#grauntie mae

[tiredmutt-1999]

Grauntie Mae (Mason<Mabel>), Our favorite grifting grauntie!!

More to come when I get the time but I have a pretty decent amount of my Relativity au art collected so post!

[mushruem]

That one scene in Tourist Trapped but it's relativity falls

[ask-twinswap]

"GET BACK! I KNOW IT'S YOU!"

[strawberryshortcake1495]

That one scene from Dipper and Mabel vs the Future but it’s Relativity Falls

Stan was in his room, looking through the scrapbook he had made. It was very much dirty, but it contained his memories of the summer. The boy let out a huge sigh and rested his head on the book. Then the door slowly opened, revealing his Grauntie Mabel. “Hey, everything alright, nugget?” She asked sincerely. “I just can’t believe the summer’s almost over. Now that I know how awful highschool’s gonna be, I’m in no hurry to run back into Ma and Pa’s arms.” The boy said glumly. “Nobody likes getting older, but just because you’re practically a teenager doesn’t mean you have to act your age. I mean, look at me. I’m pushing 70 and I still eat Smile Dip for dinner.” Mabel said with a smile. “But I don’t wanna say goodbye to Gravity Falls.” Stan said, leaning his head on her. “Hey, at least whatever happens after this summer, you’ll still have your brother along with you through thick and thin. Not everyone can say that, y’know.” Mabel said reassuringly. She gently ruffled her great-nephew’s hair and left the room, waving goodbye as the two sharing comforting smiles to eachother. “Yeah, at least when I go home, I’ll always have Stanford. Good ol reliable Sixer.” Stan said, picking up a photo of him and his twin brother.

[heideez]

tidbits/headcanons from my relativity falls au + fic “one of those questions with no real answer”

Stan and Ford feed off of each other’s emotions and reactions, like, a LOT. Especially Ford. He learns emotions from Stanley, learns mannerisms from Stanley, and understands social norms from him, because Stan is the only constant in his life, and is typically always with him. So if Stan starts to cry, esp if it’s over something irrational, Mabel and Dipper start to panic a lil because they know Ford’s probably going to start crying too and that’ll just make things worse 😭😭😭

Ford and Stan had a few-month period where they drifted before they left Jersey, because the abuse was worsening for Stan, and Ford was being intentionally kept in the dark about it, as well as being pushed extremely hard in school, but after The Incident (tm) that leads them to Gravity Falls, they come back together + are closer than ever esp after summer.

Grauntie Mae has put in a lot of work to reverse teachings of toxic masculinity and the boys have been quite receptive (esp considering they’re both queer + nd and didn’t resonate much with that in the first place)

Stanley had a bit of a Wendy situation with Dan Corduroy over the summer, but it turned into a big-brother thing wayyy before Dipper’s crush did, mostly a means of helping Stan come to terms with his bisexuality (though he’s still only told Ford)

Stan can read (not well), but could not at all until far later than most due to his untreated learning disabilities. Ford is not the most skilled teacher because of his unique intellect being kinda difficult to translate (except to Stan, but yk, academically there’s still a barrier) but he taught Stan how to read pretty much single-handedly.

Grauntie Mae asked Stan if he’d be interested in getting braces, bc his front teeth have a gap but are otherwise in alignment. Stan declines, at least for the time being, because he likes the look (and maaaaybe, just a little bit, doesn’t want to be a burden)

Fiddleford comes from a very religious, bible-thumping community and has a family that is only slightly more moderate (why they moved). His parents do not support LGBTQ+ people. He is gaygayGAY, like never even looked at a woman, and he knows it’s only a matter of time before they start to ask…

Ford regularly turns to the poster of Nikolai Tesla on his wall in the attic and does the Jason from the Good Place thing (“oh ariana, we’re really in it now…”)

that’s all for now!!!

[king-of-the-butterfly-gore]

Grauntie Mae's Mystery Emporium!

I'm SO proud of this. I spent twenty hours redrawing this fuckass background only to realize I need more because I'm gonna make a comic of my relativity falls interpretation. Ultimately decided against it.

Original aspect ratio

[a-writing-otter]

WIP Wednesday - Relativity Falls AU

In that moment, there are a million things going through his head. Stan Pines, who’s prided himself for years on protected his big brother, can’t move. There’s something lion-bird …lion-thing barreling towards him and all Stan can do is stand there.

