#Gravity Falls headcanon

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

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.

[sleepsentry]

Momma's boy.

[oakthefrog]

'dipper isn't trans!'

EXPLAIN THIS THEN BITCH

EXPLAIN THIS

[gravity-falls-headcanons]

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

.

[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

[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

[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

[gozis-w]

Hadcanon that Bill has remained in Stanley's mind, but Stan himself is unaware of this, thinking that he has defeated Bill. But he still affects his memories, mixing with them, causing Stan to sometimes behave unnaturally and be at a loss. He would mess with Stan's mind, force him to look at a distorted reality, show view of the death of his loved ones. Stanley would have reduced all this to the fact that he is already over 70 years old and his mind has begun to fail him. Maybe Bill would have extended Stanley's life to extend his own. For with Stan's death, Bill's death will come.

[sleepsentry]

[°□°] 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)

[gravity-falls-headcanons]

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

.

[cecilscribbles]

my thoughts on the zodiac, and relevance of the symbols

this definitely wasn't the intent, but my new personal headcanon is that the significance of the zodiac symbols depend on their owner's proximity to bill himself/the supernatural in general.

the loosest association is definitely pacifica's. i'd say because she's lived up in the manor all her life, not having much exposure to the supernatural until the mystery twins came to town.

then there's wendy's - she hangs around the shack (former shrine to bill himself), and im sure she's run into a local cryptid once or twice.

soos has had his symbol since he was a kid. he spends a LOT of his time at the shack, so it checks out.

robbie's had his destiny hoodie since 5th grade; he lives right next to a graveyard full of zombies.

fiddleford's glasses suit him pretty well, having had a lot of experience with the supernatural, and a close encounter with bill himself, but not as close as it could be. it was years ago after all.

gideon has had his for a good while since he owns the cursed amulet, as well as journal 2.

dipper and mabel get theirs at the beginning of the summer.

stan's symbol is definitely significant to him for reasons i don't even have to explain.

but what really drew me to this interpretation was that ford has been marked with his symbol since his birth. he was born strange, the strange has always been attracted to him, and something tells me bill has had his eye on him since the beginning.

[eksvnd]

Tater McGucket, the son of Filddleford McGucket, originally didn't live in Gravity Falls, we knew this from the Journal 3. And besides why would Fiddleford move to there anyways? He would never settle down in a town as weird as Gravity Falls that, just by staying there he even made himself a memory eraser gun. Headcanon : Tate, despite being shown at first to hate his father, moved to Gravity Falls for his sake. Cause if you're from the world of Gravity Falls, why would you even move there? Who are you? Stanford Pines? Fiddleford's family was in shambles, maybe similar to Dipper and Mabel's reasoning, why else would he be in such a hurry to go to Gravity Falls? Tater's mother left the family and all he had now was his cuckoo excuse of a father. Though he isn't quite fond of him, he was still his father. I find it interesting that anyone who has some family issues went to Gravity Falls. Y'know what I take it back, maybe there's a reason why you should to go there! Welcome to Gravity Falls, Pal!