#Gravity Falls headcanon

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Using childhood memories as Gravity Falls headcanons again but -

Mabel has decided that whenever Grunkle Stan falls asleep in his chair, he gets a visit from the "zhuzh fairy". Aka, Mabel paints his nails in his sleep. It had started as a dare from Dipper: If she could manage to paint Stan's nails without him waking up, she'd get a dollar. After much haggling, it was decided that for every nail she could successfully paint, Dipper owed her a quarter. Luckily for her, Stan was a pretty heavy sleeper, so she could usually get at least $1.50 out of it. Unfortunately for Dipper and Stan, Dipper didn't put an end date on the bet. So Dipper spent most of the summer shilling out quarters, and Stan spent most of the summer scrubbing lighter fluid over his fingers trying to remove various neon and glitter-filled polishes.

Stan usually doesn't notice for a while after waking up. It's not like the guy's got great vision, and he's not really looking at his hands that often unless he's doing precision work. Which means he usually doesn't notice until he's down in the basement working on the portal. He gives Mabel grief about it in the morning, but while he's alone in the basement he appreciates the little reminder of the family that he still has on this side of the portal. It spurs him on all the more, thinking about how much Ford is gonna love these kids once he finally gets the chance to meet them.

When Ford does come back, Mabel doesn't catch him asleep in the open until long after Weirdmageddon. After all, Ford tends to lock his door at night, or he falls asleep over his desk in the lab. When Mabel finally finds him at the kitchen table, slumped over his latest notes, she decides it's only fair for him to be included in "family bonding activities". She doesn't expect how fast he jerks out of sleep the second she brushes his hand, or the wild look in his eyes when he slaps his hand on his hip where his holster used to be. He's extremely apologetic, and promises to replace the pink sparkly bottle of nail polish spilling over the floor where Mabel dropped it in shock. Mabel forgives him of course, and privately decides not to bother Ford in his sleep again.

Then the kids go back home, the Pines brothers go out to sea, and the Earth goes around the Sun once again. When the twins visit the next Summer, both of their grunkles seem a little more relaxed. Ford has a healthier weight to him, Stan gets those sad, distant looks far less than he used to, and though the two of them argue often, it's only ever about little things.

Except the argument about whether or not to put bread in the fridge. Dipper and Mabel were a little worried they were going to have to get the wax Larry King head down from the vents to mediate.

But a few weeks into summer, Mabel finds Stan and Ford both passed out in front of the television. Soos had sprung for a couch for the living room thank goodness. As fun as sitting on a dinosaur skull was, it was not great on the lower back. Mabel runs to grab her nail polish, pulling Stan's limp hand out of his bowl of popcorn to put bright red polish on his greasy fingers. Sure, there's a lot more crumbs in the polish than she would usually allow, but she had to work quickly. She'd have to thank Great Uncle Ford for tiring him out on their fishing trip today. She just made $2.50.

Speaking of Ford. She turned to watch him closely. Ford was fast asleep, his head resting on Stan's shoulder. His mouth had fallen open in his sleep and, oh man that's embarrassing, he was definitely drooling on Stan's shirt.

Well, red would match his sweater.

When Stan and Ford wake up the next morning, it's to find both of their nails painted the same bright red. Stan starts grumbling about lighter fluid and popcorn crumbs and "c'mon, I should at least be getting a cut of the money Dipper's giving Mabel, I'm the victim here". Ford holds up his hands to the light, grabbing Stan's to make a quick comparison. The food all over Stan's fingers doesn't help, but Ford can't help but notice how much neater his are. Like Mabel had the chance to take her time.

Stan hefts himself up from the couch, muttering that Ford had just made Mabel three dollars and that Dipper should add a clause about extra fingers to his agreement. Mabel trots in the room a moment later, smiling widely and asking how the two of them liked their manicures. Stan yells something about "back in his day", but Mabel ignores him to turn to Ford.

"I was able to make yours look extra nice," she explained. "You were really asleep. Like super relaxed."

Ford looks at his nails. "I suppose I was."

Mabel's smile widens. "Just letting you know, this is gonna be a thing for you now too. You're gonna get visited by the zhuzh fairy allllllll summer."

