Which is actually terrifying, if you really think about it. This guy replaced CHRISTIAN GOD and took his place. He is one of the only people who has achieved his ultimate self and has completely taken over the narrative. This guy could kill a good 60% of every Homestuck character EVER. That's terrifying.
Toby Grif There is Unite Synchronization, Orange Hat, Battle Brotocol, Anbroids V2.0, Whistling Jackhammer, Time on My Side, Austin Atlantis, Sweet Dreams Timaeus, Despot, Stress and Miasmajesty. He also shares Beatup and Stride with Dave, Moonsetter with Vriska. Characters have a lot of (canon) themes but they don’t get used, sadly. Hell, even _Ancestors_ have themes. It’s great to see themes like Stress and Beatup show up on Pesterquest!
This version of Beatdown is brutal. Heavy. Overwhelming. A true final boss. A force to be reckoned with. A prince high above on his throne and he knows it.
A Blasphemer one who Dares stand at the Level of God Dirk has casted aside the laws laid down He is now the one who writes the story of the cosmos He is now the Author
I mean... he Replaced God in Homestuck and literally controls the Narrative so yeah you should be scared unless you Achive your ultimate self like him and Colliopie
I can't believe that it took me so long, but this comment made me realise that he somehow got a tattoo when he was literally completely alone for the first 16 years of his life. Did they ever mention how he got it? Did he give it to himself (A stick-and-poke on your own delts? Can't be easy)? Or did he program a robot for the specific purpose of tattooing a shitty jpegged sbahj onto people's arms?
Imagine “The prince is awake. Your shit is wrecked.” But along with the feelings of badassery and hype, you get extremely anxious and everything drops to the pit of your stomach. That’s this theme.
@@emeraldjunk5677 true, fair point. But from Dirk's point of view, canon is a beyond black and white concept. he was just pissed about mspar's consequences on his goals
@Nolime But it's not...Everything in HS2 is so forced, contrived, and so goddamn lazy. There are some really good ideas it there like the cast having a falling out due to disagrementts on how too handle there new rolls and responabitys or even if they want them. Good idea hell you could even work in the angle of the fact they did not technichly really earn the reward and play with that. But what we get is Dirk and Cali get new powers and use them to treat others like shit Cali becoming no different from her brother a brat who treated others like playthings.
This song was always one of my favorites, I thought it was a good sendoff to the Striders back when it was first released on HS Vol 10 as an anthem for both Dirk and Dave. But its return in Pesterquest breathed new life into the song, turning that triumphant feeling inside out and giving it a new sinister edge. I look forward to where Homestuck goes next, frightening as it may be.
this. this is exactly how i feel. i could say it ruined the connection i had with this song, but it's not like i expect anything else from homestuck, really. i do feel like i'm listening to a whole different song, though. it's unnerving.
The original context of this song is a 30 year old Bro influenced by Caliborn, Arquius and AR to beat up a preteen Dave. I would say this song is as sinister then as it is now? Also associating Dave with it really glosses over his whole character arc. This wasn't ever a cool Strider theme song, it was Beatdown, an anthem for Dave getting beat down by his guardian.
@@bstuu2138 You're talking about Beatdown, though. When I first listened to Beatup I personally interpreted that it had an optimistic, concluding feel to it that opposes Beatdown. I mean aside from the titles literally having "up" and "down" as contrasts, Beatdown is one of the first songs to be introduced while Beatup appears in vol 10, the last hurrah. It's no surprise that I associate that song with how Dave and Dirk's relationship ended in the comic. (when of course disregarding the epilogues and anything else.)
There's 8 words of death for a piece of fiction: "I don't care what happens to these people." And I think Dirk's ultimate goal is to keep people caring, before the beginning and after the end.
which is exactly why he has to play the villain! thats why he insults everyone, hurts them to make us hurt, and thus keep us interacting with the story. It's a tough burden to bare, but hey, who do you think is going to teach all those turtles rad ninja arts?
@@peregrinemendicant4758 what I don't think anyone realizes, though, is that there is still a major villain/antagonist. the person who devoured Lord English. I think they're more dangerous than Dirk could ever pretend to be.
@@deletedTestimony thats a really good point. i often gloss over that fact that calliope actually killed lord english because she frames herself to be the "good guy" trying to stop the villain, dirk. You know, as homestuck 2 continues to go on, i wonder if the roles could possibly switch?
@@peregrinemendicant4758 it was reading the part of the epilogues where Calliope explains that the framing of heroes and villains is much in the hands of the storyteller that made me start to feel very anxious about her. Ultimate Calliope has always been strangely dark and sinister in my eyes, and I think the entire Candy timeline is her orchestration. she gives the fans everything they want, but with the caveat, "Not like this." she brings the fulfillment of almost every procreative ship pairing, in the worst way imaginable. and then she consumes her brother a second time. the person with the nightmare of powers is ultimate calliope, and Dirk is a paper tiger next to her.
I'll be honest, this twist was expected and it STILL surprised me. "There's no way the guy obsessed with controlling the narrative doesn't fuck with his own path." Ultimate Dirk: Sup. Me: HOLY SHIT
Beat Up really fits for Ultimate Dirk because his entrance into the route is marked with him belittling and beating up his past self and ultimately beating up himself. That shit hurted!
god the fact that his theme's essentially a remix of 'beatdown' really just hammers home how ult dirk is just the worst parts of all the dirks combined into one :(((
i was in my living room in the dead of night, mentally roleplaying as my homestuck selfinsert troll and then gave them an existential crisis after finding out that they werent real while watching the dirk pesterquest route. im so poggers
Yeah for some reason i built a Shitty Statue of Liberty for... Ironic purposes thats not even something i'd do pretty sure Dirk made me do it he's such a dick you know?
Dirk is out here looking like the 5th pillarman. This dude was actually just training Dave so that Dave could learn how to fight all of the other pillarmen.
