#david cotc

YOOOOOOO its been forever since i posted here!!! I wanna fix that so here *shoves transparent color-corrected (i drew and colored over the parts where he was covered by the glass) high-quality pngs of my fave David poses at you*

Elder Dark Emperor David has been a huge part of my adolescence since at LEAST 2019. in 2020, When I was 15, I got sent to the psych ward yet again for um. very severe reasons. He was my comfort character that got me through it. I've had so many dreams about him and he was one of my BIGGEST character obsessions that lasted YEARS.

During this time, though, he was still a minor (as was I). So I worried that, like so many other characters, I would grow into an adult and he would not. I would have to leave him behind lest I want to write a paragraph justifying myself to each and every rightfully suspicious comment about how I had to age him up.

BUT HE GREW!!! HE GREW UP WITH ME!!! HE IS CANONICALLY A YOUNG ADULT NOW!!!!!

And yet. After all these years. There has no been a SINGLE good x reader of him. So, alas, I must do it myself...

Dark Emperor David x Reader headcanons

comically inexperienced, unless you count that God awful situationship thing with Mark. he is a WONDERFUL boyfriend, he just. doesn't know how you're "supposed" to act with a partner.

which is valid because despite all my experience... lowkey same!

like is he supposed to buy you flowers... and like how often... and what counts as a date... when do you say I love you... are hugs still acceptable...

he does learn though. you just have to, ignore, what everyone else thinks a relationship is supposed to look like. and just do what makes you both happy.

literally the kindest, clingiest, most hopelessly romantic sweetheart out there I don't think it's physically possible to do better than him.

you kinda have to. teach him that it is, ok, to set boundaries, and not just put up with it unless he can't anymore. he got a little better after mark but also... mark was an EXTREME case of straight up emotional abuse. fuck that guy.

absolute cornball btw. like canonically. it's fucking awesome oh my God I love him.

some of your favorite activities include

spiteful DND campaigning. mark is not invited. also the amount of homebrew content would kill that guy.

doing each others makeup!!

introducing him to more goth music he hasn't heard of before (he IS still a baby bat)

him showing you HIS goth music, some of which YOU haven't heard before!!

doodling 😋😋

thrift shopping 😈😈 you rarely find anything good. but sometimes..

PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!!!

watching TV and such

DRIVING WITH MY DARLING!! FASTER THAN I SHOULD!!! DRIVING WITH MY DARLING!! FOREVER IF WE COULD!!

painting each others nails.. obviously..

disgustingly diabetically sweet displays of affection like merging with each other

singing together.... ☺️

pretty much constantly holding your hand btw. like that scene in Steven Universe where Peridot and Steven went to the kindergarden so long as she kept holding her hand. But instead of not trusting you, he just really really loves you.

almost everyone else thinks it's gross just how affectionate y'all are. you're like that one cringe straight couple that everyone hates bc they won't stop kissing in the halls and calling each other terrible nicknames. except the nicknames are completely satire

he DOES in fact, buy you flowers. like literally just whenever he sees pretty ones he thinks you'll like.

he may work for barely above minimum wage but by God that does not stop him.

will be overjoyed with every gift from you. he will absolutely treasure it forever. even if its flowers and they will he will keep them until they have straight up evaporated.

"yo man... that tulips looking a little. dead."

"yeah ☺️ my baby gave me that it's not going anywhere 😋"

Noo gay people nooo

dark emperor david! … he’s so silly 🥹

little behind on craig of the creek but im catching up!