Melody woke up with her face buried in something soft, warm, and faintly smelling of raspberries.
She squeaked and flailed, finally managing to pull her face from the
wool of a nightmare, who was watching her with a mixture of concern and
amusement, which was an interesting expression for a sheep.“Well,” she said, sitting back on her heels. “That was different.”
The sheep nodded solemnly, a second coming up to nudge at Melody’s
shoulder. Melody worked herself up to her feet, patting herself off. “I
missed your names in all the confusion,” she commented.“M̢a͝r̴y,” the nightmare she’d faceplanted into said, while the other baaed out, “Gra̕sblut̡tr͟in̵k͜er͏.”
Melody paused for a moment before shrugging. “Grass…blood drinker?
Okay. Right. Anyway.” She looked around, hands on hips, and sighed.
“Yeah, I have no clue where we are. That was…” she sighed again.Really, Melody thought she’d gotten used to things in Gravity Falls
since moving there permanently. She’d even gotten used to Soos’
not-quite-but-totally-was little brother being a literal demon now, even
if it killed her sometimes to remember how small he’d been when the
Transcendence happened, the few times she’d seen him before it all went
down.“I’m getting too old for this,” Melody muttered, before clapping her
hands, startling the nightmares. “Right! No more complaining! Off we
go!” She paused again, looking around at the unfamiliar landscape.
“Which way do you vote?”Both nightmares did their equivalent to a shrug, before Mary said, “This
wa̷y̶,҉ p̧erha̶ps? I͝ ̸bel͘i̶ev̕e i̴n t̛his ̶pla͘c͜e ͢t̷h͢ąt ͘o̢ur͢
in̢tentio͞ns҉ ̕coun͜t a̧s mưc͜h as ̸our di͘re͞c͘tions͠.”“Eh, sounds as good of a plan as any,” Melody agreed. “Ugh, wish I’d worn better shoes today for hiking.”
Tag: melody
HC: At Mabel’s wedding, when she tosses the bouquet, Candy, Grenda, and Melody end up chasing it. Candy seems to be about to catch it when Dipper appears and knocks EVERYONE out of the way. He wrecks the wedding, but Mabel can’t stop laughing because he DID catch the bouquet and he has the most smug look that she’s ever seen, even on him.
Candy and Grenda are furious; Dipper doesn’t even want to get married and this is SO NOT FAIR.
Is it too obvious to ask for tau headcanons?
The underappreciated characters edition!
1. Melody gets really, really good at practical magic. Minor everyday spells to help out around the house, kind of thing. Anyone with aches and pains goes to her for cures (even if the cure is sometimes ‘get outside and walk more, you lazy butt’), she’s never caught without an umbrella, her kitchen always smells nice. She has an Understanding with the local fair folk and can occasionally be found sitting out on a picnic blanket with Mabel and several odd shimmers that look like people if you catch them out of the corner of your eye, commiserating about how annoyingly reluctant unicorns are to provide bits of their bodies for potion ingredients. She also makes a mean tiramisu.
2. One of Fiddleford’s robots gains sentience in the aftermath of the Transcendence. Tate is secretly a little jealous of the attention it gets at first, but quickly learns that nothing brings father and son together like teaching a ten-ton robot with the mental ability of a six-year-old not to step on people.
3. Post-Transcendence, a lot of ‘normal’ people start looking deeper into the weird family legends that imply they might have some supernatural heritage, and others start coming out about the supernatural heritage they already know runs in their family. Turns out Tambry has a gorgon somewhere back in her family tree – hence, her tendency to avoid direct eye contact.
4. Candy, as we all know, opens a weapons shop in town eventually, which has the largest and most diverse range of anti-supernatural devices probably in the world for a good while. Despite the fact that Wendy’s weapon of choice is always her axe, after her star starts to rise as ‘Wendy Corduroy, Demon Hunter’, she has an endorsement deal with Candy’s for a while that sees her provided with prototypes of Candy’s latest designs for free so long as she tests them in the field. Wendy cuts the deal off after the third time she has to regrow her eyebrows.
