When you're insane enough, there's something so deeply fiddauthor about the bloodymary ship.
"Right, because Ford and Grace are so similar, they'd-" NO. I'm talking Fiddleford as Grace and Stanford as Simon.
Fiddleford McGucket, this incredibly brilliant engineer who has created amazing things, decides to be a teacher. When he's struggling with women, his very traditional family doesn't exactly like the fact that he's obviously stalling due to his sexuality. So, no more family to speak of. However, he's still a dad at heart, so what's the next best option? Being a robotics teacher at a middle school, teaching the basics but going farther than any other teacher has before. Those kids come out experts by the end of the year, and he loves it. Eccentric, but an absolute genius in all things mechanical.
When the stars begin to dim, he's brought onto the project because of his thesis on lightspeed travel in space, which all others thought was impossible. But he stuck to it, and lost his job because of that. Now they need someone with that skill and knowledge to try and figure this dilemma out mechanically. He's here to build the ship and leave.
One Emma-May Dixon recruits him for exactly that. She's a sweet, kind woman who knows when to be firm, ensuring he gets the work done but trying to be nice about it. They get along. He does the work she asks, and they laugh about it together. She gets up and sings out of her comfort zone where he cheers her on. She loves him. He thinks she's one of the best friends he's ever had. Maybe one of the only ones.
Everything is going well until something fails and the engineer planned to go on the trip dies as well as the backup crew for the mission. Emma-May is forced to make a hard decision. And Fiddleford, at his core, is a coward who runs the second they say he's the only one that can go. With mournful tears in her eyes, she sends people to sedate him.
When he wakes up, the other two are dead. He's confused. He doesn't know who he is. All he sees is McGucket on the chest and his hair is going grey, with a beard trying to run down to his chest. He shaves it pretty quick. When he finally arrives to Tau Ceti alone, he's completely lost. Until an alien ship comes in. Terrified, he tries to run and avoid all senses of the ship catching him. It still catches up anyway. He gets a message. A picture meant to communicate. So he builds a tunnel.
Gobblewonker, he calls this aquatic animal. Well, animal is a crude way to describe it. He's extremely intelligent. They figure out communication by Fiddleford building a translator, and go further by his building of tunnels within the ship in order for Gobblewonker (Gobs) to swim around. The fact that there's so much water on the ship helps, too. Gobs is alone, just like he is. They relate.
The events happen normally from there. Gobs is a pilot, mainly, and they don't know much about science, but through some wonky science, they figure it out. Gobs almost dies after fishing because he went out of the water, but he makes his way back. They go their separate ways. Fiddleford discovers what he created can only hold the taumoeba for so long. So he goes to save Gobs, and they head back to his planet together.
Now, I said think about it.
Stanford, a child of Eden, grows up serving the Tree alongside his brother Stanley. Not brother in the religious way, his twin. His confidant. He's the smart one, Stanley is the violent one. The scientist and the executioner. He mostly researches the Tree and ways to keep everyone alive. But he's a jerk, really. Stan helps with managing that.
Neither of them meant for Filament Station to happen, but it happened anyway. Ford was technically at the helm of planning it, though they didn't tell him what he was solving, he just did it. When they're caught, Stan takes the blame. They say he was executed quickly, and Ford is now a convict.
When he's sent down into the blood ocean, he's very uncomfortable. There's something alive down here, and he's curious, but he doesn't like the concept of dying. Not after he's lost his brother already. When they bring him back up, he gets their attention with the camera, and if he's honest, doesn't care that much that it was a radiation camera. He lost his brother. They deserve it. The girl, Jheselbraum, yells at him for blasting them with the cancer beam. He doesn't care.
They send him back down because they lied. They deserved that anyway for lying to him. But then he finds something in the corner. It's the symbol of Eden. A sapling in resin. And a letter in his brother's handwriting. Something about "they'll get their execution, I'll get my freedom." Stanley gave him one last gift before he died of his own free will. It hurts.
