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The Axolotl —> Bill

- a lil shit

- Basically just bill but with more weaponized therapy speak

- Says it has a degree in psychology. Does not have a degree in psychology

- Still wants to cause weirdmaggedon

- Acts as Mabel’s “therapist” instead of muse

- They have a more professional friendship, Mabel does see it as a friend and confidant but the axolotl only sees her as a pawn to play

Candy —> Fiddleford

Grenda—> Lazy Susan

- When Mabel starts building the portal she realizes she does not have the technical experience to actually do so

- She hits up her old college friend Candy for help (mechanical engineer)

- Candy brings along their other college bestie Grenda (kinesiology major, so more moral support than anything but they’re both super happy to have her and she still helps a ton)

- portal accident happens, Candy quits the project and builds the memory gun

- Grenda is weirded out by her sudden shift in demeanor, tries to go see her to figure out what’s going on, she and Candy have a fight and Candy uses the memory gun on her (messes up her eye, becomes Lazy Grenda), makes her forget the portal and tells her Mabel is not to be trusted

- Unfortunately it kind of scrambles Grendas brain since they’ve been working on the portal for a while now and trusting Mabel was a big part of her life

- After seeing how much getting memories erased “helped” both her and Grenda, she starts the society of the blind eye

- Heads it while she continually loses her mind from overuse of the memory gun, until she can’t anymore and starts living in the dump

- Known as “old lady chiu,” builds death robots from time to time same as canon

Mabel —> Ford

- art major, moved to gravity falls to get closer to nature and beat back the art block

- found out about he weird stuff almost immediately, really inspired her art, decided to take up photography and start up a scrapbook, starts writing in it too, along the way, starting doing some unofficial research on the stuff, the sciency approach reminds her of dipper :(, becomes the journal (3 in total like normal)

- estranged from him, they had a big fight a while back and haven’t spoken since

- found some weird carvings while exploring describing the “axolotl” with a warning not to summon it, does so anyway (thinks the little drawing of him is cute)

- has a dream, axolotl promises that doing more sciency stuff is the key to fixing things with her brother’s, so what would be more sciency than a scientific breakthrough (the portal)

- They build the portal, Mabel has a deal with the axolotl, blah blah blah

- tries to shut down the portal, axolotl gets nasty and does the whole possession stuff, same as canon

- Mabel decides her journals need to be destroyed, calls dipper to get rid of one (part of her hopes they can make up)

- dipper comes, they argue and fight (although it’s less intense than canon, and more teary on Mabel’s part), but the portal still gets switched on and Mabel is sucked through

Dipper —> Stan

- had a really specific major and lots of promise, but he couldn’t find a position in his field

- Ends up taking odd jobs to pay the bills

- Does less overt crime than canon, but still changes identities a bunch

- He lies so much on resumes and starts getting a reputation, no one hires, hence the fake names

- Also is totally dodging his college debt and possibly the irs. Dunno the guy just got tired of paying them

- Once he runs out of jobs/people stop hiring him he dabbles a little in crime but like more insurance fraud type stuff

- Lives out of his car, run out of half the states in the US, the irs/fbi may or may not be after him

- Had a falling out with Mabel like ten years back at this point, but gets her postcard begging her to come to gravity falls

- Is immediately faced with a paranoid, desperate, and obviously injured Mabel

- He tries to ask what happened, but Mabel is Tired and kind of just gives him her journal and tells him to get as far away as possible

- He tries to burn the journal as a last resort while Mabel isn’t listening to him, she flips out (doesn’t want to destroy her art) and they scuffle, Mabel gets portal’d and dipper is left behind :(

- Goes into town, someone asks him if he got a haircut (up until working on the portal like 2 years ago Mabel was pretty frequent in town), people remark on the “weird artist that lives out in the woods” that hasn’t been seen

- People say they would love to see her art, dipper, broke and pretending to be her, offers to show them and give them a tour for a price, and he starts making his own pieces related to his own interests and the mystery shack is born

- Still working on getting Mabel back though :(