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⋆˚࿔ Boyfriend Scenarios 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ - Ninja Boys - You Meet ⋆˚ʚɞ

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ I loved Ninjago since I was little and my crush for these boys have not changed one bit oml.... ♡ ₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ I hope this will attract other Ninjago fans to write something bcc I am starving for content pleaseee feed meeee ૮꒰ྀི⸝⸝> . <⸝⸝꒱ྀིა ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

𝜗𝜚Now Playing: Glue Song by, Beabadoobee𝜗𝜚 (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈) *

♡‧₊˚Together Since the Beginning♡‧₊˚

౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹Lloyd Garmadon౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹

‧₊˚ ⋅You have been close since childhood‧₊˚ ⋅

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪You always teased him, from his height to the way he trained and his boast of being the green ninja.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪You claim it is because of all the trouble he gave you all when trying to stop him during his rebellious stage. Also, because your older brothers would tease you relentlessly, you thought it was time to pass down tradition when Llyod became a part of the family.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪However, your brothers, mainly Kai, teased you because they knew it ran deeper than that, despite your red face rebuttal to the accusations.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪You just wanted to teach the squirt who was in charge! Yea that’s it.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪liar.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪When you aren’t teasing Lloyd you both are playing video games, reading comics, drawing together, or helping sensei and Nya around the monastery. During the times when the boys refused to take you on missions because it was “too dangerous”.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪Ever since Llyod has joined you both have been attached to the hip. Jays’ words not yours.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪You would talk for hours when waiting for the guys to come back, as you two would stare at the ceiling discussing favorite games, characters, and/or upcoming comics at Doomsday Comix.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪Ever since Lloyd joined Kai would notice how you got into a little more trouble than usual following the boy around in his pranks.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪You would say how you didn’t want to be a part of it whenever you two got caught however Lloyd would clapback, stating you didn’t have to join him.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪You never could come up with something as you knew you just wanted to join him in everything he did.

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪But you’d never let him hear that as he already had a big enough of a head.

୧ ‧₊˚ 🎀 ⋅ ☆ ˖°

You looked around in search for Llyod, sensei had you do meditation exercises before training. It was without Lloyd so the moment you were dismissed you instantly went searching for him for daily teasing! Hanging out.

“Lloyd!”

“Llyod?”

“GREEN SPROUT WHERE ARE YOU!”

You huff as your ten-year-old self grew impatient in pacing around with no result.

“Ninja kick!”

There he was!

You ran to the dojo, why hadn’t you though to search here sooner!?

You cracked open the sliding door and peeped inside to see Llyod beating up, more like tripping over his feet, the worn-out punching bag. Llyod backs up into a goofy stance as he directs his attention to the bag,

“So, you thought you could get away from the green Ninga, huh? Well, I’ll show you! HIYAA!!”

He charges kicking the punching bag. Standing proud as the bag swings away but soon he falls on his face when the bag hits the back of his head.

You couldn’t hold it in as you burst into laughter.

“H-hey! Who’s there?!” Llyod screams as he lifts his head to find you standing outside the door holding your side in laughter as tear ran down.

“Oh-oh my gosh L-Llyod your so-so funny!” you continue to laugh between your sentence as you fall over. You were laughing so much your back started to hurt, you saw Llyod start to make his way over to your arms crossed and his face was as red as his eyes.

“I-I can’t! haha haa, o-okay I’m done! I’m done!” you start trying to get up as you look down at Llyod. You both were the same age, however you can’t let him win as you always state that you’re a month older.

“Geez Lloyd there’s never a dull moment with you~”

Lloyd rolls his eyes “ugh, you’re just a dumb girl!” you stifle a giggle as you look at him with a teasing glare.

“don’t be mad shortie! Y’know you love me!” you coo as you try and ruffle his hair as he steps back in angry protest.

“As if! You’ll see when I become the green ninja you’ll be begging for forgiveness!!” his determination and frustration ran something that you liked seeing. Especially when he had a goal in mind.

You stare a Lloyd with an expression that he can’t read, your face soon turns into a determined grin.

“I can’t wait~”

つ•̀ ᗜ •́)つ

౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹Kai Smith౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹

₊˚✩⊹You and Kai are childhood friends₊˚✩⊹

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩You both grew up in the village as your home was right across from his father’s blacksmith shop. You two met because of his parents, he was older by a year and was protective over you and his baby sister Nya.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩You would drag him along to playhouse with you pretending Nya was your baby and Kai was you husband despite his protest he never could say no to you, so cute.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩Whenever you got sad Kai did everything in his power to cheer you up. Stating that he loves when you smile.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩Your five-year-old brain felt so much happiness when you were him.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩You two lost touch when you went oversees for school, however you two still tried to keep in touch. However, when times got a bit difficult with school and Kai running his father’s shop and taking care of Nya you too got lost in contact.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩However, fate has a weird way of bringing you guys love birds together when you came back to New Ninjago City for the opening of their school program.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩You were one of the lucky ones to be invited given your choice of major and stellar grades, it was an honor to some but an opportunity for you when you reminisce happy times in the past with your childhood friend Kai.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩You never forgot about him and your silly crush on him, you wondered how much he’s grown. You wondered what his dreams have turned into, what his goals were, and aspirations.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩The moment you hopped off the plane your heart couldn’t stop pounding as you thought about how close he could be.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩However, you turned disappointed when your childhood friend Blacksmith shop did not have Kai inside. It was abandoned.

✩˖ ࣪‧₊˚໒꒱⋆✩So now back in the city you were grabbing food from Ninjago Convenient store unknowing to you of a familiar face.

✧˖°.🍒ֶָ֢⊹ ࣪ ˖🍓₊ ⊹✧

“(y/n)?!”

You turn to the female voice with spicy ramen noodle falling out of your mouth your eyes go wide at the familiar face as you cut the connection of cheap noodles a smile taking place.

“Oh my gosh! Nya!” your arms stretched out for a hug as Nya does the same abandoning the bag full of different snacks.

“It’s been so long~” you both sway as you ignore passerby eyes Nya chuckles as she pulls away moving a piece of hair from her eyes. “Too long!” she pulls up a chair next to you as you both catch up.

“I came to your guy’s shop, but you weren’t there” you explain as you take a sip of of your drink trashing your empty noodle cup and other snacks.

“Hah yeah, a lot of stuff has happened we have a new place now and we live with a lot of other people” Nya explains as she snacks on some chips.

“hm, I see, I’m guessing that’s why you have all those snacks?” Nya nods as you giggle, you continue. “A part of me wishes I hadn’t moved, I missed you guys!” Nya then nods as she smiles fondly remembering the time you all spent together even though she was a three at the time she remembers the time of seeing you and her brother together a lot and you taking on a big sister role to her.

“Hey, you remember Kai, right? You should totally come see him! I’m sure he’ll love to see you again.” Nya grins as she grabs her bag and stands up seeming as you didn’t have to give her an answer as she looked ready to take you to her brother.

“yea of course I remember! But are you sure? It’s been so long, what if he doesn’t remember me” the thought was supposed to to internal as you’ve been thinking about what if’s during your first thought of him when you stepped foot in New Ninjago.

“Oh please, my brother is dumb, but he isn’t that dumb to forget a childhood friend. So, no more worrying let’s go!” she smiles silencing your worry holding out her hand for you.

As you both arrive you look around amazed, “wow, your place is amazing Nya, you said you live with others, right?” you tilt your head as you both were still hand and hand.

“Oh yea, it’s mainly guys so I’m so happy to see you’re here” you both laugh as she lets go of your hand to stand Infront of a door you were guessing it was Kai’s. there were stickers of and pictures of game characters and gaming logos of what you were assuming were his new favorites.

You chuckle at his decoration as you smile nostalgia hitting you like a truck as his door when he was six was no different.

“Hey Kai, I wanna talk to you come out!” Nya knocks as she smiles unable to contain her excitement. Kai on the other end groans. “Imma litte busy Nya come back later” you roll your eyes still as bossy as ever.

Nya huffs as she opens the door, “it can’t! now put onna shirt cause there’s someone here to see you!” Nya grins as yours drop, wait does Kai not have on a shirt?

Nya grabs you and there was Kai Infront of the mirror with his hand in his hair he looked as if he was admiring himself. Your cheeks bloomed with pink blush as you look away, you didn’t think he grew up to be this handsome.

“It’s (y/-“

“(y/n)..” Kai finishes Nya’s words as he walks to you embracing your form into his warm body. He smelt like smoke, like a campfire. You close your eyes as you accepted his affection, almost not wanting to pull away. He seemed the same way until you creep your eye open to see Nya with a grin.

You blush as you pull away breaking whatever trance Kai had.

“Hey porcupine~” you greet with a childhood name.

“Hey bunny~” and just like when you were kids’ happiness filled your heart.

૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹Cole Brookstone౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹

ೀ⋆⑅˚ Cole is your favorite customer ೀ⋆⑅˚

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡ You met at a bakery; Cole went in for his once-a-week daily treat to satisfy his sweet tooth.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡The bakery is family owned by your late mother, as when she passed your father took over to continue to keep her dream alive.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡Your father could not bake to save his life as he was more comfortable with making dishes.

��˚ ༘ ⋆｡So, when you became of age and showed interest in baking it was clear that you didn’t fall too far from her gift.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡That’s when you started to help, it was fun as you started to get the hang of the shop and developed a routine. You were a little master in the kitchen. Making savory treats that the earth ninja could not resist.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡You met Cole taking his order as you handed him his treat as he stated that he couldn’t wait to eat it.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡After tasting one he immediately came for more, stating that the reason why he comes here rather than all the other top culinary specialist is because of your dessert.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡Really it was for you.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡Other than you’re baking your conversations together would run for hours if you could, he would sit at the side of your counter talking to you as you continued to restock supplies.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡Leaving when things got busy to not get in your way of concentration much to your disappointment.

✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡As talking with Cole made hours go faster, as he always had a mellow charm that would ease your stress when dealing with a rush of customers.

✩°｡⋆⸜ 🎧

“Then I ran into his car, and it drove into the sidelines, I totally won that race!” Cole boasts as he grins. You chuckle shaking you head as you rolled out the dough for tomorrow preparations.

“You’re such a tease to your brother” you joked; you knew it was all in good fun. As you cut measurements of the dough placing them into containers hearing a ding come from your piggy timer.

“Uh duh! He challenged me, that’s what he gets for trying to beat my high score.” Cole looks at the oven already licking his lips.

Placing on your mittens you take the pastries out letting them cool, you look over at an expectant Cole. You smile as you take off your mittens, “do ya wanna try?” you didn’t finish as Cole took one still piping hot and tosses it into his mouth.

He rolls it in his mouth as if avoiding the burning pain from the dessert.

“ah hawt hawt!” he curses as he still tries to eat the dessert that bites back at him.

You couldn’t help but giggle, “of course it’s hot, you big dummy~” you tease as you watch him suffer from the hot dessert. He finally swallows, “I think I burned some of my taste buds” Cole opens his mouth and sticks out his tongue showing you.

“of course you did, geez, c’mere” you bring him to the sink running cold water as you watch Cole run his tongue under the faucet. The door opens to your father, as it seemed he finished cleaning and closing the shop down.

“Hey baby, I’m done out there tell me when your done and we can go home” your dad looked at you with tired eyes. Being a single dad wasn’t easy and running a shop wasn’t a walk in the park either. But he never could wipe the smile off his face whenever he would look at you.

