#i'll get to write my own happy ending spin off thingos eventually anyway too

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Hellooo! I hope you're doing wonderful:)!! Reading KmKy,what are your thoughts if Jhesey didn't get to Ford in time and Bill actually managed to tell Ford the truth about the portal in time before they tested it again?

I read a fic about it (Knowing Infinity) but I think Ford would've needed time to process what Bill has just told him,what are your thoughts ?

I will admit I haven't yet read Knowing Infinity all the way through, despite it being a derivative work. I got through the first chapter when it first posted, and the author contacted me to link the fic to KMKY but I haven't caught up past that point. I'm glad to hear its going well and folks are enjoying it.

I don't know if I should comment on what I think about that plot change if someone has written something built on that premise. It stops being my work at that point and becomes their own creation and I think that's wonderful. I don't want to be the author who tears down or decries someones transformative work based on my own mental canon, because my time reading through Roland Barthes essays in uni really cemented Death of the Author in my mind haha.

If this question is asking if I think within the KMKY fic could this happen, I do think there were multiple moments in chapter 34 for Ford to disregard or pull away from what Jheselbraum was saying, but his curiosity and self sabotaging nature was something I really enjoyed highlighting in KMKY. He said so himself in the scrap vandal chapter, he was waiting for his happiness to fail, and if Jheselbraum hadn't poked holes in it, something else would have, because their happiness was built on quite a bit of deceit. Even without Jheselbraum's interference, Ford would have seen the memory canister and know that way that Bill was planning something with the portal that Ford wasn't on board with.

But that's all within the story of KMKY. A different story may have a different take on things. The main driver of KMKY is that this blissful happy time they spend together is built on denial, on the ticking time bomb of the portal in the basement. There are multiple plotlines in KMKY where the sense of dread about building pressures of things left unsaid propels the plot forward. I'd argue that it's an integral part of the story. A world where they figured out how to communicate and compromise is a different world entirely, haha, but that's what derivative fanworks (and maybe the what if spin off series) is for! To explore those strange new worlds and boldly go where KMKY has never gone before!