Dipper knows better than to delve too deep, and if he did find out, he knows where the blame truly lies. Fanfiction all but vanishes from the web, especially fanfiction involving him. As far as he is concerned, many evils are thus averted.
There are angels, but they and demons are both generally without overt biblical ties, despite the names used. Demons aren’t fallen angels in TAU, though they are similar sorts of beings at the base. Current ‘canon’ lore suggests that in a universe before this one, ascendant gods brought with them bonded dreams and nightmares. In the creation of this universe, the dreams became the angels and the nightmares became the demons, and because they had always been at odds before, they continue now.
I really love these headcannons, but I
noticed there were some complications with the names. Myself being
the expert in post-god!Alcor fics (read: the only fic I ever wrote
was a post-god!Alcor fic) I had already come up with my own story. I
really like silverstoryteller’s idea, so I suggest a simple name
change.
The triplet’s names could be Ariel,
Allen, and Conner. As you can imagine, Ariel is Mizar. Allen is
called “Al” by everyone he knows and is the reincarnation of
Alcor (duh). Conner is the reincarnation of Bill.
I often find myself calling them the
mystery triplets based off the idea that all three of the kids love
to solve mysteries, though it’s always a competition of wits between
Al and Conner, leaving Ariel out.
I had the idea for a fic prompt with
them where Ariel gets kidnapped (not just by gnomes, but like cultist
trying to bring back Alcor by offering him Mizar or something serious
like that) and Conner and Al have to team up to save her. Al would
never realize he was the demon the cultist were trying to summon,
though Conner would figure out everything, and later look further
into it, discovering the Transcendence. Conner, seeing Al as his
greatest enemy, initially hides his research from him, but as he
looks into it further, he begins to get freaked out about Al. He
completely loses trust in his brother, and tries to keep Ariel away
from him for no apparent reason. I think the tension would kill the
family. Oh well, you know what they say….trust no one.
Stan had looked away for two seconds, only two seconds, but that was enough for Acacia to slip away from him and her siblings.
“Willow, where the fu- where did your sister go?”
Willow looked up at Stan with eyes that always seemed to him too old for her small face. Then she pointed across the street from where Stan had been getting the kids ice cream, to the pet store one of Mabel’s friends owned. Already he could see a tiny figure crowned with red hair plastered to the window display.
He handed his grand-nephew and niece their ice creams. “Hank, Willow, watch each other while I go get your sister,” Stan said, and then crossed the street to where Acacia was. With a little effort, he knelt down next to his grand-niece. She noticed him and beamed at him, her tounge sticking through the two front teeth that had recently fallen out.
“Grunkle Stan! There’s gerbils at Aunt Grenda’s now!”
He looked and sure enough there was a massive case full of gerbils in the window. How his niece saw them from across the street he had no idea. Damn young eyes.
He laid a hand on her small shoulder and clucked. “Kiddo, I don’t know if you want to be so close to those things.”
A bit of doubt entered into Acacia’s voice for the first time. “Why…why not Grunkle Stan?”
Stan snorted. “Because they eat human flesh Acacia.”
Her blue eyes bugged out for a second, and then an indignant look crossed her face.
“Nuh uh! Grunkle Stan you’re lying.”
He shook his head at her foolishness. “Why do you think they’re so fat? And look at all that fur on those suckers; they can only get really long fur when they eat human meat.”
“Why would Aunt Grenda keep something so mean in her shop huh?” Acacia puffed up, proud of pointing out the fallacy in her grunkle’s logic.
“Sweetie, your aunt also keeps manticore pups in there too. Gerbils aren’t much of a stretch.”
“But…but-” Horror dawned on Acacia’s face. “Does this mean Aunt Grenda kills people and then chops them up and then takes their skin off and pokes out their eyes and get their blood to feed the gerbils?”
Stan reminded himself to maybe watch a few less horror movies and murder mysteries with the kids late at night and went, “Oh no. Your Aunt Grenda keeps them in their to eat any robbers that come in, that’s all! They just live on steak until they can sate their craving for human flesh.”
He gently ushered her away from the window. “See, that’s why it’s important to stick with me and your brother and sister when we’re out. So I can keep an eye on you. Now lets go before Hank eats your ice cream-”
“Hank wouldn’t do that Grunkle Stan!”
“Okay he wouldn’t but I would now get moving.”
(Three nights later, Stan had to explain to his nephew the demon why Acacia was dreaming about fire breathing man eating gerbils)
Okay! The official in-depth summary is here, so I’ll keep this simple.
The main premise is that Bill was up to his shenanigans (trying to merge the dreamscape with the real world, mostly) and Dipper and Mabel managed to stop him, but in the process:
a) Dipper became an incorporeal dream demon, who can only be seen by Mabel unless summoned (Bill died and Dipper accidentally stepped into Bill’s empty shoes, if you will)
and b) the whole world suddenly became just as weird and supernatural as Gravity falls, in an event known as the Transcendence. (Society freaks out for a while, then they deal with it. Magic-ed classes are a thing, it’s great)
Dipper ends up living in Gravity Falls with Mabel and her eventual husband and triplets (some REALLY GREAT AU-SPECIFIC OCs, I LOVE THEM A LOT- I defy you to find a more perfect husband for Mabel than Henry. I defy you.) Dipper aka ~Alcor the Mighty Dream Demon~ deals with his weird demon powers and teams up with Mabel aka ~Mizar the Beautiful/Terrible/etc~ to take down cults trying to summon him for nefarious purposes.
Eventually, after Mabel dies, he keeps doing the same with a lot of her reincarnations, and they continue her work in keeping him sane and relatively human.
Alcor and Mizar, ready to kick butt and take names
There’s a loose timeline of events spanning from the Transcendence to millions of years later, and people write fic in all sorts of different contexts with a delightful and growing cast of original and reincarnated characters.
Dipper is at various points regarded as a horrifying dream demon, a guardian of children (who gets summoned with ice-cream for help with math homework), and a literal god. Mabel gets reincarnated as all sorts of different genders in all sorts of different places, and mostly puts up with Dipper’s interference in their life, except when they don’t.
The blog is run by a handful of Mods, and all their fic is deemed more-or-less canon. Additionally, there’s all sorts of fic and art and stuff that is just by fans of the au- I find that the mods do a great job of crowdsourcing ideas and letting group creativity happen, while also keeping a general grasp on au canon and encouraging a cohesive overall narrative.
There’s a lot of canon and ideas on the blog, and I guess the thing to do would be to poke around a bit? There’s bios and a fic masterlist that are pretty helpful!
If you’re interested in fic, some of my favorites are Meat Cute (Mabel meets her husband) and Return Rewind Rewrite (Dipper makes a deal to seal his memories and grow up with Mabel a second time- Intro here). Is it weird to rec my own fic as well? Have a link. (The Pines parents don’t take their son’s changes particularly well, and I wanted to examine that)
So yeah, I hope this was minimally confusing, and I am definitely willing to fill you in if you have any questions! :>
The other dimension Stanley was sucked into was his mindscape, and he got there because Stanford made a deal with a demon to save his brother’s life. Transporting Stanley into his own paranoid and possibly frightening imagination was the only way Alcor could manage it.
Demon-ception: that entire ordeal therefore actually occurred within Stanley’s own mind AFTER returning through the portal to find a newly-demonized grandson along with an aged twin brother. He only dreamed he went to another world, met an adult demonized grandson, and returned to find a non-demon version of the kid.
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