5. Robbie is not, in fact, a zombie.
But both his parents do start dabbling in necromancy – at first just to put the zombies in the graveyard back to permanent sleep, and then because reanimation is a fun party trick and if the zombies won’t stay buried, the least they can do is help out around the house.
what if
what if it’s two, three years since the Stans have left and Soos loves being a business man, loves running a store, being his own boss but. But he misses fixing things, misses helping show people how to fix things.
and Melody gently suggests that there’s nothing wrong with wanting a change.
what if
sailing around the world on a boat with Ford is great, it’s fucking great, but also Stan surprises himself because he… he misses his home. He would have never called Gravity Falls his home before he left-
(don’t let him kid you Gravity Falls had long been his home. Let us say instead that he did not realize it until he left)
-but fuck if he didn’t miss his home, didn’t miss the Shack and the cold sea air makes his bones ache something fierce and he’s not ready to give up sailing with Ford yet, meeting babes and looking for gold and fighting monsters but-
(a call from Soos, two calls, five, and trying to reassure the younger man that no, he’s not mad, he doesn’t mind, asking what he had in mind-)
what if
Ford drops Stan off in Portland and Melody picks him up and they spend the car trip down to Gravity Falls telling dirty jokes and tall tales and the next day Stan watches and Does Not Cry as Soos and Melody cut the ribbon on the hardware store next to Big Gunz, definitely Isn’t Crying as Soos gives him a lifetime discount card
(he wanted to give him a lifetime free stuff card, but Melody pointed out that that went against everything Stan had taught him. This is true, Soos nods, and declines to mention to either of them that the card discounts everything to a buck)
what if
Stan moves back into the Shack, just for the winter, keep his hand in the game because Christ he’s missed conning suckers out of their cash, then it’s back to sea with Ford and
(the phone rings.
“Stan…can… can we come over?”
sure of course
“Can… can we come over forever?”
there’s crying in the background, a Presence that beats on the air and makes itself known even over the phone.)
He doesn’t return to the ocean that spring.
Baby Bear
It had only taken about six months after little Osa was born for Melody and Soos to realize they wanted to live in Gravity Falls permanently, rather than keep going between it and Portland.
Sure, Portland had been Melody’s home for most of her life, and it always would be special for both of them, but…in Gravity Falls there was a chance for Soos to create his own business and have Osa grow up knowing supernatural creatures as his friends, neighbors, playmates.
More importantly, Gravity Falls had family, most of it not related by blood but just as close, if not closer, and willing to do pretty much anything to keep him safe.
So who better to watch little Osa for them then his adopted aunt, demonic uncle and honorary grandpa when Mom and Papi needed a little time to themselves?
Mind: Blown
Prompt: http://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/105241885823/the-pines-have-a-family-reunion-which-includes
Peeking through the bushes that concealed his hiding spot with his binoculars, enchanted to see farther and clearer and even to see things that should be invisible to those without the Sight, Wallace eyed the Stanley Pines Memorial Library of the Supernatural dubiously.
Alcor the Dreambender was supposedly seen here on a daily basis, but…it was so… so small. And nearly rundown. How could a demon of Alcor’s caliber truly ‘live’ in such a…such a place?
He shifted so he could see through the window and almost dropped the binoculars in shock. That was Alcor, had to be Alcor, no human would be floating a foot off the ground or have eyes of black and gold, and no other demon would be on the physical plane without a summons, but…an apron? No jacket, shirt sleeves rolled up and an apron?
What force could possibly force Alcor the Dreambender, most powerful of demons, into a not just any apron, but one with a ruffles and “REQUIRES CONSTANT SUPERVISION” picked out on the front in sequins? And…was he…cooking?
Picnics With Nit Pics
Summary:
When Melody and Soos stopped by Hank’s house on a visit to her childhood home, she was expecting a quiet, uneventful meeting. She wasn’t expecting to stay for lunch and she wasn’t expecting to see a turf war among supernatural creatures. Sometimes, Melody forgot her husband was an honorary member of the Pines family and everything that entailed.
