#bethford

Stanford doesn’t have anything to distract himself from bill with anymore, and goes back to being paranoid, he’s scared of bill hurting both his wife and kid. He doesn’t want to get Elizabeth involved and in the midst of his paranoia he sends Stanley a post card.

After that it’s basically the same as the show with ford falling in the portal

Also if you’re okay with it then maybe we can have Stan and Beth pretend they’re married so dipper and Mabel don’t question there being a random lady there.

My name is Stanford pines, I’m a researcher in gravity falls Oregon. I live with my wife @ask-elizabeth-cortland who is a very amazing women.

If you have any questions about the anomalies in gravity falls please ask me!

We've all seen characters literally faint from fear, right? Well, it's real. We all know about fight-or-flight but there are actually five responses to trauma/fear:

Fight: Self-explanatory. Fighting against the threat.

Flight: Running away from the threat.

Freeze: Instead of fighting or running away from the threat, one simply goes stiff and doesn't move at all.

Fawn: This one is more based on long-term trauma or situations with sentient (sapient?) abusers. The fawn response is characterized by trying to appease the threat and make it stop wanting to hurt you.

Flop: Loss of motor function, characterized as fainting or simply falling asleep*. Let's stop right there.

The flop response is not always the traditional hand-on-the-forehead faint like a Victorian woman. It can certainly be that, but in some people, it's just "Well... this situation is far from ideal. So far from ideal, in fact, that I'm just going to nap until it goes away." And I'd like to see more of this, or the flop response in general, in writing.

I actually think it could happen to Elizabeth. Just imagine her encountering Bord and completely collapsing. Ford gets back in his body and she's unconscious on the floor.

*The flop response can also just be going completely limp. Now imagine Elizabeth just curled up on the floor, and Ford coming back and staring at her with alarm for a few seconds before awkwardly poking her like

"Are you okay? Oh no." And then she can't do anything to alert him that she's fine, just spooked, because she's still spooked and Ford is like, "No my wife :("

Just... Elizabeth, Bord, and the flop response

-Ford getting some extradimensional bug his immune system isn't prepared for (Jheselbraum, also known as Extradimensional Bug Georg, has been exposed to it and has sufficient immunity to be space mom)

-Bethford fluff

Any ideas for either?

Ford

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Lee hadn't broken my project.

I would have gotten into West Coast Tech. I would have been a world-renowned scientist among the ranks of Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, and Nikola Tesla.

I would have been alone. Or maybe I would have been with someone else.

But I wouldn't have been with Betsey.

I wouldn't have reunited with the girl I met at the prom and had one beautiful, glorious summer with before I left for Backupsmore. I would have spent the rest of my life pining for her and wondering if she even remembered me.

I lost an education, but I could have given up dancing to our wedding song in the kitchen, walking in the woods, kisses and cuddles and nights spent laughing and crying and comforting and reassuring every fear, rational or irrational, idly fantasizing, and clinging to each other all night and waking up stuck to each other like glue.

So maybe it wasn't so bad. Maybe it was for the best that I didn't get into West Coast Tech.

Lee

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't broken Ford's project.

He would've gotten into West Coast Tech. I wouldhn't have been kicked out. I would have had a steady home for a lot longer, maybe even forever. I would have worked with Pa at the pawn shop.

I would've been alone. Or maybe I'd still have Ma and Pa.

But I wouldn't really have anyone, no one I could talk to or be myself around, and no one who needed me.

I wouldn't have met Joy.

I wouldn't have seen that scared kid on the streets, ready to go to sleep and probably freeze to death. I wouldn't have been able to help her. I wouldn't have known she existed and she wouldn't have known I existed and maybe neither of us would've known there was still good in the world.

I lost my home, but I could have given up hugs and holding her as she fell asleep and slowly earning her trust and babying her while she made sarcastic comments at me and all her snark and mess and kind-heartedness and inexhaustible rage and attempts to seem tough that I always saw right through because I was there, thumbing tears off her cheeks and listening to her vent about all she'd been through and telling her that it was okay now, that she'd never go through any of that again, and anyone who would try to put her through that would have to go through me first, and no one was getting through me. I could have given up cups of soup and wrapping her up in blankets and quoting bad movies back and forth at each other.

This isn't weird at all! This is actually a dream come true!!

1. Bethford is the mushiest couple ever! They are the cutest, cuddliest little goobers

2. Elizabeth has so much maternal instinct. Children beware you will be snuggled and force fed and given all the presents.

3. Preportal at night Elizabeth snuggled up to ford and put her head on his chest and he would wrap his arms around her. Post portal ford was scared that she was mad at him, fell out of love with him, and/or fell in love with someone else. This increased the initial resentment between the stan twins but that night she snuggled up to him the exact same way she always used to.

4. I set out to create an OC based on Eliza from Hamilton. I did not end up creating a character based on Eliza from hamilton. Gangle, ragatha, and heather McNamara merged into a horrifying amalgamation of mental health issues (anxiety, depression, and autism) that led to severe self esteem issues.

5. Elizabeth's favorite stim toy is her wedding ring. She has probably given herself skin irritation just from twisting it around her finger so much.

6. She and fiddleford got along quite well. They were very good friends. I think fiddleford has a very likable personality in general so the vast majority of people like him and Elizabeth molds herself to fit the standards of everyone she interacts with.

7. She completely burns herself out during the paranoid ford era. On top of that bill thinks she's a distraction from the portal so he is trying to get rid of her, basically by bullying her relentlessly.