[Oh man. This idea ticks him off. He's okay not being important, he's okay not being a hero, but existing in order to ensure Bill would misread the prophecy? Being a part of a cosmic puzzle to be--what? It's not coming into being to be tricked that ticks him off, or to spend thirty years chasing Bill through countless realities.
It's reducing his entire life to a footnote on Bill Cipher's page.
(And any cosmic puppeteer, any god, who would put him on Earth knowing he would go through the winter of 1982...Ford isn't sure he wants to meet them. He's not sure he wouldn't sock them in the jaw.)
Ford isn't sure how to articulate how he feels, how to say I'm not for you, or my life means something apart from you. But mmm boy he is mad. He jabs a finger at the tablet.]
You are not the reason I exist. It doesn't work like that.
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[Oh man. This idea ticks him off. He's okay not being important, he's okay not being a hero, but existing in order to ensure Bill would misread the prophecy? Being a part of a cosmic puzzle to be--what? It's not coming into being to be tricked that ticks him off, or to spend thirty years chasing Bill through countless realities.
It's reducing his entire life to a footnote on Bill Cipher's page.
(And any cosmic puppeteer, any god, who would put him on Earth knowing he would go through the winter of 1982...Ford isn't sure he wants to meet them. He's not sure he wouldn't sock them in the jaw.)
Ford isn't sure how to articulate how he feels, how to say I'm not for you, or my life means something apart from you. But mmm boy he is mad. He jabs a finger at the tablet.]
You are not the reason I exist. It doesn't work like that.
...it can't.