The Scouring: Chapter 09
On AO3: Start Here, Current Chapter Here
On FF.net: Start Here, Current Chapter Here
The Pines weren’t the only ones who needed rest, as it turned out.
After their first burst of cleaning, breaking magic circles and
bringing out the dead, the town of Gravity Falls simply shut down.The members of the Dinner Club (and quite a few of those who weren’t,
technically, part of them but had come to aid anyway) that didn’t
need as much rest as the others stayed awake to guard the
Anti-Transcendence Alliance – its leaders in particular – as
everyone else either forced themselves to eat before they collapsed
or went to friends and family homes to rest, too tired to eat.The Shack was too far for the Pines to go to, not now, while
everything was still unsettled and they could be needed at a moment’s
notice. They bunked down at Soos and Melody’s home instead, in the
Rameriz living room, curled around each other as best they could
manage with all of them on the king sized air mattress on the floor.
(Grunkle Stan claimed the couch, pretending it was because he was too
tough to join the cuddle pile instead of being too old and in too
much pain, while everyone saw through that and proceeded to haul the
air mattress to butt against it, where they could reach him, and he
them.)Dipper woke up before the rest of his family, as he didn’t need sleep
the way they did. Still, he’d been exhausted enough, body, mind, and
soul, to need some now, buried under their bodies at the bottom of
the cuddle pile (and grateful he was in the Mindscape and didn’t need
to breathe or it would have been highly uncomfortable).He’d thought his bloodlust would die down after the first rush of
blind anger, but lying here, under the heavy, warm, alive
weight of his family, it was just as strong and hot as earlier. As
much as he’d like to deny it, becoming a demon only strengthened the
darkness he’d already had, that Grunkle Stan had warned him about.And right now, he didn’t care.
Those people tried to take his family from him. They wanted to kill
everyone he cared about, destroy their way of life, and enslave his
sister. It may have been the demon, may have been the dark streak in
him, but…He wanted to see them suffer.
The Scouring: Chapter 6
On AO3: Start Here; Current Chapter Here
On FF.net: Start Here; Current Chapter Here
Mabel had passed
‘pissed off’ a few miles back and now was seething, occasionally
tugging at her bonds. Bad enough these wacknuts had probably ruined
her sweater – it was a cult thing, she’d lost more sweaters to that
then she wanted to remember – and that they’d threatened her to
make her bro-bro listen to them, but they’d threatened her kids!Okay, four out of
five (because Reina was so one of hers now) since Hank and Vivi (who
was also now hers) were still safe in Portland, but that was low. And
as soon as any of the Pines got free, they were going to pay for
that.She hadn’t seen or
heard anything from Dipper or Willow in hours, and she was pretty
sure by this point it wasn’t just because she and Henry and the other
kids were being threatened.The link between
her and Dipper went both ways, even if it wasn’t as strong from him
to her she could still feel him, and he was scared.
Dipper wasn’t supposed to be scared, he was too powerful for that and
still her dorky brother and she was the only one allowed to terrorize
him!Okay, Stan and her husband and the kids could, but they were family.
Oh, and Wendy and Paz and Soos, but they were pretty much family. So
only family was allowed. Not these…religious fanatic nutjobs.And especially not Gideon. Fucking Gideon.
WE HAVE NO MELODY AND MABEL INTERACTIONS! I MEAN THEIR FAMILIES ARE CLOSE! AND I AM BETTING THAT MELODY WAS THERE FROM TIME TO TIME DURING MABEL’S BEGINNINGS OF FORMING A FAMILY WITH HENRY AND EVEN BEFORE, I MEAN SOOS IS THE SON STAN NEVER HAD AND STAN IS THE FATHER SOOS NEVER GOT. Yeah… get on that fic writers, Melody needs more love, we need more Melody, Mabel, Wendy, Candy and Grenda interactions.
AGREED! FIC OPEN SEASON, ALL ABOUT THE LADIES, GO GO GO!
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