#BertBert

[awnrii]

what a day, huh?

hi. redraw of this. alt vers below!

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and squares specially edited for my playlist cover I won’t even lie. I redrew it so I could update my bertleif spotify playlist. I do not play about them

[ariartcor]

Berts and young Leif!!

(Tagged as requested @awnrii )

[catblackard]

When intergalactic chuds got you on the run, who you gonna call?

😎🤍🚀

My themme fatale, Verge, is back - this time in the main Midnight Burger storyline.

They're the friend in low places that BertBert needs to save her blue butt. Tune into Midnight Burger and let me nibble the scenery (and your earlobes) for a spell. 🫦

LISTEN HERE (and on your favorite podcast app)

Art by the amazing @awnrii

[artidepressants]

the first time leif got arrested

[motheringbird]

And when I say that Too Sweet by Hozier is Leif trying to push Bert Bert away when she somehow contacts him while he’s working for Låfftrax because he doesn’t want her to get involved in more dangerous things?

What happens then?

[heycerulean]

lowkey obsessing over an album right now because the songs are just. go listen to The Trick To Life (15th Anniversary Edition) by the Hoosiers PLEASE i love all of these songs - caspar midnight burger (worst case scenario) - LEIF MIDNIGHT BURGER (goodbye mr. a) - CASPAR MIDNIGHT BURGER (a sadness runs through him) - ava midnight burger (everything goes dark) - ted midnight burger (?) (killer) - bertleif (the trick to life) - CASTED!!! (money to be made) - leif midnight burger (also kind of gloria) (rules) - gloria midnight burger (also kind of leif) (song for the uncertain - demo) - lafftrax and verge (swear it on your life) - this is what ava's internal monologue is to me (holding on for july - demo)

[delighted-mirage]

rotating trans leif trans bert bert and canonically trans nonbinary verge in my head.

rotating leif being a trans woman and constantly fending off the pressure of being born a man and feeling constantly out of place in her own world, so she takes a ticket out to the stars.

rotating trans man leif struggling under being born a woman in male dominated spaces and fearing being stuck remembered as a woman for his work as well, and taking that same trip on up to finally leave everything behind and figure himself out.

rotating bert bert having to prove himself as a trans man and most likely have the added pressure of his mother either being supportive or strained that bert bert again doesn’t fulfill her expectations (and subconsciously putting another terrifying label on her back. gender varies but I imagine if it’s like earth enough there’s still bigotry and transphobia in certain cultures.) and adds fuel to the fight between them.

rotating also bert bert feeling more left out if his mom’s tangle is still the same one and feeling like he isn’t a good enough child.

rotating trans woman bert bert and the fact leif commented on her muscles as large and maybe feeling some dysphoria there.

rotating also the reunion of two trans ppl finding each other with no clue about the other’s past, only their identities, and the relief from dysphoria leif and berts could have felt knowing gender presentation doesn’t matter to each other. the universal feeling of knowing relief when you’re with your kind.

rotating vapians maybe still having a gender binary, although loose and in between, and verge finding themself through all that they’ve been through. rotating how they carry their identity with them and sometimes still hear an echo they’re betraying their culture by being themself over adhering to their ex-culture.

rotating them not hearing those echoes when they’re around leif when they see him/her being so unabashedly Leif, exuding that wonderful personality that’s so vibrant and s/he doesn’t even know it.

rotating verge carrying that feeling from that part of their time together even when their heart is broken and they know they need to forget leif to survive.

rotating verge realizing how to be unabashedly Verge, the monarch of cunning and crime, and maybe taking the experience to realize all they want is peace.

and rotating the hopeful idea they some day get it. <3

[359midnightburgers]

Normally Im a bit meh on making Patreon supporter names part of the story cuz either it takes you out of the story a bit or I just don't get what those patreons get out of it.

However, I think Midnight Burger is so blatant with it, and also just names IMPORTANT RECURRING characters after completely shitposting patreon names, that it totally works. 10/10 no notes.

[townesorsomething]

a couple beloveds! i actually started putting together what i thought bertbert looked like BEFORE getting to the line about sygians not being fish people, but i was just too attached to how i had been envisioning her, so now you get anglerfish light bertiluna ok? ok. glad we’re on the same page.

also, shout out to my partners ( @ashbyyyrose + @the-murder ) for this one! ashby has been taking notes on the different species in the midnight-burger-verse, which was helpful, and crow has been having Very Academic Debates with me about headcanons for Truskan society (especially how gender vs sex works for them) and also about which of our interpretations for how they look is right (he thinks they’re bug critters which is fun too, but i’m stuck on them looking kind of like the aandrisks from the Wayfarers novel series <- if you like MB you should read those)

[ted-iverse]

I'm just catching up and I got to the young Leif earth episode and I just. Bertbert telling him he was an easy person to love????

The fact that they DIDNT know they were in love...... How are these geniuses such idiots smh

[biwonderland98]

Being Very Normal about BertBert and Leif on this Midnight Burger relisten

[awnrii]

berts redraw because… I love her.

old/comparison under the cut!

(left, 1/2/23, right, 17/8/24)

[budgies-with-pencils]

I have some insane BertBert fanart planned but for now. I think I've gotten my designs for these two down. I don't think these are SUPER finalized yet but they're concrete ideas on paper and I'm pretty happy with them.

[YAPPING ABOUT DESIGNS DOWN HERE. THERE'S PICTURES OF COOL BUGS.]

BERTBERT

The main thought processes here were

Volcanic islands

Journalist

NOT a fish

Originally, I was going to make her owl-like, but I really badly wanted to lean into the tropical area of Sigius. Workshopped a few bird concepts but Blue and Golden Macaws stuck out the most.

So pretty. So majestic.

I gave her large ears (Big ears are great for hot weather!) and that was that.

Bert's design came to me fairly easily. So to end off this section I give you a fun fact.

Macaws blush! When they're happy or excited, their face will turn red.

How cute.

VERGE

Now Verge. Their design gave me some trouble. My main thought process going into it was

Bug

Legally has to serve.

Canonically at least Mostly humanoid.

And that's about all I had. Originally, going into it, I went with a stag beetle.

You can tell this Really wasn't going in my favor. I was already branching off to other concepts before really giving it a chance, the hair and horns especially, though cool, weren't really giving me what I wanted. It really didn't look alien enough for me to be satisfied. I scrapped this concept entirely and went back to the drawing board, carrying the mantis concept with me.

Did a lot, and I mean a LOT of mantis research. How their mouth worked especially. It seemed like such a cool thing to incorporate into a design.

And in the end I ended up with these concepts. Obviously I wasn't going to go with the fully bug version, but drawing two extremes helped me find a healthy medium I was happy with.

It was off to the races with the coloring stage, and again I was stuck on Verge. Namely, the color. Red made them look too much like an ant, and green.. just wasn't doing it for me. Back to research I went, for more different species of Mantis. I, of course, found the motherload.

MEET THE CONEHEAD MANTIS OOH YEAH BABY

It was at this point I also changed the antenna on Verge's head to match my new inspiration, and Purple Verge is born. I hope you've enjoyed my yapping.

[everdrawinglittlebee]

got inspired to draw some bertbert after seeing a leif animatic made by @awnrii !! i know she's not Technically aquatic, but to me she Could be. anglerfish bertbert is real in my heart.

also you should reeeeally go watch the leif animatic here !! what a guy he is. need to study him under a microscope tbh

[podcastpeep]

I just murdered someone 😁

Omg I just murdered someone 😰

[motheringbird]

I actually had to go into the bathroom at work because I started crying over the ending of Young Leif while on shift