#baron von num nums

[softersynths]

i’m really enjoying your shifty au! i’m wondering how into the bunker goes with shifty being like a main member of the cast? like is this where dipper and mabel would find out he’s a shapeshifter? when do they find out? does soos know? does wendy know?

sorry, i’m very excited over the possibilities of this lol— into the bunker is one of my favorite episodes!

the kids don’t learn who and what shifty is until atots. which means into the bunker still happens, but instead consists of shifty making a series of increasingly terrible improv decisions:

stan asks shifty to tail the kids after the events of scary-oke (without them knowing) to keep them from getting into Real Trouble again. so of course the first thing they do is figure out how to open the bunker. shifty panics, follows them in, and decides to try to throw them off The Author’s trail while learning what he can, since he and stan have never been inside, either.

it goes about as well as expected. shifty’s last minute panic disguise, baron von num nums (intended to just be a doomsday prepper that could tell them the bunker has nothing to do with these “journals”) is pegged by the kids AS the Author. well, fine. He can work with this. Maybe this “Author” can take the journal from them - he could get it out of dipper’s hands without getting the kid pissed at stan - but then they figure out maybe he isn’t who he says he is. Shifty’s panic response: change into a monster and chase them the fuck out.

Even though his intention is just to scare them out of the bunker (he’s herding them towards the exit the entire time), shifty still gets an axe to the chest. he doesn’t get frozen, though - the kids run off after getting the journal back and “seal” him in the bunker (he’s capable of getting out on his own just fine).

he goes home and tells stan everything, gaping chest wound and all. the kids don’t see nicky for a few days after that.

[astralsapling-blog]

  “....he’s not the baron von num nums shifter and doesn’t seem like he’s gonna kill me--- but he’s also provoking bill, so...rip him?”

[scootercat7-blog]

I just rewatched the episode "Into the Bunker" for the seven millionth time and realized. What the hell wuld have happened if Dipper asked the Shapeshifter what his name was? What would he say? Stanley? 210? Baron Von Num Nums? I hope it was Baron Von Num Nums. (name from can o' beans)