The flower sorta took pride in seeing differences in souls. Even the most minor ones such as color or being a tad bigger then others didn’t go unnoticed to him here. This person’s in front of him certainly had a human soul but something about it seemed...
Fake. That was the term.
“Eh, I suppose it doesn’t matter! Welcome to the Underground!”
“Thanks for taking me Christmas shopping Uncle Ty... It’s always really hard doing this stuff with dad breathing down my neck all the time.”
The small eight year old held Ty’s hand as they walked through the busy mall. The coat Varian had forced him into, making it a bit harder to keep up than he would have liked.
“Can you believe he actually asked me if I needed money to buy his own Christmas present?”
Ever since the deal with Bill, the brunette hasn’t felt much of anything. Mabel wasn’t herself, and it was clear to see. Most of the day, she’d just been curled up on the couch while staring blankly at the television screen. Hearing someone calling her name, she frowned and sat up slowly.
“Huh?” There was no excitement in her voice. In fact... it sounded MONOTONE. Flat, devoid of human emotion. “I’m in the living room.”
❝ so . . . ❞ gideon takes in a breath , exhaling through his nose . his hands come together , fingers pointing towards the other boy . ❝ y’mean t’tell me . . . that yer NOT dipper ? ❞ this was embarrassing . // @pinecloned asked for a gideon !
@pinecloned // I Never Signed Up For This [ Older Verse ]
For the last four months now, Dipper Pines had found himself receiving NUMEROUS phone calls and emails from a certain elementary school all the way in another state.
At first, the man assumed it was just a mistake. But time and time again, the name Matthew Pines came up. And Dipper had finally decided to look into it.
It turned out, apparently, someone had stolen his identity, and was using it to enroll their child into school. Someone, obviously, who wasn’t legally a citizen of the united states.
Annoyed, and actually a bit worried about his personal information, Dipper decides to try and do something about it head on. So he writes down the name of the school, looks up the address, and gets in his old station wagon hand-me-down. Heading off towards the next state over, to hopefully, talk with the school and get some answers.
When he finally gets to the school, however, his initial plan had been to go straight to the principal and ask his questions there. Though, he got a bit sidetracked in the hallway as kids began to file out of classrooms and head out the doors to go home. And much to his surprise, a familiar name is yelled out amongst the chaos.
Matthew Pines.
Dipper’s head whips around at the sound, and sees a teacher waving her hand to catch the child’s attention.
He runs back over to her with his backpack bigger than his body, and takes the lunch box from her that he’d almost left without.
Dipper finds himself standing in the middle of the hall now, watching the boy then turn and hurry out the front door with the rest of the kids. And in a moment, he finds himself turned and heading right after him.
Which..... Was probably a stupid idea. Considering if the kid got scared of him and cried or something, he’d probably be thrown in jail for being a creep.
Yet, he goes despite the logical side of him trying to slap him out of it.
“Hey! Hey uh!-- Matthew Pines?!”
He calls his name out hoping to grab his attention, and to his luck, it does, and the child stops in his spot on the sidewalk to turn towards him.
Dipper hurries over to the child now, and for a moment, Matthew looks like he recognizes him, but then looked confused immediately after. As if.. Maybe deciding he actually didn’t.
“Hey uh--” Dipper is out of breath for a moment, before he frowns, “Sorry I-- I’m Dipper Pines.”
“... Okay?” The boy looks at him with a weird frown.
“Listen, I-- I mean you... Uh.. My identity was stolen, and- Wow okay you probably don’t know what that means... Look, I’m trying to find the people who I believe may be taking information of mine... Who are your parents?”
Matthew looks a little weary of giving any information to him, and for a good reason too. This was ridiculous, Dipper really shouldn’t have been he-
“My parents names are Tyrone and Bipper Pines....”
The all-too-familiar names, hit Dipper like a slap across the face. And he actually physically finds himself stumbling back a step in shock.
Wow... W o w. Wow okay... WHAT.
“Tyrone and Bipper??? Oh my god I didn’t even know he was-- And with him??? Holy-- Oh my god.”
“Mister are you gonna be okay? Or do I need to get a teacher or something?” Matthew looks more and more confused and scared as time goes by, and Dipper finally manages to pull himself together for the tiime being. At least so he didn’t freak the kid out.
He still really needed him.
“I know your dad. Tyrone Pines?? That’s my-- My brother! I’m his brother. I need to talk to him, do you mind if I-- I mean--”
Matthew looks at him with a frown at he speaks, and for a moment, he doesn’t seem to buy it.
“I don’t know... Dad said I’m not supposed to talk to strangers.”
Another pause, and Dipper begins to try and say something in his defense. Only for Mat to interrupt him.
“But.... You.... You look like him a lot.... You’re his brother?”
Dipper nods frantically, “Yes! I’m his brother, we’re uh.. Twins. Please look, I’m not upset with you or them, I just--- Need to talk to him.”
Mat stares up at him sheepishly when he says this, and for a few more minutes it takes a lot more explaining and talking before Mat seems to believe him enough to agree to let Dipper drive him home.
Which he does. He follows the child’s directions exactly, hands nervously gripping the steering wheel, before he finally pulled up to an older looking home that.. Seemed to be placed in the middle of nowhere.
With this, Matthew tries to unbuckle himself frantically, probably to run to either Tyrone or Bipper and hide from the scary, strange man that just forced interaction upon him.
The buckle sticks though, so his struggling is a bit more intense, and Dipper take it upon himself to get out and help him get out. Then when he was free, Mat runs at full speed up to the porch, yelling for his dad before he hurried over to Tyrone and immediately tugged at his shirt to be held.
Wow, holy shit, this was gonna be..... Something.
Dipper swallows at that, but puts on a brave and stern face as he closes the car door and walks up to the porch of the house to look his counterpart in the eye.
❛ hey. this is, uh, near gravity falls, right? ❜ if it wasn’t, then this entire trip was a disaster. he was never able to full appreciate how awful technology was on earth until he was limited by the components he could pull out from simple household objects. if he was on any semi-advanced planet, he’d be able to put together a decent makeshift scanner. but this was earth. and if he wanted to get off earth, he needed to start somewhere.
❛ look, i’m- i’m kinda lost. and that doesn’t happen a lot. can you point me to where the nearest town is? ❜
A figure stepped out alongside the other, almost as tall as him, but just a few inches shorter with mousy ears to top off her height. Pink, rodent eyes glared back at Tyrone, squinting ever slightly as she gave a slanted smirk to the predicament the boy found himself in.