#meanwhile Stan is silently panicking about the reality of twins procreating

[stansthemans]

Your fem!Stan is so precious to me 🥺 sometimes I wonder what it would be like if she did have a sorta happy ending, like her getting impregnated by her brother while he’s attending college classes in the 70s.

I actually really like how you say it would be a sort of happy ending, anon, bc omg you’re so right. These two are not making it to high school graduation with no problems and then sailing off into the sunset with hearts fluttering around their heads. For how much they love each other, there’s so much baggage. Ford’s desperate need to be unique and special but it’s really hard to do that when you share a face with someone and that someone is always right there in your space and you can’t escape. And Stan, god the way that Stan loves and orbits around ford to such a degree that he’s completely blind to the fact that Ford wants independence and has moved on from those old childhood dreams. They make me sick ❤️

But when it comes to fem Stan, ooof. I typically like to keep things really close to canon when I do genderswap aus, but for this, for Ford to be willing to have Stan at college with him, I think the science fair would have to happen at least slightly differently. Option 1: Stan still busts the machine, but she manages to tell Ford about it before the judges arrive. Now, hang on, you might be thinking, does this mean communication between the Stans? Absolutely not. Not in any meaningful way. Sure, she tells him, but she doesn’t tell him why. She doesn’t tell him that she’s been blindsided by this entire college thing, that she really still believed that he wanted to go adventuring on the seas with her, that she’s scared to death of Ford waking up and realizing that she doesn’t deserve him and that he’ll leave her. And so ford sees it as a tantrum, as Stanley acting out childishly and selfishly adn holding him back (just like everyone always says she does). He fixes it. He impresses the judges. He gets his spot. But the trust is broken, and Stanley needs to make it up to him. He holds it over her head and never lets her forget it.

Option 2: I like this one more. It all goes down like it does in canon. The machine breaks. Stan stays silent. Ford misses his chance. Filbrick kicks Stan out. But wait. That’s not what Ford wants. Sure, he’s furious. He can’t believe that Stanley of all people would betray him like this, but that’s his sister. That’s his love. She belongs to him. Filbrick can’t take her away from him. That’s not his place. So Ford goes to the boat bc he knows that’ll be where Stan will go to try to get herself together to plan out (ha, plan, like Stanley could come up with a plan) how she’s going to handle this. and Ford is right. Stan is there, absolutely sobbing and panicking in the little cabin. Ford refuses to feel bad. She brought this on herself. She can’t come back home, but he has a plan. She’s his, and he’ll take care of her. Never mind Filbrick’s ultimatum. Never mind making millions. She ruined his chances for the college he’s dreamt of, but she’ll make it up to him. She’ll stay in the boat, and Ford will bring her things to make it liveable, and she’ll get whatever jobs she can to help him with his college fund. Stan takes the deal. Of course she does. It keeps her with Ford, and that’s all that matters. They have sex, but it’s not good (emotionally. For Stan, it’s all shame and guilt and she’s also really hurt that no one stood up for her. For Ford, it’s anger and betrayal and possessiveness)

Both options end with Ford bringing Stan to college with him. And both options have Stan playing the little house (dorm?) wife role that she always was so desperate to avoid. She cooks and cleans and opens up her legs whenever Ford wants. When she does what he wants, he tells her that she’s good and sweet, so much sweeter than she was before, not so childish and selfish. When she doesn’t, he tells her that she should remember what she did, that he didn’t have to forgive her, didn’t have to save her. And so more and more often, Stan does whatever ford wants, because what’s the alternative? Not being with him? If we’re in option 2, she had a taste of that for about an hour and it felt like it was enough to kill her. And it’s not that Stan doesn’t want to be good and sweet for Ford, she loves him so much, it’s just, she didn’t think it would be like this. And Ford, Ford has everything he wants. He’s accelerating through his programs at a phenomenal pace, he has the respect of his academic peers and professors (people look at his hands funny but for the first time, no one comments), he’s on the path he’s dreamed of for himself, and every night he comes home to the love of his life. And sure, she needs reminders sometimes that he saved her, maybe a firm hand so that she doesn’t forget that it was her who betrayed him and almost cost them everything, but otherwise, she’s there and she’s his and she’s perfect, especially when her stomach starts to swell up with the little life that he always imagined they would one day create.

They are happy. Sort of. This is what they wanted. Sort of.

Bc i don’t think these two can truly be happy until they’ve first been thru hell and actually learn how much they mean to each other, what all they would sacrifice for each other. And also, like imagine the horror show of bill fucking with ford when his sister and kid are targets as well.