Close friends and family see Dipper’s object form for the first time.
Mabel
Mabel stared at her brother, blinking slowly. He blinked back with a single eye, tiny little pipe cleaner arms shifting restlessly.
This was new.
Part of Mabel was screaming, huddling down inside her sweater, memories of a a triangle and her brother’s screams echoing inside her head.
The rest was seeing through her brother’s bravado, his attempt at pretending everything was okay, as if he wasn’t upset about this development.
“…you think this is permanent?” she asked after a few minutes had passed, needing to say something but this time worried about saying something that would send both of them spiraling out of control and knowing she had to be the adult in this situation despite their parents being just downstairs because they wouldn’t be any help right now and that wasn’t fair to her but it was the truth.
The joking could come later, to make them both feel better.
“No, I’m just too tired to stay human shaped,” her brother answered, thankfully, both of them relieved by his answer. “I think how I usually look is my default form now, and this is sort of…a power saving mode? I’m still working on the details.”
Mabel nodded as Dipper spoke, doing her best to hide how freaked she’d been. He could see her moods now, faintly, so he had to know, but it didn’t mean she had to be obvious about it. Now that she was calming down, though…well…her brother was pretty cute as a star.
But he was also still pretty obviously upset about this. Well, that couldn’t stand! It was time to unleash the Power of Mabel!
“Wait here, broseph,” she said, gesturing with both hands outspread. “Just hang out in here and wait.”
Impatiently, and more than a little nervously, Dipper waited. He knew Mabel loved and accepted him, but…what ifs kept playing through his mind, and he began to float back and forth across the room, the closest he could come to pacing while like this.
This was going to be a long wait.
Tag: soos
So, I finally figured out what I want to do with Ford for TAU.
As has shown up in a couple of my fics so far, I’m interpreting the Transcendence ‘verse as diverging from canon during the events of NWHS. Canon Bill set up Weirdmageddon so it’d catapult him into our reality, as evidenced by cipherhunt; Mary’s Highly Individualised Version of TAU Bill went after the rift as the portal was opening, because he had other plans about how to gain absolute power over the physical world (which show up in RB) that required the kids to be the ones to ‘defeat’ him. Anything I’ve written for TAU that isn’t set hundreds of years in the future is based on the assumption that Stan had to choose to destroy the portal in order to save the kids (and the world).
This takes Ford out of the picture – which I honestly don’t think is a bad thing, especially not right post-Transcendence, while everyone is trying to come to terms with and figure out what’s happened, especially to Dipper. Ford as he first appears would not be able to trust Dipper, would probably try to convince the rest of the family not to either, would pick fights with Stan and try to destroy Dipper utterly and make Mabel feel bad for sticking by her brother and generally just make things even messier and worse than they would be in regular TAU. I think having Ford there right from the jump is not the kind of conflict I want in my TAU stuff. But I also don’t want to leave him out of the picture entirely – largely because that is so unfair to Stan and I can’t be that cruel to him
but also because I may have a favourite character. Plus, I’ve already written stuff with r!Fords, so obviously he makes it back to GF’s dimension somehow.So Ford just gets introduced…later.
Because there’s no way that, once Mabel finds out what Stan was trying to do with the portal, she’d let things lie like that. Dipper would forgive Stan in a heartbeat – he didn’t know what was going to happen, he was trying to save his twin, he shut it all down as soon as it undeniably put the kids in danger – but I don’t think he’d be the one to initially say, “Well, that’s no good, we’re going to rip open the fabric of reality and make this better!”
And they would rip open the fabric of reality to make things better. Because Grunkle Stan gave up everything for them, the least they can do is help him get it back. It took thirty years to rebuild the portal the first time, true, and that was without it having blown up to kingdom come, buuuut Stan only had a third of the blueprints then. And was working with blueprints that were supposed to build something the entire Nightmare Realm could come spilling through, not just one guy. And didn’t have a friendly demon who would tell him where Bill had intentionally sabotaged the blueprints in order to create the rift and bring about an entire apocalypse, and also where to find the materials, and also go get said materials, in exchange for candy. And didn’t have a handyman who would do anything for him ready and willing to do the hammering and sawing and heavy lifting for him. Or the power of Mabel!