You smile at him as you pat Cole’s back, “okay daddy, I won’t be long, okay?” your dad nods as he starts putting cleaning supplies away.

Cole lifts his head as he sighs feeling a bit better, he looks to you dad and waves with an awkward yet polite grin on his face. Your dad huffs as he continues to work, there’s no surprise that your dad was super protective of you.

“Heh well, your desserts good! You gonna serve them tomorrow?” Cole asks as you both make your way back to the table.

“No, I’m still not so confident in them something is missing I know it” you pout as you start putting things away.

Cole snickers, “always the perfectionist” he lays his head on his hand.

“You know me” you smile winking at him playfully as you start wiping the table.

໒꒰っ˕ -｡꒱১

౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹Zane Julien౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹

⋆｡°·☁️You bumped into each other⋆｡°·☁️

⋆˚🐾˖°You met Zane trying to get out of the rain. You noticed that he wasn’t like other men, as his voice and eyes stuck out to you.

⋆˚🐾˖°However, the fleeting moment of needing to get out of the rain was greater than your curiosity.

⋆˚🐾˖°Zane’s generosity of lending you his umbrella is what coaxed you into wanting to see him more.

⋆˚🐾˖°After that day you would spend your time at the park during the hot summer sun the umbrella in your hand as you looked for the man that helped you that day.

⋆˚🐾˖°Trying to convince yourself that the reason why you were trying to find a stranger is to thank him properly.

⋆˚🐾˖°However, you knew there was a reason why your heart was beating fast whenever you thought of him. Love

⋆˚🐾˖°You finally found him when he was standing by a fountain with a-

⋆˚🐾˖°I-is that a bird?

⋆˚🐾˖°When you walked up to him, he noticed you quickly, when you thanked him for that day, he dismissed it as doing the right thing.

⋆˚🐾˖°However, you told him not everyone is so selfless to soak themselves to the bone for a stranger.

⋆˚🐾˖°You smile however he just tilts his head, soaked to the bone? His clothes were only wet. He stated how it was impossible to soak bones as they were not exposed.

⋆˚🐾˖°His comment made you laugh unintentionally, how strange.

⋆˚🐾˖°You gave him his umbrella and asked if you could repay him much to his stubborn refusal of, he was just trying to do the right thing.

⋆˚🐾˖°However, he did ask if he could know your name and if you two could meet here again tomorrow at the same time.

˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚

Zane ran into the entrance of the park he was ten minutes late due to cleaning from this morning’s breakfast.

He pants as he looks to the fountain a sight calming his racing gears as he walks over. With you on your phone not paying attention you finally notice him when his form blocks your sun looking up as you take your earbud out. Your frown turns into a smile the one that creates tingly sparks inside Zane.

“Hey! I thought you wouldn’t have made it!” you leap from your seat as you stand next to him as you both start walking.

As this starts to become your daily routine of meeting with Zane every day at the same time and discussing different topics that come into your head.

Zane gives an apologetic smile as he walks with you, “I apologize for my lateness I had things to attend to before leaving.” You can’t help but giggle out how formal he spoke, “it’s fine don’t worry about it~” you nudge his arm playfully as Zane smiles. His eyes were so beautiful it was as if they were glowing as you noticed him looking at you.

“Zane Julien! Are you checking me out~” you playfully tease as Zane hums tilting his head. “Your outfit, it is nice.” He says as if it was a fact,

“Oh, well… thanks?” you couldn’t help but laugh as Zane once again had a confused look.

“Did I say something wrong?” you shook your head hiding your smile. “n-n0 your just…so sweet Zane, thank you.”

Zane looks to your smile he could feel his gears working on his internal fan as his face became hot. How strange.

`⎚⩊⎚´ -✧

౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹Jay Walker౨ৎ ˖ ࣪⊹

⋆˚✿˖°❀ You beat his high score ⋆˚✿˖°❀

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊You met at an arcade; you were notorious for beating high scores it was something you took pride in as everyone in the Ninjago gaming community knew your alias as,

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ Luv.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊Of course, it brought angry guys some calling you fake or insulting you but that never bothered you. You took pleasure in beating them every time even trolling them whenever they thought they got higher than you just to be brought down a peg.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊You met Jay when he was fuming at the sudden change of leaderboard finding his name in second right after a username Luv.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊Who the heck was Luv someone stupid probably...

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊You clear you throat as he looks to you with an angered expression until it falls seeing you there was like walking in a mist of rain light and calming.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ “o-oh my bad did you want to play?”

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊You giggle as you nodded your head, moving to place your coin in before starting the game noticing your movement Jay couldn’t help but marvel.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊Woah you might actually beat Luv.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊Hah they better watch out cause this cutie just beat their high score.

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊Placing in your name he stops

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊L U V

₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊Are you kidding.

🪼⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

“I still can’t believe your Luv” Jay stands next to you both playing street fighter, his button mashing was on something to marvel at as he tries to lower your health bar.

“Geez Jay it’s nothing special…heh” you grin as you pin him down ‘Game Over’ covers the screen as your name pops up declaring you winner.

“Hah well it’s special to me you’re like a walking legend!” Jay exaggerates once again as you roll your eyes as both of you take you tickets.

“wanna go again? I swear I can beat you thins time!” Jay pulls out a quarter as he looks to you with a challenging glint.

You hum as you get your tickets together. “Tempting but I gotta go soon and if I stay here, I’ll never leave” you place your hands behind your head as Jay puts his quarter away.

“I get it your scared that I’ll beat your high score don’t worry I won’t tell~” he grins as he starts to follow you like a puppy.

“Keep dreaming Blue Jay~” you snort as you both walk to the counter picking a prize you select a plush one to add to your already enormous collection as Jay got different stuff. You giggle at his attempt to keep things together.

“Do you wanna get a drink?” you ask as you both walk out the shooting sounds of space guns sounded as you both walked out.

“Yea I could go for a drink” Jay smiles as he was glad at your suggestion, he loved being with you and it was so hard for the blue ninja to hide it.

Going to the convenient store you both got slushies his blue and yours green.

“Wanna hang out tomorrow? Or of course whenever you’re not busy, I know we always hang out but if I’m bothering totally say, but I’d like if you did. Of course not trying to force yo-“

You start laughing, “yes Jay, I’d love to meet you again tomorrow maybe we can go to the park. I’m sure I’m gonna go blind when I’m twenty-five if I keep going to the arcade” you joke as Jay laughs.

“Yea totally!”

ʚ(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )ɞ

Omgg I wrote all of this on a word doc last night I had these thoughts on a car ride sooo I had to write them... ૮⸝⸝> ̫ <⸝⸝ ა If you'd like to see more I'd love to write more scenarios I liked doing the head cannon/story duo ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و Ninjago fans bruh pleaseeeee see this so this can inspire you to write more amazing content like I said I'm starvinggg ૮₍˶Ó﹏Ò ⑅₎ა I love you all and for the people that liked my other cringey posts thank you so much for your support every time I see them I feel so happy so thank so so much!! ᯓᡣ𐭩 ˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆｡☆ Ps. If you want me to do Nya totally ask I love that girly bruhhh Love, ⋆˚࿔ Karrots 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

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tinfoil-jones · 12 days ago

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Early Amnesia AU: Trivia

Preface: So this fanfic was also cross-posted on AO3, and on AO3 there were also several beginning and end notes, so I’m going to post here, but I’m going to put other things that I think might be relevant.

AO3 Link: FYOG

Masterpost - First - Last - Bonus

Authors Note: End of the line, hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did

Twins Be Twinning

Ford and Stan repeat each other's thoughts, phrases, and actions throughout the story. Some are pretty obvious, but some are a bit more subtle. Well, I kept a list of all the times they’ve paralleled each other in some way. They don’t just parallel each other in the story, they’ll parallel each other from the OG series and supplemental materials too.

Times Ford and Stan mirrored each other:

The “It doesn’t bother me / It bothers me a lot” bit, which Ford did in CH.1, and Stan did in CH.16

The tranq gun fake-out, which Ford does in CH.1, and Stan does in CH.21

*Looks down / Looks back up / Looks back down slightly longer / Then looks back up* - Stan in CH.1, and then again in CH.13. Ford does the same thing in CH.21

One of Stan's nicknames for Fiddleford is “F”, which is how Ford refers to Fiddleford in his journals.

“Convince is… certainly a word.” -Ford to Fiddleford in CH.3

“Seen is… a word.” - Stan to Fiddleford in CH.16

"My brother would sooner chew up and swallow a gold chain before he went to the authorities for anything.” - Ford in CH.3

“I’d sooner chew up and spit out a gold chain before I fall for some Faustian bargain.” - Stan in CH.20

"What was that last thing that you just whispered to yourself?” - Ford to Stan in CH. 6

"What was that last thing that you just whispered to yourself?” - Stan to Ford in CH.13

“I think I’ve got ink in my eye!” - Stanley Pines in “Gravity Falls Lost Legends: Comix Up”

“I believe I have gotten ink into my eyes.” - Ford in CH.12

“I’ll die before I join you!” - Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls, Season 2 Episode 18 “Weirdmageddon Part 1”

Stan actually dying instead of taking a deal with Bill in CH.20

“Details ain’t important.” - Stan to Ford in CH.16

“Details are not important.” - Ford to Stan in CH.21.

“You ruined my life!” - Stan to Ford in “A Tale of Two Stans”

"I ruined your life..." - Ford to Stan in CH.20

“You ruined your own life!” - Ford to Stan in “A Tale of Two Stans”

"I ruined my own life.” - Stan to Ford in CH.20

“Left hook!” - Stan in “Dreamscaperers”

“LEFT HOOK!” - Ford in CH.23

“Your math is no match for my gun, you idiot!” - Ford in “Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons”

“Your experience ain’t no match for this gun, ya idiot!” - Stan in CH.23

“Finally! After all these long years of waiting, you're actually here! Brother!” / “Oh! Ow! What the heck was that for?!” - Stan, before / after Ford punches him in the face in “A Tale of Two Stans”

“Finally, after all of these long months of trying, you're actually back, brother!” / “Oh- ow! What was that for?” -Ford, before / after Stan punches him in the face in CH.24

“Close, but no cigar.” -Stan being mistaken for Ford in CH.24

“Close, but no cigar.” - Ford being mistaken for Stan in CH.25

“Hey, look at me. Turn around and look at me, you one-eyed demon! You're a real wise-guy, but you made one fatal mistake – you messed with my family.” - Stan in Weirdmageddon 3, facing his brother's tormenter.

“Don’t look away from me. Face me directly, Agent Powers. You think you’re such a cunning strategist, but you made one fatal mistake - you harmed my family.” Ford in CH.25, facing his brother's killer.

Ford and Stan don’t just mirror each other, they also occasionally mirror their future grand-niblings, Mabel and Dipper. Stan and Ford are not direct parallels to the second set of Pines Twins, so they’ll mirror both of them rather than just one.

Mabel Mirrors:

Stan indirectly refers to himself as Ford’s “Mystery Twin” in CH.7, Mystery Twins being a term first used by Mabel.