And Ford will remember the summer Mabel had frightened him out of his sleep. He'll remember restless nights on the boat and Stan coaxing him into bed or out of a nightmare. And he'll think about how well rested he feels, and a promise of a summer of sleep that feels so safe, his niece can hold his hands without fear.

And he'll turn to Mabel and smile. "I'm looking forward to it."

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These are a couple doodles from yesterday, Gideon as a younger teen, before the growth spurt, maybe 14? He's discovered he's a vampire, and has a lot of recovery to do, since he's severely blood deficient.

I'm gonna let myself explode about my vampire gideon ideas, under construction, under the cut: (I don't write fanfiction, I just throw up my ideas on a tumblr post, apparently :'D)

This is what I love about tumblr - it's a place where I can throw the doodles (something that isn't finished *artwork*), and let myself be really delusional about fictional characters. So I'm gonna take a moment to ramble about the ideas I have for Gideon as a vampire.

If you're a fellow Gideon Head, HI THERE... anyway, here's my thought process on a potential vampire-gideon backstory???

I've always liked the idea of gideon being a vampire, and also becoming a much better person when he's older. And that got me thinking, maybe those two things are linked. Maybe the vampire thing is somehow tied into his reformation.

But I tend to lean towards building my ideas off canon (as opposed to making an AU). And if gideon was a vampire, and knew this during the events of the show, it would have come to light at some point. So, either he doesn't know he's a vampire, or he becomes one later. Becoming one later works narratively, but he's already so vampiric, with the white hair, pale skin, sunscreen, evil, etc. So I'm like, let's go with that.

So, gideon has gone his whole life without knowing he's a vampire, and without drinking blood. I'm thinking that being a vampire in this case (my gravity falls fan version of what a vampire would be) wouldn't adhere to typical vampire conventions. You don't NEED to drink blood to survive.

Here's the idea I got yesterday: after the events of weirdmageddon, gideons experience motivated him to become a better person. It was the awakening, basically. But in the subsequent years, he's still a little shit. Maybe he's in juvenile detention, or prison again. But now, he has the self awareness to know that what he's doing is wrong. This is where my ideas get a little fuzzy, so bear with me. Bud has his suspicions, and as a last resort, puts gideon on some sort of mission trip type of cross country trip, when he's in his teens. And along the way, maybe at the end, there's this secret group of vampires that open gideons eyes to what he really is.

Basically??? Without blood, gideon is very evil. He's an evil little shit. This may not be how it is for every vampire. Maybe some grow very sickly without blood, just get hungry, etc. The effects of blood deficiency vary from vampire to vampire. But Gideon becomes very unhinged. And he'd essentially been Blood Hangry for his whole life. That being said, some of it was just his personality that he needed to work through, but drinking some blood helped a LOT. Blood isn't food for him, it's more like his medication.

Once he has that discovery, he spends a long while, I'm thinking maybe even a year, just recovering from the deficiency. He's almost always drinking blood to keep up his levels, and he's very rarely seen in public to keep the vampire thing a secret. That's what these drawings were supposed to be, him in his pseudo bedridden state. This period in his life would be one big blur; mostly spent binge watching soap operas and being all cozy. In contrast to his usual suit + tie, he's dressing for max comfort: sweatpants, sweatshirt, a knit hat over his ridiculously big hair, and always wrapped in a blanket. Not sure if somehow he feels cold when drinking blood?? But for some reason, I feel like he'd always be wearing like 10 layers and laying under a heated blanket or something.

Eventually, he'd only need to drink blood about once a month for maintenance.

Character development wise - even as an adult, Gideon isn't sure if he's truly a good person. Is the blood deficient version of himself the true gideon? Or is this well adjusted man who he truly is? And there's an issue of the chicken and the egg, too. Gideon was born a vampire. Did these genes activate because he was predisposed to being evil? Or did the vampire thing happen by coincidence? Does being a vampire make him evil, or is it the other way around? He doesn't know, and he never will.

The one thing I'm not sure I like about this idea: i'm worried that I'd be writing off his villainous personality as an illness that can be cured with a thing. Obviously, it would be better if he faced that head on, and figured out how to be better. So I'm still grappling with that. But for now, this is an idea I'm entertaining. Of course, I think it would be interesting if there was a plot point where his usual source of ethically sourced human blood was compromised for a time, and he had to grapple with his personality going topsy turvy.

