the first few months they’re living together, john’s pretty much in charge of any cooking because dave hardly knows to difference between a spatula and a ladle and then like once a week, dave picks what they order for take out or fast food or whatever.
anyway after a while dave feels like a real burden, especially when john’s sick or tired or had a long day and cooking becomes a pain in the ass, so he takes a culinary course on the sly. turns out hes pretty decent at cooking.
dave’s tried smoking before but he’s so bad at it. he inhales the smoke wrong and coughs and chokes and sputters. plus the taste makes his whole mouth feel gross until he’s able to go brush his teeth.
partially the inability to figure out how to do it is a subconscious purposeful fuck up. he doesnt want to fuck up his lungs and not be able to run or strife or be super physical anymore
dave struggles with figuring out whats normal and whats bro normal
his bros rep around the area as a dude who runs a puppet porn site bleeds over to dave and most parents dont want their kids hanging out with dave so he doesnt really have any local friends, which he kind of resents bro for, but he doesnt let on.
but anyway as a result of that, he doesnt have a whole lot of influence in his life other than bro, which leads to him thinking that the shit he and bro do is kind of the every day norm. until he gets shit for it in school for talking about it, ie; sword fighting on the roof. he doesnt care so much about that one though because he thinks its fun and active and good exercise, even though he gets his ass beat.
so he kind of closed off and now he doesnt talk to people locally so much except when he has to and he puts up a i dont give a shit front. but he struggles with knowing what actually is normal and what he only thinks is normal because he was raised by bro. so he gets nervous when john or rose tells him something is weird because whoa another thing he thought was totally normal. hot sauce on vanilla ice cream isnt a thing everyone does???? what about no pants monday???? etc.