Because, see, it took thirty years the first time because Stan was alone. But he’s not alone anymore.
(And then they eventually – though not too far in the future – get Ford back and there is much rejoicing, bickering, slow gaining of trust, etc., etc. And all is well.)
Which Tau characters can rap the best and which 2 are most likely to start a rap duo? Also, with said rap duo, has there ever been a rap off with cultists? Or a Globnar scenario?
1. Mabel, Soos, Acacia.
2. All three of them are the super sick trio Star Patrol Beta Go!
3. Cultists no, Globnar YES
I think that it would depend on the current image of Alcor and if it’s before or after he destroyed California. But if Soos saved any kids then demonologists would probably think that they agreed on that, or maybe that during the Weirdmaggedon that they had a truce, provided that they don’t think Alcor caused/was the cause of the Weirdmaggedon.
The Craftsman saves again!
Some transcendence au headcanons I might do something with in the future:
-Dipper playing with niblings trying to play fight him (I.e., kids going “rawr!” and attempting to rough house with him, think kittens and their parents) and he’s just giving them the most dramatic reactions (unnecessarily falling over, “oh no!! I’ve been attacked by a nibling, what ever will I do?!” etc). Bonus points if he has to keep up with more than one kid at once. Bonus bonus points if he names and announces their attacks as if they’re in a Pokemon battle.
-You know how some kids will work together to cover your eyes and try to get into stuff they’re not supposed to? Dipper is the best target, they think, until they realize he has his third eye open. He’s then considered a cheater at the “game,” but he’s not about to let one of the kids get hurt. But he’s also an uncle, so as long as it’s something harmless like candy he probably won’t stop them all of the time.
-The uncles have a secret scoreboard of who’s won or lost play fights with the kids, gotten them to laugh the most that week, etc. Imagine the guys hanging out with the bragging rights of that week being “well they made me a flower crown so that means I’ve broken the tie this week, gentlemen.” All in good fun. So Dipper, Stan, Ford, Soos, and possibly Robbie (I like that HC of him being a sort of brother figure to the twins). Maybe Gideon too, if he gets redeemed later after the whole Jeremiah thing. Goodness only knows what Dipper’s score is when Mabel finds out about it, but it’s probably something that ties in with his World’s Okayest Uncle sweater.
-Dipper keeps the scoreboard for a long time after everyone passes away as a reminder of the good things he can do. He makes a new one every time he winds up as someone’s uncle and he has another person to challenge, if the other party is up for it.
Adding on to the Soos legend thing, isn’t he Stan’s successor? Both of them would probably be known as loyal to the Pines, too. I’m thinking, Alcor’s best friend/uncle/brother who should have been Stan’s (Satan’s) heir instead defies his destiny, falls in love with a human, and decides to protect humans. Maybe this is why Alcor is born in the first place, because Stan had needed a new heir. Historians can’t get the timeline exactly right, after all.
A M A Z E
about soos–since he’s a handyman, and later opens/owns a hardware store… hardware is used to fix/create things right? could historians have seen him as something of a Craftsman?
THE Craftsman, able to fix anything and, perhaps for the right price, anyONE
Something has been nagging on my brain for a while. The thing is that: what do demonologists think of soos? Becuase in wierdmaggedon he says “I think there are some legends about me now” so do the scholars think that he is some sort of nemesis to Alcor? Becuase of the fact that “oh, well the thing is that while the world was ending he was helping all who needed it. But Alcor is shown to be malevolent” or something like that. Just wondering if anyone has written a fic/HC/other about this
Good question! What do y’all think?
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.
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