It's actually embarrassing how much I just wrote???? If you've made it this far, wow, I applaud you. I guess this was just my idea of having a good sunday night, writing down my silly thoughts on gideon gosh darn gleeful. Let me know your thoughts too!!!! I'd love to know if you have any ideas, or questions, or ways to strengthen this potential backstory.

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Momma's boy.

[oakthefrog]

'dipper isn't trans!'

EXPLAIN THIS THEN BITCH

EXPLAIN THIS

[niiwa-angel]

The entire Pines family + Wendy must freak the town people out so badly when they go out in public together.

You've got Stanley "was involved with organized crime from the age of 20, got into so much trouble with the law he invented new crimes, people at the bar don't like or trust me" Pines

Stanford "In every universe with a judicial system I have ever been in, I am wanted. Summoned a demon and got into a situationship with him, gave my 12 year old grand niece a crossbow" Pines

Mabel "ate outlawed candy and hallucinated in a haunted convenience store, dated a gnome and later discovered their weakness is leaf blowers, dragged my great uncle up a water tower to cure his fear of heights, beat up her own brother while he was possessed by Bill" Pines

Dipper "jumped of several cliffs, once to prove he was a man, once to save his sister from Gideon, and then in a car with Wendy during the apocalypse, broke the laws of time to impress a girl, got chewed on by a wolf and didn't go inside because his sister and her friends were annoying him" Pines.

And then we have Soos "I will do anything for the Pines Family, has been Stans duckling since he was 13, then fought Stan when he thought he was a risk to the twins, was willing to guard the vending machine from the feds when Stan was arrested, ate a man alive" Ramirez.

Wendy "survived 3 days in an apocalyptic hellscape by herself at 15, drive a car off a cliff with Dipper riding shotgun, went with Mabel to find unicorns and then helped fight them, drop kicked Lil Gideon because he annoyed her, is the only girl in her family" Corduroy.

I'll bet that they all hang out in town and the people of Gravity Falls are just HOPING they don't come into their store because Stan and Wendy are totally going to shoplift, Mabel leaves glitter everywhere, Ford and Dipper end up in the vents somehow, and Soos ends up in a fight with a mannequin the store owner didn't even know they had.

Meanwhile, they're skipping down the main drag to get up to some fuck shit like

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since identical twins generally can't have one twin with polydactyly and one without it i made up a joke headcanon that the stan twins originally both had polydactyly on one hand but Ford stole Stan's extra finger in the womb because he wanted to be God's specialest snowflake. do not take this seriously it is a joke headcanon for a reason

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[abucketofstars]

Random Gravity Falls Headcanon

Ford knows how to use a bunch of different numbering systems, and learned how to do math in Base-12 when he was little. Stan used to tease him about it until he made the connection between Base-12 and Ford's hands, then he secretly started studying until he could count in Base-12 too. When he finally showed Ford, there were still a few mistakes in how he wrote out certain numbers but Ford was happy to teach him.

[marlshroom]

thinking about the axolotl making contact with bill before he destroyed his dimension. thinking about the axolotl rooting for him, trying to give the help he can to bill escape but he just cant escape his ego and so what happened was inevitable. do you think that's why bill hates the axolotl so much, even though from what we have seen the axolotl has only given him grace? the axolotl is too much of a painful reminder that it didn't have to happen like that.

[st7arlight]

stanley pines being queer is so important to me. he's manly and he's fat and he's a felon. he has a nephew and a niece who love him and look up to him and he likes to dress up and lie to strangers for fun (and for money). he's old and he's grumpy and he likes to watch silly shows on tv when he thinks nobody is looking. he is queer and he likes boys!!! i think he has done drag before! i think he's trans! i think he's experienced queer joy and queer freedom!! i think he calls himself a transsexual because he can and he earned it. he doesn't give a shit about contradictory labels, why in the world would he? he's homosexual and butch and a lady's man. stanley pines is so queer and every queer headcanon makes me so goddamn happy

[thecluelessdoctor]

Also guys hear me out.