This theme fits Ultimate Dirk better than any other I can think of. It's heavy and bombastic, full of swagger and sheer arrogance. Perfect for one as assured of his own superiority as Ultimate Dirk.
at least Ult Dirk can back up his bark with his bite. if he can't slice you to pieces with his "unbreakable" katana, he can just rip your soul out instead.
i like that ultimate dirk's theme being a more bombastic version of bro strider's strife theme implies that regardless of everything, he still evolved into the same narcissistic ultra powerful semi-antagonistic motherfucker in the end
Loving how this flips the Motif of Beatdown and really pulls you into the perspective of the kind of person Bro was/UltDirk is Powerful. In control. Important. Better than you, Damn well sure of it. Making sure you know it too.
Ok so I had a really fucking wack idea out of nowhere So you know how Dirk is able to rap pretty well? Along with how he can change the narrative? And you know how MSPAR has been helping Chixe with her raps and now has power over the Pesterquest timeline as a first guardian? Consider: Dirk and MSPA have a narrative power rap battle where their rhymes literally change the reality they’re in Epic rap battles of narrative history
Was absolutely terrified of Ult. Dirks role in pesterchum. Ended up giving this a listen one day and then proceeded to have a dream of Ultimate Dirk attempting to kill me, I guess he really struck a cord in my subconscious
Yours is a singularity of narcissism-an endlessly recursive existence so dense that it has no choice but to sprawl out much further than the boundaries of its person in any given universe or timeline. I can see it.....
DIRK: I'm either gonna drown you in a cup of water to put you out of your dehydrated misery, or you're gonna march your dry ass into the kitchen and make like a sponge.
Both vriska and dirk have no desire to be better than they are but at least dirk owns his villainy and doesn't delude himself into thinking he's a good guy.
Dirk is a decent person who didn't know how to interact with other people. Ultimate Dirk is the culmination of every version of him ever, including Bro Strider, and through AR, Lord English. That's why Ultimate Dirk is such an asshole compared to Homestuck Dirk Vriska did horrendous things to survive because that's how Troll culture was. In the end, she got her shit together, and while she's still a huge bitch, she's not a villain.
Respectfully, did you read any of act 5 or 6? Dirk expresses over and over and over again that he doesnt want to be a dick, and tries his best to improve when he can, and Vriska goes on a multi-page ramble near the end of act 5 about how she knows she's a bad person and hates the things she's had to do to survive. Both of them don't think they're worthy of getting better, that's not the same as having no desire to be better, and both of them are trying to do the right thing, but have never been allowed the space to improve to do so.
I love this song but I remember the original video's picture was of a beat up kid dave in Bro's shadow... who keeps letting the anime man around children :((
well at least with the way ult dirk acts, we can official rule out cal influencing him to act that way. As it turns out, Dirk is just an asshole in almost every timeline despite outside influences
Um....lol.....you do realize that because of the AR splinter, he is technically STILL being affected by Cal's influence, right? The whole point of this route was to tell you that Dirk is extremely susceptible to outside manipulation and his soul is at risk of corruption from the Ultimate Self, not that he's inherently evil :/
@@pseudosaccharine9891 orrrrrr that he's destined to be corrupted and IS therefore inherently evil due to a clear willingness to be swayed towards bastard-ness? Or that it's homestuck and therefore it's entirely up to interpretation. :D
BRIDGE Oooooooorrrrrr he gets put into bad circumstances by the narrative in every timeline and he's hyperaware of that AND it makes him very unhappy with himself because he is at heart a very genuinely good person who wants to do good things for his friends, and he doesn't get enough credit for getting as far as he had???
I love how overpowering this song sounds. Like you just messed with something much more powerful than yourself, something beyond your own comprehension, and now you're about to get your shit wrecked.
I mean he did a Dio and replaced God and by replaced God he Replaced the author canonically Im pretty sure Dio is still controlled by Araki Dirk Oh Dirk overthrew Hussie
@@capriciousunpredictablemem721 Cool down mate I mean Really though Dirks's Kamina *well the opposite of him please tell me i got the name right* but his brother Dave is more of a Toaru's Tschimikado both of them are ultimate bro's
It's brutal. Heavy. Oppressive. A force that can't be fought, whether by virtue of its strength or your own weakness is irrelevant. It's a remix of Beatdown, which was Beta Bro's theme. And all I can see is a young boy laying on his roof after getting his ass kicked by his older brother.
I think what's nice about the pesterquest offshoot timeline and why the epilogues and ^2 are so frustrating to the kind of fans that mspar represents in pesterquest is that all these kids could've been given the opportunity to be their best selves, they all should have had the chance to grow up normally and be happy. But many of them don't, or they struggle to become their best serves through the adversity, where most of them inevitably fail. They deserved a happy ending, but the universe said no. The story said no. The author, the director, whoever currently holds the reigns on this ride at any given point said no. Ult Dirk is the best example, second best example I'd say is Jane, though i think her starting point was never so wholesome as Dirk's. Dirk splinters his own psyche in hopes of understanding himself, but only his worst traits survive by the end and recoalesce into the most overbearing and toxic version of himself possible. Edit: I don't give pre-SBURB Jane enough credit, she was a sweetheart too, if really hardheaded. And Dirk even as a teen had some of Bro's abusive tough love training in him with how he treated Jake. Stunted that poor boy's ability to.develop with his training bot "gift".
