Hi, I've Been Enjoying Your Author Stan Au, But I Am A Bit Confused About The Timeline. Not Sure If You

hi, i've been enjoying your author stan au, but I am a bit confused about the timeline. not sure if you made a mistake or if I'm missing something here... but did stan get a phd in 4 years? that is normally the time it takes to get a bachelor's, and a phd takes more like 10 years after high school graduation. considering he graduated "by the seat of his pants", i'm guessing he is not supposed to have earned it in record time, right?

Oh shoot, that might be up to me not knowing how American university degrees work. I try to always do my research, but I guess I missed that one. I figured since canon Ford had supposedly gotten twelve PhDs in less than ten years (cartoon logic, but I know) I figured one in four years might be reasonable. I think when trying to equate it to my own country's education system I might have gotten the degrees mixed up.

I feel like changing it at this point might be kind of difficult, so here's a few alternate possibilities:

A: Backupsmore is just very lax with their standards, and even mediocre effort stands out so much that it's heavily rewarded.

B: Stan managed to charm his way past a bunch of formalities and checks he shouldn't have.

C: Stan is way smarter than he gives himself credit for (I mean, he repaired a macine barely even conceived off in purely theoretical physics with only one third of the instructions and absolutely no outside help) and the whole "by the seat of his pants thing was actually mostly him looking down on himself because he knows Ford would have done it even faster. So while not quite as outrageously academically proficient as Ford, he still graduated way ahead of schedule due to his drive to succeed for Ford's sake.

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A wonderful new chapter. I have a small question. We all understand how and why Ford acts in this situation the way he does.

But what was Ford "supposed" to do?

I'm not asking for spoilers about their reunion and what mistakes will be made during these events. I mean in general. Should he have turned to his parents for help? Or contact Stan? Or was he supposed to leave the country and never come back? Maybe he should have gotten rid of the extra fingers?

What should Ford have done to make the story as happy as it could have been?

Good question. I honestly am not sure what he could have done, it's not exactly an easy situation. I think what would have turned out for the best is to reach out to Stan and tell him the truth (while also giving plenty of warning about why it needs to stay secret from everyone else). But that could either go really well or really really horribly, and it'd pretty much be up to luck.

If they manage to avoid detection, probably moving abroad together, than it'd be the happiest turn of events. But if they don't manage to avoid detection, then that just means they'll all be in danger and not only Ford.

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how would ASAU Ford react if he saw Bill for the first time?

Oooh, this may or may not be spoilers. Sorry ;)

This may sound strange, but why aren't Stan and Carla married? No, of course, if we take Stan's age separately for consideration, then this is quite normal. It's just that he's been in a relationship for more than 10 years and he's obviously a family man. Why didn't he decide to find his peace in marriage and children?

Maybe he would even have had twins. That would be nice

Again, I do not want to say that everyone is obliged to start a family. It's just that Stan seems to me like a person who would want it.

I think he'd definitely want to get married and start a family eventually (Would probably name one of the kids Ford). But I think the two main factors in that not having happened yet is that:

A: He wants to wait until he's found the root of Gravity Falls weirdness. Until he's done that and created the legacy he wanted Ford to have he doesn't want to risk any distractions. Plus, that theory will probably make them pretty much set for life economically, and he wants to make sure their family won't have to worry about money.

And B: Plain and simple, he's terrified that he'll be a bad father and turn out like Filbrick. It'd take a lot to convince him those fears are unfounded.