Ok So Maybe I Invented A Gravity Falls Au.

Ok so maybe I invented a gravity falls au.

Long story short, my brain said “Dipple and Maber” instead of the niblings and, while I’m not going to name them that because that’s stupid, I started wondering what would happen if I shuffled things around. Also, I don’t know what to do with Fiddleford so if anyone has ideas, let me hear them please.

This is swap!gravity falls. Including my art, which is mid (except dipper that’s a good dipper)

TLDR main swaps are Dipper/Mabel, Ford/Stan, and Wendy/Soos

M’sorry if the formatting is weird I did this in my notes app~

Dipper = sweater vests, braces, fashion, confidence, unicorns

Mabel = collared jacket, hat, nerves, brains, science

Soos = lesbian badass with a motorcycle and lots of knives. She’s just here cause it’s a decent job, and she only steps in when needed, but she is very protective of the kids.

Wendell = Dedicated & loyal teen who always does his best but he’s a little stupid. Also he has daddy issues. Crush-crazy bi dipper falls in love with Wendell. Wendell’s teen group is the outcasts, but in a very nerdy losery way. This includes Robin the band geek, Timmy the programmer, Kate and Bee the chess players, and Tabitha who could probably be cool and popular if she wanted.

Candy & Grenda = swapped, so little skinny candy does martial arts and big loud Grenda is a gaming streamer with glasses.

Ford got kicked out of home for being a freak, Stan dropped out of college, Ford fought his way through college with loans and scholarships and has a couple PHDs. Ford came to Stan’s tourist trap 30 years ago (which Bill helped build) to talk to him, Stan let him set up a lab in the basement, went down there after being manipulated by Bill and freaked at how big it was, fight, Stan turned on the portal and ended up falling in, now Ford has to run the shack and try to stabilize the portal so it can open a double-sided gateway for Stan to come back, also he convinced everyone that wym ‘Stanley’ it was always ‘Stanford’ and actually now he’d rather go by his full name or just ‘Ford’ thanks.

Ford = Grunkle 1, loves them kids, enthusiastic, uses mystery shack for money, curious, bullheaded, feels super fuckin bad about what happened, tries not to cuss in front of the kids but isn’t a very aware guy

Stan = Grunkle 2, immediately falls in love with the kids, very creative, fighter, a bit scared of being emasculated tbh, nemesis with Bill, total sailor’s mouth

Bill = what if Bill’s the same except he’s a fucking square? You fucking square.

Waddles is a cute lil round goat that Dipper fell in love with and stole, and there’s also a big silly pig named Gompers around

The kids have a lot more fun toys from the start because Grunkle Ford isn’t gonna tell them about the portal, but if his kids want magnet guns, they’re gonna get magnet guns.

Stanley wrote the journals, they’re just accounts of the weird shit he’s run into over time in Gravity Falls. Ford is using #3 to try to derive scientific information about the anomalous nature of the place, but Stan is so Not A Scientist ™ that it’s hard. Mabel finds journal #1 and it’s full of hastily drawn pictures and warnings like, instead of a scientific name and approximate diagrams, it’s “what the fuck is this??” and “fuckin huge!” And Mabel is adding more scientific/helpful labels, Like the gnomes (all girls) are in there as “annoying little shits” “punt them” “if there’s too many to punt, hide.” To which Mabel adds “LEAF BLOWER - VERY EFFECTIVE” and “CAN STACK TO BECOME LARGE CREATURE”

Ford is too chaotic for a journal so he just has stacks of binders full of BS. And again, he doesn’t tell the kids about the lab downstairs or the portal or anything, but he’s 100% willing to give them stuff, and he’s become a chronic liar over time in order to run the mystery shack, signing legal papers and taxes as Stanley but having people call him Stanford.

Anyways, the portal incident happens as normal, and when Stan comes out of the portal he absolutely punches his brother, but the response is “Okay, I might deserve that, but so do you” “Fair enough.” And a reciprocal punch. “So does anyone else know about your secret lab situation?” “Oh, just… the entire US government?” “WHAT?!” And suddenly Stan is the doer and Ford takes a backseat like they did as kids, when Stan would make all the friends for them and beat up the bullies and Ford would do his homework.

