The Laurel is burnt; release the poison

too bad when the totem granting your heart’s desire is essentially useless when you’re already traveling with the only one you’ll ever need :’D

i got commissioned by the wonderful @wannabeagrunklefan to draw this super cute concept and it was so much fun and thank you so much for this opportunity to draw these fluffy guys again !!! <333

Ooooh anon you're so right.

I always love to see portal Ford interacting with a teen Stan because I imagine he has very complicated emotions towards him. On one hand, he's still upset with his Stan; there's still so much anger and resentment that hasn't been resolved, and that can't help but bleed through sometimes when he looks at this teen Stan. But on the other hand, teen Stan hasn't actually done anything yet. Instead, he's sort of this shining beacon of what was and what could have been. He embodies the relationship they had before everything went wrong for them both, and that's an enticing place to go back to.

And now, all of the sudden, this young and innocent—at least, as innocent as a Stan can be—version of his brother needs him. Needs him for survival and support and sustenance. Stan is embarrassed beyond belief at first, but before long he's clinging onto Ford and staring up at him with big, starstruck eyes as he suckles and Ford can feel his heart clench. He can't stop himself from petting at Stan's head while he nurses, cooing and speaking to him so softly that Stan clings even tighter.

The first time he softly calls Stan "baby," Stan recoils, cheeks bright red. "I'm not a baby!" He shouts, pushing away from Ford's bare chest. "This is just for-for survival! 'Sides, what would that make you, my mommy?" Stan asks it with a snarl, voice full of spiteful sarcasm, but Ford can hear the want beneath the words. And he can feel something in his own heart sing at the idea.

stans sweetie lil babies

also fords sweeite lil babies

30s fordsy x seagrunk stanny...

bonus

Some members of the species pick up the unspoken tension between the twins and use a word that makes Ford fluster mid-conversation. It's easy for Stan to pick up on, and he wittles Ford away, trying to ask what it was the creature said. Trying to play cool, Ford explains that Stan was referred to as his "littermate." He stalls on giving Stan the definition but Stan comes to his conclusion.

"Oh, as in brothers."

Well, yes. Technically, that was right. It's not like it was necessary for Stan to know the full definition. So, he smiles and nods, and allows Stan to believe it. Allows for Stan to publicly proclaim himself and Ford as littermates.

Allows himself to show Stan off to the species as his littermate. Because this was the closest he'd surely ever get to having the real thing.

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This panel didn't make it into the chapter, so here it is as a bonus

Notes:

tw: mentions suicide

This was a difficult chapter, actually. I doubted a lot about how to make the time travel logical. There was a version with a portal, and also one with a broken time tape measure (I wanted to go with that option, maybe it would've been more logical, but I still decided to stick with what I originally planned while running a fever (lol)).

This version had potential, but the time police really look stupid here. They only showed up so Ford could steal the time tape from him. Ford could have killed him, but the others from the police wouldn't have let that slide. And there's no way the police would have just shown up and said:

"Good job. I just came to say I could arrest you, but you're already suffering, so it's fine"

If they had shown up, they would have definitely arrested Ford. And then the plot would've been about a fight between the police and Ford, not about searching for Stanley.

"But how would the cop have gotten back?"

I wanted to give him two time tape. One he carries around as a faulty one. And it doesn't move through timelines in one universe - it moves through different universes. That could've given Ford a chance to see even more versions of Stanley's suicides. But I changed my mind.

So I just went to reread Ford's journals. It's that door from Journal 3. I reworked the concept a bit and just... made it sentient. A door that got stuck inside the house and can't get out because of the barrier.

Overall, it's okay. I struggled with it for a long time, and then I thought: "Calm down, Ruru, you're doing this for your own enjoyment, omg, why is your brain overheating and your self-esteem dropping?" So I just left it as is.

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tw: blood, sh

enjoy~

Ohoh. I'm sorry, but I left Waddles in GF. I think it was Stan who helped Waddles leave GF with Mabel. And Ford is now... well… He's lost in his own thoughts in the last time. He can be understood. I don't think he'll care about any pets… After all, he's not as attached to Waddles as Stanley is. Therefore, such cases.

I think Ford has come to terms with Stanley's death (in front of the kids, definitely, so as not to scare them. But they understand everything anyway). As it was, he immediately thought of something bad case (hi bill).

In the next chapter Stanley appeared!!! (alive) planned

When I was drawing the chapter, I was looking at the ref. And I couldn't help but think that I was a monster for doing this to such a cute baby bird. Well, look at his sweet face, omg... 🥹🥹🥹 (ref i mean aahsgshaag)

🥀(no, i'm not sorry... i'm cringe but i'm free)🥀

bonus

I lay sick for a week and thought about the idea of Ford going crazy because he literally killed his brother with his own hands. Well, at least for good reason, because Bill is finished. I was actually thinking about Dark!Ford and what he's going to do next. In the end, I spent all my time on storyboarding.

But now my mind has cleared up a bit and I realized that there is a lot of nonsense, ahahah. But some of the pages are interesting, so I think I'll draw a few dozen more pages for this AU. assumed: dark!ford, age gap, a little time travel without punishment from the time police (I don't need them, lol), and some dark tags, umm… I think over time I'll just warn you about them...

old!ford x teen!stan is supremacy idk (we will eventually come to this)

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