#**but I picture dipper Mabel and ford bringing up the yearlings and Stan looks at a picture of Aggie and hears them talk about her

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❁ (any AU)

❁ what moment made them realize they're in love?

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For the most part, regardless of what verse Aggie has a very “love at first sight” vibe with Stan. However there are big turning points that are a bit more specific.

⭐️ Canon - Aggie has a hard time nailing it down in the main canon. It was such a gradual thing that grew so steadily that she genuinely can’t recall a time where he wasn’t the number one subject of her affection. From the moment they met to the moment she left him in Jersey it was an ever-growing feeling. The time apart did allow the flame to die down, especially after she went back to Jersey only to find that he wasn’t there. She buried her feelings and tried to forget but she never really could nor did she really want to. She never completely gave up hope, even after nearly 50 years. It was different when they reunited- It was much faster, actually. The embers of the feelings shed had were there and it didn’t take much to bring her back to the point of extreme fondness. It all came back into place after having a few casual meet-ups in town or out at her house or at the shack to catch up. In the shows timeline it happens in the aftermath of NWHS. The thing that seals it though (not the best timing sadly) was during Weirdmageddon. She and Olive ended up separated and Olive spent most of the event with Stan at the shack. Knowing that he went out of his way to look after her made her sure that what she was feeling was very very real, and the devastation of thinking she’d lost him JUST as she got him back with almost too much for her to take. After Weirdmageddon before Stan’s memories started coming back she wouldn’t leave her bedroom and was in deep like??? Near catatonic mourning, as if he’d died. Once he was coming back into himself she restrained the true nature of how intense her feelings for him had become but once the door was nudged open, that was that. Partners in crime and life from then on.

🌀Relativity - This was truly a love at first sight moment. She took ONE look at this goofy boy trying to solve the murder of a wax figure WITH SUCH EARNESTNESS AND DETERMINATION she was instantly very drawn to him. The moment she knew she was good and stuck though was after he started crushing on Carla and she tried to articulate her feelings about it to Mabel who informed her (with much excitement) that she a crush. Aggie had heard of crushes and knew they existed but had never had one. And she never had another one, either.

💰Vegas - Her side of the story is virtually unchanged up until they meet again in Vegas, but when she knew she was good and stuck on him was after one of their earliest performances or even when they were still testing and rehearsing things. He was so excited and happy and he was so much like the boy that she was so taken with back then that she found herself falling love all over again but with the added complexities of navigating these feelings through a business partnership, being a single parent, and wrestling with some self esteem issues… All of those things combined with a heightened physical attraction what hadn’t been present at 13/14.

☢️ Fallout - Similarly to canon they grew up together but it was even more prominent bc there were fewer children for them to interact with and less world to explore. I feel like their attachment in Fallout verse is perhaps one of the more intense attachments that’s possible between them, at least as children. But the dynamic shifts in early adolescence as they started to learn about “grown up stuff” and there is talk about potential marriages and what next generations of vault dwellers could look like. It was after a sort of vault-wide dance for the teenagers in the vault that Aggie’s eyes were opened to just how special her best friend was to her. All spiffed up she basically couldn’t keep her eyes off him. She knew that night that he was gonna be the boy she wanted to marry and gave a family with. Unfortunately the powers that be had other plans.

Later on when they reunite, it’s probably pretty similar to canon in that it happens sort of quickly. They’re so lucky to even be alive so why waste of of their time left denying feelings? We haven’t quite nailed it down for them yet but I feel like it’ll have to do with him interacting with her family or with Junktown, since she has a pattern of falling all over again after he’s nice to her family.

⚠️ 1984 - The exact moment she knew she was falling in love with him (again) was during his first visit to her house in the woods. She’s given him a quick tour and then they were just talking, partially about serious stuff but honestly they were just fill in each other on what’s happened with them since they were teenagers. Bobby was with them, listening and chiming in until he eventually fell asleep. Aggie got up to pick him up and carry him upstairs and Stan (who probably didn’t realize he was offering rhis until it had already been offered) offered to carry Bobby for her (he is getting a little big for her to carry without a little fuss) so he picks her boy up and she leads him to Bobby’s room. Once they were in Bobby’s room Stan put the boy in bed and then (clumsily but endearingly) patted his head before he and Aggie left the room. She knew right then, she was in trouble.

Ooos I did basically all of them ✌🏻