To be honest, I kind of liked old Aethercrest Berdly. But only because of how absolutely fucking savage his speech was in his old track

Old Aethercrest Berdly: Wheatley in the second half of Portal 2. Deltarune Berdly: Wheatley in the first half of Portal 2. New Aethercrest Berdly: Wheatley in Lego Dimensions.

I feel like this could also work as a berdly “girl next door” where he takes the role of noelle

day 745 of berdly being the most devoloped and important character in all of media.

B: "Greetings my dear Noelle!"
N: "Oh hi Berdly! You came early too?"
B: "Nothing like an early bird already preparing for his grandiose rehearsal with his most talented companion!"
B: "Such a creative work of art must be preserved with utmost honor!"
N: "Well if you say so, fa ha ha!"
B: "Anyway, shall we begin practicing our duet, my good friend?"
N: "Actually, I think we should wait for Kris."
B: "Kris? You mean to say that you have recently added them to our band?"
N: "Sure! They can play piano in case you didn't know."
B: "So I've heard."
B: "Very well then, they may collaborate with us!"
B: "Although under ONE circumstance!"
B: "They must avoid cheating during our rivalry in Super Smashing Fighter!" (N: "Really now?")
B: "Otherwise, I'm afraid I will have no choice but to promptly remove them from our group!" (N: Hey, that's not fair!")

Deltarune was created by Toby Fox
AETHERCREST was created by https://soundcloud.com/moon5triker
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Leitmotif:
- Berdly Rejected Concept (Mixed with "Berdly" Melody A)
- Berdly (Melody A)
- Original ("Berdly Rejected Concept" Extra Melody) + Girl Next Door
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In this take, Berdly takes the role of Susie. Unlike his deltarune counterpart, He is humbler and kinder due to losing to Noelle on a spelling bee contest. Therefore he never tasted the superiority, the intelligence, and the recognition he's always desired to achieve. Although friendly and disregardful towards the societal pressure, he can still be annoying or somewhat reckless due to his poor social skill. He is just less of a rude smartass and much more focused towards his friendship with Noelle along with his geeky interests and hobbies.

I decided to make this new replacement sound more original and fitting for Berdly's new character since the last one was meant to fit more in "Susie" format. I also wanted Berdly and Noelle to be close friends from the start since I think it's much more interesting than having another Susie-Kris dilemma. I feel their friendship is rather underrated and I've seen some just make Noelle kick Berdly's ass or something with similar attitude which I find "eh...". Anyhow, the inclusion of "Girl Next Door" represents that he has a strong connection to Noelle, perhaps to the point of being dependent considering Noelle is the smarter one here. And he hopes he can impress her with something BIG so that he can finally feel 'worthy' of being the smart kid's buddy. I suppose it's akin to how "Smart Race" has "Queen" leitmotif in it due to rather similar reason. And lastly, I emphasized the "Rejected Concept" melody to symbolize that "this is Berdly's true self", and beside, he had a fear of being "rejected" if he didn't keep up with the superiority façade, didn't he? =P

AETHERCREST [Episode I] - Bluebird of Friendship (OST 5)

Deltarune by Toby Fox
AETHERCREST by @moon5triker

Note that this is not the official nor canon version of Deltaswap. This is simply my interpretation using my own creative freedom.

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