02
Apr
BERT NEEDS HIS SISTER!
OMGSH AND WE ALSO HAVE GRAFTON ROPER (aka Bert) WHO’S DESPERATELY SEEKING HIS YOUNGER SISTER.
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Bert has a sister and that is her up there. They’ve always been relatively close although these days its a bit strained. Before Bert was Bert they were as close as they could be with their upbringing and the way they reacted to it. Katie never liked being the ‘fancypants’ sort of girlie girl and was a bit rebellious. Bert never was and their father told Bert to always watch out for his sister and make sure she never did anything ‘stupid’. He was always the annoying brother, mean to everyone and made Katie’s social life hard, but she loved him and would defend him. They would argue of course, with Katie telling Bert - then Grafton - that he was an asshole and such, but she never stopped loving him.
Then when he was fifteen and Katie was fourteen, Bert found her kissing a girl.
Bert went and wrote home, got Katie in trouble and made her life even harder at home. She wouldn’t talk to him for months and that near-breaking of their relationship was a big point in Bert’s change. When he declared himself no longer a Roper and got disowned for it, there was a rare moment of perfection between the siblings. Katie started laughing and they hugged, kissed and she told him ‘you’re Sir Bertilak the Mighty now’ and…well it stuck.
Unfortunately things are still hard. Katie is still at home and gets nastiness from her father because 1) she’s not what he wants in a child 2) she still talks to Bert. Bert is trying to repair things but Katie was hurt and its going to take time.
Katie is a lesbian. Very quietly a lesbian but also very…open. Which is weird, but she is. She doesn’t run around declaring that she’s a lesbian, but she openly flirts with girls, is a bit boyish and is rather ‘gentlemanly’. She loves plants like Bert and can be seen walking around with his little blood sucking plants too. She’s snarky, throws wisecracks around freely and is always looking at people ‘wryly’ or with ‘smug amusement’. When Bert is doing something particularly insane Katie is prone to join him and go a bit apeshit. Overall she’s a really fun girl.











