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Arthur sipped the Pitt cola enjoying the rare quietness in the Mystery Shack. Everyone was out or finishing up their chores for the day.

He wondered how Dipper's fight with the 15 year old went. Even if the guy had the size advantage over Dipper, he didn't really look like he had fought many people before. With Dipper's experience with the many near fatal supernatural threats he guessed Dipper would have a decent chance. And if he lost it would be a good lesson to be better.

His father did the same for him. It worked out well for Arthur.

A familiar groan came from the said 12 year old as he entered the room with his own drink. Arthur glanced at the kid to find him covered in bruises as he painfully limped to the unoccupied chair. That guy really didn't hold back, did he?

"Guess the fight didn't go well?" Arthur asked Dipper. Maybe he felt just a bit bad for the kid.

Dipper winced, whether from pain or shame, it would forever be unknown.

"Yeah, you try fighting him." Dipper sighed.

Arthur scoffed, "I'm pretty sure I dont even need both my hands to beat that guy."

"Oh, you think I meant-no, I meant Rumble Mcskirmish."

Arthur remembered Dipper telling him about him being a-what was it? 'Video game character', a concept he was still grappling with. Dipper claimed at the time the Rumble could beat Arthur. A very bold accusation considering-

"I thought you said he wasn't real."

"Yeah. And I hope he stays that way."

"These things come to life too, huh." Arthur didn't question further. Things randomly came to life in this weird town and he guessed not real people weren't an exception.

"Well, I'm never bringing a video game character to life ever again."

"Yeah, I guess it would be hard for a little kid like you." Arthur grieved the excitement he missed.

Dipper stared intensely at him. He took a deep breath before he spoke, "You know what? Forget what I said earlier. Get your sword. We're going to the arcade right no- ow. I mean right after Soos gets the bandages. You're going to get your fight."

"Well, who am I to say no to good fun."

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What if Ford never found the toffee peanuts packet?

And he just thinks it's entirely his own fault his machine failed?

Cause Stan's not gonna come clean about the accident. Cuz why would he? They could finally achieve their dreams. Isn't a little secret worth it?

And Ford would go along with Stans dream cuz, what's the point in trying to going for more advanced studies in college if he can't even build a high school science fair project? He failed at the one thing he was good at, something Filbrick would make sure Ford knew to heart after he lost them millions.

And what if this secret fell into a certain triangle's hands? What if it came out at the worst moment? Would they still fight like before? Or would the fallout be worse, after years sailing in the sea is shattered under that one secret?

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After the twins left the kitchen Stan turned to the other residents of the Mystery Shack who were (hopefully temporarily) stranded in Gravity Falls, "And what about you guys? You up for some fishing?"

"You want you us to come with you too? I thought it was a 'family' bonding trip?" Morgana asked voicing everyone's skepticism on the matter.

A fair reaction in Stan’s opinion. He hadn't really given them much of a reason to trust him. Heck, his own grand niblings had no faith in him! But maybe this was worth a shot. Fishing was something everyone enjoyed and it was the best relaxing and bonding experience he could think of (which wouldn't land them in jail again). And maybe he was an expert at it and could show how cool he was but that's besides the point.

"Thought you'd want to relax a bit if you're gonna be stuck here awhile anyway. Especially blondie over there." Stan drew attention towards Arthur who seemed to be staring off in the distance, not really paying much attention to the conversation.

All of the medieval residents were on edge from being trapped in a completely new world and had taken many, many accidents to adjust to the Mystery Shack alone. While Morgana, Gwen and Merlin had adjusted fairly well (or were better at hiding it), Arthur was still taking time to get comfortable.

Technology often suffered the wrath of Arthur's sword, despite being innocent of the sorcery accusations. Stan's heart was not ready to mourn the loss of more money. The wounds from Arthur's battle with the fridge was still too fresh on his heart.

"What do you say, Arthur?" Morgana asked.

Arthur snapped back to reality, "...will there be killing?" confirming that he was listening to everyone in the kitchen.

"Seriously? That's what you're concerned about?" Morgana deadpanned.

"Well, you all have some weird traditions so I was hoping to know we were talking about the same thing." Arthur answered both Stan and Morgana.

If Stan had to guess he was still salty about...actually there were too many mishaps to pinpoint one. "Yeah, sure. The fish will be dead if take them out of the water." Stan subtly searched the kitchen entrance for the twins. He hoped this conversation wouldn't spoil the surprise for them.

"We'll go." Morgana answered after some contemplation. She guessed it would be nice to get some fresh air. They couldn't hide away in the Shack forever.

