#Madcom Bert

[crossxroads]

*kicks door down two years later with a tablet in one hand, and a gallon of milk in the other* Cross is back from the store

it’s still valentine’s day for me

More tomorrow, perhaps ;)

[originalmadcom]

2BDAMNED: It’s the negative attitude that’s holding you back.

Bert: I AM HOMELESS

[dthmet]

Who up lunging they cancer (redraw, old under cut)

Old

[devicecontact]

Areneor mode taking over my mind

[christnarr]

come around here often? (referring to their mutual workplace and residence of 30 years)

[menacarychamber]

SECOND WAVE

I'm heading to bed now...

[sometimesstatusquo]

Do you consider the goobers like Q-Bert, Skinner, Dave, etc to be apart of the SQ but in a different branch? Wanna ask before dropping a request <3

Requests: other goobers!

i'll get into drawing bossman someday i swear!

considering that they're from the arena- yes! :3c

[the-ganymedian]

Based on a discord conversation

[docsbestkissedoperative]

I'm so haunted by bossman and dave acknowledging that the player won't be coming back by the final story mission

"[Dave] You've been good to me and my lads, (player). When you're ready, l'll have you out there in two shakes."

"[Player] Watch this place for me while I'm gone." "[Bossman] Everytime, chief."

dave tells them about how ominous the point right before the nowhere is, but accepts that they'll go back. bossman can tell it's the end, but doesn’t stop them. the player treated them right, so they'll trust whatever it is they're going to do, even if it means they'll never see them again

it was bad enough when you think about them wondering if the player will ever come back because they didn't know this mission was the final one. but i feel like it's a different type of pain to know but still hope that someone will come back.

because what then?

dave comes back to base without the player. the hirelings and reinforcements ask about them, but what can he even say?

the final batch of hireling applicants that the player was supposed to look over are still there at the lobby. they don't understand why bossman is telling them to leave, that the player is never coming back

it's not like they can explain it to skinner, pava and bert either. all of them, bossman and dave included, are here because the player needed them, what now when no one is there to call the shots?

one day dave will be sitting at the building's edge, right where he can see the bus stop. maybe, just maybe, the bus will drop the player off (or that strange guy will swerve to the entrance with his car, who knows?). he'll laugh and clap them on the back, tell them they're ready for another perfectly safe and non alcoholic flight and the player, deadpan as ever, will still hop on without a second thought

bossman suddenly shows up even when he's usually always at the lobby. he and dave catch sight of each other for less than a second, but they both know they're thinking about the same thing

(bossman stays there, he stays even as the money the player left dries up and hq goes back to how it was before they came along, abandoned and filthy. he would never break his promise to them. not as long as he can help it. if he's lucky, the player will walk right up to the door again, chide him for letting the place fall apart, and bossman will snap back about them taking so long before grabbing a broom once again and welcoming them back)

bossman sits next to him and stares at the bus stop too

[ya-killin-me-smalls]

fun fact, you can get out of doing actual art by doing ship charts for 3 hours straight. been meaning to expand on my bertmos headcanons/dynamics anyway since a lot of people seemed to like Double Vision

blank templates below the cut

[malekiddo]

finally comic

[originalmadcom]

Dave: Red car outside my house

Bert: That’s the Uber Eats guy, he’ll bring you your food.

Dave: WOW! He brought me Gil

Dave: Gil’s

[cook1emadness]

Your honor, i felt silly i didnt hit that baby 😞/j

I hope your having a greay day, and if you have time, can you make a oneshot of Deimos and Q-bert x Reader where the reader just hangs around with them around the base, goes out to eat burgers and more things ^^ (they are silly and smily in my heart)

Take care, and happy early pride month <3!!

I'm not good at oneshots, so I'm sorry if it's not good....

Sorry if I haven't been on. i was stressed over a lot of work and family stuff.

Your honor, your are the Arena Player. And it's going to be platonic. Might be some spoiler.

FRIENDS AND BURGERS...

Ever since you been imprinting more and more, you begin to be distant and forget mostly everything except for the same mission over and over again. Skinner asked you, but you brushed him off, Dave try to cheer you up, but you couldn't muster a smile, 2bdamned noticed ypu change of body and habit but didn't care to give you a break.