The “Billpocalypse,” as Stan so aptly named it, occurs when Mabel starts getting a lot of attention from both Grunkles for being smart and creative and Dipper gets upset and runs off, then gets tricked on promise of being “smarter.” Stan, as always, stands up to Bill and has problems for it, and when the bubble around the town gets discovered, claims that he knows what’s causing it and how to destroy it, not wanting real-scientist Ford to get captured or anything. Dipland is full of candy and unicorns and everyone is equally smart, and Mabel breaks him out by explaining that her intelligence would be useless without his creativity, confidence, and enthusiasm, and the world needs him to save it. The Bill solution is the same, Stan has a metal plate implanted in his head and can’t let Bill in cause he’d discover that Stan was lying, so they swap and Ford gets his mind erased… for like a week, then he’s fine. Show ends with the grunkles going on the road trip of their dreams together in an RV they tricked out.

Thoughts? Feelings? Opinions? Fiddleford ideas? And ofc I welcome anyone else to draw/write for this, I’d love to see more.

This man would LOVE TNG! He’d love a lot of Star Trek stuff that came out since he was gone he and Fidds were probably original series fans—

OH MY GOD, THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK CAME OUT IN 84 THIS MAN PROBABLY THINKS SPOCK REALLY DIED OR SOMETHING

—Anywho, he’d have a really good time catching up on everything he missed and would probably hyperfixate on it very much. I imagine he’d learn Klingon, if he didn’t already know it, or he’d program it into his universal translator. Vulcan as well, if he could. He’d like that.

Now I’m just imagining him being sad because how does he do the Vulcan hand symbol? Where does the extra finger go??? He probably decided for himself what looked closest, but it probably was very frustrating for him!

Anyways, Data would probably make him very happy. I know that android makes my neurodivergent ass feel happy and proud. Mans is different from literally everyone in existence but still kind and curious and valued. I also think seeing Lore exist would give him some… interesting conflicting emotions.

I can see him sitting with Stan some nights and watching TNG on a laptop together on the Stan-O-War II. Adorable.

Also Dipper is probably a Trekkie— meaning Mabel knows at least a bit about it too— and I expect they can geek out about it together. Ford shocks himself working in an experiment and curses in Klingon about it, and Dipper (who knows a little bit of Klingon) catches it and goes is that Klingon and they both get a little embarrassed about being geeks and then launch into a multiple hour discussion about their favorite series and characters.

concept:

dipper giving ford a list of all the significant sci fi media he missed out on in the past 30 years

ford got kicked out of his dimension in 1982.

return of the jedi came out in 1983. you know the luke i am your father plot twist in empire had him hooked and he spent many a night wondering about its resolution

aliens came out in 1986. there's no way ford didn't love the first one. i can only imagine his thoughts on the pivot the sequel made to becoming more of an action movie than a horror one

star trek the next generation came out in 1987. i don't know enough about the show to properly assess how much he'd love it (TNG fans feel free to hop in here) but my guess is he'd absolutely love that cool robot man everyone on here seems to like

x-files first aired in 1993. i don't think i need to convince anyone that he'd be obsessed.

the doctor who series got its revival in 2005. i don't think he'd have been a huge doctor who fan back in the day, but i'm sure he watched and enjoyed at least some of it. and the 10th doctor in particular would be extremely his shit

supernatural also came out in 2005 but i have never watched it and am not even going to try to touch that subject for fear of getting hanged by the neck til dead over potential mischaracterization (SPN fans feel free to hop in here)

and... the star wars prequels. dude. the star wars prequels. can you imagine

Good morning, in today's episode we put these three old men in one room and wait to see what happens. Give your ideas of what they do

Pls reblog if u vote :)

More Gravity Falls AU art!

Swap!Dipper and Swap!Mabel arriving at Gravity falls at the start of the summer and swap!Mabel reading the journal with Waddles. (Wobbles? Bobbles? Should I name the goat something else if I’m swapping it with Waddles?)

Headcanon the niblings have never been to GF before but Ford comes around for holidays and such and he’s their favorite relative. He loves the kids’ creative spirit and curiosity and is subtly trying to get Mabel to really pursue science.

Stanley wrote the journals so they’re not exactly scientific (and they’re low key full of cuss words) but they still list most/all of the anomalies in the area and Mabel wants to learn about them. Also yea it’s a nice looking rich blue journal, he kept trying to use scratch paper and regular notebooks but they kept getting torn apart during ✨anomaly drama✨ so he finally cracked and got fancy sturdy ones.

Note: I welcome and invite anyone to make art of this au, I posted details yesterday, I just love the idea, feel free to share in this world with me!