#Tate Mcgucket

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

It might be a little while before I actually get the comic out, so here's a small title card for it or something to hold you over‼️

My post where I mentioned this!!!

[chronicsheepdrawing]

Fiddleford having fun with his family

[alexthebordercollie]

oooo, if you're taking doodle requests for the dad ford au, i'd love to see something with Ford + Tate and or Stan + Tate.

Ford, cause it'd be interesting to see how he handles being a stepdad on top of Newt and Nick. Stan cause while he'd obviously be fiercely protective of the twins, i feel like he'd understand Tate's motivation the most between him, Ford, and Fiddleford

Thank you so much for my first proper ask/prompt. So you asked for Tate with Ford or Stan and I decided to give you both. Ford is a genius but he's not a pediatrician and Fiddleford still insisted on finding a real proper doctor to help with the twin's general medical care. But the person they found willing to help them with their alien babies without freaking out is out of town so these trips are a bit time-consuming and Fidds is the best at keeping the beans calm for their shots. Mostly I just needed to come up with an excuse for Tate to be stuck with the Stan twins for the day.

I imagine this to take place while Fidds and Emma are still in the process of getting divorced. Custody arrangments are still being worked out. This is Tates first time coming to stay in Gravity Falls with his dad's new family and he has a lot of complicated feelings.

Fidds generally is very clingy with Tate when he comes to stay with them. Showering his eldest with affection out of a mix of missing him and feeling guilty. As a result Ford and Stan rarely are put in the position of having to look after Tate and Fidds initially doesn't make much of an effort to actively include Ford in his father-son time with Tate. Again Fidds feels guilty and like asking Tate to give Ford a chance is an unfair imposition.

Ford makes genuine attempts however to get to know Tate when the opportunity arises. At first, Tate wants nothing to do with him. He's overheard his mom occasionally talking about the divorce when he's supposed to be in bed and the bits and pieces he has picked up basis him pretty strongly against Ford.

Emma isn't trying to turn Tate against his dad or even really against Ford. Don't get me wrong she really doesn't like Ford for obvious reasons but she doesn't want to expose her son to the adults interpersonal drama. She didn't mean for him to hear her talking about Fiddleford leaving them for Stanford.

I think you're suggestion that Stan would understand Tate in this situation better than the other two is pretty reasonable. Tate feels abandoned, and maybe even replaced by new babies. Stan knows better than anyone how it feels to be abandoned and he knows enough to reassure Tate rather confidently that that isn't what's happening here. Tate also finds it a bit easier to open up to Stan because he's mostly a bystander in all of this.

[bunssocks]

more of the warriors au

[ryemiffie]

Okay so something I have not seem anyone talking about that I am just now kinda realising..

Does Tate think Stanley is who Fiddleford left their family for?

Tate moved to Gravity Falls at some point in adulthood (this would be after Stanley assumes Ford's identity) to keep an eye on Fiddleford in his unwell state. So does Tate see Stanley (who advertises himself as Ford!) and the mystery shack, and have to think, "This is what it was for? This is who my dad left me for? This was more important?" every time?

And like, as much as we all love Stan we know he did not exactly treat Fiddleford kindly, he literally ran the man over with his car and treated him like a vermin to be rid of. So Tate also has to witness that with the idea that Stan is the man Fiddleford abandoned their family to persue! Tate already had a skewed perception of Fiddleford, but I think moving to Gravity Falls and seeing Stan and the way Stan treats Fiddleford, only made that worse. Because that man is his father, and he clearly has no self respect if this is what he chose to reduce himself to just for that guy, right? I think this just kinda adds another layer to how pathetic Tate thinks Fiddleford is, and I think that's really sad.

[phoneyotc]

[ambafaerie]

Emma May and Fiddleford genuinely loved each other. Side materials like Journal 3 and Book of Bill showed Fiddleford keeping a picture of Emma May and Tate with him and telling Ford thinking about them keeps him grounded and one of the reasons he agreed to Ford’s request that he stop using the Memory Erasing Gun was because he didn’t want to forget his family.

It wasn’t just Fiddleford prioritizing his work and relationship with Ford over his family, that played a part in the deterioration of his marriage, but his addiction to using the Memory Erasing Gun to cope with the horrors leading to fracturing his mind. There is also the fact that he started a cult that kidnaps people and erases their memory without consent for their own good. Those factors plus the fact this is set in the 70s which isn’t the one of the most socially tolerant periods completely fractured the McGucket household.

Emma May probably tried to help Fiddleford for a while, one last desperate attempt she rationalizes to try and salvage their marriage, but his deteriorating mental state and status as a cult leader eventually made her call it quits for the sake of her and Tate’s safety. The divorce was emotionally hard on her too, but Fiddleford reacting by building a murderous pterodactyl robot cemented her resolve that she did the right thing.

I like to think she eventually moved on and married someone else who loves her (cough Pyramid Steve cough he takes her surname upon marriage). So when Fiddleford has recovered his mental health by the present day, Emma May isn’t exactly thrilled to reconcile with him but she is happy that he and Tate have reconnected for her son’s sake. She doesn’t forgive Fiddleford but they reached a middle ground where they could amicably chat like old friends.

[evilgoodguys]

he was his father's greatest creation.

[slightlyartist]

Tate deserves to punch Ford so I drew it, felt really therapeutic <3

[picikutya]

Muahuahuahua

[wormspoodle]

bro CANNOT sit still

+ doodles

[scurvyboy]

not as much memory loss timeline fiddleford you're so cool

[creepst-crypt]

Wouldn’t it be horrible if he’d witnessed something so scary while in Gravity Falls that he makes a memory gun and ends up using too much to the point he loses his own self identity for the next 30 years and never returns home.

[mouseshift]

i cant believe i missed fiddleford friday. by like 3 hours

[b1p-b00p-b0p]

Back on my bs again

[tazmiilly]