#I love writing Berdly as simultaneously smart and a dumbass

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I still need to answer @iamnotademigodkiller’s Berdly ask but rn brain tired

So, here’s a free sample. (Uh. This was supposed to be a haha funny quick 2 sentence scenario, but I did not account for the fact that I am physically incapable of writing less than one million words. This two sentence scenario very much turned into something else entirely. It’s a whole gd meal.)

Let’s start over. Here is a random Berdly and Kris short story synopsis to tide you over.

During the Summer, Kris has access to the empty school via Toriel, who is usually busy in her office preparing materials for the next year. This leaves Kris to their own devices. Further, this obviously means they have the perfect opportunity to mess around with stuff at school without getting caught. They must take advantage of this!

Somehow, they rope Berdly into their shenanigans. The plan is simple. Berdly and Kris will compete with each other to see who can make the longest, most ridiculous Rube Goldberg machine in the hallway (without catching the attention of Toriel). Her office is near the back of the school, so it should be easy enough. Whoever wins gets bragging rights!

An hour later and Berdly’s contraption has gotten so long that he has to figure out a way to wrap it back around the hallway without disturbing the pieces he’s already placed. Not thinking, his solution is to snake it through the unused classroom and have it pop back out to the hallway through the opened closet. This will allow it to loop back around to the hallway with plenty of room. Once he’s satisfied with his work, he calls Kris over from their own project to observe his genius chain reaction. Kris doesn’t even have time to remind Berdly of the potential consequences of his machine before he’s already setting it off.

As you may have predicted, this machine uh. causes unintentional chaos in Castle Town. Ralsei gets flattened by a falling domino. Rouxls nearly gets taken out by a flying marble. Lancer rides on a stray bouncy ball like it’s a free bull ride. Queen does a quick Google search to see if the weather forecast calls for more rapidly falling objects from the sky over the next few days (The answer is no and Queen is slightly disappointed). No other subjects are harmed, but they are terrified of the chaos. Ralsei unpins himself from the domino and begins the difficult process of damage control. It takes forever to calm everyone down.

Back in the light world, there’s moment of silence after the chain reaction ends. Berdly crosses his arms and gives Kris a smug grin. Kris just stares at him, their expression somehow part shocked, part worried, and part oh my god you’re a dumbass. It takes him a full minute to realize his mistake after some prompting, but when he does, he grabs Kris by the arm and rushes towards the closet. They have to meticulously clean up all of the materials and toss them back out into the hallway. As soon as they finish, Kris activates the fountain.

The lecture he receives from Rouxls and Ralsei upon his arrival to Castle Town is well-deserved. Berdly does not get to indulge in any of his aforementioned bragging rights, because any mention of The Incident is met with death glares and theatrical threats of imprisonment from both of them.

Queen and Lancer thought the calamity was funny, though. Queen says he should do it again.