#7alt8

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Gravity Falls AU: 7alt8 - Fiddleford McGucket

Vikings were farmers XD at least a few were lol And that kinda inspired this look for good ol' Fidds! Unlike his OG self, in 7alt8 he was never married having never met Emma-may, and actually met Ford during a semester when Ford and a few of his classmates went to Backupsmore University to present a series of lectures in Hyper-Advanced Engineering at the dean's request.

Impressed with Fiddleford's knowledge and how easily he kept up with his talk on 'Quantum Entanglement And Calculus: Polycued Dynamics', Ford tried to get Fiddleford accepted into West Tech but was ultimately denied. In the end Ford became close with Fiddleford and would visit him often while offering to provide him with advanced studies that Fiddleford couldn't get at Backupsmore, leading to a lifelong friendship. Despite the incident that caused the scar that Fidds received during one of their projects, they both have remained close confidantes and trusting partners having gone so far as to set up their residences in the same town of Gravity Falls together.

Fiddleford is still a country boy through and through, still plays the banjo and chews tabaco but does it on rare occasion. Due to his medication he tends to speak with a deadpan or bluntness that makes people question when he's serious or joking (Ford is usually able to tell the difference though even he sometimes struggles). He also gets along with Mabel and Dipper well, treating them like the kids he never had (which leads to some pretty hilarious awkwardness sometimes when he wants their attention), and taught them how to hunt and fish. Due to his condition he doesn't like traveling much and so rarely leaves his home, preferring to aid the pines family from a distance with their inventive needs.

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7alt8 AU - Moments Like These

Got asked by a friend what exactly Bill and Stan's relationship is like, and made this quick comic to show just how much Bill enjoys messing with Stan XD

Poor boyo has had to deal with stuff like this for 43 years LOL

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7alt8 AU - Parallels

S: FUCK! Where did it go?! S: ...did I... drop it? S: ... S: ...whatever. It was trash anyways.

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Gravity Falls AU - 7alt8: Stanley Pines

I love Gravity Falls and I recently finished Book of Bill XD

So! AU idea splurge time!

What if Stan had never broken Ford's science project? Had let Ford go off to West Tech and stayed in Glass Shard Beach?

What if Bill had taken an interest in Stan to be his "partner" rather than Ford? Wanting someone he thought was stupid enough to never be disloyal to him and yet strong enough to be of use, and decided to prey upon Stan's loneliness and daddy issues as a heartbroken teen at 17 before stealing him away with the promise of 'never having to be alone ever again'?

You get this, a Stan that's spent the last 43 years as Bill's acolyte in the nightmare realm and seems to have gotten perpetually stuck in the angsty 90s. A Stan that doesn't return to his world until it's time for him to start taking it over one country at a time in Bill's name with the henchmaniacs at his side.

...a missing twin that has been sought after by his brother for the last 43 years.

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Gravity Falls AU: 7alt8 - Mabel Pines

Mabel discovered a love of leggings once she hit high school and has worn them ever since. I feel her style was influenced though if you can guess why based on some of the clues provided in this post lol

Not much is different with her and Dipper in this AU, other than they're both older thanks to the extended time frame, and that they've traveled the world more than most teens their ages thanks to assisting Ford in his investigations and search for Stanley when not spending a few days or weeks at a time in Gravity Falls, (they both doubt Stanley is still alive initially just like the rest of the family but don't voice that in consideration for their great uncle's feelings) and as a consequence have gotten up to a lot more shenanigans than their OG selves.

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Gravity Falls AU - 7alt8: Stanford Pines

May I present 7alt8's Ford!

I don't know about anyone else but I love me a good nerdy explorer look, and while I love OG Ford's trench coat and style to death, I wanted to shake it up for what Ford might have gone with taste wise if he'd gotten to go to his posh ivy league school XD (I think suspenders are hot too and I'll fight anyone who disagrees lol feel free to rag on the loafers tho jk)

Comparatively to OG, this Ford is still very much a badass explorer but he's more world traveled and knowledgeable thanks to his journeying and his occasional semesters abroad while he was still in West Tech... before he dropped out upon learning that Stan had gone missing.

He has no formal accreditations but can speak 13 languages including 5 dead/extinct ones, and is actually very wealthy thanks to many scientific patents he's turned in over the years and (unofficially recognized) theses he's published, though he chooses to live humbly.

While the same age as his twin, Ford's birthday is June 15th while Stanley's is June 16th. Ford was born 7 minutes before midnight and Stanley 8 minutes after midnight. And sorry folks but Ford is a muscle prince, Stan is still the chubby king

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Why did you age Dipper and Mabel up?

