Davepetasprite^2 is the sprite corresponding to the players of Dave Strider and Jake English in the post-retcon timeline of Homestuck. They have been prototyped twice, from the corpse of Nepeta Leijon and from pre-retcon Davesprite. Designwise, they have Davesprite's shades and wings, and their overall outfit resembles Nepeta's dream clothing, along with her trenchcoat and claws. They have a mix between Davesprite and Nepeta's hair, and Nepeta's horns. Their symbol is a Derse dreamer moon mixed with the Time symbol.
Biography
After Nepetasprite is created by Jasprosesprite^2, she is prototyped a second time by an unsuspecting Davesprite via handshake. Davepetasprite^2 initially interacts with just Jasprosesprite^2, who is understandably distraught in the fusion after showing obvious romantic interest in Nepeta. After calming Jasprose down, Davepeta suggests they simply talk for a while and “help each other GET ourselves”, while finishing the tea party. Jasprose agrees, and their conversation ends when Davepeta flies off to LOTAK to catch up with Arquiusprite.
After a truly epic bro hug bump, Davepeta flies to the dream bubbles to visit a sleeping Jade. After sharing thoughts about alternate selves, Davepeta kisses Jade, then stabs her with their claw gloves to wake her up.
During the hectic events of [S] Collide, Davepeta arrives to challenge Lord English, and momentarily gets the better of him. However, despite a determined effort, English eventually defeats them.
Personality and traits
Davepetasprite^2 is initially confused about their gender when talking to Jasprosesprite^2, but quickly defaults to gender neutral pronouns (specifically, they/them). Like Jasprose, Davepeta possesses memories from Daves and Nepetas that were not components of the sprite, and clarifies how this works - while all of the versions of the characters are "accessible" to the sprite, the specific ones who were physically prototyped feel like the "main" ones.
Davepeta is incredibly optimistic and jittery. They enjoy “entry-level irony” quite a bit, considering the Nepeta half of them never experienced it before, and they are very, very friendly. They also have a fondness for roleplaying, and will jump through many linguistic hoops to squeeze a joke into their roleplay.
Their colors, personalities, and reference to Undertale create an interesting coincidence, since, in Undertale, the green soul represents 'kindness', and the orange soul represents 'bravery', both traits which Davepeta could be said to have. Furthermore, the part of Davepeta where the orange comes from is Davesprite, who could be said to be the more brave of the two components. Similarly, the green part originated from Nepeta, who could also be said to be more kind. The references to Undertale could also be seen at the combination of Dave's and Nepeta's Classpects, creating the Knight of Heart.
Relations
Jasprosesprite^2
Jasprose is Davepeta's sibling, in a sense, and they support each other through the unique experience of being the only sprite^2s. Nepeta, not understanding the concept of incest, is fine with the idea of dating her, but it creeps Dave way out.
Arquiusprite
Arquiusprite is, presumably, Davepeta's moirail, since one of his halves is Nepeta's moirail. At the very least, he is their bro, as they have stated this. It's possible that Davepeta is vaguely attracted to Arquius, considering they wholeheartedly went along with Arquius's request for them to touch his muscles. However, that could simply be a sign of their excitement over seeing him, since both Dave and Nepeta have strong ties to his respective halves (Equius and Lil Hal).
Trivia
- The prototyping is oddly fitting, because Dave talked about
having a catlike fursona back in Act 3. - Although Nepeta wasn't her dream self and the Dave found in Davesprite wasn't confirmed to have ascended to god tier, Davepeta's design features elements of Nepeta's dream outfit and a modified Time symbol, much like Jasprose's design.
- Davepeta's existance was foreshadowed by Caliborn's drawings, where he colored Nepeta's hair and claimed to be an original character right before killing them.
- As many things Caliborn has said turned out to be the author's foreshadowing, it is possible they were killed offscreen.
- He once voiced his distaste for pairing the colors orange and green.
- When they are introduced, they say the a sentence similar to two other sprites, one of which is one of their prototyping components.
- Davepeta says, in regard to Nepeta's previous attraction to Karkat, that they “dont even f33l conflicted about that???”, even though they would have expected to, and that “it sorta f33ls right still”. This could be taken to imply that Davesprite was also (perhaps subconsciously) harboring some sort of attraction to Karkat as well, which makes sense given the frequent implication throughout A6A6I5 of Dave and Karkat being interested in each other.
- Andrew Hussie started a selfie campaign for people on the internet to take selfies with this picture of Arquius and Davepeta hugging saying that, quote, '“I will delete this fucking website. If I don't see enough selfies out there, I will scrub Homestuck from the Akashic Servers and never speak its name again.”', unquote. So, of course, it was incredibly successful, and you will still be able to see the evidence if you type it into a search engine.
- Nepeta used the letters AC in her Trollian handle, whereas Dave always used TG, so they are technically the first sprite who complements each other.
- Dave's associated classical element is fire, and Leo (Nepeta's associated zodiac sign) happens to be a fire sign.
- The heart belongs to the fire element in traditional Chinese medicine, continuing these references.
- Them attacking Lord English is an apparent reference to the Egyptian god Ra attacking the snake demon Apophis in the form of a large cat.
