a piece of evidence re: "it was dirk all along": there's a post out there that points out that bro tried to start the scratch on his own almost immediately after the sburbpocalypse started.
definitely seems like Dirk knew more pre-scratch than he was letting on, the prevailing theory being that he was involved in Skaianet the same way the other guardians were (Skaianet Systems history indicates Jake set Dirk up with a tuition I think?)… if Dirk was really masterminding to the extent I’m thinking he was, though, I guess it would make sense that he might try to push the session toward a scratch so he could play his own version of “scratch doctor” after?
god. “playing scratch doctor”. literally his exposition to Jake about Dave and Rose’s exploits fighting the Condesce is the exact same shit as Scratch’s “troll fanfiction” about the ancestors