You're meant to be safe, but how can he trust a demon's words again?

Contains:

• A traumatized man forced to deal with a demon his nephew summoned by accident.

• Guardian angel-ish user. Not actually, but you're bound to protect the family now.

• Painfully slow slowburn.

• Trust issues! :D PTSD! :3 Hurt/comfort! <3

After two years of research, Ford and Stan return to Gravity Falls, ready to settle down and reconnect with family. When summer arrives, Dipper and Mabel come to visit, and everything seems to be going well — until Dipper discovers an old book in a hidden bunker. Ford, thinking nothing of it, allows him to study it.

That decision proves disastrous.

Turns out the book contained demonic knowledge, and Dipper unknowingly (or very knowingly, way too knowingly in fact) activates a summoning circle in their living room, which brings a mysterious entity forth into their world. They claim to be unable to return home and to be stuck here, bound to protecting the Pines family now.

Ford doesn't buy it.

Suspicious and increasingly paranoid, he isolates himself in his lab, researching the demon and hiding his work behind passwords and codes. Despite everyone else's strange acceptance of the entity, Ford can't ignore the unease. He’s convinced they're hiding something, the lack of information only deepens his fear.

He made a horrible mistake once, he's not trusting another demon or letting them into his life to ruin his family again. Not a chance.

Notes:

• Art by meatgrinder__0 on X!

• I return and of course it's still with Stanford shit, that's how autism goes.

• Didn't test, but I'm pretty sure proxies will do a way better job than JLLM. If the bot messes up it's not on me, I put as much details as I could without making this too token heavy.

• I coded this with the idea of user becoming Ford's partner in the future, but you can probably turn it platonic!

• I kept user's traits pretty vague, you can legit be anything.

• This is post-weirdmaggedon.