#ghost stan pines

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Stan twins doodles + Ghost stan

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I posted the first chapter of a new Gravity Falls story, “I Know How To Live (I Don’t Know How To Die)” where Stan is a ghost and ghost shenanigans ensue.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do so! And let me know what y’all think.

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The Inheritance AU Masterpost

A new Gravity Falls AU I’ve been thinking about non-stop for the past week or so, and now I’m going to inflict it on all of y’all. (Please note that the title is not set in stone, so if it turns out there’s already an AU by the same name I can still change it :V)

(Also, see the bottom for a shorter, tl;dr version).

I welcome any random questions you may have about the AU, although some of you may already know more. :V

CW: Character Death

The point of divergence from canon is the moment Grunkle Ford in the 80s decides to hide his journals from Bill - in a rare moment of sense, he chooses not to bury Journal 2 by Gravity Falls elementary and instead buries it much deeper in the woods. As a result, Gideon never finds it. This leads to several changes from canon, including, but not limited to:

Dipper & Mabel never have to deal with Gideon (because he never had any reason to want to buy/steal the Mystery Shack), and by extension Bill (because Gideon was the one who summoned him back to Earth in the first place).

Dipper never has Journal 3 stolen from him.

Grunkle Stan never gathers all three journals, and is therefore unable to complete the portal and bring Ford home (the portal was more-or-less in a functional state, but without the full activation code it may as well be a pile of scrap metal).

As a result of the above, the twins never learn Stan’s true identity or the identity of the Author.

Old Man McGucket never recovers his memories.

The Society of the Blind Eye is never disbanded.

As you can probably imagine, with no Gideon and no Bill, the summer of 2012 is much more low-stakes than it is in canon. Dipper takes Journal 3 home with him and decides to continue the mysterious Author’s legacy, setting himself up as his ‘apprentice’. Over the years, he gets no closer to solving the mystery behind the Author’s identity, and his focus shifts to researching new anomalies. He’ll always treasure Journal 3 as the book that started it all, but he concedes that it may be the one mystery he’ll never solve - and maybe it’s better that way.

Fast-forward to ten years later, the year 2022 - Dipper & Mabel, now in their 20s, have separated to pursue their own ambitions, but are reunited when they hear the news that their Grunkle Stan has passed away. He died peacefully in his sleep, said to have been from an infected wound that went untreated - unbeknownst to them, he’d suffered an injury when pushing himself beyond his limits on the portal, and stubbornly refused to seek medical attention.

The twins head back to Gravity Falls for Stan’s funeral and the reading of his will. Though Stan left his business to Soos and Melody, naming Soos the new Mr. Mystery (though Stan’s health had declined enough by that point that Soos was practically running the Shack anyway), the actual Mystery Shack itself he left to Dipper & Mabel - this is where the ‘Inheritance’ comes in. :V

The twins, currently going through something of a quarter-life crisis due to the less-than-ideal ways their ambitions have turned out, decide to move in and take a break, get their bearings. Meanwhile, Stan also left Soos a key in his will, along with instructions to use it to open a box in his office. Inside, Soos finds Stan’s old fake IDs, the ‘STAN PINES DEAD’ newspaper clipping, and a note written by Stan confessing everything - the portal, the real Stanford Pines, and how he lied to everyone for 40 years. His last orders for Soos are to continue his work on the portal and finish what he started - and never tell anyone else, especially not Dipper & Mabel; ‘they’d never forgive me if they knew’.

It’s not long after this that Soos - and later, Melody - start getting nightmares, seeing visions of Stan and a weird triangle demon in their sleep. Soos starts to think the Shack is haunted. Dipper gets to ghost harassing. Turns out it is haunted, but it’s not the ghost that’s the root of the issue.

Tl;dr: AU where Stan never reactivates the portal and dies while working on it ten years later, and Dipper & Mabel as adults inherit the Shack, while Soos inherits Stan’s mission. Also Stan’s a ghost now.

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Sneak-peek of a new story in the works!

I've got a story saved in my drafts that I'm slowly working on. Another Gravity Falls fan fiction (because I'm currently obsessed) titled "I Know How To Live (I Don't Know How To Die)." It'll have plenty of H/C, brotherly bonding, ghosts, amnesiac Stan, and supernatural elements (of course).

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Summary:

Stan couldn't explain it if he tried. All he knew was that one minute he was alive– heart beating, blood pumping, the whole shebang– and the next he was dead– No pulse, see-through, lying in the middle of a forest clearing. He couldn't remember much, but he was pretty sure he'd been in New Mexico last he'd checked. To make things even stranger, there was a sort of tug in his chest like something was trying to guide him somewhere…

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" It seemed that– as of yesterday– he was dead, which didn't surprise him much considering the life he'd lived. Still though, death didn't come without its mysteries, of which included, "How did I die?" and "Where the hell am I?" It seemed that instead of heaven or hell, Stan had ended up in the middle of some random ass forest which, if you asked him, was worse than just ending up in hell, mainly because he didn't know what to expect. "

" Maybe it had to do with unfinished business or whatever. Didn't that happen with ghosts sometimes? He remembered hearing Ma talk about it years back during a few of her psychic readings. Maybe that was why he'd ended up in the middle of nowhere, and maybe, if he followed this feeling and completed his task, he'd be able to move on. Not that he wanted to go to hell, which was probably gonna be his next stop, but the woods were getting boring. Whatever he was getting into, he just hoped it was interesting. "