History Characters / TucaAndBertie

Bertie's architect boyfriend, an European robin. Bertie moves in with him at the beginning of the series.

Bertie's architect boyfriend, a European robin. Bertie moves in with him at the beginning of the series.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Appearance-wise, she's basically Speckle with some makeup and a bun.

Tuca's mother. She died in a car crash when she was a child, causing Tuca and her siblings to drift apart.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: When Speckle sees a photo of her he remarks she looks just like Tuca. [[spoiler:She finally appears on screen during "The Mole", and as it turns out, she looks like Tuca and sounds like Tallulah.]]

A fig tree and Tuca's (later ex-) boyfriend in season 3.

* AmicableExes: [[spoiler: While Tuca & Figgy do break up, they still get along really well. When Tuca reunites with Figgy in the hospital they are very happy to see each other. Tuca still cares for Figgy and tells him to take getting help seriously. Figgy in return shows his gratitude.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: When Speckle sees a photo of her he remarks she looks just like Tuca.

* IgnoredEpiphany: When she's spotted during the flood and Tuca finally gets her attention, Kara briefly has an expression of worry and horror on her face right before she just shrugs and turns her back. [[spoiler:Subverted when Season 3 reveals she does develop for the better some time after this, treating her next girlfriend much better]].

* IgnoredEpiphany: When she's spotted during the flood and Tuca finally gets her attention, Kara briefly has an expression of worry and horror on her face right before she just shrugs and turns her back.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Somebirdy's Getting Married", she finally gets her comeuppance in the form of her getting forcibly tongue-kissed by a frog.

* {{Foil}}: To Kara, both being ex-partners of Tuca. [[spoiler:Kara is an abusive, toxic, consumptive bitch who forces Tuca to accommodate to her own schedule while leaving Tuca no time for her own, and consistently blames her own problems on other people. Figgy is polite, considerate, and assures he loves Tuca no matter her own problems. It's his stubborn refusal to move past his ''own'' toxic ViciousCycle that prompts Tuca to break up with him, and even after that they remain AmicableExes, while Kara and Tuca decidedly are not. Ultimately, while both he and Kara suffer from very severe problems that complicate--and break--their relationship with Tuca, Figgy has the clout to at least ''try'' and move past his own problems.]]

* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:It's buried deep, ''deep'' down there, alright, and she hides it from anyone but Tuca, but she does seem to care about her niece despite all the emotional abuse; when Tuca confesses to her condition which causes her periods to be so painful, Tallulah confides she suffers the same affliction and commends Tuca for trying to look atfter herself.]]

[[folder:Tuca]]

[[folder:Bertie]]

[[folder:Speckle]]

* {{Foil}}: To Kara, both being ex-partners of Tuca. [[spoiler:Kara is an abusive, toxic, consumptive bitch who forces Tuca to accommodate to her own schedule while leaving Tuca no time for her own, and consistently blames her own problems on other people. Figgy is polite, considerate, and assures he loves Tuca no matter her own problems. It's his stubborn refusal to move past his ''own'' toxic ViciousCycle that prompts Tuca to break up with him, and even after that they remain AmicableExes, while Kara and Tuca decidedly are not.]]

* NeverMyFault: She shares to Tuca that her past partners would always "play the victim" in their relationships, hence the reason why they would break up with Kara, all while completely oblivious that her own toxic attitude and insensitive nature were actually the root cause of her breakups. When Bertie runs into and confronts Kara in "The Pain Garden" Kara nonchalantly says Tuca was “too much" for her and she had to think of herself, not even showing any feeling other than apathy when Bertie tells her to get bent.

* KarmaHoudini: {{ZigZagged}}. In season two, his career is back on its feet after a YoutuberApologyParody and he continues to be abusive to other employees. He does exit the first season being [[ExcrementStatement shat on by a giant hawk]], though, so we do get a ''little'' satisfaction at his expense. Later on, in Season 3, his next ambitious project--a bakery made entirely out of bread--gets completely gobbled down by [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giant rubber duck]] in seconds after its reveal. Furthermore, his attempt at drawing attention away from his predatory behavior by collaborating with famed female baker Winter Garcia falls flat due to Winter choosing not to show up at the bread bakery's opening, knowing this will make him look like an ass desperately trying to fabricate respect for women.

