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+ context is that fiddleford quit making machines after Stanford tell into the portal because he blames himself on the "switch" in Stanfords personality when he accidentally fell into the portal for a little.
Getting his science project a one way ticket into West Coast and abandoning his hometown Ford would've believed it was the best decision of his life. Unfortunately, the only thing it earned him was this bitter life goal considering all the other students at West Coast were snobby scientists. Most, atleast. Nobody in the scientific field really cared about the paranormal and dismissed it entirely, considering Ford's fascination with exactly that it was safe to say that people beating down on his chosen scientific field didn't bode well. He still works hard to get his degrees but develops this bitter feeling to prove that paranormal science was infact very valid. How so? Studying them in gravity falls. Regardless of which college Ford had went to he would've still ended up documenting the paranormal in gravity falls.
Using the same spell that's originally used to encase the Shack from Bill in weirdmageddon Ford instead discovers it and uses it to trap Bill in this tiny little bubble for scientific exploration.
(Kind of like when bill is the jester in the book 😆)
Fords own dedication to harnessing this power drives him crazy. Bill still does drive him crazy but not from manipulation and simply his own hubris to unlock the secrets. Making the concept of the portal was what he believed would give him access to said power. He's not trying to rule the world, just reveal it to how everything he's worked for all his life is true...
While scrolling through TikTok I saw this really good idea for an au in which Bill would be reincarnated into earth and he'd have to live and learn as like a human if he wanted to come back as his original self? I don't know but I thought it was really cute and I wanted to draw some art for it using a human bill design that I made (tweaked alittle because he's supposed to look alittle younger, that damned axolotl must've been looking to taunt him to put him in a weak vessel)
Soos and Melody kind of just take him in like an adopted son and handyman to work around the mystery shack, depending on my mood I'll either draw more art for it as filler while I work on a Reverse Falls animatic or maybe write a short fic because I haven't written anything in ages!
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