so i kinda head canoned that Toby is like 15-20 years older than Maddie (also that toby doesn’t really die until like Maddie’s senior prom or whatever)

Vacation!

Gotta post something gotta post something.

It was a bright summer day. The birds were chirping, the children were laughing, and Alcor was freaking out.

Or, as he called it, being careful.

Still, Toby admitted to himself, Alcor did have a lot to worry over. This was Toby’s first time leaving the town, much less the state, and they were going to visit the Californian Island Confederation that Alcor had created himself.

Still, Toby felt that it did not warrant the four-feet-long lists. It was only two weeks after all.

Fic prompt or something. Anyone can take over. Maybe chain letter fic sort of dealie? Or whatever.

HC that Toby learns to play the piano. And attempts to play “Death Waltz”

So, Toby is short for Tobias, a named picked out by the church he lived at for a while. In the Book of Tobit, Tobias drove a demon away with the help of an archangel, Raphael. And some people headcanon that Toby had a twin sister as a kid, right? What if she was named Raphaela? Ella for short. (Bonus sadcanon: She died in the church fire that drove Toby onto the street, and he blames himself for her death, which is why he’s so protective of Maddie – he doesn’t want to lose another sister.)

I was thinking about Toby and flaws you could either incorporate or extract from what’s been established about him, because perfect characters are boring. Don’t get me wrong, I adore the marshmallow but people are flawed, and the closer characters are to being real people the better.

Obviously there’s the martyr complex, the shyness, and the inability to stand up for himself, but those are flaws that really aren’t flaws at all, too easy and sympathetic. It’s like being Clumsy, an easy trait to make the character Not Perfect without risking anything. But I have another idea.

Self-Centeredness.

Not being vain or only considering his own emotions, something subtler than that. Toby is convinced that everything that happens around him has something to do with his actions. If people are mad around Toby, he did something wrong. If someone got hurt nearby, he didn’t do enough to help. Alcor must be mad at Toby because he did something wrong, even though they’d literally never interacted. I bet if Toby gets some more self confidence he’ll start thinking he’s responsible for people’s good moods to. “They’re happy! I did something right! I should do more of it!” kind of stuff. It’s simple, childlike, and ties in with Toby’s insanely stunted emotional growth from being abandoned all that time.

(btw God bless whatever caretaker got Toby so into being a good person, it lasting through years on the streets is amazing.)

Anyone who’s ever worked with this kind of kid knows that getting that idea out of their head is a Sisyphean task, because on some level it makes perfect sense. “My actions affect things around me, ergo everything I do is the cause of everything around me!” It’s an insidious little thing, but a juicy character flaw. If you assume everyone’s emotions around you have something to do WITH you, you get all kinds of wrong impressions and possibly involved in matters that have nothing to do with you at all.

(And Toby being self-centered is a neat little mutation of Bill’s certainty that he was the only one who mattered, for bonus.)

So I think there was a post a while back about Toby getting thrown into a portal or something and Alcor having to go looking for him.

What if the poor kid ended up in the post Transdimensional Arc universe? Complete with suspicious Dipper, Mabel maybe making him sweaters etc. And eventually Alcor arrives. I wonder how the twins and Stan would react to Alcor and Toby interacting?

Knitting Patterns

oreramar:

A/N: Took the “Toby learns to knit” headcanon on the TAU blog and ran with it. Thank you, submitter. You are welcome, Toby fans. Go roll in the slightly-angsty fluff.

All
Alcor wanted to do was check up on Toby (make sure he wasn’t secretly up to
Evil) and let him know dinner was ready (couldn’t let him go hungry – sure he
might have held out before Alcor found him, but who knew what desperation
hunger could drive him towards, ultimately ending in demonic laughter and his
most hated enemy rising again?). It was supposed to be a simple operation: pop
open the bedroom door, poke his head in, glance over the room, deliver his
message, leave. Considering the fact that he could phase through walls if he so
chose he technically didn’t even need the first step.

He got
all the way to the glancing and had just started the delivering before the back
of his brain waved a flag at the rest of it.

“Hey,
kid, dinner’s ready” turned into “what the hell are you doing” halfway through.

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locatislunaticuslupin:

transcendence au art!
from top to bottom, toby pines, maddie pines, and maple malone.

i don’t know how to draw trans girls >o<

Headcanon: Toby got all his clothing from the dumpster before meeting Alcor.

BBY

Sirens and Suds

zendria:

Type: Gravity Falls/Transcendence AU

Word Count: ~2000

Summary: Toby is recruited to help an unusual visitor escape a beaver-dammed lake.

A/N: I put the translations for the Latin parts at the bottom. So far, this fandom is the only reason taking Latin classes has improved my life.

For the past 3 nights, the singing had persisted.

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