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Alcor if he was cool

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[drops this on your front doorstep like its a dead rat then wanders away]

anyway here's this (thanks to @awesomecat42 for the inspo)

(actual background redrawing below the cut bc i spent too much time on making it look good and then completely covered it all up)

Another day another new sub-AU in the TAU server! (Credit to @awesomecat42 and @random-dragon-jtk)

So Tl;dr, this thing is gonna get too long if I don't do a rough summary on it.

ALRIGHT! 👏👏

Premise: Alcor is taken (read: dragged) in by the theraprism and they are prepping him for reincarnation. Unfortunately this little ball of unresolved trauma and the accumulation of a decade of so many writers angsting him up has problems... lots of them.

To resolve this (and to also slowly acclimate him to human life), they decided to yeet him to a post-weirdmaggedon dimension simmilar to that of the canon timeline! (Maybe lasting for a whole summer) Rehabilitation program :>

"This program has been proven to be quite helpful for our other more troublesome patient, I'm sure you'll be just alright! Just belive in yourself!"

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Alcor lands at the mystery shack's doorstep with a set of criterias from the councellors.

- No powers, not even a hint of demon atributes. Even his earring (given by his Mabel) and glasses (Again, his ford) got confiscated!

- Get a job at the Shack and proceed to do human activities until he gets out of his "demon-phase".

-He can't tell anyone about his identity of demonic stuff. (His voice will go static and anything he draws or writes--even if its code-- goes blank when its deemed "too blatant")

- oh and turns out his human form is near sighted lmao

Really they're trying but in the wrong (and kinda unhelpful) way.

So because of (idk magic? Stanley pitiying him? Or etc?) Alcor--now known as Alan gets taken in by the mystery shack just as Stanley reopened it after a good Stan'o War II expedition. He works in the giftshop as a cashier person living a very boring monotonous human life

Soos is not the new Mr. Mystery in this au, but he is good friends with Alan.

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That is until the twins come into the picture, having lived through weirdmageddon they come back to gravity falls after a lot of begging. Only to be met with a new mystery! This strange random guy that Grunkle Stan seemed to just picked up.

Alan at first scoffs at the pair, mainly at Dipper (he would be passive-agreesive towards him). Alcor is already beaten down by the theraprism, beliving that he just needs to get the summer over with and fake his improvement of "being human". Who knows? Maybe he'll finally be with his sister in the next life, that sounds just alright for him.

But Dipper notices "Alan" words would turn into static and how he is so hypervigilant at times--he starts to speculate.

Dipper comes up with a theory that this man is cursed, and that he is hiding something. (Mabel on the other hand thinks he is a banished fae prince)

Seeing this, Alcor starts to get a tiny bit of hope of actually being free from this nightmare. Because no matter what he does, he realizes that he's ultimately no longer human--he's outright restless and feels like he is masking, trying to do the mundane, trying to just fit in.

He doesnt even know about the whole weirdmageddon thing that happened! He got turned into a demon during sock opera and this was new info to him (at some point he was arrested for asking too many questions and had to be bailed out by Ford or Stanley.

So the whole summer will just be Alcor dropping hints so that Dipper and Mabel can guess his identity. Drawings of pinetrees, a star, lots of fire and more, charades even at some point. He has a theory that if he can get them to draw his circle, then some of his powers might just seep in

In the end Mabel is the one who managed to figure it out fully.

Roughly this is how I pictured them finding out the summoning circle

Dipper, to Mabel:

(The theraprism people monitoring tries to intervene, but it was too late)

Extra!

- they try to do it again (under Ford supervision) and turns out Alcor is stuck with the binding circle lmaooo. They had put it there incase any demon wants to sneak in randomly.

"Ugh, i can usualy break out of this so easily." He complains, which makes ford even more suspicious and paranoid of him. Alcor is stuck sulking and being all sad now that Ford doesnt trust him anymore.

- Alcor slowly getting his powers back and feeling relieved and finally able to talk about stuff like binding circles with Dipper and Ford. (Demonology lecturer alcor anyone? 👀)

Happy 10 Year Anniversary @transcendence-au ! It is with great pleasure that I present the culmination of about 2 months worth of work with this lil comic o mine ^-^

The full thing is below the read more, as safe to say, this got a little longer than I initially anticipated haha (also tumblr did what tumblr does best and destroyed the quality so please click the images for better quality :3)

Okay so in the Book of Bill, Bill tried to enter McGucket's mind after Ford finds him out, and he finds it so broken that it actually injures him (he describes it as the first time he'd ever felt pain that wasn't hilarious) and he leaves really quickly. That got me thinking, do you think Alcor would be powerful enough soon enough that he could help McGucket? His mind would likely be starting to slowly heal after seeing the logs of his erased memories, but there's no way there's not still some damage. Plus we don't have much McGucket in TAU so I think it would be cool if Alcor could help him out!

hmmm so we can look at this two ways.

one, we have broken this boy so bad that yeah, he'd probably be powerful enough to do it.

but otoh...

we've established that his power is still in it's early stages when he is a young adult/living in gravity falls. but more than that, is this a problem that could truly be solved with brute force? rather, the brain is a delicate, DELICATE thing- and McGucket spent most of his adult life going in there with the equivalent of a chainsaw swinging around in there.

so yes, dipper probably has the power on paper to 'fix' him. but would it be akin to putting out a candle with a fire hose?

That being said, I do think that Dipper would be able to help him, and after considering it on and off since submitting this ask I think it might not even have to do entirely with his explicit powers. Like, yeah I bet he'd be able to do some sort of magical thing to help manage some of the worst symptoms, such as lingering gaps in memory. But I think the most important thing he could do to help McGucket would be to be a friend. After all, arguably what hurt McGucket almost as much if not worse than the memory gun itself was isolation and lack or support (loosing Ford, his wife, his son, etc). The end of the series shows him starting to mend fences, which would be fun to explore on its own, but I think Dipper would also be a good friend for him because he'd be one of the few people able to relate to him.