Dirk Rockhard

Dirk Rockhard

Dirk Rockhard is played by Cidewalk. He has just started streaming, forgive his ignorance.

## Description

Dirk seems like happy guy. He just wants everyone to enjoy themselves and live their best life. He loves music, tacos, and has an intense passion for justice. He has lived in Los Santos and Liberty CIty for most of his life, but considers LS his home. He loves to meet new people and hang out at sick parties.

He sometimes sets up underground parties at less visited locations, to help people get out and about, visiting the sights of San Andreas, either in Los Santos, out in the country, or the surrounding towns.

Dirk is well known for being sassy or sarcastic, and as Chief Justice prefers to be called "Your Savviness" or "His Sassiness," rather than "The Honorable" as, in his words, he does not want to mislead anyone.

## Background Information

When asked about his background, Dirk generally deflects the question.

Dirk was born in Los Santos in 1990. For most of his young life he hung out with his friends on the beach, played tennis, and took various classes in music, none of which interested him at the time. In 2004 his mother, a world-renowned oral surgeon, threw out his father, (who had never worked a day in his life,) from their home in northern Vinewood, telling his father "and take that thing with you." So Dirk and his father moved back to his father's hometown of Toronto.

When he turned 18, Dirk returned to Los Santos for a year to try to build a relationship with his mother, but she still did not have time for him until he "made something worthwhile of himself." Determined, Dirk set off for Liberty City, where he stayed for 5 years as he finished his undergraduate and law degree at Vespucci University. During this time, Dirk met several people in the underground party scene including Sarah Nguyen and Dallas Kirkpatrick. (Depending on when he was asked, he might have later called either one the love of his life.)

He started using his background in music to help people improve their performances. Annoyed that he could not help anyone really bring the beats he was looking for, Dirk took up DJing on his own. His Liberty City accent, background in music, and overall chill demeanor quickly spiraled him into being a minor celebrity in the clubs of Broker and parts of Algonquin.

Uncertain if a name as a minor DJ was enough to earn the respect of his mother, Dirk started working for a large law firm in Liberty City and quickly made a name for himself assisting in the defense of several high profile clients. When one of his clients then went on a crime spree, killing a family of four before herself being killed in a car chase, Dirk was distraught and took a leave of absence from his work until he decided what he wanted to do with his life.

Unsure, confused, and hurt, Dirk started partying hard, doing whatever drugs he could get, not worrying if he hurt people along the way. Two long years left him alienated from his friends, his work, and the entire club life he had grown first to love, and then to loathe. When his last two friends and roomates, Sarah and Dallas told Dirk to move out, he was emotionally shattered.

He called his brother Beef, took his things, and left. Dirk spent almost 3 years wandering around the nation, spending no more than a few months anywhere before moving on. He stopped in Los Vegas in mid 2020 and found work as a musician, but never put down roots there. Tired of traveling, partying, and finally wanting to settle down, he contacted some of his friends in Liberty City, and Sarah and Dallas among others, invited him to return, and that the parties weren't the same without him. While Dirk didn't know if he wanted to keep partying, he was glad to be heading home.

Before that came together, his mother unexpectedly died in March 2021. Dirk's father, as useless as ever, asked Dirk to delay his plans and head to Los Santos to settle her estate. While living out of the back of his truck, Dirk studied for and passed the San Andreas bar exam and became licensed to practice. He started taking cases to pay for food and a hotel room, and started making friends.

## Life in Los Santos

Much to Dirk's surprise, he actually was enjoying his life in Los Santos. He found friends he trusted, who cared about him, and who wanted to party. (But maybe not quite as hard as in the past.) Things were looking good when, a short 4 months after moving back to Los Santos, Dirk's father also died from untreated skin cancer that had spread into his liver. His brother Beef moved back east, and several of Dirk's other friends moved out of town.

While he once again found fame as a DJ, and appreciation as a lawyer, as his friends came and went, moved in, moved away, died, or just grew distant, he felt isolated, and uncertain. He again thought of returning to Liberty City and contacted his friends there. After a long silence, Sarah returned the call, but she sounded bad, said she had been making bad decisions for a long time. They argued for over an hour before Dirk invited her to move out to Los Santos with him. That seemed to cheer her up, and she agreed.

After a week after week of bad news, two of Dirk's close friends were killed in Los Santos. Less than an hour later, he received a call from a friend in Liberty City saying that Sarah had ODed in her room and was dead. Dallas was also dead, and the police were saying Sarah had killed him and then killed herself. (That Thursday was officially labeled as Fuck Thursday, as most bad things seemed to happen on Thursdays, and this was worse than most.)

## Jobs

And what's he do? That's it, you're looking at it, he just looks slick all day brah.

#### Current

* Nurse Practitioner at Pillbox Medical Center
* Part-Owner/Brah at BRAHama Mamas
* Freelance roving DJ
* Lotto Ticket Salesman and Co-owner of Los Santos Lotto
* Limo Driver

Former

* Public Defense Attorney
* Chief Justice and Judge for San Andreas
* Vanilla Unicorn DJ and Entertainer

## Relationships

Dirk loves everyone. His goal is to make everyone feel welcome. He knows more people than he can remember, but if he doesn't remember someone, he wants to.

### Family

* Beef Studpile (Half brother, the other half of The Brahs. Has moved out of town)
* Claira-Bell Moxley (Sister-in law)
* Amelia "Mim" Concord (Sister-in law)

### Found Family

* Ginni Lourdes
* Kara Rose†

### Besties

* Tim Horton
* Evelynn Pierce

### Friends

(Note from Cidewalk: I do not frequently add people to this "friends" list. I do alphabetize it though. If you consider someone Dirk's friend, please add the name to the list.)

* Adder Frost
* Ami Gah
* April Vonkeaton
* Bell Rangler
* Daisy Winchester
* Esme Lynn
* Ivy Green
* Kitt "Sugar" Muratori
* Loki Alden Green
* Lilith Alden
* Mirror Lafae
* Morgan Albrecht
* Richard "Rick" Hertz
* Sean Tyne
* Speckles
* Tabatha B. Jones
* Yang Kai

Quotes

> "Brah? BRAAAH"
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> "Serial"
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> "Sick clothes brah"
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> "Don't talk to the police brah, talk to me."
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## Trivia

* Dirk and Beef were originally characters in a stardew valley game.
* After 2-3 days of playing Dirk, Cidewalk often struggles not to call his cat and coworkers "Brah."
* One of the first City Council members in TSRP.

## Media

### Gallery

Beef and Dirk, vibing.TSRP's first City CouncilGinni & Dirk at Reggie and Mirror's weddingKara and DirkDirk in Bunny EarsDirk and Cece
### Fan Art

Art by Marcus SoftArt by Tim HortonArt by Icee