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"No. For the last time, I am not getting in there." Arthur refused to budge from his position. The metal box abomination stood in front of him menacingly. He didn't know how the people here could just be fine with these glorified horseless cages, he knew he wasn't.

"Everyone has already gotten in, why do you have to be such a coward?" Morgana asked exasperated.

The pines twins were waiting inside with blindfolds on while Stan muttered to himself at the wheel. Even Gwen and Merlin (traitor) had gotten in, though they looked very stiff.

If Arthur had known that this was how they were going he never would've agreed to this. "How are you okay going in there Morgana? Just look at that...thing!" Arthur gestured to the car.

"Hey! I'll have you know this girl's survived a lot and she's still a beaut!" Stan called out offended.

Neither responded to that.

"Because that's how things work here. There's no getting around it. What are you going to do here alone anyway?"

"I don't know. It's still better than getting on that! Can you seriously trust that thing?"

"I'm not saying I trust that thing." Morgana looked into Arthur's eyes as they both fell silent for a moment, "Arthur, we don't know how long we're going to be stuck here. We need to adapt. Being stubborn won't get us back to Camelot."

Arthur stared at Morgana. After a careful look he realized, "...You're afraid."

"...We all are."

Arthur took a deep breath look at his still unfamiliar surroundings. A broken golf cart lay not far from the lawn mower he had skewered yesterday. Even the Mystery Shack where more of his wreakage was felt very wrong in its design. At least the forest surrounding it was comforting. He wondered if there were griffins there too.

"Fine, if you insist. Can't really depend on Merlin to protect you girls now can we?" Arthur spoke out loud.

"Oh, you really want to try that? You really want everyone to see your butt kicked by a girl."

"You're getting on or what?!" Stan called out too worn put on patience.

"I am. Morgana might be preparing for a fight though." Arthur said as he got on, Morgana doing the same.

"Har har. You be-" Morgana was cut off by the car's rumbling before it started moving.

"Buckle up. Or don't. I don't really care. Ha ha!" Stan laughed at his own joke as the car started moving faster increasingly unnerving it's passengers.

"Is This Normal?!" Gwen asked feeling a bit sick.

"No, I think it's just Grunkle Sta-aaaah!"

"AAAAaaaaahhhhh!"

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okay okay but enough angst. because, honestly? wanna know who would remind athena of odysseus and telemachus (and ford) A LOT? Dipper Pines.

athena would love dipper so much and i'm not even kidding. and dipper would be SO HYPED to meet athena

dipper is very much Telemachus-coded like… “Legendary”?? Give this kid a siren and cyclops (cough cough bill cipher-)! Give him giants and a hydra! Give him harpies and chimeras, a manotaur, even Cerberus!

I think the only way Athena wouldn’t throttle Bill right there on the spot during Sock Opera would be the risk of harming Dipper, so I think she would be almost powerless to stop Bill during that episode (mainly because I uhh don’t like changing plot points of individual episodes bc it means other stuff has to change, so either she wasn’t there during Sock Opera, was incapacitated for some reason, or just *couldn’t* do anything for any other reason)

Dipper and Athena are VERY much “We’ll Be Fine”, with Athena not revealing who her friend was because she respects Stan’s decision not to tell anyone about Ford, so she too stays silent about it. Athena is working on both sides with Dipper and Stan, but she doesn’t tell them that she’s interacting with the other and the two parties don’t know because y’know it’s not her place to reveal their secrets.

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It's letter opening day in the theraprism. Yay!

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Are there any body swap fics? Cuz it'd be fun to see the prince and his servant having to live each other's lives and no one, not even Gaius, is allowed to even have a clue about it.

Merlin and Arthur would bet on who gives in first cuz;

How hard can it be to be a literal prince (and a royal prat) who isn't even aware of the amount of dangers he's been saved from?

How hard can it be to be a servant (and a bad one at that) who just has to do basic tasks of tidying and organizing stuff with no expectations of being perfect at it?

...Oh how wrong they are.

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Context for this,

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Waddles: *walks by*

Arthur: Oh, so you keep livestock in the house.

Mabel: ...livestock?

Dipper: *whispers what Arthur might mean*

Mabel: LIVESTOCK?!

Mabel: I'll have you know that Waddles is a well respected member of this family! Shame on you. Shame!

Mabel, still glaring at Arthur: *drags Waddles away whispering assurances to Waddles*

Arthur: ...So, no bacon? Well-

Dipper, covering Arthur's mouth: Sshhh. She might find the mace.