Because it makes sense? In my AU it's been 43 years since Stan's been gone, not 40 years of separation like in the show (10 after Stan got kicked out and then the additional 30 when Ford was portal bound).

That would put Mabel and Dipper at 16 going on 17.

Ford didn't have an answer to where his brother was like OG Stan did (having been the reason Ford was lost in the first place) and he also doesn't have a dream demon to play his 'muse' in finding that out. So he's been searching longer and not making as much headway.

Until recently that is.

Stanley should check his pockets for holes every now and again. Just because he wears leather doesn't mean the lining doesn't go through wear and tear lol

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7alt8 AU - Family

(Takes place three years before the comic 'Parallels')

“You’d really keep my great niece and nephew from me?” Ford asked breathlessly, his eyes wide in disbelief. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

This was to be the first summer he got to spend with his great niece and nephew, and he’d been looking forward to it for the last year. The thought of actually being able to be around family without judgment or pity had kept him up long into the night with excitement the night prior as he’d come up with all sorts of activities they could do together.

And now he was being told it might not happen.

Ford had pulled into his niece and nephew’s driveway only ten minutes ago, he hadn’t even gotten to greet the kids yet, and already everything was falling apart over bland tea… with admittedly good biscotti.

Lee and Abigail both exchanged a look before the shorter brunette took a deep breath, an awkward smile meant to comfort gracing her lips but doing nothing other than causing a flare of irritation through her uncle.

“We don’t want to, it’s just…” She paused, her eyes darting as she tried to find her words that Ford knew were going to be insensitive no matter how she used them. “I’m sorry to say this but, we don’t want them being dragged into this… obsession of yours. I mean, you missed their 13th birthday party because you felt as if you’d discovered the remains of El Dorado and thought that it was somehow run by lizardmen!”

“Aliens,” Ford corrected as he cleared his throat. “It was connected to aliens, and I said the residents were likely attacked by lizardmen at one point resulting in a war that wiped out their crops and festered disease. Not that they were—”

“That’s not the point!” Abigail cried as she waved his words away.

He winced, and had the decency to look apologetic for his bad habit of rambling. Ford had always been a man of discovery and science, so he really couldn’t help how his words got away from him sometimes.

“I apologized for that. I got them both gifts.”

“Yes… some supposed particle gun and a set of laser powered handcuffs.” Lee drawled.

Ford couldn’t help beaming with pride. “Two excellent pinnacles of technology wouldn’t you agree? My colleague and I spent the better part of a year fine tuning the blueprints and constructing them. The process was fascinating!”

Lee and Abigail stared at him.

And the longer they did so the more he deflated until he was awkwardly staring right back. 

Abigail ran a hand through her hair, “Be that as it may, this is still a problem. It’s been decades Uncle Standford, and we’ve already told them that Uncle Stanley—”

“He’s not dead.” Ford cut across her, resolute and final.

His nephew and niece-in-law both exchanged a wary look.

Ford sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. He knew he should be respectful right now, even if every atom of his body protested and wanted to chide the both of them, but it was difficult.

He’d just gotten so tired of hearing how the family had given up over the years…

“Look,” He began as he adjusted his glasses and folded his hands. “I love these kids, more than anything, and their safety will be my utmost priority if you agree to entrust them to me, I promise you.”

Abigail swallowed thickly as she glanced down at her hands and began to fiddle with the acrylic on one of her long manicured nails. Lee, however, met Ford’s gaze head on, his words stern and tone icy.

“If we let you have them for the summer you are to take them to your home in Gravity Falls, and keep them there. You won’t drag our children on this wild goose chase of yours, or you’ll never see Dipper and Mabel again. I won’t agree to trust our children to some lunatic. Do you understand?”

'Wild goose chase.’

Ford’s hands clenched into fists against the table top, but he showed just how great the extent of his control was as he kept a perfectly neutral expression and nodded in understanding while he replied, “Completely.”

Lee and Abigail exchanged another concerned look before finally relenting as they smiled.

“We’ll have them get packed then.” Abigail chirped as she took a sip of her tea.

Ford forced himself to relax as he returned their grins with a hollow one of his own and popped a piece of biscotti between his teeth. For the next ten minutes he listened to Lee and Abigail’s upcoming plans for a vacation to the alps now that the kids would be preoccupied, and reassured them when they would ask questions or voice any lingering worries.

It was tedious.

But finally, they both excused themselves to go help the twins pack, leaving Ford alone in their kitchen. Alone with their phone only a few feet away, tucked into the corner of their marble counter.

He wasted no time rushing over to it.

