#she gave something dipper OBVIOUSLY VALUED (the tear in the fabric globe) to someone who was A PREVIOUS ENEMY

[firemama]

just saw a post criticizing that in gravitt falls dipper was "not an amazing sibling but came around in the end to be the brother mable deserved" and i

dipper was far and above the much BETTER sibling? he constanctly gave up on what he was doing to help mabel in the end of an episode? like thats the episode lesson s e v e r a l times, to put your family/sibling first, a lesson dipper eventually and constantly bows to? and yet mabel often fails to meet?

i could promise you that if it had been mabel telling dipper not to push the button and dipper clinging to it, he wouldnt have pushed the button and would have differed to mabel telling him to trust her. i can even MORE so see that if mabel had been the one to decide she wanted to stay in gravity falls as an apprentice, dipper would have A, tried to stay as well instead of trying to outright refuse and say come with /me/ back home, and B, if that couldnt be accomplished he'd probably have supported her, as he does with most her decisions even if hes scared theyre the wrong ones.

like, Dipper was an immensely supportive brother and the sum of ma n y episodes was him loosing what he wanted or his goal being let go so he could help or support mabel or generally make her happy. and when it came down to a final life changing decision, to be an apprentice in mystery and stuying things, mabel neither /adressed/ his /life desire/ nor any solutions to make them /both/ happy. she only got upset that he was not doing the obvious thing that would make /her/ happy at the cost of his own desires.

and as usual, when dipper is presented with unhappy mabel with her /own/ desires not being filled and his own oppertunity to achieve something? he eventually concludes to give it up. it was neither a healthy option nor a great one- theyre individual people and while theyll always be twins and friends, theyre going to be different people and neither should be giving up all their desires for the other. there is no "better sibling" in reality, but one absolutely supported the other at almist every turn and the other almost constantly failed to do so.