dave and karkat (as a couple WOW SHOCKING) at a party with the rest of the cast (non-canon non-epilogues, but everyone’s adults idfc how it works I’m just horny BYE) and they get into a fight, ok? whatever it is it gets a little too heated. karkat storms out of the party. and dirk just kinda…moves in on dave. like “oh damn, he left, that uh…sucks” and dave’s looking at him, and wow in a certain light…he really looks like…and he’s got some unresolved issues, and dirk, he and jake have been broken up for a while so he’s pent up, and dirk sees how dave’s looking at him, and yknow, he knows exactly how to pull dave’s strings cause hal already ran the calculations 50,000 times to figure out what would lead to the best outcome and dave isn’t that hard to figure out anyway, given the fact that he’s probably traumadumped to dirk before during some late-night moments of weakness or something. and just, like, idk, dirk is like “you know I could give you what no one else could” and his weird smooth but completely nonchalant tone is getting under dave’s skin and he’s like COMPELLED to do whatever dirk wants him to and just. AAAAAA