#postbetrayal

[godsfavoritescientist]

please ignore the godawful art quality. Ford should've done this

[imjulia-andilikecats]

Mare Barrow being fed up with Maven for the 1756 th time:

[godsfavoritescientist]

I am once again re-drawing cats as stanford pines

[godsfavoritescientist]

important discussions in the fearamid

[godsfavoritescientist]

look out behind you bill someone behind you is ready to commit

[godsfavoritescientist]

Ford gets trolled

[godsfavoritescientist]

This makes perfect sense for Ford to say and I will be taking no questions

[godsfavoritescientist]

Do you think the tactics Bill used on Ford were ones that actually *did* work in the past to get one of his current henchmaniacs to join him? Like what if one of them also resisted Bill at first but then gave up and joined him and eventually considered him a friend more than a captor. What if that contributed to Bill trying the 'join us!' tactic so many times

[godsfavoritescientist]

I picture this against my will every time I hear the song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and now you all have to picture it too

[godsfavoritescientist]

[godsfavoritescientist]

What if the bill artifacts never actually got destroyed. What if Ford announced that he wanted to destroy them all in a moment of fury, and then immediately regretted it. What if Ford gathered up all of his bill artifacts, hastily made copies of them with the photocopy machine, and then hid the real ones somewhere safe. Somewhere no one would think to look. Maybe, I don't know, in the bunker. Maybe Ford turned off Fiddleford's security measures, installed his own security measures that would keep out anyone except him, and then remade the old bunker into a secret shrine. A huge, cold, empty, eerily silent abandoned bunker of a shrine. A place where he could go to reminisce about Bill without worrying about being caught having complicated feelings about a long-dead demon. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it's such a bittersweet mental image. Maybe, just maybe, it could even help Ford eventually find closure. I just don't know.

[godsfavoritescientist]

theyre the same image

[godsfavoritescientist]

Uploaded another ficlet to my ao3

[godsfavoritescientist]

Fuck it, I'm writing down my animatic idea for 'Goodbye Mr A':

Ford right after betrayal, his thoughts spiraling into a viciously self-critical internal monologue as he thinks about all the people who have betrayed him and/or abandoned him throughout his life, and looks back on memories of all the times people close to him have gotten hurt, remembered through a distorted lens where he exaggerates his fault in everything and pictures how everyone "must really feel about him". He imagines all of them saying various lyrics of the song to him, and being glad to be rid of him, even to the point of picturing Stan smiling in relief after Ford vanished into the portal. At one point, Ford imagines himself scared and on the ground in a black void, looking up in horror at a crowd of all the people he's ever known surrounding him and looking down at him in anger, exasperation, and disgust.

Ideas for specific lines include:

Verse 1 is split between multiple people. Stan says line 1, Bill says line 2 and then laughs behind Ford's back, and Fidds says the last two lines, referencing his growing suspicions about the project and Ford keeping secrets from him, especially the time when he asked Ford who he was really working with.

In the chorus: "You had all the answers but no human touch" -> people criticizing various things Ford experiences that are commonly dehumanized by others, e.g. not being interested in romance, not picking up on social cues, etc

Verse 2 is said by Stan, about generally feeling belittled by Ford. One of the lines references Ford telling him to take the journal as far away as possible.

"The world was full of wonder til you opened my eyes" -> Fidds showing up in Gravity Falls and being briefly amazed, before it cuts to Fiddleford wide-eyed and looking into the gremloblin's eyes.

"Wish you hadn't blown my mind and killed the surprise" -> first half is fidds with his head in the portal during the incident, second half is bill telling ford he wants to cause the apocalypse.

During one of the refrains of "your number is up," that's when Ford falls through the portal.

[godsfavoritescientist]

thats it thats their dynamic

[godsfavoritescientist]

Thinking about my fic parhelion too. I feel a lil bit bad about how long I'm taking to write chapter 3. But I think my thoughts on bill and ford and their relationship to each other has evolved into something so different from what it was when I wrote that fic that I no longer know how to end it anymore