#I have more ideas for after stan and ford unite but Im debating on if I want a happy ending or not lol

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okay I DO NOT have the energy to draw atm so here's a general outline/ideas for the 30 years earlier au I posted about!

the main idea is that after the portal test incident, Fidds gets so desperate to stop Ford he ends up using the memory gun to erase the entire portal project from Ford's head, and destroys all the blueprints and stuff related to it.

This backfires because now Ford has no memory of the incident OR his confrontation with Bill. Bill convinces Ford that the reason Fidds erased his memories was out of jealousy.

Ford, spurred on by Bill and his newfound Rage at Fiddleford, finishes the portal by himself and turns it on. Bill comes out, and weirdmageddon starts.

Bill keeps Ford as a "pet" in the Fearamid, while he tries to convince Ford to join him fully. Ford is hesitant because he feels betrayed, just like in canon. Bill doesn't really mind, he's already won, he can wait a few decades for Ford to see reason.

Meanwhile, Stanley is just trying his best to fucking survive in the most fucked up apocalypse ever. He did not expect the end to world to have so many flying eyeballs.

When he finds out Ford is alive and is captured by Bill, his priorities shift from "survival" to "getting to my brother and saving him". How is Stan gonna do that? he doesn't know, but he's going to do it anyways.