Hi!! I love your Lil dilemma au! It gives me life! I had a thought about an au of this au where stan got minified to. The idea just makes me laugh because I wonder if he would be as angry as Ford or just more chill about it. I always envisioned stans innocence and maturity getting along.
okay do you know how badly i've wanted to write this ever since BEFORE I STARTED WRITING THE ACTUAL FIC
stan would be so casual and breezy about it, like ford's trying to shove down that childishness and compensate by being sooo adult but stan would just be running around catching bugs and shit he's frolicking in the fields and ford's just constantly having a mini-panic attack
and he'd do it to himself too no doubt like. he'd walk into the living room one morning all tiny and everyone would just be thinking "oh fuck what did he do"
and when ford inevitably asks (for research purposes because now he's going to have to cure both of them) how it happened stan's like "eh i was bored so i went back to the fair'n bought my own fountain of youth water. its whatever"
(or no i actually envision him being so excited that he's shaking he's running around "AAAAAAA IM SO HAPPY IM SO HAPPY FORD LOOK IM LITTLE LIKE YOU WE'RE BOTH LITTLE I HAVEN'T HAD THIS MUCH ENERGY SINCE I TOOK ADDERALL THAT ONE TIME" and dipper's like "what for adhd?" "how did you know" and he glances up and down stan's form just like with his aura of neurodivergence "..just a hunch")
within the first day stan's entirely used to it and he is HAPPY like. this is is life now. and something about him being a kid too gives ford all these unwanted childish urges so melody ends up the parent figure for a while to keep them out of trouble
alas, trouble is what they do best so like one of the first things stan does after leaving the shack for the first time is get arrested
im imagining this whole scene. so stan scampers outside, ford in tow by the hand, they're both snickering with visions of impending pie theft in their minds, and stan heads right for the car. he still has his keys because he didnt sleep with them in his pocket (i figure they'd despawn along with anything else on the adult body's person, only to return upon re-aging)
and ford snaps out of child brain for a second because "Stan, you can't drive, you're two feet tall."
"the car won't know that"
and stan actually manages to drive the car fairly well considering how fuckimg little he is, until they get pulled over.
blubs asks him for his license and registration. ford is SWEATING. stan casually hands him his driver's license and durland leans over to look
"..looks alright to me!" blubs nods in agreement and tells the two gentlemen in the car to have a nice day
then they get pulled over a SECOND time by two DIFFERENT officers and are taken directly to the police station do not pass go do not collect 200$ just like IMMEDIATELY asked to step out of the car and cuffed
so stan has to call melody to bail them out while ford cries hysterically on the floor
they get grounded for a month
i feel like they'd switch clothes and pretend to be each other a lot and it'd get really fucking annoying for everyone else to a point where every now and then they'd look reallllllly close and count their fingers to make sure they're talking to the twin they think they're talking to
although what with stan's tooth gap (which i think would give him a lisp until he gets used to it) there'd be a clear difference so idk
anyway there's a little thought about it to go with your other thoughts chances are i'll come back to this, thanks a ton for the ask im always happy to ramble