"Hmm, well, Daisy has a bit of a contradiction. She is desired by all but seen by none. She feels a lack of connection which she then tries to make up for with a superficiality. She wants to be adored, but when you're put on a pedestal you're never truly appreciated. So she's torn between that safety and desiring the chaos that would make her feel truly alive, chaos represented by Gatsby, which she goes towards, and then… and then decides, no, no, too much."
Okay so in the above quote, Alex Hirsch is talking about Bill and Ford, using Daisy as a placeholder for Bill, and Gatsby as a placeholder for Ford. And I'm going insane.
It's so backwards, to refer to Bill's violent and superficial partying life style, the pedestal he's carved for himself ruling over the Nightmare Realm as a self-proclaimed god of chaos, as safety, and in the same breath refer to Ford as representative of chaos.
Of course Bill would look at the chaos and isolation he's surrounded himself with and think I'm safe. Nothing can hurt me, nothing can catch up to me here.
And then he looks at Ford, this adoration, companionship, love being offered to him, the closest bond he's had with anyone in insurmountable years and thinks, this is chaos. It's unstable, it's unsafe, it's too much.
Do you think that's why Bill was so quick to fess up about the portal, when Ford finally questions it a step away from the finish line?
Thank god, right? No more playing Muse, no more waiting for the other shoe to drop, Ford's finally noticed the boat is sinking. So Bill jumps ship first, because he's used to it, and he thinks because it's familiar it's safe.
And only in the aftermath does he realize how bad he's fucked up.
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