#it was that one with Betty and Simon from Fionna and Cake

[do-u-know-this-autisticcharacter]

Do You Know This (Non-canon) Autistic Character?

Evidence below the cut!

he has a long-term fixation on the tv show cheers, in ‘simon and marcy’ he uses the theme song to help ground himself. he seems to find comfort in the show *because* of its mundanity, which helps him cope with the sudden changes that have been thrust upon him. adding onto this, he’s shown to demonstrate routine behavior in fionna and cake via listening to the theme song while he’s getting ready in the morning. he also tends to go on tangents -usually about archaeology which could also be read as a special interest- seemingly without registering whether anyone around him is actually listening. also disregarding the mushroom war and the crown, i’d say the struggle to communicate on both ends was one of the biggest cracks in his and betty’s relationship. canon focuses more on the communication deficits on his end, those being that he didn’t seem to discern that betty was putting her life on hold for his sake (episodes 9 and 10 of fionna and cake sort of paint him as being at fault for that which i disagree with because it just read like nonverbal social cues going over his head to me but whatever) i also strongly believe that betty is neurodivergent in some way as well but that’s a whole other can of worms

[leafwateraddict]

I’m literally never going on tiktok again i just saw an animation to the most heart wrenching edit audio and it was about Afterdeath I’m not okay how am I supposed to be normalwhywhywhy

[dragonfollies]

How the last few episodes of Fionna and Cake have been

(No text version under cut)

[ebonytails]

Happy famife, happy life

[sunsquiggles]

My heart hurts. Please let them be happy.

[cappycodeart]

Bit of an art dump with some Fern content. I didn't get enough Fern fill in the new series tbh so I started hypothesizing a scenario where she and Itchy could meet? So, in this version of things, this is a Fern that gets re-cursed/re-grassed after Fionna restores the magic in her world, and Itchy tries to find a way to make her human again. Turns out they have more in common than I initially expected. When I connected the two, I realized they actually make for a fun parallel, like Fionna and Simon do.

(this is obviously many many years AFTER Itchy's adventure with that AU Betty I just don't have the braincells to finish a single plotline so I'm making y'all jump around with me. I'll make a proper timeline of events eventually, <3)

Bonus:

[deconstructthesoup]

The parallel of Simon forgetting Betty as a result of going mad and Betty going mad as a result of not being able to forget Simon and yet both of their insanity manifests in an inherent obsession with the other will continue to make me lie awake at night

[redrobin-detective]

Something I wonder about Simon and Betty's relationship is how long they were together before the whole crown ordeal. But they were engaged, you say. My aunt (in)famously met my uncle and had a ring on her finger in 8 weeks. We've seen that both Betty and Simon were both weird outcasts, crazy determined and a pinch insane. I would not be surprised if they decided they'd met their one true love and got engaged super quick.

My point being, Betty's shifting to revolve around Simon and Simon's rose colored glasses of their relationship feels very much like New Love. They're people who love each other and love being a couple but still haven't quite figured out how to coexist together, as two people in a partnership. I feel like if they'd known each other longer, lived together longer, some of the issues we're seeing would have probably self resolved.

I don't think their relationship is toxic nor is it totally perfect. It's two lonely, most likely neurodivergent people in a relatively early relationship still figuring out how it works. Everything that happened afterwards: the crown, the seperation, the time travel, the magic/madness/sadness just exemplified issues they had both as individuals and as a couple.

[beebrained-art]

Screenshot redraw doodle because these dorks make me feel things

[red-crescent-marigold]

okaaaay

[razberrypuck]

betty and simon would do literally anything for each other except let the other go and that's where the tragedy in their relationship comes from. they love each other so much that they let themselves fall into this cycle of madness and self-sacrifice, because they would rather die than willingly move on without the other in their life. it consumed their entire beings, to the point where, even through all the magic and madness and sadness, the other was always at the forefront of their minds -- even if they may not have realized it. always my princess. my simon.

it consumed them because they let it consume them. because they had nothing else to cling to. simon, a man slowly losing his sanity in the ruins of the world he once knew, forced to leave his surrogate daughter behind out of fear he would hurt her. betty, a woman brought nearly one thousand years into the future to a world brand new to her, and the first thing she does, she has to do, is save her fiancée's life by returning the crown's curse to him. love and adoration turn into obsession, but neither of them want to acknowledge it as such.

they haven't known a moment of peace since simon first put that crown on. but they can't help but perpetuate the cycle, because they aren't ready to admit that they can't save the other.

they aren't ready to say goodbye.

[pepperpixel]

“Can't remember when we walked past the O.R. sign!

(sur-ger-y!)

Can't remember passing out with her hand in mine!

(my-my-mind!!!!)

I remember waking up with my mind repaired.

(A-OK! ^^)

I remember when I realized, she wasn't there...”

Amnesia was her name….. is. so. horrifically. sadly fitting for these two in literally every single line. And I’m gonna NEED ALL OF U GUYS TO GO LISTEN TO IT NOW OK… THIS ISNT A DRILL GO GO GO GO!!!

Anyway… uhh. the fact Betty “blessed” this guy to like. An eternally long lifespan w THIS FUCKED UP OF A MENTAL STATE IS SO SCREWED UP GHGH- Like poor Simon god damn…! u kno he’d rather just keep on not sorting out his baggage and trauma forever too cuz it’d be too complicated… too much… force him to admit things about himself and about BETTY that he really really doesn’t want to… better to just leave it all unexamined.. pack it all into lil boxes so he can just try to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist… HE GOTTA LIVE FOREVER W IT THO… *ME BANGING ON SIMONS DOOR AT 3 IN THE MORNING*: “SIMON U GOTTA ACCEPT URSELF!!!! LOVE URSELF!!!! ACKNOWLEDGE N ACCEPT EVEN THE “BAD” PARTS OF URSELF!!!! SIMON PLEASE!!!!! SIMON EVEN PPL WHO LOVE YOU AND WHO YOU LOVE CAN HURT YOU!!!! ACKNOWLEDGE IT!!! ACKNOWLEDGE THE HURT AND ACKNOWLEDGE UR FEELINGS!!!! AND URSELF!!!!! SIMON!!!!” anyway… gGHGH YEA, SRRY. SIMON PETRIKOVS MENTAL ILLNESSES MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IM GONNA EXPLODE. ANYWAY HAVE SOME ART. W a bunch of diff versions cuz I’m indecisive!

[collector-noceda-clawthorne]

Simon with the Enchiridion.

[sysig]

They’re perfect for each other honestly (Patreon)

[your-fave-isdoomedbythenarrative]

Simon Petrikov and Betty Grof from the Adventure Time franchise are doomed by the narrative

Simon Petrikov and Betty Grof from Adventure Time are doomed by the narrative and trying to escape.

[giantkillerjack]

Betty is so relatable I would do the same shit for my wife