An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 19/?
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bill Cipher/Ford Pines, One-sided Dipper/Bill Cipher, Minor Fiddleford McGucket/Stan Pines, Dipper Pines & Mabel Pines, Pacifica Northwest/Mabel Pines
Characters: Dipper Pines, Mabel Pines, Stan Pines, Jesus "Soos" Alzamirano Ramirez, Wendy Corduroy, Bill Cipher, Ford Pines, Other Gravity Falls Characters, Fiddleford H. McGucket, Gideon Gleeful, Pacifica Northwest, Keyhole (Gravity Falls), Pyronica (Gravity Falls)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, One Big Happy Family, Comedy, Mystery, Fluff and Crack, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Supportive Mabel Pines, No Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines, Human Bill Cipher, Or Is he?, Misunderstandings, Sane Fiddleford McGucket, Light Angst, loosely follows the show, POV Alternating, POV Multiple, Gideon Gleeful is a Creep, Bill Cipher is a Little Shit, He's an agent of chaos but only because the others are so gullible, he's not bad he's just drawn that way, or something, Family Secrets, Lesbian Pacifica Northwest, Badass Wendy Corduroy, Badass Pacifica Northwest
Series: Part 1 of That Queer Grunkle AU
Summary:
The twins Dipper and Mabel Pines are sent for the summer to Gravity Falls, Oregon. There, they meet their "grunkles" and the other people working in the Mystery Shack, Grunkle Stan's tourist trap: Wendy the shop clerk, Soos the handyman, and William the research assistant. Everything seems normal, but where's Grunkle Ford? And why does it feel like he's hiding a dark secret?
I can't believe Gravity Falls first aired 10 years ago, it just sounds wild, this show means so much to me and it'll always be one of my favourite shows of all time, so here's a drawing I did to celebrate it! I haven't drawn any of these characters in ages so I'm a little rusty.
I also posted this Gravity Falls/ Hamilton parody on my youtube that you can watch here! I wanted to get people to do voice impressions of the characters for the video but I could not find the people, I'd still love to do that though, so if you or someone you know can do an impression of the below listed characters, drop me a note and we can discuss the finer details (like payment).
Stanford, Stanley, Young Fiddleford, Dipper and Mabel.
Don’t Go Running Off Into Danger, Even If I Do pt 4
Aight bitches, this’ll be the first chapter when the title starts to make sense. Dipper and Mabel are complete idiots and manage to get lost in the Ghost Zone trying to find Danny, who knows the place. Also, Tucker and Sam. I’m contemplating making one of them nonbinary, prolly Tucker. Yup. And Sam may or may not have she/they pronouns. I think that’s all. Enjoy my chaos.
Danny did not sleep. Skulker, Ember, Johnny and Kitty decided it would be a great idea to wreck havoc. Ghosts do need order. They said that they only did it because they have no leader. Danny suspected Clockwork was behind it, but he was too tired to string together much of a coherent thought. So, goodbye sleep schedule! He’d sleep in Lancer’s class. What was one more detention?
He greeted Sam and Tucker at the doors. The Pines Twins also showed up.
“Danny, did you get a new girlfriend while we were away?” Sam joked.
“Shutup. I’m not in the mood,” Danny grumbled.
“Oh, it’s cranky pants!” Tucker laughed. They seemed to think his fucked up sleep schedule was a joke.
“Don’t blame me, blame Skulker and Johnny,”
“Those two usually have Kitty and Ember with them,” Sam said. She had a point.
“Yeah, yeah. You know the gyst. Anyways, this is Mason and Mabel,” He gestured to the twins. “They accidentally caught me transforming. Also, we have to make a trip to the Ghost Zone,”
“Call me Dipper!”
“Once again, I’m not using your stupid nickname,”
“Come on Danny, don’t be a dick,” Sam laughed.
“Bold of you to assume I can be one,” Danny snorted. Tucker slung his arms over the other two.
“Only you get to make trans jokes. And maybe not in earshot of Dash,” They pointed at the quarterback.
“Eh. I’m the heir to the Ghost Throne. What can he do?”
“You’re the what now?” Sam and Tucker yelled in unison.