On the third ring he got an answer, and he was quick, straight to the point and clipped.

“Fiddleford? Does your uncle still own that hanger off of I-580?”

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“Tell me, do you love your parents?”

Dipper and Mabel frowned as they looked at each other before looking back up at him.

“Yes,” they replied simultaneously.

“Good, because I love them too!” Ford exclaimed as he tossed the last of their bags in the back of his trunk before slamming the lid shut. “However, allow me to pose another question.”

He turned to face them with his fists on his hips. “Do you love obeying them?”

At that Dipper and Mabel went wide eyed and took turns shaking their heads and tilting their hands as they mumbled indifferent and uncertain ‘mehs’ and ‘sometimes’ followed by ‘not really’. 

Ford felt a smirk curve his lips as he chuckled.

“An interesting answer. Now get in the car, we have a long journey ahead.”

As the twins both climbed into the car (after arguing over who got shotgun to which Mabel won over a game of rock-paper-scissors) Dipper couldn’t help groaning under his breath from the backseat, “Why do you have to live eight hours away? My legs are going to be numb by the time we get there.

Ford didn’t say anything as he waited for them to both finish buckling in before turning on the ignition and pulling out of the driveway.

“Yes, eight hours can be a moderately taxing drive.” he chuckled, before adding, “which is why we shall be flying.”

Dipper and Mabel both perked up at that, Dipper raising a confused brow as Mabel tilted her head to ask, “Flying?”

Ford glanced at her from the corner of his eye and grinned.

“We’re not going to Gravity Falls. Not right now at least. I have found something interesting that I wish to investigate. Next stop: Europe! Dublin specifically.”

“...does this have anything to do with great uncle Stanley?” Dipper asked, perturbed.

Ford fell silent as he stared ahead at the open road.

The quiet awkwardly filled the car as Mabel glanced back at her brother via the rearview mirror, the both of them making a face of worry. After an extended and tense moment, Mabel perked up, her chest puffing out as she threw a thumb at the center of it.

“Well, I don’t know about you two, but I’ve always wanted to see a leprechaun!”

The tension instantly vanished as Ford chuckled again and Dipper rolled his eyes.

“Leprechauns aren’t real,” her brother sighed.

Mabel instantly went into a pout.

“You don’t know that! I bet they are, and that their gold is really those chocolate coins that the stores sell on halloween! Oh, oh! And! They bleed sprinkles and sneeze rainbows!”

“What? You can’t be serious Mabel.” Dipper groused at his sister’s whimsy.

As they both started to go back and forth, Ford felt his heart skip a beat as elation warmed his chest from the inside out. The kids may have been a bit apprehensive, but now that they were warming up to the idea of traveling abroad he couldn’t help thinking how lucky he was. 

Dipper and Mabel were not going to hinder his search after all by forcing him to be in one place for an extended period of time (wasting precious minutes—minutes that could be life or death for Stanley wherever he was), and were sure to be a great asset to him with Dipper’s logic and Mabel’s ability to think outside the box. In time at least, once they’d gotten used to everything and he’d had time to explain the theory of weirdness to them.

Clearly, he’d have to work on Dipper’s logic and how it could be applied to the abnormal, because leprechauns were indeed real, and were ALWAYS cranky. And also work with Mabel on how to convey her creative ideas in a proper way, as sometimes they bordered on nonsensical.

But those were just small, trivial details that could be handled another day.

First things first, was making sure they were both comfortable during this trip. He wanted them to enjoy it and get a taste for adventuring just as he had, and to want to do this when the opportunity came to visit him. He wanted them to not regret taking a risk by trusting him like they just had and going along with it when he mentioned the change of plans.

Ford may have misled their parents on what he and the kids would be doing, but he had been truthful about how much they both meant to him and the care that he felt towards their wellbeing.

He glanced over again as the dappled light from passing trees danced across the interior of the car, his gaze raking over both the twins as they dissolved into giggles and laughter over something concerning dorito chips and hot sauce. How they got on that topic he hadn’t a clue but he couldn’t help laughing along as Mabel listed off how hot sauce was a better dip than nacho cheese.

….he was certain that Stanley would have adored them, just as he did.

He focused on driving again and took a turn towards the private airport he’d booked with Fiddleford right after his conversation with Lee and Abigail.

The sight of the plane already waiting on the runway gradually greeted him like a beacon of light through darkness as he slowly crested the rolling hill of freshly dewed grass and graveled dirt towards the tarmac.

Everything would be fine, Ford reassured himself.

He just hoped Dipper and Mabel were able to keep a secret.

