If it's true, and that's really how it works, Ford finds that idea unsettling. Bill doesn't have any proof that he and Ford aren't from a universe that matches up with the answers this not-George Lucas gave, but...the possibility that someone can change Ford's past by answering a fan question and he would never know the difference raises some very uncomfortable questions. Selfishly, he's glad it's Bill and not himself that this guy likes to pretend to be: it means questions about him are less likely to be asked.
But how many were? How much about his history might be different from when he started? How much of his past has been scooped out like the guts of a pumpkin and replaced with something new? What about his past is real, and what's altered memory?
Bill wants to become real, not a creation of someone else, because he believes this guy who answers fan questions created him. Bill wants to get to the Authority's dimension, where no one can change his past, and--
--ah. There's the sticking-point. If the leaders of the Interstellar Empire came to Gravity Falls and started a hostile takeover, or even just wreaked havoc, it'd still have to be stopped. He understands the sense of urgency, understands how important it is to get out of this dimension, but he's still leery about letting Bill loose on this new one, because Ford knows what Bill does to dimensions.
And, even if Ford makes it there and Bill doesn't trash the place, will he see his family again? Or will they just be trapped in a lower plane, on a screen, no longer "real?" Is that a sacrifice he's willing to make?
He's going to have to make it. If that dimension has the kind of power over non-"real" realities, Ford can't leave Bill there alone. He has to go.
Ford sits there silently for a long, long moment, thinking all of this over, looking down at his hands.
"Can you prove it? That what happens when he answers questions changes reality as we know it? Or would we only know for sure if we made it to his dimension and gathered data there?"
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Date: 2019-01-16 04:28 am (UTC)But how many were? How much about his history might be different from when he started? How much of his past has been scooped out like the guts of a pumpkin and replaced with something new? What about his past is real, and what's altered memory?
Bill wants to become real, not a creation of someone else, because he believes this guy who answers fan questions created him. Bill wants to get to the Authority's dimension, where no one can change his past, and--
--ah. There's the sticking-point. If the leaders of the Interstellar Empire came to Gravity Falls and started a hostile takeover, or even just wreaked havoc, it'd still have to be stopped. He understands the sense of urgency, understands how important it is to get out of this dimension, but he's still leery about letting Bill loose on this new one, because Ford knows what Bill does to dimensions.
And, even if Ford makes it there and Bill doesn't trash the place, will he see his family again? Or will they just be trapped in a lower plane, on a screen, no longer "real?" Is that a sacrifice he's willing to make?
He's going to have to make it. If that dimension has the kind of power over non-"real" realities, Ford can't leave Bill there alone. He has to go.
Ford sits there silently for a long, long moment, thinking all of this over, looking down at his hands.
"Can you prove it? That what happens when he answers questions changes reality as we know it? Or would we only know for sure if we made it to his dimension and gathered data there?"