sometimes I wonder why y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever
art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you
Hilarious to me how there are only two instances of Stan Pines being compared to PT Barnum (at least that I'm aware of), one of them is in the character pitch, which was one of the earliest things created about the character, and the other one is on the tbob website.
And the way the whole course of his character's changed is so funny to me.
The first one is, like, lol, look at this weird and probably insane old ass charlatan
And the second one is an implication that he may canonically have PTSD
You fucked up a perfectly good con-man is what you did. Look at him. He's got PTSD!
i dont like it when the task avoidance gets to the scary part
I'd really like to see them interact
One of my favorite things in GF fics is when Stan throws something Ford has said/ written about him in his face.
Like, for example, some time during their travels Stan somehow reveals that this whole time he's had this creeping thought that Ford only wants him around out of guilt or obligation. Ford is naturally taken aback by just how far from the truth it is and, more importantly, very hurt that his brother can even think that about him.
And so Stan says something along the lines of
"Am I supposed to believe that you suddenly give a shit about me now? Or is it just that I've done something worthwhile for the first time in my life? That I was useful to you?"
And Ford's immediate reaction is
"God, Stanley, why'd you even think-
-oh"
Like, the whole thing of Stan still thinking about those words that were said years ago, now when everything is fine and when Ford is actively doing everything he can to show his brother that he loves him. Meanwhile Ford never thought much about those words, never placed any importance on them and only perhaps meant them the moment when he said them, when he was angry and very tired. He didn't even really regret them because he didn't remember about them, that's how little they mattered. But they mattered to Stan, still do and haunt him every day
Not sure if the point I wanted to make with this drawing really came across, so I wanted to elaborate a bit: it's not that Stan acts "creepy" when he's around other ppl who aren't Ford, but more so that Frankenstan in general is just kinda uncanny. Like you take one look at him and you can immediately tell something isn't right, and it's very unnerving. As much as he tries to appear normal, Stan can't hide the fact that he's a literal walking corpse
But Ford only sees Stan for who he is. He doesn't feel scared or weirded out by what he looks like, because that's his brother, so why would he be scared of him? And maybe it's also because he has dedicated years of his life to researching the strange and abnormal, which is something he loves and feels a deep connection with, and that extends to his now undead brother