“Clockwork told me yesterday. Also, they’re immune to Time Outs,”
“How is that possible?” Sam was confused. Danny didn’t blame them.
“We had a run in with Bill Cipher,” Mabel said confidently.
“Sounds boring. Why would the guy with powers be called Bill?”
“You’re just salty because you got called InvisoBill,” Tucker comforted him.
“I have half a mind to reveal myself to the entire school,”
“Bill was extremely dangerous,”
“Danger dorito!” Mabel chimed in.
“You are not helping me take this seriously. Tucker, get off,” Danny shoved Tucker off. They were elbowing him in the ribs.
“Oh come on, you know you like it. Mwah!” Tucker kissed Danny’s cheek. Danny became a tomato.
“Hey! Not in front of the entire school!” He was completely gone. He’d been dating Tucker for about a month now.
“You guys are dating?” Mabel looked heartbroken. What the fuck?
“Uhh, yeah. Tucker’s into guys and I’m bi. But we’d prefer not to announce it to the entire school,”
“You know what you should announce to the entire school? That you’re Danny Phantom. Only if you take the crown though,” Sam said.
“I’m doing it. Jazz said it would be a good idea,”
“We’ll need cover then. Dipper, Mabel, you get to guard the portal!” Sam said way too enthusiastically.
“They’re new! They know nothing about it!” Danny protested.
“Well, if it’s anything like Great Uncle Ford’s portal, we can handle it,” Mabel said.
“That shut down the moment he walked out Mabel,”
“My parents’ Ghost Portal has been going strong for two years!” Danny said.
“And caused all of the madness in Amity. Never mind half killing you,” Sam said.
“That was entirely your fault,” Danny replied.
“I concede to that point,” Sam accepted her fate.
“Good. Now, are you guys sure you can handle this?” Danny was skeptical.
“Yup!” Mason and Mabel said.
Sleeping in Lancer’s class was a one way ticket to detention. But what did that matter? At lunch, he ran up to the stage in the caf and transformed in front of the entire school.
“FENTON IS PHANTOM?”
“HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?”
“I’VE BEEN CRUSHING ON NERD BOY?” Ah, Paulina.
“Anywho, now that you’re all done panicking, yeah, it’s true. Tell whoever the fuck you want. I’m tired of lies and secrets. Also, I’m trans!” He flew off. He had to deal with a ghost. Val caught up with him before long.
“Are you a complete idiot?!”
“Yup. But hey, who gives a fuck. Wes might get a kick out of it,”
“You’re going to get yourself killed!”
“Been there done that Val,”
“Why?!”
“Turns out I’m the heir to the Ghost Throne. Who the fuck is gonna mess with the all powerful Ghost King?”
“You aren’t yet!”
“I will be by the time school is over. Clockwork told me he’d help me out if I needed it,” The GAV came up under him.
“DANIEL FENTON! GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!” His mom yelled.
“Nah, I’m good. You know, I’m surprised you didn’t notice your own son DIED,”
“Danny, don’t be like that,”
“Don’t be like what Dad? Don’t be dead? Don’t protect Amity from ghosts? Oh! I’ll do you one better, don’t panic when you scream that you’ll rip me apart molecule by molecule? Now if you don’t mind, I didn’t sleep last night and the Box Ghost is back,” He rushed into the fight before they could see the tears.
“Danny!” He heard his mother howl in anguish.
“Hey bub. Fought you yesterday. I’m seriously not in the mood for a fight, so get in the fucking thermos!” He held out the thermos.
“BEWARE!”
“SHUT UP!” He yelled and became invisible.
“Danny, we know you’re there,” Mom said.
“SO?! You know, I kinda hoped you would notice, but only Wes was smart enough to notice. I spent two years hiding. Now, I’ve got a Crown of Fire I need to take,” He sped off. There wasn’t gonna be more hiding.
“Wait, like Pariah Dark? Danny, that will corrupt your mind!”
“Like being a half ghost has done? Oh, and just FYI, Vlad is half ghost too. Remember Plasmius? Vlad. Have fun!” He sped off for real this time.
“Vladdie’s a ghost?” Dad looked baffled. Danny sped past the school and grabbed the group.
“Was that really the best way to go about that?” Sam said.
