"Also they're two halves of the same reincarnated soul but we don't need to talk about that." - I have have so many questions. Why the Axolotl did that? What was the purpose of split a soul in two halfs to make it reincarnate as two different people? Who the soul was before being the Stan Twins? How is possible to a soul reincarnate in two different people at the same time?
[Context: The tags in The Stan Twins post. Further hint here]
First of all, let me explain this; The Stan Twins of the Jerk Ford AU are split souls. This is a phenomenon that can be better explained by @nowimjustastranger who coined this term and whose AU often uses it.
Split souls are just as they sound; two people, one soul. Jerk Ford and Stanley would call it 'twinstinct', but that's actually a seperate thing, a psychic thing they inherited from their moms side of the family.
With Jerk Ford and Teacher Stan being so wildly different from their canon counterparts, the way I keep track of their traits is that I take one completely unrelated character and split it in half, giving some traits to Jerk Ford, some traits to Stan, and the rest they share in equal measure. Because one trait being more prominent in one twin does not mean the other one does not possess it at all, it just means it's less pronounced / present.
What are these traits?
Stanley
Duplicity
Lies as easily as he breathes
Shrewdness
Leadership
Willingness to fight/kill
Jerk Ford
Dodging the Draft
Eloquence
Intelligence
Pissing off the gods
Witty
Shared
Love for family
Loyalty
Cleverness
Seafaring
Trickster
Which soul was split in half and crumpled up until there were two entirely new guys who technically shared a soul?
Well, let's look at how the Stan Twins are 99.9% of the time vs 0.1% of the time:
Jerk Ford 99.9% of the time:
Jerk Ford 0.1% of the time:
[These images are screenshots from animatic videos by @anniflamma]
Teacher Stan 99.9% of the time:
Teacher Stan 0.1% of the time:
[These images are screenshots from animatic videos by Ximena Natzel]
You can see the stark difference between the brothers here:
Prompt: "I can't mansplain, manipulate, malewife my way out of this one boys."
Stan: "Manslaughter it is."
Jerk Ford: "Manwhore it is."
Why would the Axolotl do this?
Bill Cipher was a god level threat, and Gravity Falls is a dangerous place. In the canon verse, the shows timeline is the only one where Mabel and Dipper make it to the end and defeat Bill Cipher.
And then there was a set up beforehand, the hard life that Stanley Pines lived, of being separated from his own twin for so long and the compounded resentment that lead to the Cipher Wheel failure. All of these events were necessary.
But... Was there a way to manipulate these preceding events and have the same result? Of both sets of Pines Twins succeeding in defeating Bill Cipher? Did Stanley really have to struggle? Was years of conning the only way for him to out-con Bill Cipher?
How many mortals had challenged Gods, and went home to their family in the end?
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