#catastrophe au

[thefunny-and-thesilly]

kinda wanna post some doodles for it so here's some really vague context on another au

Absolute Catastrophe Timeline AU (or just Catastrophe AU)

-post-canon, second summer

-time traveling incident sends old grunks to swap places with their 8 year old selves

-8 year old grunks are like "woah it's the future" and ask a million questions. Dipper and Mabel don't have the heart to tell them that they don't get a boat until they're almost 60 so Mabel impulsively lies before Dipper can do the reasonable thing and say "oh I can't tell you too much about the future it could mess things up"

-kids explore around while Dipper and Mabel try to figure out what they should do. they try time traveling but are unable to find older grunks

-while exploring around, 8 year old grunks find the portal, decide it must OBVIOUSLY lead to their boat and switch it on (older Ford fixed it and was trying to make it stable. it still isn't very stable but it runs efficiently enough that it opens a lot quicker now)

-cue Dipper and Mabel being like "wait where did they go", feeling gravity get wonky like it does when the portal is on, and run to the basement

-they manage to save Stan but Dipper ends up going through the portal with Ford.

-Mabel is now stuck with no brother and an 8 year old Stan who just ALSO lost his brother. he also finds out from Mabel that the portal does not, in fact, lead to a boat.

-Dipper is stuck in the multiverse with an 8 year old Ford and has thus ended up having to take care of a child even though he is only 13 and therefore also a child. but he's also almost 14 so is it really THAT bad?? (it is. being 14 makes absolutely no difference)

-the twins do not reunite for a very long time

-the time police can't even help bc once you're in the multiverse, you're basically separated from your universe's timeline until you come back.

-since the time police can't help, they basically end up isolating that timeline. nobody is allowed to touch it anymore it's broken. they did take any and all time travel related devices tho so. yea

this is the shortest summary I could make lol

[christinethethunnus]

Random gilber au

[captainspangly]

Catastrophe

{ wednesdayspuppet }

No one can predict when the world’s going to go to hell, or at least that’s what Steve had once thought. There are certainly experts that try to, but the days are always wrong, the presented evidence is just a little too far-fetched or those that are right, no one wants to listen because every single man and woman before him that had stood up on a pedestal and gave their predictions hadn’t been right. The world’s demise started to become a fantasy, something that people only believed would happen in books and movies, it became a selling point even for those sorts of things, it was made a mockery of. 

So when the rains, the thunder and the earthquakes had come and thoroughly messed up the beautiful place they had once thought a safe haven, no one had been prepared, least of all Steve who had been on vacation, far away from the other Avengers, alone and for the first time in a long time, terrified. The number of survivors kept dwindling, he would see less and less people alive each day and soon enough, he started worrying that he was the only person left. That is, until he’d found her.

Accidentally of course, he just happened to walk into the same shop that she had been raiding herself, Steve had tried to resist raiding anything at first, because that was where everyone was, including the people who let their starvation and blood loss make them crazy, and prone to shoot anyone nearby. When you get used to being the only person you think is alive though, walking into a shop and taking anything left over there is as simple as counting to three. 

He hadn’t expected to hear a noise, nor walk in on someone else already there. And the surprise itself makes him dumb and his response instead of saying anything intelligible is just: “Hi.”