#bc i know theres regular ghost aus but this is gonna be STANCEST BABEY

[sixerstanley]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE I'M TEARING INTO YOUR BLOG LIKE OLD NEWSPAPER

BECAUSE STAN WOULD ABSOLUTELY LIE. He knows who Mabel is, he can tell from the shape of her eyes and the tangles in her hair that she's Shermie's granddaughter, he knows even before the twins arrive at Ford's creepy cabin that they're family. But he knows if the kids know anything about him it's because he was a grifter that wasn't worth the bullet in his head. And he doesn't wanna be rejected again, he's tired of it, so he's vague with who he is and Mabel's smart - she can tell Stan is Ford's spitting image but also Stan's young so she assumes he's Ford's son and doesn't bring it up to spare his feelings.

But then she starts looking in the journal Dipper pilfered, and starts figuring out who this 'S' is that Ford keeps shit talking (that man made a bulleted list of how much he doesn't like Stanley, he said 'Perhaps he can yet prove his use to me', I need to lovingly deck that man)

She's very confused and no one is telling her the truth, she's gonna snap.

Dipper would be so betrayed, what do you MEAN you left your twin to die on the streets. Dipper who fought a giant robot with his bare hands for his twin would never and is offended his idol did

anon i literally cant get over how ur brain works you are so so smart.

oughhhhh i really love all of this. mabel assuming stan's his son and that's already sad as FUCK so she doesn't mention it but she notices she never sees pictures of a son or a wife in the shack. and like, people experience grief in different ways but she does find that at least a bit odd.

god when she finds out...shes going to be SO MAD at ford. its not entirely logical on her part but shes so UPSET that the ghost she befriended and who is rough around the edges--a harsh, hard, sarcastic exterior to shield the soft, gummy center--but a genuinely good guy, was seemingly abandoned by his brother. his twin

and i think you're absolutely right about dipper, i could see a really big conflict between him and ford, the guy he put on a pedestal