Thinking about it, the role of a crazed, narrative altering villain seems to fit vriska way more than dirk. Dirks whole ark revolves around him overcoming his flaws and self hatred. Vriskas ark seemed to revolve around her understanding how awful she's been to her friends and those around her, and unlearning what alternia taught her. She overcomes her trauma and spends her days with meena in the dream bubbles, dropping her whole schtick to defeat lord English as her warped view of redemption and being a hero. That is, until her alpha self comes in and rips everything away from her, before acting as a deus ex machina and pretty much plans out how the finale goes down, with her taking down the big bad. She destroys any semblance of growth to be a hero. She literally hijacks the narrative for her favor and continues to hurt those around her (when tavros gets an army via asking around for help, she ridicules him, despite him being a huge help, though I am sure there are other examples) For a story revolving around taking down those who've unjustly made their way to power to establish their will, vriska sure seems to fit that description to a T. Plus, isn't it a running gag for light players to alter the text of the story? It seems so weird to force jane and Dirk into the roles of a villain, when vriska seems like the perfect fit? Like she's manipulative and self centered, which seems like all the traits they forced on Dirk to fit the role of a villain???
Probably its just me being dumb, but i still cant understand why Dirk become villain. Like, everything was fine, but then, at some point, he decided to make some bigass plan with destroying of 4'th wall and commit suicide in one of the time lines. Just why?
@@user-vu9ug4vb3u you see, here's the thing. There WAS no reason for Dirk to become the villain. It was just bad writing. Supposedly it was because if they was removed from canon, his life held no meaning, so he forced the story to happen by BEING the villain. Another reason I think vriska fits so much better is that Dirk had no interest in being relevant until then- unlike vriska, who's whole THING is being relevant as the thief of light. It's a mess, there was no reason for Dirk to be a villain, god hates us.
@@CaribouGutSludge @ЯД The reason dirk became a villain was pretty clearly outlined in Meat-- as a player of Heart, he had always been more "in tune" with his alternate selves from other timelines, since the Heart aspect has to do with the soul and the "essence" of a person. He even says that much in Homestuck proper, when he and Dave have their heart to heart (heh) about Dave's terrible upbringing-- he explains to Dave that he _does_ feel responsible, because he's in tune enough with his "splinters" that he can see Bro _in_ him, even if the Dirk Strider we knew and loved would never do anything like that. Truth be told, the Dirk Strider we knew and loved _wouldn't_ have ever become the new big bad of the story, but Dirk was ceasing to be _just_ the version of him that we knew. The fully realized powers and latent abilities he had as a God Tier of Heart, combined with becoming unbound by canon, caused him to become more and more attuned to his other selves, which was what caused his "ascension" to "Ultimate Dirk"-- essentially causing him to transform into the ultimate culmination of every possible incarnation of him to ever exist. Unfortunately, "every possible incarnation of him to ever exist" includes both Bro _and_ *_Lord English,_* because ARquiusprite was one of the "ingredients" that got sealed inside of Lil' Cal during the human kids' climactic battle with Caliborn. Not to mention, Dirk says explicitly multiple times in his tête-a-tête with Dave that he could easily have imagined him turning out much worse barring several decisions he made in the canon timeline. Who _knows_ how many Dirks there were out in doomed timelines and dream bubbles that could have been awful too, further tipping the scales in Ultimate Dirk towards villaindom? *TL;DR* Dirk wasn't just Dirk anymore when he went off the deepend. He was connecting to and more-or-less involuntarily assimilating all his "splinters" (which includes both Bro and Lord English) via his fully-realized and overwhelming Heart powers.
Jane still feels like a stretch, though. Like I get the whole message about how all the players' interpersonal relationships going to shit in the Epilogues was because they were failing so catastrophically as a community with each other-- not checking up on each other, not wanting to confront each other for fearing of stirring up drama, thus letting everybody stew in their own juices and eventually become the worst versions of themselves... but it still feels like kind of a stretch that she would go so far off the deep end. Maybe it's something to do with her Condesce-monitored upbringing. Ultimate Dirk makes perfect sense, though. It's unfortunate, but it does. You just gotta think about it a little harder, get in tune with matters of the _soul_
@@ThePoltergust5000 yeah okay naw that actually checks out? It sucks that I have nothing as lengthy as a reply other than like It makes sense that he's a villain in story, it just feels frustrating because it's like the authors are giving excuses to make Dirk the villain and forcing vriska to be a good guy. Like, you can't tell me the idea of the ultimate self wasn't made up for the epilogue. This would be fine if it wasn't a tool to be like "hey look at this guy he's BAD and look at jane too she's an abuser" acting like vriska ain't just as bad. Tldr The ultimate self is a cool concept and you are right: in the context of the ultimate self, it makes sense that he's a bad guy. But not in the story as a whole.
thinking about what dave's internal reaction to ult dirk must've been after having a heart-to-heart with him in homestuck about how bad his bro was dirk saying he would never become like him
Beatdown was never Dave's song, was it? It was Dirk's. And in that way, having Dirk's song lampshading Dave's journey like so much triangular dark plastic is...
I have this weird feeling Ult!Dirk's worst nightmare is having a fully developed "good" splinter appear, who isn't all caught up in himself which is why he intervened with pesterquest dirk. Adding a splinter with a different outlook might change Ult!dirk for the better, which he feels would lead him astray.
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Don't bother praying, you're up against the only person who'd hear it.
-Ult Dirk
Alternates be like:
Hard af line 👊
Goes harder than it needs to
Which is actually terrifying, if you really think about it. This guy replaced CHRISTIAN GOD and took his place. He is one of the only people who has achieved his ultimate self and has completely taken over the narrative. This guy could kill a good 60% of every Homestuck character EVER. That's terrifying.
*orange text appears on screen* Oh no
*Ult Dirk actually shows up in person* OH NO
Pray to God now cause he's Pissed and out for your blood and standing right in front of you in a unironic fury
OH NO MARIO!
Dirk: *busts through 4th wall* OH YEAH
i legit yelled profanity at my screen for a full minute before i clicked again i was so fed up with his bullshit
@@dannylieberwirth1784
I legitimately screamed because what the FUCK when I first saw
HE IS A MAN WHO OWNS THREE THEME SONGS
10 actually
@@hhellinn :O
Toby Grif There is Unite Synchronization, Orange Hat, Battle Brotocol, Anbroids V2.0, Whistling Jackhammer, Time on My Side, Austin Atlantis, Sweet Dreams Timaeus, Despot, Stress and Miasmajesty. He also shares Beatup and Stride with Dave, Moonsetter with Vriska.