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Gravity Falls AU: 7alt8 - "Dipper" Pines

Dipper really came into his own once he hit high school! Surprisingly he made a few friends from playing golf, a sport he enjoyed in Gravity Falls when they'd get to relax for a bit and under his sister's encouragement. He still idolizes Ford like in the OG series but he's a bit more take charge when it comes to adventuring, and even has moments where he and Ford will clash on decision making.

Don't be fooled though! Dipper is full of crippling insecurity and anxiety, and sometimes spontaneous bouts of teenage hormonal rage, he's just gotten better at coping with it. Don't ask why he hates shoe laces, it involves a very embarrassing incident that happened sophomore year and he will death glare you lol

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In canon, Ford is better at fighting than Stan, since I think that was pretty much established in that scene where he easily overpowers Stan after he comes back from the portal, and Alex said once that he believed that sober Ford would always win in a fight between them, because Ford has the formal training and Stan just has the madness. But what about in 7alt8? 7alt8!Stan would be able to win against 7alt8!Ford in a fight?

Oh absolutely 7alt8!Stan could win against 7alt8!Ford, depending on how the fight plays out. Especially if he's the one able to throw the first punch because 9 times out of 10 he never misses, and once he gets that first jab he doesn't let up

Sorry I'm about to ramble a little ^^;

In 7alt8 Stan and Ford are actually pretty matched in terms of ability given that Ford has been fighting monsters and struggling to survive in his adventuring, so he isn't rusty or anything. Just like how OG Ford got by in his interdimensional travels, only with less life or death risk as he isn't trying to get by 24/7, and does have a home in Gravity Falls that he can retreat to for a bit at a time - which means not as put through the ringer as OG Ford or having experienced the paranoia and desperation that I'm sure really honed OG Ford into a living weapon basically. He's had the ability to run away to guaranteed safety when absolutely necessary.

7alt8!Stan as I stated in a previous ask has been training in combat since he was seventeen. He actually has the advantage of strategy when fighting given he's trained with interdimensional beings, both the henchmaniacs and various others that Bill has sent him after in other worlds, giving him a sense of combative creativity. He basically is like OG Ford but worse, as his life wasn't always on the line so he was able to really take advantage of learning special techniques and where and how to hurt someone the most from terrible and powerful entities, over and over again till he got it right

If you take away the danger of Stan's gloves which have the madness toxin coating the spikes (a toxin which mind breaks a person for up to 72 hours when it gets into the blood and makes them disoriented and crazed) and have him just going fisticuffs, then I feel they're pretty evenly matched so long as 7alt8!Ford manages to dodge or deflect/parry more hits than he takes (the ones he can see coming that is)

7alt8!Ford would have to outlast 7alt8!Stan more than anything in order to win while making sure he doesn't take more than one or two hits at a time, as the only advantage he really has is he has more stamina while Stan has more strength. He's had more cadio than Stan has, as running from danger when needed is more aerobic than boxing/fighting (when something is aerobic you can actually do it for longer periods of time), and he's done that plenty of times that he could parkour his way out of a maze if pushed without breaking a sweat XD Stan though could break a brick wall with enough force if he wanted. I feel just three consecutive hits would be enough to knock Ford prone if not knock him out completely so yeah ^^;

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7alt8!Stan have some superpower? Like Pyrokinesis like Bill does?

Other than being insanely strong, having interdimensionally learned combative skills, and having amazing vision (too amazing honestly, he can see all the gross makeup of flaky cells and stuff that composes skin and hair and junk if he tries - which has given him a nightmare a time or two to Bill's amusement) in tow with his somewhat youthful appearance/state, no, sorry to say he doesn't

I mean, he can heal abnormally fast in the nightmare realm and navigate it's zero g like a professional acrobat, but the healing is Bill's ability that he shares on a whim and not one that 7alt8!Stan personally possesses

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What inspired you to create 7alt8?

Bit of a long story lol

I like Rick and Morty, right? Have since the first episode premiered. So I thought, 'I wonder what other shows are like this?' and went on a hunt that recommended me; the owl house, over the garden wall, and gravity falls. I watched garden wall first and was kind of okay with it, but it didn't really scratch my itch (what the itch was idk) and then decided I'd go for Gravity Falls.

I. was. hooked.

I binged that show within... I think two or three days? And immediately bought Journal 3 and Book of Bill soon as I could. While reading both those books I couldn't help thinking how 46'/ was a unique name for a dimension - made me think of l33t speak a little lol and then the name 7alt8 popped into my head and I really liked how it sounded, and left me questioning if it had been used anywhere.

