on earth c dirk has a tendency to hole himself up for weeks at a time
and it becomes habit for john to bring him food when this happens because it’s also an excuse for him to get out of the house (and it’s easier to focus on taking care of other people than himself)
dirkjohn meet cute dirk is the weird guy selling swords in the dealers room at johns local anime convention. john calls every sword a katana. at first dirk does his standard “actually thats a wakizashi. a katana is generally twice as long, a wakizashi is for close combat” but john comes back every day and does the same thing up til sunday morning when he points at a shuriken and asks “how much for the little baby katanas” and dirk fucking lunges at him