#clockwork falls

Clockwork Falls is a sci-fi au with steampunk elements, in which all the characters on the cipher wheel are, in fact, robots, as well as all of the creatures in Gravity Falls. Nobody knows where these strange robots come from, not even the bots themselves. But of the hundreds, maybe even thousands of robots that wander the town and forest, only ten are human, each having special skills and abilities.

Dipper and Mabel, Pines Twins Mk II, share a special ability to wirelessly communicate with each other, almost like telepathy. Other than that, however, they don’t share any of their powers.

Dipper has a high-tech computer in his mind, designed specifically for logical reasoning and puzzle solving. He can solve extremely complex math problems at a glance, and has a massive database of all the things he’s read or seen. He also has super strength, but struggles to activate it, and only can use it when panicked.

Mabel has a lightweight bulletproof armor she enjoys decorating with stickers, or painting over with bright patterns and pictures. She also has a pair of small wings designed for precision, giving her the ability to fly both like an hummingbird and a hawk.

They live at the Museum of Automatons, a tourist trap out in the woods that pretends the real robots are fake, with their adopted Grunkle Stan, one of the earlier robots, with a good deal of strength and massive hulking wings almost as tall as he is.

Stan was apparently the original counterpart in Mabel’s place. Later they learn Mabel was so drastically redesigned from her original because the inventor found Stan unpleasant, creating Mabel to be friendlier and more moral, with a more aerodynamic and pleasant design. (Oh Stan my poor baby even your creator doesn’t love you I’m so sorry)

Almost since they first activated out in the woods, Dipper’s been trying to find the author of a journal full of blueprints, hoping to find the person who created him, his sister, and their Grunkle Stan.

Later, they discover Stan also had a counterpart, another member of the Pine Twins Mk I, Ford. Ford apparently created the journals, but not the robots, also having been searching for the one who invented them. Unlike Mabel and Stan, Ford and Dipper are still extremely similar, the main difference being Mabel and Dipper’s closer bond to one another. (This was not in fact programmed into them-it simply was.)