Characters have a lot of (canon) themes but they don’t get used, sadly. Hell, even _Ancestors_ have themes. It’s great to see themes like Stress and Beatup show up on Pesterquest!
In b4 DIrk and Rose make Unus Annus but with Sburb
@@hhellinn Dirk is a man who has MANY themes-
my blood went cold when his orange text hijacked the screen
"This year can't get any worse, right?"
April 2020:
GOD YEAH
Nameless Narrator I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS OH GOD
"Surprise, bitch."
Im pretty sure June 2020 Dirk is going to come to the real world and kick all of our asses
Toothy Lemon not if actual June can stop him first
This version of Beatdown is brutal. Heavy. Overwhelming. A true final boss. A force to be reckoned with.
A prince high above on his throne and he knows it.
Eidolon Bidadari when I first listened to it, it sounded hella trimphant. But add new and it fits real good.
the first time I heard this song it punched me in the guts, called me slurs and just fucking obliterated me so yeah I get what you mean
"the prince is high and he knows it"
- Eidolon Bidadari
@@ck_cal tfw when a song beats you up
A Blasphemer one who Dares stand at the Level of God Dirk has casted aside the laws laid down He is now the one who writes the story of the cosmos He is now the Author
I don't like how he looks annoyed. It makes me strangely nervous
hes ult dirk come on man
He's about to beat you to death
SAME. The annoyed look paired with the accusing finger point really makes me feel singled out...
Ult!Dirk: “You are already, dead.”
MSPAReader: “What?”
I mean... he Replaced God in Homestuck and literally controls the Narrative so yeah you should be scared unless you Achive your ultimate self like him and Colliopie
The theme that says ">You see no God up here. Only me."
Tbf, whoever is seeing, is seeing God, just not his God
Well I mean he Did admit to replacing him Overlord Dirk is now what he shall be called
Dirk: If God exists, it’s freaking ME!
Me: Actually Karkat is OUR GOD and always will be you Ultimate Dick!!!!!!!!! ♋♋♋♋♋
@@mibukdesjarlais534 Praise Jegus
he looks like he's saying "You disgust me. Leave."
that is indeed the long and short of it
Also “Stop fucking things up.”
He is.
@Ligmabubbles 1212 DSIUHDSJIDFS that was a good one
To be fair he's God at this point he could get you to leave and humiliate you while doing it all he needs to do is say you do
Ult. Dirk having muscles is the most bizarre thing coming from Pesterquest
It looks more like Bro Strider if you think about it.
@@El_Palta_ You bringing that up just makes it worse
Jojo Reference???
@@whimsicalgamer3917 Ugh please no
i see what you did there
*Epilogue readers:* I fear no man. But that thing...
*The colour orange:* (exists)
*Epilogue readers:* It scares me.
the epilogues do not exist, i cannot see
The epilogues themselves scare me
this is extremely true.
@@broblerone413 As does Homestuck^2, very questionable choices
its hard to take him seriously when all i can see is the sbahj tat
Wasn't that his birth mark rather than a tattoo?
@@luisben101233 nah its a tattoo, jake has one too
@@Tako8617 oh. well darn
poggers tattoo
I can't believe that it took me so long, but this comment made me realise that he somehow got a tattoo when he was literally completely alone for the first 16 years of his life. Did they ever mention how he got it? Did he give it to himself (A stick-and-poke on your own delts? Can't be easy)? Or did he program a robot for the specific purpose of tattooing a shitty jpegged sbahj onto people's arms?
Finding this theme in the credits after updating the game today filled me with a sense of profound dread.
Gog same
@Axolotl Child ...mot
I feel some of my choices aren't my own anymore
Ult! Dirk and the Reader are opposites.
A passive force attempting to break into the world,
And a maniacal force that's all but broken out of it.
Imagine “The prince is awake. Your shit is wrecked.” But along with the feelings of badassery and hype, you get extremely anxious and everything drops to the pit of your stomach. That’s this theme.
“The Princes are awake. Your shits are wrecked.”
Ult Dirk doesn't even need a katana, his fookin anime shades are so pointy and sharp that I bet he could cut somebody in half with them
*shaderang*
That would be hard to do if they’re on his head. What? He could take them off you say? Hell to the no!
@@thebiolibrary5572
Simple, decapitate him and then throw his head with the shades on. Dirkcapitation solves everything
Android No.4k1 how would he lop off his head though
I mean, Dirk is a kamina reference (tengen toppa) and kamina uses his mecha's shades to attack, so that's basically accurate lol
All of a sudden Ult Dirk doesn't like the idea of someone having non-canon dominion
Terry flopycow well it not him doing so therefore it terrible to him
Godang hypocrite.
It's not non-canon, the mspar was literally retconning the alpha timeline.
It's His Canon now
@@emeraldjunk5677 true, fair point. But from Dirk's point of view, canon is a beyond black and white concept. he was just pissed about mspar's consequences on his goals
goddamn ult dirk being buff is absolutely NOT something i was expecting but somehow makes perfect sense
ladlevi • 8 years ago your username tripped me up
dirk always was like that, why does everyone has the attention span of a goldfish?
got that "oh, you're approaching me?" type energy
I actually screamed when this man showed up
Fucking same
for me it was just repeatedly whispering "oh shit oh shit oh shit"
I clutched my head, bared my teeth and freezed like that for good 20 seconds
I kind of saw this coming, didn't make it any less infuriating.
