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When Kris and Berdly eat at the Hometown version of Mcdonald’s, Berdly insists on getting both the ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ toy for the two’s happy meals. He then attempts to construct a ‘new toy’, and rants for an hour about the frivolous nature of gender, and how in his ultimate Smarttopia, he would never put such strict restrictions on expression. Kris isn’t actually bothered by the gendered toys, preferring to use the low quality plastic as a chew toy. They do enjoy listening to Berdly prattle on and on about it though, knowing he does it in order to try and make them feel validated.
-Berdly is terrified of bugs, but he insists on being the one to handle letting them outside if they make their way into either of their rooms. This is because he caught Kris trying to toss one into Susie’s mouth, and revoked their “bug escorting” privileges. This more often than not leads to Berdly running across the house with a bug in his hands screaming, while Kris laughs and wears a shit eating grin. Kris will often use fake bugs to scare Berdly as well, causing a similar reaction.
-Kris collects random rocks and shiny things off the ground when off with Susie, exploring Hometown, or just generally out and about. They do this specifically to give the objects to Berdly. The flustered and indignant bird declares he doesn’t need such “trivial objects”, but in reality he keeps them all in a little nest in the drawer of his bedside table. Berdly has a similar habit where he finds free stickers and other craft-like memorabilia and gives it to Kris. Who scoffs and rolls their eyes, but keeps them in their nightstand for scrapbooking (a habit they’ve gotten more into because of Ralsei).
-Berdly knows how to brush and style long hair, having learned the skills when his childhood friend Noelle was growing up and wanted to look “punk rock” without her mom knowing. Having feathers, he didn’t do a lot with the skill prior to the events of Deltarune. Nowadays, he mostly uses it on Kris, who won’t brush their hair on a regular basis otherwise. The human complains and grumbles that they aren’t a little kid. But deep down, they enjoy how Berdly somehow manages to make the sensory nightmare of hair-brushing that little bit more tolerable.
-Being a bird, Berdly has strong nesting instincts. Which means he is a perpetual blanket hog, both intentionally and unintentionally. If the two teens are having a sleepover, Kris will almost always end up using some random object as a blanket after Berdly took the real blankets. While they bicker about this constantly, it has the pleasant side effect of making warm little blanket nests to cuddle and rest in. Plus, it makes it easier to keep track of all the blankets in the house.
-There are little blue feathers that have slowly accumulated in the Dreemurr household from Berdly’s shedding and preening. Toriel is usually quite good at keeping the house clean, but Kris’s room in particular is very feathery (they never clean it). Susie describes this phenomenon as the “Nerd Brain Feather Trail,” much to Berdly’s offense and Kris’s amusement.
-Berdly always has at least one bag of birdseed on him at all times. This is not because he likes birdseed (in fact, he’s much more of a worm jerky kind of guy), but rather because Kris will chew on and bite any object if they feel the urge. When he sees his partner gravitating towards something inedible, he hands them the birdseed bag. It isn’t their favorite texture, not by a long shot. But Kris knows it’s more socially acceptable than eating moss, and they don’t want Berdly to fuss over them and worry about their health more than he already does.
-Kris’s favorite animal is Berdly after the two make a co-op farm in Stardew Valley and their boyfriend nearly pops a blood vessel squawking and declaring that they are ‘hacking the game’ by using animation cancelling, clay farming, and just generally being ‘good at the game’, as they say it. In turn, Kris is comically bad at the fishing minigame, which the pompous bird gloats about until his partner messes with him, and the cycle repeats.
-Birds don’t have the ability to taste capasin, the chemical that makes spicy food burn. Back when Berdly and Kris were first together, he challenged his partner to a spicy food contest. To this day, that’s one of the only ‘competitions’ between the two that the bluebird has ever won. He will never let Kris live it down. It is his pride and joy.
-Whenever Berdly goes too far/is too annoying with his…well, everything, he ‘repays’ for his obnoxious gloating with some chocolates from Sans’s store. Kris adores chocolate (and nine times out of ten they aren’t actually that mad at Berdly), so it’s an easy way to smooth things over. The only problem is the growing collection of “Sorry your bike crashed” cards that come attached to the chocolate box. There is a corner of Kris’s room dedicated to these boxes, dubbed the “Throne of the Nerds” by Susie.
-Back before Kris and Berdly were a couple, he made a promposal sign for them that said “M’They-dy, will you be my Knight in Netherite Armor for the Sadie Hawkins dance?” Noelle and Susie were understandably horrified, but what was even more horrifying was that *It worked on Kris.* They were charmed, flustered even, and said yes to being his dance partner. To this day, Berdly has no idea how the HELL he managed to romance them, and with THAT nonetheless. But on the other hand, Kris offered Berdly a plate of heart-shaped moss the first Valentine’s day they were dating. These two and their weird gestures of affection /pos
-Kris’s weapons in the Dark World are pencils in the Light World. One might think their boyfriends weapons are also an everyday object. Nope, Berdly actually just carries around various Amibo’s in his pocket, and the weapon used by the one in his pocket in the library was just given to him. When Kris discovered this, they were A: Relieved he didn’t have access to actual weaponry, and B: Frustrated they never thought of doing something like that. Love for their boyfriend aside, they are still annoyed that Berdly of all people got a cool Halberd.
-Kris used to be a big fan of life simulation games like Tomodachi Life, and The Sims 3. They found it helped them escape their stressful life amidst the divorce, and especially amidst the emotional turmoil of their brothers best friend being missing. They have a lot of old save files archived on who-knows how many harddrives. Nowadays, they don't play those type of games anymore, feeling physically sick at the idea of forcing characters to follow the command of an outside force (no surprise that wouldn’t be ideal). But on good days they let Berdly mess around with their copies of the games, which is equal parts exposure therapy and Bird Boyfriend Bonding Time.
-Berdly eventually gets into streaming in the future. His passion for the subjects he‘s into (speedrunning, fighting game strategy, and most uniquely video game lost media) combined with his comically intense interactions with ‘enemy chatters’ attracted a niche but engaged audience. Despite his know-it-all attitude sometimes causing problems, Berdly is surprisingly adept at working a crowd and keeping up an act, a skill set that has helped him feel less insecure, and by extension less try hard and annoying. Most of the time, Kris isn’t on camera (or in Berdly’s streams at all, they very much value their privacy). But sometimes they’ll make a brief appearance via a hand waving from offscreen to deliver snacks to the busy bird, or more commonly in the form of background piano music, much to the chat’s enjoyment. They’ve been dubbed the title of “Piano Partner” by the audience.
-Kris has no interest in streaming or creating content of their own, and they're content being a mystery figure in the Channel lore, spamming emotes in the chat to egg their boyfriend on for laughs, and more importantly, being there for Berdly when the cameras are off. They see a parallel between their boyfriends act for the camera; that pressure to perform, to smile and go against your gut, and the puppeteering they themselves were forced to endure. Their perspective allows them to relate to Berdly in those moments where others cannot. Plus, they don’t wanna turn their hobby of gaming into a job. Just not their style.