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would you guys hate me if i said i had an italian best friend JUST like him in middle school. he wanted the shawn wasabi midi controller more than salvation. i used to fireman carry him.

there's like. an unfortunate hole in my brain and heart in which berdly occupies. like he's annoying and he's a jerk but there's a lot about him that really. really, stands out in a strange way.

i've talked about how he has two jobs and the immense amount of stress he has to be under, and i mentioned that his home life probably isn't great. i didn't really expand on it because frankly, the fact that he feels the need to hold two jobs at his age says plenty. but to look at it a bit more...

he says everyone always forgot him when he was younger. no one remembered his name. so um... who was taking care of him? obviously you could say "well he was clearly just talking about other kids his age" and write this off pretty quickly, but ... no, he wasn't. i say this because for one, he's very well-spoken; he speaks clearly and firmly, and never leaves room for confusion or that sort of ambiguity. he said what he said. no one remembered his name.

second, that spelling bee was the first time in his life that he was noticed and praised, nooooot by other kids his age, but by adults. the audience of a spelling bee is going to primarily be composed of parents and faculty, not so much other children. besides, what kind of child audience would respond to the winner of a spelling bee Like That akfjdngldj? anyway. this dumb little spelling bee was the turning point in berdly's life. i don't think being noticed by other kids his age was the issue. i think he was sincerely neglected. that was the point of the bluebird of misfortune sequence.

i don't like making conclusions like this about characters so young unless that's just. what's on the table. i'd looooove to say "no he just struggled with making friends but he definitely had parents/caretakers who remembered he existed" and leave it at that but i can't and it's because of queen actually.

i'm not the first person to point this out, but if queen parallels noelle's mother, who's to say she doesn't parallel Something for berdly too? ralsei keeps telling us that darkners only exist to assist lightners, and from what we've seen so far, the dark worlds really do mold themselves around the lightners who step inside... (i dont like this and i think ralsei's Wrong but in a cosmic-universe-story sort of sense. he's probably right.) since they were the first ones there, i think berdly and noelle (mostly noelle) are really important to how cyber world has currently arranged itself. and queen is likely the first darkner either of them met, so it only makes sense that she represents something major for both of them.

queen is unequivocally a mother figure. that's just a core part of her personality. she's a mom. sooooo we have this parental figure who, when it comes to berdly.......

cannot remember his name.

who avoids him and ignores him when she cannot reasonably avoid him.

isn't that interesting? and *gestures at her wine glass of battery acid* i don't think she's shown Drinking and drinking a lot for simple comedic reasons. that could be another parallel to noelle's mother but i kind of doubt it. just considering what we know about her so far. i think it says something more about berdly's um, parents? than noelle's.

despite aaaaaaalllllll this. berdly kinda insta-clings to queen. he desperately seeks her approval and just... attention. but he's not stupid. in the alley when he and kris first form trucies, he knows queen is avoiding him - we can see this from his overworld sprites and facial expressions. he's just not going to admit it out loud, especially not in front of kris. he knows that noelle is the important one here, that once again, he really doesn't matter. he'll always just be a forgettable little bluebird.

but wouldn't it be nice? if he could do something really spectacular? maybe then queen will pay attention to him. he might learn what it's like to have an adoring parent.

berdly's character arc feels largely incomplete / neglected (......well.), but there really is a lot there, beneath the snootiness and annoying exterior. he's just a kid, y'know? going through some shit. just like all the other characters. i think he's very much a side character and i super doubt there will ever be a circumstance in which he joins kris's party like noelle did, but it'd be nice to see a bit more resolution for all these concerning little details. pick your head up, kiddo; you're going to be alright...

MORHTER FUCKINNNN HFBRHEHEBWNH I WANNA BE HIS FRIEND SO BAD DUDE YOU MAKE HIM LOOK SO BADASS

I LOVE BERDLY SO MUCH

“Th-that’s it Kris! I don’t know what you’re doing but…But if you’re hurting my friend Noelle…”

“Then I have no choice but to stop you by force!”

ARFDGSDHF deltarune chapter 2 came out and now Berdly is my cringe gamer son, there is nothing you can do to change that. i really wanted to do just him with his weapon,,,but then it reminded me of the snowgrave route,,,,,dgsdfhgbut im really proud of the lighting with this one-