How’s he going to tell Grauntie Mae?

How he’s going to tell his mom?

What’s he going to do?

One summer away, Stan’s in charge, and he gets his brother killed. They’re outlasted everything this dumb town has thrown at them, but now Ford is going to die to a bird and Stan can’t do anything!

Fuck!

“Ford—!”

The thing charges at where Ford and Bill are crouched on the ground, then a beam of blue light flashes across Stan’s vision. He thinks that maybe, maybe, the twin-telepathy thing is real and that, because Ford is dead, Stan is dead too.

Except his vision does clear out and then something thuds against his shoe. Looking down, there’s a large, beaked head with empty, lolling eyes, pouring blood from the places that a neck and shoulders had been previously.

Apparently then he can move because he shouts and jumps backwards into Fiddleford who’s still holding his wrist.

His worry of who did that, how they did it, and what is immediately put to bed when he looks up, takes a step forward to try and go to Ford when he stops.

Because something else is between him and Ford.

To call it “human” is an insult to humans, but that’s about the closest thing Stan’s got. It’s tall and spindly, but has two arms and two legs, jet black limbs, to be specific, and its dressed in some weird golden suit that eventually stacks into a giant golden pyramid floating on its shoulders, a singular eye in the center of it. It’s looking down at Ford with a squinted eye as it brings a hand shaped like a gun to the eye. Stan lets out a nervous sound as the eye shifts into a mouth and it blows out the tip of the finger that, Stan realizes now had been smoking.

“Ford, get away from that!”

“…Bill?” Ford asks, looking up at this thing that is decidedly not Bill. Great, he survives the animal and gets a concussion.

Grauntie Mae is going to kill him if they have to go to the hospital.

“Aw, Fordsy, you do recognize me,” the thing trills, reaching a hand down to help Ford up. Stan makes to tell him not to, but it’s too late. Ford grabs his hand, stands, and stares up at the thing that called itself Bill in wonder.

The pyramid-thing looks over at Stan, but his eye slides slightly to the side and its shoulders sag.

“Oh, come on, don’t give me that look.”

Stan gets ready to say he’ll give the thing whatever look he wants, but Fiddleford interrupts him.

“You ain’t serious right now.”

“…Fidds?” Stan asks, looking at Fiddleford who is standing there, one hand on his hip, the other pinching the bridge of his nose.

“What in the hells did you want me to do?!” The pyramid asks, gesturing to Ford. “Did you want me to let him die? Was that it?”

“No, I— You didn’t have to—!” And Fiddleford gestures to all of the creature.

“Yeah, alright, Specs, what makes more sense—Bill Cipher, the dreamy counter boy can shoot fire from his finger, no big deal, or there’s something, dare I say it, weird happening in Gravity Falls?”

“Sorry. Sorry.” Fiddleford, Ford, and the thing all look at Stan who is sidestepping his way over to Ford. “Did you say you’re Bill? You’re actually Bill?”

“Geez, slow on the catch up here,” Bill mutters, arms across his chest before looking at Fiddleford then jerking a thumb at Stan. “You like ‘em dumb, don’t you?”

Both Stan and Fiddleford bristle at that.

“And you,” Stan is halfway to Ford now, pointing at Fiddleford, “knew about this?”

“Oh, I can do you one better, kid,” Bill cries, taking two steps over with his long legs before throwing an arm around Stan’s shoulders in a way that makes Stan immediately try to push him off. For looking like a stack of twigs, Bill is a lot sturdier like this. “Show ‘em, Specs.”

Fiddleford puts his arms across his chest, shrugs his shoulders, and looks away.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Oh, come on,” Bill deflates. “You’re not doing this to me.”

“You got yourself into this mess, Cipher, I’m not getting you out.”

“Really? Really?”

“If you want to blow your cover, you can. That’s your decision.”

“Oh, for the love of—“ Bill shakes his… pyramid a little before raising a hand the way he did before. Index extended, he makes a ‘pew’ noise with his… head and then fire shoots out again.

Fiddleford lets out a nervous noise and dives to the side. Stan immediately grabs for Bill’s arm to stop him, but something blue and spherical surrounds him.

