AN: So, we're finally starting this challenge now! If you also want to participate in this month's Ricktober challenge, you can find the details in my post on DA (www .deviantart hope27 /journal /Ricktober-Challenge-762149481) or on AO3 (archiveofourown works /15865575).
This is a very slow/weak start and short chapter, but I just can't come up with much for Doofus Rick – sorry, but he's just not one of my favorite Ricks ^_^'
Warnings: none, really. Just a little sad with happy ending.
Summary: Poor Doofus Rick gets constantly bullied by his alternate counterparts and is so alone.
Finally Ricktober, Bitches! – Chapter 1: Doofus Rick / Rick J-19ζ7– A Rick's Loneliness, No More
Rick J-19ζ7 was a Rick that was somehow different from other Ricks. He didn't even know why or how exactly he was different, but all the other Ricks bullied him because of it.
They called him "Doofus" Rick even though his IQ wasn't lower than that of the others. And they were even so mean and spreading rumors that he came from a dimension where everyone would eat poop, which was also not true.
He really didn't know why they kept harassing him like that. He couldn't see how he was different from all the other Ricks despite the one fact that he didn't ever had founded a family.
Being a Rick was already a very lonely existence, but Rick J-19ζ7 was the loneliest of them all.
However, his constant loneliness came abruptly to an end one day. It was the day that he met Jerry C-137.
Rick was so happy that the other wanted to be friends with him and was still interested in hanging out with him even after they had found and returned Rick C-137 to him.
He couldn't exactly explain the relationship that they had, but he figured that Jerry was the son-in-law that he should have had, but never did have. He was the family that Rick didn't have in his dimension.
Sure he had a Morty now – the Eric-Stoltz-Mask Morty that he was provided with after joining the Citadel of Ricks (which was the Morty that no other Rick had wanted because of his looks, but Doofus Rick had never mind that) – but being with Jerry was still somehow different.
The other told him that he shouldn't listen to his alternate selves and he believed J-19ζ7 over all the rumors that were spread about him. Jerry was a decent and intelligent guy who was fun to hang out with and most of all, he was willing to spend time with him.
So, increasingly often they met up for their little dates – having a "Jerry and Rick's Day of Fun" or a "Best Friends day" as they both called it.
It made Rick so happy. Even if he was still shunned and ridiculed by other Ricks, he at least had a friend now other than the stuffed animals that he occasionally held tea parties with.
He wasn't so lonely anymore.