**per my last reblog I’m jazzed to dig into that AU with my ocs bc I love love love love making my ocs have musical talents even though I almost never showcase/write about them but just for reference:
**Aggie plays piano, I’ve always HC’d her and Ford slogging through piano lessons together and conspiring that their piano teacher was a vampire. Her father was also an exceptional violinist, which I might try to meld into her a little maybe??? Idk. She also knows like, a dozen or so chords on a guitar bc when Bobby was nine or ten he told her he really wanted to learn to play it and she figured she’d probably have to teach him bc how likely is it that she’ll be able to find a guitar teacher who’ll be able to teach a blind kid to play???
**I don’t wanna say Bobby was a prodigy with the guitar bc that’s feels very.. Idk, it feels weird but basically yeah he took to guitar like a fish to water. His mom was super worried it would be hard to teach him but once he got the fundamentals down (very quickly) he was able to have a regular teacher. He also is a great singer and can replicate a lot of different vocal styles, and he just knows a lot about music in general. Probably could write songs if he put his mind to it but he’s shy about that in particular.
**I HC’d Olive taking piano lessons too but honestly this child os destined to be a drummer. She’s got a great sense of rhythm and timing and she just is this durable thing that can absolutely keep tempo with just about anything. At 12 (in canon) she isn’t quite aware of this but in her first year of school she gets drafted into the middle school band and basically takes over the percussion section and by the time she’s in high school she’s captain of the schools drum line and one of the leads in the marching band. Also I think RF verse Olive plays the Harmonica. Idk why it just feels right.
**Also a trait I give to literally every OC I have is that they’re a good singer. I can’t NOT have them be good singers music informs too much of their development.
**Angsty thing related to my comic WIP and notes I posted
So like I said Aggie had completely faith in confidence in Stan having a really bright future and overall just having a really high opinion of him bc I cannot emphasize enough that he and Ford were basically all she had but anyway it isn’t until after the Portal is opened that she really re-enters Stan’s life and I think finding out how hard it was for him and how basically nothing turned out for him the way the thought it would is absolutely heartbreaking for her??? Like knowing that this person that she cares about so much and always imagined having this great life was struggling just as much of not more than she was? It’s so upsetting to her, like the thought “why didn’t I help? Why didn’t I save him?” Haunts her endlessly and on the other side I can imagine Stan feeling so like??? Embarrassed bc maybe he feels like somehow he “let her down” as if that even matters at this stage in their lives. So they’re both in this weird kinda sad mood in regards to each other
And THEN when Aggie lets him in on her magic and goes into just how BAD it was their moods kind of just FLIP bc now Aggie is ashamed she didn’t have a better life and he’s like holy shit why wasn’t I there? Why didn’t I save her? And it’s just a back and forth game of sadness and regret tennis
the fact is they left each others lives and lost track of each other, their priorities changed and their adult lives overshadowed the childhood they shared. And it’s only now that they’re free to revisit that relationship and realize just how badly the middle of their stories were and how much they really could have needed each other I just???? Idk I think it’s so fascinating.
Like imagine for a second they get a chance like, Dreamscaperers style to see some of the shit the other went through. If they saw each others lowest points??? Fucking! Devastating!
Couldn’t get these additions to post but here’s screenshots from before tumblr ate them
The second one ends with “back in the Oregon house but as an adult and she STILL wishes she was dead”
Do you have any more lore regarding Steven and/or Jane that you’re siting on?
At any given time I’m sitting on so much lore lol
I’m gonna do a cut to preserve the dash. Buckle in, I have a lot:
I'll start with Jane since I basically re-wrote most of her lore in light of what I now know about canon thanks to TBOB.
Originally, Jane was basically a proxy oc to ship with Ford. And honestly she still kind of is like that (though I'm flexible and dont need to ship her they could just be pals?), but I've re-worked her a bit more. If you recall her old lore, it basically was the very simple "Ford met this ghost girl before the portal, they had a brief relationship, they reunite after he gets back, she as a tragic backstory that never really gets resolved bc im 19 and cant think that far ahead"
This served me well back in the day but now that we know just how screwed Ford's life was pre-portal, He simply wouldn't have had time nor the energy to have a fun little flirtationship with a ghost. He was too busy literally going insane. So her story doesn't begin in the context of the main story until after Ford's return. I think he still met her before the portal in his examination of ghosts, but they likely didn't communicate much, since Jane isn't the type to make herself known to the living. So he has a vague knowledge of her from what other ghosts have told him, and she recalls him as a younger man. This is the extend of their 'relationship'
Jane's backstory hasn't changed that much, though I've kinda given her some ~mystique~ in labelling her as "Gravity Falls’ First Ghost" and the result of "Gravity Falls’ First Murder."
