Tag: drift au

So I remember reading somewhere in an AU of this AU that Dipper is more solemn and a lot more careful around his niblets to the point of being afraid of being around them, and I just thought that it would be cool that that would spill into his entire personality- When he’s summoned rathing than coming in booming, he arises from the circle silently with less theatrics, he tries even harder to not let his demonic side slip in when hes making deals, and probably isnt as infamous in the world.

Good end Drift AU.

That initial effect is just as scary in a different way. Booming thunder and smoke and a dark voice ringing in your ears is a show of power and outright force – it’s frightening, but it at least gives the impression of being something up-front. You can at least think that you know what you’re dealing with.

But something that enters the circle silently, solemnly, with an air of intensity and quiet restraint, like a simple wall holding back the force of a vast ocean…that’s unnerving. This being in the circle isn’t posturing. It’s assured, and you have no idea what it might be capable of in the right circumstances, nor what those circumstances are.

In the end, his reputation may simply be less chaotic than in canon universe. He’s still powerful enough for summoners to seek out – in fact, thanks to this more stable reputation, he may even see a few more summons, since people might not have as much cause to fear random chaos and rage, however cautious they might be, and however uncanny his quiet demeanor actually is.

And if he does end up accidentally destroying California all the same due to that frenzied fight against a powerful and very enthusiastic foe, he may still have that infamy, with a side of “see? Even a ‘reasonable’ demon like Alcor is dangerous, destructive, and not to be trusted.”

Headcanon: The Beast from Over The Garden Wall is what Henry became in some of the darker Drift AUs.

If you’re referring to Henry’s Woodsman form, it probably would not exist in the darker Drift AU version– or at least, not the way it came about in regular TAU. The deal that gave him the Woodsman form came from his trust of Dipper and in the Drift bad end, he doesn’t have it.

A possibility is that at that time, instead of the deal, Dipper appears and outright forces the power onto Henry because Dipper needs to protect his niblets and Henry is the most convenient option (Dipper wouldn’t choose Mabel for this–he wouldn’t want to damage what he owns). Because of this forced change, coming from the magic of a more demonic Dipper, the Woodsman form would manifest differently–be more twisted, more permanent. It takes more effort to return to normal for Henry, and his life burns up far quicker due to the damage that the power causes. And even then, he’s never quite as normal as he once was–his once hazel eyes are now a burning blue, and they glow in the dark if his control of the form slips. The sclera and area around the eyes darken in turn, as if deepened by shadows moving on their own. He hates it, he hates every reminder of what the demon has done to him (and doesn’t that just have a bitter irony to it?)

The Woodsman itself is more wild and feral, and instead of being deathly silent, it wails great peals of anguish and anger. Instead of stalking its prey silently, it moves in a frenzy, barely controlled. Drift AU Woodsman does not cut, it hacks, and people lose a lot more than just their hands to its blade.

In regular TAU, when Henry is alive, he and the Woodsman are one and the same. But maybe, maybe in Drift, the Woodsman already has a sentience of its own and is waiting at the back of his mind, waiting for him to slip, for it to be let free.

5. To Become: Teeth

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Time was meaningless and meaning had no meaning. Everything,
it seemed, meandered on.

But Alcor wasn’t so concerned with that. There were other
things to preoccupy him. Mabel’s paints and yarn needed organized, again. A
summons was pulling him to the other half of the globe. The sense of another
demon trailing him niggled at the base of his skull.

There was so much to do.

Which is why Dipper was not amused by the interruption he
foresaw taking place in exactly forty-one seconds. Not. At. All. Granted,
nothing should be able to interrupt him. He was a powerful demon. But just this
once, he would concede that this power surpassed his. He would need a plan.

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if the circumstances for fwtb happened in the drift au..

Two possibilities here thanks to the drift au split!

Bad end drift au: Dipper loses Mabel only a few years after taking her soul to save her. He very likely spirals further into his demonic side, driven by the pain of having lost his sister after so much effort spent to reconnect with her. He’s already pretty much chaotic evil, and Henry doesn’t trust him at all, not even around the kids. Without Mabel there to hold them together, they most likely wouldn’t stick with each other by mutual choice.

For that matter, it’s possible that Willow doesn’t survive the birth either. Without the trust of Henry or Stan, there might not be the deal to save her. Or maybe there is, but it’ll cost a lot more than a year of life between them, and when Mabel dies what little trust they placed in him for that deal is killed as well.

Either way, there wouldn’t be any kind of marriage for tax benefits. Henry might even try to keep Dipper away from himself and the kids entirely – wards, exorcisms, barriers, demon traps, whatever he can possibly think of. Dipper still gets through and mocks the attempts. He may have lost Mabel, but the kids remain – remnants of her, and so naturally they belong to him.

Good end drift au: Dipper is devastated by losing Mabel – it might not be worse than in regular fwtb, but there’s a bit more piled on there, what with being separated from her for all those years, walking the knife’s edge between growing in power and keeping himself, and then only getting a few brief years with her before she’s lost again – for good this time.

But in this version, Henry would trust him. Dipper’s softer, more careful about his demonic nature. He makes more of an effort to be a good person in every way, because that’s all he has to stave off what he’s become. Friend-marriage for tax benefits is far likelier in this version, and they’d be able to mutually support each other in raising the kids and dealing with their grief over losing Mabel.

Basically, we’ve got horror and fear and pain, or else softness and fluff and sorrow. You know, the usual transcendence au dichotomy.