You know that thing in Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness where the Scarlet Witch uses a spell to like. Take over an alternate version of herself in another dimension? Like project her consciousness into them and basically hijack them? I think it was called something like dreamwalking or whatever.
Anyway AU where an older Ford loses his Stan post weirdmageddon and goes mad with grief. Finally having reunited with his brother after 40 something years apart and forgiving each other, and then Stan’s sacrifice to defeat Bill kills him. And Ford can’t handle having lost his twin for good.
This old Ford searches for ways to bring Stan back, but nothing is successful. Attempts to resurrect Stan fail, attempts to time travel get stopped by the time police and fail. He’s banned from participating in globnar and making a wish. All avenues to bring back his Stan become dead ends, and with each one Ford goes a little bit more mad. The grief drives him crazy.
But then one day he stumbles upon something else. Not a way to get his Stan back, but a way to get a Stan. Old Ford learns how to take over the bodies of other versions of himself in other dimensions.
So he finds himself a dimension where the Ford in question still has their Stan, and hasn’t yet met Bill. Old Ford hijacks that Ford’s body, and immediately goes about searching for Stan. When he finds Stan, he is overjoyed.
Stan, on the other hand, is confused. His twin, who he hasn’t spoken to in years, suddenly shows up with no warning, looking incredibly happy to see him. Stan has no idea how Ford even found him, considering at the time he’s lying low from people looking for him. It’s weird. Ford is weird.
But Ford tearfully apologizes for everything and wraps his arms around Stan, and practically begs Stan to come back with him to a place called Gravity Falls. Stan is very put off by all this, because it just doesn’t seem right. And yet… how could he pass up the opportunity to make things right with his brother? What if he never gets another chance?
Ford tells him the people looking for him will never find him where Ford lives, so Stan goes.
Things are fine—at first. Gravity Falls is kind of a weird place, but Ford practically trips over himself to get Stan anything he wants, and he doesn’t get angry with Stan or talk down to him. It’s almost like he’s actually enjoying Stan’s company, which Stan finds hard to believe but is so hopeful for.
Except Ford. Doesn’t really give him much space either. He pretty much follows Stan around the whole day. He frets over Stan. He gets nervous when Stan wants to go out. He gets jealous when Stan tries to talk to other people. And Stan hates the way Ford keeps setting off his creep radar. Something isn’t right.
Then one day, Ford brings up sailing. He tells Stan they should buy a boat and live out their childhood dream together. The way they’d always planned. His research can wait, his projects don’t matter. He’s willing to abandon his work in Gravity Falls for Stan.
And Stan knows for sure then, that something is very wrong with Ford.
Eventually Stan learns about the body hijacking thing and has to figure out a way to kick old Ford out of his brother’s body so that he can get his real brother back. But it’s a dangerous task, because old Ford is possessive and overprotective and so twisted by grief that he won’t allow anything to separate him from Stan again. Not even Stan himself.
Old Ford doesn’t want to hurt Stan, but if that’s what he needs to do to make sure Stan doesn’t ever leave him again? So be it. He’s already lost one brother, he won’t lose another.
Edit: Also imagine Stan has to enter Ford’s mindscape to free his brother from Old Ford’s possession, and he finds Ford trapped somewhere in his own mind, locked up by Old Ford. Stan helps him out but Old Ford finds them and they have to fight him off together to free Ford from him.
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