#ecchima talks

Hear me out.

They're identical twins (besides the fingers thing) and they're kind of seen as losers and crooks, Ford happily following his brother into mischief and Stan kind of always looking for trouble. A pair, do not separate.

Then Filbrick forces them to take the boxing lessons and I would imagine that at the very least, it acts as a good way for Stan to spend his energy, makes him more manageable from a parenting point of view.

But Ford barely pays attention, barely contributes and so his body remains scrawny while Stan's grows wider. He jokes about it, says he's gonna steal all the babes away from Ford with his cool bod but I wonder if deep down, he doesn't hate that it's one more thing that makes him different. One more thing that reminds him he's the dumb twin, one more thing that makes him realize he looks like his dad.

So he punches harder and his hands get rougher, and he still breaks things and boxing doesn't help anymore but it's all he has, the only thing he's kinda good at, so he keeps at it.

Until he breaks one thing too many and he's just out there with no direction and no clue what to do, wondering when he started to take so much space that his family couldn't stand it anymore.

He has so many identities, he burns through them like a pack of cheap cigarettes and it feels good, to never be recognized. It feels safe too, to inspire fear instear of being terrified himself.

But then Ford finds him because if anyone can find Stan, it would be his twin. And he asks him for help. Stan shows up, of course he does. Monster or not, Ford's his weak spot and the only thing he ever wanted was to reunite with him.

When Ford opens the door however, he can't recognize Stan for a second and almost shoots him on sight. But then Stan speaks and Ford would recognize that fucked up voice anywhere so he lowers his crossbow.

He does the full paranoia checkup thing on Stan and he can't settle down because this is Stan, it has to be, but it's also not quite correct and he can't figure out if this is because he's forgotten details of his twin or if it's because this is an imposter. Could Bill even recreate a copy of Stan?

Stan tells him not to worry about it and eventually Ford does, because he has bigger things to worry about so he goes through the whole portal explanation and he guides Stan downstairs to see it.

The moment Stan sees the portal though, that monster part of him awakens and he knows he needs to bail or something terrible will happen. He can feel himself loosing control, the pull of the portal bringing the horrors forward.

Ford is too busy talking to notice. Stan tries to tell him but once Ford has started talking, it's almost impossible to stop him, Stan knows. He's unraveling at the seams though and he tries to step back but his body isn't his own anymore. He feels like a stranger in his own skin, a side effect of his condition he's gotten used to and can usually contain but not now. He thinks he may have started screaming because everything hurts so much, he feels split in half and isn't sure how much of it is literal.

I went to a convention last week end (dressed up as Ford Pines because I love to cosplay old men) and this happened. I may be stupid.

Today my brain is looping over Portal Stan AUs. We know they exist and there's some cool art out there of Portal Stan being a badass space pirate (basically).

Thing is, I remember stories of Ford meeting some versions of Stan in the multiverse but they never actually interact all that much besides the fact Portal Stans don't trust Ford and generally Ford doesn't want to interact with Portal Stans. I think I saw a textpost back in day about Ford having been travelling the multiverse for some years when he runs into a Stan fresh out of the Portal and how that Stan wanted to stick together because different version or not, that's his brother right there and Ford feeling guilty about it yada yada (portal Stan AUs are so cool y'all).

hummmm hard to say because I didn't really consume any new medias in 2025. My top ships were the same as last year really:

Paineland (Dead Boy Detectives)

JohnMartin (The Magnus Archives)

Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens)

Killian and Reece (Best Served Cold)

oh dear, I wasn't expecting that! Here, I have this little screenshot redraw lying around, that should count as a treat?