#implying like. some time after blood ridge they met and rick showed him how it worked

[birdricks]

today im thinking about how rick never even showed birdperson the portal gun until blood ridge yet bp is familiar enough with it to know how to both use it and access its history

[thanakite]

Spoilers for Rick and Morty season 5 beyond this point, not tagging because I am avoiding a very specific part of the fandom

I am so deeply curious about Birdperson, and we know so little it is frustrating

For one, do other Ricks (specifically the ones not directly tied to C-137's own timeline at the point he met him because of course they would) even have a Birdperson? Rick has a very specific and largely individual it seems (before that point) backstory, like there didn't seem to be other Ricks killing Ricks unless like something specific happened, not the killing every Rick they got their hands on that C-137 did, and generally they don't seem like their wife was killed, more like she either left him or he left and never went back, but that is why Rick and Birdperson met and why they became closer friends (since he helped Rick kill some other Ricks and he in turn agreed to help Birdperson with his stuff)

That leads to Rick fighting the Gromflomites, which moderately begs the question of if the others have much to do with the Gromflomites and if they do is it because of C-137, them all choosing to fight for different reasons and causing constant issues with them, or are he and Birdperson like soulmates where they (almost) always end up meeting and and Ricks choose to help him with the Gromflomites most of the time?

When he was saving Birdperson in season 5 his AI suggests grabbing another him from another dimension but Rick refuses because "that isn't how this works" which brings up 2 questions, the first being that this suggests that they do each have their own Birdperson or that he was going to jump to a connected timeline that was moving slower started later or whatever and take him, so he had the right memories but was at an earlier point before he was made Phoenixperson (otherwise there would still be a lot of bullshit to fix when he already fix Birdperson), leading to the question of can he access timelines that are the same but started later so they are not yet at the wedding or whatever? Because there are a lot of implications that could have within the show (if only that it could be an easy explanation for why those that aren't being refreshed by Rick bullshit regularly like both Rick and Morty aren't ageing) and the second being does that mean that this Birdperson is from his original universe, that the original Beth he settled in with was in the universe where he met Birdperson which is why he chose her, is this Birdperson not actually in their current universe since that had to move at least once, is it something else entirety? (I'm not letting this be a throw away thing)

Morty ends up with Birdperson at one point and sees he has a picture of Rick holding what could be him or any other Morty, when would that have been taken? Rick only "came back into their lives" less than a year before the show started, which is when he settled in with an adult Beth that wasn't his own since his was dead and died as a child (so of course no Morty), so at minimum C-137 wouldn't have likely been around Morty as a baby, and yet also has memories of a baby Morty, so when is it from? (Very good chance that it was a Morty baby at the Citadel since he helped build it and they became their own "Morty-Mart" not the Morty he hangs out with) but also why would Birdperson have it at all? His memories seem to imply that they didn't really see much of each other after the Battle of Blood Ridge so why would Rick send him a photo of him with a baby grandson (possible clone) that he wouldn't have interacted with when Morty was a baby?

So many questions and who knows if we will ever get answers since that is "Serialized drama"