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TAU AU where Henry becomes a demon, either in the place of Dipper or instead of the Woodsman. Fic open season!

Consider the Transcendence in 2012

Henry would be 13 (technically a teen!) to Mabel and Dipper’s 12. How did he end up in Gravity Falls here and now? 

Perhaps a kind woman with no name gave him a ride to his uncle’s house, perhaps his uncle had custody of him, or perhaps his branch of the Corduroy clan had never left in the first place.

How did it happen, how does it end? All good questions. But perhaps a better one is to consider-

—————-

March 2026

(if the author was so inclined, this Transcendence would happen on the day of the triplet’s birth, for that extra bit of pathos. But let’s give Mabel a break; it’s hard being pregnant) 

Henry had always believed Mabel and Dipper and Stan when they told him about that first summer the twins had come to Gravity Falls. It was hard not to, between the presence of Dr. Pines (he could never bring himself to call the man Ford, like he called Stan ‘Stan’), the scars on Mabel and Dipper, and of course, all the many Other beings that called Gravity Falls home. 

He was aware of the possibility that Bill could return, that the binding of the Wheel could come undone. 

(-not that anyone ever brought the idea up in conversation; but Henry could hardly blame them-)

He just never thought it would actually happen. 

Henry managed to stagger to his feet. The shockwave from the gun that Dr. Pines had created knocked everyone down, except for Stan who had had the quick wits to engage the brakes in his wheelchair.

Bill was still there. That was… discouraging.

Slightly more encouraging was the ichor dripping from his eye, the bricks slowly crumbling and falling to the ground. Didn’t Dr. Pines say earlier that the gun could fire two or three shots?

“WELL WELL WELL. YOU CRAZY KIDS SURE DID A NUMBER ON THIS BODY.”

Next to him, Henry could see Dipper tense up, saw Mabel clutch her bat tighter in her hands. 

“SO I THINK IT’S ONLY FAIR THAT I BORROW ONE OF Y̹̝̳ O̸̺̪͉̦̝͚ͅ U̢̩̥̗̗̣ R̨̘̪͕̱ S̱͖̪.”

All of the blood drained from Dipper’s face as Bill’s hands joined together.

“EENIE-” a point at Dr. Pines

“MEENIE-” a point at Candy even as Dr. Pines scrambled to prime the gun one more time, caring no longer about subtlety. 

“MINIE-” a point at Manly Dan.

“YOU.” 

Dipper stood frozen as Bill went greyscale, his corporeal form dropping like a stone to the ground. 

Ten minutes, ten years, ten centuries afterwards, Henry could never quite say what had propelled his feet to move, moved him to throw his body in front of Dipper’s own.

All he remembered was seeing Gravity Falls burning around him one moment and then the next-

—

“THIS IS UNEXPECTED.”

Henry looked around. They were in a forest… but it wasn’t the forest that grew in and around Gravity Falls. No, here the trees were taller, broader, their canopies impossibly large and the air primeval.

“DON’T BE SO SURPRISED ANTLERS, THIS IS YOUR MINDSC-”

Bill paused, and then spewed from his eye black bile. And though Henry was divorced from his body here, he knew without knowing how that back in the real world, whoever was next to him-

(DipperGrendaFordMABEL)

-would see the veins in his arms, in his neck run that same pitch black.

Bill coughed once, and the ichor managed to stop, though even as he straightened up, a brick fell out of his middle.

“I CAN WORK WITH THIS! I’M JUST GOING TO NEED YOU TO D̯́Ị̼E͎̜̞̪͜ͅ-”

Pain flared through Henry’s being, unimaginable and all-encompassing. For a heartstopping moment, Henry was so very sure that this was it, that his body was going to be hijacked to kill the ones he loved-

Something small, quiet inside him woke up and simply said-

“No.”

—

-the next he was waking up in Mabel’s arms, his face and front wet from the snot and tears she was dripping on him.

His entire body ached… no. That wasn’t quite it. More like it felt like every nerve was on fire, like an size XL stuffed into a size XS meat suit, like-

(meat suit?)

“Don’t you ever fucking do that again!” Mabel screeched, and then pounded him in the chest with one first for good measure. “I’m the only one who gets to do dumb things in this relationship.”

Henry huffed out a small laugh. “Not for the next eight months,” he gently pointed out.

Mabel paused.

“Oh yeah. Poop.”

“Mabel. Mabel sweetie.”

They both turned towards the sound of Stan’s voice as he slowly wheeled himself over to him.

“Who are you talking to?”

Mabel laughed. “Henry!”

Stan’s face froze. It looked like he (and Ford, and Dipper) had bitten into something rotten.

“Mabel….” Stan started, and then stopped. He looked over to Dipper, who knelt down next to them, tears streaming down his face.

“Mabel; Henry isn’t there.”

ancientouroboros:

THANK YOU @seiya234 for donating to RAICES to help those kids!!

The request was for adult Mabel (who definitely has billions of cool socks, tattoos, wears peter pan collared dresses, and has a bitchin half shave). Here she is with Henry from the transcendence AU (uh without his glasses bc I forgot)!

She inherits the Pines’ big muscly arms, right?

someone spreads a rumour that Don Pines is the son of Mizar and the Woodsman. most people dismiss it and consider those who believe it crack pots. (cue new recruit learning most of the stories bout Hank are fake or exaggerations. “yeah where do they come up with this stuff. anyone who’s met the guy would no there no way he’s the son of Mizar and the Woodsman” “No that one true” “whaaaaaaaaaaaaat!”