Ford eating an entire tube of toothpaste in CH.8

“I am the god of destruction” - Something Stan allegedly said in the past according to Rick, CH. 22

Ford suggesting death for their opponents in Globnar, CH.24

Dipper Mirrors:

“I’ll get to it. Washing clothes is a waste of time, and I’m a busy man.” - Ford in CH.7

Stan displaying an anxious chewing habit while going through nicotine withdrawal in CH.9

The reveal in CH.12 that Stan sleeps soundly around Ford is a little bit of a stretch, but it's a reference to the episode “Carpet Diem” where at the end Dipper moved back in with Mabel even after getting his own room.

“Why would you say it like that-?!" - Stan to Ford in CH.19, like how Dipper said "Who writes sentences like that?!" To the same excerpt about Gremloblins.

Stan protesting the suggestion of death for their opponents in Globnar, CH.24

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Chapter Notes

On AO3, at the end of the chapter I would put notes at the bottom that list out references and Trivia, which I didn’t do on Tumblr because it would make the post too long. So I’m putting it here instead. This didn’t start until Chapter 3, however.

Chapter 3:

If you're wondering why I had Fiddleford minoring in Neuropsychology (memory specifically), it's to:

a) justify Ford calling him for help in the first place

b) Since he invented the memory gun in the OG series, he must have SOME understanding of psychology and neurology

Chapter 4:

Beginning Note: Like a phone, the containment cell has a deaf and mute button. The mute button makes it to where outsiders can't hear anything within the cell, while the deaf button makes the occupant unable to hear anything outside of the cell.

If you want to know the layout of the containment cell:

It's similar to a jail cell, having three concrete walls and one 'viewing' wall that is made up of metal bars. However, there's also a one-way forcefield around it, so Stan can't escape even if he broke the lock on the door. Ford isn't a monster, so there's a private bathroom with absolute no monitoring inside, a bed, and a table with a singular chair.

End Note:

Zolpidem is the trade name for Ambien

Their attempts at drugging or mind controlling Stan wasn't to make him unconscious, it was to temporarily paralyze him. While this may seem as a breach of the whole 'we have to be humane about this' that Fiddleford was spouting one chapter ago, you have to remember that Fiddleford McGucket canonically started a memory wiping cult that recruited vulnerable teens and young adults, and would even use the memory gun on Stanford without his consent, so he's only marginally more ethical than Ford here.

Stans refusal to wear a necktie, and his "tangent about necklaces" are direct references to guerrilla war tactics used during the Colombian Civil War

The "this bottled water tastes suspiciously like two crushed Ambien" isn't an original line - a while ago I saw this fancomic where Stan knocks Ford out with a similar method and Ford says something along the lines of "this tastes suspiciously like crushed sleeping pills"

Chapter 5:

Beginning Note:

Oh? A diagnosis? A theory?

End Note:

For anyone who doesn't know about stereotypes about the southern and/or midwestern United States, "Bless Your Heart" is a very passive aggressive statement.

Stanford is a bit more open and honest about how he feels because this is a situation he never thought he would be in. In his journal, any mention of Stanley is either written in code, or he crossed it out (like his concept sketch of a boat that could be the Stan O'War), and seemed to be open for reconciliation (granted, his stipulation was that Stan needed to prove himself first).

The way I try to portray Fords feelings towards Stan here, is that he always thought he could just put their relationship/bond 'on pause' until *he* was ready to reconcile. Like, once he was ready to be close again their relationship could go back to the way it was before they fell out. Stan was always so needy that Ford never considered the possibility that Stan wouldn't want to reconcile.

He never imagined a scenario that Stan would actively reject him because he didn't remember him.

Chapter 6:

Stan finally apologizes to Ford but it's all for nothing

Chapter 7:

Ford displays Dipper/Mabel -like behaviour.

Sometimes I think Ford would look at Stan's ability to survive and fight, and forget that just because he lives another day, just because he gets up when something pushes him down, it doesn't mean he's living well.

Sure is convenient that Ford keeps saying that Stan 'left home'...

Chapter 8:

Beginning Note:

This is kind of more of an anthology chapter to get the "Mystery Trio" established

End Note:

The last line is a reference to The Suite Life (of Zach & Cody) On Deck: season 2 episode 11 "Bermuda Triangle".

The toothpaste line is lifted directly from Gravity Falls, just more of the OG Mystery Twins showcasing Mabel and Dipper Behaviour

Chapter 9:

Beginning Note:

Nicknames Stan uses:

Ford: PhD, Doc, any synonym for the word ‘crazy’

Fiddleford: Specs, Stretch, F

If you ever have trouble discerning who’s talking, Ford always refers to Stan by “Stanley”, while Fiddleford calls him “Stan”. Ford is also more inclined to not use contractions when he talks (saying “will not”, instead of “won’t”) compared to Fiddleford and Stan.

Fiddleford will use southern expressions I hastily looked up on Google.

End Note:

Ford is unironically the only person who finds Stan’s really dumb jokes funny.

While Ford is the more likely of the two to display traits that later present in Mabel and Dipper, it still happens with Stan as well. Stan has a similar nervous-chewing habit that Dipper displays in the OG series, but his only comes out when he’s particularly anxious. In this case, it was because he had nicotine cravings.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII was a real historical drama series of six television plays that aired in 1970.

The Aryan Brotherhood is a neonazi prison gang, also the "oldest and most notorious racist prison gang in the United States".

The implications in the 'who did this to you' scene was that Stan has cigarette/cigar burn scars on his shoulders/collarbone. Ford didn’t notice these while he was initially stitching him up because his stab wounds were in the abdominal area and that’s where he was putting his attention.

Chapter 10:

And Bill Cipher shows up. The sad thing about AO3 is that I can’t use whatever font I want, because otherwise I was totally willing to write all of Bill Ciphers dialogue in Times New Bastard (Which is Times New Roman, but every 7th letter is Sans Serif, which is a meme that started on tumblr). Here's the post that inspired me.

Bill and Fords relationship isn’t exactly what it is in canon. Bill is more like Discord from MLP - he’s just chaotic, often to the detriment of others, but he isn’t outright malicious (anymore), and he’s too busy SIMPING to cause any real harm. Basically, Bill is Fords patron for studying weirdness - he helps Ford in his research, but the cost that Ford pays is that Bill is able to possess him when he sleeps, and has unlimited access to his brain.

When Bill called Ford aspec, you might wonder; did he mean asexual spectrum? Or Autism spectrum? The answer is yes.

“He has Risen Baby Girl” / Goo Goo dolls reference is a meme that started from the Deadpool and Wolverine movie. Variants using Bill Cipher have popped up on Tiktok and Youtube.

-Stan spent like six-seven months with Rick where they would flicker between this dimension, space, and other dimensions. The Rick that Stan was with wasn’t the Rick from the show (Rick-C137), he’s their dimensions version of Rick Sanchez, or “Rick-46'\”. Because C137 put his own original dimension on an infinite time loop of the day that Diane and Beth died.

Stan would have done just fine if he stayed with Rick. He had plenty of credits (Blemflarck/galactic credits) because of the escapades he had with Rick. He could have carved a decent life for himself on a different planet and/or different dimension, and he could have gone on even more adventures. Despite money and adventure being two things he always wanted, he willingly chose to turn those things down for… something or someone. He just doesn’t know what or who.

-The distorted text during Stans ‘pit memory’ is “Shadow” from https://pixelied.com/font-generator/glitch-text

Chapter 11:

If you’re wondering where Stan got a paddle ball, Fiddleford probably gave it to him. Stan always seems to need to be doing something with his hands (you can see he talks with his hands a lot in the OG series), so he was given the paddleball for stimming purposes to help with his anxiety.

The ‘hive mind aliens that possess people’ is another Rick and Morty reference (two known hiveminds are Unity and Beta-Seven), Stan would have suspected this due to Fords eyes being different and unnatural.

Did you know this author is a huge dungeons and dragons nerd, and dungeon master?

D38 = In Dungeons and Dragons (and probably other TTRPG) Dice are referred to a D(number of sides), the standard dice in regular D&D is the D20 (the 20 sided die), but in Gravity Falls it looks like DD&D the standard die is 38-sided and thus a “D38”

THAC0 = "To Hit Armor Class 0", it’s a mechanic from older editions of Dungeons and Dragons

The implication about Stan having DD&D knowledge despite not playing at all is that he subconsciously remembers Ford ranting about it when they were younger.

Chapter 12:

A chapter ago Stan hinted at his sleeping issues when he told Ford that he doesn’t have dreams, he only has nightmares. That being suffocated by the IRS line wasn’t something he was saying to be funny, he meant it.

Fiddleford in the beginning did privately wonder if this *was* actually Fords twin or if Ford was having some kind of episode. It was confirmed when the brain scans came out as morphologically identical (meaning they *are* genetically identical). Still, Stan’s constant dismissal and rejection of Stanford made Fiddleford wonder if maybe Stan hadn’t just repressed his memories of Ford, but completely deleted them somehow. It all started coming together (at least for Fiddleford) when he realized Stan wasn’t just staying calm for the sake of not making his situation worse, but Stan legitimately does not believe Ford would try to harm him. Why would a drifter trust a ‘stranger’ like that, let alone a stranger who abducted you off of the street?

Ford’s getting emotional because he did go into Stan’s mind earlier, and he saw Stan telling Rick that he needed to stay in the dimension because he was “looking for someone”, or “there’s a piece of him missing”. The part of Stan’s subconscious that said the ‘everywhere we go we go together’ line was distorted, so Ford didn’t hear it. So he wasn’t sure exactly what Stan stayed behind to look for. Now, he’s not so dense he didn’t suspect that it was himself that Stan was looking for, but Ford can’t ignore how Stan just walked past him on the street as if he didn’t notice him. So in a way, he was afraid that Stan didn’t have memories of him anymore, and he’s basically lost his twin as he knew him forever. But Fiddleford telling him that Stan did remember him, just unconsciously, squashed those fears.

Chapter 13:

Non-local homeless conman fails to beat up nerd and guilt trips himself into Stockholm Syndrome, more at nine.

The reason why Stanley was able to overwhelm Stanford in hand-to-hand when all other depictions of them fighting as adults have them either equally matched (their tussle in front of the portal before Ford fell through), or Ford outclassing Stan (post-portal), is because this version of mullet Stan has seen some shit. Fiddleford said it when he said that the last ten years or so Stan’s entire life has revolved around survival. Not to mention, Stan spent seven months of the past year evading and/or fighting galactic and dimensional level authorities with Rick. He wasn’t talking out of his ass when he told Ford a couple chapters ago that he was a threat inside and outside of bars.

Stanford isn’t a pushover, even without going into the multiverse. He also has the same boxing background, and he’s been dealing with paranormal phenomena by himself for the past six years. It’s just that, with the circumstances they have, Stan is on another level.

What happened between Stan and Fiddleford? Reverse honey-trap, that’s what. Look, Stan himself said that hoeing was fifth best skill, of course he was going to hoe his way out of this one. Fiddlefords a freak for real, but he wasn’t going out-hoe that absolute menace.

Chapter 14:

Ford certainly had an interesting word choice when he said Stan *was* homeless.

The look what I did to your other hand was a bit that Bill Cipher was supposed to do to Dipper, but was cut out of the final product of the episode “Sock Opera”.

Fiddleford isn’t grudging against Stan for the reverse honeytrap. If anything, it just made him way more thirsty because he finds cleverness and adaptability to be attractive. Because this author subscribes to the popular fanon that Fiddleford is a freak and Stan’s a romantic.

