#bertholdt is a math genius canon 😼

[tender-hearteddd]

modern au bertholdt headcanons! ( ◠‿◠ )

a/n - really unedited!!! also wrote this on one go! and my first post on here so enjoy!!! a little angsty and also inspired me to write a lot more posts so !!!!! enjoy :D

100% believe bert would be a STEM major!! engineering to be more specific!!

^^definitely not the type to hate women and to have never felt the warmth of a woman before tho that’s forsure 😭 just the super smart type who’s good at math but is shit at writing essays :/

so I guess not super smart but smart in the mathematical aspects

you two have an agreement, you help him write essays and he helps you with any of your math homework 😼😼😼

i think this may be a common hc for my beloved but he gets along great with his father!! really sees him as his role model and a man he aspires to be once he figures out his whole life thing

his father was a commercial pilot and would take him out on flights when he was younger but stopped once his health started to get worse :(

so bertholdt semi knows how to fly a plane just from seeing his father and would like to actually learn in honor of his father

when bertholdt was a child, he was really interested in planes and trains and things of that sort

which kinda prompted him to be interested in engineering

he would like to design and build a plane in honor of his father :'))

and also wants to create a more stable and environment friendly way of transportation

but apart of him wants to pursue biomedical engineering as well, because of the lack of support and poor care his father received

a lot of his career aspirations are not really his own but based around his father

which kinda fucks him up in the head the more he thinks abt it :/

so he just chooses not to :< which will also not do him any good either :(

I guess even in a modern au, bertholdt is destined to live a life of despair :|

he’s definitely not as super awkward as a lot of the fics on here make him out to be, awkward yes, but mostly just the quiet reserved shy guy type!!

he just doesn’t know what to say so he doesn’t say anything, which is a big problem for him :(

he has a lot on his mind most of the time but can’t find the words to express his thoughts, hence why he’s so bad at writing essays, but also why he has some sort of passion for math.

because math is a way of communicating abstract ideas that our brains can ‘decrypt’ and can unlock hidden truths that cannot be otherwise understood or discovered

^^because if he cannot understand the abstract puzzles of his own mind, at least he can understand something as equally as abstract like math

and that gives him some sort of hope of one day understanding his own puzzle.

:') alright enough w the angst!

bertholdt is really good with his hands!!! (in that way too ;)

they’re just really nimble and longggg

he can fix anything and is also into pottery!

need to put together your new desk? bertholdt will have it done in 40 minutes, WITHOUT reading the instructions 😎

need to mount up your tv? just call bertholdt!

your laptop can’t stop bugging? give it to bertholdt and he’ll update it for you as well!!

can also design really intricate blueprints of projects he would like to work on

but can’t really draw anything artsy :( and is sad abt it

not very creative in the arts but has creative thinking when it comes to stem based subjects

which is why he’s into pottery! because he feels like that’s his only way to be creative in the arts!!

he’s kinda like seth rogen (not personality wise pls 😭) but when it comes to pottery, that man is an 👏🏽artist👏🏽

makes a lot of really unique and pretty vases and is honestly thinking of starting a career out of pottery but apart of him feels like it’s useless :(

bertholdt is mediterranean! greek to be more specific!

though his father’s mother migrated to germany and married a german man, hence why he has a really germanic last and first name, bertholdt’s father migrated to america and married a greek woman! making bertholdt mostly greek and a little german (probably mixed w other stuff too)

has a really big extended family but I can see him as an only child or the middle child

also the tallest member of his family

and is related to pieck! (I hc pieck as greek too!)

i can also see him being related to udo as well

omg!!!!!!!! pieck being bertholdts coool and chill older sister 😎 bertholdt being the middle sibling :'( and udo being the youngest!!!!!!!!!! ahhh!!!!! gonna create a separate post for their sibling dynamic just u wait.........

this may be more of an ick than a hc but bertholdt does have a reddit account 😭😭

I SWEAR HE’S NOT A WEIRD INCEL NEVER TOUCHED GRASS DOUCHEBAG ALRIGHT

I HAVE A REDDIT TOO OKAY SO IM SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE

certain subreddits on there are actually really helpful and wholesome!! and some are really interesting!! bertholdt is usually on those ones lurking!!

okay okay okay sometimes he does post but just asking for help or venting to strangers on r/OffMyChest :(

wants to start reading philosophy but feels like he’ll come off as pretentious (he won’t!!!) and feels like it would just make him even more sad and confused

another common hc but best friends with reiner and annie ofc!! but once they start college, they become friends and make one big friend group with the rest of the warriors (porco, marcel, colt, pieck, zeke) and with the rest of the 104th maybe (might make a separate post for what it’s like to be in this friend group!!!)

also may be a little out of character but i can see bertholdt being a college athlete just so he can go to college for free (doesn’t apply if college is already free in ur country but I live in the united states so rip :/)

he doesn’t see it as a career though, just can’t afford tuition sadly

so he doesn’t try as hard as a lot of his teammates, just enough so he won’t seem too special to be drafted

also please tell me this isn’t what bertholdt would look like in real life 😭😭 maybe not exactly and his face would be a bit longer but close enough 😁

overall bertholdt is really just the sweetest and I’m in love with him and he deserves the world :)