Stan totally had a pirate hyperfixation at some point. PLEASE- CRIES.

I'm not projecting my hyperfixations from current and childhood onto him shut up

[ifbrd]

Gravity Falls headcanon

Anytime someone is or acts homophobic in Gravity Falls, the townsfolk threaten to call the police. Any homophobes in town shut up immediately.

An out of towner visits and starts acting homophobic, so, the townsfolk threaten to call the police. The homophobe doesn’t take it seriously, thinking they’re being dramatic, and continues with their shitty behavior.

Then they get a lovely shock when not only do people actually call the police, but the Gravity Falls��� entire police force is the town’s gay power couple

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I’m a little obsessed with the idea of Ford making himself the most involved support network he can for Dipper and Mabel when they go off to college. Like weekly phone calls even if it’s just for five minutes to say “hey how are you you’re not alone I love you”. He knows what it feels like to be isolated, adrift in a new environment. He knows it can be hard to reach out, so he wants to make sure his niblings know he’s always reaching out already should they ever need him.

He makes sure he’s keeping up with what Wendy, Soos, Fiddleford, and the townsfolk are up to so that he can relay it to Dipper and Mabel, which has the (unexpected for Ford but unsurprising to anyone else) side effect of Ford gaining his own network of companions. If the kids are having trouble with their homework he does his best to help, but if it’s some subject he’s not versed in he’s quick to go to his college yearbook and find the name of someone he knew who majored in that field and tells Dipper and Mabel to look them up on the internet because “I hear you can do that now. You can find anyone but Stanley and D.B. Cooper. That’s because your uncle is technically dead and last I saw D.B. Cooper was in the Alibi Dimension.” Dipper reaches out to the alumni sometimes. He becomes sort of pen pals with this old guy who got his film degree at Backupsmore in his forties. The guy’s older than Ford, still works as a professor, and is thrilled to talk with a young, excitable student like Dipper. Mabel reaches out to ANYONE with fashion, dance, music, or any other liberal arts degree. She’s got about 400 LinkedIn connections and a lot of invitations to some family potlucks.

Sometimes even if Ford knows the answers, he still asks Fiddleford to help. It makes Ford happy to visit his friend and hear him proudly explain something that he helped Dipper solve over the phone. Ford tries so hard not to think of a world where this conversation is different, where Fiddleford has clearer eyes and is telling him all about how proud he is watching his Tate grow up.

“No use dwellin’” Fiddleford would say. “Not while we got years ahead.”

And Ford would say “Alright.” And after catching up with his old friend he would excuse himself because it was Friday and the kids would each be expecting a call. He would walk back home and scroll through his phone looking for the kids’ numbers, marveling at how long his contact list has become. How odd, to have lived in a town so long and only now be discovering the people. Oh well. No use dwellin’. Besides, Gravity Falls was full of odd things.

Odd, and often wonderful.

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[°□°] THE HORROR...

[car9723-t]

Because the video game console at the Shack reminded me of Atari VCS from the seventies, Fiddleford's interests toward computers and his college years, now I'm thinking...

Will Fiddleford McGucket consider making games if he enjoyed games at Palo Alto as a hobby?

Personally, why not?

I mean, I heard that Atari VCS was hot in the seventies, and college students loved arcade games back these days.

I already heard of some fanfics that he already developed his own video games too, including a VR prototype.

Also, I'm not sure I can count it, but it could be used as proof to support this Video Game Fan headcanon.

(Yeah, if only we can count it as valid)

[hypotenussy]

twenty something year old Stan Pines tries ritalin for the first time in like a criminal drug abuse way cause he needs to feel something and is already fucked anyway, is surprised to find himself suddenly able to function like a human being for the first time in his entire life

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man stan and ford really are a matching set huh

(ridiculous amount of mental illness headcanons incoming. also don't take this too seriously)

"I'm ADHD" "And I'm autism" the nerodivergency brothers

"I'm BPD" "And I'm NPD" the cluster b brothers

"I'm depression" "and I'm anxiety" the mental illness brothers

"I'm bipolar II" "and I'm bipolar I" the bipolar brothers

"I'm c-PTSD" "i am also c-PTSD" the c-PTSD brothers

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