Her story goes that she was an Oregon settler, part of the first wagon trains that followed Quentin Trembley. She was the eldest child in a large farming family, and she had aspirations to be a writer. This of course would be kind of hard, considering it was the 1840s and she lived in a pretty lawless, unestablished place such as Gravity Falls. She resigned herself to just working on her writing while helping maintain her parents farm and helping look after her younger siblings. She never married, mostly because she found most of the men around her to be "incredibly boring" and she would rather focus on her work.
However, she did catch the eye of quite a few men, and her parents had essentially arranged to marry her off to a rich guy in town. Jane was 30 at the time, which was kinda unheard of for the time? She maintained that she wouldn't do it, though. It was a major point of contention with her family. But they werent the only people who were mad. The man she was being promised to had another woman who was very fond of him. Her name was Emily. Her whole deal isn't important apart from one big thing: Total Witch. Big Witch Energy. Basically the kind of woman you DONT mess with.
Emily was furious that Jane was going to marry her beloved (a guy named Isaac) and planned to take violent and horrible revenge. Which SUCKS ecause Jane literally probably wouldn't have gone through with the wedding, she likely would have wormed out of it somehow. But Emily took matters into her own hands. She lured Jane into the woods under the guise of helping a child who was hurt there. Jane had no reason to distrust her so she goes along, not realizing she was putting herself in danger.
When they reached a place in the woods, Jane starts to get suspicious. Emily invites five other witches to appear and they all attack Jane, with Emily dealing a fatal cursed blow to her back, which caused Jane to bleed out and die. She was then left there, and was found a few days later. She was the first person murdered in Gravity Falls. The area of the woods she was found in was dubbed to be a dangerous and evil place, and it mostly remained untouched until a man named David Yearling purchased the land to build a house over a hundred years later….
Anyway, this resulted in Jane not only being a ghost, but thanks to the curse placed on her, she is unable to move on, no matter how many things she tries. She's stuck in between the lands of the living and the dead. She's able to exist in either, but is unable to fully cross over to what is referred to as "The Hereafter." Luckily, the curse also beefed up her abilities as a ghost, making her rather dangerous.
She watched every member of her family either leave Gravity Falls or die and be buried there. She was unable to reach any of them, doomed to an afterlife separate from her loved ones and stuck in a very dull purgatorial state. And that's kind of how she's been existing. She spends a lot of time just. Vibing? Like she's just around, in the cemetery usually. She definitely needs some sort of catalyst to activate her story. That could be anything really, but I've always pictured a ghost hunt gone crazy, or some sort of “the gang visits the ghost realm” or whatever.
Janes been around for so long that most of the other ghosts in Gravity Falls don't actually know what happened to her. So they often lie, or make stuff up. This is because Jane ended up telling them different versions of the story, flexing her skills as a storyteller. This is basically the only form of entertainment she has.
This iteration of Jane is perhaps a bit drier than her previous interpretation. She's pretty straightforward and blunt, though she has a very whimsical side in the form of her storytelling. She's just waiting for something to happen to her.
And now, the boy!!!
With Steven it’s always tricky bc he almost doesn’t feel like he’s a canon character, like I can’t 100 percent commit to him being part of the full “Hexarcana” lore bc the dynamics of the Yearling household change so drastically when he’s around (Part of what really makes the duo of Aggie and Olive is the fact that they're a DUO, ya know?)
He almost feels like he is the centerpiece of a very specific AU since I haven’t really incorporated him into a lot of things, he’s just.. His own guy?? But I’m always happy to include him if folks want him. Here’s what his current like… Entrance to the story is. He’d get discovered sometime during the following summer in GF, after the Stan’s are back and the twins are visiting again. While out exploring, Olive (and likely the twins) are attacked by ~something~ and the thing that ends up saving them turns out to be a very scared little boy living in a cave. The kids argue over who’ll take the kid home and they decide Aggies a safer bet bc Ford *might* want to dissect this literal child. Olive deduces he's a Vampire, though its pretty obvious with the fangs and blood drinking.
Olive takes him home and Aggie pretty quickly becomes attached to him, helping him with her magic and powers of motherhood to help him learn how to do things like read and speak. Initially he could only communicate with her alone using telepathy. This made him pretty dependent on her.
