[Stan nods along, looks appropriately horrified and disgusted at the right moments, but Ford probably recognizes Stan's lack of recognition from when his memory was first erased. Sometimes when they told him stories about himself, the reaction was as though he was listening to a story about someone else. He could pick up on the emotional beats, but the connection to it wasn't there.]
So...the memory erasing was my idea.
[He sounds...unsure if he's surprised or not. It wasn't like anyone could tell him - not without telling him what they did or who they were up against. It hits a little different knowing for sure that he volunteered to wipe himself out completely. It shuts the impostor syndrome up for a minute, and that's kind of a shock.
But...given what he's pieced together of the rest of his life, maybe it's not a surprise at all that he'd throw it all away.]
No wonder he's so pissed off - it's not that I killed him, it's that I beat that lousy two-bit con artist at his own game - with my own lousy two-bit con arting!
[That had to have been it. They had to have tricked him. Nothing else would make any sense.]
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Date: 2020-05-23 09:46 pm (UTC)So...the memory erasing was my idea.
[He sounds...unsure if he's surprised or not. It wasn't like anyone could tell him - not without telling him what they did or who they were up against. It hits a little different knowing for sure that he volunteered to wipe himself out completely. It shuts the impostor syndrome up for a minute, and that's kind of a shock.
But...given what he's pieced together of the rest of his life, maybe it's not a surprise at all that he'd throw it all away.]
No wonder he's so pissed off - it's not that I killed him, it's that I beat that lousy two-bit con artist at his own game - with my own lousy two-bit con arting!
[That had to have been it. They had to have tricked him. Nothing else would make any sense.]