The rest of the time is miserable. When he's lost under the ocean, the events of the movie practically happen. This monster (who is hard to figure out, but probably Bill) is talking to him in different voices. And one of those voices includes his brother. He's losing oxygen. He's suffering. He's scared. And things only get worse and worse as the ocean begs for him to join them. But he doesn't want to deal with it.
Jheselbraum learns about the SM-8. "This is bigger than us," and now he's in knee deep water getting the information. He's a scientist doing all this work he wasn't built for, but he's doing it, because he's not going to let a monster take him this easily. Her ship is destroyed completely, and he flees. But he needs the information, so he tries to get it up.
The blood rises. He hates it. It's everywhere on the walls and it's dripping into his eyes. He tries to rub it away, but when he tries to pull them away—his hands don't move. The blood wants to merge with him, and it's trying to make him merge to himself first. It's only after ripping them out by force that he gets full movement back, and struggling and drowning in all this blood, he gets the black box to the surface. He's hurt so many people. Maybe he deserved this.
Lastly. I really, really need you to think about this.
Fiddleford has never believed in teleportation, but that's the only way to describe an unconscious man covered in blood being deposited into his ship. They get him to the medical bay quickly. His clothes are sticking to his skin, so they have to clean him and change him. Worst of all, his eyes look awful. Most of his eyelids have been ripped off alongside the eyes themselves. It's grisly and disgusting.
Gobs tries to help where he can, but there's only so much that can be done inside a tube filled with water. There seem to be gills growing on the man's ribs underneath his chest. Fiddleford is overwhelmed with guilt by how he keeps staring at this man when he's unconscious and injured.
He remains unconscious for at least a week, before the Mary informs Fiddleford of movement. When he rushes to the medical bay, the first thing this strange man does is try to fight him. The only reason he doesn't win is because he's still high on pain medication and weak from the lack of movement. He's terrified. He can't see, and someone's going to end up killing him if he lowers his guard.
He doesn't talk much, because this is probably just another hallucination. Or he died and is in purgatory. He eventually tells Fiddleford his name, Stanford. Or Ford. Something like that, he doesn't care. But it's progress. Fiddleford babies him at first, being worried due to his lack of sight. Yet the more he grows, the more Ford does things on his own.
The more Ford does things on his own, the more he recognizes that this is real. He starts to talk more, and he ends up talking about science, his true passion. He learns of their mission and can't comprehend the idea that there are still stars. But then he feels the plants in the hall and is completely mystified. They're actually strangely similar. They can both ramble on for hours about things they like.
Both of them are probably just touch-starved and crave closeness with another human. Laying heads on each other's shoulders is just a symptom of that. Ford feels awful for taking up their supplies, especially when he deserves to die in that ocean anyway. Just because he never wanted to die doesn't mean he didn't deserve it. Fiddleford doesn't seem to think that. He's fine with giving up supplies if it means Ford will survive. They both want to make it and they both want to live.
The kissing that happens is just more touch starvation. Right? Even when Ford initiates, Fiddleford is terrified that he accidentally coerced Stanford into it. They kiss again. That's probably normal. Stanford is sleeping on Fiddleford's chest because he feels safer when he's touching someone else and the beds are tiny. Gobs tells them they act like mates. They don't know. Are they?
It's actually really nice, minus the fact that Ford's blind. They make it to this new planet. Ford's scientific skill and Fiddleford's knowledge help them build a safe biodome within this underwater planet. A forest with a cabin that has a garden for Ford to tend to. It's cozy. Safe. They kiss and don't worry about what it means. The fear is behind them. Ford has lingering fears of it all not being real, but they know the truth. They know they're safe. No one is waiting for them. They can just be.
And maybe that's kind of a bad way to put it, but I didn't want this to be too long. Oops. But. But guys. Fiddauthor bloodymary, guys. You see the vision. Please.
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