It isn't that I want your advice, or your judgement or anything like that. It's more that I want you to know because everything I am is all tied up in it still. I don't talk about it public. It's easier to say I'm bad at names and dates and leave it at that. People don't need to know it's because I fried my own brain trying to get some bad memories out of it.
I just want us squared away. If that makes any sense.
[It's hard to articulate really. It's true that he's more or less moved past what happened in Gravity Falls. He's dedicated to moving forward; he's certainly never going back. But that doesn't mean he doesn't carry it with him, that he won't always, even if it's tucked in a box at the back of his mind like Christmas decorations in July. If anything what he saw in that door just proved exactly how much he still carries it with him and exactly how right he is to divorce himself from that life as hard as he can.
But he wants Taako to know because Taako saw, and there's a lot about what he saw that might lead to assumptions. Fiddleford doesn't want to be told what he did was wrong. He wants to clear the air so this isn't hanging over them from now on. So that Taako isn't going to wonder how close he might be at any given moment to backsliding -- because if he ever did, wouldn't Lup be in the line of fire?]
The important part is that you can tell I'm not that man anymore, because that means I'm doing something right.
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It isn't that I want your advice, or your judgement or anything like that. It's more that I want you to know because everything I am is all tied up in it still. I don't talk about it public. It's easier to say I'm bad at names and dates and leave it at that. People don't need to know it's because I fried my own brain trying to get some bad memories out of it.
I just want us squared away. If that makes any sense.
[It's hard to articulate really. It's true that he's more or less moved past what happened in Gravity Falls. He's dedicated to moving forward; he's certainly never going back. But that doesn't mean he doesn't carry it with him, that he won't always, even if it's tucked in a box at the back of his mind like Christmas decorations in July. If anything what he saw in that door just proved exactly how much he still carries it with him and exactly how right he is to divorce himself from that life as hard as he can.
But he wants Taako to know because Taako saw, and there's a lot about what he saw that might lead to assumptions. Fiddleford doesn't want to be told what he did was wrong. He wants to clear the air so this isn't hanging over them from now on. So that Taako isn't going to wonder how close he might be at any given moment to backsliding -- because if he ever did, wouldn't Lup be in the line of fire?]
The important part is that you can tell I'm not that man anymore, because that means I'm doing something right.