[When Davesprite had first arrived in Norfinbury, the prompt from his tablet had put an obvious question in his mind: keep his old username, or change it? It wasn't that hard to decide. He'd felt low enough about being the bargain bin Dave that he figured it better to avoid the two-sided disappointment of letting anyone who knew him think he was the Real Dave at first. "Feathery douche" on the other hand was descriptive, and a suiting warning for a teenager low on his self esteem stat.]

[It's gotten easier since, in ways, but the username has stuck.]

Doubt he'll buy it. Not unless you've embraced the xeno lifestyle that hard over the years. I hear you've got a girlfriend now...?

[Which is a gateway to a hell of a conversation, if they just go through it. Rose can't know all the questioning Davesprite's gone through over Karkat, from pale to red and how many no homos can he fit in over accidental innuendos that would make Freud raise his eyebrows. By contrast, he hasn't the faintest clue what Other Dave got up to in that timeline, and the subject is still complicated at the best of times.]

[Rose, though—Rose is his sister, and he couldn't love her any less for it, no matter his own issues.]

[For now he pauses where he is. With both of them searching, that's just more ways for the house to change on them.]