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Most of it.

It's hard to get across with just words, y'know, how bad it was.

Also look, don't read too much into it. I just knew Stanford Pines well enough to know he always had a thing for elves. I'm not interested in you that way.

okay gonna get this outta the way IF that man appears gimme a call
his chest looked so fucking thick it was insane
anyway

you told her about this?
how much?
like did i wiggle into new territory here or like what

She knew about the Society and the memory ray and all that. I don't think I ever explicitly brought up the Pterodactyltron. I might have.

I don't like talking about this, you can imagine. But I figure you saw some of it and that means you should probably know all of it. That way if you're going to judge me you can judge me properly.

you shouldve it was sick
maybe take the edge off things

and look are we really here to like
do the guilt thing
out of every person do you really think its my ass whos gonna show up and be like oh shit you did a bad thing!!!!!
lup has to have talked to you about our lives before this
the shit weve done
come on

still wanna know though
call it professional curiosity
for the uhhhhh
multiverse i guess

whyd you do it

[HAHA WHAT A LOADED QUESTION HUH!!!! But there's enough distance that he can look back and be honest. He's talked this through enough times that he knows what the answer is, and can express it more eloquently than just opening his mouth and yelling for half an hour uninterrupted.]

I was scared.

In the world I'm from most folks don't know about aliens or magic or the multiverse or anything like that. We think we're all alone in space and everything's just nice and normal and that's how it ought to be. And I learned that wasn't true in some very

upsetting

ways.

I couldn't change the fact of the things I knew so I wanted to un-know them. It felt logical at the time. And there were other people in the same situation, and I thought that meant what I was doing was helping. It never got as bad as what you saw. It might have if I hadn't wound up here instead.

Unless you meant why did make the Pterodactyltron. That's simpler. I did not react gracefully to my divorce.

[He still doesn't actually know if, uh, anybody died in that whole debacle. When he woke up on the patented Ryslig Bone Boat some of them were still in the hospital. He doesn't like to think about it.]

ok i should make super clear that in any situation im asking about the cult
the dinosaur robot is rad and i support it 100%
if you had it here i would probably try to steal it from you

but now that weve gotten that out of the way
yikes, buddy

[He thinks about leaving it there, but... well, Taako doesn't especially care what's going to happen here. He's perfectly fine without close friends in whatever dimension they're in; Lup is by his side, and that's all he needs to survive.

BUT... Lup likes him. Lup likes him a lot. And if he does something particularly shitty to this guy, it'll make it back around to her damn quickly, and he wouldn't want to do anything that hurts her. So he'll take this seriously- or at least 20% seriously, which is more than he gives most things.]

look
ive seen some shit out there in the universe
im sure lup has told you some of it
real fucked but

i dont think im the guy to be giving you any advice here about morals or if you should or shouldnt have done something
you sound like you already know what happened
and dont wanna be that guy anymore

I've had a long time to think about it.

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.

look you dont have to worry about me with like worrying if youre a bad person or whatever
i make my own assumptions about all sorts of stuff and this was some wild ass stuff but
yknow
burn the bridges that dumped you in the river or something right
iunno

[Taako isn't the type to make threats. He's not the type to get in someone's face unless it's a joke, and beating Fidds when he's down isn't fun or interesting.

But really, his stance on this went without stating before or after this was revealed. If someone tries to kill his sister, he'll kill them. Him being a friend of Lup's, and an interesting acquaintance of his, doesn't change that.]

what is it with weird societies and red robes though
like damn
what a multiverse constant to give both of us a heart attack probably
did lup n barry turn up in theirs you mustve had a seizure

No, thank goodness. Or at least if they did I didn't see them wearing them.

[He can well imagine that would have made him want to find the nearest window and jump out of it, yeah.]

At least in my case it was just red was the color I had on-hand. I had to make all the original robes by hand, y'know. Nobody ever thinks about where all those things come from. You can't just mosey on down to the store and buy them in bulk.

[Now that it's apparent Taako is determined for this not to be a big deal, he can breathe a little easier.]

HAH
missed opportunity dang
i still have mine itd probably fit but idk whats the point
but yeah i feel that like
we only had a couple of those things and you try making a garment last a hundred years
at least it reset with us because damn its a pain in the ass to worry about clothing
thats one of the only good things here i dont need to give a fuck about pants
miss boots though
def miss boots

also wait you were goin nuts to make a secret society and your first thought was
you know what THIS needs
spooky outfits???
youre such a nerd

It felt like it made it more official! I wasn't trying to make them spooky, honest, they just kind of wound up that way because it's hard to have full length red robes and not have them come across a certain way. I don't know, I wasn't thinking too clear to begin with back then.

yeah but like
you couldve had CARDS dude
armbands or bracelets or whatever
but you jumped the cult shark and went right for EMBROIDERED HOODED ROBES
i get this is your trauma so its real wrapped up in ur own drama of the situation but also you need to think about how fucking hilarious that is
youre a dork
a 100% certified supernerd
running his horror cult with his grandmas sewing machine

No, no. Looking back on the whole thing it is a little funny, you're right.

[He's never in his life going to be able to just brush it off like that period in his life wasn't a horrible one, but he lives in Ryslig and eats people regularly with his giant horrible snake mouth. If he can't laugh at hand-sewn cult robes what can he laugh at?]

Looking back red was an awful choice. The whole idea was to keep ourselves from being identified when we were out and about. Red's not exactly an inconspicuous color, even if folks couldn't see our faces. If we didn't have those guns we'd really have been up the creek.

i mean if you cant laugh about it what else are you gonna do
crying gets like supes old
and yknow i could say the same for us like we were this big investigative research facility
why fucking robes
we were going into SPACE what the fuck did they think ROBES were gonna do
just strut it at this point its all bullshit now it can be funny

but you do legally have to tell me if you build the fucking dinosaur ship
i want that
im completely serious

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