“You’re going to be all over the news!” Tucker screamed.
“Meh. I was already. At least I’m not public enemy one anymore!” He dropped the Twins and sped into the portal. Sam and Tucker had put on the Fenton Phones already.
“Wes is having a field day,” Sam panted.
“Figured he would. Let’s go in,” They walked into Pariah’s Keep.“CLOCKWORK!”
“Ah, I see you made the desicion to come,”
“Yup. Does there need to be a ceremony or something? Cause I just announced my identity to the entire school,”
“Like a fucking dumbass,” Tucker muttered.
“Bold of you to assume I could be anything but,”
“Sorry Tuck, Danny’s right,”
“Yay! I can be right for once! Take that Jazz!”
“About your dumbassery,” Tucker groaned.
“Semantics. Let’s do this,”
“You just need to place the crown atop your head, then place the ring on your hand. Right hand, ring finger,”
“Does it have to be just like that?”
“Bad things happen if you do it any other way,”
“Okay,” He sighed and did as told. He shivered as the crown became ice and a black billowing cape came off his shoulders. “Weird,”
“Dude, you’re the Ghost King!” Tucker screamed.
“Ahh! Advanced hearing! Where’d that come from?” Danny covered his ears.
“When you become king, all of your existing abilities become amplified and you gain new ones,”
“Oh yay. More powers to master,”
“Okay, this is great and all, but what does he do now?” Sam said.
“My ears,” Danny cried.
“Sorry,” She whispered.
“Your eyesight will also be advanced. You won’t notice it much here, but in the human world, it will become obvious,”
“And painful to adjust to,” Danny muttered.
“Brrr. Danny, it’s freezing,” Tucker shivered.
“If I was bad at controlling that before, you think I can now?”
“Sorry dude. Let’s head back,”
“I need to tell the people my first rule real quick,”
“What’s that?”
“Don’t wreak havoc in the human world. They can still go, but don’t do anything that endangers the humans,”
“Huh. Good plan,” Sam shivered. “You sure you can’t control that?”
“I’m doing what I normally do to fix it times 10!”
“So it could be colder?” Tucker shivered.
“Go home and get jackets,” Danny sighed. He pointed and a portal opened. “The fuck?!”
“Congrats dude, you can make portals!” Tucker clapped.
“At least we won’t have to use the Fenton one anymore,” Sam shivered into her shirt. Danny concentrated and made portals directly into their houses. He grinned.
Dipper and Mabel heard footsteps coming into the basement and had no place to hide, so they jumped into the portal. The place was terrifying.
“Mabel, this is freaky,” Dipper shivered. It was oddly cold.
“You think Grunkle Ford felt this way when he travelled through dimensions?”
“Not that he told me,” They both shivered. A strange vehicle came rushing past.
“Was it always this cold in here Mads?” Jack Fenton said.
“Not that I remember,” She shivered. The temperature fluctuated randomly.
“He’s in here somewhere!” Jack exclaimed and sped off.
“That’s Danny’s parents! We gotta find him!” They followed the strange machine.
Sam and Tucker took five minutes to get jackets. He’d managed to grab Jazz in the mean time.
“Hoodie. I’m not wearing the stupid jumpsuit with this cape,”
“Since when do you have a fashion sense?” Sam laughed.
“Since never. I just like the hoodie more,” He pulled the hood up. The temperature went up. “Hey! That’s neat,” It went down again. “Heh,”
“Don’t get excited until you figure this out better,” Tucker groaned.
“Deal,” He laughed nervously. “Okay, how do I get them all to come here? I’m not the greatest at this,”
“Just yell announcement. That usually makes them teleport directly here,” Clockwork said. Danny obliged. His voice was really loud.
“I guess that’s another one to add to the list,” He chuckled. All the ghosts in the Zone teleported to his feet. They grumbled. “Uh, hi guys. I’m not very good at this royalty thing, so I’m only gonna really give you one new rule. I’ll get rid of all the stupid rules later. Just, uh, don’t wreak havoc in the human world. Don’t endanger humans. Like, you can still go, but avoid being dangerous,”
“King Phantom, are you sure that’s the best plan? You are going to enforce rules that protect us from the humans too, aren’t you?” Dora’s voice rang through.
