t apply if he’s just some magical creature or was created in a lab, only if he evolved naturally which actually is surprisingly possible. Specifically with the theory of him being an alien lifeform that somehow ended up on earth. Which again, shitpost like idea that actually has some reasoning behind it.

To not go too far in, everything about Dave’s biology is possible, the only thing unlikely if he’s an alien is the fact he’s so humanoid, so much so in fact that he could be wrongly classified as a metahuman. He is also compared by Jack to an alien ingame, although Jack might not be a good source because he clearly doesn’t know what Dave is just as much as the next guy, and they probably dated or at least hooked up in Vegas. Jack also seems to think he’s just deformed at points in the game, which no, he’s not.

Doggo himself claims Dave is a Cryptid, not a human, but a Cryptid is not a set creature so he could still be just about anything. Also Dave is biologically impossible to actually be human. While he is humanlike to a point of strangeness for his evolution being so convenient, he can’t possibly be human. Why? Because any one of Dave’s weird traits is FAR too much for a human deformation. He has scales, a stretching and retractable neck, he’s purple, his blood is purple, his teeth are rarely visible, he is missing a ton of facial features, and more. A deformed human could not have any of these traits especially not all together. For instance, purple pigmentation is insanely rare and our bodies most definitely do not contain the chemicals for it, much less for purple blood and scales.

Now to get onto the actual theory.

In every environment there are a set number or niches, these being different diets, hunting strategies, and adaptions any animal can lean towards.

Most of these don’t matter for the essay, only the one that both earth Giraffes and Dave would have to fill, that of the so called “Browser”.

My theory for this is that Dave’s species was a small, apelike omnivore specializing in eating insect like creatures and plants. However they were likely at the bottom of the food chain, needing to hide a lot, and struggling with heavy competition from other local animals with similar diets who were much more adept for eating this way. However there was no creature yet that could take advantage of treetops.

Mixed with the need to be still able to fit into small spaces use tools, and not be horribly unbalanced as Dave’s species was probably at least semi-bipedal and already capable of using rudimentary tools when the evolution started in this direction as if he hadn’t been he would probably just be a giraffe with a retractable neck and no sentience.

My theory on how the neck works is that it doesn’t actually add any more length, rather there’s an empty pocket in his body in which it coils up on itself and still sticks out slightly, the muscles in both his neck, torso, and legs would probably have to be pretty strong to support this but it would allow the species to be both human sized to avoid extra predation and still be the only creature to be able to capitalize on the foliage on top of the trees. The neck probably got shorter as necessity was removed as survival traits often tend to regress in sentient creatures, for instance humans can no longer digest raw meat when once we could.

I know it’s weird that I have gone as far as to try to explain Dave’s neck and it’s possible evolutionary purpose given that he’s a self proclaimed “aubergine” in a meme game and is simply referred to as a Cryptid, however I loved Alien Biospheres, All Tomorrows, Man after Man, and the many other thousands of speculative biology projects and I love DSAF, so I can’t help but biologically analyze the character who the other characters canonically can’t identify species wise.

This essay is over now, begone.

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Running Theories and Rationals for Dave’s Species

I decided to list out all the main possibilities of Dave’s species and why these could work, and why they couldn’t.

As always spoilers:

Magical creature that just sort of exists: So this one is complicated. Dave is very much a sort of magical creature, or at least one that defies physics, so this theory is that he’s just a Cryptid that exists for no reason with no set origin. Kinda like a SCP, he just appeared and no one knows why. It kind of removes the need to explain things for him so I don’t like it as much.

Crab/worm: This is a theory that doesn’t fully work on its own. It’s more just dependant on the fact he has purple blood and those things sometimes do. But it doesn’t explain why or how he exists and why he’s so humanlike.

Lizard: Like the crab/worm theory this one doesn’t work entirely on its own, although it does make quite a deal of sense to me that Dave is a lizard. It’s based on the fact he has scales, although it doesn’t explain much else. He just gives off reptile vibes. Maybe it’s his neck being reminiscent of a snake, maybe it’s his scales, or maybe it’s something else entirely, regardless Dave is at least probably something vaguely resembling a reptile.

Experiment: This is not originally my theory, user @autumnclove brought it up in a RB of my original Dave species post, and in my opinion it makes probably the most sense of anything. Why? Because it means he doesn’t have to be even related to a human. My theory if Dave were some kind of experiment he’s a manmade creature made up of an amalgam of parts of many creatures made to look human with a reptilian base and purple blood.

Alien: This is my second favourite theory after the experiment theory. Dave has been compared to an alien ingame and if he were some sort of reptile esque extraterrestrial humanoid with purple blood who just crashed on to earth Superman (or more accurately in his case Megamind) style it would explain a lot. In fact the only thing it doesn’t explain is his presumably humanoid organs and how he manages to survive so well on earth. It especially explains why no one has ever seen anything else like him.

Deformed Human: To get this out of the way, Dave is not a deformed human. There is no way he could be. Sure a few physical differences are excusable, however Dave is purple, has scales, seems to have some sort of retractable goblin shark type teeth, has no nose nor ears, purple blood, and an extending neck that can only be explained by magic or a very weird very messed up skeletal structure. None of these are really things a human with some deformations could have, the bones maybe but the rest of it are features a human couldn’t possibly have because we ourselves don’t have anything like any of those features. Dave is not a human, that much is clear.

Overall this is just my list but if you have any other theories about Dave’s possible species I’d love for you to tell me and I might add them in the future if you like <:

Dave’s species is one of my favourite topics of DSAF and I want to come up with a couple possible concrete answers if not figure out what he probably would be.

I love speculative zoology and evolution so a character with largely inhuman features who’s species is left unknown and a lot of very particular traits that actually can exist brings me like a moth to a flame.

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