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Not just the type of friends he has, but the fact that he is personally unapologetic about being a geek. What we saw in the flashback is that David was even \'\'more\'\' of a geek back when he was still in school, and has become more less of one since he has been together with Bryan. Clearly image was not very important to David previously. Also recall the comment: \
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Not just the type of friends he has, but the fact that he is personally unapologetic about being a geek. What we saw in the flashback is that David was even \\\'\\\'more\\\'\\\' of a geek back when he was still in school, and has become less of one since he has been together with Bryan. Clearly image was not very important to David previously. Also recall the comment: \\\"I haven\\\'t cried since I got second place in the 6th grade science fair!\\\" (cut from the shortened version of the pilot).
So David has clearly been a geek his entire life and has no personal angst over that fact.
In contrast, Dave pretended to be a dumb jock when he really wasn\\\'t and consciously limited his friendships to people who fit that image, such as Azimio.
Thus we are down to non-canonical hypothetical histories in order to make David and Dave even remotely similar characters. While it is possible that Dave might change post-graduation to let his \\\"inner geek\\\" out so as to be more like David in college, that remains entirely offscreen. Conversely, if David was ever the kind of JerkJock that walked around high school in a letter jacket and bullied people, we have been given no evidence of that.
To say that one is an expy of the other just because both are into sports and are good at math is rather a bit of a stretch. Neither trait is really all that unusual. Stereotypes aside, quite a few gay men enjoy sports. One might as well say that Karofsky is an expy of Alan Turing based on the criteria of athleticism and a knack for math!
Now, if we get another flashback showing that David was actually a jock in high school (especially if he played football) then there would be at least \\\'\\\'some\\\'\\\' basis for suggesting that he is an expy of Dave. But for right now, the backstory we have for David indicates that at least around the time he graduated from med school, he bore no resemblance to Dave (or Blaine for that matter) in terms of personality or even physical appearance.
So David has clearly been a geek his entire life and has no personal angst over that fact.
In contrast, Dave pretended to be a dumb jock when he really wasn\\\'t and consciously limited his friendships to people who fit that image, such as Azimio.
Thus we are down to non-canonical hypothetical histories in order to make David and Dave even remotely similar characters. While it is possible that Dave might change post-graduation to let his \\\"inner geek\\\" out so as to be more like David in college, that remains entirely offscreen. Conversely, if David was ever the kind of JerkJock that walked around high school in a letter jacket and bullied people, we have been given no evidence of that.
To say that one is an expy of the other just because both are into sports and are good at math is rather a bit of a stretch. Neither trait is really all that unusual. Stereotypes aside, quite a few gay men enjoy sports. One might as well say that Karofsky is an expy of Alan Turing based on the criteria of athleticism and a knack for math!
Now, if we get another flashback showing that David was actually a jock in high school (especially if he played football) then there would be at least \\\'\\\'some\\\'\\\' basis for suggesting that he is an expy of Dave. But for right now, the backstory we have for David indicates that at least around the time he graduated from med school, he bore no resemblance to Dave (or Blaine for that matter) in terms of personality or even physical appearance.
