I’d been wanting to create my own AU for a while. It took me some time to decide which of all my ideas to focus on first, but I eventually went with this one because it felt like something I hadn’t explored before. And personally, I *love* stories where a character is accidentally de-aged. *Gravity Falls* has so many characters you can have fun with when it comes to that concept.
Lately, I’ve had a bit of a soft spot for McGucket, and I’ve basically been devouring every fanfic and fanart I can find of him—so I couldn’t resist making him the protagonist of this AU.
Here’s the premise: in this universe, during the episode *“The Legend of the Gobblewonker”*, McGucket stumbles across a strange mushroom growing inside the cave behind the waterfall. The spores from this mushroom have rejuvenating properties, which causes Fiddleford to turn back into a 13-year-old—retaining only the memories he had at that age.
With no idea what to do, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos decide to take a very confused Fiddleford to the lake shore and try to explain what happened. Fiddleford, of course, doesn’t believe a word of it and runs off the moment he sets foot on dry land.
It only takes him a day to realize he’s on the other side of the country… and that it’s the year 2012. Naturally, he doesn’t take it very well.
Dipper and Mabel eventually find him and offer him a place to stay. At first, they sneak him into the Mystery Shack every night behind Stan’s back—but Stan doesn’t take long to figure it out and just lets Fiddleford stay, as long as he helps out around the Shack with Dipper and Mabel.
Fiddleford ends up having an amazing summer, joining the twins on most of their adventures.
Meanwhile, Tate McGucket is losing his mind over his father’s sudden disappearance.
This is now my new favorite best friend duo
So because I've been hyperfixed on fnaf for a whole week, I decide to create my own AU I present to you The Bunny And The Puppet AU
This AU is about time travel and the story is as follows Evan has convinced Cassidy to send William back in time to prevent the murders, 60 years of dying over and over again have not made William fully regret it, adi that They decide to send Charlotte to make sure that William fulfills his promise to prevent each other's deaths, once in the past Charlotte was allowed to keep part of the powers she once had as a puppet, on the other hand Cassidy was not going to allow William to leave without suffering so even though William is back in his human body he constantly feels the pain he felt while he was in the springtrap suit along with that he also tends to have his nose bleed and vomit blood although this The latter usually only happens when you consider hurting someone.
The only problem is that history tends to repeat itself and although this time it's not William who plans to commit the murders, someone else is still willing to kill children if it means becoming immortal, and William and Charlotte must make sure that doesn't happen.
William must abide by the following rules or no matter what he does he will go back to hell.
Don't kill anyone
Save all your victims
Be a good father and husband
Genuinely repent of all the damage I caused
William has some abilities that are connected to the old timeline.
His eyes can look like springtrap's if he is genuinely angry
If he really wants to scare someone he could make the person he wants to scare see him as a springtrap for a few seconds
Charlotte on the other hand can summon some chains that will bind William's feet to the ground if he notices that he might do something stupid. These chains are usually not seen by anyone but her and William
That's all I have on this AU for now. I leave you some small sketches that I did for this AU
Local scientist enters the Olympics without any equipment nor protections
Gets a silver medal
Refuses to elaborate further
Leaves
Wanted more of the twins so I drew more of the twins even though I still don;t know how to draw them aaaa
I’m going to cry...
The magic 8-ball
my secret slightly ooc headcanon for prime all might is that he smokes.
it starts because of gran torino, who would smoke in the agency around nana. strong, brave, basically broken nana, who knows she can't afford to take on vices, not after giving up her baby to fight off that monster AfO. but smoking isnt the same as drinking. it won't make her faculties take leave of her. it won't...incapacitate her. and at the end of the day, sometimes, she just needs something to take the edge off so badly.
so when torino holds out a cigarette, she takes it.
she basically stops when toshinori becomes part of the picture. but sometimes- just sometimes, he'll get a whiff of smoke from her on a bad day. same smell that around torino and the agency.
and when nana dies, and torino smokes a pack a day because it hurts his heart and there isn't a damn thing he can do except training her boy the only way he knows, he can't even be mad when he finds toshinori, sixteen, grieving, aching, unlit cigarette between his fingers as he stares at it.
torino can only be grateful it isn't anything worse, so he tosses toshinori a lighter and tells him to say no to drugs and alcohol.
Honestly the most revolutionary thing about Gravity Falls to me is its commitment to sincerity.
I’ve been listening to Alex’s podcast where he goes into the details of each episode with different storyboard artists and writers who worked on the show, and it just baffles me how… cared for the story is. Right now in media there’s been an uptick in satire, and shows making fun of themselves for existing, or taking the piss at their own content to “win” fans to their side. It’s like whimsy is gone from so many pieces of media. But Gravity Falls just doesn’t… do that. It completely embraces itself. Weirdness and all. And so does the team behind it. I’m not used to something I care about being so cared about by everyone surrounding it.
Here’s this cartoon, written and illustrated by an entire team of people saying, “no, we’re serious. we mean this. we made this on purpose and we made it important.”
Throughout the podcast, Alex discusses little ins and outs of each character, offering so much deep internal struggles and enriching the story even farther. And listening to him unpack it with the utmost sincerity just warms my heart. Each character is so dynamic because they were cared for by people who imbued them with sincerity.
That’s exactly why we get quotes like “Shame is powerful, but it grows in the dark,” as Ford realizes the trauma he’s hidden for so long is being embraced by his family, diminishing it’s weight on him through their immediate support.
It’s why we get Alex describing Stanley with quotes like; “I always in my gut thought of him as somebody with a huge well of sadness, a loss of human connection. And that need to please? That need to get laughs from the crowd, and putting on a big show? He’s trying to get from them the affection he never got from his family, and that he lost with his brother.”
Or detailing how Mabel might be a goof… but half the time she’s doing a bit, because she’s really more mature than her brother and doesn’t want him to grow up too fast. She’s trying to help ground him and bring lightheartedness into his life. Because she knows otherwise, he’ll become too self isolated.
And those two mini character studies he dropped so casually in these podcast episodes just… color the show. It’s why the show survived so well even after ten years. It’s gruff-old Stan always calling his niece “Pumpkin” and “Honey”. It’s the family always holding hands without it behind laced with a joke, and falling asleep on one another in the car. It’s Alex explaining that people toyed with other endings, other plot lines, other twists, but it was always going to end with Stan and Ford mending the family tie they severed thirty years ago. Because that was their story. Messes and family and care.
Ten years ago, watching it for the first time as it came out, I felt all that. But now, as an adult, knowing that all the other adults who made it felt the exact same way? :,) What a special story we all got to grow up with, and get to continue being apart of.
they have my whole heart
Some lil sketches:
if you mischaracterize ford for the sake of making a good plot or just because your understanding of ford as a character is a bit warped then thats a bit of a shame, but i’d still read it. ‘he would not fucking say that’ i say, continuing to happily read along anyways
if you mischaracterize stan for any reasons i throw my phone at the wall, i click out of the fic, an angel loses its wings, i start writing even more fanfiction to counter balance you, etc etc
ford being uncharacteristically awful? unrealistic but i can get down with this for funsies. stan being uncharacteristically awful? we’re done here.
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