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bnha AU where Izuku has a loosey-goosey Quirk called ‘Jack of all Trades’ that shows up pretty randomly and unexpectedly depending on the task at hand, varying from long-distance vision to breathing fire to force fields etc. 

Except he doesn’t have a Quirk at all, he’s just got a Ton of niche skills, knows a lot about chemistry and taught himself sleight of hand and runs around convincing people he has a Quirk

“Oh, yeah, the explosions showed up last week, they’re new,” Izuku says, when he actually just set up a complex boobytrap with lots of landmines/firecrackers. “This one depends on the weather,” he says, as he convinces Kirishima and Kaminari that he can control water pressure when really he just knows basic plumbing. “It sorta just shows up whenever it’s handy,” he says, feigning an anti-matter Quirk to get out of handcuffs when really he’s just dislocating and relocating his wrists. 

“I thought you could turn invisible,” Uraraka says when they need to be stealthy. Izuku, who “hey-what’s-that-over-there” quick escaped last week and called it his Quirk: “Only on Tuesdays.��� 

“What happened to breathing fire!?” Iida, during dire straits. Izuku, who left his hairspray and lighter at home: “I can only do that during hours that are divisible by four!”

Bakugou knows what’s up. the whole class thinks he’s a conspiracy theorist because “Midoriya totally has a Quirk, man, how else did he use telepathy to know the villain was lying??” “HE STUDIED BODY LANGUAGE FOR THREE FUCKING YEARS” “haha sure man whatever you say”. 

Midoriya “the stars. can’t. not today” Izuku bullshitting his way into heroism. 

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probably the most frustrating thing about merlin is that every time arthur had the opportunity to change his outlook on magic, the show wouldnt let him. when magic saved his life in the moment of truth right before will, who he believed to be a sorcerer, sacrificed himself for him, he still believed magic to be dangerous. then in the sins of the father, instead of letting arthur accept that magic isnt all bad and that uther was a hypocrite, merlin lies to him and arthur goes right back to square one. arthur should have been allowed to know the truth about his mother and actually progress as a character in regards to his views towards magic.

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Merlin explaining the great purge and the banning of magic to the twins so that they don't out him to Arthur after Dipper and Mabel find out that he is a sorcerer.

Dipper looked up from his notes and shared a glance with his sister, who also seemed to feel the same, "Wow, that's messed up man." He knew magic could be controversial in the medieval times, he didn't it was this bad. No wonder he didn't want Arthur to find out.

Merlin gave a quiet nod and sighed. When the twins stumbled upon him using magic he was terrified. He thought he was done for right there and then. Thankfully the twins took it rather well. On the bright side he got to share his secret with someone else other than Gaius and Lancelot...even if they were only 12.

Mabel slammed her hands on the table, startling the remaining two occupants and declared loudly "I-" before lowering her voice at her brother's and Merlins insistence, "Ahem, I won't stand for this. You two deserve to be closer and I, Mabel pines, promise to fix this blasphemy!"

"I don't-" Merlin spoke before being interrupted as Mabel pulled him close,

"Shh...Don't worry. You've got the power of Mabel on your side!" Mabel whispered before running off, leaving Merlin dumbfounded.

"...What is your sister going to do?" Merlin asked nervously not getting a verbal response from Dipper.

Dipper got off the chair and led Merlin to the living room, both peeking at Arthur who was entranced by the television in front of him.

"Heyo!" Mabel shouted appearing out of seemingly nowhere, scaring Arthur,

"Aahhh!...oh. It's you." Arthur screamed before calming down.

"Sorry to scare you-"

"I wasn't scared-"

"But a little birdie told me you hate magic!"

"...and why wouldn't I, Mabel?" Arthur decided to humor her.

"Because it's so magical!" Mabel said spreading her hands out and glitter everywhere.

"Uh-huh." Arthur replied, removing the glitter off him.

"And that's why we're going watch every Disney movie in existence, well except sword in the stone,"

"I didn’t quite hear that part "

"-while we do your hair and nails until you realise your Dad's opinion is totally wrong." Mabel spoke and started preparing her supplies while Arthur just looked very confused.

Merlin and Dipper watched from the sidelines, with Merlin going through thousands of emotions at once as Dipper comforted Merlin, "There, there."

"...what is even going on here?" Arthur started regaining his bearings and turned around finding Merlin and Dipper in the corner, watching, "Merlin? Dipper, what is your sister doing? Wait, where are you going? Merlin, Dipper I swear if I-wait stop! Don't leave me here!"

Merlin and Dipper slipped away leaving Arthur alone. With Mabel. Arthur felt a hand on his shoulder as slowly turned around to find it's owner, "So, what's your favorite colour?~"