Actually obsessed with these two interacting. Idk there's something really great about Dipper "revenge is underrated that felt AWESOME" Pines, and Varian "if I can't have a happy ending than neither can YOU" Ruddiger (or whatever his last name is) together.
More thoughts under the cut :)
Like, they are both such lonely boys. Neither really had any friends their age outside immediate family that they could bond with, and I can really see them hitting it off. They're very similar, but have enough differences that I can see them having some great chemistry. They would be probably annoy eachother and argue lots (but being able to argue in depth is probably something they'd enjoy deeply), but I also think they would understand eachother in a way neither has had before because they're so dang smart for kids. (Not including vat7k)
I have enough ideas that I can see myself making an au fanfic. My idea was that Bill accidentally rips space-time a bit between gravity fall's universe and the tangled universe by having a tantrum, enough that poor, unsuspecting 13 yo Varian triggers a portal to open when experimenting with a magical mineral.
Of course, he is spit out of the portal onto poor, unsuspecting Dipper Pines who was just trying to read the cool new journal he found.
Varian would then spend the summer with the Pines twins, who snuck him into attic to live with them under Stan's eye. He knows of course, but since the kid has no where else to go, he looks the other way. Varian would get along great with the Pines, join in on adventures, and figure out how alchemy works here as he tries to get back home. Dipper would of course be more than happy to help him sort through what everything is called in this world, and introduce him to both modern science and the paranormal. Varian in turn gains a very eager lab assistant that wants to learn everything he can about his alchemy.
They fall in love slowly through out the summer, and when Ford is able to build a one time portal to send him back, Dipper promises to find a way they can see eachother again. Their first kiss is right before Varian steps through the portal, the only things he takes from gravity falls is a scrap book Mabel made him, and a necklace that can send out a distress signal across dimensions (Dipper spent 3 all nighters with Ford to help make it.)
Fast forward a year and a bit to the tangled series' story starting, and Varian having his villain arc.
He sends out the distress signal when he returns home from the castle to see his father completely encased in amber, but Dipper isn't able to get to Corona before Varian is arrested for the crimes he commits.
Dipper, absolutely panicked for the weeks he's trying to finish up a stable portal between their dimensions, is only able to make an unstable prototype that he would have to try and finish in Corona. He takes some weapons he had been making under Ford's tutelage, and goes on a one way trip across dimensions until either he or Ford could make a stable portal.
He basically walks into the castle swinging, right before Rapunzel's group could leave to follow the black rocks. He breaks Varian out of prison, and they go on the run as they come to terms with everything that happened with Varian and what they could do next.
Not quite sure on specifics, but there are lots of tears. Dipper holds nothing against Varian though, because he'd do the same thing if it was for Mabel. All I know for sure it that Dipper is very salty towards the kingdom, and holds that grudge with every interaction he has lol.
Those are the basics of what I have now, it sounds silly as a summary but fleshed out in writing it's much better haha.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
we need more deaf/hoh!varian content. i do not make the rules.
he didn’t react to the rooster’s explosion at all! afterward, he was speaking coherently to lance! there are very few instances where he isn’t giving his entire attention to someone speaking to him, as if reading their lips!
yes, we have his comedic spit-take when he hears rapunzel’s greeting in “cassandra’s revenge”— among other examples— but… c’mon. varian on the deafness spectrum. it’s a gift to us all.
i would even “allow” you hearing fans to headcanon that hugo learns sign language for varian… because hugo and varian are linguists. they understand that signed languages are entire languages, not cute little codes for fluff/character bonding, or a trick to show off at parties. they’d actually respect it.
i got miffed there, but my point still stands.
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-rapunzel and the main group never noticing until varian furiously spells it out for them. their efforts to accommodate him, from that point onward, are just another way they’re trying to make amends.
-hugo being utterly devoted to being an ally. someone brushes off varian’s polite “can you repeat that?” with an answer of “oh, never mind!”, and hugo snaps at them.
-cassandra and varian bonding over becoming disabled.
-adding more depth to varian and quirin’s relationship. varian enjoys the fact that he doesn’t have to strive to understand his dad, but he still wishes quirin would speak more.
it’s so full of potential… it’s so wonderful… deaf/hoh!varian…
Separated AU where Leo stays with Draxum, except Draxum is actually an ok dad.
Insert an LFLS joke here
If serious, I know people like to demonize him a bit, but I think Draxum would be a pretty decent dad if one or even all of the turtles stayed with him. He's a big softie, u can tell that by how he's interacting with Hugging and Munnin and how quickly he warmed up to humans, and even by the fact that he didn't even want to destroy the humans, he wanted to turn them into Yokai instead even tho destruction would clearly be easier to achieve.
If Leo stayed with him, he'd definitely try to raise him as a weapon but fail miserably cuz Leo's his baby and he'd not be as harsh on him as he thinks is needed.
He looked on as they wept. They screamed and clung to the body, now cold. Hugo quirked his head. He did not know these people, but he knew that he loved them. He wanted them to be happy. He remembered being happy with them, once.
SORRY FOR VANISHING I GRINDED THIS OUT IN THREE DAYS (please note i’ve had the thumbnails for this animatic for almost eight months in my sketchbook but they finally escaped)
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