A strife specibus is just a card and once a weapon is assigned to it it can’t be changed, but if you get a different specibus card you can assign a different weapon to it.  Like how John found a bunnykind card and then could use stuffed bunnies as a weapon.

Yes

She ascended in [S] Make her Pay.  And they don’t have to stay in their god tier outfits, this isn’t the first time she put her normal clothes back on.

He does seem to be dead, and Davesprite himself wouldn’t be in the dreambubbles but the Dave that became Davesprite would be.

Right, yeah, my bad, you’re right.

After Game Over Dirk was overcome by a mass of stardust.

But that doesn’t have anything to do with why he isn’t in the upd8s.  He isn’t around because Jade teleported him outside the incipisphere and he’s currently flying back.

A. Karkat could be embarrassed to tell John about his relationship with Dave, it’s not outside his character to do something like that.

B. Davekat could be pale, they obviously are very close and Dave was able to calm Karkat down pretty well.

C. Or they could just be buds, whatever

Either way yesterday’s upd8 didn’t disprove anything.

Karkat’s group beat Sgrub which is essentially the same thing.

Troll god tier wings are removable so she probably just took the them off.

It’s gone.  In Tavris and Fefeta’s case their ghosts returned to the dreambubbles.