#thank you so much for asking my fop brain rot is legit crippling rn 😭😭

[msnihilist]

i'm all ears for some fics!!

OKAY, SO

This idea sounds kind of silly, I know, but let me just dump about it.

It's a Fairly Oddparents fic that takes place beginning the morning of Timmy's 18th birthday. Naturally, he doesn't remember anything to do with magic or fairies.

However, he does remember being loved. In his mind, his fish are normal fish, and Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof are friends of his parents who took him in when he was little and treated him like their own. All he has is a generic last name, no first names and he can't remember their faces, either. No way to contact these people who apparently loved him, just his mom's word that they moved out of town.

Timmy starts being obsessed with finding them, and what connection the gaps in his memories all have along with what caused it — because he can't remember. All he knows is that he was loved, and they left, and he will never be able to move on until he knows why.

Meanwhile, Wanda and Cosmo went to the Fairy Council when Timmy was 15 to try and ask for some acception to the rules. Timmy has done so much for Fairy World, they have to let him at least keep his memories, right?

The thing about memory magic is that it only works effectively short-term, or on small bits of memories. The more you erase, the more damage is done to the brain and the body. Magic is a hammer, not a scalpel. (We saw this with Crocker's dramatic mind-erase.) Timmy has so many memories of fairies and magic that taking away all of them would be like ripping out an organ — not pretty at all.

Beyond that, Wanda is also concerned that taking away all of Timmy's good memories with his fairy family will leave him in a less-than-stellar mental state going forward. He'll have nothing but bad memories and all of those hopeless moments won't have anyone at his side reassuring him. He wouldn't turn out successful at all.

So the Council agrees that Timmy can keep his memories, kind of. Wanda edits them — every single one of them. She combs through Timmy's memories while he sleeps, and she and Cosmo edit his past memories and store them away so that they can switch them for the real ones on Timmy's 18th birthday. There are strict rules about what they can do, and the complicated memories are removed outright. Otherwise? Wishology was just a video game they all played together. Mark Chang is a human foreign exchange student. Wishing for an amusement park in his backyard becomes just visiting an amusement park with his normal, human psuedo-adoptive-parents.

It's painful for them, but Wanda and Cosmo both agree that they want to leave Timmy with whatever pieces of themselves they can get away with. And the specifics might be fake, but the love was real.

They just have to hope he'll understand that when he doesn't remember them anymore.

This fic would be three long chapters — one from Timmy's POV, one from the fairies', and one about the aftermath. If I ever write this, it will take a month at least, I assure you. The more I think about this fic, the more ideas I get — I haven't even dug into Poof's perspective on all of this or Timmy's fractured relationship with AJ and Chester.

I'm absolutely in love with this idea, though, and I sincerely hope I can one day share it in its fully realized state!!