That ultimately lead me into a search about AUs wondering if Gravity Falls had the expansive AU love that Undertale has and BOOM! It did, and I went feral over it!

An AU I really liked was 'One of Us' by ashidaii on instagram. And I went, 'Is there a partnered Bill and Stanley AU?' because honestly Stanley is my favorite and I wondered what he'd be like in Ford's place.

But I never came across one, I only kept finding lots of Bill and Ford being tied together AUs, none where Ford and Bill were strangers and Stanley was the one who Bill went after (only after I'd started making 7alt8 did I come across a similar concept but it involved Stan making a deal to save Ford and the kids or something and that wasn't what I wanted at all - I subscribe to the idea of Stan never making a deal with Bill).

So yeah, 7alt8 was born!

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Hi! Not the anon who sent the ship ask; though i’m also a lover of Undertale and your fanfictions! I love Gravity falls and wonder how do you imagine the reunion between Stanley and Ford will go in your 7alt8 AU? Since it looks like Bill follow Stanley around so i’m curious on Ford reaction to seeing Bill even though it seems like he doesn’t remember Bill.

OMG! Thank you! >////<

The fact I'm getting asks from people who have liked my stuff before is just sending me, you have no idea! <3

For your question...

Violently :)

Technically Bill and Ford haven't personally met in this AU, in fact Ford sees Stanley again a good deal before he gets to finally meet Bill or learn about the demonic triangle's role in his brother's life. That's not to say it's the same for Bill though when you're a being that exists in quantum uncertainty, which means you are and yet are not in multiple dimensions at once given that you're more of an idea than a being constrained by matter.

I don't know if you've seen the OG show but I'm going to assume you have for this answer! (I'm sorry otherwise) You know how Ford knocked Stan's block off when he came back through the portal after 30 years?

Well, imagine Ford bearing witness to a rift opening up in the middle of Tikal National Park in Guatemala, atop the ruins of an ancient Mayan temple as his long lost brother arrives through with the henchmaniacs at his side.

Ford is horrified, elated, confused, running through a confusing range of emotions as Mabel and Dipper both ask who the man leading the charge is, only to be told that that's their long lost great uncle that they've been searching for on barely the breath of a whisper.

And the henchmaniacs waste no time breaking apart and wreaking havoc, destroying the park as they rip the ground asunder and collapse parts of the ruins into fragmented lines of code that then twist into new terrifying buildings of bleeding black stone and dust.

All while Bill's pyramid ascends through the sky.

Combine that with Stanley, who has had forty-three years of built up animosity and frustration towards Ford and the world at large to unleash after having been trained and groomed for this day—the day he and Bill alongside Bill's lackeys finally take over the universe by fighting tooth and nail in order to leave no opposition standing.

Suffice to say, no one is walking away from this reunion without something being broken, rather it be their bones or their heart.

I actually have the encounter partially written, but I'm debating on if I want to try posting it as a comic or fic. If I do the comic it'll be LONG, and I don't know if I can handle that yet so I'm just trying to finish the character sheets before deciding ^^

And this won't be quick either, 7alt8's weirdmageddon is going to be a full scale world war that Ford and the family will have to collaborate with governments on, both in present and across time. It's going to be massive and a race to see who can rally the power needed to win first

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Hi!!! I loved your undertale books and I'm happy to see you making things for gravity falls!! Do you have any canon ships for your AU?

Oh thank you! I honestly didn't expect any of my undertale lovers to be interested! ^^; This actually makes me really happy to hear XD

As far as ships for 7alt8, no I have no 'canon' ships for it, at least not for right now that I can think of. I teased at billford in one of my comics but I was just being funny lol

However that doesn't mean I'm opposed to others wanting to ship my AU characters in whatever way they want ^^ I just ask that anyone that wants to waits for me to finish the character sheets before they try committing to any 7alt8 ships

I want to get the official designs out so there's no confusion, as I don't want someone making a fan rendition first and that being assumed as the 'canon' design if it gets well liked, and there will be tidbits added onto characters (like Fiddleford and Soos) that people may or may not end up liking too much that could conflict with any ship head canons they may have

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Wow, everyone really seems to like the fact that I aged up Dipper and Mabel for 7alt8...

...what are y'all planning? =_=

(just kidding XD)

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Opening the ask box for any questions relating to my feelings/thoughts/headcanons on Gravity Falls or in relation to 7alt8 AU if anyone is curious ^^

Please don’t send anything Undertale related right now as my focus is on this as I work on finishing character sheets (currently on Dipper with Fiddleford next). Any asks tied into Undertale will be politely ignored for now ^^;