I screamed and quit the game SO fast when it happened
God his sprite and this music makes me feel like I'm going to get my ass kicked; That song title doesn't help either.
we're in for some ass-whoopin here
dirk strider diss track when?
dirk strider more lke dick strider bruh
@Nolime no i mean dick strider because he may have a big dick
@Nolime But it's not...Everything in HS2 is so forced, contrived, and so goddamn lazy. There are some really good ideas it there like the cast having a falling out due to disagrementts on how too handle there new rolls and responabitys or even if they want them. Good idea hell you could even work in the angle of the fact they did not technichly really earn the reward and play with that. But what we get is Dirk and Cali get new powers and use them to treat others like shit Cali becoming no different from her brother a brat who treated others like playthings.
This song was always one of my favorites, I thought it was a good sendoff to the Striders back when it was first released on HS Vol 10 as an anthem for both Dirk and Dave. But its return in Pesterquest breathed new life into the song, turning that triumphant feeling inside out and giving it a new sinister edge. I look forward to where Homestuck goes next, frightening as it may be.
Also, Dirk is Hot.
this. this is exactly how i feel. i could say it ruined the connection i had with this song, but it's not like i expect anything else from homestuck, really. i do feel like i'm listening to a whole different song, though. it's unnerving.
I actually managed to not even recognize the song because it hit so different in this context - though admittedly I'd only listened to it a few times.
The original context of this song is a 30 year old Bro influenced by Caliborn, Arquius and AR to beat up a preteen Dave.
I would say this song is as sinister then as it is now? Also associating Dave with it really glosses over his whole character arc. This wasn't ever a cool Strider theme song, it was Beatdown, an anthem for Dave getting beat down by his guardian.
@@bstuu2138 You're talking about Beatdown, though. When I first listened to Beatup I personally interpreted that it had an optimistic, concluding feel to it that opposes Beatdown. I mean aside from the titles literally having "up" and "down" as contrasts, Beatdown is one of the first songs to be introduced while Beatup appears in vol 10, the last hurrah. It's no surprise that I associate that song with how Dave and Dirk's relationship ended in the comic. (when of course disregarding the epilogues and anything else.)
He went from twink to chad and I'm scared--
Chad Strider.
he was never a twink, he's to into himself and wanting overcome others with it to be one
I mean.... Replacing god is beyond chad
Well too bad, asscending to *THAD MODE*
A true twunk
There's 8 words of death for a piece of fiction: "I don't care what happens to these people." And I think Dirk's ultimate goal is to keep people caring, before the beginning and after the end.
which is exactly why he has to play the villain! thats why he insults everyone, hurts them to make us hurt, and thus keep us interacting with the story. It's a tough burden to bare, but hey, who do you think is going to teach all those turtles rad ninja arts?
@@peregrinemendicant4758 what I don't think anyone realizes, though, is that there is still a major villain/antagonist. the person who devoured Lord English. I think they're more dangerous than Dirk could ever pretend to be.
@@deletedTestimony thats a really good point. i often gloss over that fact that calliope actually killed lord english because she frames herself to be the "good guy" trying to stop the villain, dirk. You know, as homestuck 2 continues to go on, i wonder if the roles could possibly switch?
@@peregrinemendicant4758 it was reading the part of the epilogues where Calliope explains that the framing of heroes and villains is much in the hands of the storyteller that made me start to feel very anxious about her. Ultimate Calliope has always been strangely dark and sinister in my eyes, and I think the entire Candy timeline is her orchestration. she gives the fans everything they want, but with the caveat, "Not like this." she brings the fulfillment of almost every procreative ship pairing, in the worst way imaginable. and then she consumes her brother a second time.
the person with the nightmare of powers is ultimate calliope, and Dirk is a paper tiger next to her.
@@deletedTestimony hs^2 could've been so fire bruh 😭
I'll be honest, this twist was expected and it STILL surprised me.
"There's no way the guy obsessed with controlling the narrative doesn't fuck with his own path."
Ultimate Dirk: Sup.
Me: HOLY SHIT
It honestly looks like he's saying "I want to speak to your manager. Now."
But he IS the manager
The Ultimate Karen
"Do you have a burger?!"
He needs to speak to the manager about Caliborn trying to order a burger.
dasuberkaiser6 WHY ARE YOU SUPPRESSING FOOD FROM THE PUBLIC
Beat Up really fits for Ultimate Dirk because his entrance into the route is marked with him belittling and beating up his past self and ultimately beating up himself. That shit hurted!
This track just radiates *power.*
Rustbloods!
Oh no he's hot
HES SO HOT!
Id agree except I care about personality, and Ult Dirk is the textbook definition of a personality that turns one off.
@@palmerpatel6390
Speak for yourself.
@@1Nostrand1 i agree 😤😤 sis has her taste
I want to like the comment but I'm gonna respect the 69
he could step on me and i'd thank him.
@@mama_m00n I'm so embarrassed I forgot I posted this comment
@@teefmouf5841 no no no don't be, ur saying what we are all thinking
@@teefmouf5841 nah hes spittin
teefmouf wildin
completely valid, i would kill to be under his anime sandals
Damn, Homestucks are fast
Prince of heart, destroyer of soul, a man who EMBODIES ego, just some titles to spit at cha.
god the fact that his theme's essentially a remix of 'beatdown' really just hammers home how ult dirk is just the worst parts of all the dirks combined into one :(((
its "beatup" in fact :(((
yeah.. jeez
It’s actually a song that was written quite a while ago, it does fit Ult. Dirk really well tho
You mean best.
I know isnt it great?
this slaps to hell and back i'm surprised i haven't heard this version before
because this version came out on april 1st
R4D beatup was released a long time ago, unless you’re saying this is an alternate version with the same name?
@@optionboom Alternate version, yes.
Gamzee really deserves better you know?
