#**the archaeologist

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@ask-mister-mystery from here

Being blind has a small number of perks, the biggest being the heightening of all his other senses. And Bobby knew the smell of gasoline, and the smell of fireworks, and although he can't prove it, he's pretty sure he can smell a lie. He folds his arms, "glaring" in the direction of the smell behind thick dark sunglasses.

He was trying real hard to like this guy, this guy who his mom was so sweet on and that Olive apparently looked up to, but Bobby isn't really seeing it. Literally and figuratively. He sniffs, scrunching up his nose. "That's a lot of gun powder, Mr. Pines." He couldn't bring himself to call the guy Stan. "I hope you weren't planning on lighting all that up here." He usually has a hard time sounding stern and fatherly, but he's executing it pretty well right now. "You'll give my ma a heart attack." He steps right up to him, stopping just shy of bumping into him. "And I really hope you're not planning on lighting those off with my twelve year old daughter." He knows his kid, and he knows that if someone is lighting off fireworks, she will be right there with a lit punk in one hand a roman candle in the other.

In truth, Bobby liked them too, though he got very little out of them. He got a kick out of feeling the booms from the explosions in his chest, but that’s about it. But he isn't going to admit that or the fact that he didn't really care if his kid was lighting fireworks with an adult just now, not when he's trying to protect his loud-noise hating mother from some very loud noises.

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**a fun fact that has always been canon for Bobby but is seldom spoke of is the fact that his legal name is Robert Stanley Yearling like deadass Aggie low key named her son after her best friend when she was nine

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**bobby getting the Stans mixed up bc their names are similar and he can’t see them is so funny especially when you consider how effectively they can imitate each other

**poor Bobby

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B for Bobby

Questions Here

B: What is the most hurtful thing a loved one has done to you?

“Sorta speaks for itself, I think.”

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**thinking about Bobby some more and realizing that what happened to him was this.

**Before he got married Bobby was definitely a goofball. Always nice, friendly, good natured, and he always had room for silliness. He had a sense that his mom needed someone cheerful and happy around when he was a kid and he filled that role immediately. A ray of sunshine, a sweet boy who did goofy things.

**but then he grew up and married a very serious woman and she rubbed off on him, making him wayyy more subdued. He was still nice polite good and funny and all that but he matured a lot, being with her

**and the second she was gone he started to go back to his old kinda goofy ways.

**He couldn’t escape becoming eccentric, having Aggie raise him. He just hasn’t been able to explore it in adulthood or as a father due to being married to someone who would lecture him for not being serious or would make him feel embarrassed about his enthusiasm or more childish mannerisms.

**he’s free now

**re-entering his man-child era

**he’s still the most responsible yearling by far but within a year of his divorce he relaxes a LOT

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**it sorta mirrors how Aggie has gone through phases where she’s been extremely subdued versions of herself due to her lack of proximity to people she felt safe around. Before meeting the Stans, while she was in Oregon, the first couple years of boarding school, most of her time with the coven, and the time period between Bobby leaving for college and Olive coming to stay with her

**She would describe it as being half asleep, only really waking up and being her true self when she feels safe enough to do so

**Otherwise she’s just a muted version of herself, quiet and reclusive when he real nature is much more extroverted and free spirited

**she sees this exact same “mechanism” of protection in her son but not her granddaughter which she is pleased with bc she figures it means Olive is breaking the cycle of feeling unsafe and unhappy that seem to plague anyone with the last name Yearling

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“You’re my boo~” liv @ bobby!!!

Spooky Scary Starters

"Oh I am, am I?" He says with a grin. His hands are on his waist, but one comes up to her face, touching her cheek and then down to her chin so he knows where to aim. He gives her a little kiss

"What exactly does me being your boo entail, hm?" He holds her chin so she isn't far away so he can bestow more kisses upon his girlfriend. "I'd love to know, Blue."

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@somniaxperdita from here

He grins when he hears the door open, happy to hear his girlfriend's voice after spending the last few days cooped up in his new home office working on grant proposals.

"I took the afternoon off. I've been doing office work for the last week or so anyhow, the guys down at the dig won't even notice."

Bobby had been working on the Jurassic Preservation Dig in Gravity Falls since the summer, when he'd made the permanent move to the sweet little town he was now so happy to call home. The move had virtually no downsides. Living under his ma's roof, being able to be with his daughter every day, having the most spectacular girlfriend living nearby so late night facetime calls were now a thing of the past... All of of that, plus spearheading paleontological research that would certainly change the field for years to come? He's honestly living the best life possible at that moment.

He holds out the still warm bundle to her, primarily to hand it off but also so he could get an idea where the rest of her was so he could grab her for a kiss.

"She's actually with Stan today." He explains, "They took a little road trip a few towns over to go to one of those Halloween shops that appear in old abandoned buildings. I dunno what they're up to but I'm pretty sure the Mystery Shack's going to be the premier stop for any trick or treater in town." He laughs. He'd been warming up to the old guy more and more the longer he'd been in town and he fully was able to grasp just how much his mom an daughter liked the guy and was able to understand that the old shyster was actually pretty good to them in turn. "So Ma's got the place to herself which is usually when she goes the most wild with the baking. I figured I'd get out of her way annnnnd come spend some time with my lady." He says slyly.

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**I don’t go into much bc I’m always on my post series bullshit but god weirdmageddon was so sick and it gave both Olive and Aggie heaping piles of additional trauma

**Olive already had the start of abandonment issues after being left by her parents but now those issues are about 6000 times worse

**she managed to pull it together until the twins left but as soon as they were gone she basically shut down and wouldn’t leave her room

**she also spent most of weirdmageddon following Stan like a shadow since she ended up at the shack while Aggie was off doing her own magic shit, so the “loss” of him (while temporary) really shook her up

**she’d wake up in the middle of night crying and yelling for her grandma and it reached a point where she had to sleep in Aggies bed with her, which suited Aggie fine bc she was having the same issue but about Olive.

**Aggie literally had to have Bobby take a sabbatical to come to Oregon to stay with them to 1, her Olive through starting school and B, getting Aggie (and Olive) through Stan and Ford leaving for the boat trip. He had to go back to Egypt for work but BOY did he feel bad so he called them basically every day. Neither could really explain what was wrong, so he just assumed Olive was struggling to adjust to school and that his mom missed? Her Boyfriend or whatever?? He even suggested they try therapy (which he’d been going to to cope with his divorce lol) and they both were like yeah sure we’ll look into it and then didn’t bc no therapist could help with this

**Aggie buried herself in her magic work and withdrew from society pretty much entirely after the Pines men left. She’d drive Olive to school and then use magic to take her and the van home, not wanting to be seen by anyone. She’d spend entire days in the basement pouring over cursed objects and books, purging and lick of imagery that could even be vaguely connected to bill (since he was essentially responsible for the Salem branch of witches she had a lot of work to do there)

**they did both level out and recover, opening back up to the world and rejoining society but it never really leaves them, even as they move into new adventures. They were already fiercely protective of each other but it gets amplified tenfold after they nearly lost each other