I Have Been Thinking About The GLAU All Day And Its So Wholesome And Sweet And Lovely (can Elaborate

I have been thinking about the GLAU all day and it’s so wholesome and sweet and lovely (can elaborate if desired) but I think my mind was like “you’ve had it too good time to suffer”

So now I’m thinking about an AU where Henry kills his mom before she can carry out her plan

Lmao someone was complaining that the only way you’d be able to save Ricky is if you believed Marie was untrustworthy so it was basically a crapshoot

And I was like

Uh

No

You get at least 5 clues that tell you outright she’s lying

That’s a lot more than other callers

The game REALLY wants you to save Ricky

Piggybacking off of this

in the GLAU I can totally imagine him being like “hey bean I’m gonna take Henry back down to my neck of the woods for a special father son hunting trip” and Marie is like “oh okay have fun boys” and like they’re in the car on the way down and Henry is like “I’m excited to go hunting with you, pa” and George goes “oh I’m also gonna teach you how to make proper moonshine but don’t tell your ma or she’ll kill us both.”

More George headcanons because yea:

- Fucking loves spicy food. His mom definitely made the best chili when he was younger.

- #1 menace to a tall tree. Grew up sporty, started off with menacing the local wildlife.

- You're tellin me this kid didn't race the deer near him?

- SOMEHOW wrestled a coyote and won without getting rabies. Still amazes his family and the town he grew up in.

- Got his ass kicked yeah, but no rabies. That's all that really matters.

- Had a little old woman who ADORED him, always dropped him by gifts as a reward for him being the town helper.

- It was impossible to get him to stay inside. If he were ever grounded, they'd make him stay inside and do nothing. Couldn't even make him clean because he liked doing that.

- Vulture Culture kinda kid. His room and back deck were a mess of animal bits and bobs.

- Has random sticks just chilling in his room decor. [I have some chilling in my Non-Christmas-Christmas lights. + A random bone we found in the creek a while back]

This game is terrible for my mental health

because one moment I’m like “hee hee Forrest say silly things, so goofy, middle aged man be acting wild”

to

“surviving entirely alone in a world that wouldn’t even let her make a bank account without a man on top of making and then subsequently raising an entire other human that needs to be clothed and fed with no mental health support cost Marie her sanity, and by the time she came across anyone even slightly interested in helping her it was already far too late for her”

in like two minutes

Laughter to tears speedrun every day with this shit

So I saw a photograph of an actress in 1964 wearing Jean shorts that were quite short (tbh shorter than I would’ve thought for the time) and then I just thought of Marie wearing herself a pair in the summertime and George trying to be a gentleman and not look but like having a peep before tearing his eyes away

But then like if you know what old basketball shorts looked like (hint: they were short), imagine George Jason and Marie going to hang out and play basketball and enjoy the nice summer day outside and Marie is just like “damn”

The absolute karma of Marie having to stay on earth as a ghost without George is kind of delicious especially if Forrest is mouthing off at her because he doesn’t think she’s real

Like she is absolutely miserable and hates GC and Forrest has to go and make it infinitely worse by sassing her

the concept of forrest being integrated and adopted into the town without really realizing it. getting specific and having him be unknowingly adopted into the weaver-campbell-barrow family. starting out with him staying close friends with peggy and helping her get through post-whistling night & extending the olive branch to her nephew. not having it register for forrest that he's continuing his role of support for the town and this family bc it happens as suddenly and organically as it did on whistling night. having marie come back into the picture somehow and running interference/referee btwn her & her sister/the town. driving with peggy to wherever henry is kept and bringing anyone henry can stand to be around along to help smooth things over. if all of them are inevitably alive and released then forrest finds himself helping run a rare get-together in someone's home where everyone promised to make a real effort to get along this time. the idea of this character who, back in his hometown, might've been known as charming but admittedly weird now still That Guy but compared to everyone he's found himself spending so much time with, it almost feels like he's the straightman of a comedy duo who tries to keep things in order. and in some stupid-crazy happy ending, it fucking works. he's baking. there's 2 slashers and at least 2 other people they tried to kill bickering at the table, and he's baking.