Stan kind of alluded to his lack of fear of heights when he was telling Ford those crime jokes in CH.9 - all of the jokes had to do with elevation/heights.

The lines from the poker game with mothman are directly lifted from “The Land Before Swine” episode. I feel like Stan has a weird reverse test anxiety for card games where he’s great if the stakes are obscenely high, but he isn’t the best when it comes to more casual games. The Mothman reference is from Lost Legends, where Ford leaves for a little bit to find Mothman, who owes him money. In this case, Mothman owes him money over a poker game.

oculus dexter = OD (right eye)

oculus sinister = OS (left eye)

oculus uterque = OU (both eyes)

With visual acuity (or how good your vision is based on a distance of 6 meters / 20 feet), the standard vision is 20/20, with the second number being higher the poorer your vision is (20/200), and being lower the better your vision is (20/10). Stan in the OG series has always needed glasses just like his twin, but he was able to drive without glasses so either he was consistently breaking the law to drive (which makes sense), or the Stan twins visual acuity is 20/40, because any higher than that Stan would be required to wear glasses to drive.

A lot of people wondered if Rick fixed Stan’s vision, but it looks like that isn’t the case. Stan stopped himself from saying “Galactic Federation”, another Rick and Morty transplant. The Galactic Federation would issue out pills instead of credits or food.

Chapter 15:

Nic-sick is nicotine sickness, or nicotine poisoning. Stan wasn’t bad enough to need medical attention, but it was bad enough he’s staying off the stuff for a while.

Stan doesn’t smoke, he uses Snus for nicotine. Snus are a by mouth tobacco product, a precursor to tobacco pouches, which were not invented until the early 2000s.

In the lost pages of Journal 3 in the Book of Bill, Ford writes that he feels odd about his birthday ever since he and Stan “parted ways”. In this story, neither Ford or Stan have celebrated their birthday since their last shared one (which would have been their 17th, because Stan was kicked out before the school year ended and their birthday is mid June). He most likely told Fiddleford in their college days that he didn’t see a point because he was so focused on studying.

Ford knows that Stan still believes he isn’t actually Stanley Pines, but he’s not going to act like he isn’t. Ford would sooner eat an entire salad bowls worth of foam packing peanuts without any milk before he entertains any notion that he’s wrong about anything. Regardless, he’s gotten better at recognizing when being pushy is the wrong answer.

Ford didn’t tell Caryn that Stan was there because then he would have to further explain that they’ve technically reconciled but technically haven’t, and also Stanley has amnesia and believes he’s some guy named Stan Malone so Ford had to literally tranq and kidnap him off of the street.

Stan cried for like twenty minutes right after this when he was sure no one was listening.

Chapter 16:

Beginning Note:

When Bill and Ford are in the dreamscape together, their dialogue is written normally. But if Bill and Ford are communicating in Fords head without the mindscape, Bills dialogue is in "italics", and Fords dialogue is in 'apostrophes and italics'.

End Note:

Stan can tell Ford is Ace, he just doesn’t know the term for it. The term Asexual in regards to human sexuality had already been in use, but I imagine it wasn’t well known.

Was Fiddleford using manipulation when he chose the afterglow of all times to convince Stan to talk to a therapist? He cares a lot about his research okay. It’s not like Stan couldn’t see right through him.

The Titanic was discovered in 1985, which would be roughly 3 years after this.

The Jersey Devil story comes from Lost Legends, meaning Stan currently doesn’t remember that happening.

Ford’s gotten better at recognizing when not to be pushy. That doesn’t mean he always gets it right. Also, despite Stan calling out Ford abducting him off of the street multiple times, he isn’t above that stuff. In “Little Gift Shop of Horrors”, Stan straight up drugged and kidnapped a person to turn them into a display for his shop just because they didn’t buy anything.

Oddopoddo or “odd-o-pod-o” is a riff on “Ogopogo”, another lake monster. Scuttlebdis is a pun on Charybdis, a sea monster from The Odyssey

Muskrats/nutria are common in the Southern United States, including Tennessee.

Think-Fast is a reference to the Quick Thought ability used by Athena in Epic the Musical. The gist of it is that Bill speeds up Fords thought process (which is something he has done in canon) so Ford can do several minutes worth of thinking in the span of an instant (including talking to Bill) Ford can do this while being disembodied and/or possessed by Bill.

Its important to remember that McGucket, in his 60s, was able to pull off great feats of flexibility, speed, and acrobatics with no visible signs of joint pain. Of course in his younger years he’d be able to fit through small places not unlike a raccoon (although he doesn't have the insanity to ignore pain)

Because of their deal, Bill is able to manipulate Fords entire nervous system. In this case, he forced his nerves to send up signals to the brain as if he were extremely cold, so his body would go into oxygen conservation mode.

The implication at the end is that Stan’s concern for Ford and Fiddleford overpowered his fear of drowning. He did know he already knew how to swim because he remembers swimming out of a sinking car and cement shoes (these are the specific reasons he’s afraid of deep bodies of water). But he was willing to swim out to an island in the middle of a lake at night.

Chapter 17:

If the Stan Twins can do dead-on impressions of each other after only being re-acquainted for like 2 weeks after 30 years apart, there’s no reason why they wouldn’t be able to do them after Stans been there for over a month

Fiddleford was uncomfortable with Stans impression of Fords voice because he and Stan have a thing going on, while Ford is his best friend.

This author also subscribes to the popular Fiddlestan head canon that Stan can flirt all day but gets flustered if that flirting is reciprocated.

Yes, the costumes are a reference to the currently popular fandom trope of Vampire x Werewolf Fiddlestan

-Stan’s story about Agent Powers having a gun is a reference to the meme “Bill Ciphers Got a Gun” In this case, Stan seems to be the Dipper of the scenario

Did anyone notice in Ch.2 Ford said that a year ago Caryn kept trying to call him to update him on Stanley, but he always hung up before she could explain anything.

Did anyone notice in Ch.15 Caryn referred to an ‘accident’... but no one besides Stanley knew that the incident with the perpetual motion machine was an accident. Everyone else assumed he sabotaged Ford.

Chapter 18:

Beginning Notes:

“(italics)” Indicates that the speaker is speaking in Spanish (unless stated otherwise). This author only knows English, and I did not want to misrepresent Spanish by using Google Translate.

End Notes:

Stan’s greatest skills according to himself:

Not dying when he really should (interchangeable with no.2)

Lying (interchangeable with no.1)

Theft

Denial

Hoeing

Ms. Ramirez is Soos’ mom. We don’t know what she did for a living (or really anything about her other than she’s most likely Abuilita’s daughter). Also, there’s not a lot of canon characters who are confirmed to be the same age or older than the Mystery Trio, so I kinda had to BS this one. You could alternatively imagine it’s Abuilita.

Ketamine should have dissociated Stan from the trauma of his memories - but his tolerance towards illicit substances is so high that while it did have enough of a hypnotic effect of allowing him to go into his more unconscious memories, it did not disconnect him from the emotions he felt at the time.

From Stanley’s Secret Shames, it was noted that ‘no one came to his fake funeral except his mom and an IRS agent who whispered to the coffin “This isn’t over”.’ Shermie was going to come to the funeral but life events stopped him.

When Caryn refers to ‘The Astral Plane’ she’s talking about the Dreamscape/Mindscape, which is the term Bill and Ford use. People have noticed that Stan in Canon seems to have a pretty good manipulation of his mindscape, which is odd for someone who didn’t train for it like Ford. I’m messing around with it to say that Stan inherited it from Caryn. Caryn can’t project herself into other peoples minds because she didn’t sell her soul to a two-dimensional interdimensional being, she just has really good control of her own.

I’m trying really hard to show that Ford isn’t to blame for Stanley being kicked out - he was a minor under his fathers roof. Stanford is almost thirty of course he would look at a 17-18 year old and be like ‘thats just a kid’. He’s not an unfeeling monster, he loves Stanley. He just can’t really admit when he’s wrong about something. Even now, he doesn’t cave into any of Fiddlefords accusations even though he feels bad about it.

Chapter 19:

Beginning Notes:

End Notes:

It wasn’t raining.

Compared to Ford who unironically finds Stans lame jokes to be funny, they probably drive Fiddleford up the wall

I feel like due to a lifetime of humans judging him for his six fingers, Ford’s more comfortable allowing paranormal or fantastical creatures to handle nail care for him.

For people who do not know: a ‘switch’ is a flexible rod which is typically used for corporal punishment. In some cases a kid might even be told to go outside and find the stick that would be used to beat them. Take those implications as you will.

Ford would be that guy who says ‘recapitulation’ instead of ‘recap’ like a normal person.

In Journal 3, when Ford was being given nightmares by the Dream Hipster (Category Nine Ghost), his nightmare involved his hand falling off, growing huge, and then squeezing his brother to death (implied to be Stanley and not Shermie, because he first thought that it was chasing himself). So it seems his worst nightmare is being the direct cause of Stanley being harmed.

I’m not the first person to make the observation that Ford basically gets the Princess Treatment once he returns to his home dimension (he needs to be rescued in like half of the episodes he’s actually in). But it really doesn’t mesh well with the image of Ford as this super competent badass who was facing the paranormal by himself for six years in Gravity Falls, and then demons, monsters, and the police in the multiverse for thirty additional years. The way I approach this is that Ford is indeed a super competent badass… When he’s by himself. When he’s with other people he’ll make mistakes he doesn’t normally make because he’s desperate for approval and wants to be extra.

The Gremloblin is capable of speech that’s very garbled and requires subtitles, but I wasn’t sure how to present it so I just used upside+reverse text from Here

If you’re having trouble reading, here’s what he said: ["Why doesn't my stare work on you?"] ["You are not a creature of Weirdness. My stare should force you to face your worst nightmare."]

This is the first time Stan has been angry and in despair for real. He treats most things like a joke or not a big deal, so it’s kind of whiplash for Ford even if he’s seen violent outbursts from Stanley in the past. After all, even when he cornered Ford its not like he hurt him in any way, he didn’t even put his knuckle dusters on. This is also the first time he’s actually told anyone how he personally feels about his memory loss.

Yeah this is basically the closest you’re going to get to Stan admitting he does believe he’s Fords real twin and not a glorified therapy doll.

Bill was not trying to push Ford into doing the right thing. He was mocking him because he knew what would make him feel even worse at that moment. Bills comic relief, but he’s still going to be a jerk about it.

Chapter 20:

Beginning Notes:

Believe it or not a large section of this chapter was actually one of the first things I wrote for this story, it was written out before the first chapter actually and I’ve been really excited to show it. This chapter is super long and has shifting perspectives.

This chapter also mirrors Ch.10

End Notes:

Regardless of what happened in this chapter; WEAR YOUR DAMN SEAT BELTS. Make sure you have an emergency strap cutter in reach.

Ford went a little feral when he saw Stans side of the twin bond, he just immediately jumped to trying to fix it even though he knew it wasn’t going to be easy. It’s metaphysical, yes, but it's also a symbolic manifestation. The thing about a bond like that is that it only takes one of them to sever it, but to establish or reestablish connection, it needs both of them.

Stan’s broken into the Infinetentiary twice, a call back to having been sent to prison three times yet breaking out of five of them.