“Just— Just trust me, Pines, I’m not going to kill your boyfriend.”

“He’s not my boyfriend! And fucking knock it off!”

The fire keeps shooting at Fiddleford and Fiddleford is doing a valiant effort to dodge it. All things considered, he’s never seen the hillbilly move like that before.

But finally, Fiddleford is backed into a tree, his eyes are wide and—

And this time Stan’s legs work. Sprinting forward, he dives in front of Fiddleford as another beam of fire shoots out.

What happens next is quick succession: Ford cries out “Stan!” and Stan is touched that he sees Ford dive for Bill to probably stop him; Bill curses loudly and tries to move his hand away, but it’s too late; and Stan, Stan accepts he’s probably going to die, but he had a good run, and his only regret is he didn’t beat that Robbie guy’s score on Fight Fighters. …and some other things.

What happens after that is that, well, nothing happens. Or, at least, he doesn’t die. Which, like, is great for him.

There’s an arm fierce around his shoulders, pulling him back into a very steady body. In front of them both is a massive shield wider than Stan and nearly as tall. Fire fans across the front of the shield and then disperses as Stan stares ahead in shock.

Silence resounds afterwards before everyone is talking at once.

“Stanley, are you okay?!” “Ha! I knew that’d work!” “So help me, Cipher, I’ll skin you!”

And Stan belatedly realizes that that last voice is from behind him. That should be Fiddleford.

It doesn’t sound like Fiddleford.

Pushing the arm off of him, Stan takes a few steps away and is hit in the eyes by blinding light.

Another figure out of some comic book stands there, jet black, too, in appearance, but somehow glowing. Stan can’t look up at where the face is supposed to be for long, it’s like trying to look into an eclipse (he did that once and Ford chewed him out for an hour). But it’s dressed in a white suit, like a lawyer in one of those old films about the south. Talks like one too, but wrong.

Which is to say, it sounds like there’s a bunch of Fiddlefords talking all at once.

“We didn’t have to do it this way,” Bill says, waving his hand and appearing a cane that he plants into the dirt and leans on. “But we’re here, so we might as well. Boys, let me re-introduce ourselves. I’m William Diaphodos Cipher, lovingly known to all as Bill, host of the spirit of Bacipherous, lord of chaos, and that there is Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, host of— What is it? Serenity? Compassion? Some other lame virtue?”

“Felicity,” Fiddleford corrects icily before looking to Stan and Ford. “I’m still Fiddleford, now, I’m just also host to an angel named Felicity. Or, well, it’s translated to mean ‘felicity’. Angels don’t speak English, funny enough.”

At this point, Stan is trying to inch his way back to Ford, who is trying to inch his way back to Stanley.

“…so you’re possessed?” Ford says slowly, to which Bill makes a halfway gesture.

“Eh, kind of.”

“Not kind of!” Fiddleford balks. “We ain’t possessed! We’re just… host bodies for these spirits and, sometimes, we’re given the ability to call upon their powers and forms when necessary. And only when necessary.”

Fiddleford is glaring at Bill when he says that. Or, at least, Stan assumes he’s glaring because his voice got hard and he faces Bill, there’s no eyes or face to be seen with the whole glowing ball of black light.

“Give me a better time to do what we can do than then.” Bill takes another two steps and grabs Ford by the shoulders who stiffens immediately. “Our little Pines twins were in trouble and, if I hadn’t taken care of the griffon, it might be their bodies we’re cleaning up.”

“…you didn’t have to transform to do it.”

“Fascinating.”

Stan looks over, Ford is gazing up at Bill, and Stan knows he’s lost Ford immediately.

“So, what, your parents made a deal with the devil or with god to get you possessed?” Stan asks before turning to Ford. “I told you Catholicism was a load of creepy shit.”

“Stanley.”

“No, I— This isn’t through the church,” Fiddleford says slowly, clasping his hands together. The shield he’d been holding before is now strapped to his back somehow. Like this, Stan can see that he also has a substantially sized sword hanging from his hip. “It’s through— Well, mine is through something called ‘The Society of the Blind Eye’.”

“And yours as well?” Ford asks, still not looking away from Bill who is now hugging Ford’s shoulders in a way that Stan can see is making Ford blush. Gross.

