continued: how i think the gravity falls kids grew up since they're 25 now
after weirdmageddan, stayed in touch with candy and grenda and called or facetimed them whenever possible
had an art teacher in freshman year of high school that totally changed her life trajectory by 1) making her realize she's bisexual and 2) making her realize she wants to be an art teacher
she and dipper spend summers in gravity falls throughout high school, and she befriends pacifica at 15-16 after paz finds her waiting for the bus in the rain and picks her up in her car, saying she's 'repaying the favor' from their min golf tournament 4 years ago. they end up sitting in her car outside the shack for a while just talking, and mabel likes the person pacifica's become.
has always been dipper's biggest supporter in his transition, but does find it fascinating since they're identical twins (in my head shh)
she and candy had an intense homoerotic friendship summer of mutual pining, but ultimately made the (surprisingly mature) decision to just remain friends and not risk it
she does also meet mermando again when he returns to profess his undying love when she's 17 - she turns him down, but not before making out with him just to be able to say she did.
she decides to go to art school, and gets into otis college, which works out well since it's not far from UCLA & dipper
she and paz both had awful relationship experiences their first year of college and have like, pack-bonded even more because they support each other through it (while dipper paced and wanted to punch some people)
was the first person to clock that dipper and pacifica liked each other before either of them realized it, and was actively trying to manufacture situations for them to work it out
graduated with her bfa in art and design education, and does her practicum at a montessori elementary school, where she ends up getting hired after graduating
on the side, she has an etsy where she designs clothing patterns and sells them, and hopes to have an actual clothing line one day
still has waddles (domestic pigs live 10-15 years!) and has contemplated getting him ESA certified in order to bring him to work, but dipper lectured her it was "abusing the system," (it is) so she didn't.
extra: she loves chappell roan. secretly, so does dipper.
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