The ‘tell us where to find your boss’ scene was the backstory to the cigarette burns Stan was implied to have in Ch.9

Yes after 20 long chapters its finally unequivocally confirmed; this is the real, original Stanley Pines. This isn’t a cartoonishly similar guy, or a Stan from another dimension or different timeline. Ford was right, broken bond and ten years or not, he always knew who his twin was and he never doubted it. The only thing the reveal of Stans legal death and funeral did was drive Ford to prove that everyone else was wrong.

All of those times Stan said that Fords “real twin” probably died? He was talking about himself and didn’t even know it.

In Ch.10, when Ford said "That voice?" it was because he could hear Bills voice in Stan's memory fragments, but it was so unstable he couldn't hear it clearly.

Stan came up with the fake surname ‘Malone’ because he was actually saying “I’m alone” and Rick misunderstood him.

Stan and Bills conversation was based on an Alex Hirsh interview

Bill wasn’t exaggerating. Stan was dead for a solid few minutes. He refused to make a deal with Bill, so Bill had to wait for Stan to be a *corpse* to possess his body. Stan only came back because Bill possessed him basically the instant he died and did enough activity to get his heart going again. Yes, he came back, but it doesn’t change that he died (by medical definition) and the trauma of this and confronting his greatest fear (dying alone) is what caused him to repress all of his memories. Bill even explained this while possessing Ford in Ch.11: “Why are you afraid of remembering? Are you afraid that you’ll remember loving people who couldn’t be bothered to remember you?”

Stan was able to see that Ford was possessed even though in the OG series he couldn't even tell that Dipper was. It was meant to imply one or both of two things: he unconsciously knows Ford beyond a shadow of a doubt, or he unconsciously recognized Bill who he met before.

Other than excessively using nicknames, slight Bill-like tendencies Stan had shown were pretty mild. Like; Stan and Bill are both the main sources of comic relief, they purposely have the funnier or more absurd lines in whatever scene they happen to be in. But Stan did have one very subtle fourth wall break: “Yeah, yeah Doc. For my own good. I’ve heard it a million times. Do you like, keep score of how many times you say that, is someone keeping track of it? -Ch.9

Which is not just a reference to the title being a line used throughout the story, but on tumblr one of the tags I use is #he did it guys he said the title, in chapters where the line is said

Although Stan was the one who severed the twin bond, it was that bond that ended up saving him; Bill wouldn’t have known (or cared) enough to bother trying to save him if Stan and Ford weren’t connected metaphysically.

Anyone notice that throughout the story, when Stan’s actions are annotated he’s always referred to as ‘Stan’, but in his memories immediately before death he is referred to as ‘Stanley’.

Stan threw hints of his fiery car accident and subsequent suffocation early on:

“I think I had a car at some point? But I dunno what happened with that, it makes my head burn trying to think about it.” - CH.5.

“Doc, a lot of what I remember is like smoke - it’s hazy, and it’s hard to hold onto, can you be specific?” - CH.6

“I was in the back of his shi- iiitty car, I felt like I’d just smoked an entire carton of cigarettes, but in a bad way ..” - CH.10, in regards to meeting Rick

“My chest felt really tight…” - CH.10, in regards to how he felt right before he met Rick

“C-Can’t breathe-” - CH.10, him panicking trying to remember what happened

“I only have nightmares about being suffocated. Or the IRS. Or the IRS suffocating me.” - CH.11

“He may have been suffocating in some way? All he could say was that he couldn’t breathe.” - CH.12, Fiddleford’s observations

Stan used to smoke but moved onto using Snus instead, with no outward explanation

Stans fear of bodies of water wasn’t related to the water itself. He was scared of drowning. Stan is afraid of suffocation.

Chapter 21:

Beginning Notes:

The scene between Ch.20 and Ch.21 (the immediate result of Ford seeing Stans death, and Bills reveal) was not shown on purpose. Because it was a very emotionally intimate affair. It's up to the readers' interpretation how Ford and Stan reacted after they left the dreamscape. I will tell you this time Ford was HONEST-honest, like he even told him the truth about Bill and that's how Stan came back.

Bill's Nicknames:

Ford: Fordsy, Sixer, IQ

Stan: Slick, (ex)Conman, PTSD Barnum

Fiddleford: (The) Hick, Glasses, McSuckit

Stan’s Nicknames:

Ford: PhD, Doc, any synonym for the word ‘crazy’

Fiddleford: Specs, Stretch, F

Bill: Lashes, (One-Eyed) Demon, (The) Triangle

End Notes:

Return of fem Jimmy Snakes, in this case she appears to have a thing with Emma-May. Jimmy Snakes as a character concept seems to be Ghost Rider coded, so in this story she’s pretty much Ghost Rider. Sure is a good thing she and Stan get along at least a little bit after the whole interstate incident.

Fiddleford and Emma-May are in a lavender marriage. They’re both gay and bearding each other. They had Tate because they both wanted a child, even if the nature of their relationship is platonic.

Yes, Stan is trying to create the Murder Hut / Mystery Shack. Ford is not a fan.

Remember how in the beginning Ford was prompted to kidnap Stan because he was injured with three stab wounds that he refused to go to the hospital for? Well, now you know how and why.

The return of the list. Ford didn’t just ask for it and not do anything with it. He’s been going into those peoples mindscapes and giving them debilitating nightmares. Some of them, like Jimmy, had to be crossed off because Stan is still on decent terms with them. Mayor Befufftlefumpter is not on the list because Stan does not consider three stab wounds to be an attempt on his life (five would have been a different story).

Madeline Kahn née Wolfson was a famous American actress of the 70s. She’s reportedly of Jewish and Russian descent, not unlike the Pines Brothers.

The tortillas line was a reference to Stan secret shames where he stripped for edible flour in Tijuana. Which, could just be a metaphor for cocaine or something, but in this case it was literal. It was pulled directly from a conversation I had on a discord server.

The memory Stan and Ford were watching was the other half of the story Stan was telling Fiddleford in Ch.17, with ‘Saddle up, Stan.” being another reference to the “Bill Ciphers Got a Gun” meme.

Yes, Ford was wearing the same outfit he came out of the portal with.

Ford said the same trick wouldn’t work on Stan twice. But he never considered whether or not it would be used against him.

It physically pained Stan to say that last line. Just internally cringing.

Chapter 22:

Naloxone/Narcan is an opioid antagonist - as in, it rapidly reverses the effects of opioids. Of course Stan just casually carries around some narcan he stole you’ve heard of his drug history.

Stan definitely underestimated his drug resistance. When he was tranquilized by Fords not-made-for-human tranquilizer, Stan woke up and was fine after a few hours. Ford was out for much longer, and when he woke up he was *still* paralyzed and it’s anyone's guess how long he would have stayed that way. No, Bill could not have helped him; Bill has control over his brain/nervous system, but he can’t force Fords liver to process opioids faster.

Fiddleford is uncomfortable seeing Stanford in Stan’s clothing because they look so much alike, and he and Stan still have a thing going on.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words, not to be confused with Entomology, the study of insects.

Rico’s full name comes from a real Colombian Politician who was convicted of a crime: Andrés Felipe Arias Leiva

Jorge’s full name comes from a real Colombian politician who was convicted of a crime: Jorge Aníbal Visbal Martelo

Stan’s registered name in the databases of the Galactic Federation is “Staniel Danger Malone”, a nod to Rick joking about Stans real name being Staniel, and Stan telling Ford his middle name was Danger. Stan didn’t give this name to himself, Rick is the one who got him a registered I.D, and Stan didn’t understand Gromflomish at the time because it would have been early in their Sci-Fi adventures.

Schwabe cycle, or sunspot/solar cycle, is a periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity.

The formula xn+1=rxn(1−xn) is the mathematical formula in Chaos Theory.

Kalaxian Crystals are drugs in The Rick and Morty Universe.

The Hodge Conjecture is a major unsolved problem in algebraic geometry and complex geometry.

The ‘slutty shorts’ are a reference to the green short-shorts Ford is pictured wearing in his Backupsmore days.

Anyone who meets Ford can tell he’s not into the sexy stuff.

Ricks interest in Fiddlefords memory gun design is a call back to the Rick and Morty episode ‘Morty’s Mind Blowers’ where Rick has a machine that can remove memories, and store them in glass tubes. Which is hinted to have been used on Bill and Stanford because there's one tube labelled Stanford, and another labelled Bill C.

If you thought Stanfords seething dislike for Rick was bad, Fiddleford is worse.

Rick putting a tracking device on Stan that shorts out an “lesser” tracking device a a call-back to all of Fords attempts at chipping Stan failing because the chips always “short out for some reason”.

“I am the god of destruction” is a line used by Mabel in the OG series.

Stan was banned from Lottocron Nine / The Gambling dimension because he introduced Stanentology. Alex Hirsh had an episode idea where Stan started his own religion, and his holy book was a 300 page manual on Bribery called The Brible. But that episode idea was frowned on by the legal dept.

The ‘shitty copper’ joke is a reference to the worlds oldest customer complaint, called the “complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir”, it explains how Ea-nāṣir, a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.

"He did a keg stand with liquid ecstasy once. You think it sounds insane, me just saying it? Imagine what it was like to see it. He did a *keg stand* with *liquid ecstasy*." - This is a direct lifting from/reference to PARTY.MOV by hotdiggedydemon on Youtube, and his infamous series of MLP Shorts "PONY.MOV". The original line was much more unsavory and about snails.

Those two extra times Stan broke out of prison were to break Rick out.

I know that Time Baby’s domain is just the future of current Gravity Falls’ Earth, but in this case I’m just making it its own cyberpunk dimension.

The 2% margin of error is a joke from The Boondocks cartoon. But this also means it's possible that Stan and Fords DNA is 104% identical.

The year is 207̃012, and yet AI never did figure out how to properly render human fingers.

Stan still giving people 2x of The Finger. Too bad the meaning changed.

A lot of dialogue was pulled from the episode Blendin’s Game.

Chapter 23:

Ford is better at ranged, and Stan is better at close quarters. Ford isn’t bad at close quarters per se, but he’s more evasive/defensive rather than offensive like Stan. Stan isn’t bad at shooting either, but he wasn’t using his glasses when he first started figuring out how to use them, so his fundamentals aren’t good even with better eyesight. They've done most of these challenges by covering each other's weak points.

Ford was kind of triggered at the “Don’t leave me hanging” line.

Cyberpunk Potatoes are just like regular potatoes, but they have terrible haircuts and questionable neon colouring.

Ford wasn’t concerned when Lolph said he stabbed Stan four times because he remembered what Stan said in Ch.1 about not worrying about stab wounds until he gets to five, he trusted that Stan was right about his own limitations.

Blips and Chitz is an arcade themed building from Rick and Morty. It’s one of the few places Stan has been that he hasn’t been banned from.

While Literally Dying humbled Stan a lot and made him take more responsibility, another big reason he isn’t mad at Ford is because he doesn’t remember the hurt he felt when Ford closed the curtains on him, even if he knows Ford betrayed him, he doesn’t have those feelings of betrayal. He kinda hints at this when he told Fiddleford in Ch.21 he still had a hard time even seeing himself as Fords brother.

Ford suggesting death was the same thing Mabel did in “Blendin’s Game”

The time wish was the only thing that would have cleared them of their charges, that's why Ford didn’t just wish that Stan didn’t die or something, without a paradox occurring that means they both would still be held accountable for their crimes.

Planet Chorus is from Red vs Blue seasons 11-13. Whatever Stan did to get banned there, it probably created a domino effect that lead to the Chorusan Civil War.