Aggie always wanted a big family, and she especially wanted more kids. And she knows she's an older gal, but she's sure no one could look after this supernatural child as well as she could. It's tricky though. Olive isn't opposed to keeping him (she becomes pretty attached to him, since she's always wanted siblings) but there's some logistic issues with a boy suddenly appearing in someone's life out of nowhere. Luckily, Aggie knows a guy 😉 who's an expert on forging identification documents. So getting him a birth certificate (naming Aggie as his mother) and other identification is pretty easy. Aggie isn't opposed to raising a child at her age. Again, she wanted a big family and lots of kids. She's already basically raising Olive. She was a single mom, she can do it again- but the thing is, especially in our writing, she isn't exactly a single mom.
She has to wrestle with how to explain to Stan that she's doing the whole 'mom' thing again, for a little seven year old vampire. Obviously she doesn't expect Stan to really like? Participate in any way like a ~dad~ would, like she just imagines he'll treat him the same as Olive. There are no expectations from her, bc she’s aware that it would be a pretty massive ask to get any real help in raising him. But inevitably, I think they'd end up bonding and maybe even becoming pretty close.
I've delved into this a bit with some friends on discord, so I'll put some that in here:
Here’ some other Steven stuff, just little facts and things:
-He has a stutter that he will continue to have into adulthood. He does speech therapy and it helps but he speaks pretty slowly and has a pronounced stutter. He isn’t all that insecure about it, eventually being so bold as to comment that “If you didn’t learn to talk until you were seven you’d probably be bad at it too”
-He was born to two visiting vampires who ended up leaving him behind when they got chased off by vampire hunters. He was probably three when they left. He was able to look after himself, remarkably. He survived on a diet of mice, frogs, and one gnome that he REALLY felt bad about. To this day he can’t see a gnome without getting very sad and also hungry.
-He is VERY shy, HATES violence and hurting things, and cries VERY easily. He's a very sensitive little guy who hates the fact that his species relies on killing things to live. If he could, he'd stop being a vampire forever. He'd love to be a normal human boy. Aggie alleviates a lot of this by getting blood for him, usually via theft from the local hospital.
-He CAN eat and drink foods that aren't blood, though if he doesn't balance it with the right amount of blood intake he cant get kinda sick. His favorite food is cherry flavored candy since its the first thing he ever ate that wasn't a mouse or frog. (Olive gave it to him when she found him)
-He's got a lot of cool vampire powers. He possesses enhanced strength, speed, sensory skills (especially smell and hearing), telepathy, small scale telekinesis, can hypnotize people into doing his bidding and the ability to turn into a bat (though he has NO idea how this is done so he has no clue its part of his powers)
-Regardless of how Stan feels about him, Steven likes him. He thinks he's funny and he likes that he makes his mom happy. He does NOT like Ford, though. Ford scared the bejeezus out of him by talking about dissection or conducting research on him. I'd put money on Ford almost going through with it until Aggie literally knocks some sense into him.
-Being younger, he doesn't pal around with the twins or even Olive that much outside of at-home activities. He spends a lot of time by himself or keeping Aggie company. He likes playing with the dogs and climbing trees. He will join up for adventures where they need extra muscle, bc even as a seven year old he's stronger than your average adult man.
-As a teeanger he's a sports STAR at GF High School. I'm talking Captain of the Varsity Football team, playing baseball and soccer, running track, etc. He's very athletics and uses sports as a way to channel some aggression issues that came up as he got older. He ends up being pretty popular and well liked.
**Like Aggies status as a witch, him being a vampire is technically a secret but anyone who looks at him would probably conclude that he’s a Vampire. I’m sure early on in his stay in GF there’s some like??? Uproar about him but he’s such a little baby who couldn’t and wouldn’t hurt a fly that he kind of gets a free pass and people just kinda forget or ignore what he is.
hello hello, i have some questions about chips 🤓📝
are they mandatory in Vapolis? what is the procedure to get them? is there some database that stores the chip data outside the host? how long does the chip work after person's death? is it possible to re-use the chip (wipe its memory)? is there a black market for secondhand chips?
(and btw i offer a flower 🌷 for Royal treasure ✨😌👑)
hello! you have quite a few questions that I can't answer entirely 😅
however I can say that the chips are mandatory in Vapolis but not reinforced by the police beyond the initial part of getting them, which means there could be people that have rejected them for various reasons after they first got them. which has its pros and many many cons.
the procedure is quite painful for people not born in Vapolis. they're fused to the heads and connected to people's brains via a small needle that is pierced through the skull from the back of the chip. people that have been born there have no memories of how they got them since they are given to them shortly after birth in a surgery.
from what the general population knows, only the chip manufacturer is able to access the database, and whatever else is stored on the chips!
and the other questions will be answered in game sooner rather than later :)