The only thing would be is that I’m not sure that the Woodsman is that well known outside of Gravity Falls yet. By Hank’s adult life, most of the Woodsman’s shenanigans have been in GF. People are starting to be aware of the Woodsman (see, that one time in Eugene) but it’s not until Henry dies and the Woodsman starts roaming that his reputation grows.

As for Mabel- her friends and family know she’s Mizar. We know she’s Mizar. But the vast majority of the world would not, because her and Dipper (well, mainly Dipper) work very hard to keep it that way, for the safety of Mabel and her family. 

(also in the interest of Not Getting Arrested.)

On the other hand- Portland is still in Oregon and Mizar gets spotted everywhere, so I can see this rumor maybe popping up. Though only Hank’s close friends probably know who his parents actually are: Hank and his siblings were raised to be tight-lipped about such matters for their own protection.

The Thingy

thatdisastrousfangirl-writes:

Brief a/n! I’ll be trying to get the next chapter of The Other Way out by Sunday at the end of this week but in the mean time have this quick little thing I wrote instead of working 🙂

“Let me get this straight,” Henry started, pushing his glasses up to pinch the bridge of his nose. “You two were trying to make pancakes for breakfast, something you have both done multiple times, yet you somehow managed to burn the entire table, smash all the plates and cups and bowls, destroy all the chairs, the window and cupboards and cover the rest of the kitchen in bright, rainbow glitter.” Henry moved his hand to his side to properly get a look at his fiancé and soon to be brother-in-law, both quite frazzle looking and equally cover in glitter compared to the rest of the room. 

“Yes well you see, the thing is, this, this, thingy, just showed up out of know where, on top of the table!” Dipper began to explain gesturing wildly with his hands, an ungodly count of glitter getting flicked everywhere. 

“YEAH there was this small round looking thingy! And it started attacking us with this WHOLE truck load of FEATHERS!” Mabel added, both her arms gesturing more wildly then her brothers. Henry looked down at the ground, and sure enough it was completely covered, to the point you could no longer see the wooden boards, in a mass of feathers of all sorts of colours and sizes. 

“Yup, and then I, uh, I deliberately set the table on fire, cause, that’s where the, the thingy was!” 

“He definitely did that on purpose and not just because the feathers made him sneeze like an adorable fire breathing kitten.” Dipper glared at Mabel who didn’t seem to notice. “Then the thingy jumped over to the cabinet with all the bowls and stuff before it could be burned and started to SMASH EVERYTHING!!”

“By throwing it all at us.” 

“At us! And THEN it reached my glitter stash!”

“Which was exceptionally better stocked that I think anyone expected.”

“And it threw all of THAT at us!” 

“Then we had this huge fight with it! Which is why um, every, everything else is destroyed!”

“BUT WE WON!”

“The thingy is now dead, and will bother us no more!”

Henry stared at the twins, awkwardly fidgeting before him, and he couldn’t help but start to laugh at them. They quickly joined in, all laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation. Only could Dipper and Mabel get into this sort of trouble while trying to make breakfast.  

*rolls in* Henry from TAU and a monster of your choice. :3

marypsue:

“Henry? Hon?” Mabel leaned over the edge of the bed, her hair flopping down onto the floor as she pulled up the cover, her upside-down smile as big and as bright as it was right-side up. “What’re you doing down there?”

Henry let out a sigh. “I’m stuck.”

“What?” Mabel’s face disappears, hair streaming upwards like a pennant, and then her feet land on the rug by Henry’s nose. Seconds later, her face is back, right side up this time, her chin leaning on her elbows as she lies flat on her stomach. “Oh.”

Henry nods miserably. Or, rather, tries to. The impressive rack of antlers sprouting from his head and caught up in the underside of the bedframe make it a little difficult.

Mabel stifles a giggle in one hand. “You should see yourself!”

“I’m just a pair of spooky glowing eyes in the dark, aren’t I,” Henry says gloomily. “Hank ran away screaming when I asked him to help pull me out.”

“Is that what that was all about?” Mabel teases. “He just said there was a monster under the bed.”

“It’s not funny,” Henry mutters, even though he’s having trouble keeping the corners of his own mouth from twitching upwards. Mabel’s smile is infectious like that. “Would you please help me out of here?”

Several minutes of tugging and yanking and creative swearing later, Henry and Mabel both have to admit that as long as his antlers are corporeal, Henry’s not going anywhere.

“That’s okay, though,” Mabel announces, in that tone of voice she gets when she’s made up her mind and nothing, come hell or high water, will keep her from her goal. “Budge over.”

“Ow – Mabel, what -”

“Shush! And move your bony elbows.”

With Mabel cuddled up next to him, Henry has to admit, being stuck as the monster under the bed isn’t all bad. 

An r!Henry who is an identical twin. She grows tomatoes on her antlers, food for everything from salads to pasta sauce! But then, since she’s so close to her sister (physically, mentally, and spiritually) for just that lifetime, she has antlers as well. But they only grow green tomatoes. Cue sadness as small children… until they find out you can cook green tomatoes like eggplant, and it’s delicious!!!

They later open a food truck that specializes in fried green tomatoes