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Canon-divergent

Jane's powers don't work on Dirk after the big final battle(s) and Dave very calmly freaks out and decides the best answer to that problem is timelooping until he finds a way to save Dirk. Of course this can only go well, there won't be any dead Daves or horrible bad ends to avoid while Dirk and Dave have an excellent adventure. Suffering ensues via timehopping together through the canon timeline or a more traditional timeloop story with Dave the one who remembers and Dirk having some vague echo through ~heart powers~ and trusting him more and more with each loop.

Dave and Dirk meet earlier in the timeline via dreaming on Derse. Features cloak and dagger intrigue and assassination as part of the rebellion they lead against the black court. Also includes Dirk's Thanatos gambit plans that Dave very strongly objects to.

Post-game Dave timetraveling to make Dirk's memories of his "bro" (aka timetraveling Dave) come true so Dirk survives growing up. Probably also something with post-game being fucked because this is happening/to cause this to happen.

Trickster shenanigans, gory or cute.

Crocker Corp rules the world, featuring Bro & Dave as Crocker agents and Alpha Dave & Dirk as plucky rebels fighting the system. Either Dave or Dirk gets kidnapped/wounded and saved by the other side. Complicated feelings and either moral redemption or corruption ensues.

Epilogue-ish, except the guy going off the rails is Dave because he's the Time Guy and he's the one who keeps everything on track, keeps the timeline intact, keeps their timeline from becoming doomed. If he doesn't become the bad guy, well, dead Daves keep showing up, so he's gotta be the villain because if he doesn't, they all die. Except Dave is much, much worse at dealing with being the villain - and then Dirk shows up to stop him.

Post-game or post-rooftop talk - Bro's expectations for Dave were impossible; there was always a right or wrong answer and if he got the answer wrong, bad shit happened, but what the right answer was barely had rhyme or reason and constantly changed. And now he has to navigate this with other people, and the consequences are even worse, his friends could die or tell him to fuck off, but he deals with it and mostly covers it up. And then Dirk shows up, who is everything he wanted and didn't get from Bro, but also gives Dave panic attacks by doing totally harmless things, anything that vaguely reminds Dave of Bro after 13 years of living traumatized and in terror of doing the wrong thing. But Dirk is also the only one who can calm Dave down by so starkly not being Bro, and they finally get it almost under control. And then Bro comes back.

AU-ish, they're trolls, the blood spectrum works differently and Dave is secretly the next heir to the Alternian empire. He's being brought up in secret by Bro and trained to survive, but Bro does eventually need to go offplanet when he reaches adulthood and he still needs to guarantee that Dave won't be discovered and murdered. Turns out Bro has been training Dirk up to replace him, and he ends up being even more overprotective than Bro.

Dave receives messages from TT (timaeusTestified) while growing up, during the beta session, and the meteor ride. TT is (possibly a combination of) Hal and/or an AI copy of an older Dirk or actual Dirk. Either way, Dave doesn't realize who Dirk is (and Dirk may not either) until they meet in person in the alpha session.

Alternate Universe

Star Wars with Strider twins separated in childhood. One is now The Chosen One Jedi (possibly a smuggler who doesn't want to be The Chosen One) and the other is a Sith fucking off from the dark side because they wanted him to kill his twin.

Some kind of scifi with giant robots or cool Tron suits and laser swords with emotion sharing/telepathic bonds. Can feature a dark conspiracy they uncover together or creepy eldritch monsters they fight.

Meeting and/or surviving in the zombie apocalypse together.

Magical girl nonsense. Both magical boys, one is a magical boy and the other is a villain, idk. Nonsense. Maybe they're idols who are secretly magical boys.

Some kind of urban fantasy where one of them gets possessed/marked by a big evil nasty and adventure ensues to keep the big evil nasty from eating their soul. May or may not feature dorky urbex as how they stumble on the big nasty.

Cyberpunk nonsense heart and time powers and hacking. Maybe they're teaming up as thieves, maybe one is an experiment or artificial god being stolen from a megacorp lab, maybe one is tracking down an enemy of the megacorps, etc.. So much nonsense.

Urban fantasy and/or cyberpunk with a witch and knight or a witch and prince. Someone's cursed, it may or may not be the witch's fault.

They're demon hunters or half demon twins, or one is a demon and the other is a demon hunter. Urban fantasy, maybe Devil May Cry style. Meeting after being separated early on, they don't know each other or have only vague memories.

Royalty AU or something similar where Dave's an assassin with poison immunity courtesy of Bro who gets sent to kill Dirk and doesn't - either he's caught or he decides not to.

Cyberpunk-ish science experiment/bioengineered twins (probably intended as weapons) in a lab or similar facility. Maybe they were SCP-ish and captured.

Bloodborne AU - one is a hunter of hunters, the other is a hunter on the edge of losing himself. Strider descent = having Vileblood descent and blood ministration from each other or something keeps sanity intact.

The Locked Tomb necromancer and cavalier pair, going through the process of learning how to be a Lyctor and dealing with its terrible truth.

Dave summons a demon familiar to be his friend/familiar/family stand-in. Alternately, someone summons Dave, who is not very interested in being a demon.

Creepy twin eldritch gods where one of them has been sealed/reincarnated as a human avatar and the other is doing horror-typical things to wake them up again.

Dirk is a DJ everyone wants a piece of and Dave is the jealous younger twin who secretly hates it and wants Dirk's attention all to himself.

Dirk is emperor of an empire on the brink of (civil) war, Dave is the imperial consort who's been trained his entire life for his role. And is also secretly an assassin and his training includes torture in the case of being kidnapped so he won't be a liability to the empire. He has a great time annoying Dirk's court with his irreverence because it makes Dirk smile.

One of them is royalty in a fae court and invites (read: kidnaps) the other home to a sink-or-swim position in the court. Possibly includes fae mindfucking/weird magic addiction.

Miscellaneous

Dom/sub where something happens to send Dave into subdrop or domdrop - he's too overwhelmed by feeling taken care of/losing that feeling, he's asked to control someone and his past history makes that suck, etc.