Stanford doesn’t have anything to distract himself from bill with anymore, and goes back to being paranoid, he’s scared of bill hurting both his wife and kid. He doesn’t want to get Elizabeth involved and in the midst of his paranoia he sends Stanley a post card.
After that it’s basically the same as the show with ford falling in the portal
Also if you’re okay with it then maybe we can have Stan and Beth pretend they’re married so dipper and Mabel don’t question there being a random lady there.
My name is Stanford pines, I’m a researcher in gravity falls Oregon. I live with my wife @ask-elizabeth-cortland who is a very amazing women.
If you have any questions about the anomalies in gravity falls please ask me!
OOC: this is @kaiyax1, I made this blog purely for @fefe-the-cat ‘s Elizabeth. But anyone can interact.
I am a Fiddauthor and Billford shipper as most of you know however that doesn’t apply here as ford is married. Also this takes place before the portal incident.
We've all seen characters literally faint from fear, right? Well, it's real. We all know about fight-or-flight but there are actually five responses to trauma/fear:
Fight: Self-explanatory. Fighting against the threat.
Flight: Running away from the threat.
Freeze: Instead of fighting or running away from the threat, one simply goes stiff and doesn't move at all.
Fawn: This one is more based on long-term trauma or situations with sentient (sapient?) abusers. The fawn response is characterized by trying to appease the threat and make it stop wanting to hurt you.
Flop: Loss of motor function, characterized as fainting or simply falling asleep*. Let's stop right there.
The flop response is not always the traditional hand-on-the-forehead faint like a Victorian woman. It can certainly be that, but in some people, it's just "Well... this situation is far from ideal. So far from ideal, in fact, that I'm just going to nap until it goes away." And I'd like to see more of this, or the flop response in general, in writing.
I actually think it could happen to Elizabeth. Just imagine her encountering Bord and completely collapsing. Ford gets back in his body and she's unconscious on the floor.
*The flop response can also just be going completely limp. Now imagine Elizabeth just curled up on the floor, and Ford coming back and staring at her with alarm for a few seconds before awkwardly poking her like
"Are you okay? Oh no." And then she can't do anything to alert him that she's fine, just spooked, because she's still spooked and Ford is like, "No my wife :("
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Lee hadn't broken my project.
I would have gotten into West Coast Tech. I would have been a world-renowned scientist among the ranks of Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, and Nikola Tesla.
I would have been alone. Or maybe I would have been with someone else.
But I wouldn't have been with Betsey.
I wouldn't have reunited with the girl I met at the prom and had one beautiful, glorious summer with before I left for Backupsmore. I would have spent the rest of my life pining for her and wondering if she even remembered me.
I lost an education, but I could have given up dancing to our wedding song in the kitchen, walking in the woods, kisses and cuddles and nights spent laughing and crying and comforting and reassuring every fear, rational or irrational, idly fantasizing, and clinging to each other all night and waking up stuck to each other like glue.
So maybe it wasn't so bad. Maybe it was for the best that I didn't get into West Coast Tech.
Lee
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't broken Ford's project.
He would've gotten into West Coast Tech. I wouldhn't have been kicked out. I would have had a steady home for a lot longer, maybe even forever. I would have worked with Pa at the pawn shop.
I would've been alone. Or maybe I'd still have Ma and Pa.
But I wouldn't really have anyone, no one I could talk to or be myself around, and no one who needed me.
I wouldn't have met Joy.
I wouldn't have seen that scared kid on the streets, ready to go to sleep and probably freeze to death. I wouldn't have been able to help her. I wouldn't have known she existed and she wouldn't have known I existed and maybe neither of us would've known there was still good in the world.
I lost my home, but I could have given up hugs and holding her as she fell asleep and slowly earning her trust and babying her while she made sarcastic comments at me and all her snark and mess and kind-heartedness and inexhaustible rage and attempts to seem tough that I always saw right through because I was there, thumbing tears off her cheeks and listening to her vent about all she'd been through and telling her that it was okay now, that she'd never go through any of that again, and anyone who would try to put her through that would have to go through me first, and no one was getting through me. I could have given up cups of soup and wrapping her up in blankets and quoting bad movies back and forth at each other.
