Currently Being Consumed By An Epic The Musical X Gravity Falls AU Send Help

Currently being consumed by an Epic the Musical x Gravity Falls AU send help

Okay but seriously I've got a whole AU mapped out at this point and this would probably be the rough character lineup

Ford - Odysseus

Stanley - Eurylochus

Shermie - Polites (I swear there's a very good and comprehensible explanation for this)

Fiddleford - Perimides AND Elpnor (as per the cut songs)

Bill - Poseidon, and possibly also Zeus

Mabel and Dipper - Telemachus <3

In this au, Filbrick was king of Ithaca and sent his son Stanley off to fight in the Trojan war, but through a series of horrible misunderstandings, all three of the sons, including Shermie, who was next in line for the throne, get sent on the ships. Ford kind of naturally takes charge, because Shermie was never really a leader-y type.

Ten years of war pass, and there's probably a lot of drama and character development [Polites choosing to be kind despite the war and Shermie choosing to be kind too, despite the Vietnam War (in some aus at least) (i love the ex-military Shermie headcanon sm) can be something so special]

Turns out, when Shermie left, his wife was actually pregnant! They had a pair of twins (Dipper and Mabel are Shermie's kids in this AU, for obvious reasons)

Filbrick dies while his sons are at war, and his wife, Caryn, takes over in his stead. Why? Because. Dipper and Mabel are now in line for the throne, which is probably very stressful and makes them both the Telemachus of this au

Stuff happens, Shermie wants to go home and meet his kids after 10 whole years (I might shorten the time they spend at sea to 2 just so Mabel and Dipper are 12), and Shermie... dies.

This obviously drives tension between Ford and Stanley 'Miscommunication' Pines, leading to trust issues down the road. They both just want to get home to see their mom and niece and nephew again.

(This is getting really long jifojgisjjflks and I haven't even mentioned Fiddleford and his parallels with the Lotus, or how Bill would play into the story. This AU is consuming me)

(Would anyone be interested in a Part 2?)

Fiddleford and Ford's creations, and parallels

Just a quick blurb on how Fiddleford and Ford parallel each other in regards to their own creations, considering the memory gun and the portal.

First of all, if you haven't read journal 3 then you're missing some context about Fiddleford and the memory gun; that is, that it was created after Fiddleford ended up staring into a gremloblin's eyes and saw his worst nightmare (due to Stanford insisting on stopping to sketch it). Afraid, Fiddleford then created the memory gun as a solution to deal with the fear.

Now what's fascinating is there interaction around the gun, because just as Fiddleford warned Ford against the dangers of the portal and begged him to not use it and destroy it, Ford also did that with the memory gun. He immediately points out the dangers of the gun, and tells Fiddleford to destroy it. And ultimately, both of them refuse to acknowledge the valid worry of the others; Ford refuses to shut down the portal and Fiddleford even going so far as to use the gun on Ford to keep the gun. They both cling to their creations; Ford out of desperation for acknowledgement which the portal will give him, while Fiddleford is motivated out of fear, and the comfort that the gun will give him through erasing his memory. They both are driven so strongly by these motivators that they will put their creation's wellbeing over the wellbeing of others; Fords preoccupation with the portal and his work to the point that he endangers Fiddleford, and Fiddleford literally using the device to erase Ford's memory unconsented.

And both of them in the end fall victim to their creations; Fiddleford loosing more and more of his memory until basically nothing remains, and Ford with the realization the portal leads to the nightmare realm, and heralds the apocalypse, and literally going through the portal himself. Both of them as a result of not heeding the others warnings end up serving penance for the next thirty years of their life, Fiddleford as the local crazy coot who lives in the dump, and Ford dimension hopping, narrowly avoiding capture by Bill, his life devoted to taking him down.

What's also interesting is both of them are driven to create these devices that ultimately ruin their lives out of their devotion and seeking acknowledgement from people they love. Fiddleford, who left his kid and wife to work from Ford, chooses to stay with Ford even though he's afraid, and creating the memory gun instead of leaving; and Ford, who makes the portal in tandem with Bill who he openly worships, who suggests the idea.

Even absent, both their creations continue to impact the town. Fiddleford with creating the Society of the Blind Eye, a cult who literally kidnaps and erases the town peoples memory unconsented, all centered around the memory gun; meanwhile, Ford leaves behind what becomes the mystery shack, and Stan who is left in his wake, works on the portal for the next thirty years to get it running again.

And in the same way, in the end, the danger of the portal and and the memory gun double back on themselves; it is the portal used in the hands of Stan that brings Ford back, even if the rift in space causes wierdmageddon, and it's Fiddleford's memory gun that allows them to defeat Bill. By the end of the show, both powerful tools are dismantled and destroyed, as they should have been originally. In much the same way, both Fiddleford and Ford find happy endings, reuniting with what they had lost.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

The most confusing feeling is realizing you relate to Stan in a "small town mama's boy with a starving heart, who never really lost the roots of his hometown, never learned how to make connections, only enemies, and left a piece of himself back in that house" way, while also relating to Ford in a "pressures of being a golden child mean you're always tethered to nothing, dreaming of more, starving to fly even when your gifts are held higher than yourself, and maybe you'll never change the world like everyone said you would" way.

And that maybe these things need each other, in a twisted sort of way. Maybe they live hand in hand. Maybe they share a twin bed.

Love not having a ”””fandom””” specific blog. Something new will just consume my mind and everyone has to accept it. My house

AU in which Ford is in much worse shape when Stan arrives in the shack so he has to take care of him, and they get to actually talk about stuff instead of fighting