And soon everyone started to ignore you, and you were fine with that. Without connections, they won't be sad about you disappearing, and you won't feel bad hurting them.

But one day, Q- bert friend came to visit, who knew Q-bert was friends with one of the highest wanted criminals. You were back from a mission. You were walking your way to Q-bert shop after you brought some things from crackpot. You hear q- bert laughing but also head someone else. You turn to your left to see who Q-bert was talking to. You see a grunt with grey cap and headphones, smoking along with Q-bert.

deimos, you remember in one of your past imprints, about Q-bert mentioning you about him. You never thought about it much until now.

Q-bert kept talking until he noticed you in the distance, he removes his cigarette, and smiles at you.

"Hey, kiddo, back from your mission, didn't think you finish that quick. Got new weapons for you to buy, " Q-bert replied with a chuckle. Hw pulls out the new guns he has while he smokes the cigarette deimos gave him.

You hum in response, you and deimos looked at it eachother for a few minutes. You expected him to as you were about to grab some of the guns Q-bert showed.

"So you're the y/n that Q-bert been talking about, I thought you be bigger," deimos spoke, his voice sounding raspy. He had too much smoke.

You weren't expecting him to talk to you. You froze for a few seconds. "Oh yeah... what about it?" You respond back. You're not sure how to respond to him.

Deimos looked at you, not slightly surprised the way you responded. Q-Bert was right about you. You are not good with words.

"Not the social type, right?" Deimos replied. You slowly nodded even though it was clear. You're not one for speaking.

"Anyway gonna buy something, Kid?" Q-Bert looked at, still trying to get you to buy something, showing some variants of guns nad bigger ones. You bought the desert eagle, why? it looked nice.

You were about to leave for a mission, but Deimos stops you. He puts his arm over your shoulder.

"Hey, i was gonna invite Q-bert at Burger Gills, and now that you're here alive, how about you join us? Don't worry, I'll pay. " deimos looks at you, he noticed your body stopped, you don't know how to answer this.

You have been so busy torturing yourself with the timeloops and imprints, ignoring everyone that you didn't think anyone would try to pull you in a hangout session.

"No I'm fi-"

"Cmon kiddo, you hadn't eaten at all. Look at you. It looks like a poor grunt. " Q-bert also tried to grab you in. He wasn't stupid. He knew you had been ignoring everyone for something he doesn't understand.

He saw the way you ignored Skinner the way you tried to force yourself to not show emotion when Dave spoke. He saw the way your expression plead for a break, only to be ignored by you on 2bdamned. Depsite only wants money. He wants you to be healthy and not lose his favorite customer.

You wanted to say no, but you're hungry. You've been ignoring your body until now. You sigh and decide maybe some burgers won't be that bad.

"Sure, never been at gills before"

"Really? Well, buddy, you been missing out!"

And with that, all three of you went to Gils burger place.

.

.

.

That did not go well. Deimos was finally got burgers, while both Q-bert and you were covered in blood.

"You never told me there were zeds.." you replied

"My bad should've told you about that." deimos replied back with a smile showing his sharp teeth.

"Are you sure the burgers are not infected. I would rather be eating hotdogs than zed burgers." Q-bert replied, looking at the burgers with disgust.

"Totally! Sanford and I did this a bunch of times." deimos said, and he was right. After finding a table to sit, you were the fist to bite. It wasn't infected, and it was good, too.

Deimos and q-bert kept talking about guns he bought got destroyed by some agents, you can see q-bert despair.

You joined in trying your best to start conversations, to your surprising, deimos laughed at one of your mission and embarrassing moments that happened.

Slowly and slowly, you began to open up. You start to realize how much you miss those conversations with Skinner, Dave, Q-bert, chef and boss man.

the next imprint, you try to start conversation with the others and maybe visit deimos. You wonder if he'll still invite you to gils burgers. For now you enjoy what you have now...

[dthmet]

Lung cancer. I love lung cancer. (Qbert/Skinner)

[devicecontact]

Sloppy mouse but. Arena mode I like them

[christnarr]

for me its just skinner! with his posters talking about loving his friends and food and walks and city smells, i find him to be the canon universes closest equivalent to skittles/happy hank. so i think its funny if he was the only one in happy au who wasnt in the usual happy getup lol