Ouch. Did you-DID YOU JUST RIP OUT MY HEART WITHOUT CONSENT?! (Jk I give)
But omg this is so GOOD- and omg I have so many theories for what happens after.
Maybe Bill is still trying to make ford turn on the portal after this, and ford not wanting to, out of options— out of hope— and without his brother (all he thinks of is how he murdered his brother) tries to joking Stanley.
But it backfired cause Bill won’t let him. You know how bill can alter ford’s mind (like his vocabulary and making his body feel tremendous amounts of pain?) yeah he basically tortured ford so he physically CANT kill himself. Some days his legs will feel heavy as if chains were holding him down, others his whole body flares up to the point where he’s gasping in the floor begging bill to kill him; sometimes bill paralyzes him, unable to speak, move. All he can do it just stare blankly, remembering his childhood. Remembering his brother, whose corpse was long gone.
Because ford can’t even have that, because bill took his brother away from him twice, and while he does have a clue of where Stanley could be— he also has a clue of what Bill didn’t his body. And he doesn’t think he could handle that image after seeing his twins body beneath him, eyes open in shock, in fear: fearing ford.
This could either end in bill accidentally killing ford because let’s be real ford had probably not been feeding himself and because bill was too busy ensuring ford wouldn’t kill himself, he probably never fed him; or perhaps ford still gaining the strength to end it all himself.
This could also end in ford losing his mind mcgucket style (aka completely insane and NOTHING ALIKE HIS OLD SELF. Maybe he stores his brothers body because he completely loses his mind and makes himself believe that Stanley is still alive while preaching to everyone in the town to beware of the one eyed demon.
Or maybe he does a little frankenstan or maybe even tries to contact his brother because while his brother might have died thinking ford hated him, he doesn’t want his brother to pass on (or be a ghost or go to the underworld or whatever happens to him) still believing that.