So maybe it was for the best that I broke Ford's project. Maybe it was for the best that I was on the streets for ten years. Maybe it wasn't so bad.
Bethford renewing their vows after ford comes out of the portal bc they were separated for so long and stan stole ford's identity after he fell into the portal so one could argue that Elizabeth and Stan were legally married to each other so Elizabeth and ford don't actually know if their marriage is still legally valid but it can't cause any issues to have another wedding (also Mabel loves weddings and is genuinely slightly bitter that she couldn't be at Elizabeth's and fords wedding since she didn't exist yet)
Hiiiii weird thing to ask I guess but do you have any mini head canons or facts about Elizabeth????? I just really like hearing about ocs to do with ford
This isn't weird at all! This is actually a dream come true!!
1. Bethford is the mushiest couple ever! They are the cutest, cuddliest little goobers
2. Elizabeth has so much maternal instinct. Children beware you will be snuggled and force fed and given all the presents.
3. Preportal at night Elizabeth snuggled up to ford and put her head on his chest and he would wrap his arms around her. Post portal ford was scared that she was mad at him, fell out of love with him, and/or fell in love with someone else. This increased the initial resentment between the stan twins but that night she snuggled up to him the exact same way she always used to.
4. I set out to create an OC based on Eliza from Hamilton. I did not end up creating a character based on Eliza from hamilton. Gangle, ragatha, and heather McNamara merged into a horrifying amalgamation of mental health issues (anxiety, depression, and autism) that led to severe self esteem issues.
5. Elizabeth's favorite stim toy is her wedding ring. She has probably given herself skin irritation just from twisting it around her finger so much.
6. She and fiddleford got along quite well. They were very good friends. I think fiddleford has a very likable personality in general so the vast majority of people like him and Elizabeth molds herself to fit the standards of everyone she interacts with.
7. She completely burns herself out during the paranoid ford era. On top of that bill thinks she's a distraction from the portal so he is trying to get rid of her, basically by bullying her relentlessly.
8. Stan ends up being Elizabeth's best friend and teaching her how to unmask. Ford is absolutely ecstatic that she is not doing that to herself anymore
Thinking about Journal 4. It has a page written the night of the karaoke incident. That's about all I know. Feel free to send asks. Actually, feel less free to not send asks. I'd like to yap about this please.
FORD steps out of the portal. DIPPER, ELIZABETH, MABEL, SOOS, and STAN are all in there, but only ELIZABETH and FORD have lines in this song.
FORD
Elizabeth
ELIZABETH
Is it you? Have my prayers been answered?
Is it really you standing there, or am I dreaming once more?
You look different, your eyes look tired
Your frame is lighter, your smile torn
Is it really you my love?
FORD
I am not the man you fell in love with
I am not the man you once adored
I am not your kind and gentle husband
And I am not the love you knew before
Would you fall in love with me again
If you knew all I've done?
The things I cannot change
Would you love me all the same?
I know that you've been waiting, waiting for love
ELIZABETH
What kinds of things did you do?
FORD
Left a trail of blood in each dimension
As I traded friends like objects I could use
Hurt more lives than I can count on my hands
But all of that was to bring me back to you
So tell me
Would you fall in love with me again
If you knew all I've done?
The things I can't undo
I am not the man you knew
I know that you've been waiting, waiting
ELIZABETH
If that's true, could you do me a favor?
Just a moment of labor that would bring me some peace
ELIZABETH gestures to Journal 4.
ELIZABETH
See that journal? Could you bring it to me?
Display its contents proudly to everyone here?
FORD
How could you say this?
I saved that journal for my most private thoughts, the ones that were important to no one except myself because no expression of affection, no word nor gesture, was enough to fully express how I felt about you.
ELIZABETH
Only my husband knew that
So I guess that makes him you
FORD
Elizabeth
ELIZABETH
I will fall in love with you
Over and over again
I don't care how, where, or when
No matter how long it's been, you're mine
Don't tell me you're not the same person
You're always my husband and I've been waiting, waiting
FORD
Elizabeth
ELIZABETH
Waiting, waiting
FORD
Elizabeth
ELIZABETH
Waiting, waiting
Waiting, oh
For you
Instrumental break. Hugs, kisses, crying, make it sappy and heartbreaking.