Tag: wendy

Robbie and the Dead

flying-guinea-pig:

My addition to
the TAU Birthday Ficathon! This fic is set about two years after the
Transcendence. Warning for a bit more cursing than my usual fics.

AO3 link.

Robbie and the Dead

His plate of
breakfast was cooling in front of him as he stared at his coffee.

It was dark.
Not as dark as the void between the stars, which was at least a dramatic kind
of darkness. Instead it was dark as the night, now ruined by the pollution of
the street lights into a murky kind of brownish grey…

Robbie stirred
the sugar cube in. It crumbled and dissolved – just like his life. Ugh. Why did everything suck so much?

Here he was,
in the big city. Finally making a name for himself. Just he and his guitar,
like he’d always dreamed. Having breakfast in a shitty diner. All by himself.

“Hey
dude. Small world, isn’t it?”

Someone
dropped into the chair across from him. He gaped at her for a moment.
“Wendy?”

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Meeting A Star

phenyxsnest:

Close friends and family see Dipper’s object form for the first time.

On AO3 // On FF.net

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.

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From the Corduroy family reunion fic, I take it that Wendy and Henry’s other cousins aren’t likely to send their kids to visit the niblets, but if they desperately needed someone to watch him/her overnight, would they? And would they be pro-nat?

Ah yes this fic. 

You’d be surprised at Henry and Wendy’s cousins. Their parents are mostly dicks. They aren’t much better. 

But they are younger. They came of age at the same time as Henry and Wendy, Mabel and Dipper.

And there’s the werewolf that Aunt Bertie and Uncle Aleck pretty much informally adopted into their family because he was friends with their boy Charlie and got kicked out at the Transcendence, and Cousin Terry says some really insensitive shit but also he married a siren he met in San Diego and they love each other deeply and truly.  There’s Uncle Al’s kid Joey who like Henry turned his back on what was expected of him and started a career in tech, and Cousin Jerry who had twelve kids of his own and when you have twelve kids you take what babysitters you can get….

Henry and Wendy have pro-nat cousins. Henry and Wendy have cousins that are right assholes.

But that’s not all of their cousins.

Investigating the Falls

phenyxsnest:

Paranormal Investigator James Gallucio, PhD, had come to
Gravity Falls to investigate the history of ‘a little town just west of
weird’.

He’s not quite sure what he expected.

Based on this prompt: http://transcendence-au.tumblr.com/post/116972507433/imagine-some-kind-of-paranormal-investigator

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James Gallucio, PhD,  had been researching the supernatural for years. It wasn’t the easiest career path, especially before the Transcendence hit and anyone who studied the paranormal was considered odd, at best.

Tall and lanky and clumsy, with thick glasses, James had always been on the receiving end of taunting and the stereotype of ‘nerd’, and his hobbies didn’t help matters any.

But James was stubborn, and determined to find out the truth. They could laugh at him all they liked, but he knew of at least one man in his field who’d gotten a government grant to study the paranormal, and he was determined to keep working despite his detractors. Who knew, maybe it would happen for him.

Then the Transcendence happened. All over the world, in the blink of an eye, the paranormal was out in plain sight, unable to hide, and demanding their basic human rights, and people like James were suddenly needed.

But even though he was suddenly respected, needed, and looked to, at least somewhat, James just wasn’t satisfied. Half of the excitement of his job had been in the danger, in people’s disbelieving reactions, in the chase after something no one else understood.

There were dozens, if not hundreds, of people studying the paranormal now. James needed a challenge, something new.

Of course, there were dozens of new species to study now, and many of them incredibly dangerous.

So when the offer came, James jumped on it. So now, in the fourteen years since the Transcendence, James had done a documentary on as many as he could find the least verifiable information on.

Now James was looking for something new to document, something dangerous, something little was known about, something that would really get his name out there.

Then, he had a flash of inspiration.

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Transcendence for the 5 hc meme

marypsue:

Reincarnation edition! Because this is a good excuse to hammer out some ground rules for my understanding of reincarnation in TAU-verse and also indulge in my apparent love of creating r!characters.

1. Memories can leave imprints on a soul, but only if they are tied to something of enormous personal importance and a truckload of emotion, usually with a little magic to seal the deal. Usually this only shows up in a reincarnation of the individual the impression originated from as momentary déjà vu or a sense of having forgotten something that was just on the tip of one’s tongue, and only if triggered by a specific set of circumstances or stimuli (scent is usually the strongest trigger). Occasionally it can manifest as a knee-jerk feeling of trust or dislike towards another person, a place, or a thing/concept. These usually fade after a lifetime or so; no such ‘impressions’ have been recorded as lasting for more than two. It’s a highly uncertain field of study, however, and as with everything, there are anomalies.

2. Each individual lifetime is a start from scratch, a blank slate, which while informed by the soul’s own preferences towards appearance, interests, etc., is a new individual with their own life and experiences, their own preferences and interests and beliefs. However, despite this, Dipper has noticed that people who were close to him as Dipper Pines – and others who were in Gravity Falls during the Transcendence – seem to have a higher incidence of similar life experiences and consistent personality traits across reincarnations. He’s not sure if this is somehow a result of the Transcendence, or if he’s somehow doing it subconsciously because he doesn’t want to completely lose his family and friends.

3. Souls tend to group in clumps of about 500, which will usually reincarnate together or in close proximity to each other. If they don’t, their incarnations will often cross each other’s paths later in life. It’s rare for different groups to intersect, but sometimes individuals from two separate groups will become meaningful to each other and either one will join the other’s cluster or the two clusters will split and a new one will form.

4. Wendy does eventually recover from her whole ghost fiasco, but it takes getting munched on by Alcor and multiple decades, and none of her reincarnations ever pick up an axe again.

5. All of Gideon’s reincarnations have an inexplicable Southern accent. All of them. Every single one. Good, bad, somewhere in between, regardless of where they’re from or what language they grow up speaking. If they ever learn English, it comes out with a heavy Southern accent. Apparently it’s meaningless.

Is it too obvious to ask for tau headcanons?

marypsue:

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. 

Promt: Wendy visits Hank for the first time

seiya234:

This uh, got really long. TW/CW for child abuse and homophobic language.

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Albert and Virginia Corduroy both came from a long line of
loggers, builders, alcoholics and brawlers. They had nine children together;
there would have been more had Mother Corduroy not put her foot down after
birthing her youngest left her at death’s door. There was Little Al, Curtis,
John, Rene, Ed, Lake, Dan, Bertina, and Arnold.

The only reason Wendy knew all of this was that every year
Dad insisted on dragging them to the family reunion.

It used to not be such a big deal. They’d go, they’d not go,
it was whatever. But ever since… Ever since Mom’s humvee hit the IED, they went
every year, no questions asked.

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