The ‘Gromflomish’ Stan was speaking can be properly decoded here: Alien Language. Hint, he did not say ‘after you’. -This is the first time Stan actually refers to himself as ‘Stanley’. This is also the first time he directly refers to Ford as his brother.

“You’re the best and your brother is a little bitch” is a line lifted directly from a review by frequent reviewer, @camshaft22

Fiddleford got super jealous

-If you’re wondering how long Fords known about the background Fiddlestan; the whole time. When he made that mental note a few chapters back about Stan and Fiddleford seeming like ‘such good friends’, it’s because Ford is one of those ace people who just assume all allosexuals are Like That.

Chapter 24:

The taps Rick was doing on the console screen of the memory gun corresponded with the amount of letters in Stans name.

The use of red text was to mark that it had something to do with the memory gun - which because it is currently a mix of Ricks tech and Fiddlefords tech, is red instead of blue or green (since the primary colours are Red, Green, Blue)

Anyone notice that when Stan’s actions have been annotated, for the entire story he’s been referred to as ‘Stan’, but as soon as Rick blasted him with the memory gun, he was referred to as ‘Stanley’ just like he was in his death memory?

“you looked at me like you hated me” refers to ch.1, here Stan confirms when he first saw Ford he felt like he was familiar, but ignored him because he looked angry at him.

There are several throwaway lines about the IRS that Stan makes to hint that it was the IRS (or at least someone from the IRS) tampered with his car. In his car flashback, he even says something along the lines of ‘he wouldn’t!’ and ‘that SOB’.

Although Stan treats his former addiction(s) as a joke, the effect it has is still there. There’s always going to be a risk for relapsing. Ford didn’t know about it when he first tranqed him in chapter 1, but he’s heard enough of Stans extensive drug history to not be so trigger happy with his tranqs.

Stans memories didn’t all come back equally. He’d get them in waves and surges, some of them heavier or faster and overwhelming, some of them slow enough he could speak more clearly, hence why sometimes he was speaking so quickly there wasn’t space between words, and other times he was trailing off.

The “ I just wanna get rid of him” was something Stan said people used to say about him when he was a boy, likely from Filbrick. ‘Holding a sign’ thing was something listed on Stan’s lowest moments, where he got an F- on a history test so Filbrick made him stand outside with a sign that said “Extra Stan. 3 dollars or better offer!” for two days.

The ‘one favour left’ refers to the fact Stan broke Rick out of prison twice, when Rick helped Ford and Stan in Globnar, that was using one of those favours.

“Thirty years”, reference to the OG of how long it took Stan to fix the portal.

Alongside his ability to break the fourth wall, and imbed links into his dialogue, Bill Cipher is the only character who can use the interrobang symbol: ‽

Stan “doesn’t believe in fighting fair” because he prioritizes his survival over his honour.

This was Rick during the Alleyway Scene, Stan was being serious so someone else had to be comedic relief

Stan’s first suicide attempt is how he met Jimmy and joined her Biker Gang. His second attempt was in the prison in Colombia where he attempted to put himself into a position to die via gang violence. His third attempt was the attempt he mentioned to Ford in Ch.14 where only one of his overdose episodes with Ambien was on purpose. His fourth attempt was cutting, but he passed out and was healed.“One of my exes was a Witch” isn't Stan insulting a former female partner, he is referring to Eda the Owl Lady from Owl House, which is why Witch was capitalized. They weren’t married in this case, they were just a casual fling while he was in the Owl House dimension.

-Comic strip was done by the talented dimonds456, thanks for the commission!

In the comic strip, Stan’s pupils are initially outlined in red due to the effect of the memory gun.

Stan’s hair is short in the comic because he cut his mullet to impersonate Ford for Globnar.

If you’re wondering how Filbrick survived being choked for so long, Stan kept *just* enough pressure off of his throat that he could prolong choking him as much as possible. Normally, he isn’t so dramatic or poetic, but mans literally died so he was going to make someone else suffer.

I feel like people are quick to blame Ford for Stan being kicked out, but not Caryn. I don’t doubt the time period’s attitude towards women and womens rights didn't help, but she was a whole other adult in the home.

"I hope this haunts you." Is a reference to the song "I Hope It Haunts You" by Citizen Soldier. That song inspired the whole scene between Stan and Filbrick.

Chapter 25:

This is the last chapter of the story. There's going to be a 'trivia' chapter right after this, but hey if I get enough reviews I'll post a bonus chapter that's fully written rather than dialogue only.

Stan definitely does the “The Author of the Journals; my brother” line every time Ford happens to come upstairs during tourist hours. While Stan is still Mr. Mystery, Ford is alternatively called “Dr. Mystery” or “The Author”.

Fords first three journals are on display in the Mystery Shack. Most people assume they’re props and not real research books, Ford doesn’t mind this since they’re in display glass and not handled by people. He’s turned his attention to the oddities of the multiverse rather than just Gravity Falls, so his attention and current research goals are there rather than in Gravity Falls

Yeah Ford still hangs out with Mothman, and Stan apparently has jammed out with Multi-Bear at least once.

Fiddleford was meant to be the Steve Jobs of the Gravity Falls universe, and dammit that’s what he’s gonna do even if the timeline doesn’t line up.

Jazzfest refers to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is an annual music/culture celebration held in New Orleans.

At this point Fiddleford and Stan’s relationship isn’t a secret, it’s just low key because of the prejudice of the time period, and they’re maintaining it at a long distance.

‘Tummy time’ is laying babies on their stomachs for brief periods while they're awake.

Powers used the hose cutter to cut the breaks of Stanley’s El Diablo, used the screwdriver to sabotage the seat belt buckle, and then took his emergency strap cutter. This was a deliberate, premeditated attempt on Stan’s life that technically succeeded.

Just because Stan’s criminal record was completely wiped from existence, that doesn’t mean people forgot what he did.

This might be the first time Ford’s actually said a bad word other than a general one like damn or hell.

The functions of the memory gun being blue rather than red is because this is Fiddleford’s original memory erasing gun (but it doesn;t cause brain damage this time.

Agent Powers first name being Nickolas is a reference to his voice actor, Nicholas "Nick" Offerman

Did you really think Ford wasn’t going to mess up Agent Powers? He killed Stan, even if it was only for a few minutes, he’d died because of Powers.

Stan still see’s Ms. Ramirez as his therapist. Because god, he needed therapy.

Horrible Eyesight Hawkins is a lighthouse keeper from Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.

A figure eight bend, also known as a flemish bend, is a variation of the figure eight knot, a type of sailors knot. It’s meant to create a strong connection between two ropes of similar size.

Stanley has a natural affinity for the dreamscape, so overtime as he became more adept at manipulating it, he’s realized that while it only takes one of them to sever their bond, it would take both of them to fix it. Which is why he offered fixing it to Stanford, and he insisted that they work together to do so, and that they take each others half rather than their own. It needs to be an act of genuine love and trust.

The Stranger

He’s your bonus chapter, all thats left is the trivia one. The story has already come to a narrative end, this is just extra content.

As someone who died but came back, and also has an impression of Bill Cipher in his psyche, Stan is an anomaly, hence why his internal narration implies that the weirdness magnet is what is drawing him to Gravity Falls.

The Soothsquitos (mosquitos of gravity falls who write out often misspelled premonitions) wrote ‘Brost your truther’, which is just a misspelled version of “Trust Your Brother”, which Stan totally did and just didn’t know it. Stan even notices several times that his street smarts and survival instincts seem to take a backseat to whatever ‘the stranger’ is saying and doing.

It only takes the body 24-48 hours to produce enough plasma to restore blood volume after blood loss, but it takes six weeks to replenish the blood cells lost in a unit of blood (about a pint), twelve weeks for a double unit.

I thought it’d be interesting if Stan was low-key afraid of hands (he’d never call it a fear), but Ford was the first exception because his hands are different from everyone else.

The ‘he means you’ line is from Lost Legends, and it was Stanford and Stanley speaking in unison after Filbrick yells out ‘Stan Pines’.

The Boiling Isles is the setting of The Owl House; in Ch.24 Stan tells Filbrick that one of his ex girlfriends was a ‘Witch’, capitalized. He was referring to Eda the Owl Lady (who is speculated to be Stans ex wife Marilyn), in this case he visited that Dimension.

The Red Meadows Asylum is a fictional psychiatric facility for the criminally insane from the ninth season of American Horror Story, a horror-drama television show.

Stan’s adolescent joy at both annoying Ford and proving him wrong (or at least being right), are supposed to be very ‘sibling like’. Even if he doesn’t remember being Fords brother, he still enjoys annoying him like any sibling would because those memories are there, just buried too deep for Stan to reach.

This bonus chapter is just Stan’s perspective in chapter one, hence why there wasn’t a ‘to be continued’ or ‘the end’ note at the bottom.

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Bill Cipher

Bill is still limited within the constraints of the format: in this case, a web-based story that is primarily dialogue only. As such, his lines of dialogue manipulate the format differently. Originally, he was going to speak in Times New Bastard (which is Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly Sans Serif), but neither tumblr or AO3 let you change the font. Instead, he can do the following, which other characters cannot:

Directly reference the readers/audience.

Directly reference the fact that they are in a fanfiction / in text format.

Embed links into his dialogue.

Use the interrobang symbol ( ‽ )

How Bill Affected Stan

Stan has been influenced by Bill on a psychological level, but it’s like Bill said, it’s not like Stan has bits of Bill's power or anything. Just some of his traits, the closest he’s been to vague fourth wall foresight is the throwaway line about how much he hates it when people (well, Ford specifically) say “for your own good” which is the title of the story, and Ford's justification for pretty much everything he’s done.

“Yeah, yeah Doc. For my own good. I’ve heard it a million times. Do you like, keep score of how many times you say that, is someone keeping track of it? Or is that your only excuse for the insane crap you’re always pulling.” - Stan in CH.9

When Stan says “But this is for your own good.” in CH.21, it physically pained him.

Other post-Bill behaviours from Stan include;

Stan not only has a habit of using nicknames instead of actual names, he also comes up with them in increments of three, like Bill seemingly does.

In CH.14 Stan did the “look what I did to your other hand” prank on Ford in CH.14; which was a bit that Bill Cipher was supposed to do to Dipper, but was cut out of the final product of the episode “Sock Opera”.

In CH.11, Stan was able to immediately recognize that Ford was possessed, when in the canon series he couldn’t tell when Dipper was possessed. Indicating that either he unconsciously just knows who Ford is beyond a shadow of a doubt, or he’s met Bill before; either or both is a valid assumption

In CH.14, Fiddleford in regards to Stan says “Last I saw him was in the attic trying to cover up the window with a sheet - some type of paranoia?” In the canon series, the attics window is triangular with panes of glass meant to stylize Bills eye. Stan was trying to cover it, which would stop Bill from seeing him because Bill can see through depictions of himself.

In CH.20, once they enter Ford’s private study / Bill Shrine, Ford says that Stan is shaking, and Stan admits he is uncomfortable.

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Use of Format

Being mostly dialogue-only, describing things was difficult because annotated actions had to be used sparingly to not detract too much from the intended format and not to seem like a script. But, there were ways the text was formatting or worded to indicate something:

Wack vs Whack - When someone hits something (specifically punching), the onomatopoeia used is either WACK or WHACK. What’s the difference, and is it a spelling error?

