Bert Gotrax

Bert is one of the 12 main Chipspeech characters. He is based on the Votrax SC-01 chip.

## Plogue description

`Bert Gotrax is one mischievous little brat. Like a post-modern Pinocchio story gone wrong, he has escaped from his creator’s workshop before the execution of a patch to fix his foul mouth. He now roams in the streets and back alleys, a skilled parkour athlete and wanted graffiti artist.`

## Fanon appearance alterations

* Some fans choose to give Bert hair, while others do not.

### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Bert usually has his hood down, and has half-shaved emo hair. Most of his hair is black, with the half-shaved part on his right being dark blue, and his bangs alternating between seafoam green and turquoise. He usually has his hair tucked up into his hood when it's up, resulting in it not showing.
* He wears ripped blue jeans with a chain on the left side, and blue and black chunky sneakers.

* He has elfin ears with antennas on the end, much like Dee Klatt. However, Bert's antennas have no function, and he also has lots of metal piercings on them.
	+ These aren't true piercings, but rather bits of metal that Rotten made for him to solder onto his ears. He can't take them off without de-soldering them, but he doesn't want to because he likes the way they look.
* He's portrayed as an artificial imp, with horns, fangs and a tail that resembles a large audio plug. However, being a robot (and only resembling an imp), he has no supernatural powers or connection to hell.

## Physiology and abilities

* His age varies from creator to creator, but most fans put him in his late teens (16-19).

### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Though Bert doesn't age like a human, being a robot, his perceived/mental age is 19. His physical age, however, would be much older since it's suggested that he was built in the 1980's.
* He can eat stuff that would seriously hurt or kill humans- like glass, nails, bullets, etc. He frequently does this in front of people just to impress or freak them out. He's known for munching on broken glass as if it were chips.
* Despite being electric, he can still eat food/drink beverages. It doesn’t really do anything for him except being able to enjoy the taste.

## Backstories

### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Bert was built by an inventor named Dr. Richard Gotrax. It's unknown exactly what purpose Bert was going to serve, but most of the other Chips believe he was going to be a social companion droid marketed at teens and young adults.
* Bert was very upset with Dr. Gotrax, finding him way too strict. So one day he ran away from the lab, vowing to never return.
* For years everything went well. He stayed with Rotten for a long time, forming a close bond with him until he took over an abandoned apartment in a run-down building, fixing it up with Rotten so he could have his own place. Eventually Bert and Pedro became roommates.
* But one day Bert felt bad for just leaving his father like that and ending on such a sour note - with the last words he said to him being "I hate you, I wish you hadn't built me in the first place".
	+ Bert had always cared about Dr. Gotrax deep down but they butted heads quite a lot. He often lashed out at his father, saying things he didn't mean to him, like that he hated him or otherwise insulting him.
	+ Though strict, Dr. Gotrax was never really abusive to Bert- he just had wanted Bert to have a specific temperament and be less edgy, which Bert resented him for.
	+ This constant clash with Dr. Gotrax and the other scientists at the lab might have been what kicked off his hatred of authority figures.
* Upon returning to the lab he saw that it was still a technology lab but they had changed the name and focused on building computers rather than robots now. Asking around, he found out that Dr. Gotrax had gone out looking for him not too long after he ran away, was missing in action for about a year, and then his body turns up under mysterious circumstances and it's believed that he'd been murdered, but by that point all the Earth's police forces were too busy with Parsec's invasion to try and investigate Richard Gotrax's suspicious death.
* Bert now wants to find out how Dr. Gotrax had died, and if possible, avenge him to try to make up for how he'd treated him in life.

## Personality and quirks

* Most fans portray him as naive and overconfident.

### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* In addition to parkour and graffiti, he knows how to skateboard, and is pretty good at it.
* Bert is a pyromaniac. He’s obsessed with fireworks, matches, and anything that could explode or catch fire. One of his favorite things to do is to microwave aluminum foil/utensils, and just stand there to watch it spark and burst into flames in the microwave- this has ruined Cidertalk and Dandy’s microwaves too many times for them to count when he still lived with them. They tried their hardest to not let Bert go alone into the kitchen so they could make sure he won’t microwave aluminum foil or a fork.
	+ Ever since taking up residence in an apartment in a long-since abandoned building together, however, Pedro has replaced Cidertalk and Dandy in the role of making sure he doesn't destroy their microwave. Not destroying the microwave by microwaving metal is even more imperative here- Bert doesn't know how to cook anything more complicated than ramen, and Pedro didn't really learn how to cook anything either, so it's pretty much their only way of making food!
* When not spraying graffiti, Bert's almost always drawing, and can often be seen holding pens, pencils and paper or a tablet and stylus.
* Bert's music tastes are at extremes- the genres of music he likes, he absolutely loves, and the genres of music he doesn't like, he hates with a passion.
	+ His favorite genres are emo, rap, punk, EDM, trap, metal and dubstep.
	+ His least favorite genres are classical, jazz, folk music, country, easy listening, old rock n' roll and pop music.

## Relationships

*For relationships with the other Chips based off of the Twitter RP, please visit Bert's page on the regular Chipspeech wiki. If you put relationships with OCs here, please make a Chipsonas Wiki page for them and link to it.*

* Bert is most commonly shipped with Rotten.ST.

### Rotten.ST

#### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Rotten is one of Bert's two best friends.
	+ They may be attracted to each other as well, but neither of them have explored these feelings any, even during moments of accidental sexual tension.

### Pedro

#### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Pedro is Bert's other best friend.
* They live together in an apartment that had been abandoned by humans that were presumably killed.

### Lady Parsec

#### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* She thinks Bert is a nuisance because he's always vandalizing her posters, but she doesn't have enough evidence to punish him for it and it drives her crazy.

### Dandy 704

#### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* He sees Dandy as a stupid older brother figure and feels like even though Dandy's older than Bert, he's the one taking care of him.
* Bert routinely comes by Cidertalk and Dandy's house, particularly when Cidertalk is away, to make sure he didn't get himself killed.
* Dandy keeps threatening to ban Bert from his house because he's always microwaving forks and ruining his and Cidertalk's microwaves.

### Otto Mozer

#### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Otto's glad he and Bert don't have to live together anymore, and thinks he's annoying and just generally irresponsible.
* Bert thinks Otto is uncool and a boring fuddy-duddy, and constantly messes with him and teases him.

## Miscellaneous fanon trivia

* Bert's character item is chocolate milk.

### gl1tchygreml1n's interpretation

* Bert is gay.
* Sometimes he stands around in graveyards at night just to scare people. He's not there doing anything besides just looking ominous and sometimes looking up with his eyes glowing. It cracks him up when people run away from him and think he's a demon someone summoned.
	+ He likes to have Pedro come with him on these outings and sit in front of the gate with a pentagram drawn in the dirt and a knife in his hand, chanting noises that sound like Latin and then have Bert come rushing out from behind a tombstone.
	+ They especially like playing this joke on Dandy because no matter how many times they do it to him he always falls for it and thinks Pedro summoned a real demon.