* PassiveAggresiveKombat: No matter how tense her arguments with Tuca get, Kara will never shout or even raise her voice at her.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Pastry Pete. The two are similar in that they're both seabirds who have aggressive personalities that [[BitchInSheepsClothing gradually go from "charming" to "ugly"]], and they both [[KarmaHoudini get away with their actions]]. The difference is that Pete is a successful, straight guy who abuses his employees often verbally and even sometimes physically or sexually, showing the obvious evils of the patriarchy and upper class; on the other hand, Kara is a lesbian middle-class woman who abuses her partners almost always emotionally, showing that anyone can be an abusive {{Jerkass}}, regardless of gender, sexuality or social status. Pete preyed deliberately on the ShrinkingViolet Bertie while Kara preyed on the outspoken GenkiGirl Tuca, showing that anyone of any personality can be preyed upon.

* AmicableExes: [[spoiler: Tuca & Figgy do break up but they still get along really well. When Tuca reunites with Figgy in the hospital they are very happy to see each other. Tuca still cares for Figgy and tells her to take getting help seriously. Figgy in return shows his gratitude.]]

* BrilliantButLazy: Less lazy and more "unfocused." It's shown that Tuca ''does'' have useful skills which she uses to do odd jobs, but she's too hyperactive or immature to do them the way she's expected to (for example, she puts a chest of drawers together perfectly, but ruins it immediately by using it to store cold cuts). She does, however, take to virtual sex work like a duck to water.

* AfraidOfDoctors: Due to the trauma of [[spoiler:being in the hospital when her mother died after a terrible car accident]], Tuca doesn’t trust doctors at all. She refuses to go to the hospital to get a painful lump in her side looked at and only ends up going when, during a livestream, the pain becomes unbearable and she ends up begging whoever's listening to come and help her. She's fine ''visiting'' people in the hospital, though, given her nightly visits to her aunt and friendship with a nurse in "Nighttime Friend."

** In ”Fledging Day" (the shows’ universe's equivalence of Mother's Day) Bertie spends the whole day with Anna but things are awkward due to Anna being emotionally distant and criticizing Bertie's decision to close her bakery and work for Chef Winter Garcia without being in the public eye. By the end they manage to grow closer after Anna surprisingly is proud of Bertie for wanting to be child free, and after Bertie saves Anna from her old flame wanting to hook up with her again. She even takes a box of Winter snacks that Bertie helped make.
* FurryReminder: Henry had "open breast surgery," a bird analogue to open-heart surgery.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When Bertie is calling out her parents over not wanting to discuss negative topics, and it’s a large part in why she’s in therapy, her mother scoffs that she understand how her childhood was “terrible", and that she wasn’t a "perfect mother", failing to realize the point of why Bertie is upset.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Anna remarks she used to be hot and have a "great ass" before marrying Henry, and is a bit self conscious at showing her nude body at a spa due to how it’s changed in old age.
* IWantGrandkids: Anna dismissively brings up Bertie not being married or having children yet, and an old woman at the spa they visit questions her about it. Subverted once Bertie confesses she and Speckle have decided to be child-free and Anna starts crying…because she’s actually proud of Bertie making her own choices and she herself always wonders what could've been if she hadn’t married her father.

* TherapyIsForTheWeak: When Bertie first tells her father she’s been seeing a therapist, something she’s been looking forward to revealing, he laughs and says she doesn’t need it because she’s "normal". He says the same about him and Bertie's mother, despite them clearly having some repressed mental issues.

[[folder: Mr. and Mrs. Songthrush]]

Bertie's parents.

!!Mr. Songthrush and Anna Songthrush

* AdultsAreUseless: Instead of helping a young Bertie through her trauma, they never spoke about it with her, or anything “unpleasant" in general, and instead pawned her off onto the even more incompetent school counselor, leaving their then teenage daughter with no emotional support.
* AllThereInTheManual: [[WordofGod Word of God]] revealed Bertie’s mother's first name is Anna.

* FurryReminder: Bertie's father had "open breast surgery," a bird analogue to open-heart surgery.

* StepfordSmiler: They aren’t willing to talk about anything negative, from Bertie's childhood trauma from her assault to the fact her father had open breast surgery. This led Bertie to have to bottle up all her feelings growing up and now she’s in therapy trying to process all of it.

* TrashOfTheTitans: When Bertie, Speckle, and Tuca visit for Corpse Week it’s shown her mother has become a hoarder and she refuses to talk about it. It also works as a metaphor for how she and her husband let their mental issues pile up until they can’t ignore them anymore.
* UnnamedParent: While Anna's name was revealed by a character designer, Bertie's father's name is currently unknown.