I don't need to work out I just need to become my ultimate self.
i was in my living room in the dead of night, mentally roleplaying as my homestuck selfinsert troll and then gave them an existential crisis after finding out that they werent real while watching the dirk pesterquest route. im so poggers
this might be the most relatable thing i’ve ever laid my eyes upon
IM NOT OK AFTER PLAYING THAT S H IT
Damn tell me what happened
@@PrinceofMilk Dirk Strider happened
Me neither
Yeah for some reason i built a Shitty Statue of Liberty for... Ironic purposes thats not even something i'd do pretty sure Dirk made me do it he's such a dick you know?
Dirk is out here looking like the 5th pillarman. This dude was actually just training Dave so that Dave could learn how to fight all of the other pillarmen.
Dirk Keeps Kars in his basement
spoilers: the other four pillarmen are also Ultimate Dirk
@@sarafontanini7051
The pillar men were just dirks from alternate timelines
@@sarafontanini7051 four pillarmen in search for the author :)
Ah yes, he has the Red Shades of Arquius
Dirk went from regular anime to JoJo
He is gay after all.
yeah, his name is DiStri
ゴゴゴゴゴゴ
EXACTLY
Mood
The pose:
The name:
*the stride*
Lets all do the stride
He's already her-
Wait
DON'T BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, BELIEVE IN ME, BELIEVE IN THE STRIDER THAT BELIEVES IN YOU!
What if he doesnt believe in me?
@@RikuMcduck then, you're fucked.
@@RikuMcduck pray.
oh hey it's me from 3 years ago holy shit
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD IS BEAT UP BEAT UP BEATUP OH GOD
Not enough people knew about this song
Yeah beatup’s wild
Oh God's here alright And he's NOT happy
AaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHh
This theme fits Ultimate Dirk better than any other I can think of. It's heavy and bombastic, full of swagger and sheer arrogance. Perfect for one as assured of his own superiority as Ultimate Dirk.
at least Ult Dirk can back up his bark with his bite. if he can't slice you to pieces with his "unbreakable" katana, he can just rip your soul out instead.
i like that ultimate dirk's theme being a more bombastic version of bro strider's strife theme implies that regardless of everything, he still evolved into the same narcissistic ultra powerful semi-antagonistic motherfucker in the end
Damn dirk and hes bewitching good looks
Man grabbed me by the throat and forced me to vibe with him
Loving how this flips the Motif of Beatdown and really pulls you into the perspective of the kind of person Bro was/UltDirk is
Powerful. In control. Important.
Better than you, Damn well sure of it.
Making sure you know it too.
also just a horrific person
and also *child abuse*
@@Homestuckfan413 anime child abuse
also hes hot
He gives me an urge to call him Daddy out of pure fear
Didn't he say something like "Daddy's home bitch" in the route?
@@benjaminjenkins2384 That was Teen Dirks' Autoresponder :/
@@taeunaosei9107 oh, okay, thanks for telling me lmao
You just know Rose calls him Daddy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
dasuberkaiser6 no no no no no
Ok so I had a really fucking wack idea out of nowhere
So you know how Dirk is able to rap pretty well? Along with how he can change the narrative?
And you know how MSPAR has been helping Chixe with her raps and now has power over the Pesterquest timeline as a first guardian?
Consider:
Dirk and MSPA have a narrative power rap battle where their rhymes literally change the reality they’re in
Epic rap battles of narrative history
I love this
I was smiling the whole thing when this song started playing. It is one of my favorite songs ever, and I'm so glad to see it get used
he awoke something in me when i first laid eyes upon him and im ace
Was absolutely terrified of Ult. Dirks role in pesterchum. Ended up giving this a listen one day and then proceeded to have a dream of Ultimate Dirk attempting to kill me, I guess he really struck a cord in my subconscious
I am going to install Bluetooth speakers into my chest so I can blast this wherever I go.
Good, very good
Yours is a singularity of narcissism-an endlessly recursive existence so dense that it has no choice but to sprawl out much further than the boundaries of its person in any given universe or timeline.
I can see it.....
I really can't feel proper fear when that stupid SBaHJ tattoo is pogging from his shoulder
ult dirk closes the fridge with his hips
*he has the power of god and anime on his side*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
He IS god and anime.
Homestuck is definitely my favorite anime
@@KingOpenReview Bruh i'm going insane your pfp moves when I look at the replies
@@rainesjupiter7308 It's a gif.
they finally used it. jesus christ. i swear to god they made the punchy parts more hd. love this track.
DIRK: I'm either gonna drown you in a cup of water to put you out of your dehydrated misery, or you're gonna march your dry ass into the kitchen and make like a sponge.
This reminded me to drink water. Thank you!
hes ripped and i think thats very sexy of him
I'm so sorry for your loss.
agreed also is your username a machinegirl reference 🤨
Ult. Dirk confirmed what I already thought. My type is people who could kill me.
I was playing this kinda loud and my mom genuinely thought I was listening to Nine Inch Nails
Picturing Trent Reznor making this song for Homestuck nearly fucking killed me.
As soon as this dude showed up I just said out loud to myself "Oh god not THIS bitch again" and continued to enjoy his theme and laugh at his muscles
Twink: Dirk Strider.
Twunk: Bro (Pre-Scratch)
Hunk: Ultimate Dirk
Hi John!
Honk: Ultra Ultimate Dirk
i kinda adore how Dirk is now just actually Kamina
like there's no avoiding it.
Both vriska and dirk have no desire to be better than they are but at least dirk owns his villainy and doesn't delude himself into thinking he's a good guy.
Dirk is a decent person who didn't know how to interact with other people. Ultimate Dirk is the culmination of every version of him ever, including Bro Strider, and through AR, Lord English. That's why Ultimate Dirk is such an asshole compared to Homestuck Dirk
Vriska did horrendous things to survive because that's how Troll culture was. In the end, she got her shit together, and while she's still a huge bitch, she's not a villain.
@@anidiot9831 She directly and purposefully facilitated the creation of the stories main conflict, she is, by definition, a villain.
