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Since Tinky used visions of Jenny to manipulate Ted, he would take advantage of any timeline where Ted dies before Pete to create visions of Ted to manipulate Pete, or just torment him and drive him insane.

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A bit different from my typical asks, but here’s a Hatchetfield idea that came to me during class.

Okay, so basically, an interaction I would like to see is Peter going to Ted for dating advice and revealing his crush on Steph. Naturally, Ted is his usual self and starts busting Pete’s balls… but then it dawns on him, Pete genuinely likes this girl and is actually coming to him for brotherly advice. It takes a minute to collect himself, but Ted thinks back on his past conquests, his repeated attempts at starting legitimate relationships, Jenny… and when he finally sort out his thoughts, he actually manages to muster up some sound advice and words of encouragement for his brother.

Honestly, this scenario could go any number of ways, but I keep coming back to the cruelly ironic idea that Ted, despite helping Peter, can’t take his own advice and falls back on his usual tendencies.

I’m sure other people have had the same/similar ideas, but I just thought I’d share my take on the matter.

Really like he idea that Ted, on some level, knows that his usual lessons and techniques aren't healthy, but still uses them.

I think this is because Ted doesn't consider himself worthy of happiness, even if he doesn't know the whole truth about Jenny, he still considers it his fault, so he punishes himself. In his own words from TGWDLM, he refuses to be happy.

Another thing that might play a role in this is Ted's religious beliefs, I'm serious. Ted is a Presbyterian and takes his religion at least seriously enough to refuse to die in another denomination's church. I know this was probably written as a joke, as in "haha, the horny asshole cares about religious minutia", but it's really interesting to me.

I almost wonder if Ted is trying to redeem himself in some roundabout way. His projection onto Bill in that infamous rant, the fact that in Black Friday he spends his last moments trying to bring some small comfort to Peter and Charlotte, the two people he cares about the most. There's something there, a want to do something good, and also a fear of making things worse again.

As you can probably tell, I ponder Ted a lot, and I really hope we see more of his relationship with Pete in the future.

I know most of this wasn't about the ask, but I just wanted to get some of these thoughts out.