#mit rick

You’re sure I didn’t ruin your life?

Field of Dreams

“Morty lived in a reality for months with a family that was devoted to him, after his entire life of abuse. Him coming back to the house after all of everything that happened(I am not getting into that here on this post) to find that no one cared or noticed he was gone, and then tried to tell Beth he loved him, and got nothing but a dismissal and a ‘your being weird’.

Meanwhile Rick didn’t care that Morty was gone, he had to have know because he picked him up, visibly traumatized, and instead of asking him about it, he got drunk and grabbed him outta bed and then we got that exchange. Morty saying back ‘I’m your son’ is him accepting this version of his life. He’ll take the abuse if it means having a crumb of attention from Rick. This is not sweet this is horrifying for Morty.”

Different dimensions don’t seem to necessarily be ‘in sync’ with each other timewise. In Rick’s crybaby backstory, he still seems to be fairly young when he spies on a Rick with a Summer and Morticia who appear to be around 17 and 14. My headcanon is that all dimensions were synced when the Central Finite Curve/Citadel was built. Therefore, if Diane was omegaed when our Beth was around 17, it could be possible that other Beths were older or younger and so experienced this at a different age - hence why sober Rick says Beth ‘was so little’.

morty is fourteen years old. he is a child. he had absolutely no control over professor rick's actions, and even if he did, it's still not his responsibility because he is the child and rick is the adult. morty, both because of his age and his desensitization, cannot accurately judge these situations for himself.

rick ruining his years of sobriety is a choice he made. yelling at and neglecting his wife was his choice. he is an adult man making his own choices.