That difference is that when the onomatopoeia used is “Whack”, that means they’re pulling their punches, while “Wack” indicates that they are not. Stan exclusively uses the WACK onomatopoeia because he never pulls his punches, which is a trait he shares with Filbrick. The only time Ford doesn’t pull his punch is when he punches Rick for inappropriately touching him, and Fiddleford pulls all of his punches.

Cop Knock - In CH.21, Stan recognizes that the KNOCKKNOCKKNOCK at the cabin is the cops knocking. Of which, he was right. But he ironically has a similar knock - in CH.8, when he was tapping on the glass to get Fiddlefords attention, it was TAPTAPTAP

Memory Gun - When Rick uses the gun, the onomatopoeias are in red, but later when Ford uses it it’s in blue. This is because, as Rick said, when he combined his green technology with Fiddlefords blue to make a Memory Retention version of the memory gun, it turned red, which is the third primary colour alongside blue and green. Ford used the Memory Gun with its original purpose, to erase memories, so it was the original blue colour when he used it on Agent Powers. Furthermore, the number of taps used corresponded with the number of letters in the characters names. (Stan being 7 and then 5 taps, Powers being 8 and then 6 taps)

Annotations - In annotations, Stan is exclusively referred to as Stan, until CH.20 in the flashback before he died and lost his memories, and then when he regained his memories it stayed as Stanley from then on. Similarly, Ford is exclusively referred to as ‘Ford’ until the last scene when Stanley offered his end of the twin bond to fix. This is to signify that they’re both fully embracing each other as twins again.

Speech - Although the story is mostly written without accents, Stan actually picks up more and more of a Jersey drawl throughout the chapters. Hinting that just being around Ford brings more of his original self out.

Ford's dialogue is unique because he's less likely to use contractions (saying "will not" instead of "won't"), however in CH.23, after Rick tells him that speaking without contractions doesn't actually make him sound smarter, you can see Ford uses contractions more while talking directly to Rick.

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Vibora Jiménez aka Jimmy Snakes

Jimmy Snakes was a concept character by Alex Hirsh that never made it to the final show. Jimmy Snakes was a male biker who was Stan’s Rival from his ‘biker days’. There isn’t a lot of information on him and his concept, other than he seemed to be very Ghost Rider coded. The episode was going to be: "Jimmy Snakes"-Stan's old biker pal comes to town (turns out pal is cursed, Ghost Rider style).

Jimmy Snakes in this story is different, the most obvious difference being gender; in this story, although Jimmy does not physically appear except in flashbacks, it’s made clear that Jimmy is a woman. Jimmy Snakes isn’t her real name, it’s just a street name - according to Stan, ‘Jimmy’ came from non-Spanish speakers pronouncing her last name wrong, as Jim-en-ez, instead of the proper pronunciation of Hee-men-ez. Also, biker gangs and gangs in general (and society overall really) don’t respect women particularly those in positions of power, so she used ‘Jimmy’ as a street name so that other gangsters and/or bikers initially assume she is a man.

She and Stan might have had a romantic relationship, but really their relationship tipped more into the mentorship territory because Stan joined her gang really early into his drifter years. Like, a mere few months or even weeks after he was kicked out, as Stan revealed that she let him join her gang because he tried walking into traffic and she hit him.

Her backstory didn’t come up but Stan mentioned she chased him on the interstate trying to drag his soul to Hell, and only didn’t because Hell apparently didn’t accept him, and Fiddleford describes her as “a partially undead psychopomp who can transform into a flaming skeleton” and she successfully send someone named Old Man Jenkins down to Hell, during a date with Emma May none the less.

So what is her backstory and how did she part with Stan only to get reacquainted later, and how are they still friends when she tried to quite literally Damn him?

She was very close to Stans age, hence them kinda-sorta being an item when Stan joined her gang, she was anywhere between 18-22 when she met Stan - but she was already pretty hardened, she’d been out on the streets since she was middle school aged so she was still a mentor / teacher figure to Stan despite not being much older than him, she just had a lot of experience already.

She was the one who got Stan into the habit of using brass knuckles - given his boxing background, he was actually quite hesitant because he was used to ‘fair fights’ and having honour, but Jimmy told him that when he’s fighting for his life, he has to ask himself what matters more to him; him, or the other guy?

The way I imagine it is that after a few short years of Stan being in her gang, Jimmy died. It was actually quite similar to Stan’s own death - an ‘accident’ - a result of gang violence - on her motorcycle, and she burned up. She didn’t die immediately, but succumbed to her wounds in the arms of one of her crew (likely Stan) after they dragged her out of the flaming wreckage. Although she always told her gang to never give their original full names up, not even to each other, in her last breaths she told them that her first name was Vibora, they already knew her original last name was Jiménez, but she never told any of them her first name.

Also like Stan, she was brought back by an enigmatic being from beyond her dimension. In this case, it was Pyronica. Pyronica isn’t a Henchmaniac like she is in canon, instead she’s an Interdimensional demon either on the level or on a comparative level to Bill Cipher. He’s the Dream Demon, representing fire and dreams? She’s the Pyre Demon, representing both fire and death. Bill Cipher can manipulate the nervous system of his ‘wards’, while Pyronica can manipulate their circulatory system (although, she can still manipulate more bodily systems of a corpse, like how Bill could manipulate more than just Stan’s nervous system when he possessed his then-dead body).

Pyronica gave a dying Jimmy a deal - she would live, but she would hunt down and feed wholly corrupted souls to Pyronica in exchange. Unlike Stan, Jimmy accepted the deathbed deal. It wasn’t just because she wanted to live, but she wanted to punish every monster she’d seen while on the streets, the monster she forced herself to be at times just to survive.

Jimmy’s body disappeared from the morgue, and the rest of her gang assumed that her estranged family must have reclaimed it, as it’s not like any of them had a legal claim as it was. Jimmy Snakes Biker Gang fell apart, because what was the point without Jimmy Snakes? Stan started doing failed product infomercials after this.

In reality, Jimmy came back. But she wasn’t the same.

[Art by @dimonds456]

Before her deal, she was a tall mixed-Hispanic woman who had unruly, shoulder length hair that was naturally black, but she bleached it blonde, and wore a red bandanna on her head to cover up when her roots would show, and her eyes were dark brown in colour but bright with mischief and pride. She wore a closed black leather bikers jacket with studs, a spiked neck collar, a red tshirt, black jeans, and brown leather cowboy boots that matched her fingerless gloves and belt.

After her deal, her hair becomes more wild and permanently whites out, her eyes become black voids with glowing pink dots that act as ‘pupils’, and the most shocking physical change is that her lower jaw is entirely skeletal, it's just a jaw bone. Because of this, she always wears reflective aviators to conceal her eyes, and her bandanna, which is now pink, is tied around the bottom half of her face rather than the top of her head. The rest of her attire also changes to reflect her now symbiotic relationship with Pyronica. It mostly stayed the same, but her black leather jacket had changed to white with pink trimming, and instead of studs it now had spikes on the shoulders, her tshirt and brown leather had all turned black.

Her spiked neck collar was gone and replaced with a chain necklace, and instead of gloves she now had permanent but disconnected wrist manacles, this was because she was now permanently chained to Pyronica and her new role as a vengeful psychopomp.

Basically, Pyronica is fueled by corrupted souls, which is why she has Jimmy collect them.

She meets up again with Stan later, and this is after hes gone through a few different identities and prison (but before his own death), and he’s so happy to see that she’s alive! Too bad that’s short lived, as she sees how crooked he’s become, and her Punisher-like disposition takes over.

She chases him on the interstate for fifty miles, but eventually catches him and tries to drag him down to Pyronica’s version of Hell, but he’s promptly spat out because as many crimes as he’s done, he still does have a genuine and good heart, so Pyronica cannot feed off his soul. Her flames require evil, nasty souls, and Stan didn’t fit that description.

For a long time, Stan did not forgive her after she let him go. Even after she told him what happened to her and how she got to that point.

And then he also died himself, and lost most of his memories. After Ford went into his mindscape and saw what really happened to him, and told him everything, Stan realized how similar his situation was to Jimmy’s and he reached out to her again. He understood her better now. Sure, he didn’t accept the deal with a demon like she did, but he also knew firsthand how the trauma of death can change a person.

They ended up making up after some long phone conversations, and he sets her up with Emma-May.

The point of having Jimmy going through death just like Stan is to kind of underline why Ford telling him about his death, and Bill Cipher bringing him back, ultimately didn’t surprise Stan too much because he already knew what happened to Jimmy.

Being a still partially undead being, Jimmy doesn’t necessarily age. I imagine, however, by the time that the twins come to Gravity Falls, she makes minor adjustments in her appearance to look closer to her real age, since her true form is a skeleton with pink and white flames and her human appearance is a mere shapeshifted imitation of what she looked like alive.

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Lost Lines / Draft Changes

There were some lines that had to be changed or cut entirely to better fit the plot and the story line, and in some cases the plot point changed entirely from the draft version.

For instance, Fiddlefords honey trap in the first draft actually succeeded;

"Stanley, you need to stay."

"Oh, and are you going to stop me? Nothing you do or say is going to stop me from leaving."

*Fiddleford unbuttons the first two buttons of his shirt*

"Really, specs? You're going to try to honey trap me? That's one of the oldest tricks in the book. I know you're only doing this to buy time-"

*undoes his belt and zipper in a quick movement*

"..." *flicks eyes down, and then up, and then down longer, and then back up.* "...Okay maybe a few minutes."

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"Oh thank Moses he's detained again, what did you do to convince him to stay?"

*Fiddleford has a partially unbuttoned shirt, messy hair, and is still blushing*

"Him."

"What?"

"If you ever ask me for help with a project ever again it will be too soon.”

However, Stan ended up escaping because ultimately the reason for this plot point was Stan realizing that even though Ford is Doing The Most and acting crazy, he has a strange sense of trust and attachment to Ford and he finds himself wanting to believe that he’s Fords twin because, look at how far this guy is willing to go to get you to stay when very few people you can remember have ever wanted you around.

There are some other lost lines which didn’t make it into the story because the chapter was already dragging, or because it didn’t really serve the plot in any way. You can consider these ‘canon’ the the fanfic, just not shown:

Stan not needing dentures:

"I can't help but notice you never smile with your teeth, odd for a showman such as yourself."

"Oh, I don't show my teeth unless if I want to scare people"

"Why would that scare people?"

"Remember how I lost a lot of my teeth out in the streets from beatings and chewing my way outta stuff? I saw a shady dentist out in space who injected me with something that would make me grow a whole new set. But they came out kinda big and sharp."

"Really?"

*curls his lips back and points to his teeth*

"See?"

"..."

"Stretch?"

"I’m taking you, now.”

Memory Stan

In the initial draft, Stan would have episodes of dissociating where he would appear to have his memories again, but these would be short lived and brought on by mental distress. Ford, going into his mindscape, would find a mental projection of Stan that represented who he was before the accident / his death, who would outright refuse to ‘take over’.

This was dropped because this would just cause Ford to ignore the ‘amnesiac version’ of Stan and treat him like another temporary persona of Stan, rather than, well, Stan. He’d hyperfixate on the idea that his ‘real brother’ was literally just trapped within his own head and needed to be pulled out or convinced to come free.