Both Vriska and Dirk have very much have the desire to be better than they are. Did we read the same webcomic?
Respectfully, did you read any of act 5 or 6? Dirk expresses over and over and over again that he doesnt want to be a dick, and tries his best to improve when he can, and Vriska goes on a multi-page ramble near the end of act 5 about how she knows she's a bad person and hates the things she's had to do to survive.
Both of them don't think they're worthy of getting better, that's not the same as having no desire to be better, and both of them are trying to do the right thing, but have never been allowed the space to improve to do so.
@@eppigraceless4240 Nah fam I didn't read Homestuck I'm a vegetarian.
this man can step on me and i'd thank him
i love how silly yet incredibly menacing he looks
he gives me major frat boy vibes with this theme and that look...
I love this song but I remember the original video's picture was of a beat up kid dave in Bro's shadow... who keeps letting the anime man around children :((
well at least with the way ult dirk acts, we can official rule out cal influencing him to act that way. As it turns out, Dirk is just an asshole in almost every timeline despite outside influences
Um....lol.....you do realize that because of the AR splinter, he is technically STILL being affected by Cal's influence, right? The whole point of this route was to tell you that Dirk is extremely susceptible to outside manipulation and his soul is at risk of corruption from the Ultimate Self, not that he's inherently evil :/
@@pseudosaccharine9891 orrrrrr that he's destined to be corrupted and IS therefore inherently evil due to a clear willingness to be swayed towards bastard-ness? Or that it's homestuck and therefore it's entirely up to interpretation. :D
BRIDGE Oooooooorrrrrr he gets put into bad circumstances by the narrative in every timeline and he's hyperaware of that AND it makes him very unhappy with himself because he is at heart a very genuinely good person who wants to do good things for his friends, and he doesn't get enough credit for getting as far as he had???
@@pseudosaccharine9891 Name one good thing Dirk Strider has done.
It's like if Dirk made a theme that could beat up anyone's ears on purpose just to prove to you he is superior
Imagine Kamina going up to Dirk saying "Who the hell do you think you are!!"
@@CRTV03 that is 100% true
His response would obviously be "I'm you but stronger"
Dirk would be Like oh shit Im you but GOD also got these shades because of you bro
He would cry
when i was playing pesterquest and i saw ult dirk it scared me so much i had an anxiety attack and then started crying
Y'all may be stuffed with fear but
*all I can hear is the music of a new friendship*
Damn.... You Shonen protag much?
And all I can hear is the music of a big fight between mspar and dirk
I like how his hair keeps getting bigger
rage fills up my very being at the sight of this man
So this is how Dave and Dirk gonna go down when ^2 finally update the first [S] Strife.
Mayor!
Wayward!
bruh id pog if that happens
I love how overpowering this song sounds. Like you just messed with something much more powerful than yourself, something beyond your own comprehension, and now you're about to get your shit wrecked.
lord help me i want him to wrap his hands around my neck and take me
This is the weirdest jojo yet
I mean he did a Dio and replaced God and by replaced God he Replaced the author canonically Im pretty sure Dio is still controlled by Araki Dirk Oh Dirk overthrew Hussie
@@craytherlaygaming2852 hes just heaven ascended dio
@@calyps0rion Thats the term i was looking for Though even Ascended Dio was still bound by the writer's whim Dirk is beyond the writer canonically
>JoJo reference
>Ultimate Dirk is a Gurren Lagann reference
The stench of nu-weebs disgusts me
@@capriciousunpredictablemem721 Cool down mate I mean Really though Dirks's Kamina *well the opposite of him please tell me i got the name right* but his brother Dave is more of a Toaru's Tschimikado both of them are ultimate bro's
The "We are coming to beat you up" meme theme.
JESUS why is he so RIPPED its HOT
Too hot!
Bro i didn't jump up and down when i realized i was listening to ult dirks theme i fucking spasmed
It's brutal. Heavy. Oppressive. A force that can't be fought, whether by virtue of its strength or your own weakness is irrelevant.
It's a remix of Beatdown, which was Beta Bro's theme.
And all I can see is a young boy laying on his roof after getting his ass kicked by his older brother.
Well since I finished the route time to loop this for hours on end, just such a good song.
Also this remix has made me like Ult Dirk more unironically.
but it's an old remix,,
@@ubiquitouszergio4267 I realized that after, it was new to me
You sure thats not because Ult Dirk told you you did?
I think what's nice about the pesterquest offshoot timeline and why the epilogues and ^2 are so frustrating to the kind of fans that mspar represents in pesterquest is that all these kids could've been given the opportunity to be their best selves, they all should have had the chance to grow up normally and be happy. But many of them don't, or they struggle to become their best serves through the adversity, where most of them inevitably fail. They deserved a happy ending, but the universe said no. The story said no. The author, the director, whoever currently holds the reigns on this ride at any given point said no.
Ult Dirk is the best example, second best example I'd say is Jane, though i think her starting point was never so wholesome as Dirk's. Dirk splinters his own psyche in hopes of understanding himself, but only his worst traits survive by the end and recoalesce into the most overbearing and toxic version of himself possible.
Edit: I don't give pre-SBURB Jane enough credit, she was a sweetheart too, if really hardheaded. And Dirk even as a teen had some of Bro's abusive tough love training in him with how he treated Jake. Stunted that poor boy's ability to.develop with his training bot "gift".
I already have been simping for dirk but his pesterquest sprites really made me a sIMP
JANEY!!!
Ralsei McDuck HSHHSJD
@@Weezettegirl
Hii Janey!!
YES
Thinking about it, the role of a crazed, narrative altering villain seems to fit vriska way more than dirk.
Dirks whole ark revolves around him overcoming his flaws and self hatred.
