Gravity Falls AU idea?
I've got like the bare bones of an AU idea, sorta like the reverse portal AUs but a little different i think? (Stan in the portal AU but it's going to go way off the rails into non-canon probably way before the portal era) More on that later
So we see all these alternative Fords thinking they're fated to kill Bill, thinking that they can beat Bill, kill him and so on. but this Stanley considers himself a realist, or a pessimist, whatever you wanna wanna call it. This Stanley isn't trying to beat Bill, he's under no illusions that he could kill him, he's not Ford-who is a genius, he doesn't consider himself capable of such a feat. No instead he's going to do one of the things he does best, he's going be an absolute pain is this things triangular side.
Ultimately he's not trying to win, he's trying to stall, distract, be a thorn in Bills side, cause some damage(physical, emotional, or psychological; or even just to his ego, he's not picky). He's trying his best to keep his attention on Stan and off of Ford. He's just trying buy some time, as much time as he can, and for him that is enough, that is his kind of win.
In the multiverse most Bills are obsessed with Fords, but they also tend to absolutely despise Stanleys, absolutely hate/loathe them with a burning passion. This Stanley is going to use that.
As expected it backfires on him a little(or a lot). Oh he got what he wanted, he got Bills attention off of Ford(for now), but there in lies the problem.
To further expand on that, I'll explain part of what sparked the idea of this AU was a rough quote, which if I remember correctly came from a DND BBEG compilation. Basically it was something like this :
"āVery impressive, you've exceeded my expectations, and gotten further than anyone else. However, therein lies your greatest error because nowā¦ā avatar collapses into pile of bones and smoke, actual form steps out of a portal and slowly walks towards them, unconcerned at any risk to them despite strong party āyou have my undivided attentionā"
So Stan has got Bill Ciphers attention alright, he's managed to tick him off, like really tick him off, in a 'I'm not going to kill you for a long long time' kind of ticked off (again more on this later). So he is doing his absolute best to not get caught everytime he has a run in with Bill. His goals being to wreak as much havoc on Cipher and his plans/plots/end of the world schemes as he possibly can, and be able to survive long enough to do as much damage as he can.
At some point he does get caught, not directly, but by a puppet or something Bill has possessed. Now at this point of the hunt, Stan and Bill have been playing cat and mouse for awhile, though who the cat is isn't always clear(more on that later as well). Stanley isn't immediately killed or majorly injured, just incapacitated enough to keep him down for a little bit.
Bill, at this point in time, has decided that no one else is allowed to kill this infuriating/loathsome little human/meatbag but himself, and even then he's only allowed to die when he says so. Hes not going to let anyone get in the way of that, not some random nobodies, not some random beast/creature, not Stan, not Ford, not even himself (This Bill has, unfortunately for Stanley, gained some self awareness, in that he realizes he might accidentally-on-purpose kill the guy in a fit of rage).
He wants to be able to take his time with this one, but humans are fragile and have such short lives, so when Stan gets caught Bill decides to tamper with Stans... everything let's say, i haven't ironed out the details. I'm thinking he does a bunch of medical & magical malpractice/horror, that would have caused Stan to have some kind of otherworldly healing factor/permanent regeneration and a very large extension of his lifespan maybe. (There were some other ideas i had for this too but I can't remember them at the moment, so I'll get back to that at a later date.)
Fortunately for Stan he managed to get away before Bill was able to finish whatever modifications he had intended, unfortunately for Stan, or fortunately depending on the day, Stan gets to keep the unfinished healing ability, and his aging seems to have slowed down a little(not that he notices that until way later). So on one hand he's even more hard to kill, and when he does get injured he doesn't have to worry about needing as much medical attention or wasting as much medical supplies. On the other hand, there's the āØ trauma āØ , the revulsion, and the ever building existential dread that comes with it. When it kicks in, he's reminded a lot of the time of exactly why he has it, and how he got it, and from who(the whole thing makes his skin crawl). He tries not to think too hard about it, lest the panic set in and overwhelm him and he tries to do something drastic. Some days are more successful in this than others.
In this AU, I'm thinking of making Stanley is a mage/sorcerer/some kind of magic user?? He has his own talents and/or some kind of spell book/talismin thing?? I'm also debating a 'patron' of sorts.
Which brings me to one of the other things that got my mind to produce this idea for an AU, an audio clip/edit, which you can probably find it pretty easy, I'd recommend it, it sounds very ominous, here's the dialogue:
""I don't want your soul"
"then what do you want from me?"
"For my gift, all I ask, is you do the one thing your good at. "
"and what's that? "
"FIGHT""
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On that note, I'm stopping here for now, if anyone is interested in this AU let me know. I'll probably make another side blog if I decide to continue this. Also the name i will be using for this AU for now is "Living on borrowed time AU" or "LOBT AU" i guess