This didn’t fit in with the overall message that the plot was trying to convey that Stan was always Stan no matter what. And it would have validated Ford’s beliefs while contradicting Stan, as shown in this exchange from CH.6:

“...You’re just not you right now.” -Ford

“I’m never anybody but me.” -Stan

Part of Ford’s arc throughout this story was that he needed to realize that if he really, truly, wanted to help his brother he needed to treat him like a person he cared about, and not like a problem that needed to be solved or another anomaly to study. Ford needed to realize that he didn’t decide who Stan was, Stan did. In the beginning, there are several parts where Ford just assumes that Stan is lying, or not taking what Stan is telling him at face value and drawing his own conclusions instead.

Here are some dropped lines from the draft where Stan would go into these dissociative episodes and he’d temporarily regain his memories, but only for a minute or so. Some of these were so early, it was before I committed to writing this as dialogue only:

*eyes go blank* "I'm... I'm sorry Ford." *dissociating* "I didn't mean to. It was an accident."

"I believe you Stanley... I believe you, now. I wish I believed you back then. I... I let my anger and my pettiness ruin our relationship, ruin your life."

"...I ruined my own life. I ruined your life, too."

*Ford cried, he thinks Stanley was as well but he couldn't be sure*

"...Uhh, you okay PhD? Didn't take you for the huggy type."

Misc. Removed and/or changed dialogue

(Ford)

"Stanley... you got into a car accident. A terrible one. The event was so traumatizing, you repressed a lot of your memories. You were so resigned to the fate of being alone, of having nobody... that you made yourself forget that you ever had anybody. Your mind made you think you were always alone, because it was less painful than having had people in your life once... who weren't there for you when you needed them."

(Stan)

"Hey. I'm... I'm sorry you lost your brother." "And I know I'm *not* him but... seems like you really need a brother. I could... ya know, stick around, and... be that. If... you want me to.”

(Fiddleford and Stan)

"What type of women do you like?"

"All of them."

"All of them?"

"I'm not picky"

"Okay, what about men?"

"I have a very specific type."

"Which is?"

"Tall lanky guys who are extremely smart but have questionable morals.”

(Ford and Stan)

"Stanley, why you you only chew with one side of your mouth?"

"Doc, I got one tooth being held together by nothing wire and prayers."

"How did you break it?"

"Lead pipe to the face."

(Ford and Stan)

"Oh for- I have six fingers!"

"No, you have 12"

"That besides the- wait, you noticed I had extra fingers?"

"Kinda hard not to when you keep pressing your hand against the glass and looking at me like I'm a stray at the pound about to be put down."

"And you never asked about it?"

"With all of your other weird crap, it didn't seem to matter.”

References

"'-only one thing to do now, Stan', and she pulls out a gun too. 'Agent Powers's got a fucking gun? So will I'. And then they just have a shootout in the middle of the street." - Line by Stan in CH.17. Which is a reference to the “Bill Ciphers Got a Gun” Fandom meme

Originally, the line was actually another Epic the Musical reference:

“-we found a ship with no crew. I realized nearby, there were sirens, singing sailors-” And then Fiddleford would cut Stan off to say his stories are outlandish.

This is a reference to the song “Different Beasts” From Epic the Musical. The implication being that Stan was either making this up, or he and Rick went to an Odyssey dimension at some point. But it was changed to make room for an Agent Powers foreshadow and Jimmy Snakes mention, so their appearances and mentions later wouldn't seem so out of nowhere.

(...)

Ford’s Arc

Stan was initially written as being a bit more sensitive, but was re-written to be standoffish and casual about everything. This was so there was more contrast between when he’s being serious vs when he’s just f***ing around. In a way he kind of switched attitudes with Ford, who was initially going to be more of a jerk who was doing all of this because he wanted to be right.

But that changed because I’ve seen a lot of stories where Ford is a jerk either until it's too late, or it’s almost too late, and Stan is sad and self-depreciating the whole time. Which, it is a dynamic I like, don't get me wrong. But I wanted to do something different - so Ford was instead written with the intention of being the more sensitive one. In a way, to be ironic because he called Stan suffocating before they had their falling out, and now he’s the one insisting that Stan needs to stay with him, while Stan actively rejects him.

This was not written to bash or hate on Ford for what happened to Stan - both Stan and Fiddleford state multiple times that Ford was both allowed to be mad about the perpetual motion machine incident, and he was allowed to cut people out of his life, including Stan. It was always his right to decide who he wanted in his life.

However, the problem is that Ford took Stan for granted. Ford was the one who was wronged, so he decided on his own that he and he alone would decide if he and Stan ever reconciled or not. Ford was open to the idea of reconciling, but only on his terms, and only if Stanley proved his worth to him. He saw Stan as needy, so he never even imagined a scenario where Stan could ever possibly reject him.

The whole story, after all, started because Ford was so ready to just ignore Stan after not seeing him for an entire decade, only to be offended when Stan’s the one who completely ignored him instead. Stanley was the one who ruined things, he shouldn’t get a say in if Ford engages with him or not!

And then there was Fords lie about Stanley ‘leaving home’ rather than being kicked out.

Ford wasn’t going to admit it out loud for a while, but he did feel guilty about Stan being kicked out. More specifically, he felt guilty about how he felt when it first happened. Back then, as he was seventeen and newly betrayed by the person he thought he could trust most in the world, he was hot blooded and impulsive, and he believed that Stan ruined his machine on purpose. Back then, he thought that Stan must have done it out of jealousy towards him, and for a while even believed that Stan deserved to be kicked out.

And as Ford got older, and he started growing up and maturing, and the incident became more distant and he cooled off about it, he looked at the situation differently. As a grown man, he could look back and realize how clearly not a grown man Stanley was when he was kicked out, and that throwing a minor onto the streets was wrong. While he still believed that Stanley wrecked his machine on purpose, he changed his mind about why Stanley did it. He came to the conclusion that Stan must have just been afraid of Ford leaving him. He still believed Stan sabotaged him, but he at least didn’t think Stan was doing it to be malicious.

But still, he preferred to keep him out of sight, and out of mind. There was no reason to make attempts to reach out if Stanley himself wasn’t trying to either. He was a con artist anyways, sure his life most likely wasn’t the greatest, but Stan was tough and stubborn, he’d get up no matter what knocked him down or how hard.

And this entire mindset Ford had towards his brother beforehand became… so much more unstable and harder to hold onto once he started to get to know Stan again, albeit as an amnesiac who saw him as a stranger.

Because every time he and/or Fiddleford poked and prodded about his past, it quickly became clear to Ford that Stanley’s life since being kicked out hadn’t just been ‘not the greatest’, it was a never ending series of one horrible trauma after another horrible trauma.

How many times has he been stabbed?

How many times has he been kidnapped?

He was addicted to what?

What ‘worse’ things has he done for twenty dollars?

Why does he know what Necklacing and the Colombian Necktie are?

He’s… tried to kill himself? Multiple times?

Which States is he banned from?

Why does he think only negative things about himself?

And as Fiddleford tells him outright in CH.18, Ford overcompensates as a knee-jerk reaction - he realizes that Stan isn’t joking about these things that happened to him (specifically when he sees the cigarette scars makes the reality really sink in for him). His guilt over not doing anything when Stan was kicked out, and then his further guilt when he lied to Stan and Fiddleford about the details of the incident, causes him to get way too protective and even a little controlling over Stan because again he hyper focuses on the idea that that he can make up for this, that he can fix this. That is he can keep Stan safe now, maybe he’ll be the better brother he should have been in the past decade.

But you can see that Ford changes throughout the story - in the beginning, he corrects everything Stan says in the vein of “I’m this”/“No, you’re this”, and doesn’t take anything he says at face value, he constantly projects who and what he thinks Stanley Pines is supposed to be on this amnesiac who tells him his name is Stan Malone. He also pushes or ignores his boundaries - in CH.9, he tries to force Stan to tell him who gave him the burn scars even though it’s clear that Stan is very uncomfortable with the topic.

But compare that to the end and near the end of the story - in CH.20, after the “Homeless Shelter” memory, he asks Stan if he wants to talk about it, and drops it when Stan tells him no. In CH.23, Ford also shows faith in what Stan told him about his limitations, because he isn’t concerned when Agent Lolph tells him that he stabbed Stan four times, because he remembered Stan telling him that four would only slow him down.

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The IRS Killed Stan

Below is a compiled list of all the times Stan or someone else hinted towards his death, or a reference to either Agent Powers or the IRS. The IRS being the cause (even if it was just one lone agent acting of his own accord) was meant to be more subtle, because it seemed more like Stan just having a general fear/hatred of the IRS, which is understandable for someone like Stan.

“What happened to him, anyways? Did he die or something, and this is how you're coping?”- Stan in CH.2

“Reconcile? He’s still convinced I’m a mad scientist out to harvest his organs, 'or worse turn him over to the IRS'- don’t ask about that second part.” - Ford referring to Stan in CH.4

“I think I had a car at some point? But I dunno what happened with that, it makes my head burn trying to think about it.” - Stan in CH.5.

“Doc, a lot of what I remember is like smoke - it’s hazy, and it’s hard to hold onto, can you be specific?” - Stan in CH.6

“I was in the back of his shi- iiitty car, I felt like I’d just smoked an entire carton of cigarettes, but in a bad way ..” - Stan in CH.10, in regards to meeting Rick

“My chest felt really tight…” - Stan in CH.10, in regards to how he felt right before he met Rick

“C-Can’t breathe-” - Stan in CH.10, him panicking trying to remember what happened

“I only have nightmares about being suffocated. Or the IRS. Or the IRS suffocating me.”/ “Well, guess I have nothing better to do than to take a nap. I wonder how the IRS is going to suffocate me this time…” - Stan in CH.11

“He may have been suffocating in some way? All he could say was that he couldn’t breathe.” - CH.12, Fiddleford’s observations

In CH.15, Caryn references “an accident” with Stanley and it not being easy for Ford… but no one besides Stanley knew that the Perpetual Motion Machine incident was an accident, everyone else assumes he sabotaged Ford.

"'-only one thing to do now, Stan', and she pulls out a gun too. 'Agent Powers's got a fucking gun? So will I'. And then they just have a shootout in the middle of the street." - Stan in CH.17

“Don’t worry, not dying when I really should is actually my first or second greatest skill.” - Stan in CH.18

An IRS Agent going to Stanley’s ‘funeral’ and telling the coffin this isn’t over, CH.18

“I thought maybe he was always going to strike out on his own, as some act of defiance against- I don’t know, our father? Me? The IRS? Something.” - Ford in reference to Stan, CH.18

“God, I hated that guy.”/ “That IRS agent… What’s his name?”/ “Agent Powers, why?” - Stan and Ford’s conversation in CH.20

“Lots of people have tried to kill me so I can’t really think of anyone specifically who stands out. As far as hating me the most goes, it's a tie between the IRS and the City of Tijuana.” - Stan in CH.21

“Better learn quick, before the Taxman gets you first, (brother).” - Jimmy in CH.21

“Yeah I dunno what shit the IRS is on, and it didn’t matter what name I was using, they always managed to find me.” / “That agent you just spared went to your ‘funeral’.” / “I’m not surprised, he was always telling me that it wasn’t over.” - Stan and Ford’s conversation in CH.21

Stan used to smoke but moved onto using Snus instead, with no outward explanation

Stans fear of bodies of water wasn’t related to the water itself. He was scared of drowning. Stan is afraid of suffocation.

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