What Could Have Been

what could have been

Davesport headcanons (because I'm so insanely normal about them)

Decided to do this ! For no real reason but alas ! A lot of these are taken or used in things I've written, so if you recognise some of 'em then that's where they came from.

The most infamous dsaf headcanon ever: hair./silly I imagine Dave had hair when he died, long and a deep purple, and he eagerly maintains it to prevent it from decaying as much. Jack learnt how to braid because of Dee, and has braided Dave's hair on a few occasions. His hair in the flipside is darker than it is in reality, especially during dsaf 3, because it resembles a less decomposed version of himself. Jack has a buzzcut, he died bald because hairless is an easy hairstyle to maintain, especially when you've got a six year old sister to take care of. It just barely managed to grow before his body started decaying and is rather patchy. Their hair also represents some aspects of their character: Dave clinging onto his hair and its fleeting liveliness resembles how he clings to the past and Henry's legacy, whereas Jack exhibits none of those behaviors and is instead focused on putting things back together, along with his promise which all lie in the future.

Dave sometimes stops breathing entirely when he sleeps, since he technically doesn't have to do it to live considering his physicality. The first time this happened in Vegas Jack freaked out, he's since gotten accustomed to it and doesn't jump anymore when Dave goes limp in his arms.

Dave's scared of thunderstorms, I imagine he'd hide from heavy rain as a kid and the loud thunder and harsh lightning terrified him, which persisted into adulthood. Usually he manages to handle it well, but there’s been times where Jack found him under his bed or in his closet.

Dave gets slightly and subconsciously intimidated when Jack waves any sort of tool around too much; it reminds him of Henry. Jack caught on at some point from the way he seemed to go uncharacteristically quiet, and has since minded how he handles his tools.

They fight a lot, Dave was never taught affection and Jack very rarely expresses it because his emotional palate is repressed and slightly altered considering the whole soulless ordeal. The closeness of violence is a way to achieve affection for them, and patching each other afterward is also a sign of love. It got out of hand once and Dave died, they've been more careful since.

Dave cradles Jack’s head to his chest with a hand on the back of it when they cuddle (which they do in my mind). It's a subconscious instinct to protect him that comes from a place of care, Jack accidentally woke up in that embrace a few times and finds it endearing.

Somewhat canon but Dave was the one to bash Jack's teeth out, Dave managed to scramble for- and still has one of the teeth; he thinks of it as a trophy and keeps it separately from the box. I personally imagine it happened in one of the aforementioned Vegas fights instead of the handcrank, and in good routes he did it himself when he was drunk and miscalculated the distance between the bottle and his teeth. In the context of Dave having done it though: it happened because Dave's accustomed to himself being treated without regard for his safety so he accidentally mimics this towards Jack, which is how he knocked them out. He was more careful after that but because of his many deaths his motor skills are decreased, and this still leads to accidents sometimes.

Both Jack and Dave have nightmares, both about the springlock accidents and Dave also about the experiments, nights where he woke up to see his own stomach open, etc. Each of them can tell when the other is dreaming from the way they move in their sleep.

That's currently all I can conjure... Might add onto this another time:]

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