“Me? Oh, no. That bunch of sanctimonious freaks would never call on demons. They think they’re better than that, as if we’re not made from the same stuff—“

“We’re not!”

“No, Bacipherous is his own cult.” He shifts his arms to hold up his thumbs and pointer fingers together to make a triangle in front of his eye. “Traces back centuries, but the first known instance of it is in Ancient Egypt.”

“Like the pyramids?”

Bill makes another halfway gesture before dropping his arms and putting them around Ford again, his eye squinting when Ford stiffens.

“I’m not going to tell you that the pyramids are pyramidal because of Bacipherous, but I will tell you that his worship was easily integrated because triangles are the superior shape.”

“Not at all biased about that, huh?” Stan asks from across the way. “That doesn’t explain anything though. Why the fuck are you here? What are you doing here?”

Bill and Fiddleford exchange looks before Fiddleford sighs.

“That requires… a lot more explanation. Here.” Fiddleford takes a deep breath and then, as he exhales, his figure starts to shimmer, the light goes out, and he shrinks back into his human form, sword and suit and shield all gone until he’s the spindly little nerd in small glasses with that ugly teal shirt. “Why don’t we go somewhere private? The four of us can talk and we’ll explain it all.”

“We’re in the woods,” Stan points out, gesturing around them. “Can’t get anymore private.”

“Something you kids need to know,” Bill starts, shrinking back to himself, still holding onto Ford and dragging Ford down a few inches when he’s back to his human self, “is that you’re never safe from prying eyes and ears anywhere in Gravity Falls except for one place.”

“Where’s that?”

[hyperfixation-queen]

Fun fact:

Mason, although traditionally masculine, is a gender-neutral name.

So, I saw this idea that maybe in Relativity Falls, Dipper is trans and isn't transitioned pre-portal, Mabel takes his feminine identity and when he comes out of the portal he has transitioned.

So now I kind of wanna combine these and write a Relativity Falls fanfic with Mabel using the name Mason but she's still Stan and Ford's great-aunt (she's their Grauntie Mason but maybe she goes by Mae for short or something)

I know the name wouldn't be used for girls until a while after the 50's (yes I actually looked this up) when Dipper and Mabel would be born in this AU, but I just think it'd be a neat idea.

[mintartem]

Reverse Falls x Relativity Falls — Reverse Relativity

I have ideas for the mashup of this AU, which I will now call Reverse Relativity. It's Priscilla who is with Preston because I'm too lazy to draw Bud. Seriously though, the main characters are Bud and Preston.

Cousins, Bud Pines and Preston Southeast travel to the mysterious town of Gravity Falls in Oregon to move to their new home with Preston’s mom, Pacifica Southeast. They'll be living in a tourist trap called "Mystery Shack" owned by Gideon Pines, Bud's dad and Pacifica's cousin.

More about the characters under the cut:

Both Stanley and Stanford act the same as their Reverse Falls counterpart.

Stanford:

Overprotective brother

loves his family but has a weird way of showing it

loves his younger twin a LOT

Emotionless to others but shows his true colors to his family, Fiddleford, the Pines and Southeasts

power obsessed

manipulative, deceitful, liar

hates the Pines and Southeasts with a PASSION

proud of his six fingers because it makes him stand out

best friends with Fiddleford

enjoys making Will Cipher and other people suffer

Grauntie Mabel’s “little king”

heir of the Tent of Telepathy

Grunkle Dipper’s successor

“there’s more to those idiotic Pines and Southeasts than meets the eye”

Stanley:

protected by Ford

dependent on Ford

shy and slightly a pushover

has a crush on Bud but at least he knows when someone says “no” but at least its slowly disappearing

nice towards Will

loves his family so much but there are times when they terrify him

honest at most. But will lie, deceit, and manipulate if necessary and for the sake of his family

still loves his goat, Gompers, his possum, Shanklin, and maybe his Grauntie Mae’s pet pig, Waddles... Just maybe

cautious towards Fiddleford

oblivious

Will stays with him for comfort

Grauntie Mabel’s “little knight”

