Davesprite was almost certain he was going insane. It seemed logical to him; three years on a ship with another timeline's John and Jade and all of the Denizens. It was a wonder his sanity had held on for so long. In all honesty, it was weird seeing John and Jade alive and you know, now missing or dead. Davesprite had discovered that he had retained his time powers right before they had boarded the ship and had created one last time loop to try and grab his John. He was too late though, John had already gone missing and both Jade and Rose were dead. Jade had evidently been killed in her sleep whilst Rose had gotten herself killed under the influence of her Grimdark rage. A normal man would have ran from Rose's remains, but Davesprite stuck it out long enough to put at least some of her closer to her mother. It seemed right, putting her nearer to her guardian, God knows Davesprite would have wanted someone to do that for him if he had died fighting Jack with Bro. He did feel bad though, if he hadn't prototyped himself with the Kernelsprite then he would have been around to help, Rose had already been a goner but before he left John and Jade had still been running around. On the other hand if he had stayed in his own timeline then the session they had just finished would have become a doomed timeline. Sprite or not he was still a time player, and it was his completely unironic duty to make sure the most favorable outcome came to or not, he still had nightmares.
Self prototyping, while pretty damn cool, did have some minor drawbacks. Mainly because Dave threw in a crow, but not just any crow. A female crow. That asshole. The worst part is that you can't even yell at him because he didn't know. You only knew because of three years and an embarrassing bout of puberty later. Honestly Davesprite had no idea how in the hell no one noticed his little problem, but he was glad. If word got out about this he was screwed, the teasing would be merciless. Other than that, being a bird-person was pretty fucking cool. Flying was sweet and now he could whistle, both things he most certainly could not do before. He also made weird bird noises at random times, he pretended to be annoyed by it but it was really funny to watch everyone else jump at the sounds. Everything was going swimmingly, or flyingly, until Dirk showed up. It wasn't five minutes after he met the guy, who looked so very like his Bro, that Dirk confronted him on the whole 'kinda part female bird' thing. Davesprite had no idea how the hell Dirk had figured it out with literally no hints, unless peeping a few times was considered a hint. It didn't matter though, Davesprite had been able to secure a solemn promise from Dirk to keep his mouth shut on the matter. Although the promise did nothing to stop Dirk from referring to Davesprite as 'chickadee'.
It was after a particularly bad argument with Dave over Pesterchum that Davesprite decided to brood in the most ironic way possible by hiding in LOHAC. Brooding as in sulking, not the bird thing, there weren't even any other bird-people for that to even be a thing. After initiating radio-silence with Dave and everyone else, with the exception of Dirk, Davesprite retreated into the depths of LOHAC. He didn't really have a place to stay so he found a cave and decided to go full-on bird and make a nest. He ended up stealing John's bathtub and a lot of the smuppets from Dave's apartment to line it and make it super comfy. The puppets still freaked him out a little, but they were Bro's so he could deal. All of this was done in the sake of irony so Davesprite didn't feel the slightest bit weird for doing it, even if his bird brain was what made him want to do it in the first place. It was several days later that Dirk showed up and was witness to the odd spectacle that Davesprite had managed to make.