Vriskas ark seemed to revolve around her understanding how awful she's been to her friends and those around her, and unlearning what alternia taught her. She overcomes her trauma and spends her days with meena in the dream bubbles, dropping her whole schtick to defeat lord English as her warped view of redemption and being a hero.
That is, until her alpha self comes in and rips everything away from her, before acting as a deus ex machina and pretty much plans out how the finale goes down, with her taking down the big bad. She destroys any semblance of growth to be a hero. She literally hijacks the narrative for her favor and continues to hurt those around her (when tavros gets an army via asking around for help, she ridicules him, despite him being a huge help, though I am sure there are other examples)
For a story revolving around taking down those who've unjustly made their way to power to establish their will, vriska sure seems to fit that description to a T.
Plus, isn't it a running gag for light players to alter the text of the story?
It seems so weird to force jane and Dirk into the roles of a villain, when vriska seems like the perfect fit? Like she's manipulative and self centered, which seems like all the traits they forced on Dirk to fit the role of a villain???
Probably its just me being dumb, but i still cant understand why Dirk become villain. Like, everything was fine, but then, at some point, he decided to make some bigass plan with destroying of 4'th wall and commit suicide in one of the time lines. Just why?
@@user-vu9ug4vb3u you see, here's the thing.
There WAS no reason for Dirk to become the villain. It was just bad writing.
Supposedly it was because if they was removed from canon, his life held no meaning, so he forced the story to happen by BEING the villain.
Another reason I think vriska fits so much better is that Dirk had no interest in being relevant until then- unlike vriska, who's whole THING is being relevant as the thief of light.
It's a mess, there was no reason for Dirk to be a villain, god hates us.
@@CaribouGutSludge @ЯД
The reason dirk became a villain was pretty clearly outlined in Meat-- as a player of Heart, he had always been more "in tune" with his alternate selves from other timelines, since the Heart aspect has to do with the soul and the "essence" of a person. He even says that much in Homestuck proper, when he and Dave have their heart to heart (heh) about Dave's terrible upbringing-- he explains to Dave that he _does_ feel responsible, because he's in tune enough with his "splinters" that he can see Bro _in_ him, even if the Dirk Strider we knew and loved would never do anything like that.
Truth be told, the Dirk Strider we knew and loved _wouldn't_ have ever become the new big bad of the story, but Dirk was ceasing to be _just_ the version of him that we knew. The fully realized powers and latent abilities he had as a God Tier of Heart, combined with becoming unbound by canon, caused him to become more and more attuned to his other selves, which was what caused his "ascension" to "Ultimate Dirk"-- essentially causing him to transform into the ultimate culmination of every possible incarnation of him to ever exist.
Unfortunately, "every possible incarnation of him to ever exist" includes both Bro _and_ *_Lord English,_* because ARquiusprite was one of the "ingredients" that got sealed inside of Lil' Cal during the human kids' climactic battle with Caliborn. Not to mention, Dirk says explicitly multiple times in his tête-a-tête with Dave that he could easily have imagined him turning out much worse barring several decisions he made in the canon timeline. Who _knows_ how many Dirks there were out in doomed timelines and dream bubbles that could have been awful too, further tipping the scales in Ultimate Dirk towards villaindom?
*TL;DR* Dirk wasn't just Dirk anymore when he went off the deepend. He was connecting to and more-or-less involuntarily assimilating all his "splinters" (which includes both Bro and Lord English) via his fully-realized and overwhelming Heart powers.
Jane still feels like a stretch, though. Like I get the whole message about how all the players' interpersonal relationships going to shit in the Epilogues was because they were failing so catastrophically as a community with each other-- not checking up on each other, not wanting to confront each other for fearing of stirring up drama, thus letting everybody stew in their own juices and eventually become the worst versions of themselves... but it still feels like kind of a stretch that she would go so far off the deep end. Maybe it's something to do with her Condesce-monitored upbringing.
Ultimate Dirk makes perfect sense, though. It's unfortunate, but it does. You just gotta think about it a little harder, get in tune with matters of the _soul_
@@ThePoltergust5000 yeah okay naw that actually checks out?
It sucks that I have nothing as lengthy as a reply other than like
It makes sense that he's a villain in story, it just feels frustrating because it's like the authors are giving excuses to make Dirk the villain and forcing vriska to be a good guy.
Like, you can't tell me the idea of the ultimate self wasn't made up for the epilogue.
This would be fine if it wasn't a tool to be like "hey look at this guy he's BAD and look at jane too she's an abuser" acting like vriska ain't just as bad.
Tldr
The ultimate self is a cool concept and you are right: in the context of the ultimate self, it makes sense that he's a bad guy. But not in the story as a whole.
He hella evil
But this is hella good
And his tattoo is of Hella Jeff.
Or maybe sweet bro. Uh...
@@literallyjustalamp9149 It's Hella Jeff, in Honor of his Sweet Bro.
And im Feeling Hella small
Dirk^2: Omae Wa Mou Shinderu
thinking about what dave's internal reaction to ult dirk must've been
after having a heart-to-heart with him in homestuck about how bad his bro was
dirk saying he would never become like him
this makes me feel lust
Beatdown was never Dave's song, was it?
It was Dirk's. And in that way, having Dirk's song lampshading Dave's journey like so much triangular dark plastic is...
I have this weird feeling Ult!Dirk's worst nightmare is having a fully developed "good" splinter appear, who isn't all caught up in himself which is why he intervened with pesterquest dirk. Adding a splinter with a different outlook might change Ult!dirk for the better, which he feels would lead him astray.
PLEASEEE I NEED HIM
I CHECKED NEWEST COMMENTS AND ITS ALL YOU BUT ALSO I COMPLETELY AGREE
YOU'RE SO REAL
currently sweating my ass off, this instills some sort of ironic fear in me and now I'm anxious
i’m sorry but dirk is one of the hottest characters in homestuck
dont apologize for speaking the absolute and unwavering truth
what happens to a mf when you get three theme songs