#dghda crossover

I made a crossover!

Concept: Dirk found a new machine, traveled to another universe (LOTR) and fround Frodo (Todd). Much like what he did to the show, instead of the lottery ticket, he used the 'Ring' with the same method so he would get 'Todd' to go with him. 😉

issues between siblings

chaos, chaos, chaos

complicated plot

a cool, iconic soundtrack

generally, the sibling feels

people with supernatural abilities

a LOT of fighting, blood, killing, violence

(kinda parental) authority figure (Riggins, Reginald Hargreeves) /organization (Blackwing, The Umbrella Academy - as an organization, I don’t mean the Hargreeves siblings, also Temps Commission) that tries to control people with said abilities and abuses them

weird jumpsuits/uniforms given to characters by said figure/organizations (The Umbrella Academy suits, Blackwing clothes)

time-travel

not wanting to involve the people you care about into more problems

weird cult-organizations with similar vibes that own machines enabling time travel (Man Of the Machine, Temps Commission)

agencies that get involved and try to control reality (Blackwing, Temps Commission)

eccentric billionaire involved in the supernatural that actually is from the XIXth century (Patrick Spring, Reginald Hargreeves) ...

...that has a weird kinda spooky mansion with stuffed animals

unorthodoxically dressing, tormented, funny and very cheery and chaotic character with supernatural abilities (Klaus, Dirk)

one person army with superb fighting/killing skills (Five, Diego, Bart, Farah)

punk/emo/edgy/goth people, some of which are actually softies (Rowdy 3, Amanda + Diego, Klaus)

assassins (Bart, Hazel, Cha-cha, Five), some of which are soft and kinda decide not to kill anymore (Bart, Hazel)

seemingly “ordinary”, plainly dressing, kinda sad, short, anxious character with musical abilities (Vanya, Todd)

reality changing abilities (Allison in the comics & Francis Cardenas)

animal masks (girrafe and gorilla masks in DGHDA and Hazel’s and Cha-Cha’s masks in TUA)

scenes when a person that really believed in some cause decides to quit (Luther, Dirk in season 2)

girl with sad life that discovers that she is strong and powerful that either has or was tricked into thinking she has some kind of sickness and but stops taking medication that kinda suppressed her abilities that also has musical abilities (Amanda, Vanya)

police, mostly cool and part of them are POC (Farah, cause she practically is in law enforcement, Eudora Patch, Estevez and Zimmerfield + Tina and Hobbes) that get involved in supernatural stuff

beautiful black woman with fantastic fighting skills (Farah, Allison, Eudora, the black girl from Litzibitz’s gang)

generally a lot of cool POC people

somebody's father dies and their children aren’t exactly sad about it (Reginald Hargreeves and Farah’s Black father)

“The Boy” (Five’s nickname and obviously “the boy” from DGHDA s2)

“O-okay um...Bobo?” Amanda nodded,

I think we all can agree that besides obvious differences between the two shows,  they share weird chaotic energy (especially DGHDA season 2), so I decided to list things those two have in common. SPOILERS AHEAD

chaos, chaos, chaos

time travel

weird cult using some Sci-Fi machinery (Man Of The Machine, Society Of The Blind Eye)

portals 

COLOURFULLNESS

a small town with regional gothic vibes where weird things happen (Bergsberg, Gravity Falls) 

magic/science fiction stuff

siblings! + angst/hurt/ making mistakes/one is trying to fix everything after they did something wrong but in the end, they love each other 

family/ found family/friendship feels

main characters are the chaotic energy colourful goofball (Dirk and Mabel DO share similar vibes) and plainly dressing nervous nerd considered loser by some people (Todd, Dipper) 

also Mabel sweaters - Dirk’s jackets anyone????

both Dirk and Dipper are technically detectives

keeping secrets from the rest of the family

different dimensions/universes - (backstage of reality, Wendimoor + all the GF dimensions)

aggressive villains with a Southern accent (Gideon Gleeful, Osmund Priest)

secret government agency getting involved

not very responsible, police comprised of softies that often do not-police work while on duty (I'm thinking GF police and Tina and Hobbes, cause Zimmerman  and Estevez actually were effective; also Tina and Hobbes in the end actually were a good policeman, but Gravity Falls and Bergsberg department actually share similar vibes so...)

music festivals (Woodstick Festival, Sound Of Nothing) with love spells (Suzie Borton miscast spell, the Love God shenanigans in GF) 

books with magic spells (the Wendimoor book & the Pines Journals) 

animal sidekicks (Waddles and Rapunzel + the Kitten-Shark)

switching bodies (Machine in DGHDA and the Body Swapping Carpet in GF), also with animals (Lydia-Rapunzel; Soos-Waddles)

a lot of illegal stuff happening and a lot of hurting happening

incredibly cool but actually nervous warrior-female that's handy with weapons (Wendy, Farah) that the anxious nerd (and sometimes loser) has a crush on (Todd, Dipper)

unicorns exist but are kinda weird (they were unicorns in Wendimoor, just reminding ya)

scientist inventing weird machines (Patrick Spring, Fiddleford and Stanford) 

weird oracle-magic-humanoids  - Wakti Wapnasi has the Oracle vibes (Oracle is an entity from one of the GF dimensions mentioned in The Journal 3 that Stanford met during his travels) 

weird houses/mansions where weird stuff happens (Northwest Manor, The Mystery Shack, Cardenas House, Patrick Spring mansion)

(this is a bit of a stretch but oh well) music Bands (Sev’ral times and Love Patrol Alpha in GF  The Mexican Funeral in DGHDA) 

shapeshifters (also kinda a stretch, cause Mona isn’t exactly a shapeshifter) - Mona Wilder & the Gravity Fall’s shapeshifter 

weird guns (Stanford’s gun & the airgun in DGHDA) 

the motive of “taking responsibility” and “taking action”

psychics that aren't psychics (Gideon, Dirk) 

brass knuckles (Todd has one’s in s2 + obviously Stan’s brass knuckles)

angry (punk) people (Rowdy 3 + the Gravity Falls Girl Squad in The Last Mabelcorn episode, the bikers from Gravity Falls’ biker bar called Skull Fracture and of course, Stanford Pines)

girl power

weird symbols and tattoos 

humanoid magic creatures (Wendimoor creatures + all of the supernatural creatures from Gravity Falls)

the rift in the fabric of reality in Gravity Falls has similar vibes to “the universe is broken” trope in DGHDA

retro/vintage vibes sometimes 

retrospection

So, I'm currently writing this thing on the side right?

Where basically, one of the protagonists from my book and Dirk hang out.

This protagonist from my book is Shaima Gandezi. He's an extremely sensible and down to earth forensic detective. He also drinks about twenty coffees a day. And hates milk with a burning passion.

Dirk is probably the opposite of this. So, imagine both of their surprise when one of Dirk's cases leads to him collaborating with Scotland Yard and being given an agent to assist him.

Not me tipping the timeline of my book on it's head to fit the characters. "Time? I laugh at the concept."

So were you always this crazy or did that come from living in a well?” Amanda was lounging in the passenger’s seat of the car as Bobo drove them to a location he had yet to reveal despite her constant asking. Stealing the car was easy enough, the keys were already in the ignition and it had a full tank of gas but she didn’t care for the way Bobo threatened the owner of the car. Thankfully she managed to get Bobo’s attention long enough for the poor sap to run off into the woods.