motspot

beta bro's entire life revolves around him cultivating a certain aesthetic and persona for himself. he lives in a small bachelor style apartment in a major urban city. he's got game bro magazines around the house, cheap katanas and shurikens mounted on the walls, random skateboards on the kitchen counter. instead of tables he has wooden boards on top of cinderblock stacks and a shitty futon to crash on even though he's got the money for a loudspeaker system, expensive DJing equipment, some pretty high tech computers, a giant TV and a shit ton of gaming consoles to go with it. he performs a nonchalant "ironic" apathy towards everything, which he uses to prevent himself or dave from taking things too seriously (avoiding any discussion verging on seriousness or responsibility). he was in his 30's when sburb started, according to dave, which makes him in his 20's when he picked up dave off a dead horse after he fell out of the sky. we can also assume he didn't really grow up with any parents either, since he was born the same way himself, and no foster parents ever seem to be mentioned by the text. he might have done what alpha!dirk did and simply raised himself.

beta!bro is an adult stuck in a state of permanent adolescence. he indulges in crappy junk food and plays sick videogames and gets into daily sword fights on the rooftop (which he always wins). he covers his apartment in weird fetish porn in the form of pinup posters on the walls. the guy can kind of sew but his stitches are pretty shitty from what we've seen, and he either doesn't care to or doesn't know how to cook, seeing as how the fridge is filled with swords and the kitchen doesn't seem to be used at all except for the microwave, which is filled with smuppets.

dave said that he felt that bro hated him. in a way, i bet he did. because when dave entered his life, he suddenly had an actual responsibility he had to take care of. he suddenly had some greater purpose than himself to serve. but calling himself a dad basically would cement that responsibility onto him. there are duties, expectations, and a certain sense of maturity that comes with being a dad. you have to give up a bit of yourself as a father. you have to put someone constantly before yourself. so he decided to stick with being "bro" instead. because less is expected of you as a brother. it's not as official. instead of recognizing dave as a child with needs, he can treat him as a peer at the same level as he is (sharing the responsibility of "raising" and taking care of dave between them, and also giving a pass to bro's immaturity and allowing him to put himself at the same priority as dave). and he turned raising dave into some sick, fun game for himself (but never really got rid of that resentment). he pranks him and tries to creep him out and plays mind games and treats him like shit 'cause he can. he hurts him and throws him down the stairs and doesn't feel a slice of remorse. the guy even tried to throw his kid off a roof at some point. he "helps" him start the game, sure, but after dave enters the medium he treats his duty as done and he basically fucks off and does his own separate thing and fights monsters and looks cool. he dies like a badass and leaves dave to process everything that he's done to him instead of being left to see the consequences of his own actions.