im inflicting situations on stan as one does and i can't remember - did we ever turn stan into a bear? mostly I'm trying to think of a wild animal where instead of Ford thinking he's the most specialist guy in Gravity Falls for befriending it he's going "no thank you!!" like coming home one day to see a damn bear sitting on his couch like a person and nearly swallowling his tongue before inching his way back out.
it's not even an anomaly like the multi-bear (he asked) it's just. a bear that's stalking him and also apparently casually menacing town. it's yogi bearing it up with peoples picnic baskets and whenever someone stupid enough tries to shoo it away it just stands up like a person and stares at them. no one is bothering to call animal control because the locals are like "this isn't the weirdest thing i've seen this week" and it's not hurting anyone so, eh? ford's called them so many times his number is blacklisted. "it stole my sandwich" was the last straw, but ford would like it noted that it /opened his window/ while he was standing there and very delicately took it without breaking eye contact the entire time. the operator did feel bad because it sounded like the guy was about to cry.
disparate scenes: stanley, as a bear, driving his car with his arm leaning out the open window, ford scrunched up in the passanger seat utterly done with his life because he's being Kidnapped By A Bear. he doesn't even process what car he's in because he's Being Kidnapped By A Bear
later on, the bear, instead of very sensibly mauling something with it's claws, stands up and punches it. This is somehow even scarier.
ford not getting far enough to process how deeply weird this is because he's hypervigilant about potential Random Bear Events. stan is the one that's cursed but it's absolutely ford suffering for it.
stan meanwhile is having a pretty alright time of it all things considered. if something tries to mess with him he can just slap it silly if being A Bear isn't enough of a deterrent, and stealing picnic baskets is a perfectly normal thing to see a bear doing. one time he found a dollar and went in to buy something from the grocery store to see what would happen and the answer was jack all. he can appreciate the absurdity if nothing else. the main trick is less figuring out how to communicate with ford and more keeping him pinned down long enough that stan can scratch out a message in the dirt
actually this is less stan being put into a situation and more ford being afflicted with one with stan being the proxy. god the image of bear!stan driving down the road lounging in his seat with ford next to him looking like he's trying to decide between disassociating and having a heart attack is so funny to me. how the hell does that even happen. that got long but it saw me through my last hour of work, so.
cheers!
We have done bear Stan! Its lost in the archives somewhere but this was the general gist of it! Stan the bear and Ford meet by Stan going through his trash, Ford thinking it was gnomes, slamming the door open to scare them off, and getting met with A Bear. Then Stan invites himself in to sleep on Fords couch while animal control does nothing to help Ford. Ford does not want the bear in there but it can open doors and is also A Bear.
You're right tho, the idea of bear Stan driving without a care in the world with Ford in the passenger side looking like his soul is leaving his body is amazing. Stan's cursed but Fords suffering for it indeed.













