— Dr. Robin Jay.

@doctor-jay.bsky.social

I'm busy. — MDNI. 🔞

OOC : // I had to think for a second about how checkups like this would go for humans and monsters in Deltarune... because due to the nature of SOULs something as simple as a checking a heartbeat wouldn't be as straightforward. Maybe SOULs have different sounds and soundscapes associated with them?

— Dr. Robin Jay.@doctor-jay.bsky.social · 2mo ago

+ I'm going to need to listen to your SOUL for a moment, here, and see if I find any abnormalities.

OOC : // The Carol and Gaster parallels in his personality and mannerisms is very intentional. He by no means has the same amount of Lore Relevance™ that they do and for all intents and purposes is just Hometown's Unsetting Doctor but the parallels are still very intentional

OOC : // If I'm gonna share excerpts of Robin's characterization in Level Up I also feel legally obligated to share him and Susie's interactions from the fic because this is some writing I'm still proud of (Yay We Love You Susie Yayyy)

Before the elder bird could walk off with his son, he was stopped by someone behind him.

"Dude, what the hell is your problem?" Susie was indignant. "Cut Berdly a break."

He turned around to look at her, an utterly offended expression on his face, while Berdly looked at Susie with a more neutral, and rather... unreadable expression.

"Excuse me? " Robin put a hand on his heart. "I happen to be his father, you know."

"Oh, yeah, believe me, I know," Susie rolled her eyes. "I could tell. Cut him some slack, though. It's not his fault."

"Oh, yes it is," Robin retorted, pointing a finger at her. "His fault for hanging around bad influences like you, girl. You must have planted an idea to ditch school in his head, and now -- "

She interrupted him mid-sentence. "You got any night goggles?"

"No," He replied. "What in the world does that have to do with the conversation? Why do you ask."

Susie smirked. "It must be dark if you have your head that far up your ass."

Robin was taken aback, recoiling with a hand on his chest and giving a loud, disgusted huff.

"Aahah, um, S-Susie," Alphys but in. "That was, a... a good one, b-but let's try and watch our l-language in school."Susie snapped her fingers a couple of times for Robin's attention. "Hey, I don't know where you got the idea..." She said. "But, Berdly and I... aren't friends."

She was surprised to find she actually hated saying this right in front of the dude, but... she was trying to cover Berdly's ass here. Not land him in even more hot water with his dad.

And it seemed Berdly himself caught onto that a bit — the slightest smile on his face.

"I'm just showing the dude some basic respect," Susie continued. "Gonna guess that's a pretty foreign concept to you."

Robin gave another huff. "Ugh... I don't have to put up with this. Come on, Birdling," He took Berdly's hand and started to walk off with him, using his other hand to pull out his phone and begin texting. "We'll be waiting for your mother outside." He rolled his eyes. "Knowing her, we may have to wait hours before she'll arrive at a time that she calls 'fashionably late'."

OOC : // Robin sucks really really bad but I do have to stress that he isn't 100% a one-note no-questions-asked evil dad and actually has. Complexities to him. Reasons why he is the way he is. He's an asshole but he's not actively malicious yk

. . . [ In a rare show of emotion from him, Robin's brows knit together in mild concern. ] I perish the thought of injury befalling my son. I am quite sorry to hear you've been having such unpleasant dreams lately. ... Are you, perhaps, concerned that I would not take care of him?

⠀⠀—クリス.@krismaseve.bsky.social · last yr.

⠀ ⠀...you'll take good care of him, yeah? ⠀⠀[ If it were any other father and son, they wouldn't even ask this. But his apparent detachment to Berdly... doesn't paint a good picture. ⠀⠀⠀So they need to know. That if 𝘪𝘵 uses them to hurt their friends... that he'll be in good hands. ] ⠀