Fiddleford:

scary scientist and inventor

Ford’s best friend

protects Stan as well

manipulative and vengeful

bully you using intellect

rumored to be a cannibal.. (it is just a rumor. A person just heard him say once to an animal “You’re a human? That’s what they all say”)

talks to animals

raccoon plush

yandere

nerdy but scary af

Will avoids of him

considered as family by the Gleefuls

Preston:

tough guy

protective to his family and friends

gains a major crush on Stan after stopping his own brother from killing him and Bud for breaking his heart

best friends with Priscilla

hates Stanford and Fiddleford so much

punch now, ask questions later

will fight you if you messed with his family

has a pet fox named “Hunter” and his mother’s chicken

arcade games are life!

tough on the outside, soft in the inside

addicted for adventure

Bud:

shy boy like his father

a total sweetheart

cutesy happy child

loves his family

insult him but not his family!

doesn’t like Stan in that way but finds him okay

scared of Stanford and Fiddleford

has a “Dipper-Wendy like” crush on Priscilla

hot wheels collector

addicted for mystery

Priscilla:

nerdy bookworm sometimes

“looks don’t matter” - Easy for her to say, at least she’s pretty according to some Gravity Falls girls.

attached to the Mystery Shack and the Pines and Southeasts

considers them family

“I hate Stanford! I hate Stanford! I hate Stanford! Oh gosh he did something hot!... WHY?!”

big fan of Sev’ral Timez

big sister figure for the two cousins

loves her new family

“awww! Preston’s crushing on someone! Cute!”

romance novels and sci-fi novels collector

That’s all for now! Feel free to ask questions if you want!

[ask-twinswap]

who's the taller twin or are y'all the same height

"Would you look at that! Stanley's a little taller!"

"OHHHHHHHHH LOOKS LIKE SIXER IS A SHORTIEEEE!! SIXER MORE LIKE SIXSQUEAK! GET IT? LIKE PIPSQUEAK? BECAUSE YOU'RE SHORT???"

[ask-twinswap]

Does Grauntie Mae have any handsome fellas catching her eye?

"Oh boy, not really any in Gravity Falls lately, but I've seen a lot of handsome fellas in my time! Of course there's someone cute, but she doesn't know that yet. Oh oh-- did you kids know I used to date a mermaid?

"HAH! See Sixer? Fish ladies aren't dangerous!"

"Ohh he was dreamy- he said I reminded him of a manatee! And I guess I dooo, hehe. He might come by this summer!"

"Wait, so, are you.. still dating him?"

"Unfortunately not.. He went on to marry someone else. But we're definitely best friends! And plus - his new wife is GORGEOUS, so I can't complain too much."

"Is there.. anyone else we don't know about?"

"Welllllll... there's that guy I have a restraining order on, but you kiddins don't need to worry about that. He's out of town anyhow."

[ask-twinswap]

MERMANDO? Mermando… I need to see adult Mermando I think he wears hawaiian shirts

"Isn't he dreamy?"

[ask-twinswap]

STANLEY WHAT DO YOU HAVE?

Mae spent the next half hour chasing him around trying to get the knife back. Surprisingly, he didn't get hurt in the process.

[strawberryshortcake1495]

“This is so much bigger than I imagined, Dipper. I thought I could keep the boys safe from the mysteries of Gravity Falls but now because of me, they’re both wrapped up in this thing with Bill Cipher and it- it’s just not fair. Stan and Ford are children, they shouldn’t have to deal with this.”

-Grauntie Mabel

[strawberryshortcake1495]

Isn’t Relativity Falls Mabel basically just Eda but more softer in terms of personality

[strawberryshortcake1495]

Dorothy in Relativity Falls! :3

She’s Fiddleford’s teenage sister who practically raised him growing up. They’re super protective of eachother, always there to support the other during rough times. She’s also well-associated with Stan and Ford, as she thinks Ford has a crush on her because he acts awkward around her (even though he actually likes Fidds and he just never interacted with a woman other than his mother and Mabel in his life) but it’s actually Stan who fancies her. Speaking of Mabel, the old lady ADORES her and always makes sure to involve her in her new schemes.

Her role in the AU depends on Fidds’ role. If he’s Pacifica, then she’s his pretty big sister who is nice to Stan and Ford and always tells them that her brother isn’t that bad once you get to know him. If he’s Soos, then she’s Wendy (and vice versa). If he’s Candy, then she’s Grenda. It’s all to you really, as of now she is just the doting big sister figure who always tags along on adventures.