Even if Betty got Simon back without Golb I feel like the effects of the war and fallout would have made him a different man anyway.
Like they’re living in Ooo and while Betty sees that these are reminiscences of their old life, Simon remembers the bombs falling and people getting sick and dying. He remembers having to run for his life and care for someone who he probably believed he was lying to about things ending up okay. He watched the world, not just his personal world, fall apart.
I mean it’s somewhat hinted that Betty jumped to the future before any real effects of the war hit meaning she can’t really understand his feelings on that even if she gets the whole magic madness is a theoretical post Magic Betty state.
I like the idea that even if together something will forever separate them from being as close as they once were.
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Really wanted to make these two in a The Last of Us scenario.
Quotes I think they'd say:
"Betty sacrificed herself to save this world, She must be disappointed knowing that this is what it ended up as." - Simon
"Funny how I survived two wars that referenced a mushroom. Small world we live in, huh?" - Simon
"Wait wait- Holy shit! You're the guy who wrote Fionna and cake! Fuck- hold on can you please sign this?" - Astrid
"I wish our world worked more like Fionna and cake.. They have nothing to worry about, And us? We worry about everything." - Astrid
I might make more stuff for this AU but.. I can't promise that.
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thinking about Betty and Marceline in the snow queen au. Marceline’s replacement parental figure isn’t as calm, isn’t as collected, but she’s a lot more willing to take risks and get into a fight. Marceline learns that using her head and outthinking her opponent is the best way to survive. take advantage of anything and everything. never let them see that you’re weak. everything has a weak point — it’s only a matter of finding where it is. nothing is unbeatable, but some things aren’t worth the cost it would take to beat them.
in this world, Marceline gets another mother instead of another father — at first, that is.
She hears Betty talking to herself late at night, sounding sadder than Marceline has ever heard, and she’s talking to someone she keeps calling Simon. Marceline doesn’t know anyone named Simon, but she knows Betty must’ve lost someone before this, too. She keeps turning to talk to someone who isn’t there when they’re walking. Marceline recognises it because she used to do it too, before she realised there would never be someone watching over her shoulder to look at her draw, never someone walking behind her and trying to keep pace as she runs ahead.
Betty’s there now, though. Marceline is glad. it’s not her mom, but… it’s something close enough, and that’s what matters. she just wishes that whoever this Simon is, Betty could find him again, because he doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that can be so easily replaced.
(She’s not replacing her mom. Marceline could never do that. But… an empty role being filled, and a person being replaced, aren’t the same thing. Betty isn’t Mom, but she’s the closest thing Marceline’s got to a mother, and that’s good enough for her.)
Betty sees it differently.
She found a little kid in a wasteland, a girl with sharp teeth and greyed skin and a haunted look in her eyes. there’s no one following behind to watch her. she’s alone, just like Betty is.
they might as well be alone together, but Betty knows it won’t really be alone anymore — not for Marceline, at least, and once she finds Simon, they’ll be a proper family. he always did say it would be nice to have a kid someday. it’s probably not what he had been thinking about in the moment, a little demon girl in the midst of an apocalypse, but the world is weird enough right now that Betty can discount a discrepancies.
she has to be more careful around Marceline, though it takes her a bit longer than it should to adjust to that. Betty is so used to her partner being Simon, a man smarter than any she’s ever met before, clever to the point that it more than makes up for his neat-total lack of atheistic skills. Marceline, though… she’s small. she’s a kid. if Betty isn’t careful with her, she could end up hurt or worse.
(She’s left the crown in her backpack ever since she met Marceline. Betty can’t bring herself to put it down, no matter how hard she tries to chuck it into the sea and be done with it, but she won’t put it back on, either.
All she knows is that she put it on and everything went black. When she woke up again, she was laying on the ground, aching all over, surrounded by snow and hailstones and icy stalagmites with Simon nowhere to be seen. She can’t let that happen again — she won’t let that happen again.)
(She hopes.)
(But sometimes, she doesn’t have a choice.)
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