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>permanently kills his best bro's original self from the narrative by making him gay and hard attached to fucking Karkat
Even if you write off HS^2 entirely, retconned Dave is the only one of the beta kids shown to become an entirely different person, essentially killing pre-retconned Dave for good. John unironically has done worse to Dave than Bro himself and that's kinda just glossed over like its no big deal.