“Oh shit. The whole guys in white incident a while back. Yeah, I’ll come up with something,” He rubbed his temples. “Also, can I get some help learning how to make it less freezing all the time?”
“Of course Great One. The people of the Far Frozen would love to help,” Frostbite said.
“Thanks Frostbite?” He grinned. At least until he saw the Spectre Speeder pull up. Fuck.
“Look at all these ghosts! I’ve gotta catch a few!” His dad yelled. The ghosts looked terrified.
“Hey! You aren’t going to do that! HOW DARE YOU?!” Danny sped down to the Speeder.
“Danny, I can’t believe you aren’t trying to capture these ghosts for science!” Jack said. The world became very, very cold.
“These are sentient people that you just decided to barge in on! You’re always like this! And it’s my job to protect them just as much as I protected you! GET OUT OF THE ZONE NOW!” He screamed.
“Danny, calm down. We just want to help you,”
“No you don’t. I won’t let you endanger ghosts for ‘science’. It’s cruel and wrong. Would you do that to a human?”
“Of course not. But ghosts aren’t sentient. Their emotions aren’t real. Just displays put on to convince you that they have them,”
“HOW. DARE. YOU! You have no right to barge in here and threaten these people. Some of them may have harmed you, but the way you act like they’re nothing, like they aren’t standing here right now, is horrible. This is Frostbite,” He grabbed Frostbite. “ He leads a stable society in the Far Frozen. He’s never left the Ghost Zone and never once harmed me. You know what the first thing he did when he met me? He gave me a hug. And you would torture him just for being a ghost. You think you know everything, but you know NOTHING! LEAVE NOW!”
“Danny, is this really how you feel?” Maddie looked sad.
“Get. Out. I’m destroying the portal on your way out. If I EVER find you back here, I will not hesitate to cause harm,”
“The crown’s already begun to corrupt you!” Jack protested.
“No, my views haven’t changed. You hurt ghosts. You hurt me! I’m trying my hardest all the time all you care about is your beliefs,”
“They’re true!”
“No, most of them aren’t. You don’t even bother talking to a ghost. Ghost have feelings, feel pain, have a society. Maybe it’s different than what you’re used to, but that doesn’t invalidate it,” Danny sighed again. “Just leave,” He turned around and flew back up to the chunk of land.
“Danny...”
“DIDN’T HEAR ME?! LEAVE!” He whipped around and yelled.
Sam, Tucker and Jazz followed him into the castle. He stared at Pariah’s sarcophagus.
“Danny, I know that was difficult, but you were right to do it,” Jazz put her hands on his shoulders. He must’ve been freezing.
“They really don’t listen. I have no clue what I’m doing, but I do know that the ghosts have a right to my protection,” He heard screaming. “You know what’s weird? If I close my eyes tight enough, I can see all over the Zone. And I think the Twins got lost in here,”
“Let’s go get them,”
The Fentons came rushing past again. They didn’t seem to have Danny though.
“I can’t believe he’s protecting ghosts!” Maddie sobbed.
“He’s gonna destroy our life’s work!”
“I know,” All of a sudden, Danny appeared before them.
“Hey guys. Get lost?” He smiled. The crown floating above his head serving as a daunting reminder.
“Yeah, we were trying to find you to warn you about your parents,”
“I dealt with them,” The temperature fluctuated again. “Sorry, my hands are cold. But you need to get home,” He opened a portal and they flew threw it. He teleported away.
He went down to the basement and destroyed the portal. His parents looked mortified.
“Finally. I won’t be constantly reminded how I died,” He sighed. Maddie and Jack said nothing. “Humph,” He teleported away and made a portal back to the Zone.
I’m 3 eps into Season 2 of Gravity Falls and the vignere whatever cipher is killing me…
mostly bc I’m always on the hunt for the key code and I’m pausing every couple of seconds to find it…
But brooooooo: STNLY you sayyyy???? Property of F you sayyyyyy???? I’m percolating a theory in my mind!!!!
Also all this code breaking has me clutching a notebook whenever I watch now XD and to save time, I got a google doc with shortcuts so I don’t gotta keep flipping pages… but this thing looks nuts yall:
