BirdofPrey Posted:

i honestly had no idea what to do with this. i didnt know when to use one and when to use the other. it felt like it would be annoying reading his name over and over. :|

While you don’t want to use it every sentence, it’s not something the reader would notice. Like the word “said”. It fades into the background naturally.

Weren’t you deliberately switching over, not using his name at the end because he was no longer Dave?