#(i doubt he built it pre portaling; otherwise he'd have USED it and he'd be safe from bill.)

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So this is an ask that I have been thinking for awhile but, mainly surrounding the ask is in the episode The Last Mable-corn, grunkle Ford uses this machine which bill proofs a person's mind, which also shows someone's dreams/memories/thoughts (it's hard to tell which one with how it was used in the episode), which begs the two questions, what would happen if it were to be used on Goldie (bill) and what dreams/memories/thoughts, would you see. Now this is a slightly big ask and is probably hard to think of an answer to on the spot so you could save this for a future chapter if Ford were to make a similar machine or you could just answer one or none at all. Again love the work you do, you inspire me, keep it up 👍

It'd work on Bill just like it would on any other human; and like any other human, it'd just show whatever Bill's currently thinking about (or, if he's asleep, what Bill's dreaming about).

Sorry it's probably a simpler answer than you were expecting, but unfortunately the answer really is that simple. It's whatever's on Bill's mind. And what's on his mind is gonna be dependent on whatever the hell he's thinking about when it's slapped on his head. There's probably a "I remember when this room was filled with my face :(" and a "when the heck did fordsy build this machine?" mixed in with the other thoughts, but otherwise Bill's thoughts would be dependent on the context, just like anyone else's would.

Anyway that thing is very thoroughly destroyed. If ever they decide they want to encrypt and/or read Bill's mind, it's gonna have to be with a new invention. Currently I don't foresee any situations where they'd want that badly to read Bill's mind anyway. They don't trust anything he says, but their response to this isn't "find a way to figure out the truth," it's "just don't pay attention to anything he says."